Sentences with phrase «religious purpose of»

Augustine also thinks that pursuing some scientific questions can be mere idle curiosity and a distraction from the more serious moral and religious purpose of human life.

During 1519, a spate of German writings began to flow from his pen, non-polemical writings, designed for the traditional religious purposes of instruction and comfort, reminding people of that on which they ultimately depended, designed to nurture their true freedom.

That law, which now also covers the golden eagle, set limits on transactions involving the birds, but contains an exception for «religious purposes of Indian tribes.»

Not exact matches

«If the purpose of the religious employer exemption is, as HHS states, to respect the anti-abortifacient tenets of an employment relationship, then it makes no rational sense — indeed, no sense whatsoever — to deny March (for) Life that same respect.»

The scheduled attendees of the conference encompass a wide variety of experts, ranging from medical professionals, hospice advocates, scholars, religious and spiritual leaders, as well as entrepreneurs and business men and women interested in learning how an understanding of death and dying can help them live lives of greater purpose and meaning.

Churches, church conventions or associations, as well as religious and apostolic organizations, including corporations and any community chest, fund, or foundation, organized and operated exclusively for religious purposes, no part of the net earnings of which inures to the benefit of any private shareholder or individual.

A charitable organization serves broad public purposes in educational, religious, scientific and artistic fields, among others, as well as the relief of poverty and other public benefit activities.

Majority of Atheists don't understand the purpose of religion, while on the other side most religious people don't understand their religion.

But like that case of Nativity scenes being given special protected spaces on public property, that is a special support for a religious purpose and so violates the law.

Robert, the issue is the illegal use of government resources for private religious purposes.

They insist on using government resources for private religious purposes and as a subsidy and apparent approval and support by the government of their particular religion.

The Christian Right wants public money to be used for private religious education (vouchers), buildings and services to be used for private religious purposes (this article), and they want subsidies in the form of tax breaks, special exemptions of other sorts, and they even want to destroy Aid to Needy Families so they can drive people into seeking help at their private religious «missions» where you are not allowed to eat unless you are a Christian, and so on.

Should students never perform any music with a religious text, even if done in a secular setting and with the purpose of providing a complete education, not for the purpose of worship or of promoting a particular belief?

Indeed, they do not, any more than religious folks, experience emptiness, lack of purpose, lack of pleasure or such negativity generally stereotyped to religion - free people.

Can one truly blame Arab dissonance reprisals against the blunt taking of lands for the sole purposes of paying homages to the Jewry causes based upon religious venues for reclaiming an old times Jewish homeland?

It only serves the purpose of the fringe atheists, the fringe religious, and those who profit from it.

And yet when it comes down to the final moments, when it gets real, when we have no more need for the societal benefits of religious posturing, we learn what is really most important, and the answer (given the real purpose of life, see above) is what we should reasonably expect: family.

If you ask a conservative for a statement of his political convictions, he may well say that he has none, and that it is the greatest heresy of modernity is precisely to see politics as a matter of conviction: as though one could recuperate, at the level of political purpose, the consoling certainty which once was granted by religious faith.

There are stirrings of something new when they rule in favor of those students who exercise freedoms of expression and assembly for religious purposes.

'' [I] ts sole purpose is to encourage all citizens to engage in prayer, an inherently religious exercise that serves no secular function,» a Wisconsin judge wrote in the ruling, referring to the 1952 law that created the National Day of Prayer.

For you, it may be deeply held religious beliefs, or it may be the secure place you find in silence and solitude, far away from the crush of the crowd; the place where your passion and purpose are clear.

Kierkegaard's purpose in these discourses was to make it clear that for him as a writer the religious did not follow the «esthetic» but was present from the very beginning, that he was a writer for whom in the very midst of his «esthetic productivity,» the religious was the telos of his work.

Coppedge had no business bringing his religious views into the workplace when the purpose of that workplace is to analyze data and test hypotheses using the scientific method.

Unlike Superman whose creation can actually be traced back to a couple of young Jewish men in 1938 for the purpose of providing a sellable fictional story line to Detective Comics, there is no such evidence in regards to religious belief; especially since in this case being that this is about a God who does not want to be made known but who would rather have us develop our faith.

Maybe Google is defanging Christmas and Easter on purpose, and pouncing (prematurely) on scientific developments like the «missing link» fossil of Darwinius masillae (doodled on May 20, 2009) in order to supplant outworn religious myths it doesn't like with brightly illustrated new scientific ones it does likes.

In contrast, this is a work of theology in which a unity of purpose between scientific understanding and religious truth is assumed.

If by God is meant a conceptual construct used within a certain linguistic frame of reference for the purpose of arousing religious emotions and ethical sentiments, in solemn assemblies, the answer must again be No.

God wants humanity to understand that nothing and nobody is beyond the scope of His redemptive purposes, and so by sending Jesus as the fulfillment of the most violent of religious texts, God not only revealed Himself by way of a stark contrast to that violence, but also showed how to reinterpret and understand those violent events in light of the self - sacrificial God dying on the cross for the sins of the whole world.

The purpose of the IRF report is «to highlight the importance of religious freedom not by lecturing but through advocacy and through persuasion,» said Kerry during the report's release.

AND FINALLY, AFFIRM that it is unconscionable to employ religion for the purpose of aggressing upon the rights of religious minorities in Muslim countries.

The second occasion of rearticulation of the Christian purpose of Missionary institutions of higher learning took place in the first few decades of this century in relation to the movements of religious renaissance and the emergence of political nationalism.

The purpose of fighting to defend religious liberty is therefore not only defensive but also missionary: It is to allow the orthodox to meet their obligations, and to show the country a better way in practice.

An organization could only count as religious, the regulation asserted, if «the inculcation of religious values is the purpose of the organization,» if it «primarily employs persons who share the religious tenets of the organization,» and if it «serves primarily persons who share the religious tenets of the organization.»

These are serious questions (I would say eternally serious questions), and the purpose of religious freedom is to provide an atmosphere in which these questions can be explored.

That was and is the purpose of religion... a tool to control the masses... notice each year the Religious party gets more and more Christian reReligious party gets more and more Christian religiousreligious..

What I find perturbing is the continued curbing of science to serve aimless religious purposes like atheism.

Whitehead recognized, in Science and the Modern World, that metaphysics alone could not go «far towards the production of a God available for religious purposes.»

They often speak as if bravely weathering the agony of dialectical conflict were the sole end and purpose of true religious experience, with harmony and simplicity left to the spiritual amateur and featherweight.

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.

Conceding to believers that they can redefine the term «religion» to encompass «atheism», or whatever other ideas they wish to encompass within the word, if that suits their purposes in trying to put anyone who doesn't believe in their god or any god into the same category as themselves, grants to them the opportunity to dismiss anyone who doesn't believe in their god as holding a religious belief no more valid then their own and to classify you as just another follower of a «false religion» unlike their own, which is the «true» religion.

They ignored these promises, which are not just religious lore, but are as much a part of the will and purpose of the Creator as DNA or the law of gravity or the speed of light.

Their distrust of religious symbols, myths and teleological hypotheses is bound up with a failure to consider the possibility of a primary kind of perception in which beauty, value, significance and purpose constitute ontologically «real» data of experience rather than products of wishful thinking.

An atheist hates the thought of Christmas because of its religious inflection but will celebrate the holiday with its Pagan purpose.

No doubt this will be helpful for purposes of interfaith dialogue or in interfaith settings such as public education where particular religious allegiances must remain muted.

Although all of this, for Buddhists, subserves religious purposes, it is also deeply a part of the Buddhist worldview.

the diversity of religious faith through out the world through the ages is just part of gods will, in the evolutionary process of change it is necessary to have multiple variable inputs to achieved a sucessfull synthesis.since all religions is gods will, the purpose of such is beyond our comprehension or immediate understanding but it has a profound meaning and direction

On a different note, Carson Holloway says the HHS mandate reveals the logic of liberalism as a creeping and creepy secularism: ``... for an older generation of liberals religion had to be kept private in the sense that it could not try to control the government for its own distinctively religious purposes.

the proof of Gods presence in us is not limited to the material or biological evolutionary development only, but most important scientific proof is the effect of His will in historical development of the world.A computer program now used and tested a powerful machine by inputing all recorded events in history during the last hundreds years and found out that it has a purpose and not random.Meaning that an intelligent being could have influence it.It is now presumed by the religious observers that it could be His will.The process now is under improvement, because the computers is not powerl enough the deluge of information and data since the beginning of history, some analyst believes that in them near future if the Quantum computers which is much powerful than the present coventional will be used, then dramatic results and confirmation will be at hand.

This untoward result - interpreting a Constitution intended to guarantee religious liberty as requiring affirmative discrimination against people of faith - would seem to be the necessary result of a doctrine of separation that invalidates government action that lacks a «secular purpose» or has the effect of «advanc [ing]... religion» (Lemon v. Kurtzman [1970]-RRB-.

Thus a sense of divine purpose along with a religious experience growing out of hope is generated.