Sentences with phrase «upon religion»

There's not much point to having a moral foundation based upon religion if it does not make you more moral in your actual life.

There is the effect of a man's personal experience of life upon his religion.

The law is not based upon religion, but rather upon coverage.

Every dictator which includes Stalin, Hitler, Lenin, etc.... held no particular religious belief, but instead looked upon religion as the «opiate of the people».

Maybe in 100 years it will be dead and the world can look upon religion as a bronzian age story and nothing more.

[Atheism is dependent upon religion in order to exist.]

We can now live at peace, no longer subjecting ourselves to the ways of death and violence founded upon religion, but instead follow Jesus by faith into the ways of love and grace.

Modern Christianity is apt to look back upon the religion of Puritan days as joyless; yet as we have earlier suggested it may be questioned whether there is not a greater lack of joy in modern religion, with so many of its exponents tied up in nervous knots.

With all the RCC's riches being horded and their hierarchies living in lives of humble luxuries, I'm sorry but I can not rightly commend such religious liars who would rather pilfer and lay sieges upon the emotionally despondent and financially poor... Give all that you have obtained by years of pilferage and give it back to your flocking poor oh pabulum pope... Only then will Christ Jesus find mercies upon your religion's unholiest vespers...

As James Barr warned 20 years ago, «Fundamentalism as a movement will last a long time and will constitute a powerful influence upon religion and society for many decades to come.»

New ground, not really covered by either historians or theologians previously, was broken when sociologists of religion asked about the influence of societal factors upon religion.

Probably no sacred book has been more influential, not alone upon the religion derived from it, but upon the total culture of the people who embrace the faith, than the Koran.

This objection to indirect aid is hard to square with the array of unchallenged benefits that are bestowed upon religion indirectly by Washington and every other state» starting with protection from crime and fire.

We condemn all forms of racism, anti-Semitism, anti-Christianism and Islamophobia and we call upon the religions to assume their responsibility to promote dialogue between cultures and civilizations in our region and in the entire world.

It's simple as this, Rick Santorum appeals to the less educated, extremely conservative and more bigot minded segment of rural America, which is largely dominated by Born again evangelicals, who as the article points out have a misguided view that that Mormons aren't Christian, and in their misguided bigotry seem to be voting against Romney based upon their religion rather than for a good candidate who can win the general election.

Overall, there is much corruption and politics that is part of many religions, not to mention all the wars, including some current ones, that if not soley based upon religion intolerance, certainly fueled by it.

Furthermore, the council was entitled to conclude that it would be wrong to allow registrars to decide whether and if so which obligations they should carry out depending upon their religion, as this would convey the wrong message to staff about the council's commitment to equality.

And the attacks upon religion and religious people by CNN opinion writers ramps up again.

Helpless to grow our own food — mechanization has destroyed the family farm, and we live mostly uprooted in cities and suburbs we are dependent upon the religion that threatens our faith.

They look upon religion as an essentially human enterprise — an attempt by men to fathom mysteries that by their very nature are too deep to be comprehended in any one viewpoint.

You can not abridge the rights of people in this nation based upon their religion.

It is a complete distortion if this often - quoted passage is taken as some sort of vulgar atheism or as a rejection of religion per se, or even as an attack upon religion.

The culture calls upon its religious institutions to bless the status quo and upon religion's educational institutions to nurture persons into acceptance of it.

Bishop Paulose says that it would be a complete distortion if this oft - quoted passage from Marx is taken as some sort of vulgar atheism or as a rejection of religion per se or even as an attack upon religion.

Thus, whether you are Christian or Druid, Jewish or Pagan, Muslim or Wiccan, you are still entitled to be free from discrimination based upon your religion.

@gnasher729 This would be true, e.g., in India and Israel, which apply different family law regimes based upon religion, but not in Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Afghanistan where Sharia law has constitutional status.