Religious in sentence

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It's one of the things that we don't like to think about, but the fact that religious icons and good luck charms show up on dashboards around the world betrays the fact that we know this to be true.

What's the role of religious belief systems, the sports culture, the pornography culture, the family structure, economics, and how that intersects, and race and ethnicity and how that intersects?

It was just a custom and traditions that are enshrined in rigid religious fatwas and imposed on women.

The streets were packed with police cars and religious police cars, but some hundred brave Saudi women broke the ban and drove that day.

And it becomes worse when it's enshrined in religious fatwas based on wrong interpretation of the sharia law, or the religious laws.

The Grand Mufti, who is the head of the religious establishment in Saudi Arabia, he said, it's not recommended for women to drive.

For some, it will lead to anger, religious and sectarian violence and terrorism.

Like fundamentalists of all religious stripes, they have no questions, only answers.

And I'm not a religious person, so I didn't go to the services.

One feature is the tradition of religious dualism: Consciousness is not a part of the physical world.

We saw this a couple of decades ago when Teddy Kollek, the great mayor of Jerusalem in the '80s and the '90s, was besieged one day in his office by religious leaders from all of the backgrounds, Christian prelates, rabbis, imams.

There are the retail shops, the cafes and the restaurants, and the community is this community of Coptic Christians, so you'll also find a church, along with the scores of religious iconographies throughout the area, and also all the everyday services like the electronic repair shops, the barbers, everything.

Perhaps the most popular resurrection theme, outside of specifically religious ones, is the one about the phoenix, the ancient story of the phoenix, who, every 500 years, resurrects itself from its own ashes to go on to live a life that is even more beautiful than it was before.

So here's an example: One recent study took two groups of agnostics, that is people who are undecided in their religious beliefs.

They were then asked again about their religious beliefs.

And they face a daily struggle with social stigma, with family despair, and with religious fire and brimstone.

The Encyclopedia is just one in a long line of Arabic erotica, much of it written by religious scholars.

I'm thinking particularly of the reaction of neo-fascist or religious communes.

Now, I'm not a religious or particularly spiritual person, but in the wild, I believe I've experienced the birthplace of religion.

We're living in an era of scientific creationism, 9/11 conspiracy theories, psychic hotlines, and a resurgence of religious fundamentalism.

SP: What about religious faith in general?

He was a very religious man.

This is a religious matter."

So if this guy is a rabbi, and a Jewish rabbi, and if you have to believe in God in order to be religious, then we have the rather counterintuitive conclusion that since it's possible to be a Jewish rabbi without believing in God, Judaism isn't a religion.

If you think about the 18th century, say, if you think about intellectual life before the late 19th century, anything you did, anything you thought about, whether it was the physical world, the human world, the natural world apart from the human world, or morality, anything you did would have been framed against the background of a set of assumptions that were religious, Christian assumptions.

Darwin worried about the relationship between what he said and the truths of religion, but he could proceed, he could write books about his subject without having to say what the relationship was to the religious claims, and similarly, geologists increasingly could talk about it.

So there's a big change, and that division, that intellectual division of labor occurs as I say, I think, and it sort of solidifies so that by the end of the 19th century in Europe, there's a real intellectual division of labor, and you can do all sorts of serious things, including, increasingly, even philosophy, without being constrained by the thought, "Well, what I have to say has to be consistent with the deep truths that are given to me by our religious tradition."

So he's a religious figure, as Rattray would have said, as well as a political figure.

Pray to Him." Now, I wasn't religious at that time, nor am I religious now, but it was something so profound about my son's words.

At 16, he was elected to the College of Pontiffs that supervised religious worship.

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