Sentences with phrase «religious inclination»

A prominent Islamic Scholar, Sheik Dahiru Usman Bauchi, has called on Nigerians regardless of their religious inclination to pray for President Muhammadu Buhari and Nigeria as...

Jesus does not lie, and he seems to be suggesting that either through nature or nurture or religious inclination, there are humans who are as beloved as any others — equally, in the sight of God» but not meant to marry.

He takes strong stands against idolatry — that is, against the universal religious inclination to paint pictures of a god in eternity that look like what we want to be in history.

The literalist mentality does not manifest itself only in conservative churches, private - school enclaves, television programs of the evangelical right, and a considerable amount of Christian bookstore material; one often finds a literalist understanding of Bible and faith being assumed by those who have no religious inclinations, or who are avowedly antireligious in sentiment.

religion is the opium of the masses... and the modern day america is so... advanced that more and more people are expressing more... religious inclinations... Especially now with a «socialist» president... my oh my, people become somehow more..

Atheism, pantheism, and paganism have, it would seem, made far more inroads within the Jewish community than Christianity, but Jews who adhere to these religious inclinations, because they do not join a rival covenant community, largely escape the censure of the Jewish community.

Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks has made a compelling case for the creative and culturally dynamic role that religious minorities can play, even in societies where the majority of people deeply oppose their religious inclinations, as was the case for much of the history of the Jewish people in....

Science does not disprove our religious inclinations, and religion does not trump science in terms of what is measureable.

The assumption underlying much contemporary thought is that authentic human existence is achieved only in moments where we become fully conscious of our creativity.11 The dominant anthropological image is that of homo faber.12 The influence of Marx and existentialism is present here, and these two strands of modern thought are always suspicious of any ideological or religious inclinations to undermine a sense of our human productivity.

We have a President who at least restrains his religious inclinations.

President Akuffo - Addo expressed his government's preparedness to cooperate and work with traditional rulers irrespective of their political, ethnic and religious inclinations.

The religious inclinations of a parent can greatly influence parenting style, as per JRF.

Not exact matches

My own inclination is to say that genuine historical existence, understood as relation with the Other, is possible only when all ideologies, including religious ideologies, are called into question.

Progressive religious folks of all stripes tend to share a post-triumphalism (a sense that it's time to move beyond the old triumphalist paradigm in which one religion is The Right Path to God and all the other paths are wrong), as well as an inclination toward reading our sacred texts through interpretive lenses which take into account changing social mores and changing understandings of justice.

Here then is a second and less obvious explanation for America's capacity to generate a civil religion — the opportunity and inclination of its government agencies to use religious symbols.

We believe that there are many Christians whose moral inclinations might persuade them to take the same view of current problems as our own, except for the fact that they are inhibited by religious presuppositions that they regard as more «purely» Christian than those represented by the consensus of the Church through all the ages.

The flaws in Walzer's analysis of the liberationist project stem from his inclination to see religious and conservative countermovements as problems to be solved rather than as expressions of genuine and worthy human aspirations.

's tolerance of individual differences in religious belief and spiritual inclination.

The old style of religious education in China was patterned after the Arabic and Iranian methods of the Middle Ages in which there were several specialists who lectured and the students chose their lectures according to their inclinations.

We are at the era of Charlatanism, Quackery & Delusion... Pure Religions are a good thing but Religious one's might be misguided to astray beyond the truth by swindlers into becoming as dark as it reflects; - Say, «O People of the Scripture, do not exceed limits in your religion beyond the truth and do not follow the inclinations of a people who had gone astray before and misled many and have strayed from the soundness of the way.»

Ynetnews: Top rabbi: Soften attitude towards gays Religious gays» battle for rabbinical and communal recognition continues to bear fruit: Rabbi Dr. Aharon Lichtenstein, a senior Religious Zionism rabbi, has ruled that people with homosexual inclinations should not be condemned more than Shabbat desecrators or frauds.

Bringing kids up to be religious can be helpful to those parents who don't have the time or inclination to teach their kids this simple rule themselves.

Not only do religious envoys «pick and choose» all other habitualized mannerisms of social inclinations do the same.

The inclination Pat Robertson and the religious right have to equate themselves with such important and intelligent Americans as Thomas Jefferson is obvious to anyone who has glanced through any of Pat's numerous books.

The ministers attempted to do this through the tracts and books they distributed on the frontier, but their own inclination as well as the literature stressed the emotional and the moral aspects of the religious life.

In both conceptions the inclination to worship an Other is absorbed by the noblest and most religious aspirations of humanity, with the result that the imposition of religion as a «third thing» between the individual and the possibilities of his self - perfection is abolished.

Stories in the newspapers about religious leaders do not offend or persuade us simply because we bring to them certain educational levels and political inclinations; they offend or persuade because something in the stories signals to us that the reported event violates certain standards of common decency or that it can be understood within some familiar framework.

If you identify as a an «atheist» (and to many religious people, there's very little inclination to make fine nuanced distinction between «nones», «non-affiliated», «agnostic», «atheist» - they all get conceptually lumped together as «unbelieving atheist heathen» (tm) from the point of view of someone highly devout in a monotheistic Abrahamic tradition), there's plenty of strongly religious people who - according to polls - would refuse to vote for you.

The Senate GOP has shown no inclination thus far to take up the measure, which is strongly opposed because of the one - year lookback by such groups as the Catholic Church, Boy Scouts and other religious organizations.

The monarch said Nigerians, irrespective of their religious affiliations and political inclinations, should intensify prayers for the economic growth of the country.

However, the study did not look at actual sexual inclinations or erotic fantasies, and the sample consisted mainly of religious conservatives eager to identify as heterosexual.

Children from religious homes — particularly Muslims — also showed a greater inclination to judge someone's misdeeds as wrong and punish the perpetrators.

There is the two - faced head of the chapter with her secret past as a geek, the dumb blonde who is a chemistry major, the overtly religious good girl with lesbian inclinations and of course the rampant bulimia.

But for the deeply religious Mary, farming is an awkward living and at odds with her more cosmopolitan inclinations.

My beliefs in such matters are necessarily entirely «religious» because I haven't had the time and / or inclination to pursue anything beyond the organized and mostly reliable «hearsay» of academic authority.