Sentences with phrase «religious injunction»

But does this religious injunction demand also that we learn to feel lost in the cosmos as though it were not a home that we should care for?

There can be no religious injunction which is contrary to reason.

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.

It's irrelevant for you or I to actually believe in the merit behind specific religious injunctions — only ensure that they comply with broader notions of human rights.

Not exact matches

The distinction the Oliners made between the appropriation of religious traditions by non-rescuers and rescuers comes to mind here: The rescuers tended to understand the inclusiveness and extensiveness of injunctions to love to extend to all persons and groups.

If some hold that the play is not for such eyes but for the eyes of faith, I reply that in matters of religious art, as in other matters, we have the injunction to be harmless as doves but wise as serpents.

Tyndale House Publishers won a temporary injunction against the Affordable Care Act's (ACA) contraceptive mandate Friday, convincing the D.C. Federal District Court that the requirement violated its religious freedom.

Texas judge grants temporary injunction against superintendent's ban on religious - themed signs.

On the basis of this belief there came to be a group of Wahhabis known as Compellers who considered it their religious duty to see that people performed the prayers at the prescribed times, basing their action on the injunction «to command the good and prohibit the bad.»

Whatever their exact number, Christians are leaven in deeply troubled Pakistan whose Muslim majority disallows increasingly the Prophet's teachings about restraint from violence and his injunctions to honor the Ummah (religious community) Internecine Muslim murders are a daily occurrence in Pakistan, and, whatever the discrimination against Christians, it is more social and economic in nature and far less violent than what Muslims do to one another.

The judge issued a detailed injunction that prohibits the governor, the attorney general, the state board of education, and everyone else from permitting religious activity in classrooms, including vocal prayer, readings of the Bible, devotional discussions, and distribution of religious materials.

They might be further upset to read how Jane Schaberg, professor of religious studies at the University of Detroit Mercy, interprets Christ's injunction against divorce as an open invitation for men to beat their wives; «Interpreted in this rigid fashion,» she writes, «this prohibition bas... condemned women and men to the alternative of an intolerable bondage or a life of isolation and sexual repression.»

The controversy over the injunction issued in October 1997 by Alabama Federal District Judge Ira M. DeMent restricting religious activity in public schools, as well as the continuing controversy in the state concerning Judge Roy Moore's courtroom display of the Ten Commandments, can be....

The code proper ends with t: he strange injunction, 9 which sounds to modern ears neither moral nor religious, «You shall not boil a kid in its mother's milk,» and is followed immediately by the renewal of the covenant.

She is deeply appreciative of the religious and cultural traditions that make Israel so much more humane than its neighbors» the same traditions that had led European Jewry in the 1930s to take more seriously than most of their fellow Europeans the injunction to be decent.

This is not the first time courts have split over granting injunctions to religious employers.

«This research contributes to the current dialogue on religion by demonstrating that even brief religious belief reminders not accompanied by any explicit beliefs or injunctions tend to promote more magnanimous, less hostile choices in threatening circumstances.»

More than 200 students had already begun the school year at religious schools, planning to use state vouchers for tuition, when the Wisconsin Supreme Court halted the program on Aug. 25 with a temporary injunction.

Nearly 800 Cleveland schoolchildren returned to religious schools at government expense last week after the U.S. Supreme Court blocked an injunction that had barred new participants from the city's controversial voucher program.

The Richmond, Virginia - based 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, in an unusual en banc ruling before there was a panel decision, upheld the preliminary injunction issued by the Maryland court, concluding that the executive order was based on religious animus.