Sentences with phrase «with secular persons»

Postliberal thinkers have to find new ways to connect with the secular people who surround them, Green urges.

Not exact matches

They should try and find an imam with a respect for everyone and a grip on secular society instead of some macho bigot who is going to further polarize people on the issue of the Park51 project.

2) The notion of the U.S. as a «Christian Country» is revisionist history that started during the Cold War (when, for example, «under God» was inserted into the Pledge of Allegiance, where for sixty years prior it had been absent) and continues today with people like Rick Santorum «wanting to vomit» at the notion of a secular nation.

«He was simply asking the question «how do we express ourselves in the 20th century in ways that communicate with people living in the modern world, and a very secular world?»»

People must not debate in «SECULAR» logic to start with, to know if the chains» charity decision was appropriate or not.

This is the whole problem... people who can not decipher fact from fantasy are trying to run a secular world with their mythology and voodoo.

According to the work produced by David B. Barrett's religious statistics organisation (FYI, the man was a Christian no less) atheists number more than Jews, Sikh's, Shintos, Baha'is, Jains, combined, and if you want to consider all «non - religious / secular / agnostic / atheist» together, since the whole «non-religion» movement is kinda riddled with people who find conontations of words like «atheist» to be bad enough to not want to declare themselves atheist, you'll find the number of that non-religious group also amounts more than those religions plus buddhism, and taoism or even Confucianism.

By attempting to subvert our civil rights, you religious people show us that you can not be trusted with secular responsibilities.

Although the people who say something nice are almost always religious and conservative, the people with the quickly furrowed brows are either religious or secular, and I've been surprised to find out how many seriously religious and politically very conservative people dislike homeschooling and jump to tell you so.

What I fail to understand from your posts is this: Why do you choose a secular form like this to confuse people with your theology?

By the way, the Secular West gave you that computer you are typing on: if it had been up to people in Asia, you would still be doing foot - binding, adding with an abacus, all with at least as much cultural and religious arrogance as in the West.

In addition to civil rights for people of color, women and LGBT, there has been an expansion of religious liberty for minority sects, enforcement of viewpoint neutrality with respect to access to various public and non-public forums (e.g. religious student groups must be granted equal access to school facilities as their secular counterparts, etc) greater protections against age and disability discrimination, and recognition of habeas corpus rights even for enemy combatants.

Church - state decisions by the Supreme Court, and by the judiciary more generally, sometimes seem to be aimed at replacing this inconveniently religious people with another people more to its secular fancy.

That is one of the reasons why west decided to take in to becoming religious rather than secular since only with that the tension might be reduced and not be considered as infidels attacking Islamic lands but as people of the scriptures!

By the way, the Secular West gave you that computer you are typing on: if it ahd been up to people in Asia, you would still be doing foot - binding and adding with an abacus.

Far from surrendering to the self - obsessed therapeutic culture Hitchens decries, AA regularly brings thoroughly secular people into an authentic personal relationship with the living God, and most of our meetings even close with a recitation of the Lord's Prayer.

It's a secular song, but someone once sang about love being more than words... Sometimes we Christians try to show care with our words, when we should be caring for people as well.

Keith Broomfield, 36, had been in Syria for four months with the secular Kurdish People's Protection Units.

Why doesn't he get a non secular job and develop relationships with non secular people?

In other words, they intended the U.S. to be a safe haven for people to practice their faith or lack thereof without government interference — as long as the religious didn't interfere with the secular.

True, I had in mind people even more secular than he, who show compassion and do good deeds and work with hope.

Such questions may arise because people confuse the vocation of consecrated virginity with the taking of vows of celibate chastity by religious and the consecration to celibacy of the secular priesthood.

This is a salutary development, since it means that persons with theological training will now be cooperating with secular disciplines in seeking depth understanding of the human psyche.

I would have to say that the people here with a corner on the market of «hate speech, legalism, and self - righteousness» would have to be the secular groups here: the politicians (any flavour), local environmental groups, the local anti-religious groups, public servants who want to squeeze Christians out of community life, and the local media.

Just replace black with gay and you'll understand what is happening when people like you use their religion as a weapon against EQUAL rights in a SECULAR country.

In more than 30 years of pastoring and dealing with pastors, I have observed that often when a public figure, secular or religious, shouts out in anger about or against a particular subject, it's usually a sign of the inner turmoil of the person crying out around that very issue.

It was done with the best of motives, a desire to make the gospel meaningful to the modem person but it resulted in a systematic revision of an Christian categories and, ironically, an almost total failure to reach the secular person for Christ.

But «once bit, twice shy,» the Jewish people have borne enough teethmarks in the past 2,000 years to have become a bit skeptical of those pseudo-messiahs — religious or secular, Marxist or Moonie — who arise with almost monotonous regularity.

Ian Fisher: Private, secular institutions tend to attract people with open minds and a strong sense of inquisitiveness about the way the world works.

Girard starts on the horizontal plane with a secular account of the origin of religion among primitive people.

But I suppose it has to be dealt with in this consultation from the point of view of its relevance and relation to the problems raised by the threat of Religious Communalism to the Secular Democratic character of Indian polity and the democratic struggle of the people for an egalitarian community.

When, blind, religious passion rules the people, they cast aside all norms of justice and the rule of law Politicians of all parties dabble with communal forces and succumbing to their pressures deviate from the path of secular politics.

It has severed the U.S. well with people of different religions and secular thoughts up until now.

Benedict's message was quite simply that the Catholic Church wishes to be partners with all people who are committed to seeking truth, justice, and social progress in the secular realm.

But visit England he did - not in worldly or political triumph (the Spanish Armada tried that approach and failed), not in direct antagonism or opposition (Pope St. Pius V's excommunication of Queen Elizabeth I in 1570 was not exactly the happiest moment in the history of either England or the Catholic Church)- but rather in solidarity with Queen Elizabeth II, the Archbishop of Canterbury, secular leaders, and all English people of good will.

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Then I read some books and talked with some people (like my pastor, Stephen Hammond) and realized that there should be no real division between «sacred» and «secular.»

(Most of the people I associate with in these secular groups are themselves religious, but the group is secular).

Ultimately I fell into a suicidal depression and got helped in a secular environment (I personally have a hard time with the term secular as I believe all the graceful elements of help be they Christian with a cross on the building or secular w / out the cross have as their origin God and His Son and Spirit even working through people unaware of the Author of the graces they extend).

I volunteer with secular programs that allow me to serve people of different backgrounds.

Nothing new with this type of attack by a secular media like you people in CNN.

It weakens, he argues, only those religions that are minimally differentiated from the secular culture, but it actually facilitates the gathering of critical masses of people with distinctive religious views who are motivated to create and maintain strong group ties.

A good understanding of the true foundations of secular society and the nature of the Kingdom of God has been the experience of a few enlightened individuals since the time of Jesus and even before, but with many running to and fro, and knowledge increasing (a reference to Daniel 12:4) we are at a time when more people are coming to «hate the whore and her daughters» (as well as those pimps and johns).

Interwoven with familial, civic, devotional, and secular configurations that are structurally different from the local church, other religious groupings offer alternative patterns of collective reverence and incidentally suggest other ways by which Christianity might conceivably have spread among peoples.

I believe most gay people on this site believe God created them with sex organs and a mind that is contrary to their physical sexual identity... The argument comes when Christian or secular people define normal differently, namely that males can only be males and females can only be females.»

This credo and strategy must be developed in alliance with secular futurists and other persons who are committed to a vision of a planetary brotherhood, living at peace with nature and with God, in which all people have equal access to the material resources of the world.

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.

I do care, however, when religious people try to interfere with secular laws and education.

And a great many people have attacked atheists about them celebrating Christmas, in our secular way, with the pagan traditions that make up most of the Christmas holiday.

Guess always having a «Boogeyman» has been the only modern Secular way to serve controlling masses since with out Bible teachings here to get people follow, they have made this «Boogyman system» since this makes it a security alert measures taken...