Sentences with phrase «with secular humanists»

Lately from material I have been reading online it seems I am aligned with secular humanists as well.

Nevertheless, stirrings or «preambles» of faith, to which the Synod Propositions refer (see page 21), can provide a basis for the dialogue that the Synod advocates with secular humanists, scientists, and people of other religions.

In this regard, these traditions have more in common with each other than with secular humanists who seek to justify human rights on the basis of reason alone.

In his first encyclical, issued while the Council was still finding its way, Paul VI called for a Church in dialogue with other churches, with other religions, and with secular humanists, but called attention to the virtual impossibility of dialogue with atheistic communism.

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.

Gandhi with his reformed Hinduism and Nehru with his secular humanist belief reinforced the secular idea of politics and state, against the theocratic.

Not exact matches

The term «humanist» was a bad word at that time among evangelicals, and the antagonism would soon intensify with the appearance, in 1980, of Tim LaHaye's bestseller, The Battle for the Mind, which called for an all - out evangelical campaign against «secular humanism.»

Those who are Buddhists will follow one set of laws, secular humanists on, Utilitarians on, Unitarian Universalists one (with a lot of variation), etc. «Atheism» in itself says nothing at all about one's ethical beliefs.

Ever heard of an evolutionary biologist or secular humanist or atheist running into a church with a bomb screaming «Darwin Al Akbah, Darwin Al Akbah».

And I really got ta say «progressive» Christians (two words that should never go together, the Gospel is timeless and therefore can not be progressive) have much more in common with atheists and secular humanists than they do with other actual Christians.

The usual assertions are (1) that this kind of religion is today on the defensive; (2) that the defensive posture is occasioned by the flourishing of «conservative churches» (although the alleged liberal enervation is also seen in more autonomous terms); (3) that the growth in religious conservatism and conservative churches is itself the result of widespread reaction against «secular humanist» values and against those who hold such values; (4) that our society as a whole has been experiencing a breakdown in moral consensus, a loss of moral coherence somehow connected with a decline in oldline Protestant dominance; and (5) that some or all of these happenings have been quite sudden, so that the early 1960s can be taken as a kind of benchmark — as a time before the fall.

The secular and humanist Internet pages would be filled with dire warnings about how this proves the danger of religion.

And it is downright popular to ridicule and defame «secular humanists,» agnostics, atheists, pantheists, etc., marginalizing THEIR beliefs with (false) claims that this is a Christian nation.

As I have already agreed with you, secular humanists (who act like the religious) and militant atheists who profess a categorical belief in the non-existence of God are indistinguishable from the religious.

With the exception of some secular humanist groups, atheists don't have or attend anything remotely resembling churches.

And so do the atheists, non-religious, secular humanists that we share it with.

I consider myself a Secular Humanist with a primary focus of hoping to help in the survival of humanity.

According to Summit, a person who thinks evolution is a legitimate scientific theory, supports regulation of the free market, identifies with left - wing politics, and «seeks to empower the powerless, that is, women, minorities and homosexuals» is a postmodern secular humanist with some Marxist tendencies.

The problem is that secular humanists have their own «communitarianism» - a counter-accommodation, involving different groups, with different stories, sharing a different common ground - and these two communitarianisms are utterly at odds.

Southern Baptists fight Southern Baptists with more passion than either flank fights Muslims or Buddhists or secular humanists.

And if the Indian Constitution begins with affirming the humanist principles of liberty, equality, fraternity and justice it has behind it the impact of liberal and socialist secular ideologies as well as Renascent Hinduism from Raja Rammohan Roy to Gandhi who absorbed these values and made them part of the Renascent Hinduism itself.

A coalition of atheists and secular humanists has placed a billboard on Billy Graham Parkway in Charlotte that displays an American flag with a few key words from the Pledge of Allegiance: «One Nation Indivisible.»

We at the British Humanist Association support a secular state, with equal rights for everyone, regardless of gender, sexual orientation, religion or belief.

«There is a serious defect in the amendment that has been presented to this House, because it would have the consequence - which I think is quite obvious when you look at it - that because of the discriminatory nature of the favour it gives to humanists, as opposed to other secular organisations, that it would have the consequence of making it incompatible with the [European] Convention [on Human] rights,» he said.

In response to this intransigence, later in 2010 we formed the broad - based Equal Love coalition, with support from cross-party MPs, MEPs, trade unions, the National Union of Students and secular, humanist and LGBT religious organisations.

So, whatever persuasion you want Newton to have, go start your web page with your Newton as secular humanist, whatever you need.

Interestingly enough, every time I corner a fanatic with scientific facts which they can not argue or disprove, they either dismiss me as «anti-God» and a «secular humanist» or they start spouting reams of misapplied and irrelevant «scripture» at me, like good little sheeple and like that will in any way, shape or form prove anything... Which just proves to me that common sense and actual reason doesn't come into it.