Sentences with phrase «writing about religious»

I'm writing about religious freedom and education again, this time with an increased sense of urgency.

Like many social conservatives, especially Christian ones, I spend a lot of my time reading and writing about religious freedom, especially how it might be affected by the legalization of same - sex marriage and the campaign for «gay rights» more generally.Yet at the same time, I harbor doubts about the position we are staking out.You see, I sometimes think that Justice Scalia's majority opinion in Employment Division v. Smith may have been correct.

I mean, the other thing was when I wrote about the religious stuff I had a very hard time not sounding like one of those evangelists saying send me a dollar.»

In my last post on Double Aspect, I wrote about the religious freedom issues addressed in the Supreme Court's recent decision in Ktunaxa Nation v British Columbia (Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations), 2017 SCC 54, which concerned the constitutionality of a ministerial decision to allow development on land considered sacred by an Aboriginal nation.

Not exact matches

Canadian and Alberta voters need to understand that every time you get annoyed at Justin Trudeau and the way he manages the country all you need to do is listen to the radio and Charles Adler rant about him or read articles by Lorne Gunter and Rick Bell from the Edmonton Sun (who formerly worked at the Alberta Report, and helped Ted Byfield run the Alberta Report into the ditch, or read anything written by Colby Cosh or Ezra Levant and soon you will realize the propaganda and hate these clowns spread about their own political / religious views trying to scare the general population to their side or views.

Every time I get annoyed at Justin Trudeau and the way he manages the country all I do is listen to the radio and Charles Adler rant about him or read articles by Lorne Gunter and Rick Bell from the Edmonton Sun (who formerly worked at the Alberta Report, and helped Ted Byfield run the Alberta Report into the ditch, or read anything written by Colby Cosh or Ezra Levant and soon I realize the propaganda and hate these clowns try and spread about their own political / religious views I revert back to supporting the more liberal viewpoint).

Now, if you want to talk about religious theory, that's a different definition, as religious theory is based on belief and assumption and written statements that can not be verified or proven without having faith and belief.

Seventeen years ago in Psychological Seduction I wrote about the dangers of mixing psychology with religious faith.

From what I little know is that the Greeks and the Romans started their religious philosophies with a «first god» and then wrote about their first god's lineage trees.

Back during the (George W.) Bush Administration, I spent (or rather wasted) some time reading books and articles written by journalists who were suspicious (I hesitate to say paranoid) about those suspicious and paranoid fringe religious kooks (theonomists and theocrats) who threatened to take over....

If you are a non-US writer who has come up with a new religious doctrine and have insufficient funds to promote your writings, the only chance you have is if someone in the US happens to read about you, is interested in what you wrote and has the potential to mention your writing and / or your name in the US mainstream media.

just goes to show — a person can be smart enough to invent the calculus and write lucid books about optics — all the while maintaining delusional religious beliefs.

Fame and honours brought a stream of enquiries about Darwin's religious views, leading him to comment «Half the fools throughout Europe write to ask me the stupidest questions.»

We, and our students, have written not only about God but also about the problem of evil, Christ, the church, Christian education, pastoral counseling, preaching, the nature of human beings, history, liberation and salvation, spirituality, religious diversity, interfaith dialogue, science and religion, and other standard theological topics.

And while these three areas seem to be «religious» topics, I write about them in non-religious ways.

Lerone A. Marti, an assistant professor of American religious history at Eden Theological Seminary in St. Louis, wrote that church folks who stick by unrepentant pastors have a lot to learn about forgiveness and accountability.

Books and articles are still written about the major contributions of particular religious figures such as Jonathan Mayhew, the great Boston Puritan preacher, or the overall contributions of each of the particular denominations from the Baptists to the Roman Catholics.

It seems then, that the only place in the Bible which speaks about the «Holy Writings,» Paul is writing somewhat about the Jewish religious view of the Law, a view in which he was taught and trained (as was Timothy), but which is proved to be untrue in light of the revelation in Jesus Christ.

CNN: My take: «Atheist» isn't a dirty word, congresswoman Chris Stedman, author of «Faitheist: How an Atheist Found Common Ground with the Religious,» writes that when Rep. Kyrsten Sinema's campaign said «the terms non-theist, atheist or non-believer are not befitting of her life's work or personal character» it implied that there is something unfavorable about nonbelievers.

He writes, for example: «The fact that our author can persistently talk about sacrifice as if it meant a joyless, unwilling and hesitant gift shows that not even the faintest spark of religious inspiration can have glowed in his heart» (p26).

And they were able to read it in language written so that anyone, even, as Tyndale wrote, «the boy who driveth the plow,» could understand it.1 The Word became, as Ong says, silent.2 That silence has had profound influence on the way we think about religious language, but it is well to remember that when those translations into the vernacular were made, they were not written down in the language of print.

She speaks and writes about a wide range of topics — from the pro-life movement, to women in the church, to movies and pop culture, to religious philosophy and faith.

It was not to be wondered at that such a religious figure as al - Jahiz should write about singing, wine drinking, and jokes.

The reasoning goes something like this; the truth is written in the bible and we know this because it is written in the bible, of course you could say the same thing about any other religious tome.

E.g., see «What the Bible Says About Death, Afterlife and the Future» at http://clas-pages.uncc.edu/james-tabor/ancient-judaism/death-afterlife-future/ written by James D. Tabor, Chair of the Department of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlott.

But a couple of bona fide scholars — not professors teaching religious studies in universities but scholars nonetheless, and at least one of them with a Ph.D. in the field of New Testament — have taken this position and written about it.

I think a lot of people assume here that her writing this was to foster «atheism» when in reality it was about her surviving and thriving... finding her «own» path within the the highly dogmatic and structured religious organization known as AA.

In an article for the Church Herald, the magazine of the Reformed Church in America, Wes Pippert of United Press International has written: «For the Christian, it may be too much to expect reporters with little knowledge of biblical morality to report incisively or insightfully [about religious concerns]....

What we might call free - standing Wilsonianism — Wilsonianism removed from its religious and theological foundation — is still a respectable view among those who write about the need for a compelling «national purpose.»

Paul of Tarsus was the first Christian theologian to write autobiographically about his religious experience and to name the power that held together two very diverse sides of that experience.

if you can lie to yourself with immunity, you might be an atheist if you think the indifferent support your side, you might be an atheist if you don't think at all, you might be an atheist if you are drawn to religious discussions thinking someone wants to hear your opinion, you might be an atheist if you copy paste every piece of crap theory you find, you might be an atheist if you think you are right no matter what the evidence shows, you might be an atheist if you can't hold your water when you think about science, you might be an atheist if you can't write the word God, with proper capitalization, you might be an atheist if you think your view has enough support to be a percentage of the seven billion people on earth, you might be an atheist if you think The View has enough support to be a percentage of the seven billion people on earth, you might be an atheist if you live in a tar paper shack, writing manifestos, you might be an atheist if you think you're basically a good person, and your own final authority you might be an atheist if you think your great aunt Tillie was a simian, you might be an atheist if you own an autographed copy of Origin Of The Species, you might be an atheist if you think that when you die you're worm food, you might be an atheist if you think the sun rises and sets for you alone, you might be an atheist if all you can think about is Charles Darwin when you're with your significant other, you might be an atheist if all you can think about is you when you're with your significant other, you might be an atheist if you attend a church but palm the offering plate when it passes, you might be an atheist If think this exhausts all the possibilities of definition, you might be an atheist.

On the matter of self and fulfillment, John Boswell, a Yale historian who has written some of the major texts employed by homosexual activists, asserts, «Not only is homosexual eroticism the oldest and most persistent strand in the Christian theology of romantic love, but Christian religious life was the most prominent gay life - style in Western Europe from the early Middle Ages to the Reformation, about two - thirds of the period since Europe became Christian.»

As one who has written so poignantly about the horrors of exclusion in religious communities in our own day, Volf is surely not maintaining that local congregations can somehow become hermetically sealed off from their immediate cultural influences or ideological contexts.

Yet, while McVeigh rejected God altogether, Breivik writes in his manifesto that he is not religious, has doubts about God's existence, does not pray, but does assert the primacy of Europe's «Christian culture» as well as his own pagan Nordic culture.

What is the pope let me see, oh is he so religious that he doesn't even know what is written in the holy bible about the ten commandments, thy shalt not commit adultry (is not molesting a little child commiting adultry)?

He is passionate about helping people break - free from religious oppression by writing about the true character of God, love.

He might have written about adding or harmonizing a religious view to a scientific one, but instead he wrote about «alternatives.»

Now, could it possibly be that the reason the answer is out of reach is because the bible was written by numerous, imperfect human beings, under the influence of their own religious biases, and all those writings have been complied, hundreds of years later, by men of equal imperfectness and religious biases, so as to render any logical discussion about what the hell was their intention in writing what the wrote, completely implausible?

Naomi Schaefer, a new contributor, is writing a book about religious higher education in America.

It could have been written about by William James in his book about spiritual and religious experiences or by Carl Jung.

«People tend to think that Stephen King is anti-religious because he is a horror writer, but that's completely mistaken,» says Zahl, a retired Episcopal priest who has written about King's religious sensibility for Christianity Today magazine.

Unethical or religious freedom??? What about the LDS practice of Proxy Baptism — baptizing deceased persons of other religions into the LDS faith without the written consent of the family members of the deceased (proxy LDS baptisms have been performed on past Catholic Popes and other top religious figures).

This article will focus on sexual inclusiveness, the frequent misunderstanding of which was brought home to me recently when a friend told me about a paper he had just written on a religious topic.

If his church says he should write articles on CNN about why the «spiritual but not religious» crowd doesn't know what they're talking about, I'd gladly retract my comment.

Writing on his blog, Green admits: «I don't talk about it very often, but I'm a religious person.

When Marcus Aurelius reflects on the eternal reason that has ordered things, there is a frosty chill about his words which you rarely find in a Jewish, and never in a Christian piece of religious writing.

Last week I wrote a post about the inspiration of Scripture and the inspiration of other religious books which struck a cord with a lot of people.

He has spoken and written often about protecting liberty, religious and otherwise.

Here is something Einstein wrote about god — «It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated.

I never understand why people want to waste their time writing comments about other peoples» religious beliefs.