Sentences with phrase «for religious dogma»

:) The legal system does not need to account for religious dogma and laws.

While these programs are usually beneficial to the community, they serve as platforms for religious dogma — the old «hey we are doing something for you so you need to listen to, and believe what we tell you regardless of how counterintuitive it may seem».

Whitehead offers his abbreviated argument for a religious dogma based on a rational metaphysics rather than historical investigation.

There is no place for religious dogma in this common sense proposal.

Not exact matches

Shaping religious dogma is, of course, not something most of us can do, but we are responsible for our own thoughts and actions.

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.

It's not that I disagree with you about keeping religion out of schools (public schools, ones not set up specifically by a religious community for their community and paid for by that community), but dogma is what you also both adhere to and propagate, so you might want to rephrase.

Well, it's because no religious value, rule, law, tenet, or bit of dogma EVER trumps this nation's laws and we all agree on that, otherwise you might as well make the sleazy pope President and let the Ayatollah Khomeni be Vice President and we will live under religious sharia law with death for anyone who speaks blasphemy or who «dishonors» any religious figure whether real or not.

Now, realize that in today's society you are still just as hated, shunned and looked down upon for declaring that same differing belief... or even non-belief — just because people are still too hung up on their precious religious dogma to realize that, though the outcome is obviously less drastic than in the past, they are still doing the same thing that religious people did in the past?

I post here to voice alternatives to religious dogma, for those «undecided voters» who may be reading.

Differences of dogma in an essentially Christian society mostly call for giving individual believers the room for distinctions of belief while allowing genuinely distinct (and inevitably very small) religious minorities broader latitude.

The vibrant American Church became fractious: Many priests and religious abandoned their spiritual callings for the world; some theologians dispensed with their obligations to work with the Magisterium; evangelization suffered; loyalty to Church teaching was rejected in favor of a misguided notion of «conscience;» and dogma and truth were repudiated.

We can discover a reversal of the kenotic movement of the Word in the very insistence of the religious Christian that faith has for once and for all been given, that it is fully and finally present in the Scriptures, the liturgies, the creeds, and the dogmas of the past, and can in no sense undergo a development or transformation that moves beyond its original expression to new and more universal forms.

Far from being lazy, I find that being «spiritual but not religious» (SBNR) forces me to stand on my own two feet, be self - accountable, and to think for myself, and to boldly question everything, rather than hiding behind a religion and it's dogma.

Marx's critique of religion can not be accepted or refuted merely on the basis of religious dogmas, for the dogmas themselves are to be evaluated on the basis of the «truth of man» and not outside it.

your understanding of the change process is very simplistic, because your mind is not open, you specifically believe already in the traditional doctrines, Dogmas as shown in thousands of years of history evolves, and the need for input variables, meaning the diversity of religious belief is necessay because nature through his will is requiring this to happen, we are being educated by God in the events of history.In the past when there was no humans yet Gods will is directly manifisted in nature, with our coming and education through history, we gradually takes the responsibilty of implementing the will.Your complaint on your perception of abuse is just part of the complex process of educating us through experience.

In other words, the fact that so many people can be swayed by religious myths and religious dogma helps us understand why the world is so messed up — people can be talked into just about anything, including things that are bad for them.

Now, realize that in today's society you are still just as hated, shunned and looked down upon for declaring that same differing belief... or even non-belief — just because people are still too hung up on their precious religious dogma to realize that they are still doing the same thing that religious people did in the past.

E.g., in regards to scientific support for evolution and rejection of creationism and the young earth dogma, in 1986, 72 US Nobel Prize winners, 17 state academies of science and 7 other scientific societies, signed an amicus curiae brief asking the US Supreme Court in Edwards v. Aguillard to reject a Louisiana state law requiring the teaching of creationism, which the brief described as embodying religious dogma.

I have nothing but pity for the deluded religious and their fairy tales, saints mythology, meaningless prayers and dogma.

While we are interested in bearing witness to the gospel of Jesus, our mission is not to recruit people from one religious institution or belief system for another; nor to give them new laws, dogmas and rituals; but rather to persuade all to change our lives and ways, and adopt a new way of seeing, doing and being.

The systematization of religious dogmas in Islam was a task undertaken by the followers of Muhammad when the need for the establishment of a Muslim theology was felt.

Anybody who kills or persecutes another for their own religious beliefs is missing the whole «kernel» of what the dogma of those religions say.

I'm not a GOPer: «The «spiritual but not religious» eschews dogma for buffet - style «beliefs».

Following a religious dogma without grasping the essence of spirituality is the core cause for the turmoil we have witnessed in our history, and are witnessing today.

While these ideas are not necessarily being mentioned by the author, his failure to understand that dogma and intolerance are the simultaneous catalyst not only for the injustices committed by «religious» groups, but also for the exodus away from those same groups by the thinking people who just can not conscientiously go along with their craziness.

I wonder if «spiritual but not religious» is a bit of a cultural transitional stage in which it is becoming clear that formal religious dogma is at best intellectually unsatisfying, and at worst not only false but dangerous; and yet we don't really know what to do with that part of our brain that seeks magical explanations for what we can not easily understand.

So sad that you don't see the difference between a billboard posted next to a highway — paid for by private funds — and religious dogma and prayer being forced on citizens and paid for by tax dollars.

Especially when there are people acting on religious dogma to withhold medical treatment from their children, kill doctors, sabotage the education system, fill kid's minds with imagery of gratuitous torture, fly planes into buildings, stone women to death for driving alone... etc...

Whatever your faith, whatever your religious roots are, your primary dogma should be that all people are God's people, and that God's love is for everyone.

In this case the Church is trying to deny easy access to contraception for women who don't agree with the Church's current religious dogma on this issue and would use contraception if available.

But with regard to halakhah, resistance to change is not only due to the need for legal stability, but is also based on a most powerful religious dogma, that the Word of God is unchanging and His Law immutable, this Word and this Law being mediated through the Talmudic Sages and through no others.

There is room for religion in school as a subject for social science, not as dogma; but Creationism is religious dogma that depends on misconceptions and ignorance to pass itself off as science.

The threat to this idea of secularism arises form religious fundamentalism which is afraid of insecurity through change in traditional religious dogmas, ritual practices of purity and impurity in social laws; the threat also comes from communalism which seeks political power for one's religious community or in the case of Hindutva wants to establish a Hindu state.

Ignorance is bliss, if you add arrogance to the delusion you get a complete recipe for following religious dogma.

This dogmatic intolerance becomes all the more difficult for non-Catholics when it is associated not only with distinctly religious dogma, but also with elements of natural law that are not accepted as divinely sanctioned moral demands by most non-Catholics.

Definition of CULT 1: formal religious veneration: worship 2: a system of religious beliefs and ritual; also: its body of adherents 3: a religion regarded as unorthodox or spurious; also: its body of adherents 4: a system for the cure of disease based on dogma set forth by its promulgator 5a: great devotion to a person, idea, object, movement, or work (as a film or book); especially: such devotion regarded as a literary or intellectual fad b: the object of such devotion c: a usually small group of people characterized by such devotion

Let the religious stand for office alongside everyone else, with no reserved benches that honour their office and their dogma instead of their individual qualities.

The Splendid Feast of Reason, S. Jonathan Singer (University of California Press) Singer, a biologist, argues that religious dogma must make way in the coming century for methodical, reasoned ideas.

Drawing on recent examples ranging from the evolution debate to vaccine skepticism, Otto describes the emergence of an antiscience movement whose focus is to disrupt the creation of evidence - based policy for the sake of preserving profitable business models or entrenched religious dogma.

Religious dogma compromises Pope Francis's call for action on climate change by rejecting key solutions

I am not talking here about the limiting beliefs of religious or political dogma, which for so long have shackled humanity into fear, guilt and disempowerment, and could have their own long discussion.

For example: Taubes says that Japanese sumo wrestlers are fat due to eating more carbs but they also eat 2 - 5 times as much protein as the normal lean Japanese people who eat 300g of starch a day in defiance of idiotic low - carb religious dogma.

One woman's struggle to abide by religious dogma in 1970s America forms the basis of Higher Ground, the directorial debut for Vera Farmiga (Up in the Air), who also stars in this film as Corinne.

The American penchant for expressive individualism means that most conservative religious parents often place a higher priority on the unique qualities of individual children and the prerogatives of parental choice than on church dogma.

Grant attacked government support for schools run by religious organizations and called for the defense of public education «unmixed with sectarian, pagan or atheistical dogmas,» according to Mark Edward DeForrest, writing in the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy.

That debate is what got the mediaeval Christian world out of its thrall to religious dogma and into the enlightenment, with much pain for people brave enough to lead the debate.

The advantages of dogma When I refer to the IPCC dogma, it is the religious importance that the IPCC holds for this cadre of scientists; they will tolerate no dissent, and seek to trample and discredit anyone who challenges the IPCC.

Now I'm really impressed... you've come right out and said it: «religious dogma» for preservation of power, influence and money

History is rife with examples of religious intolerance to the extent that individuals were murdered in the name of a religion for failing to keep the dogma.