Sentences with phrase «religious culture of his day»

The religious culture of his day dictated that there should be a firm wall between Jews and Samaritans, between men and women, between the righteous and the sinner.

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Society has bred a culture of religious hatred that is similar to the days before the civil rights movement back in the day.

Most history these days is written from a quite secular point of view in which the religious foundation of culture is little Understood or appreciated.

The similarity in style and content between the stories I knew from the Bible and the myths of other Mesopotamian cultures suddenly made those strange tales of talking snakes and forbidden fruit and boats packed with animals seem colloquial, routine — nothing more than myths operating from the religious and literary conventions of the day.

Perhaps one day we can read the writings of the religious thinkers of all times and in all cultures and appreciate how they too struggled to express within their language and personal and historical circumstances the life - and - death questions and the meaning of that which they called holy.

The extremism of nationalistic, ethnic and religious communal conflicts is rising these days due to their suppression by powerful cultures and groups.

What began as a religious feast day for the patron saint of Ireland has become an international festival celebrating Irish culture with parades, dancing, special foods and a whole lot of green.

Among the multiple lines of critical and cultural discourse surrounding the film, however, one particularly stands out: the notion of There Will Be Blood — with its central conflict between cutthroat oil prospector Daniel Plainview (Daniel Day - Lewis) and zealous small - town preacher Eli Sunday (Paul Dano) in 1911 California — as a kind of demonic origin tale for the state of contemporary American political culture, with narrow - minded religious fervor and bald - faced capitalistic excesses forming two sides of the same tarnished coin.

He chronicles the broader political and religious tensions in the area (it would be impossible not to) but also focuses on the day - to - day nature of acclimating to a new city and culture, depicting the madcap adventures of getting the kids to and from school, the endless search for a good playground, and the difficulty of keeping the schedule straight of which days Jewish, Muslim, or Christian shops are open.

A day laborer trolls the streets for work with men half his age and witnesses a murder that pits his morality against his illegal status; a religious hypocrite gets her comeuppance when she meets the Virgin Mary at a bus stop on Sunset Boulevard; a typical bus route turns violent when cultures and egos collide in the night, with devastating results; and Aurora goes on a journey through her gentrified childhood neighborhood in a quest to discover her own history and her place in the land that all Mexican Americans dream of, «the land that belongs to us again.»

I haven't read the Charter of Values; but, I guess it's safe to assume that Quebec will not be hosting a multicultural day as there are some cultural outfits that are tied to religion and some religious outfits that are more influenced by culture than religion.

St. Patrick's Day is ostensibly a religious occasion that is also intended to celebrate the accomplishments and culture of the Irish people, though in the US it's long been bastardized into quasi-synonymity with drunken debauchery.