Sentence examples for a religious principle from inspiring English sources

It is a religious principle in the sense that communication is what makes humanity what it is, not warring gangs in conflict communicating only by violent acts but people living together, sharing the co-existence of different identities – national, gender, football teams, faiths, telling their stories.

"The head of the High Peace Council of Afghanistan has described the will for peace as a religious principle and said that the only way to ensure stability in the country is peace and efforts for the peace process can pave the way for the reduction and withdrawal of the foreign forces".

But why should the government commit the opposite sin of forcing doctrinaire Catholics to violate a religious principle that imposes no harm on others?

Consequently, the court ruled, there was no rational, secular state interest to be advanced by the ban on gay marriage, only the perpetuation of prejudice (or, more charitably, of a religious "principle" not reasonably related to any compelling secular purpose).

He said: "The act of corporal punishment does not express any religious principle whatsoever.

Together, many of us are saying that there is a fundamental religious principle missing in most of our political infighting: the protection of the ones about whom our scriptures say God is so concerned.

Where others see lawbreakers, he will see family members, friends, co-religionists, colleagues and, most of all, "brothers and sisters to be welcomed, respected and loved". He may well remind US politicians and pundits of a bedrock religious principle: that human persons - created in God's image - cannot be illegal.

The Pope, in seeking to overturn this judgment, was doing so in the name of the principle of the sanctity of life, an essentially religious principle and was thus going far in the direction of turning Italy into a theocracy in which, if a law is not accepted by religion, it is not a law.

Schleiermacher notes at one point that he wants to chart a sort of middle course between ancient dialectics, which had the virtue of openness but the vice of courting skepticism, and the dogmatism of the scholastics, for whom everything of importance was pre-decided in an assumed religious principle.

Mr. Obama has said he opposes same-sex marriage as a matter of religious principle, but favors a right to civil unions for same-sex partners.

May a business refuse employment to sexual minorities as a matter of religious principle?