Sentences with phrase «roles do religion»

What roles do religion and scientific discovery play in your belief system?

What role does religion play in Amy Raye's life?

What role does religion play in your books?

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I don't minimize the importance of his insights on the role of religion in the public square, but I suspect his greatest and most enduring legacy will lie in his contribution to the unity of the Church, for which he fervently prayed.

They still have to comply with federal and state laws, which means gays are out, but everyone else has to be considered for employment by the company (the only exceptions to the law are where your religion or other protected status are essential for the job... for example, a Muslim couldn't sue an Episcopalian church who wouldn't hire them in an administrative role because their faith clashes with that of the church — things like that don't apply to a fast food chain).

This also does not account for other recent wars such as WWII, WWI, Vietnam, Korea, U.S. Civil War, etc., though arguably religion played a significant role in affecting people's opinions about going to war.

I am an active Catholic, and find the assertion that religion itself is evil and should be done away with incredibly superficial and ignorant of the role in the lives of the faithful that religion holds.

That's why religion doesn't seem to play an important role.

I do not feel it is their role to teach religion of any kind to children.

Most significantly, Duddington argues against the charge that permitting an increasing role for religion in the legal and political (i.e., public) spheres would necessitate the imposition of one system of belief upon another, by re-emphasising the argument that Christianity does not serve to generate a moral code, but rather provides a vehicle through which it may be discovered.

(CNN)- Just because President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney mostly have avoided talking religion during this campaign doesn't mean religion won't play a big role in determining the winner of the presidential race.

Looking at this report, religion doesn't seem to really play much of a role in income.

However, although religion did not originally emerge as a biological adaptation, it can play a role in both facilitating and stabilizing cooperation within groups, and as such, could be the target of cultural selection.»

Even if we were able to suspend our common sense in the area of religion in order to buy into this traditional theology — something which many people have felt forced to do because they saw no good alternatives — we would then have a spirituality that is unable to adequately fulfill its role.

«The Const - itution does not oblige government to avoid any public acknowledgment of religion's role in society,» Justice Kennedy said in his opinion.

They pray as often as they did before, and they are just as likely to say that religion plays a very important role in their lives.»

It is with this presently evolving world that we have to do and no other; if religion is to be relevant, its role must be shown in it.

In light of the tragic shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, Lawrence M. Krauss, author of A Universe from Nothing, asks «why, as a nation, do we have to institutionalize the notion that religion must play a central role at such times, with the president as the clergyman - in - chief?»

Does religion (equated by Justice Kennedy in an earlier case with the belief that «an ethic and a morality which transcends human invention» exists) have any role to play in the law?

«The bottom line, Justice Anthony M. Kennedy wrote, is that «the Consti - tution does not oblige government to avoid any public acknowledgment of religion's role in society.»

The lack of emphasis on a single religion does not stop Disney from taking up a catechizing role, Pinsky notes, «In the Western world in particular, the number of hours children spend receiving moral instruction in houses of worship is dwarfed by the amount of time spent sitting in front of screens large and small, learning values from Disney movies,» Disney's evangelistic entrepreneurship has been extraordinarily successful.

That Protestantism and other religions will and ought to play a role in the creation of this new reality in American life would be argued for by most Christians; however, both the way this is to be done and the content of what should be done would be interpreted differently by various denominations.

But because some religions abuse their role as Gods representatives, does that make all religion bad?

But religion does have a continuing role to play, according to Habermas (here in agreement with Bellah), in providing personal integration, unity, subjective meaning, and a unified self - identity.

«You know I don't think those are the issues that Americans really care about,» Love said when asked about the role of Romney's religion in the presidential campaign.

Why is it that people on the right assume that because people on the left have different viewpoints on the role of religion, that we don't believe in God.

Does religion have anything to say relevant to the current role of media in society?

Although almost all of them affirmed the role of religion in moral formation and saw Providence at work in America's founding, their belief in the moral governance of the universe was more a reflection of their assumptions as Enlightenment thinkers who did not separate religion from public life than a sign of heartfelt Christian belief.

«You know I don't think those are the issues that Americans really care about,» Love said when asked about the role of Romney's religion in the presidential campaign... they certainly cared about it with President Obama and many still believe he is a closeted muslim.

In 2006, though, Gingrich wrote a book called «Rediscovering God in America» - part of a new canon of work he has done reaffirming the role of religion in public life.

Turkey and Tunisia have, like Egypt, relatively secular governments, in that religion does not play a major role in government, though it may get some mention on occasion.

Malliotakis doesn't raise her religion or the role, if any, of faith in her life in her campaign speeches and she did not mention those topics today.

The researchers are quick to say that this connection doesn't minimize the role of religion, and that religious or spiritual experiences might decrease activity in that region and thus increase that special feeling of transcendence.

If religion did have an early founding role, we must acknowledge this, learn from it — and move on.

This is partly due to the pivotal role this religion Mongolian girls are some of the sexiest Asian women on the planet, but they don't get a lot of love.

The clashes of religion, sex, warfare, and even the role of women in battle, running the farm or taking care of family is very well done.

Nor does the current political weight of evangelical Protestantism change the fact that our political and constitutional development has pretty much reduced religion to a private matter, even if there remain energetic efforts to make religious concerns play a larger role in public affairs.

Understand: What role did money, power, religion and the fact that they were seen by some people as being no longer needed a factor in his decision?

And, at the moment, lots of them do not think lines in the sand drawn in Whitehall about the role of religion in our schools are worth defending.

What do Mary and John teach their children about the role of religion, from the time they are young (saying an «Angel of God» during the 1960 hurricane) to the novel's closing scene?

What roles do they play in politics, family life, and religion?

One that comments the identity crisis of Europe through politics, the refugee crisis and the role of religion and economy in creating maps of Europe that did not previously exist.

The Strasbourg institutions have not been at all ready to find an interference with the right to manifest a religious belief in practice or observance where a person has voluntarily accepted an employment or role which does not accommodate that practice or observance and there are other means open to the person to practise or observe his or her religion without undue hardship or inconvenience.

How does your spirituality or religion play a role in day to day decision making?