Sentences with phrase «respect to religion when»

as an atheist and democrat, I always saw Obama as basically a non-believer, who uses religion or pays respect to religion when it is politically appropriate or expedient.

It's hard to «grow up and expand my mind» with respect to religion when many priests are giving up child molesting for lent.

Not exact matches

Or to put it more generously, the RFRA is designed to protect religious freedom, and to protect it even when your religion requires you to do something bad, such as violating another human being's right to be treated with dignity and respect.

Obama is an extremist — by far the worst Democratic candidate ever — when it comes to respect for religious belief and institutional religion.

If you * CANT * respect my religion, then please do nt complain or feel persecuted when I do nt give respect to yours.

When the U.S. Muslim community sounds out LOUD and CLEAR, without equivocation, and immediately against all forms of terrorism, including all aggressive religious intolerance for human rights, women's right, children, equal protection under the law, the respect for other religions to coexist, the right to free speech, and the ability to separate church from state, IF THEY FINALLY DO THAT AND LOUDLY, then we will begin to feel comfortable that they are truly embracing American ideals and here to join us, not to oppose, defy, or undermine what we hold dear.

There can be «no claim of privilege, regardless of the religion, with respect to communications directly relevant to sexual assault of a child,» prosecutor Eric Nichols said when the judge invited him to respond to Jeffs» outbursts.

I'm nice to anyone who shows me the same respect and if religion never come up, no problem, but when it does and I get some type of zealot or another trying to preach I polietly excuse myself, and write that person off as a lost cause and remember to aviod them in the future.

A candidate's religion is not supposed to be an issue in politics, but both the media and liberal voters respect that only when the candidate is a Democrat.

I find it sad that people are being taught to «respect» someone else's religion when perhaps instead, we should be saying, «Hey this is some worthless drivel from centuries ago when Earth was flat and sickness was caused by witchcraft»

As a final comment, it is simply outrageous how one can point fingers at ONE religion when many of our respected countries are steeped in bloodshed, and continue to commit atrocities.

Orwell thinks that from Shakespeare's writings it would be difficult to know that he had any religion» whereas in fact the placing of truth in the mouths of babes is one aspect of the Christian respect for all human life; that same profound feeling is what inspires us to protest loudly when health authorities take a mental defective off dialysis machine because they consider his «quality of life» too low, in defiance of Christ's words in the Sermon on the Mount.

In fact, one could make the case that anyone attending the dinner, even the two candidates, would, by the vibrant solidarity of the evening, be reminded that America is at her finest when people, free to exercise their religion, assemble on behalf of poor women and their babies, born and unborn, in a spirit of civility and respect.

The respect for culutral relativism is important up to the point when it offends OUR cultural relativism... no American Bald Eagle should ever be sacrificed these Native American tribes should no better... maybe their religion needs to go through a period of modernization instead of being stuck in stupid traditions of the past... this extremely offends me as an American... why do not the Native Americans respect our culture?

Wouldn't it be egg on your face if you just happened to be born into the wrong religion and chose the wrong god and when you die you find you were duped as your parents were, etc. etc. and you wind up roasting in the hell of the god you rejected and this god has more respect for an atheist who actually demands evidence?

Two stated intentions of the National Day of Prayer were that it would be a day when adherents of all great religions could unite in prayer and that it may one day bring renewed respect for God to all the peoples of the world.»

When theologians adopt the evolutionary point of view, Metz thinks, their work can be «regarded, with different degrees of explicitness, as meta - theories with respect to religion and theology.

(Religion in the Making, Cleveland: Meridian Books, 1960, 31) This goal of elucidation is apparent when he says that rational religion's aim is to make it «the central element in a coherent ordering of life... in respect to the elucidation of thought, and in respect to the direction of conduct...» (Religion in the Making, Cleveland: Meridian Books, 1960, 30) Religion's final product is the provision of «a meaning, in terms of value, for our own existence, a meaning which flows from the nature of things.»

Furthermore, freezing up when you see someone in the traditional clothing of the country they hail from or wear to respect their religion, just makes you intolerant and foolish.

And although we did not see each other frequently, he in Iowa and I in California, when we did see each other, our conversations were substantial, uplifting, wise and full of love and respect (he and I did not always see eye - to - eye on politics or religion).

Today he commented, «At a time when public concern about the place of religion in schools has never been higher, we need full accountability and transparency with respect to decisions as to which schools are funded.

I'd be the first to say that when you're dealing with issues of religion and deeply held faith you've got to express yourself moderately and sensitively and with respect one to the other.

«If you find youself sniggering when I mention, say, Wiccans, then shame on you - that's the problem right there, the idea that there are «serious» religions which ought to command «respect» and then a bunch of silly cranks with draft ideas that «we» / the state can ignore.

So one thing you need to put in mind when traveling to the Philippines always respect their culture, religion and family.

In 2002, the U.S. Supreme Court held in Zelman v. Simmons - Harris that school - voucher programs are consistent with the First Amendment's Establishment Clause when they serve a secular purpose and are neutral with respect to religion, and when aid goes to parents, who then choose where their child attends school.

An eloquent condemnation of this policy of repression was that of Chief Thunderchild, who queried: «Why has the white man no respect for the religion that was given to us, when we respect the faith of other nations?»

Protecting freedom of religion ensures that all people are treated with dignity and respect, that religious minorities are not the subject of discrimination, that the state remains neutral and impartial when it comes to matters of deeply - held personal beliefs and that religious belief can not be preferred to non-belief.