Sentences with phrase «in religious dogma»

Now if you said the more you study science the more you believe in religious dogma, I would be surprised.

We don't need to spend our time and money poking holes in religious dogma, we need to use the facts and evidence to demonstrate that Atheism is and always has been morally and intellectually superior to religion.

Then we must make sure he believes blindly in religious dogma and genuinely wants to impose his beliefs on everybody else.

Your prediction of what this supposed loss of morals will cause in 5 - 10 years is cynical and founded in religious dogma.

The GOP were trying to pass more and more legislation that was rooted in religious dogma!

Others choose to do so without the assistance of ignorant religious dogma and I'd say it works even better than the misplaced focus encouraged by fear of not «believing» (in religious dogma).

The ground of the specific assurance in religious dogmas is then an affective experience.

Not exact matches

Tell me there is no religious dogma involved in that.

I don't just deny a belief in a God (s), but oppose those that do and vigorously oppose those that seek to impose their religious dogma on our political decision making.

Religious zealots in America (nearly always of the chrsitian variety) never tire of trying to stuff their dogma down the throats of all Americans.

- But the difference is, Science eventually comes to its senses in the face of TESTABLE EVIDENCE and changes it's views; the thought of changing away from religious dogma is abhorrant to almost all faiths, and change in practices often take much time.

Now, realize that in today's society you are still just as hated, shunned and looked down upon for declaring that same differing belief... or even non-belief — just because people are still too hung up on their precious religious dogma to realize that, though the outcome is obviously less drastic than in the past, they are still doing the same thing that religious people did in the past?

Differences of dogma in an essentially Christian society mostly call for giving individual believers the room for distinctions of belief while allowing genuinely distinct (and inevitably very small) religious minorities broader latitude.

The vibrant American Church became fractious: Many priests and religious abandoned their spiritual callings for the world; some theologians dispensed with their obligations to work with the Magisterium; evangelization suffered; loyalty to Church teaching was rejected in favor of a misguided notion of «conscience;» and dogma and truth were repudiated.

We can discover a reversal of the kenotic movement of the Word in the very insistence of the religious Christian that faith has for once and for all been given, that it is fully and finally present in the Scriptures, the liturgies, the creeds, and the dogmas of the past, and can in no sense undergo a development or transformation that moves beyond its original expression to new and more universal forms.

Religious language is also historical and evolutionary: it depicts the people of God as on a journey to the holy land, the Church as a mystical body evolving toward the fullness of Christ, the liturgy as consisting of cycles of growth, the Christian life as an exodus, grace as growth in the fullness of Christ, dogma as evolving, etc..

Yet what an alteration this enduring dogma has undergone in regard to its more precise formulation, its more exact theological interpretation, its perspectives, the consequences that are to be drawn from it, the weight it has in religious life.

your understanding of the change process is very simplistic, because your mind is not open, you specifically believe already in the traditional doctrines, Dogmas as shown in thousands of years of history evolves, and the need for input variables, meaning the diversity of religious belief is necessay because nature through his will is requiring this to happen, we are being educated by God in the events of history.In the past when there was no humans yet Gods will is directly manifisted in nature, with our coming and education through history, we gradually takes the responsibilty of implementing the will.Your complaint on your perception of abuse is just part of the complex process of educating us through experience.

When particular elements in the traditional teaching about the nature of things have been challenged by demonstrable scientific findings, the whole structure of religious dogma has been called into question.

On that rainy morning in Cambridge, I inhabited a religious world in which dogma seemed secure; and a demonstrative faith, surely, is a good thing.

Most people lose or forget the subjectively religious experience, and redefine Religion as a set of habits, behaviors, dogmas, forms, which at the extreme becomes entirely legalistic and bureaucratic, conventional, empty, and in the truest meaning of the word, antireligious.

There is no place for religious dogma in this common sense proposal.

In other words, the fact that so many people can be swayed by religious myths and religious dogma helps us understand why the world is so messed up — people can be talked into just about anything, including things that are bad for them.

Now, realize that in today's society you are still just as hated, shunned and looked down upon for declaring that same differing belief... or even non-belief — just because people are still too hung up on their precious religious dogma to realize that they are still doing the same thing that religious people did in the past.

Dogma doesn't say that women shouldn't have higher positions in the hierarchy, or that decision - making in the church should not be shared with female religious.

Although held in theory over a long period, the belief was accentuated during the latter part of the nineteenth century and since, and became finally a basic dogma underlying the Japanese Imperial thrust, which is often regarded as the beginning of World War II.9 The idea was taught in the schools, in the army, and resulted finally in a fanatical religious, as well as patriotic, devotion to the emperor, without which, it seems to the writer, it is impossible to explain the daring attack of the island empire of Japan upon the richest and most powerful nation in the world, the United States.

Atheists do not believe in anything — it is a belief, but it is not tied to any religious dogma.

Millions of humans have been murdered by religious freeks because they (the murdered) didn't believe in THEIR religous dogma.

E.g., in regards to scientific support for evolution and rejection of creationism and the young earth dogma, in 1986, 72 US Nobel Prize winners, 17 state academies of science and 7 other scientific societies, signed an amicus curiae brief asking the US Supreme Court in Edwards v. Aguillard to reject a Louisiana state law requiring the teaching of creationism, which the brief described as embodying religious dogma.

If there IS a war, Rick, it's against YOU and your ilk... those who wish to impose irrelevant and invalid religious dogma and demagoguery into politics and government in the 21st Century.

While we are interested in bearing witness to the gospel of Jesus, our mission is not to recruit people from one religious institution or belief system for another; nor to give them new laws, dogmas and rituals; but rather to persuade all to change our lives and ways, and adopt a new way of seeing, doing and being.

Public education can be religious in this sense without violating religious liberty and without teaching sectarian doctrines as official public dogma.

The systematization of religious dogmas in Islam was a task undertaken by the followers of Muhammad when the need for the establishment of a Muslim theology was felt.

By grounding religious claims in human experience, Schleiermacher did not have to begin with metaphysical speculation nor by requiring intellectual assent to the dogmas of the church.

Marriage in my view belongs more to religious dogma not so much a biblical teaching, educate me.

In 1986, an amicus curiae brief, signed by 72 US Nobel Prize winners, 17 state academies of science and 7 other scientific societies, asked the US Supreme Court in Edwards v. Aguillard, to reject a Louisiana state law requiring the teaching of creationism (which the brief described as embodying religious dogmaIn 1986, an amicus curiae brief, signed by 72 US Nobel Prize winners, 17 state academies of science and 7 other scientific societies, asked the US Supreme Court in Edwards v. Aguillard, to reject a Louisiana state law requiring the teaching of creationism (which the brief described as embodying religious dogmain Edwards v. Aguillard, to reject a Louisiana state law requiring the teaching of creationism (which the brief described as embodying religious dogma).

Organized religious dogma is nothing more than a set of rules laid down through history to keep the ignorant, unwashed masses in check with the threat of ultimate punishment.

All three are defined by their rejection of religion and religious dogma in favor of science, free thought and reason.

Following a religious dogma without grasping the essence of spirituality is the core cause for the turmoil we have witnessed in our history, and are witnessing today.

Spiritual, but not religious can also describe a large number of people who have very solid, very defined beliefs but do not feel the need to dress them in doctrine and dogma and ritual.

i think the writer misses the point that many who are spiritual and not religious have explored what religions have to offer in the form of moral compass and dogma and organizations and whatnot — and have found it hard to find the peace within themselves that they innately attribute to what they seek through contact and participation in religion to begin with.

Religious dogma stems from a time in which human rights and moral norms were far different from today.

I wonder if «spiritual but not religious» is a bit of a cultural transitional stage in which it is becoming clear that formal religious dogma is at best intellectually unsatisfying, and at worst not only false but dangerous; and yet we don't really know what to do with that part of our brain that seeks magical explanations for what we can not easily understand.

These statements reveal «creation science» to be an oxymoron, a contradiction in terms, based on religious dogma (and a simple minded dogma at that).

Though of less exalted origin, and not of equal value with sruti, as a basis of religious dogma, it is perhaps quite as influential in the lives of the people in inculcating and nourishing religious faith and practice.

i admit — i am resistant to religious dogma — but in my own defense — that is considered a virtue by myself and many others.

Religious experience, in other words, spontaneously and inevitably engenders myths, superstitions, dogmas, creeds, and metaphysical theologies, and criticisms of one set of these by the adherents of another.

this cult tried to change everything in the country to match their religious doctrine, a book that says gay people are evil, women are second class citizens, the world was made 6k years ago and a whole bunch of evil / ignorant dogma.

Certainly the great tradition of Catholic dogma, doctrine, and theological reflection is immeasurably more interesting than theories borrowed from current fashions in religious thought.

Richard, there is nothing in Christian dogma that can be interpreted as a claim that the followers of Jesus are sinless, even though there are too many professed Christians who seem to believe that grace has made them not only righteous; but inerrant in spiritual / religious matters.