Sentences with phrase «secular society like»

Some Christians argue that these Old Testament laws do not apply to a secular society like ours.

It is this danger, which he associated strongly with modern, secular societies like the UK, that informed almost all his views.

Not exact matches

It was unfortunate that the earliest attempts to liberalize Islamic theology were quickly followed, in the first half of the twentieth century, by the attempts of Muslim leaders like Ataturk, in Turkey, and Reza Shah, in Persia, to force their societies to emulate the secular West.

In the late eighties the Indian Theological Association explored the pattern of the church in a secular mode as herald of the Kingdom and servant of the world in a pluralist society like India.

Like Christianity, secular humanism has many noble aspirations for human society, such as peace, justice and equality.

There is still sin though, its just like everything else the secular people want any hint of God out of Society.

Like so many in modern secular society, I considered myself spiritual but shunned most of the practices and beliefs associated with organized religion.

Like the words «pact» and «treaty,» «covenant» and «contract» imply a mutuality of will that would seem to undermine Novak's previous contrast between ineluctable community and agreed «upon society (perhaps this is another reason for the quasi «religious adherence of so many secular Jews to the «naked public square»).

Nevertheless the Christian doctrine of the relation between the ethics of Law and Grace, the Hindu concept of paramarthika and vyavaharika realms, the Islamic concept of shariat law versus the transcendent law, and the equivalent ones in secular ideologies like the Marxist idea of the present morality of class - war leading to the necessary love of the class-less society of the future need to be brought into the inter-faith dialogue to build up a common democratic political ethic for maintaining order and freedom with the continued struggle for social justice, and also a common civil morality within which diverse peoples may renew their different traditions of civil codes.

Even in such a highly technological society like that of Japan it is reported that there are 81,511 Shinto shrines, 77,186 Buddhist temples and 6,446 Christian churches, well attended by people.22 Second, the strongest defense against the creeping tide of a secular global culture today is based on religions — Hindu, Buddhist and Muslim.

In 1977 sociologist Daniel Bell, contemplating «the return of the sacred,» suggested that societies like ours are not so much secular as they are made up of persistent religious subgroups.

Do we best accomplish that by trying to make our secular society look more like what we suppose the kingdom of God should look like?

However, campaigners from the National Secular Society have accused the Secretary of State of behaving «like some sort of dictator» and warned the move could open up councils to future court action.

He concluded that among «inclusive displays on places like the courthouse lawns, the Ten Commandments can convey a «secular moral message» about the primacy and authority of law, as well as the «history and moral ideals» of our society and legal tradition.»

«The model of secularism that we propose has the support of eminent jurists like Mrs. Claire L'Heureux - Dubé, former Supreme Court of Canada judge, and Mrs. Huguette St - Louis, the former chief judge of the Quebec Court who also agrees that the secular model we propose is quite reasonable and justifiable in a democratic society,» Drainville said.