Sentence examples for existing religious from inspiring English sources

Galileo's endorsement of Copernican theories of the cosmos is subversive, precisely because it questions the existing religious and social order.

"The government and the Catholic Church agree to preserve the course on religion, respecting the existing religious diversity in the country," said a joint statement released yesterday.

The current situation is unfair to those who are neither Christian nor Jewish, but this argues for taking away the privileges of existing religious schools, not opening more of them.Supporters reply that many religious schools are ethnically mixed: Roman Catholic schools see Irish, Filipino and Polish children rubbing shoulders, and many Anglicans are black.

As the king stood aloof, the Catholic and Utraquist factions of the Bohemian estates concluded an agreement at Kutná Hora (March 1485) that reaffirmed the compacts, recognized the existing religious divisions in Bohemia, and forbade attempts by either party to extend its sphere of influence at the expense of the other.

Online postings can worsen existing religious and ethnic tensions within the diverse country.

Finally, in the 15 years since Dagher and BouJaoude (1997) examined how Lebanese biology majors accommodated evolutionary science with their existing religious beliefs, few researchers have extensively explored students' own articulations regarding what factors they personally consider to be important in determining their positions of acceptance or rejection of evolution.

But it was also true of liberal thinkers like John Locke and Immanuel Kant, for whom liberty made sense only when shaped by pre-existing religious or ethical commandments.

As regards the word propagate, in 1977 the Supreme Court of India held that it confers on an individual the right to transmit or spread his or her religion by an exposition of its tenets, but not the right to convert another person who holds a pre-existing religious belief to one's own religion.

However, in the Court's opinion Article 25(1) does not confer the right to convert another person who holds a pre-existing religious belief to one's own religion as this would impinge on the "freedom of conscience" provided for in the Article, which accords each individual with the freedom to hold or consider a thought, fact or viewpoint independent from those of others.

In thrall to the corporate myth of the commercialization of China and its total conversion to capitalism, Western observers have forgotten the fact that Mao set up a quasi-religion of Communist state worship with himself as the presiding deity, to maintain which he had to eradicate by force: all pre-existing religious ideologies and institutions.

The fundamental misunderstanding that many atheists have is that they imagine the interfaith movement as disinterested in combating religious totalitarianism and solely existing to maintain religious privilege -- as an excuse to show that religion, in its many diverse forms, has a monopoly on morality -- but that couldn't be further from the truth.