Sentence examples for religious assertions from inspiring English sources

The panorama of light, and the array of beliefs, perhaps accomplish what the more contentious religious assertions in the neighborhood — the cross, the mosque — could not.

Compare: even if religious belief has a biological function (e.g., reducing anxiety), it wouldn't follow that religious assertions are non-cognitive and so aren't really assertions, and the story might be more plausible if it is assumed that they are genuine assertions (Joyce 2006, 176, 208; Ruse 2006).

Flew nevertheless continued to maintain the non-falsifiability of religious assertions purportedly derived from divine revelation as presented by dogmatic believers, all of which he rejected as meaningless.

In short, it is a struggle between those who would lay claim to India as a democratic, heterogeneous, inclusive and at least incipiently egalitarian national project, and those for whom nationalism has devolved into a lethal cocktail of aggressive religious assertion and equally ferocious unbridled capitalist growth, where neither the body count nor widening inequality indices matter.

It's still a religious assertion, and not a scientific one.

Historical evidence indicates that many colonial administrators in their dispatches to their colonial metropolis used to refer to Africans as 'this incurably religious people.' Assertions about the religiosity of the African people have led some scholars to maintain that there is a connection between religion and morality in African ethics.

British philosopher Antony Flew proposed a similar challenge based on the principle that, in so far as assertions of religious belief cannot be empirically falsified, religious statements are rendered meaningless.

It's the most important concept in the expanding clash between assertions of religious belief and civic obligation.

Polls have also shown that many Catholics support same-sex marriage and do not accept the bishops' assertions that religious liberty is at risk.

Its main demand is for a much stronger religious element, with specific assertions of "Catholic values" and what it calls "natural law".

But if Turkey's military elite has retained many of the Ataturkist virtues, it has also made Ataturk's failings permanent and defining features of the state -- his indifference to the economy, his tendency to regard citizens as subjects, opposition as treason and any assertions of religious or alternate ethnic identity as threats to Turkey's territorial integrity.