Sentences with phrase «religious side of the line»

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.

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»).

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From the Christian side, the thinking has gone on the line that the Christian church as fellowship of faith in Christ should cease to be a religious community in the common communal sense.

I am actually shockingly pleased to hear it because so often I think believers want to take the hard - line, schoolyard tactic of «atheists killed more people» just so they remain «cleaner», because they think non-believers are saying their «side» is totally clean by criticising the concept of religious warfare.

The restriction of personal and spiritual growth is the unwelcome side effect of religious rules and their lines of demarkation.

Among the multiple lines of critical and cultural discourse surrounding the film, however, one particularly stands out: the notion of There Will Be Blood — with its central conflict between cutthroat oil prospector Daniel Plainview (Daniel Day - Lewis) and zealous small - town preacher Eli Sunday (Paul Dano) in 1911 California — as a kind of demonic origin tale for the state of contemporary American political culture, with narrow - minded religious fervor and bald - faced capitalistic excesses forming two sides of the same tarnished coin.