Sentence examples for profess religious from inspiring English sources

But the people and organisations which are most passionate in denouncing European appeasement also insist, in slightly different contexts, that America has become a nightmarish place to profess religious faith.

Despite a recent influx of Muslim immigrants and the rise of mosques in countries like Britain, France and Germany, an overwhelming majority of Europeans who profess religious devotion consider themselves Christian.

Many Chechen separatists are Muslim, but few of the suicide bombers profess religious motives.

Therefore, even for most of those who do not themselves profess religious faith (see above), respondents do not think that people must choose either to accept scientifically verified theory or religious faith.

This is the blind spot of seculars -- though many people who participate in secularism for its facility of making work and leisure less stressful do profess religious faiths.

But Putin is the first Kremlin leader since the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution to publicly profess religious faith - to the Orthodox church - and has several times advocated ending the long feud between the two major Christian churches.

Many guardsmen have been at the forefront of the reform movement, still others have professed religious loyalties to ayatollahs other than the hardline cabal currently in power.

Since many such attacks -- including, of course, those of Sept. 11, 2001 -- have been perpetrated by Muslim terrorists professing religious motives, it might seem obvious that Islamic fundamentalism is the central cause.

There is also a good deal of cynicism in Cairo about the tribes' professed religious motivations, since they are also widely believed to be involved in smuggling of drugs, weapons, and people.

I recently wrote about the professed religious views of presidential candidates.

Community views were elicited through gender-segregated focus groups (7 with 48 women, 1 with 9 young men, 1 with 7 young women, 2 with 19 men) and individual interviews with eight community members in leadership positions (5 men and 3 women), and professed religious leaders (6 men and 1 woman).