Sentences with phrase «religious values they claim»

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Religions incorporated and codified these basic social values and skills, and quickly learned to take credit for them — as if, without the religion, we would be doomed to not have them — although we see them in every human society, including hunter - gather tribes with no sense of gods as we understand them After many centuries of religious domination, enforced through pain of death, ostracization or other social sanctions, allowing religion to take credit, as well as failing to question other religious claims — has become a cultural habit.

Kaine started out with a version of the «personally opposed but publically supporting» argument based on the specious claim that the First Amendment of the Constitution prevents us from imposing our religious «values» on public life.

They often imply positions about the truth value of religious and secular claims about reality.

But by shifting the emphasis to personal appropriation of the gospel message, they downplayed the importance of these supernatural claims about the Bible as such and reopened the issue of the value and importance of personal religious experience.

While an individual's religious values will certainly factor into his or her perspective on this hot - button issue, the diversity of opinions within the faith community should make us pause before claiming God is on one side or the other.

Those with any moral clarity at all have heard a better voice in this campaign: no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification, but the test of values and integrity, and a president who respects family and rights of faith is better than one who, like you, claims a religious label but then opposes family and faith.

Once all the disclaimers have been made — that many religious beliefs are supremely difficult to test for truth because they refer to the supernatural or to that which it is beyond our mental powers to discern, or because (in the case of faith) they are values and not truth - claims — once all this has been said, we still have to admit that yes, of course the question of truth enters in here.

Religious functionaries lose some of their unique claim to power as a result of competition from secular professionals and in conjunction with a more general rise in education and values stressing individual discretion.

In an article entitled «Starbucks Does Not Equal Savvy,» Gerson compares Palin's small - town values and religiously - charged rhetoric to that of Bryan, claiming that «the closest I have ever come to witnessing a Bryan moment was Sarah Palin's speech at the Republican convention — the triumph of another backwoods, highly - religious populist.

But from either angle, the people should check their own agenda, values, and morals before debating or voting whom should be president merely by that president's «claimed» religious status.

To plead the organic causation of a religious state of mind, then, in refutation of its claim to possess superior spiritual value, is quite illogical and arbitrary, unless one have already worked out in advance some psycho - physical theory connecting spiritual values in general with determinate sorts of physiological change.

Proudfoot's dilemma presumes that just such a pure account of religious experience is claimed by all theologians who talk about religious experience; but this simply does not apply to American radical empiricists who assumed that experience is always already an interdependent combination of facts and values, objects and subjects.

This would be an incredible claim to make today, but in an age when mythology was rife and factual accuracy was not exactly valued by committed religious zealots, which the original authors clearly were, the chance that the gospels we have today accurately reflect the life of Jesus is virtually zero.

They do so most openly in every claim they make that religious faith is bad, and that for the sake of true values moral people must rid themselves of it as soon as they can.

That is not to say there shouldn't be Christian or other religious values present but it is to say that people shouldn't be conned and public opinion shouldn't be manipulated by claims of righteous values — as we have seen, it is just too easy to fake and sway people to support what may not be in their best interests based on having a cloak of religion.

Religions can rightly claim that these new democratic values which Secular Humanism has brought to light are derived from the religious conceptions of the dignity of human beings in society but which they neglected in the past; and that therefore in assimilating them into their religious reformation they are only claiming their own and preventing their getting perverted in the secularist framework of Materialism and Individualism.

The point of the exercise is to attack the values of Catholics, to bully them into being obedient to the secular messiah; to do the very thing that you all claim religious people are doing.

Agnosticism is the view that the truth values of certain claims — especially claims about the existence or non-existence of any deity, but also other religious and metaphysical claims — are unknown and (so far as can be judged) unknowable.

First, all the great religious traditions make some claim to the universal value of their particular insights and affirmations.

Agnosticism is the view that the truth values of certain claims — especially claims about the existence or non-existence of any deity, but also other religious and metaphysical claims — are unknown or unknowable.

Claims by some religious educationalists that faith is the best way to teach moral values is challenged by others in schools who believe religious morality to be outdated and dangerous.

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Amanda Spielman, head of Ofsted, claims British values are being «actively perverted» by religious extremists.

Kind of like when religious people claim attacking LGBT people is for «family values» — the definitions of these slogans always leaves much to be desired.

While accommodation often demands special treatment, constitutional and public values may not warrant affording such treatment to all religious claims.