Sentences with phrase «strong religious views»

(1) Pew (and others) research polls show that the greatest sector in negative opinions on environmental issues is from conservatives with strong religious views.

Not exact matches

The designers of the Const * itution were brilliant and knew how important it was for future generations to not view their country as one based on Christianity, but as one based simply on freedom, and so they were very careful to put their own religious views aside and make a strong point with separation of church and state.

Again, what Miola calls «a simplistic notion of religious identity» in a muddled age may itself be called simplistic, in view of the formidable arguments brought forward by such «revisionist» historians as Eamon Duffy, who show that traditional Catholicism was strong in the hearts of the people till well on into Elizabeth's reign.

The conditions favorable for belief in miracle reports are several: a strong religious conviction, a vivid imagination, a pre-scientific or non-scientific view of the world, and discontent with the conditions of everyday life as a result of boredom, oppression, or want.

The author believes that Whitehead's thought provides us with an unusual opportunity to examine our religious beliefs by giving us a new view of reality, and concludes that Whitehead offers not only productive insights into the understanding of the nature of God and man, but also strong arguments for both objective and subjective immortality.

From a deeply religious point of view, and in the long run, this manner of handling the inequalities of life results in an increasing impoverishment for both the strong and the weak.

It weakens, he argues, only those religions that are minimally differentiated from the secular culture, but it actually facilitates the gathering of critical masses of people with distinctive religious views who are motivated to create and maintain strong group ties.

David L. Schindler criticizes the liberal view of the human person that he sees encoded into the American project in First Things, to which Richard John Neuhaus responded with a more positive view of our national heritage, in which religious faith and a strong tradition of civic associations moderate the excesses of liberal individualism.

The regional survey's similar «literalist / charismatic» scale also showed a strong correlation between holding such beliefs and viewing religious programs.

Hans Kung suggests that the Enlightenment led to the unprecedented progress of the sciences, a completely new social order and a revaluation of the individual.12 Today the Enlightenment approach is subject to strong criticism, especially from post-modernists, but it helped, for good or ill, to divorce political and economic thinking from a basis in a religious view of life.

Regardless of their religious views, they were all united by a strong belief in secularism — that religious ideologies, etc. should remain separated from government, beauracracy, etc., which public education is a part of.

My dad had a strong religious formation in his youth, and he held firmly Lutheran views on things such as the priesthood of all believers and salvation by grace through faith.

There is, undoubtedly, a strong nexus between theological concepts and politico - religious categories, the latter often viewed as necessarily and inevitably predicated on the former.

The Office of the Communications Minister takes a strong view of the fake religious reportage making rounds intended to ruin the peaceful co-existence between Muslims and Christians.

And given the strong views of the religious figures who sometimes talk in tongues, the film shows the extent to which people will take whatever risks are needed to further their strong beliefs.

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.

These people do not know each other, which leads me to view them as inquisitors (or probably acolytes) of some religious Global Warming cult, armed with good sounding arguments to convince the unbelievers, and when that fails to use stronger methods.

The rise of the religious fundamentalists and the beliefs of the delusionists are very similar; a great deal of anger towards those who see things differently; a great sense of self righteousness; a great desire to impose their views and solutions on others; plus strong belief in limited sources of information which reinforce the preferred world view.