Sentences with phrase «religious convictions do»

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Of all the Lawmakers and Presidents we had, do you honestly think they were able to keep their Religious beliefs and convictions separate from Governmental Ideas?

(a) there are obvious visible changes in the condiments after the Catholic priest does his hocus pocus; (b) tests have confirmed a divine presence in the bread and wine; (c) now and then their god shows up and confirms this story; or (d) their religious convictions tell them to blindly accept this completely fvcking absurd nonsense.

If it is against your religious convictions or moral codes, then DO N'T HAVE ONE.

I think a lot of agnostic / atheist people would be perfectly content to live their lives without making their personal convictions a crusade if the other side didn't make a crusade out of their religious beliefs.

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.»

This has been a time, finally, when the literary analysis of ancient literature has become a very significant force within the field, insisting that documents do not exist only to provide historical information, but are to be appropriated as complex works of art as well as witnesses to and interpretations of religious experiences and convictions.

«While many evangelical voters say they «strongly» support Trump over Clinton, this does not necessarily mean Trump is their ideal choice for president or that they are convinced he shares their religious convictions,» Pew stated.

The majority of Americans want a president with strong religious convictions, though fewer than did so in the past, Pew found.

The fact that utilitarianism does not involve political or religious convictions, or a list of commandments, appealed to the irreligious Singer, who as a child had refused to have a Bar Mitzvah ceremony.

I cherish instead the notion that if we could understand not only the sociology and psychology of religion but also the religion of religion; if we could get at the roots of conviction in the lives of profound believers in the open society; if we could combine civility with devotion — if we could do these things, religious forces might retrieve some initiative and offer examples for coexistence in the world of the nations and the military powers.

Does it follow that model citizens should leave their religious convictions at home (where they are relatively harmless), and base their votes and arguments concerning public questions on secular considerations only?

Posner even indicates some sympathy for those who want to prohibit those other abortions: «I do not mean to criticize anyone who believes, whether because of religious conviction, nonsectarian moral conviction, or simply a prudential belief that upholding the sacredness of human life whatever the circumstances is necessary to prevent us from sliding into barbarism, that abortion is always wrong and perhaps particularly so in late pregnancy, since all methods of late - term abortion are gruesome....

What is unambiguously clear, however, is that African - American funeral rites reflect an unshakable religious conviction that ultimate meaning and value rests «in God's hands,» and that while we do not know the programmatic details, we remain certain the value of our past life can be entrusted to God's care.

We only regret that Ms. Schnell did not really intend to discriminate, that she did not as a matter of religious conviction insist upon a Christian handyman (alright, handyperson).

I don't think so, but I hope there you could parctice your religious convictions unhobstructed.

Doesn't the kind of religious dialogue that you are asking for, in which each would come, first of all, not to defend individual convictions but to share experiences, easily become reduced to a friendly chat?

They did so because they recognized the unique fervor of religious convictions and the remarkable tenacity of religious institutions.»

Do strongly held religious convictions inevitably conflict with our system of public education?

The argument more or less says that these hypothetical «good» people realize that what they're doing to others is harmful, but that their religious convictions, like love of God, trump their innate morality.

No tell us Bill, how does the court determine religious convictions?

DO you have any idea how the court determines when someone has a valid religious conviction as opposed to a willy nilly self serving belief?

He also makes quite a few arguments from omission, concluding from the fact that the text doesn't explicitly report that Esther «went to synagogue» that she must have been a worldly, lukewarm Jew, forgetting that Esther is the one who calls for a fast later in the story, reflecting something of a religious background and personal religious conviction.

This Louie Giglio moment, and the Chick - Fil - A moment that preceded it, and the Rick Warren moment which preceded that, raise the question: Where do people of faith with long - standing traditional religious / scriptural convictions go from here?

Though Woodworth does not disclose his own religious convictions, his perspective seems to be that of evangelical Protestantism.

That this universe is fundamentally a moral order, that there are reason and purpose in it, that what ought to be done can be done, that, as Carlyle cried, «No lie can live forever» — these are religious convictions which undergirdle men to carry on when carrying on is hard.

If he wanted to forfiet, that's his decision, but certainly don't mask it behind some bogus religious conviction.

@ 2357: Not information that has been confirmed, and you really don't want to get started comparing the religious fruitcakes who've follow through with THEIR convictions.

In 1828 at a revival meeting in Vermont, a farmer, William Miller, felt the urge to get up and pour out his heart concerning his religious convictions, but he was afraid to do so.

The electronic church undoubtedly does reinforce the religious convictions of many regular churchgoers.

Hence, whatever role our religious convictions tell us the churches should play in society, common sense compels us to be realists about the role mainline churches actually do play.

it is NOT excluively religious convictions???????? HOW many times do I have to tell you there are convictions that abortion is wrong OUTSIDE of religion??????????

And I don't think you can answer some of the key questions without bringing religious conviction into the picture.

I would have had no problem answering the question, because, aside from my religious convictions I wouldn't drink the crap anyway, it tastes like garbage to me, and I don't like garbage!

I mean «marginalizing citizens» is all Christians do, most often the ones with «deep religious convictions» that just don't happen to be Christian religious convictions.

When does our own sound religious conviction become a denial of religious responsibility?

I don't care about her gender or religious convictions.

In my opinion if you are in the business of providing medical care then you must do just that regardless of your religious convictions.

If you take government money, what right do you have to restrict speech on your campus in accordance with your own religious convictions?

The high court's decision will impact wedding vendors across the country who do not want to service same - sex celebrations because of their religious convictions on marriage.

The principle that the right wing is relying on is: An employer, in his capacity as an employer, can never be forced to do ANYTHING with respect to how he conducts his business, how he treats his employees, etc., IF it conflicts with his religious convictions.

But people do not get to pick and choose which laws they will follow because of their religious convictions.

In all honesty, the «religious people» that don't legislate against things based solely on their religious convictions and thereby hurt the rights of individuals, and who don't condemn science and medicine and societal progression and other religions and other denominations and people who are not religious, and who don't claim to know that something is true beyond all other truths, are probably a very slim minority, and I'd have to argue that they aren't really religious, they are just doing whatever makes them feel good, which could be accomplished through secular means as well.

My own conviction is that the historic religious traditions have greater wisdom and more capacity to deal with the deepest issues facing humankind than do the newer ways.

Children don't have genuine religious and political convictions.

t just seams wrong to me to push my religious convictions on others, these are the things I do, it's unreasonable to ask others to make that choice.

By proposing a measure that capitalizes on the religious autonomy of parents, allowing them to select the best way to raise their child, the Board of Health aims to ensure that parents selecting this religious ritual have done so out of religious conviction and not medical ignorance.

I am (a) a delusional schizophrenic; (b) a naïve child, too young to know that that is silly (c) an ignorant farmer from Sudan who never had the benefit of even a fifth grade education; or (d) your average Christian Millions and millions of Catholics believe that bread and wine turns into the actual flesh and blood of a dead Jew from 2,000 years ago because: (a) there are obvious visible changes in the condiments after the Catholic priest does his hocus pocus; (b) tests have confirmed a divine presence in the bread and wine; (c) now and then their god shows up and confirms this story; or (d) their religious convictions tell them to blindly accept this completely fvcking absurd nonsense.

The men who do not go to church or have any religious convictions are the best.

Niccoli stands for the pledge, but owing to what her spokesperson calls «religious convictions» does not recite the words.

They always discussed the attacks matter - of - factly and were motivated by deep religious feelings and the conviction that what they were doing was right.