Sentences with phrase «from religious texts»

I felt that the primary ambition of the book was to investigate whether a secular society could learn some lessons from religious texts and from theist practice in order to achieve social cohesion.

Civil marriages performed under the Marriage Act, 1949 can not include religious elements, including prayers, readings from religious texts or religious songs.

Some are from religious texts, while others represent virtues, traditions, or aspects of belief.

Apart from religious texts there is no evidence of a god.

* Random cherry - picked line from a religious text * * Rambling nonsense that is only slightly related to above line * * Claim moral and personal superiority *

I actually love reading RIchard Dawkins, but I also love reading passages from religious text as well.

The questions of the universe and the intricate workings of nature are far more awe - enspiring when viewed through the lens of science than from any religious text passed down through the ages.

In America, marriage does not have to be a religious event, and quoting from your religious text has no persuasive effect on those who don't follow your particular brand of religion.

Centrifugal meaning, in contrast, refers to the more numerous connotations and layers of interpretation that «spin off» from a religious text.

Not exact matches

To put things in context, Bell followed that quote up by expressing his disappointment when communities of faith discourage people from asking questions about religious texts or beliefs.

There are many, many schools which prohibit any and all music with a religious text from their curricula and prohibit teachers from programming such music for concerts no matter how balanced the program may be (that is, it encompasses secular and sacred, accompanied and unaccompanied, difficult and easy, music in a variety of styles and from a variety of musical eras.

You are advocating censoring education by prohibiting instructors who ARE musically knowledgeable from giving students a well - rounded and balanced musical experience by pretending that there was no music of value that was composed with a religious text or through the pat ronage of the church.

Why is it that these religious fanatics want to mandate that non-adherents follow doctrine culled from a little bible text when they can't seem to even follow the 10 commandments?

The interpretation from many Jewish Scholars and religious texts is that it means «Chosen to Serve God» not better than anyone else.

You read the Bible (or some other religious text), and I could say the same thing to you when you quote something from it.

The «religiously devout» is important, for Geck puts to death the notion, prominent from the early 1960s through the 1980s, that correct dating of Bach's cantata production proves that his interest in writing liturgical music was a professional obligation only and that Bach had no abiding commitment to the religious texts he was paid to set.

We can't display religious symbols or texts from all different religions.

The «Declaration on the Relation of the Church to Non-Christian Religions» now known simply as Nostra Aetate (or, «In our Time,» from the first words of its Latin text), denounced all forms of religious hatred, and called for a new dialogue among the world's religions.

A religious text that can be used to justify everything from unselfish acts of kindness to the keeping of slaves and the mistreatment of women is worthless.

Well, the faithful think the religious texts are derived from god.

The great irony is that some religious fundies use the Bible to keep gay people away from their «table», and feasts, using the very texts that the Bible intended to teach hospitality, to do the opposite.

Raimundo Panikkar in his great collection of Vedic texts for modern man or woman called The Vedic Experience, whilst recognising that the Vedas are «linked for ever to the particular religious sources from which they historically sprang», also says that the Vedas are a monument of universal religion and therefore of deep significance for all people.

It required them to move from literal interpretations of the texts to allegorical interpretations in which the religious insight of the texts was uncovered.

I have a theory that SBNRs are so because one or more or a combination of the following: (1) they can't justify their spiritual texts - and so they try to remove themselves from gory genocidal tales, misogyny and anecdotal professions of a man / god, (2) can't defend and are turned off by organized religious history (which encompasses the overwhelming majority of spiritual experiences)- which is simply rife with cruelty, criminal behavior and even modern day cruel - ignorant ostracization, (3) are unable to separate ethics from their respective religious moral code - they, like many theists on this board, wouldn't know how to think ethically because they think the genesis of morality resides in their respective spiritual guides / traditions and (4) are unable to separate from the communal (social) benefits of their respective religion (many atheists aren't either).

Either way, religion has zero answers to those questions, since most religious texts are from a time where people thought that our planet was the center of the entire cosmos.

So from a Whiteheadian perspective, understanding of a religious text does not rest so heavily upon existential appropriation of its message as the Heideggerians claim.

I don't think he can be considered a Christian just because he agrees with some passages from the bible - they may have well come from any other religious text.

On the matter of self and fulfillment, John Boswell, a Yale historian who has written some of the major texts employed by homosexual activists, asserts, «Not only is homosexual eroticism the oldest and most persistent strand in the Christian theology of romantic love, but Christian religious life was the most prominent gay life - style in Western Europe from the early Middle Ages to the Reformation, about two - thirds of the period since Europe became Christian.»

This anti-Semitism comes from the holy texts of Islam and from the entire Islamic religious establishment.

It is, in particular, the second of evangelicalism's two tenets, i. e., Biblical authority, that sets evangelicals off from their fellow Christians.8 Over against those wanting to make tradition co-normative with Scripture; over against those wanting to update Christianity by conforming it to the current philosophical trends; over against those who view Biblical authority selectively and dissent from what they find unreasonable; over against those who would understand Biblical authority primarily in terms of its writers» religious sensitivity or their proximity to the primal originating events of the faith; over against those who would consider Biblical authority subjectively, stressing the effect on the reader, not the quality of the source — over against all these, evangelicals believe the Biblical text as written to be totally authoritative in all that it affirms.

«The importance of studying parallels lies in providing a check against isolating the Hebrew prophet from his specific historical context as if his text represented a timeless religious literature that floated above all historical particularity,» he writes.

To the student who has perhaps come to these writings from studies in folklore or fairy tales and who is now «disillusioned» by their long - windedness, we might say that no religious text is easy and entertaining reading.

You can post quotes from and references to this book all year long and it will not change the fact that: Yes, there are some practical words of wisdom for peaceful human behavior in it (as there are in most religious texts), but just because this is true it does not make all of the supernatural fantasies in it true.

To many of the jewish faith, the Christians hijacked part of their religious writings and applied their own interpretations, often own «translations» which in parts are different from older texts (that Christianity did not control).

He also makes quite a few arguments from omission, concluding from the fact that the text doesn't explicitly report that Esther «went to synagogue» that she must have been a worldly, lukewarm Jew, forgetting that Esther is the one who calls for a fast later in the story, reflecting something of a religious background and personal religious conviction.

The kind of reading we practice approximates what Paul J. Griffiths has called «religious reading,» as distinct from «consumerist reading,» which makes us users, buyers and sellers of texts.

Most of these lectures aim at bringing the insights of Hinduism and Buddhism closer to Indian and Western Christians as well as philosophers, to deepen their understanding of faith and expand it to other forms of belief.43 His anthology «The Vedic Experience» which has been accepted and respected by many Hindus, tries to present texts from the Veda and the Upanishads in such a way that they become open towards other beliefs and transparent for the depth of faith.44 An important aspect of his literary production, already central at the beginning, but gaining prominence again lately, has been to address a Western public that faces the challenge of having to seek its religious identity and not being able to take it for granted.

Unity in the oikoumene is a continuous task, as Panikkar well stated in an early text: «Ecumenism has to start with suffering arising from diversity; in a further step, it should unveil the deeper, common striving; and it could well culminate in the religious effort to bring closer this unity of Reality.

In these texts, King defined the black freedom movement as seeking to redeem the soul of America and to liberate its political and religious institutions from the cancer of racism.

When the text thus interprets its interpreter, it does so not through re-engaging belief in ancient religious categories but by raising questions about the would - be interpreter's existence — his estrangement from himself and others, his experienced «fulfillment gap» between what he is and what be could be.

Also useful are faculty seminars that encourage small groups to study a text from another religious tradition, or a current social issue, or a current American religious practice in such a way that transcends specialized fields.

Again, coming from a religious studies department at a secular university; if the Bible is not inspired by God, I can't trust it more than any other religious text (even if it has truth in it).

Anne Rice, as a fantasy writer, should know better than anyone where all religious texts come from... the imaginations of the authors.

Jesus responds with a text from Isaiah that condemns those who comply with religious forms while «their hearts are far from me.»

In it he found the great myths of the creation, the fall, the flood, the escape from Egypt, the promised land, the twelve tribes, the exile, the prophets, all full of Semitic poetry and wisdom, and great human stories, followed by the incomparable religious texts of the New Testament — «He who would save his life must lose it».

The Bible like any other religious book whose adherents worship the text must be brought down from its idolatrous pillar.

The full texts of the Council's reports can be read on - line at their web - site Religious from The Start A recent discovery of carved - ivory artefacts in caves in south - western Germany have served to demonstrate more clearly than ever that early man had an innate spiritual dimension.

Names of your own religious family members, inspiring people of your faith and names and words pulled from sacred texts can help.»

The Scouts have refused to dump religious words from their membership pledge, but offered concessions to secular groups by introducing an atheist alternative text.

In addition to half a dozen important texts, Kepler wrote hundreds of letters sharing the details of his personal affairs — how he married, mourned the deaths of his children, moved from place to place to escape religious persecution.