Sentences with phrase «religious life of the group»

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March for Life is not a religious group, but can similarly object on grounds of moral conscience, the federal ruling says.

For years, I watched in horror as most of the most remarkable, honest, hard working, compassionate, productive, contributing & patriotic; people one could ever hope to know in life & have the privilege of calling friends; die a slow, agonizing, disfiguring & vastly premature death, amidst the muted joy & exaltation of conservative religious groups & individuals.

It is not fair to simply group all believers of a religious into disillusioned when many people say they live their lives only through faith.

Let's not forget what and how America was suposedly started as a place of relgious freedom by the pilgrams (according to so called american history books) these religious people proceeded to rob & kill the Indians who saved their lives, take & kill Mexicans for land & gold & oil enslave a whole group of people as property for financial gain all under the guise of being good «Christians» (WHITE) and now perceive all «Muslims» (NON-WHITE) are evil unless proven otherwise.

To get a sense of Russian religious life, consider the story of the «imiaslavtsy» (Name - Glorifiers), a group of monks and theologians who accepted the discovery of the starets (elder) Ilarion that «in the Name of God, God Himself is present.»

Call upon the various religious groups bound by the same national fabric to address their mutual state of selective amnesia that blocks memories of centuries of joint and shared living on the same land; we call upon them to rebuild the past by reviving this tradition of conviviality, and restoring our shared trust that has been eroded by extremists using acts of terror and aggression;

No doubt, traditional societies emphasize the organic and the religious aspects of life in a manner that enslaves human beings to natural forces and human individuality to the group dicta.

Also, the church can function as one of the finest stabilizing forces for senior citizens, providing a sense of purpose and significance to their lives and incorporating them meaningfully and creatively into the religious group life of the church and community.

He represents a professional group which is very close to the problems of people, and he also represents a community of people who are interested in the implications of their religious point of view for their daily lives.

The members of today's intense religious groups and not a few members of the larger public like to get even closer to home, rubbing texts like these into contemporary Christian consciousness: «Now great multitudes accompanied Jesus; and he turned and said to them, «If any one comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he can not be my disciple»» (Luke 14:25 f.).

«Daesh fighters have been systematically perpetrating mass atrocities, including killing members of religious groups such as Yazidis, Christians, Shia Muslims and others, causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of these groups, deliberately imposing conditions of life calculated to bring about their physical destruction in whole or in part.»

This reminds us that the church must be ready to witness to the lordship of Christ by cooperating with people of goodwill of all religious and non-religious groups who are genuinely concerned to seek better ways of living and working.

Most religious groups justify low pay as the outworking of such values as simplicity and financial restraint, but pay rates for many religious groups are so low they make even a simple life difficult.

The 1948 Genocide Convention defines «genocide» as, among other things, «deliberately inflicting on» a religious group «conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part.»

The wonderful Ephesian church that had begun so robustly, with such a sense of new life — this Christ - centered church was dissipating in a religious stewpot of hyped - up feelings, discussion groups and interest gatherings.

Religious groups also provide an opportunity and resources for meeting the crucial need for a viable philosophy of life.

Yet it can not be denied that there are, even today, many who are sincere in their acknowledgment of feeling a deep need for mystery in their lives — and such people are generally members of some kind of religious group.

The insufficiency of work to provide self - sufficiency is behind the movement — backed by many religious groups — to ensure that all employers pay a living wage, which is generally understood to be the wage needed to support a family at or slightly above the poverty level.

The only claim the Scriptures have must rest upon the long experience of the group whose religious life is nourished by them.

More than other types of association, a religious group presents itself as a microcosm with its own law, outlook on life, attitude and atmosphere.

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The only intelligible solution to this problem would seem to be to admit the relative religious value, based on experience, of each group's scriptures for its own corporate life, but to recognize that no book has final authority.

Washington (CNN)-- A majority of all major religious groups in the United States, according to a survey released Thursday, support a pathway to citizenship for illegal immigrants currently living in the country.

Having grown up with the life of a social - religious group, and bearing its stamp all through, it can be adequately understood only in relation to that group - life in its changing phases, including the life of the Christian Church down the centuries and in the present age.

At the slightest provocation of hurt to the religious sentiments of a given group, violent conflicts arise, causing untold destruction of lives and property as we have witnessed in the recent riots in Bombay

these are distinct religious groups that choose to live apart (more of less) from the main of society in order to keep their non-violent life style and sequestered religious training intact.

If we celebrate all religions equally fine, but we are not going to celebrate holidays of a group of people who hate american life and ignore other religious groups who we coexist with peacefully!

There emerge types of religious leaders — whose lives the historian has illumined, whose intellectual and emotional makeup the psychologist has investigated, and whose social role the sociologist has explored — as well as types of religious groupings and religious institutions.

According to the 1951 convention, genocide involves an intention to wipe out a national, ethnical, racial, or religious group by killing, causing serious bodily or mental harm, inflicting conditions of life calculated to bring about the group's physical destruction, preventing births, and forcibly transferring children to another people group.

It may also mean that certain privileges with regard to the religious life and its activities are limited to members of one or several special racial groups.

The questions about religion and public life, those calling for «public» discussion, no longer focus on the verifiability of religious speech but concern quite other issues: methods of understanding and describing the religious realities, old and new, that we see appearing around us; useful criteria for assessing these religions and for defining and comprehending this new set of powers in our public life; and ways of protecting vital religious groups from the excesses of the public reaction to them, and protecting the public from the excesses of powerful religious groups — hardly questions a secular culture had thought it would have to take seriously!

They survey the emergence of Islam in the seventh century; provide an overview of the life and teachings of Muhammad and of major themes in the Qur» an; clarify Muslims» understanding that theirs is the same religion God revealed through Abraham, Moses and Jesus; and explore the development, debates and practices of various Muslim groups as the religious system and broader civilization spread rapidly.

In saying this, I am not thinking of conversion as a change from one religious group or spiritual family to another, or even a turning from a life of sin to one of goodness.

You would think that if all of what you said was actuality true it would actually point towards a «right» religion but considering no religious group has yet to be outliers in living longer, have less criminals, etc.... you post is, in a word: Bullshi.t

«For myself, the shock made me numb at first, and then I was profoundly sad that my life as a woman religious and my commitment to serving the poor would be so denigrated by the leadership of our church,» says Sister Simone Campbell, who heads NETWORK, a liberal advocacy group in Washington.

But the main thing we discovered about this group of students was a sort of built - in timidity and inarticulateness about their own religious life.

But other participants in the oppositional groups agreed more with sociologist Ehrhart Neubert, who maintained that dehumanizing forms of socialism were themselves generating and perpetuating marginal forms of religious life.

Faith in Public Life: People of Faith Support Minimum Wage Raise Majorities of all religious groups favor increasing the minimum wage from $ 7.25 an hour to $ 10.00 an hour, including black Protestants (87 %), Catholics (73 %), Americans who are religiously unaffiliated (68 %), white mainline Protestants (61 %) and white evangelical Protestants (61 %).

Second: The transplantation of old - world traits to this continent has not been without effect upon its religious life, particularly in so far as some of the largest American denominations are the direct offspring of European Protestant groups.

The Muslim Brotherhood is a religious and political group founded on the belief that Islam is not simply a religion, but a way of life.

Hence their worship services and other «religious» activities have frequently been transformed as if they were means of upholding the morale of a group in society whose special interest is the maintenance of the ideal and program of the good life in the public affairs of the day.

I no more believe that religious groups should have any say over how I live my life or judge me or try to change my way of thinking no more than I think an Atheist should.

I believe that its presence as a presupposition of efforts to generate a new civic culture can be signified and lived sacramentally in a variety of ways by religious groups involved in the dialogue.

She's also Living in a post-9 / 11 world where reports of funamental religious groups threats are common.

This violent process is permeating the relations among international and political powers, social classes and cultural groups, national and ethic groups, and caste and religious communities, making it making it very hard to bring about peaceful resolution of conflicts and disputes among the struggling parties, and eroding the foundations of peaceful life.

After seeing the way in which the religious groups tried to manipulate the AFL - CIO and treated with contempt its president, Lane Kirkland, Higgins writes, «I decided that my life was too short to play along with this sort of dialogue between religion and labor.»

On the other hand, he realized that competition among religious groups of strong conviction could have disastrous consequences for civic life.

The spiritually feeding experiences — worship, religious festivals, communion, fellowship groups, service opportunities — help gratify dependency needs, renew basic trust, and strengthen the alcoholic's sense of meaning and purpose in life.

Much needed is research beyond that already completed which will develop guidelines for improving the church's many roles in community health — from meeting the existential crises of being human and belonging to social groups and facing anxiety and dread, to providing more efficiently the «learning atmosphere» for a religious style - of - life.

They formed a group ministry under common discipline in every phase of their lives — economic as well as religious.