Sentences with phrase «guided by a religion»

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This is all about control with religion and it has to stop.Gay people getting married doesn't have anything to do with straight people getting married.People are so full of hatred and disrespect it isn't funny.I'm glad this has come out now, because it really shows how evil people really are.But these people who are so into GOD, the Bible, Church, and the only way of life they live 4 god, by god are the 1s who prmote going around the world starting WARS, killing innocent women, men, children and families because Jesus guides them in everything they do.That is a crock of B.S. if I ever heard it.They will continus to use GOD and continue their EVIL ways to get whatever they want and CONTROL who ever they can.

Concerning the Unbelievers of old, the Qur» an says, «Nay, for they say only: Lo we found our fathers following a religion, and we are guided by their footprints» (Surah XLIII, 22).

What guides Niebuhr through the various ideal types in Christ and Culture is the desire to resist institutionalization, which is why even Augustine comes up short by substituting «the Christian religion — a cultural achievement — for Christ.»

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).

In fact, the religion «with a human face» does allow itself to be judged by reason, but by reason guided by its own truth and not just any old reason.»

I don't get it... we re supposed to have a seperation of church and state in our politics yet we find that our political world is constantly guided by flawed religious beliefs... now religious beliefs are creeping into the workplace, at what point would someone possibly be denied a job because a perspective employer finds out that a perspective employees religious beliefs don't follow the employers... sorry guys religion doesn; t belong in politics or the workplace in any way, shape or form.

There never was a time in History that atheists exist, only in this present stage of our intellectual developement that they deny His exisrence, but it can be easily explained that they are just part of the dialectical process of having to have two opposing arguments or forces to arrive to the truth, The opposing forces today are the theists or religious believers of all religions and the other are the atheists who denies religion, The reslultant truth in the future will be Panthrotheism, the belief that we are all one with the whole universe with God, and that we Had all to unite to prepare for human survival that will subject us humans in the future.Aided by the the enlightend consevationist, environmentalists, humanists and all of the concerned activists, we will develop a kind of universal harmony and awareness that we are all guided towards love and concern for all of our specie.The great concern of the whole conscious and caring world to the natural disaster in the Phillipines,, the most theist country now is a positive sign towards this religious direction.Panthrotheism means we will be One with God.

Either they will be guided by the spiritual leader of their church and withdraw support from the Republican «trickle down» economy advocates or they will choose their love of money over allegiance to their religion and follow Rush Limbaugh into his world of hatred and bigotry, his own little Hell.

Priestland had no qualifications in theology, but was driven by an intense curiosity about religion and wanted to create the «plain man's guide to the Christian faith».

Muslims appear peace loving on the outside, but at the root of all, they are guided by venomous philosophy — Kuran, which teaches violence and intolerance for every other faith and religion.

David Jenkins, in his Guide to the Debate About God, cautions, «Whatever Bonhoeffer meant by his call to Christians to be «without religion» it is clear that it was no call to be «without God».

If I had to ascribe a definition it would be that some people don't buy what big religion is selling but live by a set of rules that guide them (to be a better person / contribute to society / whatever).

If morality as proclaimed by various religions is denied a place at the policy table, then our nation will only be guided by those with a very cramped and limited moral view — which would have been a disaster for abolition and civil rights way back then — and would be no less a disaster today.

The party must not try to abolish religion by decree; instead, it should attempt to guide religious people and institutions so that they will «center all their will and strength on the common goal of building a modernized, powerful socialist state.»

By contrast, Hawthorne found in marriage, family, work, and meditation on history and religion a surer guide to relative wisdom and happiness.

Being part of a religion or a community of faith is being part of an aspirational search for that truth, a search that is guided and constrained by past revelation to be sure, but still unfolding.

If it is the case that civilizations are, in their roots, dependent on the quality of religion, and if it is the case that America, by the cunning hand of Providence, has been thrust into the leadership of a global civilization, then we should attend to the question of whether the religion that guides us is genuinely universal.

According to Shi`a, an Imam is a man who is most learned in all fields of knowledge, and especially in religion; he has the most sublime qualities and must be innocent just as the Prophet was, and he must have been appointed by God and the Prophet to guide the people.

People tend to transform Christianity into a religion because the Christian faith obviously places people in an extremely uncomfortable position that of freedom guided only by love and all in the context of God's radical demand that we be holy.

Oh and its because church and religion is guided by misguided humans who all want their share of power of attention.

If Machiavelli seems a decent guide to Christian politics, it is only because Americans are uniquely tempted by the liberal civil religion he touted — a backward, Hobbesian monster of a thing, wherein civic virtue shapes Christian practice instead of vice versa, trading eternal things for temporal ones.

This logic of gratuitousness, learnt in infancy and adolescence, is then lived out in every area of life... once it has been assimilated it can be applied to the most complex areas of political and economic life... It is here that the lay faithful are called to give generously of the formation they have received, guided by the principles of the Church's Social Doctrine, for the sake of authentic secularism, social justice, the defence of life and of the family, freedom of religion and education.

The idea that secularism confines religion to the private realm and bars it from any relation to the public life which is to be guided purely by secularist ideologies which deny any religious view of reality2

Modern reformation movements in traditional Indian religions especially the movements of Neo-Hinduism indicated the impact of modernity on Indian life at its religious level, and India's liberal democratic and leftist ideologies guiding the struggle for political independence and nation - building in independent India, indicate the assimilation of Enlightenment humanism at the ideological level, though qualified a great deal by the reformed religious view of Gandhism.

Fox believed that men should be guided by the Inner Light, protested against formalism in religion, advocated an extreme democracy which would put men and women on a basis of equality, stressed simplicity in dress, food, and speech, opposed all participation in war, and insisted on truth - speaking.

Among them were pantheism and the positions that human reason is the sole arbiter of truth and falsehood and good and evil; that Christian faith contradicts reason; that Christ is a myth; that philosophy must be treated without reference to supernatural revelation; that every man is free to embrace the religion which, guided by the light of reason, he believes to be true; that Protestantism is another form of the Christian religion in which it is possible to be as pleasing to God as in the Catholic Church; that the civil power can determine the limits within which the Catholic Church may exercise authority; that Roman Pontiffs and Ecumenical Councils have erred in defining matters of faith and morals; that the Church does not have direct or indirect temporal power or the right to invoke force; that in a conflict between Church and State the civil law should prevail; that the civil power has the right to appoint and depose bishops; that the entire direction of public schools in which the youth of Christian states are educated must be by the civil power; that the Church should be separated from the State and the State from the Church; that moral laws do not need divine sanction; that it is permissible to rebel against legitimate princes; that a civil contract may among Christians constitute true marriage; that the Catholic religion should no longer be the religion of the State to the exclusion of all other forms of worship; and «that the Roman Pontiff can and should reconcile himself to and agree with progress, liberalism and modern civilization.»

And a person's religion, thrust upon them at random, also happens to be used by most to guide their actions in many ways based upon those false writings as they use their distorted perceptions of the world to channel and shape what comes forth from each person..

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This is because each of us are guided by varying religion and religious beliefs.

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On our guided tour we will see two of the most important aspects of the Inca culture — terracing — a farming technique created by the Inca's and their religion.

Progressives yearned for a society guided by impartial agencies unconstrained by old - fashioned politics and religion.

Conversely, perhaps conservatives are guided by a philosophy that moral standards are necessary, a philosophy that is also compatible with most religions — and that this common philosophy is the true link?

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