Sentences with phrase «against organized religion»

Our forefathers, especially Thomas Jefferson and John Adams were vehemently against organized religion.

It's a far - flung concept — one that's been rejected by famous atheists like Sam Harris and Richard Dawkins, who have dedicated their lives to fighting against all organized religion.

I am against organized religion and an atheist, but I feel Mr. Osteen just wants to do what people want him to do and feels he helps them this way.

He has an itch against any organized religion with a vision.

It's about time someone spoke out against organized religion.

I started with a rebellion against organized religion and dogmatic authoitarianism, and in the end completely left the church.

The communist regimes that labeled themselves atheist were actually against organized religion.

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British theologian and historian Alister McGrath explains why some are atheists: «What propels people toward atheism is above all a sense of revulsion against the excesses and failures of organized religion.»

Many X-tians and, in fact, a lot of organized religions promote this kind of anger / hatred / whatever - you - want - to - call - it tacitly simply by defining everyone who isn't with you as against you.

The only thing organized religions have against unaffiliated «spirituality» is that it doesn't generate any money for them.

The well - known river metaphor, according to which there are many rivers that, ultimately, flow into the same ocean, is turned critically against the other pluralists by Panikkar: Jordan, Tiber and Ganges, metaphors for three types of religion, only meet as steam in the clouds: «Religions do not coalesce, certainly not as organized religions», Raimon Panikkar, «The Jordan, the Tiber and thReligions do not coalesce, certainly not as organized religions», Raimon Panikkar, «The Jordan, the Tiber and threligions», Raimon Panikkar, «The Jordan, the Tiber and the Ganges.

Despite the shows» avowed lack of religious specificity, they bear a striking resemblance to the «organized» religions against which they try to set themselves.

The problem is that organized religions claim that they can explain it, but their explanations are without merit and rely on blind faith, which leads to a host of problems like suicide bombers believing in 40 virgins after death, or bigotry against gays, to name just a couple examples.

Despite their very obvious christian undertones, I though that the last book contained an argument against religion (more - so organized religion, which is a bit different), where the donkey and the monkey pretend to respectively be and be acting for Aslan (the Jesus symbol) and their actions result in widespread chaos, and the eventual collapse of Narnia.

With that observation we come to the first of what I am calling «the virtues of organized religion,» namely that organized religions give their adherents something solid to rebel against.

In summary, the virtues of organized religions include but are by no means limited to the following: they give their adherents something solid against which to rebel; they allow one to see farther by standing on the shoulders of giants; they insist on the primacy of lived experience; they work against illusion and historical insularity; they point to the power of the collective and the merits of deep diversity; and they are capable of the kind of mobilization that can transform the world.

it seems that shame is something you try to use as a weapon against those who have different belief systems than you do, which is one reason why a lot of people have left organized religion.

Then, after a few months, at best only three years, of a public career in which He was hailed by a crowd which proved fickle and had won the adherence of a coterie of men and women who did not fully understand Him, He ran afoul of the leaders of the organized religion of His people, was accused by them of fomenting rebellion against the civil government, that of Rome, and was crucified by the order of the local representative of that government.

Well wakes up, because actively working against large groups of people as an organized religion is not moral.

A seemingly uncaring and dictatorial pope who snatches babies from their mothers invites worldwide contempt for, and rebellion against, organized religion.

That prompted Malloy to note that «most organized religions in the United States are against the death penalty.»