Sentence examples for religious acts from inspiring English sources

I argue that Tim Tebow, when praying and performing the sign of the cross on his chest on the football field, and talking of his love for Jesus Christ during recorded interviews, not only engaged in religious acts, but also upheld Christian cultural hegemony within an alleged religiously diverse nation, and as such, he promoted his political agenda.

These have been portrayed as essentially religious acts.

North Korea deported John Short, 75, on Monday, saying he had apologised for anti-state religious acts and asked forgiveness.

The brotherhoods, some of which date from the 14th century, have a religious purpose, as associations of Catholic lay people who come together to perform religious acts.

North Korean state media said the missionary was tried on Friday and admitted to anti-North Korean religious acts and "malignantly hurting the dignity" of the country's supreme leadership, a reference to the ruling Kim family.

The missionary, named as Kim Jong Uk or Kim Jong Wook dependent on spelling styles, was handed the punishment after admitting to anti-North Korean religious acts and "malignantly hurting the dignity" of the country's supreme leadership at a trial on Friday, North Korean state media said.

He described writing the Varieties as "my religious act".

"To come here is almost a religious act," he wrote.

The funerals of the robot dogs are in this sense a perfectly religious act.

So the most logical response to any supposedly religious act is to respond to the act and not the religion.

The sex act is a religious act & when it occurs without God it is a mock act or at best an empty act.