Sentences with phrase «religious purposes»

Almost all favor tax exemption for religiously used church property and oppose it for property owned by churches but not used for 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.

If one accepts this definition, there is no such thing as «art»; there are only the things we make to tell our stories as human beings with religious purposes.

Now, if you were to cut your beard for religious purposes then that would be incorrect.

I notice that no one is arguing that we get summers off for religious purposes at least.

The only part of the old royal palace that has survived, the temple is no longer used for religious purposes and is now a museum.

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.

But Arabic and Iranian terms, especially Iranian, are used for religious purposes in a mixture which is hard for non-Muslims to understand.

Motivated by religious purpose, it was yet truly scientific and pursued humanitarian aims.

«Instead of exploring creative ways sport might serve true religious purposes such as spiritual growth and enrichment, the Christian community has seized on sport as a tool of status enhancement, advertising, and evangelism,» he says.

This document included a maze of detailed inquiries about religious purposes and practices and drew the particular wrath of a major supporter of the school by asking menacingly, «Has the school received services from the Bradley Foundation?»

but he said that he thought the Bible should be reserved for strictly religious purposes.

The biggest mistake we make a ministers is to get people to move into a contrived pattern of relationship for religious purposes instead of meeting them where they are at whatever level they need to be met at and still offer them love, grace, acceptance, and forgiveness.

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

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 founders of religious studies whose commitment to science Wiebe lauds were also men of deeply religious purpose.

At the end of the year I concluded that a group of people can not regularly gather for what they feel to be religious purposes without developing a complex network of signals and symbols and conventions — in short, a subculture — that gains its own logic and then functions in a way peculiar to that group.

God said don't eat certain foods (some for religious purpose others for no reason) and thousands of years later we have the intelligence to see the bacteria hidden within.

This is the face of a star athelete, future politician, and fella whose 100 % against condom use strictly for religious purposes baby, he dosent wan na go to hell.

In Houston there are no accommodation made for religious purposes however if a child has a note from the doctor the nurse will turn that over to the nutritionist to be analyze.

The same powerful sectarian religious propagandists who have succeeded in securing passage of the present law to help religious schools carry on their sectarian religious purposes can and doubtless will continue their propaganda, looking toward complete domination and supremacy of their particular brand of religion....

In addition «voucher expansion causes significant declines in church donations and church spending on non-educational religious purposes.

Archeologists have estimated that the ATM cave first became a site used by the Maya for religious purposes nearly 2,000 years ago.

Northwest is located the area that was probably used for the main religious purposes, that includes a Plaza named by Hiram Bingham as «Sacred Plaza», also the temple of the «Three Windows», «The Sacred Temple», the «Priests Mansion», and the «Intihuatana» that is a large block of limestone used during Inca ceremonies.

There can be no justification for state compulsion in matters of belief, and the context of the particular case pointed to the by - law's clearly religious purpose and effect.

They aren't associations of individuals joined together for a common religious purpose — they're separate legal entities that are authorized by state law to issue stock to be purchased by stockholders.

Or is a religiously - neutral covering worn for religious purposes acceptable?

Also, I think asking guests to remove their shoes is unusual, and unless it is for a themed party (in which case a warning on the invitation is advisable) or religious purposes guests should be allowed to use their own discretion.

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

But they emphasized that the court's majority opinion was narrowly written and does not broach questions about whether taxpayer dollars may be used for religious purposes such as religious education.

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.

If you feel as though you need to take your child out of school 2 - 3 days a year for religious purposes, do so.

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.

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.

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

ANY religious purpose.

Our «group» identity is so strong, particularly for political or religious purposes that it indeed takes a transpersonal or national crisis to blast us out of its orbit.

Likewise, the mutilation of your flesh for religious purposes is contrary not only to the principle of this verse, but to others in the New Testament.

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.»

Eyewitnesses in trials today are being questioned, so I don't see how you can say that something written 2000 years ago, for a religious purpose, is historically accurate.

though built for religious purposes, i believe it a testament to humankind that we can create something so beautiful.

The fire occurred in the church's crypt, a section always open and used for religious purposes.

Its cultivation is traditional in the Andes, where it is used as a mild intoxicant and hallucinogen for social, medicinal and religious purposes.

They also contended that the playground serves no religious purpose and therefore should be reconsidered.

At the very least, parents who wished to have their sons circumcised for religious purposes would need to have the circumcisions performed outside their countries — assuming a ban on circumcisions would not also prohibit parents from transporting children for such purposes.

Since Easter falls on a Sunday, that would be a no, but not for any religious purposes.