Sentence examples for object of religious from inspiring English sources

Sacrifices may be offered to beings who can be the object of religious veneration or worship.

Miles is not interested in Jesus as the object of religious belief or as the quarry of historical research.

But even if that were not so, to posit a past creator is not to posit the eternal and personal God who is the object of religious veneration.

Prosecutors said the director, who last year won Russia's prestigious Golden Mask award, "publicly desecrated the object of religious worship in Christianity – the image of Jesus Christ in the Gospels".

"The memorial is not designed for worship services, and there is no evidence the cross, which is surrounded by a tall fence and not approachable by visitors, is — or is intended to be — the object of religious devotion," Judge Burns wrote, adding, "The primary effect of the Mount Soledad memorial is patriotic and nationalistic".

Here we will examine this third, philosophically more interesting rationale, setting aside for the moment Heaven's role as an object of religious worship and enforcer of moral order.

Many of the more elaborate examples were shrines to Sufi saints and objects of religious pilgrimage.

This conclusion, if generalized, suggested that all the objects of religious worship symbolize social relationships and, indeed, play an important role in the continuance of the social group.

Most contemporary theologians, however, concede that anthropomorphism cannot be eliminated without eliminating religion itself, because objects of religious devotion must have features to which humans can relate.

A judge in Munich affirmed that over 170 objects of religious art, looted from ancient places of worship after the island's summer of war in 1974, should return to their proper owners, the churches of Cyprus.

Totem poles were not objects of religious worship, but Tlingits considered them sacred, because they believed that everything in nature had a spirit, and because the poles commemorated significant people and events.