In the aggregate, religious believers are no better or worse than atheists and, historically, societies that have embodied strong religious commitments are no better or worse than those committed to atheism.
It should be noted that Locke's political philosophy was guided by his deeply held religious commitments.
Discussion of the deep religious commitments which a faith community holds can only serve to confuse".
For the rest of his life, Malcolm X would try to balance his love of music with his political and religious commitments.
My Muslim students take their own religious commitments and those of their non-Muslim peers seriously, and are some of my best students.
Many have disagreed profoundly with certain policies and wondered whether their religious commitments permitted them to cooperate in enforcing those policies.
We are a nation that holds firm to the conviction that a person's religious commitments, or lack thereof, need not bar him or her from public life.
They see them as whiny, luxury-loving, me-firsters with questionable religious commitments and a degrading love of American pop culture.
More important, he represents a willingness -- rarely seen among liberals at the national level -- to ground his political positions in specific religious commitments.
In Waugh's book — and, I'm compelled to add, that fine old mini-series it was made into — religious commitments and social relations were part of a thickly detailed, complicated and ancient lived reality.
After Oxford he found a secular outlet for his earlier religious commitments as an acolyte of Viscount Milner in his project of creating in South Africa an ideal version of imperial Britain, its destiny for greatness, its civilising mission.
