Sentences with phrase «dogmatic religion»

They were killed by communists and communism is just another murderous, dogmatic religion, just like christianity

a world without dogmatic religion is coming, but not for many generations.

Judaism is even older so don't hold you breath waiting for an end to «dogmatic religion».

Underlying all of Newman's life and work is his conviction that Christianity is a dogmatic religion and that the antithesis of Christianity is «the anti-dogmatic spirit.»

Dogmatic religion is the # 1 threat to humanity in the 21st century and the fact that people are drifting away from it should only be seen as positive.

Whether you want to admit it or not, Naturalism (that is, a belief that nature is the highest authority, or the divine per se) has become just as much of a dogmatic religion as the religions which Naturalists rail against.

Practicing dogmatic religion at the expense of loving God and surrendering one's heart to God means something quite different.

Not exact matches

Compare that to the dogmatic stance of religion — a phony belief system that starts and end with unproven manmade tribal myths, not open to true debate, and that only changes in order to maintain power over the gullible.

I think you can find close - minded dogmatic extremists in every religion and in every philosophical / political shape and color.

Churches and dogmatic beliefs are often incompatible, but religion should not.

I personally think religion should not be a factor.No one should ask the candidates what their religious views are and they should never mention them.Their religious preferences have absolutely no effect on what type of leader they will be.Unless they are some kind of a religious fanatic.I think it's time for an atheist.There was not a Christian president for over the first 50 years of our nations existence.And, I do not think there has been one since.If you look it up you will find not one of our founding fathers were Christian.Not even Jefferson.I know he wrote the Jefferson bible, but, that's just because he, like the other founding fathers, did not believe Jesus to be of divine decent.So, he kept his philosophy while removing all the mystical and dogmatic concepts.

Anything that is dogmatic and expects you to behave a certain way and that people try to shove down each other's throats is a religion.

By and large, the rites of American civic religion are harmless enough, bland baptisms of the status quo by the application of a bit of liturgy emptied of any real dogmatic significance or personal demands.

That is what makes religion dogmatic and prevents atheism from being dogmatic.

If the history of Christianity has taught us anything it is its ability to assimilate culture, other religions and science into its dogmatic fold.

The truth is — one of the problems with Communism is that it was a dogmatic ideology, which was all too similar to religion.

My rejection of religion is a thorough one, borne of my own disinterest in organized belief systems, my distrust of dogmatic thinking and those who prefer it, and my own unwillingness to put faith in ancient tribal myths.

The things I find most appalling about religion reach a new zenith in Islam --(i) a dulling down of individual thought and a dogmatic requirement to conform to the views of the masses; (ii) a stultifying ignorant education system in which anything inconsistent with the Qur» an is not just discouraged, but censored; (iii) the subjugation of women to the point of educating them to be nothing but mindless f * king, breeding machines for their insecure husbands; (iv) a political class that feeds off the religious - based ignorance it imposes on its populations; and (v) a general back - sliding against the rest of the planet because heads are buried in Dark Ages mythology.

And yes, Jesus hated the dogmatic practice of religion as the sole expression of belief.

In the area of knowledge, religion's weakness is not in questions it raises but in its attempt to give dogmatic answers: Beyond the myths about the origin, end and meaning of life, beyond the alienated notions of transcendence and death, there exists the concrete dialectic of finite and infinite, and this remains a living reality as long as we remain aware that it is not in the order of answer but in the order of question.

The social historians have shown that the official, dogmatic, established, and routinized religion of the churches was a very fragile creation.

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

In the argument of Protestant - Catholic - Jew, if the specific dogmatic elements of each faith were not important, then religion must have become simply one way a minority group could ease its way into the mainstream.

The religion has made it that an otherwise good person, living their life, surrounding themselves with loving friends and families and doing charitable things can still be considered «bad» by religion because they aren't following dogmatic law asking them to alienate and pester other people.

Plus, the teaching of religion tends to be dogmatic.

[1] however some religions were persecuted for political reasons rather than dogmatic zeal, [2] and other rites banned which involved human sacrifice.

Any Christian that disagrees is too close minded, too indoctrination, too dogmatic to understand the very simple reason why... Truth, so far as religion is concerned, is in the eye of the beholder.

We also found that Marx's critique of religion indeed helps us to awaken from our dogmatic slumber.

Just because religion requires some kind of dogmatic cra.p doesn't mean the same applies to atheists.

Says he: «When both Judaism and Christianity acknowledge that it is fundamentally one religion, one faith, and do not deny it, as still happens so much either out of ignorance or out of dogmatic prejudices — then they can really debate with each other.»

In response to the first claim, Pelikan quotes Lionel Trilling: «It is probably true that when the dogmatic principle in religion is slighted, religion goes along for a while on generalized emotion and ethical intention — «morality touched by emotion,»» but it «then loses the force of its impulse and even the essence of Its being.»

It calls its conclusions dogmatic theology, or philosophy of the absolute, as the case may be; it does not call them science of religions.

His later dogmatic writings stifled the rhetorical dialectics and the polemic against religion that gave his earlier «crisis theology» its immense spiritual power.

For those who are rigid, dogmatic and absolutist, it does not matter whether you are in the tenth century or 21st century, you must live according to the literal teachings of your religion.»

They killed in the name of Nazism and communism, which are other types of dogmatic faiths just like religion

Writing in Commonweal, Peter Steinfels, senior religion reporter for the New York Times, describes what is now a very tired scenario: «A church that is democratic, egalitarian, open, embracing, tolerant, innovating, lay - led, diverse, and affirmative of American values is pitted against a church that is autocratic, hierarchical, dogmatic, discriminating, clerical, monolithic, and committed to a European past.»

And even if science had said it, that's the beauty of science: it's self - correcting, unlike religion which sticks to its dogmatic guns no matter what (it only took the Vatican about 400 years to admit that Galileo was right and that we live in a heliocentric solar system).

That Bhuddism has dogmatic «scriptures» or tracts enough for Bhuddism to be called Bhuddism, make it a religion — plain and simple.

(Christians like to say they do nt believe in religion but have a relationship with God - I guess because religion can be dogmatic and insincere, but, they are religious as in spiritual.

I don't see any problem with dropping the dogmatic, pointless - in - the - modern - day parts of religion.

Atheism is the most dogmatic of all religions.

Perhaps American religion's recent conservative shift has so affected the mood of the schools that denominational seminaries must now battle just to hold on to the gains made in the 1950s and «60s (such as commitments to practical theology, to historical - critical hermeneutics and to revisioning traditional dogmatics).

The reason the author found out that kids have a tendency to make us more observant is because religion is dogmatic in nature and requires an all in commitment.

or when they made the religion of a bleeding heart liberal into a conservative dogmatic behavioral control mechanism.

Jake 90 and Slim Shady: I agree with you mostly for the «western» religions (Christians, Jews, Muslims), but I think that the Eastern religions are quite a bit more advanced and not as dogmatic.

One of the more exciting «happenings» of our time is the convergence of science and religion and the ending of the dogmatic absolutism that turned science into scientism and faith into fideism.

We all know that religion supresses the masses like it always has and continues to dogmatically pursue with dogmatic ferver.

And the bigotries are most of them in their turn chargeable to religion's wicked intellectual partner, the spirit of dogmatic dominion, the passion for laying down the law in the form of an absolutely closed - in theoretic system.

The Spirit of politics and the lust of dogmatic rule are then apt to enter and to contaminate the originally innocent thing; so that when we hear the word «religion» nowadays, we think inevitably of some «church» or other; and to some persons the word «church» suggests so much hypocrisy and tyranny and meanness and tenacity of superstition that in a wholesale undiscerning way they glory in saying that they are «down» on religion altogether.

It led to practical forms of conduct which can not be judged by criteria of dogmatic thought and the division of religions on a doctrinal basis.