This problem is especially acute for black women, both writers seem to be saying, because the structures neither of society nor
of formal religion provide this grounding.
By believing in some unprovable existential being, those that belong to
formal religions avoid having to ask ANY tough questions.
If you answer is that you don't
need formal religion (i.e. a church to do this), I would recommend you consider Hebrews 10:25 before closing that door.
For example, I understand that within the Jewish religion, burials should takes place as soon as possible following death, and can be followed by a formal
The «spiritual» group may have a few cop outs, but it also contains a growing body of people that see through the facade
of formal religion.
His thickheaded opinion about people like me is exactly why I have a personal disdain
for formal religion.
Formal religion is a thing of the past... Let's just be human.
In the early stages of transitioning from
a formal religion to a personal faith those are often the only words a person has to express what they are learning and feeling.
What I posted about being in the early stages of transitioning from
a formal religion to a personal faith WAS NOT about you, but was about those to whom you react abrasively.
Spiritualism and
formal religion can be linked due to how each came about.
In the latest Pew Research Center survey, fully 25 percent of the country — 80 million people — say that they have
no formal religion, and the growth....
Gods and
formal religions are nit required.
However, it can also be used for those that have
no formal religion in their day to day lives.One does not have to be religious in order to do good, to be giving etc.It is strictly up to the individual as to how they live their lives.
formal religion was created to subdue indiviual rights as well as female rights.
What emerges in a given situation as «operant religion» will differ considerably from the «
formal religion» of the historic creeds, and more concern with the former is essential to understanding how belief systems function in people's daily lives.»
-- You could say that Russia has
no formal religion, although Pu $ $ y Riot might contest that — But where was the war, with atheist soldiers en masse, fighting against a religion?
In the latest Pew Research Center survey, fully 25 percent of the country — 80 million people — say that they have
no formal religion, and the growth of this cohort is nothing short of startling.
With classical requirements collapsing rapidly and
formal religion having been pushed to the periphery, the ideals and achievements of the humanities could still provide coherence to the curriculum.
They hadn't found one in the work - a-day world, nor in
formal religion, though some were flirting with Eastern faiths.
«Almost three - quarters of the pro-choice people interviewed said that
formal religion was either unimportant or completely irrelevant to them;» only 25 per cent of them ever attend church, and then only occasionally.
First, I'll say that I don't really identify with
any formal religion and I am gay.
One should not close the book on these signals by restricting them to
formal religion from Native American through present - day Churches of Christ.
They created Hinduism, which is a religion based off of the vedas, but it's more almost in this western way because they had never had
a formal religion before.
He doesn't practice
a formal religion.