Sentences with phrase «religious society people»

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More religious claptrap, read some history and find out that santorums lot (the catholic church) executed whole societies in south America simply because those poor ignorant people had a different religion.

They are dangerous and not at all conducive to a society of people working together for the good of ALL regardless of religious belief.

We live in a society that people who cover up (religious or fashionable baggy) have something to hide and that something has potential to harm us.

The fact that many religious people want their belief to dominate and try to push their beliefs into society is why I resist religion.

Those who hold this view believe that if people from different religious groups attend separate schools, our society may fly apart as has that of the Balkans, where Catholic Croatians, Orthodox Serbs and Bosnian Muslims slaughter each other.

So how, in a society like the United States where the right of an individual to worship or not worship the God they choose is a fundamental and constitutional right, does a religious person reconcile the sense of preeminence with a pluralistic culture?

Each society has its own religious system, and the propagation of such a complete system would involve propagating the entire life of the people concerned» (ARP 5).

I also did not say that America was Isolationist — there was a large isolationist element in society (and the Christians were in that camp) that effectively kept America out of the war for years, but Roosevelt, an internationalist, was able to provide supplies via lend - lease (which the conservatives and religious people of the time opposed).

So accept the fact that religious people ruin otherwise productive societies.

Now, realize that in today's society you are still just as hated, shunned and looked down upon for declaring that same differing belief... or even non-belief — just because people are still too hung up on their precious religious dogma to realize that, though the outcome is obviously less drastic than in the past, they are still doing the same thing that religious people did in the past?

Applied to the question at hand, the debate thus proceeds on the unquestioned assumption that either human beings definitely are naturally religious, and so religion will always persist in human societies, or they are not naturally religious, and so modernity will inevitably secularize people and society as we shed the accidents of our cultural past.

«Purify [the Hadith];... Find a new practice of the concept of interaction between the sexes;... Separate religion from the state;... Give guidelines on Western customs, and eliminate incorrect behaviours;... Invite the people to go to God through gratitude and wisdom, and not with threats;... Recognise the right of Christians to occupy important positions [including] the presidency of the republic;... Separate religious discourse from power, and re-establish its connection with the needs of society.»

He fights with every religious leader of his day (they are representives of God), hangs out with some of the lowest people in society (drunks, prostitutes, tax collectors), healed people on the sabbath (they see this as against the law), healed lepers (also against the law), accepts some Gentiles and heals them (outside his actual mission), died for all of «humanity», etc..

Section 188 of the Austrian Criminal Code, called «Vilification of Religious Teachings», criminalizes «Anyone who publicly disparages a person or thing that is the object of worship of a domestic church or religious society, or a doctrinReligious Teachings», criminalizes «Anyone who publicly disparages a person or thing that is the object of worship of a domestic church or religious society, or a doctrinreligious society, or a doctrine».

First, its premisses concerning society and modern man are pseudoscientific: for example, the affirmation that man has become adult, that he no longer needs a Father, that the Father - God was invented when the human race was in its infancy, etc.; the affirmation that man has become rational and thinks scientifically, and that therefore he must get rid of the religious and mythological notions that were appropriate when his thought processes were primitive; the affirmation that the modern world has been secularized, laicized, and can no longer countenance religious people, but if they still want to preach the kerygma they must do it in laicized terms; the affirmation that the Bible is of value only as a cultural document, not as the channel of Revelation, etc. (I say «affirmation» because these are indeed simply affirmations, unrelated either to fact or to any scientific knowledge about modern man or present - day society.)

Worship through the giving of the religious tax is the best means of promoting the welfare of society, linking the classes of the community with reciprocal sympathy and compassion, and spreading throughout the people a sentiment of love and cooperation.

The decision in the Hobby Lobby case helps prevent progressives from achieving their goal of making religious people into dhimmis, second - class citizens in a society governed by secular values.

The Vatican II document Dignitatis humanae states: «This right of the human person to religious freedom is to be recognised in the constitutional law whereby society is governed and thus it is to become a civil right.

Aren't these the core issues in hot dispute» namely, what a good person and society are» that fuel our religious and cultural divisions?

When the mass insecurities fostered by a society in rapid transition reinforce the feeling of vulnerability derived from personal autonomy, people tend to «escape from freedom»; they lose their anxiety but also their freedom by overidentifying with some authoritarian ideology, leader, or system, political or religious.

However, the path of the person that has eschewed all religious organizations is one that is meandering and largely inefficient, and the unfortunate result of not of the religion or the belief itself, but of the way in which bodies of believers function within society.

This happens because delusional beliefs are tied to a person's culture and what they know, and we live in a religious society, he explained.

religious people such as the owner of this business are permitted to have their opinion on almost any topic; however doesn't make what they say true or acceptible in modern secular society.

In many black churches the healing function in pastoral care — i.e., the function in which a «representative» Christian aids another in restoration to wholeness, including a new level of religious insight — is greatly aided and abetted by the message of black theology, which motivates black people to claim their personhood despite the massive attempts of a racist society to deny their humanity and set in motion a vicious self - hate syndrome.

Participants in this practice, known as scriptural reasoning, are part of a movement that wants to protect religiously plural societies while simultaneously encouraging religious people to enter more deeply into public discourse.

The signatories declared themselves to be in solidarity in their unequivocal support of the dignity and right to life of every human person, marriage between a man and a woman as divinely ordained and the foundation of civil society, and religious liberty as an essential component of human freedom.

Our research shows just how tightly linked religion and family are in U.S. society... so much so that even some of society's least religious people find religion to be important in their private lives.

To fill the gap left by a weakened church, people are not only experimenting with both new and ancient forms of the spiritual and psychic life; they are searching for religious books that deal with the complex problems of society in personal, direct and simple ways.

To call for religious warfare, as some of them do, is to recall the religious wars of earlier centuries that unraveled civil society and led thoughtful people to the conclusion that religion in public is inescapably divisive and destructive.

No one of the 96 per cent of all Americans expressing a religious preference in 1957 could miss the connection that Martin Luther King drew between the God of the Judeo - Christian story and the liberation of black people in our own society.

The study, appearing in the Public Library of Science journal PLoS ONE, found that criminal activity is lower in societies where people's religious beliefs contain a strong punitive component than in places where religious beliefs are more benevolent.

Author John Charles Cooper, dean of academic affairs at Winebrenner Theological Seminary, sums up the situation: «People do feel that religion is losing its influence on society, and they may be right — but the majority of people do not wish this to be true, and so it is an important time to be publishing good religious People do feel that religion is losing its influence on society, and they may be right — but the majority of people do not wish this to be true, and so it is an important time to be publishing good religious people do not wish this to be true, and so it is an important time to be publishing good religious books.

Now, realize that in today's society you are still just as hated, shunned and looked down upon for declaring that same differing belief... or even non-belief — just because people are still too hung up on their precious religious dogma to realize that they are still doing the same thing that religious people did in the past.

Even if the human person is most himself and freest when least encumbered with social, traditional, religious or familial ties, society is a necessary evil which protects as much as possible the freedom of the individual without being much of a threat to it.

because of his relationship with something, not someone, who's invisible and has all these stories told of him, by other people, and we all know people lie..., i'd just like to say this whole finding «faith» in a religious god, is horrible for society....

The church, into which one is born (like the medieval Catholic Church), is distinguished by an ethic of conservation and compromise in its relationship with the surrounding society; the sect, which one must join as an adult (like the Anabaptists), rejects the surrounding society and has an ethic of rigor, perfection and transformation; the mystic is primarily a subjectively religious person who is not linked to any particular religious body (or, if linked to one, does not find it very important).

Then maybe people would take it more seriously and we wouldnt have these religious nuts having 5, 10 or even 20 children like the Duggers that the rest of society has to support through our tax dollars.

But think for a moment of the sort of «civil society» we would have if religious people were exempt from any law they deemed «unjust» for religious reasons.

Plenty of evidence is in on this point: when a ruling elite decides to destroy a group of people in a society, most of the people who are not targeted will not resist, whatever their religious affiliation.

Stark does not deny that the world limits choices, but he insists that options almost always exist: «Even in a society with only one religion, most people choose not to be very religious.

I do wish there was also a survey or report on the difference of charity, volunteering, and contributions to society as a whole between religious people and the non-believers.

For society at large, though, there are also many religious people that do think prayer, belief, and other devotional activity can influence or please God into doing various physical things in their favor.

Campuses are much like society in general — there are a few serious faith practitioners sprinkled among people with moderate religious proclivities.

Partly under the impact of constant conditioning in consumerism, people in western democratic societies increasingly are putting together their own religious belief and life - style packages in order to meet individual needs.

In our pluralistic society, constituted of people with all kinds and shades of religious belief and disbelief, the advocacy of religiously oriented education presents serious difficulties.

When ministers comment on the kinds of men who are failures in the ministry they frequently describe among these types the person who operates a religious club or a neighborhood society with much efficiency and pomp and circumstance.

Religious constructs as we have them through our global societies are an artifact of people in charge trying to control the ignorant masses.

Propaganda is most effective when it is able to separate a person from outside points of reference, such as a transcendent religious reference, in order to encourage a tunnel vision which unquestioningly accepts this society «s worldview as «the way it is.

Nowhere was the resulting «republican religion» more apparent than in the «Yale theology» of the early nineteenth century, the goal of which was «the moral renovation of the American people through revivalism, reform societies, the religious press, and sumptuary legislation.

The problem with this formulation is that it conflates, or anyhow fails to distinguish between, the religious character of a person and that of a society.