Sentences with phrase «influence on religion»

«If an atheist who grew up without any type of influence on religion» — I don't think this is possible in our country at least.

If an atheist who grew up without any type of influence on religion, decided to leave the cult of non-belief and believe (insert any religion), would atheists respond with hate and shun them?

Sociologists can more tellingly object that plausibility structures may not go far enough toward specifying the importance of social conditions as an influence on religion.

I think it's because they claim that «religion» (which is a pretty broad brush stroke) controls them through politics and established laws when, actually, religion is one of the few things these days that has any influences on any religion.

A second advantage of adopting a world - order perspective is that we sometimes stand to gain insight into the deeper changes underlying what seem to be more proximate influences on religion.

Not exact matches

Alternatively, many sociologists predicted that, with the increasing emphasis on individualism and the therapeutic in American culture, religion would have an increasingly marginal influence on domestic life, and the traditional family as the 1950s knew it would gradually disappear in the face of «family modernization,» as some theorists called it.

«Well aware that the opinions and belief of men depend not on their own will, but follow involuntarily the evidence proposed to their minds; that Almighty God hath created the mind free, and manifested his supreme will that free it shall remain by making it altogether insusceptible of restraint; that all attempts to influence it by temporal punishments, or burthens, or by civil incapacitations, tend only to beget habits of hypocrisy and meanness, and are a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion, who being lord both of body and mind, yet chose not to propagate it by coercions on either, as was in his Almighty power to do, but to extend it by its influence on reason alone; that the impious presumption of legislators and rulers, civil as well as ecclesiastical, who, being themselves but fallible and uninspired men, have assumed dominion over the faith of others, setting up their own opinions and modes of thinking as the only true and infallible, and as such endeavoring to impose them on others, hath established and maintained false religions over the greatest part of the world and through all time.»

Toby applies the prayer to the hopeful decline and eventual elimination of religion because of its obvious harmfulness to society: we can't change the harm religion has done in the past, so we must serenely move on; we must courageously overcome the dangerous influence of religion in our society; and we must know the difference between harm done and the harm that can be prevented from religion.

It is evident that this period influenced Morrison's permanent interest in exploring the relationships between religion and its surrounding culture, with the result that a unique feature of the Century came to be its openness to articles on topics — political and literary, for instance — that did not commonly appear in religious publications.

In Part 1 and Part 2 of this 3 - Part series on how Satan casts out Satan, we learned that Satan uses violent religion to attack and kill the messengers of God, and thus, appear to be «casting out Satan» while in reality, he is only solidifying his own power and influence in the world.

Without a doubt there are brands of religion, including Christianity, which does desire to exert influence on the whole public.

However, if we blame our bad conduct, or place credit for our good conduct, on the influence of religion, we are not only slightly deluded, but we are moral cowards, too.

While three out of four Americans (72 %, a record high) believe that religion is «losing its influence on American life,» a majority of Americans (56 percent) also believe this shift has been for the worse.

Exploring the influence of televangelism on American religion in his book The Struggle for America's Soul, Princeton sociologist Robert Wuthnow presents a typical, though hypothetical, case study: Mabel Miller.

To say that on the whole religion has been important in human history is not to say that its influence has been wholly good.

-- to correct believer bullsh!t — to argue against religion driven laws and influence — to keep an eye on the crazies that want to put the USA and Canada on the road to becoming a theocracy — to influence undecideds away from joining any religious cult (and all religios are cults)-- for the humor of the nuttiness of things believers believe, say and do

Look around and notice all the religions (or spirituality or beliefs, etc) that have been formed by virtually every tribe on the planet (some completely independently, others having been influenced by their neighbors).

Berger has subsequently and substantively changed his thinking about religion and secularization, but the theory set forth in that book continues to have enormous influence on the discussion of these questions.

Author John Charles Cooper, dean of academic affairs at Winebrenner Theological Seminary, sums up the situation: «People do feel that religion is losing its influence on society, and they may be right — but the majority of people do not wish this to be true, and so it is an important time to be publishing good religious books.

1) seperation of church and state; state funded public schools can't teach anything that is directly influenced by religion other than just touching on that kind of topic.

A lot of studies have been done on how religion, especially the protestant kind, has influenced the economic development of the west.

66 % of people polled believe that religion is losing its influence on life in America.

It goes on to suggest that a high proportion of Jews are «secularists» who hate all religions and who «want to denude the «public square» of every last trace of religious influence.»

Atheists crack me up when they speak of morality as though they figured it all out on their own with absolutely no influence from religion.

Anglican and Nonconformist theologians, philosophers, and writers (Thomas Carlyle, John Ruskin, Frederic Dennis Maurice, Charles Kingsley), especially the Christian Socialists, were interested in the normative aspect of the problems of religion and society.15 In the younger generation several of these trends are blended: William Temple, John MacMurray, Maurice B. Rickett, Vigo A. Demant.16 Max Weber's influence in England never reached as deep as in France or the United States; it remained limited to his theories on economics.

Inasmuch as it is an interaction which is examined, justice must be done to the influence both of society on religion, and of religion on society.

A few paragraphs later Cardinal Dulles laments that «the greatest threat to religion, in my estimation, is the kind of secularism that would exclude religion from the public forum and that treats churches as purely private institutions that have no rightful influence on legislation, public policy, and other dimensions of public life.»

As and atheist, I am concerned with the influence religion has on the general public, specifically when it comes to women's rights, civil rights, gay rights, and the like.

«Relatively few people participate in the Iowa caucuses, so it's ideal for a group of highly committed activists to have a big influence,» says John Green, an expert on religion and politics at the University of Akron.

First, I am a professor of philosophy and a professional philosopher, I guess you could say, privy to the philosophical movements of the twentieth century, many of which, for better or worse, have had an influence on theology and thinking about religion.

On the eve of what will most certainly be a «new,» multiracial South Africa, religion remains a pervasive and powerful social influence.

If Santa Clausism became the dominant «religion» of the country, tried to influence the government, inst / itute laws and public policies and demand that it be taught in public education - start every school day with a reading from «Twas the Night Before Christmas» and have «Ho Ho Ho» on your money - I'm just betting that you would have something to say about it on an internet forum and elsewhere!

So it is that «growing numbers of people are abandoning religion in practice; on every side they influence literature, the arts, the interpretation of the humanities and of history and civil laws themselves.

Specific notions of deity, and of divine action, that have figured in theistic conceptual systems of long - past civilizations have certainly been influenced by then - prevailing technology — the ways in which people made their living.5 In our own time, recent developments in technology and in science have had major influence on how the object of religion is conceived, at least for some theists.6 Whitehead wrote:

I know a lot of people in my religion think Jesus would naturally be one of «us», though they can't seem to stomach what He did on the daily basis, which was go where the need was and be the influence of good.

[Rachel Zoll, 2001:8 A] This example indicates the influence that the sheer number of adherents of a particular religion have on the socio - political affairs of modern states, and in a world where truth seems to get blurred amidst statistics.

Bultmann, on the other hand, tries to avoid this threat to the kerygma, not by denying the influence of its environment, nor by a naïve dogmatism which the study of the History of Religions has rendered obsolete, but by penetrating through the temporary framework of mythology to the permanent truth behind it.

Religious influence throughout history is usually a violent one where civilizations turn on each other over who has the right religion.

But religion, unfounded self - reinforcing systems of belief that can have powerful, often negative influences over virtually all parts of our lives, shouldn't have a place any more than mal - ware has a place on our computers.

While both parties may be influenced by religion, one party moreso than another relies more heavily on that; because of that reliance that party essentially CA N'T do anything positive for gay people because it would go against their religious beliefs.

The term usually signifies the process by which religion loses social significance, but the emphasis may be on the relationship of Church and State or on the social influence of religion, or used to speak about individual belief and practice.9

And a recent Gallup Poll reports that of a representative cross-section of adult Americans, 69 per cent felt that religion was increasing its influence on American life in 1957, but that only 14 per cent felt the same way in 1969.

On every question about economic or political decisions, from general influence on public policy to specific influence on the minimum wage, between 75 percent and 85 percent of African - Americans said that religion should be involveOn every question about economic or political decisions, from general influence on public policy to specific influence on the minimum wage, between 75 percent and 85 percent of African - Americans said that religion should be involveon public policy to specific influence on the minimum wage, between 75 percent and 85 percent of African - Americans said that religion should be involveon the minimum wage, between 75 percent and 85 percent of African - Americans said that religion should be involved.

The great political philosophers from Aristotle to Machiavelli to Montesquieu (who had such an influence on the founders of the republic) all believed a political regime is an expression of the total way of life of a people, its economics, its customs, its religion.

On the other hand, as far as lies in your power, you are to protect and support the free exercise of religion of the country, and the undisturbed enjoyment of the rights of conscience in religious matters, with your utmost influence and authority.

Stephen Prothero is a nut case who wants to force all religions to be taught at public schools:: «Prothero has argued for mandatory public school Bible literacy courses (along the lines of the Bible Literacy Project's The Bible and Its Influence), along with mandatory courses on world religions.»

To be sure, each of these subjective features is more prominent in religion; there is a greater diversity of models, greater influence of interpretation on data, greater tenacity in commitment to paradigms, and greater ambiguity in paradigm choice.

But in the twentieth century, the main influences of science on religion have come less from specific theories — such as quantum physics, relativity, astronomy, or molecular biology — than from views of science as a method.

I spoke of the earlier generation, influenced by the grand gestures of modernism and sensitive to the aggressive early twentieth - century secularist attacks on religion, as writers inclined to «shout.»

Well aware that the opinions and belief of men depend not on their own will, but follow involuntarily the evidence proposed to their minds, that Almighty God hath created the mind free, and manifested his Supreme will that free it shall remain, by making it altogether insusceptible of restraint: That all attempts to influence it by temporal punishments or burthens, are a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion, who being Lord both of body and mind, yet chose not to propagate it by coercions on either, as was in his Almighty power to do, but to extend it by its influence on reason alone.