Sentences with phrase «religious symbols of all faiths»

We don't care if the community park has religious symbols of all faiths.

Not exact matches

Why not display other religious symbols alongside this as a sign of respect for the people of other faiths who also died in the towers?

Now, having said all that, why does ANYONE feel so compelled to stamp their religious symbol on a site where people of many faiths (or non-faith) died, knowing full well that it's going to upset the families of these individuals?

As a religious Jew and a political secularist, I agree, privileging this piece of steel as a symbol of faith at Ground Zero is wrong.

If a non-believer has no faith, then what is the argument for removing religious symbols of other religious practices in the first place?

Whether the family is nuclear or extended, a twosome or a tribe, its propensities for reverence and ritual often express a religious process that relates home - grown myths, honors domestic symbols, and follows devotional sequences that intensify faith in that family and allegiance to its own images of ultimacy.

In a world where there are agnostics, athesists, satanists, catholics, muslims,... ad nauseum... then to take each of their monies in the form of taxes and then only display one of those religious symbol in a place where all children of all faiths are educated is a slap to face of any fair minded individual.

He will most certainly not object at all to the public display of his friends» symbols of religious faith.

He damns the religious structure in which the fervent hymns of praise and the devout symbols of dedication were matched by a fervent immorality and a devout pursuit of vanity; in which Yahwism was enthusiastically endorsed at the sanctuaries but — as Amos saw the Yahweh faith — blatantly violated in business, domestic, and personal relationships.

Rather than finding that most teens are reverential toward the symbols that represent what is most meaningful to them or even the symbols most closely associated with their own tradition, as Fowler asserts in his oft - cited argument of adolescent faith development, I found that teens actually approach all religious symbols more like what Frederic Jameson called bricoleurs.

Here, in a strange fashion, the original fusion of supposed fact and faith - image, after an interim period of being dismissed by the religious mind as purely symbolic and crudely so, becomes in our day once again the vivid symbol for a faith - interpretation of literal fact.

The problem is that in the context of American evangelicalism, where religious images are often absent, pop - culture representations of the faith can become the formative symbols and images that a faith community encounters.

This confusion of symbols in the religious observance at the time of death, incidentally observed even by families of little religious faith, may indicate that belief in the deathlessness of mortal humans is not taken too seriously in strict dogmatic terms.

Topics covered: - Religion and Conflict Key Concepts God and Suffering Corrymeela Forgiveness and Reconciliation - Religion and the State Key Concepts Duties Authority Punishment Capital Punishment - Religious Expression Key Concepts Expressing faith through what is worn Expressing faith through symbols Expressing faith through actions - Religion and Medicine Key Concepts Sanctity of Life Abortion IVF Euthanasia How do doctors make decisions?

The policy recognizes that it is not practical for some religious symbols — such as turbans and hijabs — to be worn underneath the uniform; wearing the cross is not a necessary observance of the Christian faith.

If a particular claimant testifies that she wears the niqab because as part of her practice of faith, that is all that is needed to make the niqab a religious symbol.

Religious clothing and symbols are a non-verbal language that expresses the faith, beliefs and values of the person who wears it and that is why he or she wants to wear it.

The court ultimately held that schools must not proselytize on behalf of a particular religious doctrine and that the display of crosses in the classroom exceeded the constitutionally established limits on freedom of religion, as the crucifix is a core symbol of the Christian faith and was being displayed in a public school where attendance is mandatory.