Sentences with phrase «religious habit of»

It may well be that the interest that church folk show in defining religious art is but an example of the bad religious habit of the church to divide the religious from the secular, the O.K. and the not O.K., the clean and the impure.

So entrenched is its authority and so stable are the religious habits of its members that God could withdraw Himself completely from it and it could run on for years on its own momentum.

«The religious habits of the race are still very strong, in all places, at all times, and for all people.

Not exact matches

Religions incorporated and codified these basic social values and skills, and quickly learned to take credit for them — as if, without the religion, we would be doomed to not have them — although we see them in every human society, including hunter - gather tribes with no sense of gods as we understand them After many centuries of religious domination, enforced through pain of death, ostracization or other social sanctions, allowing religion to take credit, as well as failing to question other religious claims — has become a cultural habit.

When we read the bible, we read about Jesus spending most of his time beating religious men, Paul counseling and criticising religious habits.

The movement was very popular because of its religious color, military discipline, the habits of simple living it inculcated, the unconditioned obedience to leaders which it enjoined upon its followers, and its utter disregard of rank and riches in the enforcement of its discipline.

Even as the absence of a feudal order and established church have shaped American institutions and political habits, the dialectic of a feudal order and established churches and of secularist rejection of religion has structured European attitudes toward the United States, particularly toward the American experiment in religious freedom and toward the seemingly unabating religious vitality that this system has produced.

He sets between himself and the world a rigid religious dogma, a rigid system of philosophy, a rigid political belief and commitment to a group, and a rigid wall of personal values and habits.

Being very «scientific» minded, I took exception to the fundamentalist habit of shunning new knowledge that might clash with existing religious paradigms.

But old habits die hard, and Christian theologians had fallen into the habit of trying to delineate the religious dimension of our general culture.

Most people lose or forget the subjectively religious experience, and redefine Religion as a set of habits, behaviors, dogmas, forms, which at the extreme becomes entirely legalistic and bureaucratic, conventional, empty, and in the truest meaning of the word, antireligious.

You said, «Do you think it was religious bigotry that caused the court to side with AA in firing one of their employees who used peyote to kick his drinking habit?»

People of a skeptical disposition commonly suppose that because modern science has provided them with a reason to disbelieve the claims of religion, or because they think it has, modern science must therefore be the generating force behind secularization itself ¯ that historical progression, evident in the West since the Renaissance, in which habits and institutions are less and less influenced by religious doctrine.

His religious difficulty came from the kind of theology he found around him, its habit of identifying words in a book (written by human hands and thought by human brains) with the words of God, also from the habit of playing fast and loose with the dangerously ambiguous concepts of omnipotence and omniscience, and taking these more seriously than any definite affirmation of the freedom of creatures to make decisions that are their own and not God's.

If, for example, we have been in the habit of thinking of God's total creation of the world as occurring in six days of twenty - four hours each and we learn that the creation stories in Genesis are a prescientific attempt to present great religious truth rather than accurate geology or biology, we fail to hear God speak if we refuse to change our minds.

I have always believed that we, religious folks, have a habit of hiding behind God to justify our actions.

Because of the differences in religion and customs, these people lived apart in their own communities where they could follow the religious injunctions of Islam in their living habits, marriage and funeral rites, and other ceremonies.

Even if we can separate «the ore of the ideal from the dross of habit of behavior,» the ideals can not be lived outside the cultural, religious, and social life in which they developed.

Such a system had serious drawbacks because the teaching materials were several centuries old, the study of Arabic — and no Chinese — was inadequate, so the students could read only a limited amount and could not speak the language, there was no general educational background for the religious courses, and the freedom allowed to the students often led them to form bad habits.

This is especially true of his practice of table fellowship with sinners and social outcasts, a habit for which he was severely criticized by those whose religious heroism was implicitly put in question by such inclusive praxis.

The photo is of course absurd: a traditional religious woman in her habit.

Yet the religious peoples of the world have the habit of making the non-believers feel somehow inferior.

but rather a vision of a social order based on explicit moral and religious values deeply embedded in the mental habits of the population and in social institutions.

Nope, in case you're still having trouble, its basically a video about the timeline of Jesus» supposed life, however the important part of this particular one in the series is that it contains a Monty Python sketch that makes fun of you, or rather, religious people's habit of continually mutating their argument for any absurd possibility.

I guess in my personal experience people who were religious enough to say «bless you» (outside of the sneeze ordeal which I even say bless you out of childish habit) did it as some kind of display of their awesome religiousness vs other people's sinner ways.

Personally I would have no issues at all with either the JWs or the LDS if they did not have the annoying habit of banging on my door at the butt crack of dawn on a Saturday morning (I suffer from Fibromyalgia and getting up early is not something I do very easily) to try to shove their religious beliefs down my throat.

But most of these religious developments continued the older mythic habit of «abolishing time,» to use Mircea Eliade's expression.

Using a sample of 3,559 households, the study examined the radio and television viewing habits of both secular and religious programs by residents of the community of New Haven, Connecticut.

Most of the orders of religious sisters being investigated do not even wear habits — which may be part of the problem...

The habit seems to be a particularly important factor for the success of religious communities.

A 2009 survey conducted by the Center for Applied Research of the Apostolate found that two - thirds of new members had joined religious orders that wore habits.

He had to explain to his father, somewhat tortuously, that though he rejected the obligation as such, he chose of his own free will, for the moment at any rate, to remain in the habit, in the religious community, and his father had to accept this as God's will.

In this respect the burqa is comparable to two other habits of dress that come to mind: that of Sikh men, who refuse to cut their hair, who wear the kara and carry the kirpan; and that of Christian religious, with their cowls and rosaries and scapulars.

Having a religious habit was an important factor for a significant number of new members.

Mindful that even as new principles are proclaimed, old habits die hard and citizens and politicians could tend to entangle government and religion (e.g., «the appointment of chaplains to the two houses of Congress» and «for the army and navy» and «[r] eligious proclamations by the Executive recommending thanksgivings and fasts»), he considered the question whether these actions were «consistent with the Constitution, and with the pure principle of religious freedom» and responded: «In strictness the answer on both points must be in the negative.

Protestantism, as he insists all along, «ruined» the integral march of Catholic civilization by introducing socially disintegrative ideas into the habits of European life, weakening the otherwise powerful sway of a unified religious political power.

Likewise, the person who grows up in a religious minority, perennially aware of the real (if not official) hostility aimed his way, is apt to form a habit of vigilant verbal diplomacy.

Praasha Desire Praatika Image / Symbolic Pracheeta Origin / Starting point Pradyuta To begin to shine Pragnika Clever lady Praharsha Happy girl Prahasini Continues smiling girl Prajisha Morning Pramik Best / Fulfilling desires Pranal God Pranamya Offering obeisances Pranani Most beautiful Pranavee Goddess Parvati / The first sound of universe Aum (Alternate Spelling: Pranavi) Pranaya Leader Pranidhi Spy Pranika Goddess Parvati Pranisha Love to life Pranja Very cute Pranusha Prathama Usha — first rays of the morning Sun Pranvi Forgiveness / Goddess of life / Maa Parvati Pranvuta Praised Prasheila Ancient time Prashi Accomplishment / Fame Prashvita Parvati / Lord Shivas wife Prathulya Incomparable Prathusha Saisudha / Early morning / Dawn Prathysha Saisudha / Early morning / Dawn Prathyumna Victory Prathyusha Saisudha / Early morning / Dawn Prati One who appreciates and loves music Pratichi West Pratika Image / Beautiful / Symbol / Symbolic Pratitha Well known Prattusha Beautiful / soft Prattysha Morning Pratusha Saisudha / Early morning / Dawn Pratushya Morning Pratyaksha One who is real Pratyaya Perception / Thought / Intention Pratyusha Bright morning Pravara Eminent Prayukta Experimented Prayushi Pure Prayuta Mingled with Saadhvi Religious women / Courteous / Polite Saahana Raga Saarya Name of a pious woman Saatvika Goddess Durga / Calm (Alternate Spelling: Saatwika) Saavi Goddess Lakshmi / The Sun Saavini Pertaining to the month of Saavan / One who prepares Soma Sabrang Rainbow Sachita Consciousness Sadhvi Religious women / Courteous / Polite Saesha With great desire and wish / Truth of life Sagnika Fiery / Passionate / Married / With fire Sahuri War / Powerful / Victorious / The earth Sahya A mountain in india Saisha With great desire and wish / Truth of life (Alternate Spelling: Saiyeisha) Saketa Lord Krishna (Alternate Spelling: Saketha) Samanvi One who has all the best qualities Sambhwi Durga Samiha Generous Samika Peaceful Samiksha Analysis Samita Collected Samithra Good friend Sanchana Gathering of good habits Sanchaya Collection Sanha Skilful / Radiance / Elegance / Conciseness Sanheeta A compilation or a bunch of vedic hymns / Code (Alternate Spelling: Sanhitha) Sanmaya Equal / Removal of obstacles / Etc Sanmita Goddess Parvati / Prasanna Lakshmi Sanoja Eternal Sanrakta Red / Pleasant / Beautiful Sanwari Dusky Sanya Eminent / Distinguished / Born on saturday Sarasvi Water / Saraswathi Goddess Sarayu A holy river Sarisha Charming Sarit River Sarjena Creative Sarunati Nobleminded Sarvani Durga / Universal / Complete Sarvari Night

Current attempts at banning certain religious practices are not limited to just regulating dress, and are part and parcel of continental Europe's habit of ghettoizing people whom they consider to be beneath them.

You must also enter basic details about yourself, including your body type, education, occupation, smoking habits, and religious beliefs — all of which will be visible on your dating profile.

Do read the Ads of the people you write to carefully before writing to them, you might be just wasting your time (e.g. religious preferences & smoking habits).

You are required to fill in drop - down answers about your age, height, religious views, reading habits, fashion sense, and other personality traits, but you do not have to post a photo or reveal your city of residence.

While Tinder serves the general dating market, some sites and apps prefer to focus on a certain segment of the market with particular tastes — whether it's dating people who have the same political beliefs, eating habits, or religious views, for instance.

Learn about their religious habits, what version of Judaism they associate with, their upbringing, and their relationships with family and God.

Select your gender and the gender of who you are looking for, your location, relationship status, smoking habits, height, education, occupation, your religious background, how often you go to synagogue, how many children you have, whether you want children, birthday, email and password.

Tracing inspiration to a yarn from one of Giovanni Boccaccio's collected 14th century novellas in The Decameron, the new ensemble film from Jeff Baena wraps it religious habit up with wit, erotica, and practical jokes from Italian prose translated into a modern vernacular.

«It is obvious — from the evidence of the names, habits, religious practices and music of African Americans — that Africa's golden past is crucial to an understanding of African Americans.

That O'Connor was a devout, practicing Catholic who often decried what she saw as the sentimentalism and namby - pambyism of religious literature in her time is no secret to those who've read her writing in books like Mystery and Manners and her letters in The Habit of Being.

«I haven't seen a connection but, I'm not in the habit of asking people about their religious beliefs,» she said.

The girls, for the most part, are dressed as religious women, in an array of habits and head coverings of different colors.