Sentences with phrase «secular purpose of»

In my view, a statute outlawing employment discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin has the valid secular purpose of assuring employment opportunity to all groups in our pluralistic society.

Likewise, the lower court rejected the ACLU's Blaine Amendment claim, holding that it «was not intended to preclude any expenditure that has an incidental benefit to religion, where such is made for a primary secular purpose,» and that the ESA «was enacted for the valid secular purpose of providing financial assistance to parents to take advantage of educational options available to Nevada children.»

Because the program is neutral with regards to religion and, as the trial court found, has the secular purpose of expanding educational opportunity, there is no constitutional violation.

As White expressed it, the potential for impermissible fostering of religion in secular classrooms — an untested, assumption of the court, so far as he was concerned — paradoxically rendered unacceptable the state's efforts to ensure that secular teachers under religious discipline would successfully avoid conflicts between the religious mission of the school and the secular purpose of the state's education program.

That is why nowadays we defend Sunday closing laws (if at all) by the secular purpose of encouraging a general day of rest and recreation rather than the original purpose of honoring the Lord's Day or maximizing church attendance.

Those government acknowledgments of religion serve, in the only ways reasonably possible in our culture, the legitimate secular purposes of solemnizing public occasions, expressing confidence in the future, and encouraging the recognition of what is worthy of appreciation in society.

Not exact matches

No, what poisons everything is atheism / secular humanism as evidenced by the fact that 93 % of all of humanity's wars were started for non-religious purposes.

Gods purpose in the middle east is very different from that of secular interests in the area.

Should students never perform any music with a religious text, even if done in a secular setting and with the purpose of providing a complete education, not for the purpose of worship or of promoting a particular belief?

'' [I] ts sole purpose is to encourage all citizens to engage in prayer, an inherently religious exercise that serves no secular function,» a Wisconsin judge wrote in the ruling, referring to the 1952 law that created the National Day of Prayer.

If the government takes affirmative action to facilitate the free exercise of religion, does this action have a «secular purpose»?

This not only helps to explain religion's primordial, irrepressible, widespread, and seemingly inextinguishable character in the human experience, it also suggests that the skeptical Enlightenment, secular humanist, and New Atheist visions for a totally secular human world are simply not realistic — they are cutting against a very strong grain in the nature of reality's structure and so will fail to achieve their purpose.

1) The purpose of punishment in secular courts is fourfold: the rehabilitation of the criminal, the protection of society from the criminal, the deterrence of other potential criminals, and retributive justice.

Purpose of post is to make hindu secular, ignorant self centered human to realize power of truth, nothing can over power truth, nor can deviate from truth in life, because truth absolute rules the world, their is none other but truth absolute LORD GOD of the world.

This untoward result - interpreting a Constitution intended to guarantee religious liberty as requiring affirmative discrimination against people of faith - would seem to be the necessary result of a doctrine of separation that invalidates government action that lacks a «secular purpose» or has the effect of «advanc [ing]... religion» (Lemon v. Kurtzman [1970]-RRB-.

I know: you're stunned — a day of joint thanksgiving for a secular purpose, and that I'll wrap my arms around.

But there is a large gap between such purposes of a secular school and the primary goal of Christian education.

Pope Benedict's purpose and tone as he spoke to both religious and secular leaders - overwhelmingly positive and collaborative - was the direct fruit of the landmark event that remains the most significant moment of the history of the Church in our time, the Second Vatican Council.

Although his prescriptions were regarded as odd, his descriptions of the new age as informed with secular beliefs in progress through the rational, scientific organization of societies, for the purpose of ever increasing industrialization and ever new technologies of control, was very typical of modernity.

Where the magisterium does not reject a secular doctrine as directly or indirectly opposed to Revelation, it can only note the degree of probability attributed to the theory by secular science, state this and take it into account for the purpose of its own reflections, but can not establish and pronounce upon it.

The use of and appeal to religious communalism is effective (at least in the short run) precisely because increasingly more people are finding a greater sense of common purpose in traditional religions than in political parties or secular ideologies.

Both the religious and the secular - social uses of alcohol depend on its psychological effects, but they differ from purely psychological drinking in their emphasis on the objective forms and shared purposes of corporate life.

Rulers may have gone to war for their own secular purposes, but Islam has never justified a war except for defense of the faith.

Its achievements are not always visible to our eyes, and there is no Christian guarantee, despite a secular misreading of Christianity in the heydey of Liberalism, that the purpose will be worked out, according to our prescription, and exhaustively, in this world.

It is too bad that some zealous theologians have tried to argue that this self - realization has been made (by those who talk in fairly secular terms) a substitute for the fulfillment of the divine purpose.

He held that «the religious nature of the recipient should not matter to the constitutional analysis, so long as the recipient adequately furthers the government's secular purpose.»

They introduced Christ also as the revelation of God's purpose in world history and as the Messiah who fulfilled that goal in the end; it brought the peoples out of their traditional isolation into the realm not only of universal church history but also of secular national and world history.

If these organizations are receiving aid specifically for purposes that have nothing to do with their religion but more to do with secular issues, which is what the standard is, why are we even entertaining the idea that they can discriminate on the basis of religion which, if they receive funding, should have nothing to do with what their organization is supposed to be doing?

«[The] stated purpose of displaying The Cross at Ground Zero to tell the story of how some people used faith to cope with the tragedy is genuine, and an objective observer would understand the purpose of the display to be secular.»

Under the circumstances it is not impossible that a strong countermovement will arise and that Christians will seek forms of church life that are independent of secular society not only in source but also in purpose.

Judge Reena Raggi said: «The stated purpose of displaying The Cross at Ground Zero to tell the story of how some people used faith to cope with the tragedy is genuine and an objective observer would understand the purpose of the display to be secular.

For an important purpose of preaching is to identify the presence and activity of God in secular life.

There are fundamental differences between the two regarding the nature and purpose of marriage, which in a secular society means, inevitably, that the state's understanding of marriage is going to prevail, and be enforced by coercive measures.

The US is a secular country not a christian country.Our country was founded on the principles of freedom fo religion and seperation between church and state.I am a muslim, I can tell you that the reason men and women don; t pray in integrated environments is to avoid distractions and to focus on the prayer not because women are less than men.I personally don; t want to be praying next to a woman because all I'll be thinking about is her and not god.Jews also do the same thing in temples by seperating between men and women in temples.A house of worship is built solely for that purpose, worship!

That is not what any of the major Reformers thought, even though they were sure that some secular music could legitimately be borrowed and adapted for religious purposes.

In 1971, nonestablishment came to mean that legislation could have no religious «purposes,» even when the immediate matter and effect of the legislation is secular.

The principle, in this context, merely constrains government officials not to make decisions with the predominant purpose or primary effect of advancing religion; in other words, the predominant purpose and primary effect must be nonreligious or secular in nature.

The only instances in which it has relied on the secular purpose requirement of Lemon to invalidate a school policy have been with regard to the posting of the Ten Commandments and the teaching of evolution in public schools.

But it ruled that the school board nonetheless passed muster under the secular purpose test of Lemon because the school board stated two other valid secular purposes for its policy: «disclaiming any orthodoxy of belief that could be inferred from the exclusive place of evolution in the curriculum, and reducing offense to any student or parent caused by the teaching of evolution.»

In dozens of cases in which the Court has either sustained or invalidated programs of financial assistance to children attending religious schools, the Court has never ruled that any of these programs lacked a valid secular purpose.

The concern for the destination of these donations — whether they are robbed or used for non-religious purposes — is a secular concern, that is, characteristic of those who do not share the «enchanted» vision of the world.

It consists of three prongs: The government's action must have a secular legislative purpose; The government's action must not have the primary effect of either advancing or inhibiting religion; The government's action must not result in an «excessive government entanglement» with religion.

I said, «One's faith should not be the primary reason for enacting a law,» This is based of the «secular purpose» portion of the Lemon Test (re: Lemon v Kurtzman).

Keith Porteous Wood, executive director of the National Secular Society said the Coalition Government's Localism Act 2011 had not been tested in any court, arguing Mr Pickles could not «simply walk in and give it any meaning that suits his purpose».

Although even the plaintiffs conceded that the ESA has a secular purpose and that parents may expend all of their ESA funds on secular education, they contended that the potential that parents might use ESA funds to pay tuition at a religious school or purchase religious homeschool materials was a violation of the Blaine Amendment.

The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals examined only federal Establishment Clause precedent and held that Louisiana's special education program did not offend the Establishment Clause because (1) the statute's purpose of improving educational opportunity for disabled students was secular, and (2) the statute did not have the effect of advancing religion because it provides no incentive for parents to select religious institutions.

Two Illinois courts of appeals held that Illinois» tax credit for educational expenses is constitutional because it has a clearly secular legislative purpose of ensuring a well - educated citizenry and relieving public expense, has the primary effect of effectuating those purposes, and involves no more government entanglement with religion than many other state tax laws.

Our guide pointed to many small details about the facade of the temple, including signs it was temporarily converted to a Christian church, thus sparing it from destruction over the years (later, during the French Revolution, it was used for secular purposes, once again thankfully helping it to avoid destruction).

In the reign of Mangku Pastika (as a head of Bali Provincial Police), the campaign against cockfighting reached its peak, the secular tajen (cockfighting for gambling purpose) virtually vanished from the island but the Tabuh Rah (cockfighting for religious purpose) survived until present day.

Traditionally the mantelpiece has been an archetype of formal domesticity, defining interior décor and an architectural focal point that served a ventilating purpose, but has since, particularly in the 20th century, been used to frame the «family room,» signifying a place to gather, or to display objects, photos, mementos; a kind of secular altar.