Sentence examples for a religious purpose from inspiring English sources

Holy war, any war fought by divine command or for a religious purpose.

"Why must they exclude a religious purpose so long as they're doing it evenhandedly?" he asked.

A religious purpose alone is not enough to invalidate an act of a state legislature.

These tracts of suffering and redemption had a religious purpose, but they were also portrayals of female fortitude and resourcefulness.

Did henges and hill forts serve a secular or a religious purpose, or is the distinction itself a modern invention?

His equestrian portrait (1328) representing Guidoriccio da Fogliano, general of the Sienese republic, was perhaps the first Sienese work of art that did not serve a religious purpose.

Phelps also called Reagan's appointment "patently violative of the establishment clause of the 1st Amendment, in that it purposely accomplishes a predominately religious purpose, it has the effect of favoring one religion over another... and it involves the entanglement of this government in the religious affairs of said church".

The Minister's power does not extend to places where the teaching "is of a purely religious character, or for a purely religious purpose".

The pilgrimage, which in medieval practice combined a fundamentally religious purpose with the secular benefit of a spring vacation, made possible extended consideration of the relationship between the pleasures and vices of this world and the spiritual aspirations for the next.

Most important, however, even a policy that urges schools to use an objective approach to teaching about intelligent design might constitute an unconstitutional endorsement of religion or be motivated by a predominantly religious purpose, such that the very adoption of the policy would be unconstitutional.

In this case, too, there was "no doubt that the 1999 amendment was motivated by a wholly religious purpose".