I am a lactation consultant; I support breastfeeding with an almost
religious sacredness.
Not exact matches
Perhaps John of Salisbury would remind us today that the only laws in conformity with equity are those that protect the
sacredness of human life and reject the licitness of abortion, euthanasia and bold genetic experimentation, those laws that respect the dignity of marriage between a man and a woman, that are inspired by a correct secularism of the State, a secularism that always entails the safeguard of
religious freedom and that pursues subsidiarity and solidarity at both the national and the international level.
Humbly, respectfully and prophetically, she petitioned for a
religious freedom to uphold and support the
sacredness of every at - risk, unborn child, saying, «I want the child.
Posner even indicates some sympathy for those who want to prohibit those other abortions: «I do not mean to criticize anyone who believes, whether because of
religious conviction, nonsectarian moral conviction, or simply a prudential belief that upholding the
sacredness of human life whatever the circumstances is necessary to prevent us from sliding into barbarism, that abortion is always wrong and perhaps particularly so in late pregnancy, since all methods of late - term abortion are gruesome....
Our major tradition is one in which men have had the courage to be free and to uphold the
sacredness of individual personality because of their
religious convictions.
Amongst traditional
religious ideas, that of the
sacredness of Scripture is one of the most empirical in character.
Primarily because most people are taught
religious ideas as children and because often these ideas are given a seriousness and a
sacredness that precludes an open and investigative approach to them.
The
sacredness of the Bible rests upon the demonstration, through generation after generation within the
religious community, that it is able to do this.
21 (12, 15 - 17), 22 (19 f.), and 31 (15b) but thought to be an original and ancient unit, in which series the death penalty is assigned when comparable offenses in other codes are less drastically punished.13 But the death penalty in these cases serves generally to underline the moral and
religious seriousness of the covenant community, and in the Israelite scale it in no wise conflicts with the pattern of law which places human life above all other values save two: the
sacredness of family and the integrity of Yahweh.
Those buildings were not ideal for the uses of the
religious groups that adopted them, and they certainly had no acquired
sacredness for those groups.
Drawing from his Jain
religious background, he describes what he sees as the
sacredness of nature.