Sentences with phrase «from older religions»

Christianity was cobbled together entirely out of stories and ideas from older religions, with Jesus haphazardly slapped on it.

thus of a sudden to seduce the Church which was devoted to him, and hung upon him through admiration of his genius, his learning, his eloquence, his manner of life and influence, while she had no fear, no suspicion for herself — thus, I say, to seduce the Church, slowly and little by little, from the old religion to a new profaneness, was not only a trial, but a great trial.

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As more and more children get removed from the old ways of indoctrinating them all with religious belief from an early age, then atheism will become the norm, and religion the refuge of the minorities of the mentally ill and the lame seekers of cargo cults.

it's comical how religion can take a person with little more than a grade school education — and elevate their mind to the level where they literally believe they can argue subjects for which they are so completely ill - equipped — that virtually everything they posit seems as if it's coming from an 8 year old child.

I gave up the concept of God when I was 12 years old because I did a little research and found out it's all a bunch of cr ap taken from other religions before it like Zorastrianism.

Oh yeah... And this so called religion of peace show us that they can't stop from killing each other... Shiite vs Sunni and all the stories from all these countries from the old Soviet block that we can't remember because of all the K's Z's R's and T's on their name (no criticism of their language... we just can't associate those names very well)...

But many others are influenced by authority figures from such a young age that by the time they are old enough to think for themselves, racism (or religion) has already been deeply instilled.

4) Believe in borrowed material from other religions... i.e. Noah's flood... there are much older almost identical stories of a great flood.

Most importantly, note this: I am a Christian, I'm gay, I'm a recovering alcoholic, I believe in Evolution, I believe the universe is 13 billion years old and that the Earth is 4.5 or so billion years old, I believe man evolved from lower primates and that Adam was the first man who God gave a soul and sentience, I do not believe in hell but I do believe in Satan, I do not believe the Bible is a book of rules meant to imprison man or condemn him but that it is rather a «Human Existence for Dummies» guide, I believe Christ was the son of God but I do not believe Christianity is the only «valid» religion, I do not believe atheists will go to hell, while the English Bible says God should be feared, the Hebrew word used for fear, «yara», such as that used in the Book of Job, actually means respect / reverence, not fear as one would fear death or a spider.

The old religion was more human, more tolerant of shifts from one god to another, and less likely to breed fiercely embattled heresies.

Many ideas in the bible are lifted from older and different religions.

(14) So unto this (religion of Islâm alone and this Qur» ân) then invite (people)(O Muhammad SAW), and stand firm [on Islâmic Monotheism by performing all that is ordained by Allâh (good deeds), and by abstaining from all that is forbidden by Allâh (sins and evil deeds)-RSB-, as you are commanded, and follow not their desires but say: «I believe in whatsoever Allâh has sent down of the Book [all the holy Books, — this Qur» ân and the Books of the old from the Taurât (Torah), or the Injeel (Gospel) or the Pages of Ibrâhîm (Abraham)-RSB- and I am commanded to do justice among you.

90 % of the New and Old Testaments is completely fabricated or evolved from other religions.

It's a diagnosis of our sickness - unto death that's older than Amos — the confusion of religion with riches, of doing good with doing well: «In their eagerness to be rich some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many pains.»

---- If a group stole stories from an already established and OLDER religion, how can such plagiarism have any integrity or truth??????

There was a a great deal of cultural exchange, and it is EXTREMELY likely that the eastern philosophies, started weakening the old religions in the region, and the NT was written in responce to this, so it is very likely that what Jesus allegedly taugh WAS from the Buddha and other sources, just as the rest of the bible took from many other cultures.

In his view, the Holocaust and the Jewish return from exile, as well as the general opening of the Church toward non-Christian religions, had exploded the old, supersessionist view.

I think we can, tip until now the major challenge to business as usual and the old - time religion has been from liberation theology.

There are for Butler, quite properly, no colonial «good old days» when conventional religion of the Protestant or Christian or Judeo - Christian sort snatched America from the jaws of the Enlightenment and gave the nation a Christian birthing.

He placed little or no value on the Old Testament --»... the faith of the Old Testament is not a religion of salvation» (Letters and Papers from Prison, S.C.M. Press edition, Great Britain: Fontana Books, 1953, p. 112).

religion is a form of control people are generally stupid people love old lies as much as new ones lots of money can be made from religion religion, since all based on imaginary creatures to explain the unexplainable of the time, is all a money making scheme!

These gods of the boutique can come from anywhere — native North American religion, the Indian subcontinent, some Pre-Raphaelite grove shrouded in Celtic twilight, cunning purveyors of otherwise worthless quartz, pages drawn at random from Robert Graves, Aldous Huxley, Carl Jung, or that redoubtable old Aryan, Joseph Campbell — but where such gods inevitably come to rest are not so much divine hierarchies as ornamental étagères, where their principal office is to provide symbolic representations of the dreamier sides of their votaries» personalities.

Thus, in the very things most characteristic of the religion of ancient man, namely altars, sacrifices and temples, the prophets of Israel took the first steps in the direction of their abolition, for YHWH, being wholly different from the ancient gods, neither required the old cultic offerings, nor did He dwell in a house made by hands.

Then, in a letter to one Canon Lougham, penned on December 21, 1882, he writes: «Few days pass without my having letters from strangers, young and old, men and women, on the subject of the Catholic religion.

If there was an atheism as religion from old, none of us would have survived.

Now the urge is almost irresistible to try to gather up the crumbs that fall from those tables where some form of old - time religion is served up with new relish.

What if you found out that the Jesus Character was simply taken from other older stories and then remodeled and retooled to form a religion?

Lori, hate to break it to babe but your God was stolen from another and much older religion before Adam.

Old saying: When one person suffers from a delusion it is called insanity; when multiple people suffer from a delusion, it is called religion.

I believe that Pagan holidays and pagan rituals and pagan beliefs, and all the old stories and tales and myths from pagan religions are actually the cry of the divine image of God in man to return to what was lost.

Russ says:@ Honey Badger: so what comfort do you have to offer the parents of a dead 8 year old — aside from ridiculing religion?

NO this is not the teachings of God the Almighty of the Old and New Testament this is evil and perverted and all Christians must take notice and action to keep their children safe from being converted to this false religion that is nothing more then a totalitarian system of government.

That does not mean that major contributions toward an inquiry into the nature of socioreligious phenomena were not made long before, but as an organized systematic discipline (emancipated from the older disciplines in and from which it developed) the sociology of religion is of recent date.

I am a 58 year old man who has found my own religion which I shall never veer away from but this is not the time for teaching anyone my views and perceptions.

I say this because no matter how successful, in an obvious way, such preaching may be, its principal value is that «the old - time religion» (thus conceived and proclaimed) provides for insecure and uncertain men and women an authority to which they may bow and thus be delivered, as they think, from too much victimization by the «changes and chances of this mortal life».

It does not instill fear in me, it actually makes me sad that so many people follow a religion that was founded by stealing their entire theology and their entire story from other, much older religions.

Well I'm a 51 year old x Christan and I find your bible your judgmental religion laughable, so subtract me from that two oh and I also have a radio show and talk to about a million people a week and educated them on the idiocy of the bible and religion, so who's ahead now dummy?

It's so full of contradictions, parables, borrowings from other, older, religions, and outright fantasy that the only «truth» it contains is purely accidental.

Such things might be included here as natural theology (the making of inferences about God from a study of the natural world); the teachings of other great religions — again, to the extent they are compatible; or even the Old Testament prophets, depending on how you view their relationship to Jesus.

«27 It grew rather from an opposition to the church as a definite socio - political form which in the name of so - called religion defended the old social order with all its injustices, its cultural backwardness, and its conservative immobility.

Furthermore, if we consider the teachings of «original» Buddhism to be identical with the nucleus of the older sources of the Himayana scriptures, then we must immediately admit that these teachings, as well as the whole «religion of Buddha,» underwent a marked change in their later development; and we can readily understand how, from the standpoint of the «classical ideal» this development might be viewed as nothing but deprivation and decline.

There is an awareness of old Roman augury and priesthood, back when legislators «derived much of their power from the influence, of religion, or from that implicit belief which an ignorant and, superstitious people entertain of the gods, and their interposition in every transaction of life.»

The questions about religion and public life, those calling for «public» discussion, no longer focus on the verifiability of religious speech but concern quite other issues: methods of understanding and describing the religious realities, old and new, that we see appearing around us; useful criteria for assessing these religions and for defining and comprehending this new set of powers in our public life; and ways of protecting vital religious groups from the excesses of the public reaction to them, and protecting the public from the excesses of powerful religious groups — hardly questions a secular culture had thought it would have to take seriously!

Paul Ni: «My older brother died for this religion, and from childhood I had heard it talked of a little.

Let men be of good heart then, for Christ's religion will show itself, and at this present time, to be no failure, for it has within itself the power to bring up from its vast treasury, new things and old for the light and the comfort of men of good will.

all Abrahamic religions were from arab prophets who wanted to get ahead in the old days....

Bousset has pointed out the gradual transformation of Judaism, during the period between the Old and New Testaments, from a national cultus to a religion of individual piety — a religion of observance rather than of theology, on the one hand, or of deep personal feeling, on the other.

He led us back to the old nature religions as the base from which religion must start once again.

There are 3 major religions that have evolved from that Middle Eastern «scripture»... each with subsets (thousands of them in the case of Christianity), who don't agree with each other because of how they translate and interpret those old writings and ideas... each saying that they are the «true» one.

He can not get that principle from his Jewish religion, since no clear principle barring all abortions under all circumstances can be found in the Old Testament or in the commentaries of most of the rabbinic scholars who have construed that text.