Sentences with phrase «religious thicket»

The very fact that we have inter-provincial inconsistency here is enough to my mind to conclude that we do need more scrutiny of these matters before they are put to trial, from legal minds familiar with these systems and able to move with ease through this «religious thicket.»

In my view, to determine what the rights and obligations of Sam and Manira are in relation to the undertaking of Mahr in their Islamic marriage ceremony would necessarily lead the Court into the «religious thicket», a place that the courts can not safely and should not go.

In the course of this matter, we have developed First Amendment arguments regarding the Constitutional principal that civil courts can not delve into the religious thicket of internal church governance and that the courts must adhere to express trust language in a church's governing documents.

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A more moving portrayal of the meaning of child sacrifice to a good father could hardly have been written than this story furnishes; the profound loyalty involved in child sacrifice, holding nothing back that religious obligation might require, is recognized; and the story's obvious objective is reached when «Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, behind him a ram caught in the thicket by his horns: and Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt - offering in the stead of his son.»