Sentences with phrase «religious views which»

If Santorum were a Senator or running for office at the time, this story would be much more negative, but he was merely expressing his religious views which every American should be able to do without being persecuted by others.

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Amazon lists a number of items it restricts from its website, and there is a category for «offensive products,» which the company describes partially as «products that promote or glorify hatred, violence, racial, sexual or religious intolerance or promote organizations with such views.»

within which Christ is a «personal or religious view».

Further I demand that my view be taken seriously and to question it is to belittle my beliefs which is an infringement of my religious liberty.

you sir are practicing a religion one that means so much to you that you use it as your online name also please show me where I call you a fool or is telling someone not to make a fool of themself the same as calling them a fool which would mean you are very religious as far as Colin he said nothing that related to the debate I was in with you... we are talking about Atheism as a religious view not debating the existence of God now look over the definitions I have shown you and please explain how Atheism does not fit into the said definitions And you claim that evolution is true so the burden of proof falls in your lap as it is the base of your religion.

Children and adults are no longer required to recite prayers or pledges which may contradict their personal / religious views and are not required to advocate a government message on their personal property (e.g. they can not be forced to display a state slogan like «live free or die» on their license plate).

I propose to show that insofar as Whitehead holds this view, even implicitly, he reverts to a Leibnizian position which fails to do justice to religious experience.1 I shall also suggest a way in which we can speak significantly of a temporality of God's freedom.

It is not unreasonable to expect our civil government to operate in a fashion which doesn't prefer a particular religious view over another and which doesn't prefer religious views over non-religious views.

The structure is that of a cult, which generally does not work for people who do not respond to religious views.

Were religious people promoting peace when they voted down gay marriage (a civil rights issue, opponents of which will be viewed in the same light as the opponents against civil rights in the 50s and 60s) You are just so comfortable in the majority, you can't see the prejudice and bias you put on people that aren't like you.

Jobs based on religious views cancelled contracts which I'm not that surprised by.

But we can say, for example, that a religious, theological point of view can illuminate scientific research and can help to extract some coherent meaning... In the Catholic Church, we have a theology of creation whose point of view... gives to evolution an additional meaning which is not directly present in thescientific research, but that scientific research is coherent with this point of view.

Similarly, people born into any given religious faith — Christian, Muslim, Hindu, etc, etc, etc — and who are immersed in that faith, and surrounded by people of that faith, all of their lives — and especially their childhood — can't be expected to suddenly cast off such total indoctrination when an atheist such as myself presents them with certain facts which conflict with their world view.

In view of the emphasis which has been placed upon distinguishing the new quest from the original quest, it needs to be explicitly stated that a new quest can not take place without the use of the objective philological, comparative - religious, and social - historical research indispensable for historical knowledge.

The conflict must continue until the secular and religious groups arrive at a compromise which accepts the best in both points of view, but this will require a sustained effort to liberalize the popular concept of Islam.

It seems then, that the only place in the Bible which speaks about the «Holy Writings,» Paul is writing somewhat about the Jewish religious view of the Law, a view in which he was taught and trained (as was Timothy), but which is proved to be untrue in light of the revelation in Jesus Christ.

«The challenge», wrote Father Alexander Lucie - Smith in his Catholic Herald blog shortly after the Holy Father had announced his resignation, «will be in having to watch the airwaves fill with a whole load of people who are very marginal to Church life, and yet who will be invited to pontificate on all matters papal and religious, giving it their own particular slant, which they will advance as a mainstream view.»

He represents a professional group which is very close to the problems of people, and he also represents a community of people who are interested in the implications of their religious point of view for their daily lives.

The things I find most appalling about religion reach a new zenith in Islam --(i) a dulling down of individual thought and a dogmatic requirement to conform to the views of the masses; (ii) a stultifying ignorant education system in which anything inconsistent with the Qur» an is not just discouraged, but censored; (iii) the subjugation of women to the point of educating them to be nothing but mindless f * king, breeding machines for their insecure husbands; (iv) a political class that feeds off the religious - based ignorance it imposes on its populations; and (v) a general back - sliding against the rest of the planet because heads are buried in Dark Ages mythology.

He ate with tax collectors and sinners which religious leaders viewed as an act of impurity.

I have called this the coup de culture, in which Judeo / Christian moral philosphy (which is different from religious faith), the once generally accepted value system of the West is being supplanted by a (roughly) utilitarian / hedonistic (not in the sensual sense) / scientism - radical environmentalism view of life.

Cold rationality, on the other hand, has involved too narrow a view of reason to admit the depth of meaning which is the essence of religious insight.

A religious view of life must be put into concepts which can be understood by others.

«2 Therefore, philosophy of religion must balance itself between the extremes of a philosophy that cuts itself off from religious experience and a religious stance that segregates itself from philosophical reflection.3 The search for a philosophy of religion is a search for total world - view in which the idea of God encountered in human history is thoroughly integrated.

But such a view of life, which at once accepts man's present limitations and believes in his ultimate potentialities, is only possible to the one who has true religious faith.

Religious arguments are, so they insist, superfluous in defending a traditional view of marriage: «Because marriage uniquely meets essential needs in such a structured way, it should be regulated for the common good, which can be understood apart from specifically religious argumentReligious arguments are, so they insist, superfluous in defending a traditional view of marriage: «Because marriage uniquely meets essential needs in such a structured way, it should be regulated for the common good, which can be understood apart from specifically religious argumentreligious arguments.»

In terms of procedure in constructing a view of religion, the demand for communicability will probably be satisfied best by approaching the description of each basic religious concept from a variety of directions, all of which converge on a common center.

Accordingly, I have outlined a position which views development as integral to a particular way of interpreting the status of religious beliefs, and have illustrated it with the way we image God.

Pluralism describes a condition in which differing views and religious practices coexist alongside each other.

Hence, only by revealing his own views of his place in the cosmos - which are religious as even such nontraditionalists as Spinoza and Einstein understood - can Schlesinger argue for the authority of «History,» or «our folkways, traditions, standards.»

Furthermore, despite the emphasis by such theologians as Augustine, Calvin, Jonathan Edwards, and Reinhold Niebuhr (with whom Schlesinger enjoyed a personal association) on the need to distinguish between divine and human authority, it is a gross distortion of all of their views for Schlesinger to impute to them the kind of relativism which makes the existence of God and the reality of revelation (the basis of all western religious traditions) so utterly irrelevant for public life.

Secondly, it offers a firm foundation on which an Indian student can build with a view to restore some of the NT religious phenomena which are closer to oriental instincts and experience.

A new campaign is calling on the UK Government to protect doctors and nurses who feel pressured to perform medical procedures which contradict their religious views,...

Bob has an eye for irony, noting that I come from a «liberal» church which tends to support Gore's views rather enthusiastically, while Mr. Cizik's religious constituency has been cool to the warmers.

In a world shrunk by travel and communications technologies, one which can no longer afford conflict arising from ethnocentric prejudice, the appreciation of other religious and cultural views is necessary for the survival of the human species.

The LCWR (which does not represent the views of 80 % of American Nuns, it is an association of religious orders that include 80 % of women religious in the U.S., but that does not mean that all of those nuns / sisters agree with the shenanigans of the LCWR, in fact most probably don't) brought this on itself and it needs to be reformed.

Mead recommends Reinhold Niebuhr's achievement of «a rich and paradoxical view of the world using the classic elements of Anglo - American thought» as a guide to «the diplomacy of civilizations,» which must be conducted through the moral and religious life of the whole population, and not just at the level of government policy.

But in any case, one consequence of the view Marian Evans came to articulate is that, for all the broad human sympathy for which she became justly famous, in one respect her sphere of sympathetic engagement contracted — namely, in the realm of religious experience.

Whoever put the new one up was sure to add his religious affiliation as Christian and his political views as Conservative (The attack is on this group now) which were not on his original page.

Modernity perhaps encourages most of us to lead compartmentalized lives in which our religious beliefs do not affect our work, our view of money or our attitude toward the environment.

My own view is that it makes a great deal of difference which religious tradition a biblical theologian belongs to, so much so that I have argued in print that a common Jewish and Christian Old Testament theology is impossible.

They typically don't think that prayer and devotion can affect the outcome of scientific experiments so they can keep their religious beliefs separate from the ways in which they view the world working.

Rather complex sets of historical variables are summarized in the relations among state church, state, and aristocracy, and these relations then determine where a religious reform movement is likely to turn for support, which becomes a decisive factor in shaping the movement's views of the state.

With all of God's first born son (s) being an established view among our many religious constabularies, many of one - God religions are dead - set against each others» claims as to which religious convictions are truly the most righteous.

The philosophy of organism culminates in a new metaphysical theology.12 In Whitehead's view, «The most general formulation of the religious problem is the question whether the process of the temporal world passes into the formation of other actualities, bound together in an order in which novelty does not mean loss» (Process and Reality, An Essay in Cosmology 517)-- as it does in the temporal world.

Most history these days is written from a quite secular point of view in which the religious foundation of culture is little Understood or appreciated.

Presumably, if the idea of God is to be even minimally significant, some sort of religious experience is necessary.16 This appeal to religious experience is itself a qualified one, since Hartshorne is prepared to argue that positivism can not exhibit a coherence in its basic life principles that is comparable to a theistic position.17 So he operates in general on the assumption that the crucial issues involved in man's attempts to conceptualize God can and must be adjudicated by a rigorous analysis and criticism of the various views of God which are logically possible.

And prayer in schools is a matter of secularism which is something we all should embrace as it keeps us safe from someone else's religious view being foisted on us.

In an earlier era, freethinkers understood that the society in which they lived depended in part on the basic view of the world accepted by their fellow citizens — hence Robert Ingersoll and Elizabeth Cady Stanton not only defended a clear churchstate separation but commented onthe merits of specific religious ideas held by their contemporaries.

If this intent is successfully realized, it will in part lend support to Hartshorne's claim that the dipolar conception of God is more compatible with religious experience than views which conceive God primarily in terms of the category of the absolute, or pure actuality, or being, etc..