Sentence examples for rather than faith from inspiring English sources

Secularism's origins are in the Enlightenment; its dominant conviction is that Reason rather than Faith should reign in the public sphere.

That, in turn, means that doubters — people who base their views on evidence, rather than faith — are likely to be better citizens.

One significant contrast between Barack Obama and George W. Bush is President Obama's respect for reason and facts in setting policy, rather than faith and gut feelings.

Luther's version is tendentious: he consigned the Book of James to the Apocrypha, because it posited good works, rather than faith alone, as a route to salvation.

At Friday prayers they struggle to squeeze everyone in.Despite successes like this, fears persist that this home-grown Islam will produce more Mr Darts and Ms Lewthwaites, intent on havoc rather than faith.

In retrospect, we can see that his merely bog-standard belief in the innocence of his media man, Andy Coulson, was really a sign of doubt rather than faith.

The Pakistani painter Sabeen Raja's delicate miniatures, for example, are confessional in tone rather than faith-related.

But his wider influence came as a publisher of books and magazines devoted to fact-based, rather than faith-based, solutions to human problems, and as a writer who, in more than 40 books and hundreds of articles, promoted an ethical system independent of religion.

Humanists are well positioned to lead such efforts because, as Lawrence Krauss wrote in the New Yorker article Teaching Doubt, "doubters--people who base their views on evidence, rather than faith--are likely to be better citizens".

"It is religion as identity rather than religion as faith that is being mobilised".

HCUK understood their need, even though our policy is for multi-faith rather than single-faith schools.