Let me write this again «RELIGION IS FAITH BASED» which not only means having faith in God but also having faith
in that particular religions ability to properly interpret the Word of God.
Formerly,
in the particular religions of tribes or nations religion was the expression of special interests, needs, insights, and cultural peculiarities.
If you are devout
in a particular religion, it makes you much less likely to want to learn about other religions.
There are plenty of private schools that are religious based that one can go to if they truly believe
in their particular religion.
There are no good reasons to believe
in any particular religion (as opposed to other religions or no religion).
biggles — You think atheism and belief are far apart, but in reality even those like you who profess belief
in a particular religion must also reject the many, many other possible gods.
She did find her faith along the way; it just wasn't a faith
in your particular religion or its mythology.
And every religionists secretly thinks that the people who believe
in their particular religion are the most moral of all — even Muslims.
Usually, Christian dating services will help all single women and men who belong to this religion or who are interested
in this particular religion.
There is no reliable evidence supporting belief
in any particular religion, nor is it clear that the concept of God is logically or mathematically consistent at all.
Not exact matches
The growth opportunity is not
in the same mass - market content — it's
in channels narrowly focused on a
particular sport, hobby, music genre or
religion, says Kirstein, or foreign - language channels direct from overseas.
Bishop Swing, founder of the United
Religions Initiative, put it
in terms
particular to his profession:
Millennials,
in particular — who are less likely to be married, less likely to belong to organized
religion, and less likely to join outside organizations than previous generations — increasingly look to employers to give their lives purpose, meaning, and a moral anchor.
And that ethos will inevitably have been born
in the context of a
particular religion.
In my opinion, no, but out of respect for a
particular religion who expresses that concern, then obviously, it should not proceed.
They focus on
particular individuals
in government, education, and
religion in an attempt to make their contentions concrete.
It appears that for increasing numbers of young adults,
religion, and Christianity
in particular, might no longer be a live option.
To force a Jewish or Muslim child to sit on the sidelines is to be treated
in a discriminatory manner based upon their
particular religion.
To clear something up, I was not referencing
religion in this
particular statement.
Why take offense... this
particular Mormon practice is just another worthless ritual
in a bogus «
religion» that has no impact on the living or the dead
This
particular demonstration of ignorant and child - like thought is one of those times (which are far too often) that
religion and conservatism walk hand -
in - hand... over other people.
A belief
in God does not prove or disprove one's intelligence, just as being a member of any
particular religion does not prove or disprove intelligence.
I'm reading NFIB v. Sebelius (the Obamacare decision)
in preparation for teaching the case to my constitutional law students and came across the following most interesting passage
in in Justice Ginsburg's opinion: «A mandate to purchase a
particular product would be unconstitutional if, for example, the edict impermissibly abridged the freedom of speech, interfered with the free exercise of
religion, or infringed on a liberty interest protected by the Due Process Clause.»
I think this
particular organization is set up as a bit of a tongue
in cheek flip off to
religion in general.
Very interesting fairy tale like the rest of Christianity
in particular and
religion in general providing answers for the unanswerable question of life after death.
Thus it would tend to undermine the claims of any
particular religion, although perhaps it was meant to give children an appreciation of «
religion in general.»
The doctrine of Noahide law,
in particular the doctrine of the universal prohibition of idolatry, gave Jewish thinkers the criterion they needed to judge the two
religions among whose adherents they bad to live from late antiquity on: Christianity and Islam.
In their view, the American political experiment is liberal to its rotten core, and Baxter in particular thinks the very core of the core is the First Amendment that pretends the state is «neutral» to religion when in fact it is an insidious instrument for taking Christianity captive to provide «legitimation» for a capitalist, consumerist, warmongering societ
In their view, the American political experiment is liberal to its rotten core, and Baxter
in particular thinks the very core of the core is the First Amendment that pretends the state is «neutral» to religion when in fact it is an insidious instrument for taking Christianity captive to provide «legitimation» for a capitalist, consumerist, warmongering societ
in particular thinks the very core of the core is the First Amendment that pretends the state is «neutral» to
religion when
in fact it is an insidious instrument for taking Christianity captive to provide «legitimation» for a capitalist, consumerist, warmongering societ
in fact it is an insidious instrument for taking Christianity captive to provide «legitimation» for a capitalist, consumerist, warmongering society.
Dabblers are compelled by their very dabbling to disdain those who will not dabble and who persist
in believing the truth claims of one
particular religion.
The government's display of the creche
in this particular physical setting [is] no more an endorsement of religion than such governmental «acknowledgments» of religion as legislative prayers,... government declaration of Thanksgiving as a public holiday, printing of «In God We Trust» on coins, and opening court sessions with «God save the United States and this honorable court.&raqu
in this
particular physical setting [is] no more an endorsement of
religion than such governmental «acknowledgments» of
religion as legislative prayers,... government declaration of Thanksgiving as a public holiday, printing of «
In God We Trust» on coins, and opening court sessions with «God save the United States and this honorable court.&raqu
In God We Trust» on coins, and opening court sessions with «God save the United States and this honorable court.»
Although winsomely expressed, Consulting the Faithful is a polemic against intellectuals (theologians
in particular) who exhibit a practiced disdain for the «tackiness» of popular
religion.
Kevin your right personal beliefs and or
religion does not belong
in law, and I am not saying that what this atheist organization is doing is wrong or anything, I think what there doing is a good thing, I just think this
particular message could have been done from a different perspective, this message makes them appear like the self righteous ones, and it might give out the wrong kind of message, instead it should have said something like you believe
in god fine, but don't put it
in our laws.
I have no data to back this, but I presume that if someone were indoctrinated into
religion and then escaped from it, they may be more likely to self identify as an atheist or agnostic and still score better than someone never exposed to it
in the first place, who might self identify as «nothing
in particular.»
In a New York Times blog, Ross Douthat notes that Pew created two nonbeliever categories instead of one: the much publicized atheist / agnostic category (which got 21 out of 32 religious knowledge questions right) and a much larger category of respondents who described their religion as «nothing in particular» (which got only 15 right — a bit below the national average of 16 correct answers
In a New York Times blog, Ross Douthat notes that Pew created two nonbeliever categories instead of one: the much publicized atheist / agnostic category (which got 21 out of 32 religious knowledge questions right) and a much larger category of respondents who described their
religion as «nothing
in particular» (which got only 15 right — a bit below the national average of 16 correct answers
in particular» (which got only 15 right — a bit below the national average of 16 correct answers).
I think most of us find folks like you, born again Christians
in particular, are essentially a bit of the extremist side of
religion.
On other subjects — his true feelings toward his own father
in particular, virtually the entirety of his youth
in general as well as his genuine feelings regarding
religion — he could be, and was, tighter than a clam.
religion and slander to win elections not to mention the power of the media Rupert Murdoch
in particular (we have all seen how ethically this man operates).
According to the nine - page provincial policy statement, the Xi administration wants to put an end to «excessive» religious sites and «overly popular» religious activities, but it names one
religion in particular, Christianity, and one symbol, the cross.
Christianity
in particular, seeks vulnerable people, beats them down like a brutal abusive spouse, by telling them they are evil and sinful, and can not be strong and good by themselves, and then gives them a prosthetic of
religion to prop them up again — the very weapon used to beat them with to begin with.
Christian «Goodwill»
in the form of large contributions rarely comes without an accompanying effort to use such goodwill as a form of establishment of the
particular religion involved.
It is true that most
religions believe they can count on their
particular god, at least they hope they can, Muslims on Allah, so - called Christians on a nameless trinitarian God, Jews on G - d, the Sikhs who believes
in a God, but also pray to Nanak (1469 - 1539), the
religion's founder of Sikhism.
First, note the
particular terms Schweitzer used: he said that the
religion of love is not dependent upon belief
in a «divine personality» (Gottespersönlichkeit) or «World Sovereign» (Weltherrscher).
The latter
in particular appears to have been designed not to explicate ancient texts but to force the Jewish
religion into line with his own entirely philosophical preference for a liberal order supportive of individual freedom.
The whole story about some god punishing a person for all of eternity for not believing
in your
particular brand of
religion might scare a child enought to believe but most adults are way past such a silly concept.
It is difficult to avoid the implication that what is authentic
in Christianity is its «soul,» that is, the ways it agrees with other revealed
religions, and that Christianity's «body»» all the ways it is distinct and
particular» serve more to obscure than reveal the truth.
It is no accident that Platonic philosophy and the Christian
religion readily discovered common ground, and that,
in particular, Platonic ideas of the sublimity of the human soul were assimilated by Christian doctrine.
The writers of the other chapters
in this book have referred to the practical side of Islam as the consequences of
religion, the
particular requirements of Islam, or as worship and dealings.
Rather, it is the existence of a certain universalistic quality
in the jurisprudence, the scholarship, the media and the
religion that is decisive — a universalistic quality which, precisely because it transcends
particular beliefs and practices, can bring the particulars of that situation under critical scrutiny.
Christians have also practiced their
religion in a variety of ways and the expression of their service to the community has depended on
particular historical, political and geographical situations.
Hebegan by asserting that «the promulgation of the great doctrines of
religion... [can] never be a matter of indifference to any well ordered community,» «A republic»
in particular required «the Christian
religion, as the great basis, on which it must rest for, its support and permanence.»