Sentences with phrase «sorts for religious people»

Not exact matches

The Christian Right wants public money to be used for private religious education (vouchers), buildings and services to be used for private religious purposes (this article), and they want subsidies in the form of tax breaks, special exemptions of other sorts, and they even want to destroy Aid to Needy Families so they can drive people into seeking help at their private religious «missions» where you are not allowed to eat unless you are a Christian, and so on.

I think a fast from verbosity about religion may help the religious people to see how religion - free people may indeed lack nothing, but instead, their «envelope» is just a particular sort of clothing — not necessary but fun for them perhaps.

Actually, many people seem to think that a lot of people who attend church do not follow Jesus, but merely attend church for their own reasons, such as needing some sort of religious system to identify with.

If Jesus embodies God's dreams for the world, then citizens of the Kingdom start by imitating him — by eating with the people he ate with, by telling the sort of stories he told, by healing and forgiving, by serving and praying, by resisting the temptations of power and money and violence, by breaking down religious barriers, by loving enemies, by showing humility and grace, by overturning some tables and dining at others, by being obedient to the point of death.

But think for a moment of the sort of «civil society» we would have if religious people were exempt from any law they deemed «unjust» for religious reasons.

It is not necessary for us to make a detailed examination of the various sorts of ritual associated with these meals; it will suffice if we see that the Jew worshiped God not only in the synagogue and in the Temple, but also in his home, where families or groups of friends met regularly for a holy supper, often held in connection with great festivals of the Jewish religious year, in which bread and wine, eaten and drunk, were believed to have a peculiar significance in establishing anew a sense of the covenant which God had made with his chosen people.

Most «spiritual, but not religious» people I know (and I was one for a while myself) do believe in some sort of higher, constructive, organizing, power than themselves.

«If you talk to people who've campaigned around the world for human rights and religious rights, they would say that where we are starting is actually on a path that could lead to the same sort of regimes that are elsewhere in the world, certainly in terms of persecution of Christians,» he said.

I think our religious culture of dogmatic fear really stifles peoples» natural curiosity, and the way scripture is pulled out of context and used as some sort of hard - and - fast Holy Slogans to live by is simply too much for people.

Religious institutions have done this to all sorts of people for various reasons: black skin being impure, dirty, in their eyes; gay persons for being the reason God destroyed Sodom; women for somehow being the introduction of sin into the world.

Sadly religious people tend to give as a sort of payment for what the church does for them rather than to pass on the message to someone else.

Growing up everyone went to a church or was involved with God in some way, you sort of stuck with your own religious group, nobody I knew was gay or queer in any form (minus one guy that was brave enough to be himself and was constantly bullied for it), the only people of color I knew personally could be counted on my two hands, and about a third of them were adopted by white people in my church.

Those are people staying together because of the kids, for finances, for religious reasons, all sorts of things but they are not the couples that we see from time to time and we go wow I want that marriage.

«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 religious and / or spiritual singles, attending some sort of event that's aligned with your beliefs will without a doubt help you meet people who feel the same way.

And then you hear about possible disparate impact on certain groups and what that might mean and you wonder whether credit checks themselves may raise questions about whether they work as an employment screening device, whether they are tied to job performance, questions of what sorts of studies have been done, what sorts of data are out there, what sort of impacts might there be on people who don't have credit, people who don't have credit for religious reasons — Muslims I believe don't use credit.

The following translated details come from Gematsu... - Dragon Quest Builders 2 is set in the world of Dragon Quest II following the events of its story - corrupt cleric Hargon and the God of Destruction Malroth were defeated by the descendants of the heroes, and peace visited the land - a religious order that inherited Hargon's intentions appeared with the intention of eradicating the Builders - peace that came after Hargon's death collapsed with the rise of the «Hargon Order» - Hargon Order spearheads the destruction of towns and castles all over the world - earth falls into ruin, and there are little remains left of peoples» lives - but for a religious order whose goal is to destroy the world, a Builder with the power to create things is a major hindrance - protagonist of Dragon Quest Builders 2, a Builder, was captured by the Hargon Order and thrown into jail - previous update introduced a boy named Malroth, who has the same name as the God of Destruction Malroth - Weekly Jump teases that there seems to be some sort of secret surrounding him

You can point the finger at all sorts of participants in this battle, but I believe (and we have been examining and discussing at length on this site for more than 8 years now) the principal drivers of the polarization are coming more from: (1) the corporate energy interests who are protecting their profits against regulation and other policies that would move the system away from fossil fuels, and using their clout in the political process to tie things up; (2) right - wing anti-government and anti-regulatory ideologues whose political views appear threatened by scientific conclusions that point toward a need for stronger policy action; (3) people whose religious or cultural identities appear threatened by modern science; and so forth.

For example, «that there's no real reasonable religious entitlement to only be educated in the company of people who share your religious beliefs, and that sort of objective wouldn't outweigh the equality entitlement of LGBTQ people to have access to legal practice.