Sentences with phrase «experience out of religion»

Eastern religions never took experience out of religion.

Not exact matches

Some, in recent decades, have turned to an analysis of «civil religion,» which at its best is the awareness that there are universalistic moral sensitivities which have developed out of the American experience.

It seems clear to me (I have been putting off and coming out of the religion of men for 28 years) that the clear teaching of Scripture is that Man IS a Body AND Spirit in combination — and the experience of this interaction is the ephemeral thing we call Consciousness — «Soul».

It is easy to stand and prophecy that in the future there will be strange new religions, that people will do things foreign to our understanding, and swear that our gods will not be pleased... and be correct... because it is the nature of human beings to change, to modify our beliefs to fit our experience, to seek out new understanding, change the way we dress and do our hair, and unfortunately, it is in our nature to fight over stupid crap like land and religion.

In describing and accounting for the lives of the Religious Right, which we define simply as religious conservatives with a considerable involvement in political activity, the book and the series tell the story primarily by focusing on leading episodes in the movement's history, including, but not limited to, the groundwork laid by Billy Graham in his relationships with presidents and other prominent political leaders; the resistance of evangelical and other Protestants to the candidacy of the Roman Catholic John F. Kennedy; the rise of what has been called the New Right out of the ashes of Barry Goldwater's defeat in 1964; a battle over sex education in Anaheim, California, in the mid-1960's; a prolonged cultural war over textbooks in West Virginia in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently in community after community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt over the election of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was, of all things, a Democrat; the rise of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and state.

So far as the earlier portions of the Old Testament are concerned, this is true, but the much more considerable truth is that, starting with tribal religion, as all early peoples did, the Jews through their prophetic souls made one of the greatest contributions ever made in the spiritual history of man, by blazing the trail out from religion as merely a national cult to religion as also a profound, inward, personal experience.

The people are the original creators and sustainers of cultures and religions, which arise out of their primal experiences.

In approaching many ways to God Barclay sets out four conceptions of religion, plus personal experience and temperament.

Writing out of more than a decade of experience as a mental hospital chaplain, Carroll A. Wise speaks to the importance of symbols in religion:

A good religion (or religious experience) needs the ability for one to contest the religion's premises in the first place and, if it turns out to not work, then, to use a different medical analogy, there needs to be an exploration of other treatments that aren't going to wreck the system.

is a movie about many things — a person figuring out her priorities, a reminder of the treatment of women in countries where a religion's rules treat them as second - class citizens, a study of the addictive nature of high - pressure and dangerous situations, a biographical account of a reporter's experience covering a war, a consideration of how the news can abandon one battlefield for another when the public's attention becomes distracted.

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot is a movie about many things — a person figuring out her priorities, a reminder of the treatment of women in countries where a religion's rules treat them as second - class citizens, a study of the addictive nature of high - pressure and dangerous situations, a biographical account of a reporter's experience covering a war, a consideration of how the news can abandon one battlefield for another when the public's attention becomes distracted.

Now an acclaimed scholar of comparative religion, Armstrong explores the implications of her personal experience in The Spiral Staircase: My Climb Out of...

If you've suffered from discrimination or harassment at work because of your faithful observance of your religion, you should reach out right away to an experienced New Jersey religious discrimination attorney.