Sentences with phrase «basic ideas of religion»

in fact the basic ideas of religion come to surface naturally, and always have.

Not exact matches

Every religion in the world, past and present, stems from the same basic premise «it's probably a good idea to be nice to each other» after that it gets twisted so that one small group of people can have some measure of control over a larger mass of people.

Rudolph Otto analyzed the basic element in religion in his book The Idea of the Holy as a compound of fear and of fascination in the presence of overwhelming mystery.

Religions have had millennia, yet there is still no consensus on even basic ideas like the number of gods that exist, much less any attributes they might have.

One might have expected that a course in moral reasoning based on the teachings of Jesus would include an introduction to the idea of natural law and some discussion of traditional moral teachings, but Cox disagrees with many of the basic tenets of orthodox Christianity and doubts our ability to identify unchanging and absolute truth in religion or morality.

This Pioneer Group, with their astonishing success rate of at least seventy - five percent among «medically incurable» alcoholics, developed — from religion, medicine, and their own experience — the basic ideas and spiritual program of Alcoholics Anonymous.

Third, and most basic, religion is so consistently irrelevant to politics because the problem of the translation of ideas from one modality to another is often obscured.