Sentences with phrase «symbols of religion»

If only Americans were open - minded enough to have symbols of religion in public classrooms.

Having symbols of a religion are not an active imposition, they are a proposition, that a person is free to believe in, ignore or reject, as is the case.

Pastafarians across North America are protesting this en masse today by hanging symbols of their religion on shelves in grocery stores near condos everywhere.

If you are going to go ahead and include symbols of every religion, then what's the point?

More so we don't like being alienated by being surrounded by symbols of a religion we don't believe in.

There's a lot of atheists on this board showing their true colors with comments like: «Why not include symbols of every religion?»

The use of instruments and symbols of religion tend to strengthen the dependency aspect of a counseling relationship by stirring up childhood feelings.

Every day, especially in Europe, churches and cemeteries are desecrated; blasphemy pretends to be an art for the general public; activists like Femen attack symbols of religion, and the media rarely miss an opportunity to belittle Christians and the Catholic Church.

They should have stressed that if a cross is to be included, a symbol of all religions should be.

If the cross «must» stay, then we * must * have a crescent and star, a Star of David, an atheist «A» symbol, and the symbols of the religions of * everyone * who perished on that day.

However, it would seem hypocritical if they didn't include symbols of all religions.

He specifically had a symbol of religion built and put in a place of honor at a government facility, and the context of it being a list of laws from religious doctrine at a place where the law is created, upheld and enforced, certainly made the matter crystal clear.

Christians have used the cross for centuries as the symbol of their religion.

Why don't they just include the religious symbols of ALL the religions affected?

Rather, she realized over time that the central symbol of her religion was a crucified man, a realization we can see form over the course of «Ash Wednesday.»

Gee, Dave, why are you so against having religious symbols of all religions represented?

It DOES exist though and it IS a symbol of religion, even if we don't accept the validity of the religion.

«Since you don't believe in religion, then you don't recognize the symbol of a religion...» No, I recognize the symbol of a religion if I believe in the symbol's validity or cosmic significance or not.

As for the athiest victims, they didn't have a symbol of religion or lack of religion so there is no need to display anything for them, other than the memorial site with the names carved in.

Judge Santiarto said: «As part of a religious society, the defendant should be careful to not use words with negative connotations regarding the symbols of religions including the religion of the defendant himself.»

Do you realize that the symbol of your religion is a guy being impaled?

Because with your thinking we should let the muslim's put their star and crescent symbol of their religion all up and down the roads... then you christians and muslims can fight to see who can just infest public land with «your» symbols.

This woman has every right to post any symbol of any religion on her door.

This story of a Japanese woodcarver tells us, Christian artists and theologians in Asia, that we can not trifle with images and symbols of religions, be they of Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism or primal religions.

Based on this, it is natural to question the reason why a large amount of people in the western world consider the «veil» a symbol of oppression when it is worn by Muslim women, but a symbol of religion and faith when it is worn by a nun.

It would be very difficult, in some cases illegal, for an employer to permit the display of symbols of some religions but not others, so a general ban is understandable.

Not exact matches

And just what is the root of most of the violence and chaos today... RELIGION... backward thinking people with bronze age gods and symbols.

The people that died are of MANY religions so there should be no religious symbol.

It could contain the symbols of there Religions and maby a few statues.Like a Buddha Statue and a Statue of the Divine Lord Krishna.

It has NOTHING to do with Santa and Religion, it has everything to do with the fact that JWs do not celebrate ANY holidays including, Christmas, Easter, Thanksgiving, Memorial Day or their own birthdays - it is part of their religion and they should not be forced to wear ANY symbol of ANY holiday whether secular or religious.

If other organizations or religions wanted to be included, they could create a law suit to add symbols of their organization / religion.

I feel it should stay, even though it is not for all religions or non-religious, it is a symbol of things bigger than Christianity.

The cross is inappropriate since it is the symbol of one religion to the exclusion of all others.

Fundamentalism uses the culture, rituals, sacraments, texts, language, and metaphors and allusions and symbols (verbal, visual, musical, etc.) of religion in blind adherence to a dogma as defined and interpreted by a person or group who is self - aggregating and self - justifying raw personal power for the sole purpose of controlling the lives of others.

as far as the cross at the twin tower site, just place the religious symbol of all whom died there and we can call it fair, until then it is endorsing one religion over the others.

Just because there were (likely) more «Christians» than followers of other religions, doesn't give them the right to display any symbol in a more prominent fashion than those of the religions of any other person that died in that event.

Nope, entirely in favor of the cross and any other religion symbols that want to be thrown up in this scenario.

13:11) For Paul, as for the more mystical religions, the day - night division is a symbol of spiritual transformation.

With Gandhi formulating the political ethic of satyagraha as an application of Jesus» Sermon on the Mount and Tagore interpreting the Cross as the symbol of God's identification with suffering humanity, there was also the growing awareness that not only western humanism but also the religion of Christianity would get creativity and stability only by planting them in the Indian cultural soil and allowing it to put down roots in it.

The former would tend to minimize the centrality of the historical Jesus in the religion named after him and would turn Christianity into a mere symbol.

38 C. G. Jung has found from his lifelong work with peoples of both sexes and of different religions and cultures that at the level of what he calls the collective unconscious are invariable archetypal symbols: the feminine symbol and the child symbol.

Wilson said RFRA works best in clear cases of laws that clash with religion, such as laws that ban steel wheels on Amish buggies or bans on religious symbols at cemeteries.

It is scarcely questionable, however, that this symbol originally pointed to the final consummation of a dynamic process of the transcendent's becoming immanent: of a distant, a majestic, and a sovereign Lord breaking into time and space in such a way as to transfigure and renew all things whatsoever, thereby abolishing the old cosmos of the original creation, and likewise bringing to an end all that law and religion which had thus far been established in history.

«The defamation of religion, its symbols and teachings is incompatible with Christian values, the teaching of Jesus Christ and the apostles as is demonstrated in the Bible,» the statement continued, «so those who participate in such a production, display or promotion of such a films should be held fully accountable for operating outside of Christian principles and church laws.»

These Christian symbols are drawn from the very depths of nature, for religion itself — I mean Christianity — is supernatural, not unnatural.

But even when thought out, religion is focused in the verbal equivalent of the dance: myth, symbol and metaphor.

I mean why else would kids like that so desperately cling to the symbol of the whole religion while rejecting the organization that betrayed its own foundation?

The Christian faith is the only world religion that takes as its logo an emphatic symbol of death.

They seek a new or renewed vision and turn to the great myths and symbols of the world's religions to find it.

One task of theology in Latin America is to retrieve and refigure the rich symbols evoked by the clouds of powers and principalities dear to popular imagination and religion.