Sentences with phrase «because religious texts»

A very ample tradition exists here as well, especially because religious texts have been fair game for literary analysis for a long time.

The type of atheists, like most on this post, that continue with the ridiculous assertion that there can be nothing greater than us that exists above or outside of our little physical realm, are simply either intellectually stunted individuals, or more likely, bitter people who have gotten their panties in a bunch because some religious text contains some apparent condemnation of their lifestyle.

Not exact matches

I have a theory that SBNRs are so because one or more or a combination of the following: (1) they can't justify their spiritual texts - and so they try to remove themselves from gory genocidal tales, misogyny and anecdotal professions of a man / god, (2) can't defend and are turned off by organized religious history (which encompasses the overwhelming majority of spiritual experiences)- which is simply rife with cruelty, criminal behavior and even modern day cruel - ignorant ostracization, (3) are unable to separate ethics from their respective religious moral code - they, like many theists on this board, wouldn't know how to think ethically because they think the genesis of morality resides in their respective spiritual guides / traditions and (4) are unable to separate from the communal (social) benefits of their respective religion (many atheists aren't either).

Religion is a tool used to shape our world, and the bible and other religious texts are full of clues because they we're written by those who guard the knowledge.

I don't think he can be considered a Christian just because he agrees with some passages from the bible - they may have well come from any other religious text.

Figures because studies suggest we atheists have a better understanding of religious texts then the religious.

I wonder, PRISSY, do you think Samuel Barber is in heaven because he composed beautiful music and set religious text to it, or is he in hell because he was gay?

We do right by each other and right by our community because it's the good and righteous thing to do, not because we suffer the burden of guilt hung on us by some religious text.

You can post quotes from and references to this book all year long and it will not change the fact that: Yes, there are some practical words of wisdom for peaceful human behavior in it (as there are in most religious texts), but just because this is true it does not make all of the supernatural fantasies in it true.

One reason the Bible is unique is because the Bible is the most violent religious text in the world.

Because a god might exist... but it isn't the man made religious stupidity found in the fictional bibles and other religious texts on this planet.

Eric G: You are claiming that religious texts do not need to be accurate, (or even factual) because the message needs to be «dumbed down» so the masses can understand it.

You are claiming that religious texts do not need to be accurate, (or even factual) because the message needs to be «dumbed down» so the masses can understand it.

@jim, I hope you believe it because of the cultural shifts or perhaps because you had a vision or believe some messages in a religious text... and not because you're planning to do something.

Just because everyone interprets things individually does not remove the sheer psychotic madness that is in the religious texts themselves.

If you do believe this, why practice Mormonism, which has in its primary religious text: And [God] had caused the cursing to come upon them, yea, even a sore cursing, because of their iniquity.

Everyone is capable of SOME degree of hate, but the religious like to think their «god» tells them it's ok to do so because of some «holy» out - of - date texts

My children will have approximately 1 / 7th greater life experiences because they won't be wasting a day trying to commune with a non-existent all - powerful being with pathological tendencies, if you base his existence on what you read in the various religious texts some men (no women) wrote several thousand years ago.

Ultimately, if the idea the political Samaritan — of introducing openly religious texts and motifs into political discourse — leaves us uncomfortable, that may be because the business of negotiating different conceptions of the personal and public good that lies at the heart of politics, is an uncomfortable business.

Rather «My case is that of the IPCC my chosen priests of my religious faith who are rewarded based on their faith in my religion, backed up by evidence that I refuse to present (because I refuse to present information that contradicts my religious faith) and the Science my sacred Text as written by the chosen priests of my religious faith.»

But when one contrasts the Canadian reaction to the explicit insertion of religious views into the Republican Party and the recent book attempting to argue that the US Constitution (notwithstanding the separation doctrine) is a Christian text because of the beliefs of the Founding Fathers — then it becomes clear just how different the two legal cultures are.