Sentences with phrase «religious needs of people»

The traditional culture met the religious needs of people in a variety of ways.

There are at least three aspects to the fundamental religious needs of persons:

Not exact matches

Rabbi Jonah Pesner, director of the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism, discussed how people of all faiths need to unify to help others overcome social problems in the United States at an interfaith discussion of clergy leaders in Palm Beach County...

A better strategy would be to point out how one doesn't need religion to be a moral person, and then demonstrate how some of the people that claim to be a beacon for religious zealots (the GOP) practice an existence devoid of morality.

Well it is true that some people seek sorcerers to implement Jinn that are satanic demons into mankind or his house or his business to finish him or make his life miserable or to stop flow of his business income... In such case it is either you are religious enough and say your prayers often then it becomes hard for this to harm you or otherwise you need to find some one who practice exorcism to remove this evil... But many are just pretending to be good at it and help you not but squeeze money out of you with tales and stories... There is another type of possessions and that is not through a sorcerer but directly by coincidence what man is at his weakest moments and those weakest moments for a possessions are when you come through a great fear or when cry or laugh loudly in hysteria, or during a certain moment of mating... or even when sneezing loudly... That's why there are prayers to be said on daily basis to guard you from such things and specially if passing haunted places such as deserted houses but most evil ones are residents of public toilets and market places... Some of them even would claim that you have made a wrong action by which you have killed a dear one to them and for that they have possessed you and that is mostly night time such as throwing a cigaret butt to a dark place or stepping killing an insect or even an animal at night which could have been one of them or possessed by one of them... So this is true thing happening to many who suffer unexplainable illnesses or sufferings which could look like mental illness that comes and goes as pleased...

A very large part of most religious beliefs involves free will and people are free to work towards affording healthcare, people and people can adopt healthy lifestyles which minimize the need for healthcare and of course, people can choose to help others through donations.

I don't feel the need to cater to the religiously naive and uneducated by acting like there's a difference especially when these same religious folk would surely deem a person of an opposing religion / view that heard voices crazy.

People like Jon are the reason I will need to stay vigilant long after my children graduate to make sure that they are not poisoned by the «science» of the religious zealots, but so to that my future doctors are not, as well!

In other words with all the things going on in the world this long winded ambiguous rant about the religious beliefs of a horror writer whose name I've barely heard mentioned in the last decade is being presented as the most important information people need to know at this particular time.

I am for the elimination of hate, fear and control, religion is just the catalyst that people use to hate, fear and control, getting rid of religion won't solve the problem, its like putting a band aid on a severe cut, its temporary, and it just hits the surface, instead we need to go deeper than that to the root cause, I know lots of religious people who don't hate, fear or control, there are also many beliefs such as paganism, Buddism, Taoism, which doesn't use hate fear, and self righteousness to condemn others, I think if maybe more of the most major religions followed there teachings then we wouldn't have as much problems as we do.

But a religious person needs him as much as the secular person, because the modern Protestant or Catholic or Jew has plenty of trouble hearing God's voice.

As I'm writing this, I can see all the religious people saying all atheists should be fired because they bring the devil into the place of work... so I feel the need to provide the caveat: conflict with their objectives in a way that is sanely and reasonably shown.

To buck the system and engage in sex outside of the institution of marriage challenges the system and the religious system needs derogatory terms for such people.

The notion of a religious «think tank» is ridiculous, unless a person wanted to violate the law to promote religion and needed help in thinking of ways to distort the truth in self - serving ways.

Confession time here: although I don't usually end up at places such as drunken parties, stripper bars and porn shops while hanging out with friends, since those activities and places hold little appeal for me, I know I need to stay away from certain «religious» people, those who seem to love only themselves and who seem hell - bent on being nasty to people they describe as «sinners», supposedly in the name of truth - telling.

It will «need religious people who live with moral integrity and show the power of their ideas in practice.»

So... why are these people not saying what really needs to be said... some of these Presidents were no more than DEISTS and had no religious affiliation...

Actually, many people seem to think that a lot of people who attend church do not follow Jesus, but merely attend church for their own reasons, such as needing some sort of religious system to identify with.

«Purify [the Hadith];... Find a new practice of the concept of interaction between the sexes;... Separate religion from the state;... Give guidelines on Western customs, and eliminate incorrect behaviours;... Invite the people to go to God through gratitude and wisdom, and not with threats;... Recognise the right of Christians to occupy important positions [including] the presidency of the republic;... Separate religious discourse from power, and re-establish its connection with the needs of society.»

First, its premisses concerning society and modern man are pseudoscientific: for example, the affirmation that man has become adult, that he no longer needs a Father, that the Father - God was invented when the human race was in its infancy, etc.; the affirmation that man has become rational and thinks scientifically, and that therefore he must get rid of the religious and mythological notions that were appropriate when his thought processes were primitive; the affirmation that the modern world has been secularized, laicized, and can no longer countenance religious people, but if they still want to preach the kerygma they must do it in laicized terms; the affirmation that the Bible is of value only as a cultural document, not as the channel of Revelation, etc. (I say «affirmation» because these are indeed simply affirmations, unrelated either to fact or to any scientific knowledge about modern man or present - day society.)

At this time, when the people are moved by a strong urge for social equality and economic and political justice, there is a great need for a country - wide agency to look after their religious needs and to guide them to an understanding of the principles of Islam.

Scientific understanding, humane appreciation, existentialist self - awareness, history as cumulative experience, psychological insight, and respectful regard for what religious people have to tell us about their experience — all are needed for and capable of inclusion in this new perspective.

Granted that, as in modern hymnals, expressions of religious need and aspiration originally born out of individual experience were often used in public application and became the voice of the whole people, still that very poignancy that made them thus generally applicable came from the intensely intimate experience in which they started.

It was only after he found fame as an adult that his followers, like those of any religious or cult leader, felt the need to embellish his birth to supernatural status and fit it into to the expectations of the people they were trying to convince or influence.

The church and the pope are responsible for two murders of women who died because they needed an abortion in catholic countries (Ireland and The Dominican Republic) Just as you people cry out against «abortion» and then murder doctors and women and bomb clinics, I hope somebody will start crying out against your beloved «religious freedom» and then...????

If one person had a lot of something it was their religious obligation to share that with those in need.

In 1996 the NAE addressed religious persecution saying that «If people are to fulfill the obligations of conscience, history teaches the urgent need to foster respect and protection for the right of all persons to practice their faith.»

Jane Jacobs, generally considered the founder of modern urban design, thought cities should take the everyday needs of people into account but did not mention religion or religious buildings in her foundational book.

Maybe I need to go back to college and take an «Advanced Religious Metaphor» class, because to a rational person that sounded like random words strung together without any form of logical thought.

The religious and faithful need to grow a thicker skin, especially since prayer has also never been shown to be even a little beneficial except to relieve the guilt of the praying person.

Whenever pluralism becomes too content with a relaxed model of «dialogue,» it can ignore the need for conflict and the actualities of systematic distortions in the personal (psychosis), historical (alienation and oppression) and religious (sin) dimensions of every person, culture and tradition.

If you believe that your particular «brand» of Christianity is superior to others and that people need to be converted to your particular religious views then it is time to take a long hard look at you are part of.

«After all,» says Barbara Rogasky, an editor of religious paperbacks for Pyramid Publications, «while institutions as such are all in disarray, that doesn't change people's need for definition, direction and guidance.

Religious groups can help meet the need of persons to be instruments of personal growth and social change.

«We've been clear that people need to be able to feel strong in their religious identities and are making sure that the voices of people of faith are heard in Government.»

The recent Diana cult is also a pastiche of stories and longings and public relations efforts that serves the religious needs of an astounding number of people.

I have proposed one: the government must treat religious people and institutions the same way it treats comparable nonreligious people and institutions, unless special accommodation is needed to protect religious liberty from a facially neutral law that conflicts with religious obligations or forms of organization.

I envy the comfort that many people seem to get from their religious beliefs especially in a time of need.

If «the reality of the religion of a people can be studied only through the empirical enquiry into the meaning appropriated by them as persons and community of persons in their life situations, «32 then Dalit theology needs to look carefully into popular level of Hindu - Christian religious encounter.

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.

What religious people need to realize is the simple fact that you are asserting that there IS some type of being out there.

She reminded the House of the immense contributions that people of faith are making to the well - being of the nation — schools, food banks, social support, child care and many others - and concluded that there is a need for greater religious literacy.

Partly under the impact of constant conditioning in consumerism, people in western democratic societies increasingly are putting together their own religious belief and life - style packages in order to meet individual needs.

As established, culturally supported religious practices and traditional communities have weakened, many people feel the need for some way of dealing with their inner stress and emptiness.

The world needs people of different disciplines and religious beliefs so that we can triangulate on the truth.

Evan, the people who need your «love» are the religious masters who need 10 % of your income.

This author tries to depict «God» as someone who needs to be understood, again Christians (or religious people in general for that matter) trying to find any way possible to connect other humans with their deity of choice.

The Editor in the Preface says that the Tract «polemises against a form of narrow sectarian Secularism which refuses to be sensitive to tradition and faith» and argues that Secularism needs to be rethought taking religious faith seriously, that «only then can Secularism reclaim the ideological space which Fundamentalists are threatening to take over, only then can Secularists capture the minds of the people» (p.vi).

Nor need I feel shame that I do not respect the «religious rights» of people whose god tells them that I deserve to be slaughtered.

The point here is that any religious people needs a means of returning to its past.