Sentences with phrase «sacred religious texts»

Ramadan is the most sacred month in the Muslim year, commemorating the revelation of the Holy Quran - the sacred religious text of Islam - by the angel Gabriel to the Prophet Mohammed, according to Islamic tradition.

«Ramadan is the most sacred month in the Muslim year, commemorating the revelation of the Holy Quran — the sacred religious text of Islam — by the angel Gabriel to the Prophet Mohammed, according to Islamic tradition.»

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Arguing that the Quran incites violence, it insisted that «the verses of the Quran calling for murder and punishment of Jews, Christians, and nonbelievers be struck to obsolescence by religious authorities,» so that «no believer can refer to a sacred text to commit a crime.»

There are many, many schools which prohibit any and all music with a religious text from their curricula and prohibit teachers from programming such music for concerts no matter how balanced the program may be (that is, it encompasses secular and sacred, accompanied and unaccompanied, difficult and easy, music in a variety of styles and from a variety of musical eras.

In the same breath, let us also just believe that the religious fanaticism shown by some Muslims is also an act of corruption of their own sacred text.

Don't allow religious philosophy to intrude into biology classrooms and texts, they say, for that is to soil the sacred precincts of science, which must be reserved for hypotheses that can be rigorously tested and confronted with data.

Progressive religious folks of all stripes tend to share a post-triumphalism (a sense that it's time to move beyond the old triumphalist paradigm in which one religion is The Right Path to God and all the other paths are wrong), as well as an inclination toward reading our sacred texts through interpretive lenses which take into account changing social mores and changing understandings of justice.

There are those who consider themselves Christian, Buddhist, etc in a religious sense who have never read sacred texts associated with their religion.

And insofar as Mr. Miller saying those who are «spiritual but not religious» not reading sacred texts: I most definitely do, and do not limit my exploration to a particular religion, idea, or spiritual concept.

Alcoholics Anonymous, being «spiritual, not religious,» doesn't use the Bible at all; rather it uses another sacred text, the inspired Word of God as expressed through Bill Wilson, the Big Book... Unlike the Oxford Group, which claimed salvation and redemption by Jesus through the Oxford Group, AA proclaims «recovery» by one s «Higher Power» through the Twelve Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous (Ken Ragge, The Real AA: Behind the Myth of 12 - Step Recovery [AZ: Sharp Press, 1998], pp. 82 - 83).

In a day when jihadist violence is an almost - daily occurrence, apologists for Islam sometimes claim religious equivalence — asserting that the sacred texts of the Judeo - Christian tradition have their own incitements to violence.

I only wish that «religious» folks of all the great religions were as tolerant of other's beliefs as their sacred texts instruct them to be.

This is a theological question, and it all depends on whether they follow the sacred texts themselves or the reinterpretations offered by modern religious scholars.

Names of your own religious family members, inspiring people of your faith and names and words pulled from sacred texts can help.»

One of the «Seven Spices of Israel» and referenced in many religious texts as a sacred fruit, the fig (Angeer), is rich in nutrition and history.

As if The Da Vinci Code wasn't enough to make religious types foam at the mouth with barely controlled fury at Tom Hanks» hair, along come MEGA films with a plan to spoof no lesser sacred text than the Ten Commandments.

«There is an increasing focus on the good use of sacred texts in GCSE Religious Studies with a higher expectation that students will understand the references they are drawing on when they write in their exams,» he explained.

These new Religious Studies GCSEs have seen a move away from a thematic approach and towards a greater focus on exploring the beliefs and practices of various religions through their sacred texts.

In addition to the sacred texts themselves, popular religious texts also include commentaries of sacred texts.

We all have our sacred texts — not necessarily religious in derivation — texts that offer comfort, that answer an unarticulated need.

Rather «My case is that of the IPCC my chosen priests of my religious faith who are rewarded based on their faith in my religion, backed up by evidence that I refuse to present (because I refuse to present information that contradicts my religious faith) and the Science my sacred Text as written by the chosen priests of my religious faith.»