Sentences with phrase «religious doctrine»

Advocates of embryonic stem cell research were thought to be in a long line of pioneers fighting the restraints of religious doctrine to push forward with scientific research.

Reason as a means of forming a judgment is included in religious doctrine because whatever reason favors, religion agrees to.

It's not that they care to comply with religious doctrine, it's that they can use it to manipulate people.

The school does not embrace a specific religious doctrine, but the program is based on a belief that all humans — in fact, all living things — possess a spiritual dimension.

I do care if religious doctrine becomes an excuse to exclude my fellow citizens from the rights and protections our country promises.

Because to follow religious doctrines without critical analysis is to fail as a human being.

Certainly there have been conflicts, but there have also been conflicts between different religious doctrines on the one hand and between opposing scientific theories on the other.

What about if you send your kids to a private school that teaches religious doctrines?

It's the people in positions of power that use, corrupt and abuse religious doctrine to control the people.

I think the average atheist knows more about religious doctrine than he does about scientific matters.

We don't view them as temples to those religion and we don't view them as our government spreading religious doctrine, because they are museums of historic events.

Under the law — show me the which religious doctrines hold those beliefs.

Why are those goals which will really help real people less than reading and pondering obscure fictional religious doctrine?

In this environment religious doctrine is quite palatable, and readily accepted, particularly in the grossly exaggerated punishment / rewards of following such doctrine.

For me included, it doesn't have to do with fence sitting, it has to do with rigid religious doctrines and the varying degrees of intolerance that comes from them.

Religious doctrines typically urge the faithful to treat others with compassion and to put the greater good before selfish interests.

Like every generation coming of age, a substantial portion will ask questions that can't be answered within the restricted confines of religious doctrine.

As far as marriage is concerned, marriage has its roots in religious doctrine and beliefs and I'm a firm believer that all marriage should be separated from legal recognition.

The school does not embrace a specific religious doctrine, but the program is based on a belief that all humans - in fact, all living things - possess a spiritual dimension.

Not much much different than today's cultures, with it's different religious doctrines, and beliefs.

Charter schools are subject to the same restrictions on teaching religious doctrine as traditional public schools and may not discriminate on the basis of race, creed, color, sex, or disability.

I did not mean to upset when I said, «it's only a theory» I just tried to say that the theory is an open, on going, unbiased argument that is completely different from religious doctrines out there.

An immigration judge can not quiz asylum seekers on religious doctrine to see if they are credible about their faith, the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reiterated in a January ruling.

This is the trouble with traditional religious doctrines: they are burdened with ideas which have lost their reference to actual human experience.

On the other side, creationists simply deny scientific data; but Intelligent Design, having abandoned this tactic, now tries to use science to promote religious doctrines, and this, too, is a philosophical error.

Countries controlled by religious leaders, where it's against the law to question religious doctrines are the exception, of course.

«The theological exchange campaign encourages more pastors, priests, believers and church volunteers to extract morals that are in line with the trend of the times from the Bible and other religious doctrines»?

Morality is largely based upon religious doctrine, and is therefore irrelevant in a pure democracy (basis: Plato's «Republic»).

So let me try and get this straight, if religious doctrine does not define some practice as against the law or evil but yet the laity performs these unlawful acts, it keeps the church free from culpability?

Thus, in formulating religious doctrines we must always consider whether that community's witness is being continued.

Like Voltaire, who was ready to vouch for the sincerity of his professed belief in God, but who added «as for Monsieur the Son and Madame His Mother, that's a different story,» more and more Americans are giving lip service to belief in God, while adopting the discourse of «spirituality,» and treating conventional religious doctrine as a very different story.

Think about it, in most religious doctrines it teaches you that those of a different religion or sect were heathens, this lead to crusades of these people and further segregation of man.

«this knowledge contradicts religious doctrine and may cause you to question traditional religious beliefs»

While not perhaps, an ideal comparison, I can not help but think that the obligation of the Mahr is as unsuitable for adjudication in the civil courts as is an obligation in a Christian religious marriage, such as to love, honour and cherish, or to remain faithful, or to maintain the marriage in sickness or other adversity so long as both parties live, or to raise children according to specified religious doctrine.

Logic please don't read proof religious doctrine that you do NOT subscribe to.

Of course, one may find atheist in large groups, or find banners, t - shirts... As an atheist myself I am overwhelmed by religious doctrine which I prefer to be absent from.

Strict adherence to religious doctrine reveals a genuine lack of curiosity and the inability to question the information source.

and while examining a candidate's religion is perfectly reasonable from the plane of the individual, the media overblowing controversial religious doctrine, often misinterpreting or misrepresenting, and attacking individuals solely because of their proclaimed religion, is simply negative, unproductive news.

If you are a non-US writer who has come up with a new religious doctrine and have insufficient funds to promote your writings, the only chance you have is if someone in the US happens to read about you, is interested in what you wrote and has the potential to mention your writing and / or your name in the US mainstream media.