Sentences with phrase «while secular people»

Similarly, religious people volunteer an average of 12 times per year, while secular people volunteer an average of 5.8 times.

Not exact matches

While many other people have referred to this period as the «new normal» or «secular stagnation», I've referred to it as the «Great Normalization».

While the modern secular person dismisses Being altogether, the modern religious person meets Being only on consecrated ground: it is all deafness to Being, one way or the other.

What we meant to model was the sending of one of our number to be a foreign missionary — to learn a new language, to understand a local culture, to sacrifice the amenities of affluence and to live knowing that he or she is always being watched by seekers — while the rest of us stay here as lifetime local missionaries, learning to speak the language of the unchurched, understanding secular culture, sacrificing the amenities of affluence and living as a «watched» person in a society that is skeptical of Christian spirituality until it sees the real thing on display.

It is so because first - rate art makes imagined people, in all their ordinariness, real and therefore mysterious and transcendent, while our secular wisdom tends to make real people seem shallow and artificial.

While we do not think the solutions to the three points raised in the ad are as simple as those proposed, we are encouraged that prominent evangelicals are joining the discussion, acknowledging that religious people have something to say to secular decision - makers.

Never mind that Mother Theresa is a hero and inspiration to millions of people both secular and religious while the PRC killed millions of people both secular and religious (est. 65 mil.

The former alliance between faith and reason was dissolved as more and more people began to assume that faith is «religious» while reason is «secular.»

Religions are about truth absolute GOD, and hindu gay ism, hind love ism is by persons hindu secular ism, self center ism, denial of truth absolute GOD, no need to label yourself to be of truth absolute GOD, while one is a hindu gay, ignorant hind lover in defiance of truth absolute GOD.

/ speculation As this vote only affected civil weddings, a Muslim could still believe that Muslims should only marry people of the opposite gender in a Muslim wedding, while voting in favour of marriage equality for secular weddings.

I grew up in a suburban reform Jewish household, and while I am not at all a religious person - I take a resolutely secular approach to ethics - I believe that my values were significantly influenced by those of my religion, my family, and my country.

These new works will address what spirituality means to people today, particularly in the increasingly secular times we are living through, while the wider exhibition considers the role played by certain spiritualist and alternative doctrines in the creation of abstract painting from its origins to the present digital age.

There are lots of people out there with illiberal secular and gender equality - based worldviews that object to the niqab on the basis of a political philosophy that (while you and I don't agree with that philosophy) has nothing to do with specific animus towards Islam.

But I think that secular people need to understand that it is perfectly possible to love a person while at the same time recognizing that their behaviour is sinful.

For instance, while many people used to get pre-marital counseling from their religious leader, now it is just as common to get it from a secular or non-affiliated counselor.