Sentences with phrase «religious leaders of the nation»

His sister mercifully lied, saying he had countermanded this order on his deathbed, and so spared the religious leaders of the nation.

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It ignores the leadership of civil society, including religious leaders; the political value of religious ideas (real theology) in creating a functional future for these nations; and practices like forgiveness that allegedly prevent the just application of punishment.

For a Christian leader to call upon fellow Christians to vote for Christian candidates is not an attack on the principles of religious freedom established by our nation's forefathers.

Consider the methods described herein the degradation of youth through $ ex and drugs, the se - du - ction of this nation's media, educational, and religious inst - i - tutions, the discrediting of her leaders and decide tor yourself whether or not they are the very means that have been employed to accomplish these ends.

I personally think religion should not be a factor.No one should ask the candidates what their religious views are and they should never mention them.Their religious preferences have absolutely no effect on what type of leader they will be.Unless they are some kind of a religious fanatic.I think it's time for an atheist.There was not a Christian president for over the first 50 years of our nations existence.And, I do not think there has been one since.If you look it up you will find not one of our founding fathers were Christian.Not even Jefferson.I know he wrote the Jefferson bible, but, that's just because he, like the other founding fathers, did not believe Jesus to be of divine decent.So, he kept his philosophy while removing all the mystical and dogmatic concepts.

As a world leader for freedom and the protection of basic human rights, the United States should take every opportunity to advocate for people — including Americans here at home — to think, believe, and act according to their religious belief whether they belong to a minority or majority religion in their nation.»

It has become a spiritual dilemma for some of the nation's pastors and their parishioners, religious leaders say.

For example, at one time many religious leaders in the early days of our «Christian nation» and even (some of our) Founding Fathers believed that people of African decent were not fully human and used the Bible as proof.

To me, his gift in life is helping to save Catholicism, which is having many problems retaining members throughout the world, especially in Europe, maybe he should become a religious leader and leave politics to people who actually understand the focus of the nation and the world aside from Lucifer.

The British who colonized India had accepted the European concept of nationhood as constituted by unity in blood and language, «ethnic purity and a single language»; therefore, they said, that «India is not and can never be a nation... India is a collection of religious communities... But the unfortunate tragic element was that this British interpretation of Indian history was also accepted by many of our national leaders... So British interpretation plus the shortsightedness of our own leaders, not excluding the Mahatma, together resulted in this dreadful phenomenon of communalism».

Nevertheless, this country is too big and too diverse to seriously expect that everyone walks the same path regarding spirituality, and it's completely reasonable to understand how and why our nation's President or Presidential candidates would not necessarily share our religious views, but still be capable of being great leaders.

The nation's biggest evangelical group said Monday that religious freedom is threatened by American mayors who say Chick - fil - A is not welcome in their cities because of the restaurant leader's opposition to gay marriage.

And yet the controversy over Chick - fil - A is a clear sign that religious liberty is at risk and that this nation has reached the brink of tyrannical intolerance from at least some of our elected leaders.

Religion might teach of duties and soften the inherent corruption of leaders and the governed alike, but the founders knew that the virtue of the nation was by no means assured, no matter what religious commitments its civic leaders might have.

It must be recognized that in this, not less than in the concept of the covenant, there was profound ethical content which religious leaders were not slow to apply for the vitalizing of the religion of nation and individual, several of them commenting on the astonishing fact that Israel was a peculiar treasure of God.

Jeremy — earlier, you wrote — Dave, Just to riff on the United States example a bit more... When we went to war with Iraq, many of our nation's religious leaders said that this was God's will, and that we needed to bomb Iraq back into the dark ages.

Whenever the religious leaders of Israel wanted to sensitize the nation, to call it back into faithfulness and obedience to the Torah, those leaders turned to the poetry of metaphor.

Even earlier, those who had given their time and talents for interfaith relations shared a celebrative moment when the United Nations recognized the importance of interfaith relations and summoned a conference of religious leaders in New York just prior to the Millennium summit meeting of world leaders in August 2000.

The Southern Baptist Convention voted last summer to back refugee resettlement, and its Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission leader Russell Moore recently wrote to Trump: «As a nation, we must seek to resolve the tension created by these two values — compassion for the sojourner and the security of our citizens — in a way that upholds both values.»

«Free world leaders, especially President Obama, should make it clear to President Xi Jinping that these acts of total disregard for basic human rights and religious freedom should and will be condemned by all during Xi's visit to the United Nations and the United States next month.»

Even religious leaders put their nation above other nations, meddling in the political arena, rather than following Jesus example of being «no part of the world» and it's nationalistic interests.

(John 15:19) Many of the religious leaders adhere to some political agenda, voicing that their particular nation is blessed by God.

Huge swathes of populations abandoned the Roman Catholic Church and wars of religion erupted within and between nations, as political leaders made calculations about where their religious loyalties should lie.

«The death of this outstanding religious leader and an icon of entrepreneurship, philanthropy and humility is a great loss to the nation.

Buhari therefore called on religious leaders to work towards the broader goal of building a strong and unified nation, and avoid insinuations that could divide the populace, especially along religious lines.

UNITED AGAINST HATE: LOCAL ELECTED OFFICIALS AND RIVERDALE JEWISH COMMUNITY LEADERS RALLY AGAINST RECENT WAVE OF ANTI-SEMITISM Senator Klein highlights the IDC's Religious Freedom Package aimed at combatting hate crimes Bronx, NY — As anti-Semitic hate crimes sweep the nation -LSB-...]

[8, 9] In many post-atrocity nations, as Rosenblatt states, religious leaders citing various beliefs have objected «to exhumation, autopsy, and other forensic practices, even when the mass graves in question contained crucial evidence of atrocities committed against their own members.»

Across the nation, religious and lay leaders are creating new schools, new networks of schools, new governance models for existing schools, new pipelines of talent, new philanthropic efforts, new public programs, and much more.

The son of the nation's most influential religious leaders, the Priest trained from a young age to combat the forces of darkness.

A few years ago, religious and environmental leaders from all over the world converged at the United Nations and on college campuses to celebrate the teachings of de Chardin, who lived for a time at a Jesuit seminary in Hyde Park, N.Y. and whose remains are buried there.