Sentences with phrase «support religious practice»

As established, culturally supported religious practices and traditional communities have weakened, many people feel the need for some way of dealing with their inner stress and emptiness.

Not exact matches

It also means that morality provisions can not prevent employees from supporting a political party or practicing a specific religion, for example (although some employers, such as denominational school boards, have argued successfully that their religious beliefs allow them to hold employees to a different moral standards).

That's what this concert is, and it has no more military support than all those other religious practices being performed on the base every day.

There is much that could be said about this, but I will stick with one thing, based on discussion at about the 2 minute mark: When atheists insist that atheism does not drive behavior, and then then campaign on behalf of atheism, ridicule religion and religious believers in the name of atheism, seek to change laws in favor of their atheistic positions, recommend the extermination of religion, and practice falsehoods like Dawkins's in support of atheism, they prove that their atheism drives their behavior and that their premise is false, disingenuous, and (as far as I can tell) useless for anything but giving atheism rhetorical cover from being implicated in atheists» atrocities.

Sometimes written requests are hung by the side of the sepulchre, and some extreme devotees offer prostration at the grave — and religious authority is not wanting to support such practices.

In fact, I see the decision as a victory for religious freedom in the sense that people whose religion supports and encourages same - sex unions will no longer be prohibited from practicing that important religious value simply because some of their neighbors hold a different view.

There is no rejection of desire or passion or sexuality or the eros of the beautiful in the New Testament, though there are expressions and tendencies which could be used to support ascetic tendencies in later religious practice.

For the institutional forms, often supported by non-theological factors, which have favoured an almost unquestioning popular religious practice, are losing much of their inner force.

If it is so easy to ignore a major and substantial religious practice repeatedly uplifted, enshrined and required by the Torah and by all the scripture that follows, why is it so hard to let go of two verses that have substantially less biblical mention and support and no contemporary justification?

The irony of ID / creationist attempts to invoke science to (erroneously) support their purely religious views is that they require the practice of science to be fundamentally flawed (evidenced in the repeated cases wherein ID / creationism proponents argue for a redefining of «science» to include untestable propositions).

The rules are different, because Iran is nothing like a democracy (and for other reasons), but the motivation for this religious attack is to shore up political support, not to practice Islam.

Unfortunately, contemporary culture presents us — all too insistently — with issues which require a determined biblical and theological response: the continuation of the abortion regime; the intensifying pressure to acknowledge the legitimacy of same - sex «marriage»; the attacks on the religious liberty of Christians, forcing them to support practices offensive to their faith; and, most recently, «assisted suicide» now masquerading under the name «the right to die with dignity.»

The word «Pagan» (which can translate as «common» or «provincial») was originally used (in the religious sense) to refer to the practices of peasents or commoners that were not supported by the early catholic church.

The report of the NCC mission reliably parroted the position of Israel's neighboring enemies while omitting any mention of, inter alia, the anti-Semitic hatred daily spewed by the Arab media, official Arab support for Palestinian suicide bombers, Muslim prohibition of Christian (and, needless to say, Jewish) religious practice, and the conspicuous absence of democracy or freedom of expression in all the countries of the region except Israel.

The bill, which garnered strong bipartisan support, is also expected to pass the Senate, and would address what its sponsors consider a discriminatory practice that keeps federal disaster money from religious groups.

Thus George concludes that «government may never legitimately coerce religious belief; nor may it require religious observance or practice; nor may it forbid them for religious reasons,» although it may legitimately «encourage and support religious reflection, faith, and practice.»

A strong majority of Muslims in Arab countries, even in Saudi Arabia, supported the right for religious minorities to practice their faith.

The study of the physiology of the brain during meditation is seen not as a threat but as a support for religious practice.

«Although it's stepping away from the position Jalna has held since 2015 — of consistency in its support across all religious certification — we feel that the public response has warranted reconsideration of this position as an interim measure, whilst we await the full outcome of the Senate Inquiry into transparent religious certification practices and management,» the statement said.

It has been an annual practice for some time now that the Regional Minister presents items and cash to the senior Muslim clerics in support of Salla celebrations but partisan and vindictive politics has obviously been replaced our religious rights and norms in this circumstance.

Every person is forbidden to intentionally tell, suggest or ask for supports in public to interpret the teachings of the religions, which exist in Indonesia or to perform religious practices similar to those religions, which deviate the mainstream teachings and practices of the religions.

When asked about the design of a school voucher program, 85 percent of Americans support allowing parents using vouchers to choose both religious and nonreligious private schools, a practice the U.S. Supreme Court upheld in 2002.

No, I expect the anti-Blaine groups to continue looking for a case with facts supporting their point of view — that is, a case involving an application of a Blaine Amendment in a way that appears to discriminate against a particular religious tradition, denomination or practice.

(e) Notwithstanding any other provision of this title, (1) it shall not be an unlawful employment practice for an employer to hire and employ employees, for an employment agency to classify, or refer for employment any individual, for a labor organization to classify its membership or to classify or refer for employment any individual, or for an employer, labor organization, or joint labor - management committee controlling apprenticeship or other training or retraining programs to admit or employ any individual in any such program, on the basis of his religion, sex, or national origin in those certain instances where religion, sex, or national origin is a bona fide occupational qualification reasonably necessary to the normal operation of that particular business or enterprise, and (2) it shall not be an unlawful employment practice for a school, college, university, or other educational institution or institution of learning to hire and employ employees of a particular religion if such school, college, university, or other educational institution or institution of learning is, in whole or in substantial part, owned, supported, controlled, or managed by a particular religion or by a particular religious corporation, association, or society, or if the curriculum of such school, college, university, or other educational institution or institution of learning is directed toward the propagation of a particular religion.

While the applicants in this case hadn't yet been subjected to such a fear, the Court found no support in these provisions for the requirement that one should abstain from a religious practice in order to avoid such a fear.