Sentences with phrase «religious fellow citizens»

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But having one's religious conscience protected from intrusion by one's fellow citizens is a much less compelling need than having it protected from the government.

Those whom I have communicated with, were they elected to the high offices of the land, would first move to rob their fellow citizens of their right to religious freedom leaving only those who are atheist or agnostic free to worship their god..

It is that passionate love for the truth that motivates me and many other non-believers to shed some light for those who can't see through the harmful religious indoctrination that inflicts and severely intellectually limits so many of our fellow citizens.

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

«Mock» is an inflamatory word choice; to openly question those who feel the need to loudly proclaim their religious beliefs at the expense of their fellow citizens» beliefs seems to me to be a thoughtful response to the situation we find our country in.

'' «Overall, this research suggests that although less religious people tend to be less trusted in the U.S., when feeling compassionate, they may actually be more inclined to help their fellow citizens than more religious people»

How many Jews left Germany to attend religious - zealot training camps, and then returned to target their fellow citizens?

In an earlier era, freethinkers understood that the society in which they lived depended in part on the basic view of the world accepted by their fellow citizens — hence Robert Ingersoll and Elizabeth Cady Stanton not only defended a clear churchstate separation but commented onthe merits of specific religious ideas held by their contemporaries.

Yet Christian thinkers, including Augustine, were no less critical of the theological ideas of the philosophers than they were of the religious practices of their fellow citizens.

Let us be mindful that it is not our Muslim fellow citizens who have undermined public morality, assaulted our religious liberty, and attempted to force us to comply with their ideology on pain of being reduced to the status of second - class citizens.

«I deem the present occasion sufficiently important and solemn to justify me in expressing to my fellow - citizens a profound reverence for the Christian religion and a thorough conviction that sound morals, religious liberty, and a just sense of religious responsibility are essentially connected with all true and lasting happiness...»

Of course, if you want to persuade your fellow citizens who don't accept your religious reasons to adopt some policy that you favor, you will have to try to find some reasons that they find compelling.

We need to show our fellow citizens that religious and moral truths provide the foundation for a just and humane society.