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Religious Socialism is a blog and community of religious socialists in the United States and is the project of the Democratic Socialists of America.
Tillich's interwar «
religious socialism» is particularly noteworthy.
The frequent soul - searching letters and articles in the magazine
Religious Socialism also indicate that many religious groups committed to nonviolence and equality question arguments that try to justify abortions in cases that are not life - threatening.
His existentialism, his philosophy of community,
his religious socialism, and his dialogical philosophy all develop within his philosophy of Judaism as well as outside of it.
He has also expanded and deepened his interest in Hasidism, Judaism, Zionism, and
religious socialism, and he has explored the implications of his I - Thou philosophy for education, community, sociology, psychology, art, and philosophical anthropology.
This does not mean, writes Buber, that
religious socialism and the kingdom of God are to be identified.
Where then does the root - commodities of
religious socialisms truly matter and «riotizingly» materialize upon spatterings regarding irrational causations?
While Churchill was a great orator, his words meant much back in those days but how soon does history tend to overlook such orations,,, For is it not a more wiser ambition to live freely among all religious persuasions and cling ever gently upon one's own independent literacies even though self - indulgence of
the religious socialisms may give rises toward individualized dementia?
Not exact matches
Ideology «flows out of the (idolatrous)
religious commitment of a person or community,» says Koyzis, and he discusses the ostensibly idolatrous
religious commitments inherent in five ideologies: liberalism, conservatism, nationalism, democracy, and
socialism.
Despite the fact that even today many in the Confessional Church will not see and admit it, there could have been no other outcome than that this truth of the freedom of the church, despite the claims of National
Socialism, should come to signify not only a «
religious» decision, not only a decision of church policy, but also and ipso facto a political decision.
Socialism is inherently hostile to Christianity and capitalism is simply the essential mode of human life that corresponds to
religious truth» (reported in Rodney Clapp, «Where Capitalism and Christianity Meet,» Christianity Today [February 4, 1983]-RRB-.
It provided an ideological framework within which the many
religious communities of India as well as the plurality of linguistic caste and ethnic cultures (in the formation of which one or other religions had played a dominant role) could participate together with the adherents of secular ideologies like Liberalism and
Socialism (which emerged in India in the framework of the impact of modern humanism of the West mediated through western power and English education).
Toward my belief system, religion is a personal belief and should not be a sociable consideration... Anyone's beliefs upon
religious conjuring séances should be held personally and not be centered by any
socialism of the religiously clairvoyant which tends to conjure their weekly seminary séances upon the weakly enamored folks ever forsaking the doctrines oaths... Emotionalisms are where
religious circles are deemed rented and the renters pay steeply for a yarn's worth... Therefore keeps one's faith separated from
religious teamsters who take and never give their folded flocks any causally rational explanations as to why there are reportedly many more of God's many sons then what Christendom so portends there to be...
Toward my belief system, religion is a personal belief and should not be a sociable consideration... Anyone's beliefs upon
religious conjuring séances should be held personally and not be centered by any
socialism of the religiously clairvoyant which tends to conjure their weekly seminary séances upon the weakly enamored folks ever forsaking the doctrines oaths... Emotionalisms are where
religious circles are deemed rented and the renters pay steeply for a yarn's worth... Therefore keep one's faith separated from
religious teamsters who take and never give their folded flocks any causally rational explanations as to why there are reportedly many more of God's many sons then what Christendom so potentially claims there to be...
To insist on the relevance of God may lead a
religious socialist to deny the ultimate relevance of
socialism as ideology.
Socialism is dead, and, except within certain academic and
religious circles, there will be few mourners.
Tillich presented
socialism to them — a renewed and deepened form of
socialism, «
religious»
socialism — as the fulfillment of their genuine aspirations.
In what sense is Tillich's
socialism «
religious»?
He himself gives an answer when he writes: «
Socialism is
religious if religion means living out of the roots of human being.»
The move coincided with a white paper circulated by Chinese authorities that said
religious communities in the country should «adhere to the direction of localizing the religion, practice the core values of
socialism, develop and expand the fine Chinese tradition and actively explore the
religious thought which accords with China's national circumstances.»
Wang [director of the State Administration for
Religious Affairs] said Chinese Christian theology should be compatible with the country's path of
socialism.?
But other participants in the oppositional groups agreed more with sociologist Ehrhart Neubert, who maintained that dehumanizing forms of
socialism were themselves generating and perpetuating marginal forms of
religious life.
(And that is not because the «communist demon» wants to kill
religious people but just because
Socialism, Marxism and Communism as ideologies have no reason to support religion since they see it as something backward and unscientific — which of course it is).
Denying
religious groups public funding is discriminatory, denies the right to freedom of religion, undermines freedom of speech and belief, and is typical of an ideology of homogenization and
socialism so strongly exposed by the current administration and Democratic party.
These insects included
religious believers, the bourgeoisie, all the aristocracy, any property - owning peasants or «kulaks,» and the independent - minded socialists who refused to sever
socialism's remaining connections with Western humanism and the liberal and democratic cause.
The varieties of
socialism that attracted a flurry of interest in the second quarter of the i9th century, namely the theories of Robert Owen and Charles Fourier, were not revolutionary in any violent sense; they were easily reconciled with
religious and idealistic philosophies; and they each gave a high consideration to individual autonomy.
For one thing there were
religious, democratic, and humanistic forms of
socialism emphasizing individual dignity that Americans almost entirely failed to see or appreciate.
Conceivably, the only
socialism that could work would be that which develops in a society deeply bonded by
religious values.
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, the first elected prime minister, attempted liberal
socialism in the 70s, but had to succumb to the
religious right and was finally hanged by an Islamist general.
Labour's early thinking drew on a rich intellectual well - spring of ethical
socialism, social liberalism and sense of moral purpose (much of which was
religious in inspiration).
Rightly or not, some parents and
religious leaders held that these smacked of
socialism and one - worldism, if not Marxism, and that the state had no business imposing such things on its young people.
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So, «
socialism» is often merely useless, while dogmatic literal interpretation of
religious text is a real impediment and thus worse than
socialism.