Sentences with phrase «dominated by religion»

Certainly atheism has been a very dangerous position in a world dominated by religion.

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«The report is dominated by the old fashioned view that traditional religion is declining in importance and that non-adherence to a religion is the same as humanism or secularism.

Would Judaism and the Jewish people have fared better or worse if they had not found themselves for the most part living in a civilization dominated by the Christian religion, which has claimed from the beginning to be the direct descendant and fulfillment of Judaism and the life of the Jewish people?

I was taught, for example, the Enlightenment mythology of the dark, anti-intellectual ages dominated by the Church and the growth of human knowledge and freedom brought by those who rejected religion and discovered science.

«19 Thoroughgoing empirics tend to avoid organized religion altogether, but many whose outlook is dominated by this orientation are in fact faithful church members.

The current dialogue between religion and science seems to be dominated by the intelligent design (ID) controversy.

The Mind of God by Paul Davies Simon & Schuster, 254 pages, $ 22 «I have always thought it curious that, while most scientists claim to eschew religion, it actually dominates their thoughts more than it does the clergy.»

Before the flourishing of Bultmann's career, New Testament scholarship had been dominated by literary criticism, which attempted to uncover the secret of how the texts were compiled; by investigation of the Hellenistic background, especially the mystery religions surrounding the early church, as part of a sociological critique of the history of religion; and by excitement about the apocalyptic content of the teaching of Jesus as a first century Jew.

Pluralism and Particularity in Religious Belief By Brad Stetson Praeger, 145 pages, $ 45 In the Christian theology - of - other - religions debate, John Hick's pluralist hypothesis dominates the field.

In a number of states, these agencies are dominated by teacher unions and public school advocates who have made it virtually impossible for some religions to operate schools in accordance with their religious principles.

Neither the centuries during which India was successively dominated by Muslims and the British nor the arrival of other religions, including Christianity, succeeded in overcoming the influence of this caste system; indeed, the effect of Muslim and British colonization was to strengthen the status quo.

In this view two currents of thought, staffed for the most part by two groups of people, dominated the formative years of the American civil religion.

The works of the learned modern theologians since Schleiermacher contain ever changing presentations of the Christian religion which are dominated by the desire to do justice to historical and contemporaneous Christian experience as well as to all phases of modem knowledge.

Also different is the social and political status of African and Asian Christians, who are often minorities in countries dominated by other religions or secular ideologies.

For example the extremes of all Religions in trying to dominate our society, the wars caused by Religions, their internal feuding, and political manuvering.

It's simple as this, Rick Santorum appeals to the less educated, extremely conservative and more bigot minded segment of rural America, which is largely dominated by Born again evangelicals, who as the article points out have a misguided view that that Mormons aren't Christian, and in their misguided bigotry seem to be voting against Romney based upon their religion rather than for a good candidate who can win the general election.

I think Muslim's, as a whole, are extremely ethnocentric (more so than most cultures), uneducated (not their fault due to the fact their religion is dominated by morons), and are the most whiny and vengeful (they hold grudges forever) group of people I've ever met.

The report deals with the subject: The Kingdom of God and Human Struggles, under five areas of concern: The Kingdom of God and the struggles of people in countries searching for liberation and self - determination; The Kingdom of God and the struggles for human rights; The Kingdom of God in contexts of strong revival of institutional religions; The Kingdom of God in the context of centrally planned economics; and The Kingdom of God in the struggles of countries dominated by consumerism and the growth of big cities.

Vic You know in your heart you are stating this multi cultural / religious nation must be dominated by the Christian religion, but you Christians can not even get together on what you mean as a religion, so many different dogmas.

In the professedly Christian State the Church was not so fully dominated by the State as the pre-Christian religions had been, but it was not so nearly autonomous as in the West, and occasional struggles towards autonomy were less prominent and less successful than in the West.

It recognizes that there are elements of wish - fulfillment in most religions, but that healthy religion is not dominated by these elements.

The idea of the separation of church and state resulted from Enlightenment ideals in response to how religion is often used by government to dominate and control its citizens and make war on other nations.

Heady questions that are touched upon in this allegory of our era's heated struggle between religion vs. science that so dominates many of our medical and scientific research that could potentially save humanity (it's not a coincidence that the Icarus expeditions have scientists, environmentalists and psychologists), if not for the fact that some of their methods are deemed morally reprehensible by people with devout beliefs.

Michigan's new Republican - dominated state school board has set off an uproar by passing a mission statement containing references to God and religion.

The problem, according to Hunter, a professor of sociology and religion at the University of Virginia, lies in the psychologically oriented pedagogy that character educators turn to in teaching values to children: «Dominated as it is by perspectives diffused and diluted from professional psychology, this regime is overwhelmingly therapeutic and self - referencing; in character, its defining feature is a moral framework whose center point is the autonomous self.»

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