Sentences with phrase «religious side of»

However, as I understand the Hutterite beliefs, they are very conscious of the «boundaries between the religious and the secular,» and strive to live as much as possible on the religious side of the line (probably with a view to the biblical admonition to «keep yourselves unspotted from the world»).

Many of you seem to lean towards the religious side of things.

From our review of Catholic Match, we see that they're probably the one site in this niche that cares the most about the religious side of things.

Other than that, the religious side of the bible is completely false.

That would be ridiculous, of course, but perhaps no more so than the demands issued by some on the religious side of the table.»

I see it as my duty to entertain and mock the absurdi.ties posted by both sides of the argument, though more often than not absurdi.ties fall on the religious side of the line.

I would just like to point out that at least as many comments coming from the supposed religious side of the argument are just as if not more «hostile and demeaning» towards those of different or no faith.

Not exact matches

Nathan is a religious young man who thinks he's been possessed by the Devil when he wakes up in a van by the side of the road the next day.

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

His theory is that the sensation described as «having a religious experience» is merely a side effect of our bicameral brain's feverish activities.

Law professors write solely for other academics, but since their underlying religious / ideological / political positions are relatively conventional, they can also reassure their co «ideologues outside of the academy that someone really smart who speaks the language of modern moral / legal theory is on their side.

On ALL sides of both the political and religious spectra.

I think your position is the position of most pro-choice supporters, my issue with the religious pro-life side is they do not want to support the very things that have been shown to have to largest impact on reducing abortion, s.e.x education and contraception.

People don't want religious messages on the side of buses because then they might be reminded while their walking down the street that there's a God, there's a Creator out there.

People on both sides of the religious issue have some insane desire to dictate how other live.

In taking the position that the stark choice is between rigid secularism and religious fanaticism, they take the side of Stephen Kinzer and the paper for which he writes.

Most religions avoid discussing the more day to day, human side of religious development to keep it mythical.

Even his earliest Episcopalian churches are characterized by a faithful transcription of the then controversial catholic principles of the Oxford movement» prominent altars, side - aisles, and a cruciform plan all underpinned by a profound understanding of the spirituality of religious ritual.

It was, rather, to show proponents of same - sex marriage that «the other side» is reasonable and that their arguments are worth engaging, rather than dismissing out of hand as irrational and merely or privately religious.

But having migrated from one side of the secular / religious divide to the other, I can say for certain that trends can be reversed; even the orneriest, least receptive nones can be reached — and all without sacrificing a rigorous, orthodox view of Scripture.

Much as religious types like to talk out of both sides of their mouths at the same time, you don't get to have it both ways.

But i do wonder if we really need religious symbols at a memorial to a tragedy spawned by centuries of religious intolerance from both sides.

Keep ALL religious fanatics out of the White House — otherwise you are nothing more than the flip side of the same coin as the religious fanatic hardliners in Muslim countries.

I think a lot of agnostic / atheist people would be perfectly content to live their lives without making their personal convictions a crusade if the other side didn't make a crusade out of their religious beliefs.

You're doing fine, you still have the vast majority of Americans on your side as professing Christians, and those of us protesting the enforcement of your religious beliefs through legislation are hardly persecuting you.

The good news is that Jesus has survived the embarrassing things that we Christians have done in His name, as found in the dark side of the history of fundamentalism, the messiness of the religious Right, and even more recently, in folks who burn the Koran and hold signs that say «God Hates Fags,» all in the name of Christianity.

Much of the religious switching going on, it appears, is prompted by the desire to find the moral ethos into which one fits, to take sides in the Kulturkampf of our time.

One side says it's a violation of the coach's religious liberty.

I think everyone (both sides) is COMPLETELY missing the point of all the great minds who were or were not religious.

In this parable, an at - risk Jewish man — having been mugged and beaten and left vulnerable to further abuse on the side of the road — is rescued, escorted to safety and loved back to life by his religious opposite, a Samaritan.

Yep, no less annoying than the religious who have to interject their views everywhere that I'm sure he is ready to condemn... Two sides of the same coin.

The counselor seems definitely to keep them to one side, Mrs. Oak's language at times touches upon religious confession, as in the striking quotation from the Gospel of St. Matthew.

Sometimes written requests are hung by the side of the sepulchre, and some extreme devotees offer prostration at the grave — and religious authority is not wanting to support such practices.

However, the same type of people exist on the religious side, those who think you are a hell - bound moron for not accepting Jesus into your life.

While an individual's religious values will certainly factor into his or her perspective on this hot - button issue, the diversity of opinions within the faith community should make us pause before claiming God is on one side or the other.

As the frequently quoted president of the American Atheists and a constant thorn in the side of religious organizations, attack mode comes easily to him.

Voices on all sides of the religious and political spectrum have begun to recognize — not least because of the increased presence of Islam in Western societies — that a purely secular, liberal approach to public discourse is not sustainable in a world increasingly shaped by religions.

On the other side the one who represents God is absolutely the wholly other, who can not be reduced at all to any religious or theological form whatever, who is always absolutely new and surprising, who does not cease to come in the «today» of his presence, who disturbs our ritual, morality, and piety.

Most of the action has been on the for - profit side (43 cases and counting), where — out of the 38 lawsuits decided on the merits of their complaints — 32 have secured temporary bans against the mandate's enforcement and 6 have been denied, according to a helpful scorecard kept by the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty.

But University of Virginia law professor Douglas Laycock explained why, for the first time, he was siding with the government on a religious freedom case.

Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, a man on the opposite side of the political fence from Eisenhower, said much the same thing in a 1952 Supreme Court decision when he wrote, «We are a religious people whose institutions presuppose a Supreme Being.

Any one, therefore, holding a religious rather than a materialistic philosophy, will think of the process of Biblical development as dual — seen from one side, a human achievement; seen from the other, a divine self - revelation.

What did exist — what very much existed — and what pressed on Jewish faith from all sides, and even from within, were the religious problems of idolatry and syncretism.

These are not perfect examples of the conflicting sides of the theological argument of predestination, but they prove that examples can be found for trying to weigh the religious lessons of the plays in favor of Catholicism or Protestantism.

He would bring in the lawyers on opposite sides of the argument over religious establishment and the question of driving religion from the public square.

For the other side of the tracks, Don't we have the right to exercise the freedom of our religious beliefs?

Moreover, the religious hope was the mainspring of the Jewish morale; the conviction that God was on their side was what upheld them and gave them hope.

Yet both sides believe once they convert or wipe out all other religious persons then we will finally have some peace... until the side that win's starts fighting themselves of course...

Those whom this new collection may hook on Mitchell will want to look also at his Morality Religious and Secular (Oxford), published in 1980 and, in our judgment, unfairly neglected on this side of the sea.

The one Christian virtue he hung to most tightly was hope: «I think the key to my attitudes political and religious and personal may be that I expected, after a lifetime of giving the dark side of reality plenty of bold exposure, I still expected some kind of happy ending to rescue me at the end.