Sentences with phrase «religious convictions of»

The latter, of course, was the Hobby Lobby 5 - 4 squeaker, allowing HL, a «family - owned» corporation, to opt out of offering contraceptives to its employees through the Affordable Care Act, due to the religious convictions of its owners, who oppose abortion.

It was followed by «Satyagraha» (1980), loosely based on the life of Mahatma Gandhi, and then «Akhnaten» (1983), based on the life and religious convictions of the Egyptian pharaoh Akhenaten.

Where community is dissolved into free and isolated religious convictions of individuals and the cult is transformed into mood and reflexion, there too the link with Jesus is less prominent.

If a mosque ever opens, Islam will be able to promote itself in our midst through public worship, despite its beliefs and practices being alien to the religious convictions of the vast majority of our community.

The adoption of such a constitutional amendment would be an act of repression for a large part of the community, and would actually go against the moral and religious convictions of most Protestants and Jews and many Catholics.

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

And as such, they owners have no legal grounds to force all employees to live by the religious convictions of the founders or chief executives.

We both believe that it is pointless simply to shout Bible verses louder, or to base arguments on the private religious convictions of the Founding Fathers, or to huff and puff that we must be taken seriously because Christianity was important way back when.

The ruling signals that «there are ways to accommodate the religious convictions of the Little Sisters of the Poor, Baptist organizations, and other Christian groups without sacrificing their consciences,» said Russell Moore, president of the Southern Baptist Convention's Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, in a short video.

This impression was caused by the exaggerated enthusiasm of some representatives of the «religionsgeschichtliche Schule,» voiced in a period in which the ultraliberal orientation of many Protestant theologians had weakened the religious conviction of many Christians.

More was voicing his fundamental objection to being compelled to accept the king's new title of being the supreme head: it was an invasion of prerogative of conscience of that in part of the divine law of God since it applied man - made law to the deeply held religious conviction of the individual.

«Dark Side» follows the Empire Strikes Back plot with all the religious conviction of a Jedi knight.

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«The schools have reasonably concluded that they are quite likely to become the next target of OCR if they follow their religious convictions on these matters,» said Baylor, whose Christian legal advocacy group has advised some colleges on how to seek the exemptions.

Supporters of the measure say it will protect people and business owners with strong religious convictions from government intrusion.

I'm just issuing one more call for cooperation between different religious and political groups, and perhaps for a little more respect for the convictions of those who disagree with us.

His long life is the product of centuries of medical science pushing back the darkness of religious conviction.

Now, please note what I'm not saying: I'm not calling for anyone to abandon their religious convictions or political affiliations, and I'm not calling for religious believers of any stripe to extricate their religious beliefs from their political views (as though that were possible).

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?

Both Tim Kaine and Mike Pence warmly recounted the importance of their religious convictions.

On the basis of this thin reed Stevens was willing to impose on protestors acting out of profound religious convictions the same draconian punishments that are ordinarily imposed on gangsters.

Another thing to remember... the US was intended to be a secular republic by the founding fathers, many of whom had religious convictions, and some of whom were deists or atheists.

Religious conviction is not something outside society; it is part of society's inner core: «Religion is not a separate area marked off from society... [but] a natural element within society, constantly recalling the vertical dimension: attentive listening to God as the condition for seeking the common good, for seeking justice and reconciliation in the truth.»

Hillary Clinton has been very clear that people of religious conviction ought not to have those convictions.

If you ask a conservative for a statement of his political convictions, he may well say that he has none, and that it is the greatest heresy of modernity is precisely to see politics as a matter of conviction: as though one could recuperate, at the level of political purpose, the consoling certainty which once was granted by religious faith.

Science and the scientific method is universal and consistent all over the World whereas religion is regional and a person's religious conviction, no matter how deeply held, is clearly nothing more than an accident of birth

I am often so turned off to their religious convictions for that reason alone, because they are POSITIVE that they are correct with total disregard not only to those who might not believe in a higher being, but more oddly, to ALLLLL of the other religious that span the globe.

«It was, of course, a LIE what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated.

From the responses, it seems that some of the participants in the survey may have had equal difficulty categorizing themselves by strength of religious conviction.

It's unsurprising, then, that despite the critical adulation received by Ashgar Farhadi's new film, A Separation, its reviewers seem to have missed that the film is work of sincere religious conviction....

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.

Whether the masses are innocent is, of course, not a matter that can be documented, but I have observed in conversation with many spectators tenacious conviction that the Passion Play is (a) a great work of religious art or (b) the work of sincere peasant folk bent only on fulfilling an ancient vow.

But suspension of disbelief is not the same as lack of conviction, which is the stuff of life to both the poetic and the religious imagination.

a: allegiance to duty or a person: loyalty b (1): fidelity to one's promises (2): sincerity of intentions 2a (1): belief and trust in and loyalty to God (2): belief in the traditional doctrines of a religion b (1): firm belief in something for which there is no proof (2): complete trust 3: something that is believed especially with strong conviction; especially: a system of religious beliefs

He is faithful in his religious duties and respects the convictions of others in matters of custom and religion,» the law reads.

Sociology and psychology take up the subject of religious conviction and put a question mark around faith.

The figure of the emperor was clearly one about which a variety of lively and sincere religious beliefs had grown, convictions that can hardly be dismissed as superficial.

This is one of the reasons why years ago I joined prominent religious leaders, including some I strongly disagree with, in signing a document expressing convictions concerning religious liberty.

But some religiously orthodox wedding vendors are finding themselves compelled by the civil authorities to affirm an answer to that question that violates their religious convictions on the subject, and some religious institutions — from universities to social service agencies to private companies owned by orthodox believers — are finding themselves forced to take part in the enactment and enforcement of a moral code they are obliged to reject.

This kind of event is breaking news to only two kinds of people: those who have no inkling whatsoever of historic Christian theology, and those who expect religious conviction always to yield to pop culture.

It is easy to see why that seems like the right tool: Free exercise jurisprudence has frequently involved the crafting of prudential exemptions and accommodations — precisely the carving out of spaces — that could allow religious believers to act on their convictions even in the face of contrary public sentiments or (up to a point) public laws.

Nevertheless, whatever loosening of religious demands or of theological orthodoxies may have taken place among dispersed Jews, Jewish nationalism continued unabated, and not until the highest levels of the prophetic teaching had been released from it could religion become a matter of free, personal choice, determined not by racial stock or national allegiance but by individual conviction

They would like to be relieved of that compulsion, but that can't happen, they are told, because the larger society's understanding of the moral life overrules the understanding prescribed by their religious convictions.

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.

In a word, the unity of the New Testament theology is a religious unity, derived from its fundamental and original motivation, not from the language or the ideas commonly used to set forth its convictions, inferences, and beliefs.

Distinguished men of letters, essayists, novelists, and poets, have recently asserted their conviction that the only thing which can save our sagging culture is a revival of religious faith, but many of these men make no contact whatever with the particular organizations in their own communities which are dedicated to the nourishment of the very faith they declare necessary for our salvation.

The factors of chief importance in the development of this theology were: (a) the Old Testament — and Judaism --(b) the tradition of religious thought in the Hellenistic world, (c) the earliest Christian experience of Christ and conviction about his person, mission, and nature — this soon became the tradition of the faith or the «true doctrine» — and (d) the living, continuous, ongoing experience of Christ — only in theory to be distinguished from the preceding — in worship, in preaching, in teaching, in open proclamation and confession, as the manifestation of the present Spiritual Christ within his church.

We are not reading the New Testament to learn the «theology of Paul,» even if that were available to us; rather; we are attempting to get at the religious experiences and convictions that generated this literature and gave it shape.

In fact, when it comes to Christmas, the season more often puts us in the role of intolerant, overbearing zealots demanding that everyone else conform to our religious preferences and publicly reflect our inner convictions.

When I read it, I thought of Peter Rollins» parable about the preacher whose «gift» was that anyone he prayed for immediately lost their religious convictions.

Reports circulated over a draft of an executive order designed to expand protections for individuals, organizations, and corporations» religious convictions — including traditional beliefs on gender, sexuality, and marriage.