Certainly the diminution of religious faith entails no necessary lowering of this expectation.
So I set about trying to force people to make themselves understood, by finding out, on the basis of evidence, just what being religious actually entails, and in particular to test the fashionable idea that religion is much more about practice than belief.
Religious literacy entails more than just knowing the Five Pillars of Islam or Buddhism's Four Noble Truths, Moore said.
But, far from being merely a sign of humility before a higher power, religious law also entails both a form of vanity (e.g., the most powerful being in the universe really does care whether or not I eat a cheeseburger) and a sense of collective, tribal power (derived from belonging to a well-organized and well-defined community that, for instance, doesn't eat cheeseburgers).
"This must also entail religious groups working towards the ideals of the UN, in terms of human rights, fairness and justice for all men and women".
In some religious beliefs it also entails the restoration or raising up of the natural world to a higher realm or state.
Judge Brieant said it ruled that "adherence to the A.A. fellowship entails engagement in religious activity and religious proselytization".
The Clinton administration enacted the International Religious Freedom Act, which entailed a yearly religious liberty audit of foreign countries.
While Erin Harrington's desire to promote the traditional values entailed by religious education is laudable, her advocacy of not paying public school taxes because her children go to parochial school is misguided.
But in order to arrive at a position of religious faith, which might entail a "teleological suspension of the ethical", the individual must first embrace the ethical (in the first sense).
