Sentences with phrase «upon the belief whether»

That law would be form based upon the belief whether you believe that marriage is for growing families, in which case you make divorce difficult or marriage is based on personal happiness where a divorce law would be more relax.

Not exact matches

The use of religious and cultural beliefs to encroach upon sovereign territory for political and militarily strategic placement is the reason, whether it's sanctioned by international policy or not.

Whether we rely upon «hard» poll data, or sales figures of books and periodicals, or an endless stream of anecdotal evidence, Darbyite premillennialism proves to be one of the most resilient and widely held belief systems that has ever gripped the American imagination.

When I reflect on the infinite pains to which the human mind and heart will go in order to protect itself from the full impact of reality, when I recall the mordant analyses of religious belief which stem from the works of Karl Marx and Sigmund Freud and, furthermore, recognize the truth of so much of what these critics of religion have had to say, when I engage in a philosophical critique of the language of theology and am constrained to admit that it is a continual attempt to say what can not properly be said and am thereby led to wonder whether its claim to cognition can possibly be valid — when I ask these questions of myself and others like them (as I can not help asking and, what is more, feel obliged to ask), is not the conclusion forced upon me that my faith is a delusion?

I'll leave it to you to decide whether that is the very definition of bigotry; to believe in the superiority of self based upon beliefs or group membership.

Brothers and sisters, when you have a government that says «we can decide whether or not a house of worship can be constructed based upon the theological beliefs of that house of worship,» then there are going to be Southern Baptist churches in San Francisco and New York and throughout this country who are not going to be able to build.

This has to do with whether or not it's ok for a corporation to not follow the law and infringe upon the rights of its employees with religious belief as their only excuse.

Placher's answer to my question about the relative truth or falsity of religious claims touches upon my comment that current forms of epistemological relativism provide a justification for affirming the truth of beliefs without worrying about whether they are true for more than those who affirm them.

When actors behave unexpectedly and question a prior consensus, their personalities, motivations and belief systems, rather than structural patters or logics of action, might be a better indicators for whether they will act upon their campaign promises.

The general consensus is that beliefs in Neo-Nazi or fascism would not meet this definition but in the situation above, it would still depend upon whether the employee's actual personal «belief» resembled those types of groups.

The FTC notes that the determination of whether a speaker's statement is an endorsement depends upon whether consumers would believe that it represents the endorser's own view or personal belief.