Sentences with phrase «religious dogma only»

Religious dogma only enforces a narrow - minded view of the world

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A mind that believes, that has dogmas, conclusions, that plays with rituals, is not a religious mind... It is only a very still, quiet, untortured mind that sees the truth.

Kerry Egan observed something as a divinity school student that escaped her divinity school professor... that at or near the moment of truth \ death, up to a lifetime of religious dogma evaporates, and only reality remains.

I like the position that if there is a god, it is a god based on reason and logic, and therefore god allowed all religions to evolve requiring a religious faith and will only reward those who have rejected dogma.

Is a Christian author only allowed to pen religious dogma?

While these ideas are not necessarily being mentioned by the author, his failure to understand that dogma and intolerance are the simultaneous catalyst not only for the injustices committed by «religious» groups, but also for the exodus away from those same groups by the thinking people who just can not conscientiously go along with their craziness.

I wonder if «spiritual but not religious» is a bit of a cultural transitional stage in which it is becoming clear that formal religious dogma is at best intellectually unsatisfying, and at worst not only false but dangerous; and yet we don't really know what to do with that part of our brain that seeks magical explanations for what we can not easily understand.

Religious dogma tells you that only YOU are told the true secrets of the universe, and YOU are therefore special, and everyone else is damned.

Richard, there is nothing in Christian dogma that can be interpreted as a claim that the followers of Jesus are sinless, even though there are too many professed Christians who seem to believe that grace has made them not only righteous; but inerrant in spiritual / religious matters.

Actually, Don the only people I've ever heard say that evolution requires «blind faith» to accept, are those who employ «blind faith» on a daily basis in order to accept religious dogma.

But with regard to halakhah, resistance to change is not only due to the need for legal stability, but is also based on a most powerful religious dogma, that the Word of God is unchanging and His Law immutable, this Word and this Law being mediated through the Talmudic Sages and through no others.

This dogmatic intolerance becomes all the more difficult for non-Catholics when it is associated not only with distinctly religious dogma, but also with elements of natural law that are not accepted as divinely sanctioned moral demands by most non-Catholics.

Does not this statement, he asks, mean today «that human life in society, liberated as far as possible from alienations, constitutes the absolute value, and that all religious institutions, all dogmas, all the sacraments and all ecclesiastical authorities have only a relative, that is, a functional value?»

Alternatively, the word connotes religious belief for which no proof can be given but only the authority of the religious leaders can establish a dogma.

In Only the Paranoid Survive — Andrew Grove — then Intel's president — listed the reasons why Intel did nothing for a full year: Numerous factories, thousands of employees — and «religious dogmas» within Intel about «memories as the backbone of our manufacturing and sales activity.»