Sentences with phrase «saying religious bodies»

The court is presently saying religious bodies are exempt from birth - control laws.

Not exact matches

Jim Al - Khalili says that he doesn't have a «religious bone in his body» — despite being brought up by a Shia Muslim father and a mother whom he describes as a «born again evangelical Christian».

He would say things like, «She's very spiritual, but she doesn't have a religious bone in her body!

Some of these religious men said nothing when body bag after body bag of young men and women were showing up at the airports killed by terrorist!!

Now if you want to say all deaths under a leader are due to religious position of the leader, the Christians still win the body count game by a lot.

«A religious body,» he says, «is a stable institution with a heritage which it cherishes, a government which gives organized expression to its faith, and a body of members whose duties and values are generally recognized.»

Peace and Ramadan Kareem to all Muslim Brothers and Sisters... Inshallah fasting from Monday Dawn to SunSet... Just wonder in Christians or non Religious have tried fasting as Muslims do... am sure with time they will adopt it as a system for the health benefits it holds health and body... it is told it helps the body to discharge and burn out the poisonous chemicals from our bodies other than controlling weights... Some say they can not because of smoking other for water or food... but other than that is controlling anger or bad mood of the empty stomach, controlling one's tongue from hurting any one, to control eyes from staring at desire... Above all those to a Muslim he is to Maintain Prayers and Quran Reciting which of course beside it being a spiritual matter it is meant the body exercise by the up's and down's of prayers... as well as training of tongue & lungs by the Quran Recitation... these beside Tasbih «Praise of Glorify» helps to control one's breathing..

This guy is clueless to say «The trouble is that «spiritual but not religious» offers no positive exposition or understanding or explanation of a body of belief or set of principles of any kind.»

You might even hurt millions, or billions (and its just plain dumb luck, as you can see from the war mongering and stupidity of «religious» political leaders, like McCain, et al, who have said it would be a dandy idea to nuke Iran, that the body count has been higher due to people with lots of weapons, and countries full of people, who where duped into following insane people, because they where tired of the failure of priests to make the world better.)

Religious groups, expecially if they include signigicant cultural diversity within themselves, can be islands of civility, settings where, as Richard Mouw says, democratic interchange can be modelled, kept alive for the larger body politic.

My dictionary says: cult noun 1 a religious cult: sect, denomination, group, movement, church, persuasion, body, faction.

So the «open Christian» university is able to welcome into its community of inquiry an invigorating pluralism — both on the faculty and in the student body, men and women of varying religious commitments, Christian and non-Christian — without compromise to the integrity of its educational (that is to say, anthropological) mission.

peppered with a great deal of regret and nostalgia.When I think of «the church» in the sense of a body of believers, for me, that is now a sense of uniiting with people that is no longer dependent on religious affliation.So, I can't really say, with serious convicton, «I love the church» That said, I strongly identify with reasons 1, 2, 7, 9, and 10 (well 10 from the audience / particpator position).

As a professed religious who has devoted his life to serving Holy Mother Church, I dare say I can detect some distinctions between the two bodies.

Replacing the holy wars of the Old World have been religious patterns that left few dead bodies, though competitive denominational missionaries in many a new suburb have come down with ulcers, heart disease, endocrine disturbances, alcoholism arid, as they say, «other specifically Christian diseases» in their scrambles.

Okanlawon said, «As a religious body that had promoted education over the decades, we must not fail to remind ourselves of the critical need to join hands with the present administration of Ogbeni Rauf Adesoji Aregbesola, in its manifest mission to transform education in the state.

Labour MP Jess Phillips said the choices women made over their own bodies «should have nothing to do with the religious views of our politicians».

Ikedife said «the two bodies made up of traditional rulers, religious leaders, academicians, technocrats and leaders of thought in many fields of human endeavour in Igbo land were concerned about the ethnic group, Nigeria, Africa and the rest of the world.»

Political critics and religious bodies took issues with the president over his comment, saying it amounted to an invitation to human rights groups.

Queens Assemblyman Michael Simanowitz said the current law does not take into account religious sensitivities, including those of Orthodox Jews who believe that the body needs to be returned to the ground fully intact.

Simanowitz said the current law does not take into account religious sensitivities, including those of Orthodox Jews who believe that the body needs to be returned to the ground fully intact.

«The issue is that basically unclaimed bodies are being released without any sort of consideration of the person's possible religious or personal beliefs on whether or not they want to be used for such practices,» said Queens Assemblyman Michael Simanowitz, who sponsored the legislation with state Sen. Simcha Felder (D - Brooklyn).

«For the European court of human rights to compel a religious body or its adherents to conduct a religious marriage of a same - sex couple would require a legal miracle much greater than the parting of the Red Sea,» he said.

We are taught in our Muslims, Christians, Buddists, Hindus and the various religious bodies hat leaders are role models, so a role model can be a good or a bad role model depending on the character traits of the person, is much followed by people, Ghanaians are yearning for change,» he said.

If the Supreme Court had consulted the accepted body of scientific knowledge, however, they would have found that the companies» religious beliefs were not in conflict with the birth control methods they opposed, says Pratima Gupta, a doctor at the San Francisco Medical Center and former board member of the pro-choice network Physicians for Reproductive Choice and Health.