Sentences with phrase «about religious convictions»

Here is something Einstein wrote about god — «It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated.

b4bigbang - «It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated.

«It was, of course, a LIE what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated.

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Jeff - Most Catholics have no religious convictions about the other issues you named.

The figure of the emperor was clearly one about which a variety of lively and sincere religious beliefs had grown, convictions that can hardly be dismissed as superficial.

The factors of chief importance in the development of this theology were: (a) the Old Testament — and Judaism --(b) the tradition of religious thought in the Hellenistic world, (c) the earliest Christian experience of Christ and conviction about his person, mission, and nature — this soon became the tradition of the faith or the «true doctrine» — and (d) the living, continuous, ongoing experience of Christ — only in theory to be distinguished from the preceding — in worship, in preaching, in teaching, in open proclamation and confession, as the manifestation of the present Spiritual Christ within his church.

When I read it, I thought of Peter Rollins» parable about the preacher whose «gift» was that anyone he prayed for immediately lost their religious convictions.

«Jesus» parable is not just about racial or ethnic difference, it is also about religious, theological, and ideological convictions...»

It just seems to me that as a writer / researcher who clearly knows better, it is really your job to attack, debunk and tear these assinine arguments about Obama's religious convictions to pieces rather than giving them some kind of legitimacy.

I was learning more and more about science, but was less and less able to defend my religious convictions.

«(On) the other side is finding the right balance... concerns about religious beliefs and convictions.

Only if we can compellingly witness to our religious convictions about life, suffering and death will we be able to shape public attitudes toward death.

I recently attended a event where a Mormon and a Baptist engaged in this kind of civil and respectful dialogue about their respective faiths and similar to your feelings I came away with the stronger conviction that we need more real dialogue and less the perpetuations of stereotypes and religious polemic.

European societies through 14 centuries had assumed that a political community requires religious uniformity, and the logic of that assumption seemed impeccable: Religion involves the most fundamental commitment of people's lives, their conviction about what makes life ultimately worthwhile; consequently, religious diversity within a political community opens the possibility of serious political conflict.

And from raging debates about creationism to political candidates proclaiming their religious convictions, religion seems to be at the centre of American life.

They had already determined that evolution could not be true based on their religious convictions, and so any logical or scientific inconsistencies within the young earth creationism model were dismissed with a shrug of the shoulders and a pithy statement about the mysteries of God.

«Feeling good» for them has replaced «being good,» and relationships are based not so much on a religious conviction about the essential worth of every individual as they are based on contractual arrangements in which each person is considered of value to the extent that he or she is of value to me.

At least in many parts of Christendom the quest for meaning, the revival of historic religious convictions about man's nature and destiny, about his lostness and his salvation, and the need to realize the significance of these convictions in relation to contemporary world and life views, have led to a renewal of the theological endeavor.

In the world of Charlie Hebdo, sadly, all religious convictions (indeed all serious convictions about moral truth) are, by definition, fanaticism — and thus susceptible to the mockery of the «enlightened.»

Can Christians plausibly continue to affirm the revelatory supremacy of the Christ - event and at the same time be fully open to other traditions that have their own unique convictions about religious meaning and truth?

They are presenting Christianity as an ethical religion in which ethics are directly related to a certain set of convictions about God, man, and the world, a set of convictions religious in their subject matter and theological in their expression.

I was learning more and more about science but was less and less able to defend my religious convictions, which were constantly under challenge.

Hence, whatever role our religious convictions tell us the churches should play in society, common sense compels us to be realists about the role mainline churches actually do play.

There is an astringent relish about the truth of this conviction which some men can feel, and which for them is as near an approach as can be made to the feeling of religious joy.

But with the widespread failure of the field to come to any agreement about the Bible's own categories of discourse, its special modes of literary expression and intentionality, and especially those social and religious factors that handed the Old Testament over to us, we have simply been thrown back on ourselves and the deeply felt convictions with which we began the process of interpretation.

I don't care about her gender or religious convictions.

«No one should be forced to choose between their religious convictions and their family businesses and livelihoods, particularly when the state allows referrals for just about any other reason,» she said.

The third question is about how «postliberal «Christians relate the very reliable findings of various modern sciences to their theologies or religious practices and convictions.

Not only are your charitable spirits encouraging to me personally, but I also imagine that kind of posture calms the anxiety of silent observers who wonder if they can be honest about their sexual orientation and religious convictions, and also treated with tenderness and respect.

Here I would only add that the ethical dimension, at its best, is grounded in a conviction about how the cosmos «runs» in its deepest reaches — which is to say that sound morality and sound religious faith are intimately related.

As our author puts it, «Asking about an afterlife still defines a crucial and very conflicted battlefield in American life, one that challenges our political as well as religious convictions.»

How about a little religious conviction!!

He writes poetry and speaks with articulate conviction about his religious beliefs.

Thanks for showing that you can, indeed, make it all the way through to the end of a passage, when it's made up of small enough words, gives you an opening (intentionally) to descend to juvenile muckthrowing, and understanding what it says doesn't violate your deep religious convictions about climate.

His intensely dogmatic climate writing and rage for justice stems in part from his religious beliefs about nature, and his personal conviction that American «hyper - individualism» and consumerism corrupt both the environment and humanity, exemplified by fossil fuels, industrial civilization and free market capitalism.

There are many reasons why people might have voted no which have little to do with what they think about LGBTQI + people, including religious convictions, misinformation, language barriers, fear of change, or unfounded fears of what else might change if the Marriage Act changes.

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