Sentences with phrase «basis of religious dogmas»

Marx's critique of religion can not be accepted or refuted merely on the basis of religious dogmas, for the dogmas themselves are to be evaluated on the basis of the «truth of man» and not outside it.

Though of less exalted origin, and not of equal value with sruti, as a basis of religious dogma, it is perhaps quite as influential in the lives of the people in inculcating and nourishing religious faith and practice.

Not exact matches

To them, persecution means that someone fails to take into account religious dogma when enacting policies, or that they simply have the gal to challenge the basis of your relgious dogma through intellectual debate.

Do they bomb buildings because of reason — or unbridled hate based upon 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.

site the washing of the feet and the drying with the hair... that my friends is a marriage ceremony in Judaic law and custom of that period and yes they did have a daughter named Sarah) but... not it seems to be a shock to many who really did not dig into their own religious dogma... blind faith is great if you can achieve it... normally people today need to inspect... inspect and you find the truths... then you will have faith based on the truth, not twists and turns and the human politics of history that changed historical truth.

Definition of CULT 1: formal religious veneration: worship 2: a system of religious beliefs and ritual; also: its body of adherents 3: a religion regarded as unorthodox or spurious; also: its body of adherents 4: a system for the cure of disease based on dogma set forth by its promulgator 5a: great devotion to a person, idea, object, movement, or work (as a film or book); especially: such devotion regarded as a literary or intellectual fad b: the object of such devotion c: a usually small group of people characterized by such devotion

freethinker: one who forms opinions on the basis of reason independently of authority; especially one who doubts or denies religious dogma.

Laws should not be based on religious or other dogmas and individual freedom should not be curtailed where the interests of others are not significantly affected.

«A fundamental difference between religious and scientific thought is that the received beliefs in religion are ultimately based on revelations or pronouncements, usually by some long - dead prophet or priest... Dogma is interpreted by a caste of priests and is accepted by the multitude on faith or under duress.»

Drawing on recent examples ranging from the evolution debate to vaccine skepticism, Otto describes the emergence of an antiscience movement whose focus is to disrupt the creation of evidence - based policy for the sake of preserving profitable business models or entrenched religious dogma.

One woman's struggle to abide by religious dogma in 1970s America forms the basis of Higher Ground, the directorial debut for Vera Farmiga (Up in the Air), who also stars in this film as Corinne.