Sentences with phrase «humans use religion»
Amazing how humans use religion to justify their own personal beliefs rather than providing a stage for examining whether your their thoughts are upheld by their religion on not.
http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/ Not exact matches
Also, the term «religion» used to reflect «belief / faith» before the various incorporations of human doctrines.
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.
In her address to Georgetown University outlining the Obama Administration's human rights agenda she used «freedom of worship» three times, «freedom of religion,» not once.
I believe that we should stop using religion as grounds for everything we do as humans.
When He found it necessary, He drove those enemies of the human race out of the Temple of God; because then, as always, they used religion as a means of advancing their commercial interests.
'' Religions make guesses based on human invented concepts» Who created the processes used to test out things in science?
this is why religion can be used to manipulate humans..
It stems from human immaturity and insecurity using their religion as an excuse.
One of the great lies of Satan is in how he uses human institutions such as religion and politics to make it look like God uses violence to defeat violence.
I've heard these very things said by those who are on the other end of the people who use religion and politics to enrich themselves, give them power and authority over their fellow human beings and draw attention to themselves rather than to God.
I use the word «named religions» because there are countless moral and social belief systems private to every human which does not have a name...
No more religion - in politics, schools, or work, It needs to go - Its time to use all of the wasted resources that is being using on Christianity and Islam for something that actually benefits the human race and doesn't cause continuous strife.
Modernity's emphasis on secularism involves three elements - a) the desacralisation of nature which produced a nature devoid of spirits preparing the way for its scientific analysis and technological control and use; b) desacralisation of society and state by liberating them from the control of established authority and laws of religion which often gave spiritual sanction to social inequality and stifled freedom of reason and conscience of persons; it was necessary to affirm freedom and equality as fundamental rights of all persons and to enable common action in politics and society by adherents of all religions and none in a religiously pluralistic society; and c) an abandonment of an eternally fixed sacred order of human society enabling ordering of secular social affairs on the basis of rational discussion.
I believe it is such a sin to use religion to force prejudice among human beings.
The truth is that St Paul has the most to do with the diversity of the early Christian Church (Followers of the Way), but today religion is used politically and otherwise to divide humans into «us» as against «them».
It looks as if one religion is trying to claim love as its own even though loving human beings have always existed long before any of the «gods» were ever conceived by human beings and used by scamming human beings in their efforts to control others.
As we read this history, the furor over stem cells was fueled by numerous factors: the near - universal human desire for magic; patients» desperation in the face of illness and their hope for cures; the belief that biology can now do anything; the reluctance of scientists to accept any limits (particularly moral limits) on their research; the impact of big money from biotech stocks, patents, and federal funding; the willingness of America's elite class to use every means possible to discredit religion in general; and the need to protect the unlimited abortion license by accepting no protections of unborn human life.
They know that religion is an old machine that will never wear out and that has always been used to insure the fidelity of people and put a brake on the restlessness of human reason.
The war had to be interpreted in light of how God would use it to bring about progress for both the human race and religion.
However, when used in the service of a partisan political agenda, religion often succumbs to the deceit of human power, becoming just another political player and, at worst, part of the problem of human tyranny.
The other estimate appears under the heading of «use,» by which they mean donations categorized by type of recipient institution, such as religion, education, health or human services.
You should realize that whatever you trust to human nature, be it religion or science, can and will be used to the detriment of humanity.
or a war aginst invaders... if smeone enters ur home and starts taking over it u'll try and get them out by any means possible... Jihad is a war fought if ur country is invaded by outside forces... which is a right for any human being... one again before passing judgement yuou might want to get ur facts straight... don't listen to what u're told... God has given u a brain... use it... study a religion..
If we use Gould to interpret Catholic teaching we are bound to be dualistic not just about science and religion but also about body and spirit, as if God somewhat arbitrarily glues a spiritual soul onto the physical human body.
The information at our disposal now makes so evident the complexity, the diversity, of the religious aspect of human experience in all Asian cultures that we can no longer use easy generalizations or traditionally accepted patterns in talking about other religions.
As James Barr pointed out, «Fundamentalism is the imposition upon the Bible of a particular tradition of human religion, and the use of the Bible as an instrument of power to secure the success and influence of that religion.»
Cowardly is sending suicide bombers to murder thousands civilians on one's behalf, dragging an entire religion into the mud in doing so, then holing up in a ritzy suburb living the high life, appearing only on internet videos, and then using a woman as a human shield when attacked.
So basically, Russ, you dragged MLK into this because he's a religious figure who stood up for human rights, and you are trying to use that to defend men who use their religion to try to deny human rights to others.
There is a God, and if it is capable of understanding its creations in the way the we understand ourselves (though i doubt it, b / c i imagine that God thinks of us the same way we think of parts in a machine, or items in a ingredients list, that is to say inconsequential and unintelligent) that it would be ashamed of human behaviour of groups and organizations that use belief and religion to justify actions against their fellow man
also Mr EDNA u will know if u were conversant with the human brain that emotional maturity fostered by positive atti.tudes like love, joyfulness, tolerance, etc which are promoted by religion enables humans to use more brain power and think more clearly than negative ones like pride, prejudice, etc..
In the part beyond human conscious, where a person can't instantaneously grasp cause and effect, that's where faith leads to the poetic and sometimes seemingly delusional metaphors, used by religion to describe God or whatever aspect is just beyond perception when the person only has incomplete information, but still needs something to help us retain what understanding they're starting to build.
Given all the wars caused in the name of religion, I can certainly see how the use of Jesus would bring about the last human.
Feuding groups throughout history have used race, religion, and politics (the Jew - Gentile division was a toxic combination of all three) to look down upon each other and accuse one another of being less than human and less - loved by God.
Bernard Meland, a member of Wieman's first class on the philosophy of religion there, recalls that Wieman used only two texts for the course: Part IV of William Hocking's The Meaning of God in Human Experience, and Whitehead's Religion in the Making.
She had some public instincts, it is true; she hated the Lutherans, and longed for the church's triumph over them; but in the main her idea of religion seems to have been that of an endless amatory flirtation — if one may say so without irreverence — between the devotee and the deity; and apart from helping younger nuns to go in this direction by the inspiration of her example and instruction, there is absolutely no human use in her, or sign of any general human interest.
Several anthropologists, studying the difference between magic and religion in primitive peoples, have indicated that the latter (religion) is much more an intended conformity of things human with the divine, whereas the former (magic) is the effort, by use of formulae or rites, to bring the divine into conformity with things human.
Divisions and bondings occur among people and groups on the basis of categories of skill, morality, ethnicity, cultural tradition, gender, religion, etc. that are not reducible to class analysis, and attempts to use a single version of the «master - slave» relationship to understand the modern social world is to pervert the real fabric of human relationships.
why don't you start with why humans invented religion in the first place, the origins of the books of the bible, the multiple «christ» (copied) stories throughout the history of time, fossil evidence of evolution of man and all species, all the discrepancies in the bible, knowledge of all the gods that humans have believed in through recorded history, the political uses of christianity in the time of it's origin, the fact that every other religion has followers who believe just as strongly in their own god / book, that fact that if you had been born in another part of the world you would be a different religion and going to «hell», and that a good, kind, omniscient god wouldn't allow all the suffering and evil to happen, and wouldn't need «help» as christians like to tout... and then we'll get to all these ridiculous fools.
Surely, it may be argued, if there is only one God the object of worship in all religions is the same, and it can not greatly matter how that worship is given or what means are used to regulate human life in accordance with the divine purpose.
Since the followers of Jesus regarded him as essentially human, statements about his divine nature or function have been added to the authentic gospel, often by use of ideas derived from «mystery religions.
As part of our religion, we believe strongly in the agency of the human soul... and the responsibility to use it to choose wisely and well.
In the book, he shows how humans can use things like sex, drugs, science, technology, religion to enhance their own humanity, rather than become disconnected from it, like in Brave New World and 1984.
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Using topics such as sports, religion, racism, and power, his endless loops illustrate basic facets of the human character.
On the other hand, being highly critical of religion, mass consumerism and the general darker side of human nature, Peter Adamyan uses pop culture imagery to comment on the contemporary society.
And religion does not stop anyone appreciating science, or using its methods to advance human knowledge.
Today, the adherents of the mainstream religions typically use modern family planning to limit their family size and accept that limiting human numbers makes sense.