Sentences with phrase «religious edicts»

Contrary to misguided assertions, political correctness, and even government or religious edicts, carbon dioxide is not a pollutant.

I think if at all human race evolved it should put in the back burner real estate venerations as nationalism, religious edicts drafted for a period in remote past conditions and instead live life in present in present context and make it livable for all humans and other species.

There are several socio - economic factors could have contributed to the rise in popularity of poultry, including religious edicts that prohibited meat consumption during fasting.

My report finds that whilst the Constitution has been referred to in only a limited fashion in cases involving the protection and enhancement of women's rights, notable exceptions include violence against women resulting from religious edicts: «In response to a spate of violence directed at young rural women as part of their sentencing by fatwa... the Supreme Court declared such sentences unconstitutional in 2001.»

There are religious edicts and legal statutes that have been in place for years — centuries even!»

Like posting religious edicts on state public grounds?

The law, which was drafted by the late Pope Shenouda III and is now under study, would allow Egyptian Christians to refer to their own religious edicts in matters such as marriage, divorce and inheritance, and would allow them to choose their religious clerics.

Uber said expanding its service may be a boon for Saudi Arabia, a country where women are not allowed to drive because of fatwas, or religious edicts, issued by conservative Muslim clerics that uphold a distinct segregation between the sexes.

The well - known modernist Rashid Rida, a pupil of Muhammad Abduh who became a leader of modernism in Egypt after his master's death, declared in a fatwa, a religious edict, that the conditional declaration of divorce is an unjustified innovation.

Not exact matches

That being said I do think there is a qualitative difference between the application of religious law / edicts between Islam and Christianity.

The only reason that the teaching of a «devil» exists in my opinion is because it is a useful tool for religious leaders to use to frighten people into obedience to their edicts.

This edict seeks to bring religious groups to heel by requiring all employers to cover contraception and abortifacients in their health - care plans.

In the 1500s, King Sigismund of Transylvania, who was converted to Unitarianism by his court minister, issued the world's first Edict of Religious Toleration, allowing his subjects to choose to observe religions other than the King's.

In AD 847 Hsuan Tsung came to the throne and he issued an edict of religious toleration.

French Protestantism continued to exist underground until, in 1787, Louis XVI's Edict of Versailles granted religious toleration to Protestants (Calvinists and Lutherans) and Jews.

I would worry if your religious leader suddenly edicted that genocide was good you would feel compelled to follow along.

Such a frank acknowledgment of the losses of secularism and of how the absence of religious faith leaves brides and grooms vulnerable to the edicts of consumer capitalism may surprise or offend some readers.

In 1685 Louis XIV, intent on being absolute monarch and determined to be rid of a religious minority who constituted an enclave not yet fully integrated under his rule, revoked the Edict of Nantes.

In the past, such tyrannies have been directed by churches and states attempting to enforce the edicts of religious bigots.

Thus the not - really - an - Edict of Nicomedia and Elsewhere cemented into the foundations of the West ideas first sketched by the Christian philosopher Lactantius: that coercion and true religious faith don't mix because «God wishes to be adored by people who are free» (as Joseph Ratzinger would rewrite Lactantius a millennium and a half later, in the 1986 Instruction on Christian Freedom and Liberation).

Edicts, inquisitions, laws, and wars failed to extinguish people's religious convictions, or insistence on articulating and sharing them.

The legislation, «a Bill for a Law to substitute the Kaduna State Religious Preaching Law, 1984» (the 1984 Edict) or simply known as the Kaduna state...

Since 1979, the state has become a religious autocracy, and imposes islamic edicts on matters such as dating.

But sadly even private religious schools are now burdened with government edicts regarding gender bending and risk losing taxpayer assistance if they don't fall in line with regnant radical agenda.