Of course, there are a variety of potential risks in publicly endorsing anyone, especially someone like Tim Tebow, who some might associate with a particular
set of religious values, political views, etc..
The liberal version of American civil religion draws on a different
set of religious values and portrays the nation in a very different light.
Not exact matches
What needs to be shown is not a mere filiation
of concepts or the use
of words, but the
religious value men found in the concepts, the
religious meaning they undertook to
set forth in the words.
He
sets between himself and the world a rigid
religious dogma, a rigid system
of philosophy, a rigid political belief and commitment to a group, and a rigid wall
of personal
values and habits.
If not, perhaps better to begin with a
religious tradition whose particularities our situation
of religious pluralism will make it impossible to ignore than to start with an unexamined
set of values somehow supposedly prior to any
set of religious symbols.
Yet it is essential to realize that
religious communities are constituted by loyalty to an ideal or
set of values which is the basis
of their communion.
My being an «old fart» has
set value incentivized placements uncommonly held by neither the
religious nor the atheists ergo, I shoot for the moon and bark incessantly at moon - pies being others» leveraged buy - outs
of plagued synopses engendered with rudeness chimney's silt and soot
But Jesus» same topsy - turvy
set of values applies to
religious difference as well.
But, for many people, some
religious conviction indicates a predictable and stable
set of values on which the voter can rely when choosing his candidate.
Clearly we find ourselves living in a society which through its most powerful medium communicates a
set of values, assumptions, and worldview which are completely at odds with the
religious values, assumptions and worldview professed by more than 70 %
of its citizens.
«It also represents a further, and severe, erosion
of Indonesia's
values of religious pluralism as
set out in the Pancasila, the state ideology.
But there is nothing wrong in inviting those who respond positively to the Person
of Christ without leaving their
religious and cultural community to form fellowships around the Lord's Table and the Word
of God as «part
of the Church» within their
religious and cultural community -
settings themselves and those who respond to the Christian
values to consider acknowledging their source in Christ.
Bellah maintains that this function continues to be performed largely through the application
of religious values — not through the institutionalized church but through the culturally differentiated
set of religious symbols he calls the civil religion.
The relation between a «generalized symbolic medium
of values «and what I earlier referred to as «moral architecture» or «
set of religious terms» is quite clear and has long been recognized.
In this
setting many questions are inevitably asked, such as whether or not the history
of religions teaches religion, whether religions
of the world can be or should be taught without
value judgment, and finally whether the history
of religions is to provide intellectual understanding about religions or contribute to the
religious growth
of students.
Most
religious singles have particular
set of values and beliefs in their life.
Religious beliefs are
of the utmost importance to many people and
set a standard for the
values one should live in accordance
They knew that they couldn't win on pure partisan politics, so they
set about creating a coalition
of union workers worried about their industry, middle - class families opposed to tax increases and
religious communities motivated by their
values.