Sentences with phrase «such religious community»

I am not loyal to any such religious community.

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Such a new ecclesiastical body is designed to allow these pathetic human beings, who are so deeply locked into a world that no longer exists, to form a community in which they can continue to hate gay people, distort gay people with their hopeless rhetoric and to be part of a religious fellowship in which they can continue to feel justified in their homophobic prejudices for the rest of their tortured lives.

«No other religious community is faced with such hatred, violence and aggression as is the Christian community.»

The connection between religious passion and sexual passion is all too obvious — Jimmy Swaggart and Ted Haggard being examples in evangelical circles (other communities have their own object lessons), and Byassee's solution (if such it is meant to be) is perhaps too subtle.

In such a fashion the city persisted as a religious community under an Arab Muslim domination more welcome and more tolerant than that of Byzantium.»

When you are in such a community, all this religious bickering is just background noise.

It is this false claim made by so many, particularly in more fundamental religious communities, that is being challenged by this simple illustration of the logical fallacy of such a view.

«As America and the global community tackles the rising restrictions on religious freedom worldwide while working to ensure that religious minorities remain in such places as the Middle East, particularly the Nineveh Plain, we will need the imagination and inspiration of Sam Brownback,» he said.

The code of laws provides the regulations which create the proper relations between man and God, such as saying prayers, fasting, and other religious duties; they guide man in his relations with his brother in Islam or the non-Muslim community, in organizing the structure of the family and encouraging reciprocal affection; they lead man to an understanding of his place in the universe, encouraging research into the nature of man and animals and guiding man in the use of the benefits of the natural world.

The individual and the community are both essential components of an irreducible dialectic, and maintaining the integrity of such dialectics, as Ziegler so faithfully communicates, is for Soloveitchik a fundamental necessity for genuine religious experience.

To the Christian, such an atheistic approach to human nature is essentially inhuman, since men do not exist without a fundamental religious vocation any more than they exist in this life without physical needs, individuality or communities, all aspects of the human condition eagerly studied by social scientists.

Could it not also be looked on in another way, that religion has caused Sophia to hate herself through the indoctrination and be encouraging women to escape and find freedom from such religion to a place of healing from self hatred and community that is more healthy than the opressive religious forces that are depicted in the picture.

Religious activist groups such as the Sojourners Community are tiny, as are the denominational peace fellowships.

This felt contrast between solitariness and community is the empirical datum which underlies the multitude of religious symbols, such as creation, incarnation, resurrection, nirvana, samsara, moksha, tao, wu - wei, t» ien, each of them, in their wide variety of forms and connotations, pointing to some aspect of organic life together.

Religious leaders must maintain the doctrines of the community, it is suggested, so long as such doctrines do not get in the way of the truth.

One that was based on a survey of mainline church members, for example, suggested that identification with the local community served as an important plausibility structure for traditional religious tenets.13 Furthermore, those who made such localistic identifications were considerably more likely than «cosmopolitans» to espouse traditional religious beliefs (controlling for a variety of other factors) and to allow these beliefs to influence their thinking on racial and social questions as well.

Religious institutions may be caught in the middle of such changes: pro-Western religious orientations may suddenly become unpopular because of changes in trading alliances, peasants may turn to millenarian or folk religions to revitalize economically threatened communities, communist or nationalist movements among oppressed urban workers may strike out at traditional religious organizations, anReligious institutions may be caught in the middle of such changes: pro-Western religious orientations may suddenly become unpopular because of changes in trading alliances, peasants may turn to millenarian or folk religions to revitalize economically threatened communities, communist or nationalist movements among oppressed urban workers may strike out at traditional religious organizations, anreligious orientations may suddenly become unpopular because of changes in trading alliances, peasants may turn to millenarian or folk religions to revitalize economically threatened communities, communist or nationalist movements among oppressed urban workers may strike out at traditional religious organizations, anreligious organizations, and so on.7

«The International Association of Genocide Scholars, over 200 members of Congress, and over 70 human rights experts and organizations, spanning the nation's religious and political spectrum, have raised their voices that the treatment of these communities by ISIS meets even the strictest definition of genocide under international law, and must be treated as such,» said Kirsten Evans, executive director of In Defense of Christians (IDC).

The American polity is, instead, «an association of such communities», and this is at the heart of the constitutional guarantee of religious freedom.

While in some religious communities only men may be religious functionaries, in others this role is reserved for women, and in still others both sexes are eligible for such service.

As such, it will require of us new understandings of religious community and new holistic forms of Christian education.

The vicious circle established between the claim and the demonstration of its validity on such grounds has been the curse of many a religious tradition in many a religious community.

Such attempts at saying things that every religious community can agree upon are about as useful to a serious Christian or a serious Buddhist as a pacifier is to anyone over the age of four.

One important reason has to do with the prominence in such settings of the judgment that the term «interreligious dialogue» labels the only proper mode for intercourse among religious communities.

It is hard to see how such communities can flourish without a religious dimension, and in traditionally Christian lands, that means a Christian one.

The fact is though, the religious community would be the most up in arms about such a change if one were seriously considered.

When it comes to religious communities such as church it comes down to a matter of priority.

A break in one connection, such as attachment to a stable community, puts pressure on other connections: marriage, the relationship between parents and children, religious affiliation, a feeling of connection with the past, even citizenship, that sense of membership in a large community which grows best when it is grounded in membership in a small one.

It's amazing to me that these simple billboards which are just there to let other unbelievers know that they are not alone in these very religious communities, are causing such a ruckus.

In a few instances, the conflict actually splits religious communities, as in the Southern Baptist case, or threatens such division, as among Catholics.

Any such vision will need to draw both upon classical politico - religious conceptions and upon religious insights preserved in the traditioned communities concerned, while responding to the new challenges which beset humanity on this planet.

In fact, in America the Catholic Church, along with other churches and religious communities, does enjoy favor and patronage in many important ways; none of them enjoys such favor and patronage exclusively, nor should that be the case.

Perhaps, such information can start as a very useful first stepping - stone in a more meaningful engagement with the scientific community, many of whom are people of religious beliefs.

«Instead of exploring creative ways sport might serve true religious purposes such as spiritual growth and enrichment, the Christian community has seized on sport as a tool of status enhancement, advertising, and evangelism,» he says.

The adoption of such a constitutional amendment would be an act of repression for a large part of the community, and would actually go against the moral and religious convictions of most Protestants and Jews and many Catholics.

Ms. Harvey does raise important questions about those in a PVS, but I suspect that such questions ultimately can be answered only by the patient's family in a context of care and support provided by the medical and religious communities in a counter-balancing role for one another, thus preventing hasty or self - serving decisions.

These new developments compel the attention of the American religious community, for they are now affecting millions of workers, their families and their communities in the form of massive plant closures, huge movements of industrial capital overseas and a downshifting of the work force into lower - paying and more menial jobs — when such jobs can be found.

From the point of view of the national community, still largely religious in its self - consciousness, such elaboration was public even though lacking in any legal status.

But such freedom for variation and intensive community is one thing; compulsory segregation in public places for civil, educational, or religious activity, again, is quite another matter.

From the perspective of Islamic law, individuals such as Meriam or al - Gohari who are born Muslims can never legally enter into another religious community.

Such rites can be observed in many religious traditions and they are also present in the Old Testament, the Qumran community, Jewish baptismal sects and Judaism in general.

Within such churches and religious community, the «you are unworthy of god's love but he love you anyway if you will grovel enough but you are never going to grovel enough to please him etc etc etc actually get's casts as «God = I, we, the church.

We have already noted earlier that when compared with the commonly accepted religious practices of the day, the Christian community of faith took on an everyday, almost secular appearance, not unlike such a contemporary movement as the Rotarians.

For example, such things as life adjustment counseling; community social action; marriage and family life education and counseling; social, religious, and therapeutic group experiences; and the after - care of patients by means of a supporting, redemptive fellowship contribute to positive mental health.

Such a program will be of mutual benefit to the local churches and the mental health center in a local community, for it will mobilize the clergy and the resources of the religious community in a creative partnership of community service and improved health.

Nations such as India have grown increasingly aware of the dynamics of slavery, and local religious communities utilize local channels to raise awareness and provide protection for women and children.

However, chaplains with clinical training tend to define the bulk of their work in nontraditional areas such as pastoral visitation to patients, counseling patients, teaching in in - service programs, developing liaison with the community, conducting clergy training, performing administrative work, teaching religious classes, participating in research, working with volunteers, counseling employees, and doing religious group work.

Such consultation may occur at many levels: consultation to pastors concerning problem clients with whom they are working; consultation to a pastor and the church administration regarding human relation problems in the congregation; consultation to groups or programs in a congregation that are designed to assist people in the church; consultation to a local, regional, or denominational administration in regard to evaluation of religious candidates, human relations problems in the administration, or denominational programming related to mental health issues; consultation to a group of churches who sponsor a joint community program.

By using financial intermediaries such as revolving community loan funds, many religious orders, judicatories and local congregations can provide below - market loan capital that helps to make marginal projects viable.

He had to explain to his father, somewhat tortuously, that though he rejected the obligation as such, he chose of his own free will, for the moment at any rate, to remain in the habit, in the religious community, and his father had to accept this as God's will.