Because the program is neutral
with regards to religion and, as the trial court found, has the secular purpose of expanding educational opportunity, there is no constitutional violation.
They lead to discrimination and segregation — and it is an imposition on basic rights that families have to privacy and to choose how they wish to live
with regards to religion.
I would caution against «throwing the baby out with the bath water»
with regards to religion.
They believe that God does not exist, so in a way, it is still a «religious belief» because it is a belief or way of thinking
with regards to religion or God.
I have read a lot of CNN stories they are always unbiased
with regard to religion.
«13 But we can not follow him when he continues: «
with regard to religions, the question is not of truth or falsehood but life or death.
With regard to religion, it is helpful to recall that this phenomenon we call «American religious liberty» has always been made up of two general areas: establishment and free exercise.
By giving a Jewish religious display «equal time» with a Christian one, Pittsburgh was showing the very «neutrality
with regard to all religions» that the First Amendment was enacted to guarantee.
Did you feel the author was advocating a particular point of view
with regard to religion and abortion.
Miner was raised in Jackson, Mississippi, and his videos address the impact of his upbringing
with regard to religion, race, family, and sexuality.
Christopher Miner is a video artist whose work addresses the impact of his upbringing
with regard to religion, race, family, and sexuality.
Not exact matches
Established in 1948
with a mission
to improve the health and lives of people affected by poverty or emergencies, Direct Relief delivers lifesaving medical resources throughout the world — without
regard to politics,
religion, ethnic identities, or ability
to pay.
The ignorance bred by
religion regarding what human beings as containing a ghost in the machine led the way for the misconceptions believed by communists
regarding human beings as blank slates, since both
religion and communists envisioned human beings in this flawed conceptual manner, denying the evolved components of the brain and the innate nature we are born
with due
to our genetic make up.
Totally unfamiliar
with what you are trying
to say as
regards text, but witch hunting was not a true Christian pursuit, again evil non believers using
religion to justify their evil intents.
This, however, forces a question, and not one without some controversy: If
religion was so central
to the thought of Irving Kristol, then is this equally the case
regarding the political persuasion
with which he is so intimately associated?
«But if we affirm Jesus» deity, don't we give up the open - endedness
with regard to other
religions?
Since Vic and Theo keep blathering about their sky fairy, their supposed «creator» of the universe, it is now appropriate
to point out that the foundation of their
religion is complete nonsense, along
with other issues
regarding their sicko bigoted, se.xist supersti.tion known as Christianity:
The main concern was
with regard to theologian's attitude toward other
religions and this was deeply challenged by the History of Religions
religions and this was deeply challenged by the History of
Religions Religions research.
Both Marxism and Whitehead take a dialectical approach
to religion with regard to its relation
to society.
Mr. Nixon told the press that he had established these services in order
to further the cause of «
religion,»
with particular
regard to the youth of the nation.
At least this is true
with regards to the desert
religions of Abraham.
Historically, there has been a controversial relationship between boxing and
religion, both
with regard to the nature of the sport itself and the seeming contradictions between the religious convictions and the personal lives of the pugilists.
241) In contrast
to the customary view that it is monotheism which is the contribution of Judaism
to the
religions of the world, Buber
regards the dialogue
with God as the centre and significance of the Jewish
religion.
With regard to a comparison between Whitehead's and Collingwood's views on the relation metaphysics -
religion, I wish
to refer
to SCT par.
Suffice it
to say
with regard to the special topic of this paper that certain requirements for teaching the history of
religions to - day follow from the brief analysis of the situation which we have essayed here.
He then persuasively explains why,
with regard to Vatican II's teaching on non-Christian
religions and religious liberty.
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.»
Ordinarily one would not
regard the great national epics as scriptures though, in the case of the Iliad and the Odyssey, they come close
to forming at least an equivalent of scripture for the Greek people, and
to students of Greek
religion they provide a rich mine of material
with reference
to the gods of classical Greek
religion.
That character, it seems
to me, should be
regarded as the practically important differentia of
religion for our purpose; and just what it is can easily be brought out by comparing the mind of an abstractly conceived Christian
with that of a moralist similarly conceived.
That God's love, manifest in diverse ways throughout the duration of the universe, might come
to a full and unsurpassable self - expression in an individual human being who lived and died in the Middle East almost two thousand years ago does not seem incongruous
with what we now understand about the nature of an evolving universe, especially if we
regard religion as a phenomenon emergent from the universe rather than just something done on the earth by cosmically homeless human subjects.
The feminist exegetes give equally short shrift
to pious Judaism; in a commentary on the Book of Genesis, Amherst College
religion professor Susan Niditch dismisses the culture of the ancient Hebrews as one «in which powerful women are
regarded with suspicion as unnatural and evil» (actually, the women in Genesis seem quite the opposite, inspiring quite a bit of respect from their menfolk).
Neither Christianity nor Judaism is actually a «
religion of the Book» — both
regard scripture as a secondary witness
to something infinitely greater, namely, the presence of God
with his people.
In an earlier article I noted that in India, any discussion about baptism and conversion takes on «added significance because of the understanding that after baptism the «converted» person has not only changed his or her
religion but also social milieu, habits, customs, and manners, in addition
to forfeiting several legal rights, especially
with regard to the inheritance of property.
We all know that sheer didacticism is nowadays
regarded with suspicion in secular educational circles; and there is no need
to introduce it into our schools of
religion.
So anarchy is what you would be almost guaranteed
to encounter — were
religion actually put above the secular laws we can all follow without
regards to our personal interpretations of «holy words»... do you see where I'm going
with this?
Both points of view are opposing BELIEFS
with regards to the same thing, God /
religion.
This holiness
religion is intensely self -
regarding both
with respect
to the individual Christian and
with respect
to the Christian community.
The evolution of the schools of thought surrounding
religion are similar
to those
regarding ever other idea mankind has come up
with.
With regard to Protestant Christian ministry, that might make sense when Protestant Christianity is the nation's established
religion; but in twentieth - century America it is not.
The second possible position
with regard to science and
religion is
to identify them more or less completely by seeing the evolving universe as driven by a single energy which runs through and builds into everything that we call matter and everything that we call spirit.
The real struggle in all religious communities is for spiritual reformation opening themselves
to enter into dialogue
with other
religions and
with secular humanist ideologies
regarding the nature and rights of the human person and the meaning of social justice enabling
to build together a new spiritually - oriented humanism and a more humane society.
When theologians adopt the evolutionary point of view, Metz thinks, their work can be «
regarded,
with different degrees of explicitness, as meta - theories
with respect
to religion and theology.
«The Gospels reveal everything that human beings need
to understand their moral responsibility
with regard to the whole spectrum of violence in human history and
to all the false
religions» (I See Satan Fall Like Lightning, 125).
In this
regard the contrast between Japan and the United States may be especially instructive since in Japan in the recent past and
to a certain extent even today there seems
to have survived a civil
religion of archaic type (involving a fusion of divinity, society, and the individual), whereas the United States has a civil
religion of distinctly modern type (
with a high degree of differentiation between divinity, society, and the individual).4
This consists of an effort
to discern the meanings of the data furnished by the history of
religions,
to locate these different meanings in their proper relationships, and finally also
to place various
religions in their reciprocal positions
with regard to each other.
But the
religion itself is against all other
religions and peoples, so the point must be made in
regards to each person's view rather than painting all criticism
with the same brush.
A
religion which can lend itself
to such excesses as Christianity has experienced in this
regard can not speak
with the voice of God.»
So Martin - Achard concludes: «the people of Yahweh found the concept of resurrection in Canaan; but for a long time this formed part of a realm over against which Yahweh stood in His sovereign will, so that,
with regard to resurrection, the
religion of the Canaanites played a negative part, by obliging the Israelites
to make their stand against it; it had, nevertheless, a sort of indirect action, in making possible a sort of purification of this belief, which, in another age and within another context, received a new content.
Perhaps the Anglican Church had everything except
religion,
with regard to which it offered only a socially useful simulacrum.
It is also worth noting that as head of the CDF in 1990 Cardinal Ratzinger saw the description of the lowest authoritative level of the magisterium found in The Ecclesid Role of the Theologian (e.g. n. 24: «It often only becomes possible
with the passage of time
to distinguish between what is necessary and what is contingent») as «probably» applying
to «the pontificalstatements of the last century
regarding freedom of
religion and the anti-Modernists decisions of the beginning of this century.»