Sentences with phrase «religious ties of»

The issue relates to the strong religious ties of my society, even children are forced to memorize religious mottos, in other words (indoctrinated).

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It no longer cares about our ancient blood and religious ties with Britain or Europe, or about the crucial strategic roles of our European and East Asian allies.

These types of ra nts lead down the path of religious per secution and have been the same kinds of words during horrible religiously motivated at roci ties — ki ll ing of people because their flavor of Christian faith didn't meet the standard of some other self - right eous mob.

Nevertheless, the paper is essentially guided by the language of the 1985 Vatican statement in which «Christians are asked to understand the religious ties [of Jews to the land of Israel] that have deep biblical roots.

We have plenty examples of governments without religion or people entirely free of all religious ties that make such horrible mistakes.

But a religious witness that seems less politically calculated and calibrated, that is less tied to the exigencies of the moment, and that is not burdened by so much personal baggage may serve the interests of «the church» much better.

All of the christian proselytizers in Africa tie their food distrubution to religious services.

I believe that is that is the truth Theo is trying to speak of but he is also trying to tie in some spiritual truths or universal constants that we have no evidence other than religious persons word for it.

Marsh, a professor of religious studies at the University of Virginia, gives us a sympathetic and theologically informed portrait that emphasizes Bonhoeffer's close and enduring ties to Christian orthodoxy, but also his restless curiosity and experimentalism.

The chamber voted 50 — 49 — calling on Vice President Mike Pence to break a tie vote for the second time that day — to install Brownback in the vacant State Department position, which monitors persecution and discrimination on a global scale through the Office of International Religious Freedom (IRF).

The Caliph and the nation form an inseparable whole linked together by the strong tie of religious faith, worship of God, fair dealing, and interest in the public welfare.

The stress on action over against teaching (the kerygmatic tradition) and religious experience (the mystical tradition) is significant, for it ties in directly with the way of the parables.

As a result, many today have abandoned their ties to organized Christian churches and replaced them with more personal forms of religious beliefs.1

The great St John Paul said that religious freedom is «the basis of all other freedoms and is inseparably tied to them by reason of that very dignity which is the human person» (letter to the Secretary General of the United Nations, 1978).

The weighted hour of death, with all its cultural and religious ritual, has been tied to the acquisition of transplantable organs.

As to the theistic metaphysics, I'm agnostic about it taken literally, but see it as a superb intellectual construction that provides a fruitful context for understanding how our religious and moral experiences are tied to the ethics of love.

Gradually that tie has largely gone, but the christians in the USA at least want to impose their religion on the rest of us despite the First Amendment: biblical texts on public buildings, their god on the currency, their religious beliefs to be law, christian prayer at public events, etc..

as a christian, i agree that i'm tired of the anti-gay anti-choice rhetoric that ties together religion and politics and paints us «religious» folk with one colour... it's time we start moving on to issues we can solve politically, like providing for the poor and reducing corporate corruption

On the one hand our ties to tradition, whatever religious or ethnic group we come from, have been enormously eroded in the last century by the advance of modernization.

Since the goal of tying atheism to communism can not be achieved factually the religious resort is to subsume or absorb.

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.

«Christianity,» says Sanneh, «came into Africa equally as fulfillment and challenge, but in either case as reinforcement of the religious worldview of Africans concerning spiritual and divine agency, the sacramental sense of community, the ties between the living and the dead, the potency of dreams, prayers and invocations.»

It is so exciting focusing on the fact that the Spirit of Christ lives within us and we are not tied down to religious doctrines and rules.

In matters of some significance, such as congressional «representation» of religious groups, the enormous and disproportionate visibility of the oldline bodies continues (in 1984, 67 Episcopalians, one Pentecostal); the «losses» have been to Roman Catholic and Jewish representation, not noticeably to right - wing or even «evangelical» Protestantism (Albert Menendez, «The Changing Religious Profile of Congress,» Church and State [January 1983], pp. 9 - 12; Christianity Today, «Members of Congress Hold Ties to 21 Religious Groups» [January 18, 19851, pp. 61 -64) Even in the membership sweepstakes it appears that the NCC bodies may do reasonably well in treligious groups, the enormous and disproportionate visibility of the oldline bodies continues (in 1984, 67 Episcopalians, one Pentecostal); the «losses» have been to Roman Catholic and Jewish representation, not noticeably to right - wing or even «evangelical» Protestantism (Albert Menendez, «The Changing Religious Profile of Congress,» Church and State [January 1983], pp. 9 - 12; Christianity Today, «Members of Congress Hold Ties to 21 Religious Groups» [January 18, 19851, pp. 61 -64) Even in the membership sweepstakes it appears that the NCC bodies may do reasonably well in tReligious Profile of Congress,» Church and State [January 1983], pp. 9 - 12; Christianity Today, «Members of Congress Hold Ties to 21 Religious Groups» [January 18, 19851, pp. 61 -64) Even in the membership sweepstakes it appears that the NCC bodies may do reasonably well in tReligious Groups» [January 18, 19851, pp. 61 -64) Even in the membership sweepstakes it appears that the NCC bodies may do reasonably well in the 1980s.

Though Edessa was politically Roman, its cultural and religious ties were with the Syriac speaking peoples of Persian Mesopotamia and not with the Greek speaking centres in the Roman empire.

That will be true especially of the communities I have called natural groups, that is, those in which natural (blood) and religious ties are identical.

Religious people seem to sense that, but spend too much effort tying their minds in an endless loop of symbolism and ritual, and atheists appear to be happy to tie their minds in an endless loop of pseudo-intellectual empirical nonsense.

It weakens, he argues, only those religions that are minimally differentiated from the secular culture, but it actually facilitates the gathering of critical masses of people with distinctive religious views who are motivated to create and maintain strong group ties.

Others have simply left behind their religious ties as ministers or priests; and Dr. Ernest Kurtz, author of Not - God, is one of these.

First, the author ties her experience of attending a religious youth conference to the rape at Steubenville.

adding to that the Polygamy and Divorce laws imposed by some Religions and Countries has deprived those females the chance while married males are left stuck with one female whether there is love and respect between them or not but just because of children or religious ties..!!

«Their faith gave them a strong sense of the cultural and religious ties between Europeans that transcend national boundaries.»

Funding under the AFLA went, as Congress intended, to a wide variety of recipients including state and local health agencies, private hospitals, community health associations, privately operated health care centers, and community and charitable organizations, many of them with ties to religious denominations.

The beginnings of influential religious movements are usually tied up with acts of rebellion and revolution.

Second, these groups are also most likely to respond to short - term economic forces, given the lack of conventional religious ties that might anchor their political behavior.

In the 1970s, the Jackson - Vanik Amendment (tying favorable trade status to human rights norms) and the Helsinki Final Act «resuscitated» the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and at last gave religious freedom a meaningful place in international law.

His Trump ties: Jeremiah was one of about 40 religious leaders who prayed with Trump in September, and asked God to send Trump «a strong African - American who can stand with him and represent that community.»

In spite of its explicit suspicion of religion, scientism remains tied to the same dualistic myths that have caused Christian and other religious spiritualities to distrust and even despise the natural world.

They have introduced religious prejudice into electoral campaigns and have so tied themselves to political factions as to neglect their ministry to men of diverse views.

As with the Protestant alienation a century earlier, the severance of formal ties has been the achievement of enlightened and observant clergy, or members of religious orders, acting in order to shelter their upgrading institutions from church authorities who were seen as anti-intellectual, intrusively authoritarian, and unable to offer any resources but their own unimpressive governance.

One who is not a Christian (especially the modern nondualist Hindu and perhaps a Mahayana Buddhist) might ultimately agree to go along with the idea, from the Christian point of view, of an invisible» church of a Christ not tied to any one religious or cultural tradition.

It's worth noting that being owned by a member of a religion and having a religious message somehow tied to your company are very different things.

Imperialism and manifest destiny (both of which are tightly tied to religious thought) yes, science not so much.

As the controversy over Chick - fil - A's founder publicly opposing same - sex marriage continues - Mike Huckabee is pushing for a Chick - fil - A day, while the Jim Henson Co. is cutting ties to the chain - we're republishing our list of 10 other religious companies.

Some of these people may feel that their lives are too fragile to risk breaking their ties with the religious traditions of their childhoods.

In fact, many of them find it expedient to pay lip service to other religious creeds and maintain nominal ties with churches that enjoy a high degree of prestige in the community.

While Ogden insists that theological assertions must be judged according to their cohesion with their particular tradition's normative witness, he insists with equal vigor that each theology must also be assessed according to broader norms of truth not tied to particular religious traditions.

The sheer efficiency of people keeping a strict rule and living without family ties was such that the religious orders had become not only a spiritual ideal but a kingpin of society.

The growth of denominations, congregations and independent churches that have muted or even severed their original denominational ties may represent a desire of some believers to have a say in the life of their religious institutions.

So you're saying the belief of No God / Athiesm should have more say, or should outlaw all laws of which are currently in place that may have religious ties?