Sentence examples for secular grounds from inspiring English sources

Religious convictions cannot tell us what we ought to do even if they can tell us that we ought to do what we believe, on independent, secular grounds, is right.

Third, the liberal critics contend that because most of the laws that have a chance of enactment in a society as pluralistic as the United States will have both religious and secular grounds, it will almost never be the case that any of the actual frustration caused by the public presence of religion supports the DRR.

(And in the process I learned that three separate holidays intersect on February 2--the Druid Imbolc, the Christian Candlemas and the secular Ground Hog Day. Store that little nugget away for your next trivia night).

It is right to see Singer within the traditions of ethical universalism and Utilitarianism, the doctrine founded by Jeremy Bentham which argues on secular, humanist grounds in the interests of the greatest happiness for the greatest number - a calculation which may need off-setting by sacrifices from others.

Mr Maliki himself abandoned the secular middle ground and joined the anti-Saddamist witch hunt.

No poet in the last 50 years has written this sort of poem -- the secular prophecy grounded on perceptual fineness -- as well as Merwin, and the best poems from this period are authentic and permanent.

Yes, you're right to question the meaning of a secular identity grounded in past suffering.

His original writing first began making serious cultural waves with 1998's Buddhism Without Beliefs, which posited a radical new "existential, therapeutic and liberating agnosticism --one which rejected the belief in reincagnosticism --oneagnosticism --one secular approach grounded in meditation and mindfulness, along whicha historejectedderstheding of the belief, achinved threincarnationn lens.

According to him, the cosmologists' versions of secular eschatology furnish grounds for taking seriously the hypothesis of a transcendent creative and omnipotent agent.

While most religious hospitals have rejected the law on moral grounds, secular facilities such as Huntington have wrestled with the question of whether helping a patient end his or her life is ethically consistent with a commitment to protecting people's well-being.

A number of other parties are in contention, including the centre-ground secular Congress for the Republic (CPR) and secular Democratic Forum for Labour and Liberty (FDTL or Ettakatol) and those led by former officials of Ben Ali's regime.