Sentence examples for religious objectives from inspiring English sources

Both, Stern adds, have twin political and religious objectives and both use selective readings of religious texts and of history to justify violence over territory.

"The plurality opinion foreshadows the approval of direct monetary subsidies to religious organizations, even when they use the money to advance their religious objectives," Justice O'Connor said.

In his opinion in the Texas case, Breyer wrote, "the short (and stormy) history of the [Kentucky] courthouse Commandments' displays demonstrates the substantially religious objectives of those who mounted them".

Its antiroyalist and anti-Russian program mingled patriotic and conservative overtones with religious objectives (namely, the defense of the privileged status of Roman Catholicism vis-à-vis the religious and political equality for non-Catholics advocated by Russia).

This imperial patronage had disappeared since the fall of the Empire and its resurgence corresponds to a very precise religious objective: the new releases of Gospels in connection with the liturgical reform undertaken, based on the Roman models.

"Any reasonable, objective observer would conclude... that the stated secular purpose of the Executive Order is, at the very least, secondary to a religious objective of temporarily suspending the entry of Muslims," Watson wrote.

This led the kidnappers, who, despite claiming to be terrorists with religious and nationalist objectives, were apparently also interested in cash, to respond to the Italians' efforts to establish contact.

It shall therefore include "any armed group, distinct from and not operating under the control of, the state or states in which it carries out military operations, and which has political, religious, and/or military objectives" (Bellal et al. 2011, 48).1.

Living patterns and language usage are objective differences, and economic lifestyles and religious beliefs are objective difference as well.

Or, as Carl Jung and others have suggested in studies of unconscious elements in religious symbolism, both objective and subjective aspects may be fused in the ritual act.

Likewise, the goal of illumination in a single lifetime, rather than at the end of an indefinite succession of future existences, was analogous to the religious Daoist's objective of immortality as the culmination of his present life.