Sentences with phrase «dogma at»

Given that there is no consensus (or we would not be here), this is clearly dogma at work.

It's her passion, guidance, and on - going education that keeps dogma at the top of the game, using only humane training practices and the latest scientific knowledge.

It's diverting for a while to see Blanchett done up as a homeless man, wandering through industrial rubble as she shouts Situationist dogma at the lens in a Scottish accent, but there's nothing to it beyond technique.

Dogma at the time held that no new neurons are born in the adult brain, so Ramòn y Cajal made the reasonable assumption that the key changes must occur between existing neurons.

It definitively bridges the gap between viruses and cells — a gap that was proclaimed as dogma at the very outset of modern virology back in the 1950s.

That was virtually dogma at the time.

You're welcome to come back, just leave the dogma at the door.

The sentiment has also taken on the air of dogma at every one of the four U.N. social commissions that meet each year in New York.

Personal religious experience and inner feeling, therefore, began to take precedence over religious thought and dogma at the very time when traditional Christian doctrines were becoming increasingly out of kilter with the new ideas and advancing human knowledge of the last two centuries.

Other franchises of Christianity have changed dogma at times among a variety of topics.

Which is why fundamentalists are not typically drawn to truth but instead seek to closed mindedly defend their dogma at any cost.

These statements reveal «creation science» to be an oxymoron, a contradiction in terms, based on religious dogma (and a simple minded dogma at that).

Would be much easier to «cop - out» and lean on a hypocritical organization to spew dogma at my kids.

Those who reject all but naturalistic causation for existence itself (true atheists) are in denial as to the dogma at the foundation of their belief.

There is no doubt that in this sense there was a development of dogma at the Second Vatican Council.

We have here two dogmas at loggerheads.

Not exact matches

Most economists - at least not those blinded by either dogma or an over-reliance on quarterly data - who made a fundamental analysis of the state of western economies, could not help but feel that the sense of escape from calamity was a bit premature.

«You look at other, bigger ecosystems that have entrenched relationships and a dogma in place; whereas, we're able to mobilize and react faster — see something, do something.

Bigotry and unprovable / unknowable / unquestionable dogma of the religions which (many / some) believers may place all of their morality around comepletely, is at the heart of the problem here.

Maybe we can look at it as a phase that many Christians from all demographics go through before a renewal, and that would be a good thing, for since organized religion, hence dogma, doctrine, religious practices, etc., is the primary cause for parting ways, it is a wake up call for the Christian church.

I'm sure I'm not using the right wording but it is easy to say something is outdated dogma by only looking at the last line of a book that has been in process for 2,000 years (i.e. 9 times older than the government trying to tell it what to do).

It would be nice for her dogma - immersed professor to eventually arrive at what his student came to know so early in her life, that knowledge is gained from living life, and that knowledge can be more true right now than the human writings on the topic that only go back at most 5,000 years.

Kerry Egan observed something as a divinity school student that escaped her divinity school professor... that at or near the moment of truth \ death, up to a lifetime of religious dogma evaporates, and only reality remains.

At another level, I'm fascinated by the phenomenal success of an overtly moralistic movement in a time dominated by the dogma that you must not impose your morality on others.

That, at least, has measurable effects... and no religious dogma surrounding it.

When the journalist says for the thousandth time, «Living religion is not in dull and dusty dogmas, etc.» we must stop him with a sort of shout and say, «There — you go wrong at the very start.»

If you think causality is true at all, there are no such things as uncaused suspensions of physical laws («miracles») and therefore no possibility of the sort of miraculous events all religions claim as basic to their dogmas.

Then look at the fact that they were (and probably still are) the most racist of all American faiths, as a matter of DOGMA... Few other faiths have hated Black people as much as the Mormons.

In 2009 a conference of «ecopsychologists» was held at the University of West England to discuss the obvious psychological problems resident in those who do not adhere to the global warming dogma.

If that negation of human works (and by implication of all human structure and conduct) is what Christianity is, then morality, tradition, authority, the Church, sanctification, discipleship, liturgical order, and even dogma are secondary at best.

The point at issue is whether or not monogenism is an infallibly defined dogma, and therefore whether or not the question can legitimately be discussed in any terms at all.

It is wise to take fresh looks at most of the dogma we have been showered with for generations.

* worship God, who has never been, at any time for any reason, a capricious God of death, war, murder, destruction, violence, abuse, vengeance, hate, fear, lies, slavery, systemic injustice, oppression, conditional acceptance, exclusion, segregation, discrimination, shunning, ostracism, eternal condemnation, eternal punishment, retribution, sacrifices, patriarchy, matriarchy, empire, nationalism, only one culture, only one race or portion of the population, parochialism, sectarianism, dogma, creeds, pledges, oaths or censorship — and who has never behaved as a Greco - Roman or narcissistic deity.

There are no absolute truth claims involved at all... except, of course, the absolute dogma that there are no truth claims in matters of religion and morals!

It's time to realise that religious dogma helps nobody but the people at the top.

There a plenty of non-trinitarian Christian denominations like the Christadelphians, Christian Scientists, Dawn Bible Students, Friends General Conference, Iglesia ni Cristo, Members Church of God International, Jehovah's Witnesses, Mormons, La Luz del Mundo, Living Church of God, Oneness Pentecostals, Unitarian Universalist Christians and the United Church of God... The very idea of the Trinity didn't become Christian dogma until some 300 years after Christ's death, and even then it was quite a debate at the Council of Nicea...

All of this was certainly a very idiosyncratic way of reading the tradition of the Church, but we must not forget that the understanding of «dogma» was still in flux and not defined until sixty later at the First Vatican Council (1870/71).

He had only a greatly flawed understanding of his church's dogma, and no understanding at all of its faith.

He must regard them as the at present available and binding ways of access, as elucidation, as props to understanding the dogma of the Church relating to salvation.

The cases of Donne and Jonson are exactly to the point: Donne wrote poetry that reflected Catholic dogma regarding Mary, which he pointedly contradicted in his sermons at St. Paul; he also wrote anti-Catholic satire.

At the beginning of the sixth century of the Hijrah, Muhammad Ibn Tumart — known as the Mahdi, that is, the Imam who is to come — appeared as a reformer and established a new state with the avowed purpose of reforming dogma and the social order.

everything in the universe evolves, not only life forms but also memes, Religion is a meme so it also change in conformity to its era or time of its conception as faith.Because in pre scientific times thousands of years ago, the scientific method of approach or philosophy has not existed yet, myth or merely story telling is considered facts, The first religion called animism more than 10,000 years ago believed that spirits or god exists in trees, rivers, mountains, boulders or in any places people at that time considered holy.hundreds of them, then when the Greeks and Romans came, it was reduced to 12, they called it polytheism, when the Jews arrived, it was further reduced to 1, monotheism.its derivatives, Christianity And Islam and later hundreds of denominations that includes Mormonism and Protestants flourished up to today.So in short this religions evolved in accordance to the scientific knowledge of the age or era they existed.If you graph the growth of knowledge, it shows a sharp increase in the last 500 years, forcing the dominant religions at that time to reinterprete their dogmas, today this traditional religions are becoming obsolete and has to evolve to survive.But first they have to unify against atheism.in the dialectical process of change, Theism in one hand and the opposing force atheism in the other, will resolve into a result or synthesis.The process shall be highlighted in the internet in the near future.

Most people lose or forget the subjectively religious experience, and redefine Religion as a set of habits, behaviors, dogmas, forms, which at the extreme becomes entirely legalistic and bureaucratic, conventional, empty, and in the truest meaning of the word, antireligious.

Sir Winston and other greats of Western civilization notwithstanding, our good priest from Thebes would have felt most uncomfortable at Trent or in other contemporary centers of Christendom where dogmas were held in high regard.

The same tax - dodging religion whose medæval dogma kept their parents from responsibly using contraception to avoid filling the ghettoes with unwanted, unsupervised, uneducated kids at the least crushing our national economy with welfare burdens and often slaughtering innocents with gun violence gets credit for a happy ending?

A genuine philosophy of history regarding the beginning8 of genuinely human history, and a genuine theology of the experience of man's own existence as a fallen one which can not have been so «in the beginning», would show that where it is a question of the history of the spirit, the pure beginning in reality already possesses in its dawn - like innocence and simplicity, what is to ensue from it, and that consequently the theological picture of man in the beginning as it was traditionally painted and as it in part belongs to the Church's dogma, expresses much more reality and truth than a superficial person might at first admit.

At least, by all accounts, he has practiced what he preaches... a frugal path often less - travelled by leaders who espouse Marxist and Socialist dogma.

As I shall make clear later, I find profound and vital truth in the experience which lies behind the dogma of the Trinity but, at the same time, I think more nonsense has been written about that dogma than about any other item of the Christian creed.

At the end of the last century, Arnold advocated art as a solution to the evident collapse of religion: «There is not a creed which is not shaken, not an accredited dogma which is not shown to be questionable, not a received tradition which does not threaten to dissolve.»

African governments have also suffered from deliberate efforts, at the behest of aid agencies with powers over development dogmas, to «shrink the state.»