it is sad that so many people are indoctrinated
into religion in the world, but thankfully in westernized countries, religion has evolved into little more than a social club for all but a few extremists.
Not exact matches
This is all about control with
religion and it has to stop.Gay people getting married doesn't have anything to do with straight people getting married.People are so full of hatred and disrespect it isn't funny.I'm glad this has come out now, because it really shows how evil people really are.But these people who are so
into GOD, the Bible, Church, and the only way of life they live 4 god, by god are the 1s who prmote going around the
world starting WARS, killing innocent women, men, children and families because Jesus guides them
in everything they do.That is a crock of B.S. if I ever heard it.They will continus to use GOD and continue their EVIL ways to get whatever they want and CONTROL who ever they can.
Without
religion,
in which the believers are deluded
into thinking they are chosen by their God and everyone else is a piece of s ***, the
world would be free of wars and hatred.
I wonder what would happen over there if the
world's people were to finally see the truth and realize that
religion is being used to delude them
into thinking
world wars are the way of life — something that has to happen
in order for... their glorious ascension
into heaven or hell --(depending on who's side — re:
religion — god — whatever — you are on).
and there has yet to be definitive proof of ape evolving
into human if you have it please by all means post it the
world would like to see it, oh and you forgot to put
in how evolution has as many gaps as any
religion like Genesis Park describes a number of images drawn by Neanderthals and by humans
in the Middle East which resemble dinosaurs.
I used to wonder how people bought
into the Bible and the Abrahamic
religions, but after watching the spread of the Mormon agenda — and let's be honest, it is an agenda — I realized that people are desparately frightened of living
in a
world they can't explain without magic, mythology, or voodoo.
There has been more blood shed
in the name of
religion, not to mention the hatred that continues today for gay's and lesbians who did nothing more than be born
into this
world as they are.
That's like leaving your believe
in a certain
religion outside the door and resetting your mind before stepping
into a
world religions class.
I used to go off for days alone
in the High Sierras, and on so many mornings at sunrise I have been on a mountaintop and have seen God remake the
world, that
religion dug
into me.
There is the conception of
religion as access and approach to God,
in which a man enters out of the shadows
into the light, out of the passing things of time
into eternity, out of the
world into the presence of God.
We must replace the love of God by the love of man as the only true
religion... the belief
in God by the belief
in man... My wish is to transform friends of God
into friends of man, believers
into thinkers... candidates for the hereafter
into students of this
world, Christians, who, by their own profession are half - animal, half - angel,
into men,
into whole men.13
In the new world, God challenges men of all religions and men of none to go forward into the unknown in fait
In the new
world, God challenges men of all
religions and men of none to go forward
into the unknown
in fait
in faith.
Fanatic Religious People (ALL faiths — Christian, Catholic, Muslim, Mormon, etc.) are one of the PRIMARY reasons why the
world is
in a perpetual state of Wars / Strife, because it seems they can't think or act without INJECTING THEIR
religion into an issue.
I don't get it... we re supposed to have a seperation of church and state
in our politics yet we find that our political
world is constantly guided by flawed religious beliefs... now religious beliefs are creeping
into the workplace, at what point would someone possibly be denied a job because a perspective employer finds out that a perspective employees religious beliefs don't follow the employers... sorry guys
religion doesn; t belong
in politics or the workplace
in any way, shape or form.
And I can choose whether I shall backslide
into that state of «having no hope, and [being] without God
in the
world» or
into my
religion of the moment, and start over again.
The ultimate aim, so far as any can be descried, is the emergence of the various
religions out of their isolation
into a
world fellowship
in which each will find its appropriate place [Stephen Neill, A History of Christian Missions (Penguin, 1964), p. 456].
As long as we continue to club the other Presbyterians
into submission with constitutional amendments, judicial cases and economic boycotts, we have no word for a
world full of murderous divisions, most of them cloaked
in religion.
As long as Presbyterians continue to club the other
into submission with constitutional amendments, judicial cases and economic boycotts, we have no word for a
world full of murderous divisions, most of them cloaked
in religion.
Thank you for being part of this growing movement of God
in the
world, and for joining me on this journey out of
religion and
into a closer relationship with Jesus
in which we learn to love others as we have been loved.
Man, can't make any post on this topic without it turning
into a discussion about whether or not
religion is responsible for all the evil
in the
world...
The barbarism seen
in the
world ever since the
world has come
into being has nothing to do with only
religion but with the human race it self
As Bellah noted
in his initial essay on the subject, civil
religion in America seems to function best when it apprehends «transcendent religious reality... as revealed through the experience of the American people»; yet the growing interdependence of America with the
world order appears to «necessitate the incorporation of vital international symbolism
into our civil
religion» (Beyond Belief [Harper & Row, 1970], pp. 179, 186).
Many of these same people bring children
into the
world at a high pace, and then would prefer that the rest of society take over and educate their children
in their particular brand of
religion when they don't plan well and don't want to violate their beliefs.
Some how it's felt that values, morals, virtues are not there
in a secular
world only faceless solid lifeless laws of men rather than what has been relayed by Holy books that calls for good deeds and reject bad deeds and to build a faithful societies, communities, nations since communications among nations or even among the nations of mixed cultures and beliefs... Laws or God and universe are to be prepared by some thing that is equivalent to UN but built on nations beliefs to achieve the code of understanding among nations but as can see now it is build on groundless bases if not of words of God to faiths...
in addition to those non spiritual secular beliefs to make decisions of faith but at the moment the secular
world make and take the decisions while the beliefs and faiths has to pay for it when it becomes a war between all faiths or
religions outside your
world, it would become back
into your inside among the mixed culture and beliefs of the nation or nations under one country flag...!
The theme of Cosmology, which is the basis of all
religions, is the story of the dynamic effort of the
World passing
into everlasting unity, and of the static majesty of God's vision, accomplishing its purpose of completion by absorption of the
World's multiplicity of effort — Process and Reality, An Essay
in Cosmology 529f.13
As
in the case of the other
religions of the
world, Christianity has splintered
into a variety of sectarian subsystems whose doctrinal boundaries have often hardened to the point of making conversation extremely difficult.
Flourishing comes
into the picture
in the
world religions.
In a
world with a dozen major
religions, split
into hundreds (if not thousands) of factions, this author keeps things good and general by going right to Christianity.
Even those who have drifted far from
religion and
into secularism find it hard to sincerely answer that it wouldn't matter to them which
world they lived
in.
To set the stage for considering
religion from a cosmological point of view, Whitehead writes, «The most general formulation of the religious problem is the question whether the process of the temporal
world passes
into the formation of other actualities, bound together
in an order
in which novelty does not mean loss.»
Here we meet, certainly not the first interrelation of science and
religion (for that reaches back
into the very beginnings of man's thought about the
world), but one of the earliest clashes of the two,
in a form much like what has been familiar right to our own day.
I felt isolated both personally and intellectually: as a mother at home with young children I was
in a different
world from my male peers, and I was conscious that my first book had alienated many colleagues
in the field of
religion and literature (I had called much of the current enterprise
into question).
The basic argument to the book is that the Catholic Pope will be the false prophet of the anti-Christ, Catholicism will be the one
world religion of the anti-Christ, and that the Catholic church,
in cooperation with worldly governments, has duped Christians
into meeting on Sunday rather than on Saturday.
They see
religion particularly at work
in the endeavor to bring about such changes
in the total structure of human existence as will transform this
world into one
in which everyone may develop a rich and good and happy life.
I just wan na say weather what proof you have or evidence every
religion book, scriptures, and testamony might know how the
world will end but does nt know cause if everybody knew what day it was going to happen they would do all the things that people are doing following this man like quiting jobs and all that because
in the bible under «THE CALL TO READINESS «it says God or jesus does nt want you to worry about when the
world will end but the do want you to keep busy and continue to work hard JUST LIKE GOD DID TO CREATE the
world so i do nt think noone should buy
into this and it shouldnt be advertised cause thats not what GOD or JESUS would want because when he rises unexpectedly key word unexpectedly his joy and his welcoming would be him nknowing that the creatures aka as us humans have been following his will and working hard!!!
In our thinking, in our prejudices, and in our church communities we need to examine ourselves and ask, «How do we use our faith to bring the love of Christ into the world, and in what ways do we use our religion to keep the world out?&raqu
In our thinking,
in our prejudices, and in our church communities we need to examine ourselves and ask, «How do we use our faith to bring the love of Christ into the world, and in what ways do we use our religion to keep the world out?&raqu
in our prejudices, and
in our church communities we need to examine ourselves and ask, «How do we use our faith to bring the love of Christ into the world, and in what ways do we use our religion to keep the world out?&raqu
in our church communities we need to examine ourselves and ask, «How do we use our faith to bring the love of Christ
into the
world, and
in what ways do we use our religion to keep the world out?&raqu
in what ways do we use our
religion to keep the
world out?»
Its object is to live the representative life of the Christ
in God's beloved
world; and Jesus Christ, as Moltmann recently wrote, «did not bring a new
religion into the
world, but rather new life.»
Don't kid yourself
into thinking that organized
religion is not one of the most destructive and divisive and utterly terrible forces
in the
world.
Many of these same people bring children
into the
world at a high pace, and then would prefer that the rest of society take over and educate their children
in their particular brand of
religion when they don't plan well.
Jefferson
in his many words is todays paul by basically testifying to a lost society by preaching «The heart «that is what God wants not the shell which will rott away.I can stand with this truth until the day I die because I also have had disagreements
in my church about this same topic.I dispise
religion and encourage salvation which come from having a relationship with Jesus.Many may ask how do i have a relationship with him?by simply asking God through prayer, not what we know as pray but simply given up and telling God he win.That is what being righteous means saying «lord your're right and i will believe and obey that.Last i will like to thank jefferson for this clip, becuase for so long I have been feeling like todays churches
in not like the first churches.They are stuck
into their four cornered walls preaching to those who already obtain the word and people who already think they are perfect, but what about the weak and the sinners who we are suppose to love, go after, preach to, help and deliver the same way as Christ camed for the sinners so do we also be like him.Jefferson basically telling all us young people and old no matter who have suffered
in the
world, the church, or no matter what party or the past that there is hope and «God wants that person» not the sin but the person.Jefferson wants us to know that God can become personal with us and we do exist or can exist
in the christian
world not because we are perfect but because «he is perfect and he saw our broken spirits and rescued us!
During these two years, most of the influential texts of the council were forged
into their final form: the Constitutions on the Church (Lumen Gentium), divine revelation (Dei Verbum), and the Church
in the modern
world (Gaudium et Spes), along with the decree on ecumenism (Unitatis Redintegratio) and the declarations on religious liberty (Dignitatis Humanae) and on the Church and non-Christian
religions (Nostra Aetate).
Nonetheless, they were substantial enough for Merrimon Cuninggim to conclude
in a study conducted on the eve of
World War II that «
religion is moving once more
into a central place
in higher education.»
He points out that a kind of inevitability has been built
into the West's view of the
world, that during this century
in particular we have believed it was our duty to bring to the rest of the
world our
religion, our products, and our way of life.
The
Religion of Java deserves careful reading, not only for what it tells about Islam
in Java, but for its insights
into the comparative problems raised by the study of
religion as it is followed
in distant parts of the
world.
I find civil
religion motifs
in Reston's focus on «the American Dream,»
in his belief that the precepts of the Republic's founding documents were political affirmations of certain religious concepts,
in his belief
in America's unique moral role
in world affairs — and
in his concern for injecting morality
into public - policy discussions.
But instead he have to persuade Moslem newspaper all over the
world not to print headlines of «Islam is under attack», instead it should print; I, Rauf has learn tolerance and freedom to change
religions in America, it is very good, many (stupid) American has convert to Islam, also to print «the Muslim radical
in the Muslim
world» have to realize that the American troops are educating our barbarian manners
into a modern democratic tolerant society such as me, Rauf has received here
in America.
Peoples
in different parts of the
world invented different gods, thousands of them, each god with specific personality traits, rules, and stories, though, of course, when cultures came
into contact with one another there was an interchange of elements from one
religion to another.
Hegel's influence extended not only
into religion but also
into the political transformation of the
world in the twentieth century.
In other words, the problem of science and religion is part of the deeper and more pervasive question whether the world in its totality can be made into a clear object to be mastered by our mind
In other words, the problem of science and
religion is part of the deeper and more pervasive question whether the
world in its totality can be made into a clear object to be mastered by our mind
in its totality can be made
into a clear object to be mastered by our minds.
Marriage goes back too far
into prehistory to know where it came from, but it was certainly not a product of the Abrahamic
religions — it clearly predates them by thousands of years and is common
in parts of the
world which were never influenced by it.