Sentences with phrase «idea of religion as»

I can understand the idea of religion as a guide you can use to help you move forward, but the whole idea of using the Bible as some kind of legal case book is just repugnant, because the cases that are made are almost invariably regressive and inhuman.

As a young evangelical, I was looking for theologians who could help me break the stranglehold of liberal Protestantism and its faithless idea of religion as purely personal «sentiment.»

In retrospect she believes that God was working through her imagination even as she dismissed the idea of religion as irrelevant.

On the whole, the idea of religion as sacred canopy has not yet been tested sufficiently to suggest that its merits outweigh those of several other contending approaches in the sociology of religion.

Despite its considerable currency, the idea of religion as sacred canopy seems not to have been grasped in more than a superficial way in much of the literature.

Yet Lindbeck's approach posed great challenges to liberal ideas of religion as some «universal feeling about the ultimate.»

I explained the idea of religions as memeplexes: they package up a set of doctrines, tell believers to learn them, to pass them on, to have faith and not doubt, and they ensure obedience with fearsome threats and ridiculous promises.

Not exact matches

Mixing public schools and religion is just a bad idea, as it leads to all sorts of complications.

Presidential oratory provides much of the supporting evidence for McDougall's ideas about civil religion, from President William McKinley's implication that the United States had not so much conquered Cubans as it had ministered to them («Are we not made better for the effort and sacrifice, and are not those we serve lifted up and blessed?»)

Could just as well replace «religion» with any set of beliefs / ideas you disagree with.

What really makes my head hurt trying to understand is when people claim to be of a faith or to be a Christian and have absolutely no clue as to the idea that they're supposed to actually believe and uphold the teachings of CHRIST and not their own religion ideas and call it «close enough».

As a non-believer, I find the idea that a particular religion would view a peacemaker as bringing about the end of the world very scarAs a non-believer, I find the idea that a particular religion would view a peacemaker as bringing about the end of the world very scaras bringing about the end of the world very scary.

Todays Religions are tomorrows Mythologies, During the days of the Greek and Roman empires their Gods were as real to them as our Gods are to us today, Yet today we find their Gods a silly idea Given a few thousand years our ancestors will laugh at the silliness of people following God / Jesus while they follow the deity of their day.

It's time we left behind all these silly, nonsensical ideas of gods and religion if we are to move forward as a species...

The idea of being kind to your fellow man as you would wish him to be to you is found all over the world, and does not require the additional belief in all the hootenanny of organized religion.

to Jake, in every era or times in the past, humans have different perception of reality, because our knowledge improves or changes toward sophistication, For example during the times of Jesus, there was no science yet as what we have today, since the religion in the past corresponds to their needs, it is true for them in the past, but today we already knew many new ideas and facts, so what is applicable in the past is no longer today, like religion, we have also to change to conform with todays knowledge.The creation or our origin for example is now explained beyond doubt by science as the big bang and evolution is the reason we become humans, is in contrast to creation in the bibles genesis,.

The idea of missions as working with other religions did not have the right ring.

Rudolph Otto analyzed the basic element in religion in his book The Idea of the Holy as a compound of fear and of fascination in the presence of overwhelming mystery.

, NOTHING should be «taken out on the filmmaker» as you say, this is America, still at least partially the land of free speech, EVERY opinion should be able to be voiced without repercussion, especially those critical of dangerous ideas (religion).

Conceding to believers that they can redefine the term «religion» to encompass «atheism», or whatever other ideas they wish to encompass within the word, if that suits their purposes in trying to put anyone who doesn't believe in their god or any god into the same category as themselves, grants to them the opportunity to dismiss anyone who doesn't believe in their god as holding a religious belief no more valid then their own and to classify you as just another follower of a «false religion» unlike their own, which is the «true» religion.

@Luke: Admire the intention, but I reserve some skepticism, at least for now, on whether # 1 and # 2 can really be done independently of the already present spoken and unspoken expectations in the congregation, denomination and religion, as well as people's preconceived ideas of what church is (as opposed to what it would or should be).

Then later I studied up on other religions and spiritual ideas — moving through a range of spiritual notions, and for a long time thought of myself as SBNR also, then I realized I was agnostic.

The liturgical heritage of Judaism, the psychological and practical needs of the worshiping group, and the inexorable pressure of ideas and customs in the Mediterranean world, especially in the mystery religions, presaged the development in Christianity, as in other faiths, of ritual and sacrament.

The global reach, extreme influence, and extreme importance of Christianity is largely due to the fact that the European races, largely Caucasoid, became the world's most dominant races as evidenced by their conquest and colonization of many parts of the world's major regions and because their religion invariably happened to be some form of Christianity, consequently, they gave the greater part of the world not only their languages, their customs, and their ideas, but also their religion including their version of what God looks like.

The alternative method, often used by scholars, considers one epoch of Biblical religion at a time, presenting the entire complex of ideas which characterized that era, and then moves on to study the next succeeding epoch as a whole.

In so far as Marx is seeking to bring the idea of «real distress» (as understood by religion) into relation with their human condition of distress (as understood by human beings) so as to transform the human condition, his critique of religion reveals an existential pathos», and it is religiously edifying.

The contact with Zoroastrianism, which was the dominant religion within the Achaemenid Empire founded by Cyrus the Great, as well as Hellenic thought led to incorporation of religious ideas from those cultures into Judaism, including the development of notions of an immaterial and immortal soul distinct from the body and a moralized afterlife.

Eliade, who was for many years at the University of Chicago, will be familiar to most readers as the author of the four - volume A History of Religious Ideas and numerous other books dealing with religion and myth in human history.

Furthermore, ideas such as death and resurrection in pagan religions usually related to the crop cycle rather than the idea of a god dying to pay for someone's sins.

There is no evidence outside of religious texts and our modern knowledge shows that the creation myths of all religions are not correct, so as their foundational texts are incorrect, religions offer nothing to support the idea of a god.

This only proves how much failed you are from challenging the contents of the Quran and all you managed to do is making accusations with out a slightest idea of what you are talking about never even cared to take the beauty and leave out what you think of as beast rather than letting out all... but what the use of me talking to a brick of wall that has no religion faith that we can consider as a candle light to guide you to the straight paths to God..?

Some ideas (such as religion) are bad ideas and deserving of ridicule.

Why don't you simply admit that you have absolutely NO evidence of any gods, you have no idea if your religion is true, and that all religions are nothing more than what MEN made up as if to speak for «god» when they have no idea if there are any gods to begin with.

[48] J. Van Lin defines theology of religions as the theoretical and practical foundational ideas on the basis of which «Christians can determine their relationship to people of other living faiths.»

If someone were to approach you today and propose the concept of religion as it has existed throughout human history, you'd laugh at them for having such a silly idea.

The philosophical foundation of Solzhenitsyn s Christianity is the plebian's mythopoetic conception of religion as the practice of virtue (as opposed to Sartre's modernist idea of it as a kind of mystified ideology).

I can tell you as a religious studies scholar that your use of «religious» to differentiate between some idealized, sincere faith (a very Protestant idea, by the way) and hypocritical institutional religion and its trappings is pretty specious.

J. W. C. Wand, an Anglican theologian, wrote several decades ago that «it is actually possible to regard transfiguration as the fundamental idea in the Christian religion and as placing in a nutshell the whole story of the individual Christian life as well indeed as that of society as a whole.»

Some of the ideas that religion imparts upon politics are good, such as helping your fellow man, but religion is not necessary for those ideas to exist and indeed can confound those ideas when mixed with other messages from the same religion.

As humans become ever more advanced, abstract ideas of religion, god and the soul will be transformed into something we can only begin to comprehend.

It seeks «to preserve the idea of the divine as the true concern of religion» and at the same time «to destroy the reality of the idea of God and thereby also the reality of our relation to Him.»

Inasmuch as the sociologist of religion is confronted with the necessity of accounting for apparently identical or similar patterns in religious behavior, ideas, and forms of organizations on different cultural levels, he is interested in a constructive solution of the apparent dilemma.

one must be struck at the constant union of religious ideas with patriotic sentiments, which so strongly characterize the [American] citizens... but what is no less worthy of remark is that their religion, freed from minute ceremonies, resembles a sentiment, as much as their love of liberty resembles a creed.

The Greek thinkers were far from the idea of the Godhead as explained in revealed religions.

======= @Chuckles «I do like also that you at least accepted the fact that these empires had the same idea as the ones you gave which means check and mate my friend and finally getting you to admit that tyrants trying to abolish the religion of the indigenous are not just atheists.

Nevertheless, without this idea we might possibly never have had such books as the Gospels, and in consequence the Christian religion might not have continued to bear within itself the means of its own correction, revitalization, and renewal.

Consider next the context of sacred ideas and language as a potential civil religion.

I do like also that you at least accepted the fact that these empires had the same idea as the ones you gave which means check and mate my friend and finally getting you to admit that tyrants trying to abolish the religion of the indigenous are not just atheists.

When ANY American claims that a particular right is «inalienable» — regardless of their beliefs about God or religion — they are paying homage to the idea of Divine Rights as derived from the concept of Natural Law and are IMPLICITLY agreeing that our rights are Divine in origin.

The idea that just because someone doesn't share the same god as you automatically exempts them from discussing the topic of religion, faith and gods, is as shallow and defensive as it gets.