Sentences with phrase «into religious feeling»

Consider, for example, how sex enters into religious feeling, and how the religious community must reckon with the sexual dynamics in pious emotion.

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Such a new ecclesiastical body is designed to allow these pathetic human beings, who are so deeply locked into a world that no longer exists, to form a community in which they can continue to hate gay people, distort gay people with their hopeless rhetoric and to be part of a religious fellowship in which they can continue to feel justified in their homophobic prejudices for the rest of their tortured lives.

It seems as if since the religious zealots God is unable to call down lightning as they think he should when they feel we have blasphemed him, the zealots enjoy taking matters into their own hands and attempt to bully and persecute and even murder atheists on their God's behalf.

Hmmmm... as a reformed catholic and current agnostic, I do feel that some christians will stop at nothing to bring religious symbols into anything.

Ultimately, much of this is a result of the modern «competitive» paradigm of religious communities: being right, having the truth, drawing people into the light from the dark, etc. all becomes about feeling good about ones own membership and being part of those who are «right».

As I'm writing this, I can see all the religious people saying all atheists should be fired because they bring the devil into the place of work... so I feel the need to provide the caveat: conflict with their objectives in a way that is sanely and reasonably shown.

Scott, when your «religious morals,» derived from a falshoods, try to insert themselves into my life, and those who don't think and feel the way you do, you will have a problem.

I wish I could be as optimistic as you, but I feel like we are living Mark Twain's A Conn Yankee in King A's Court, where the main character thinks he has the religious people beaten but they come back and go right back into the stone age.

We feel that we are only religious if we trot it out into the public square and that has nothing really to do with religion but rather cheap populist political pimping.

Pastors and mentors will of course feel compelled to offer guidance and prayer as young adults navigate the tricky terrain of sexuality, but they should not be deceived into thinking that the all the questions about faith, science, technology, religious pluralism, politics, justice, equality, and ethics emerging from the Millennial generation are related to sex and can be solved by abstaining from it.

Thus a dedicated scientist who feels, because he is a human being, the need for something less coldly detached from humanity, may easily be drawn into a religious cult which is both crude and obscurantist.

That last sentence bears repetition, for it is fundamental to why there is such a widespread feeling that in some way our religious observance has by these changes been diminished and devalued: the day «becomes less significantfor being absorbed into the weekly routine».

It was only after he found fame as an adult that his followers, like those of any religious or cult leader, felt the need to embellish his birth to supernatural status and fit it into to the expectations of the people they were trying to convince or influence.

As a «Christian» these remarks make me feel the Jews are trying to drag Christians into a world religious war.

Why can't we all just mind our own business when it comes to peoples bedrooms and wedding albums, neither side get's to preach in schools, though I understand how you would think of it as the atheist getting his way by just not having you preach your God to his children in a publicly funded school, but he's not sending an atheist spokesman to influence your children, he just doesn't feel it's right to allow the religious spokesman into the schools to influence any children on his tax dollar.

In modern philosophy of religion the I of the I - It relation steps ever more into the foreground as the «subject» of «religious feeling,» the «profiter from a pragmatist decision to believe.»

People refusing medical treatment because they think they can pray disease away, The demoralizing way religion makes you feel about yourself (I am a wretch, a sinner, a bad person by nature), the religious wars that have been fought for millenia, the self righteous passing laws based on THEIR beliefs (change to the pledge of allegience which now excludes anyone who does not believe in a fairy godfather, the change to the national motto that turned it into the lie «in god we trust», the bigotry that «my religion is the right one and you are wrong so I'll pray for you» kind of crap... don't you realize that it is insulting to me when someone says they will pray for me... its the same as saying I'm going to do something for you but there won't be any effect, so it is just a waste of time.

Thus Meland's approach is generally not highly systematic but more nearly in the form of explorations into the felt meanings of cultural and religious phenomena.

The more I peeped into African religious insights about God, the more I felt utterly unable to use the word «only» in this case.

After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands.

But religious love is only man's natural emotion of love directed to a religious object; religious fear is only the ordinary fear of commerce, so to speak, the common quaking of the human breast, in so far as the notion of divine retribution may arouse it; religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge; only this time it comes over us at the thought of our supernatural relations; and similarly of all the various sentiments which may be called into play in the lives of religious persons.

(As regards the secondary character of intellectual constructions, and the primacy of feeling and instinct in founding religious beliefs, see the striking work of H. Fielding, The Hearts of Men, London, 1902, which came into my hands after my text was written.

Unlike the West, in China there is no sharp separation into religious groups but rather a syncretism, so that the typical Chinese have in them something of both tendencies, and a feeling they can express themselves in either.

they are simply reaching out to those individuals within a religious society that feel they are being forced into a belief because of others, & that is simply not right in the same way it would not be right for you to eat fast food when you did nt want to & everyone around you is telling you to.

And without any prefabricated religious systems of heroics into which they might fit their lives, many had little opportunity to discover and feel deeply the sense of significance they needed in order simply to exist as persons.

How, though, can we hold together a feeling of fully belonging to the cosmos, while at the same time embracing the insecurity of a genuine religious movement into mystery?

It is in response to this pessimism about perishing that Whitehead's cosmological speculations turn into theological ones.19 He interprets the religious intuition of divine care as one in which the immediacy of our experience is contained in God's experience without fading, without the loss that we feel in our own temporal perishing.

It is at this pole that all beings experience God as the silent horizon of their actuality, as the source of their intrinsic order, as the lure summoning them toward self - transcendence and, finally, as the care into which their existence is ultimately synthesized.14 Religious symbolism represents this felt ultimacy and care by couching it in images that we may correlate with the secondary pole of perception and with our concretely limited historical experience.

@Kalessin I'd say it's a pretty safe assumption based on the fact that you felt the need to throw scientists into the list of who not to trust that you are religious.

we all tend to fear what we do not know - rather than take someone else's word for it explore for yourself - take a yoga class at the Y or the local yoga studio - tune into your own experience - your own feelings - yoga is NOT a religious practice and never has been - it is a process of yoking (yoga means to yoke or to join) body and mind - when body and mind are integrated we experience the NOW - peace - and that leads the to experience of ONEness - we are all connected - I am you, you are me - be love my loves - be love...

This is something I run into from time to time — quotes that a Christian feels is making a worthy and profound statement, but that I feel is legalistic «letter of the law», stifling, simply religious - speak that would be beneficial to ignore.

«This is the problem: no matter how open, accepting and caring religious organizations are towards marginalized groups, if these feelings don't translate into policy then it's empty speech.

Do you ever feel like a religious misfit, unable to settle into one faith tradition?

Personal spirituality is fine, it's when the religious congregate into covens is when the problems are seen and felt.

Since in China there is no such sharp separation into religious groups as in the West, it may be said that most Chinese have in them something of both tendencies, and feel perfectly free to express themselves at one time through one, at another time through the other.

«Although it's stepping away from the position Jalna has held since 2015 — of consistency in its support across all religious certification — we feel that the public response has warranted reconsideration of this position as an interim measure, whilst we await the full outcome of the Senate Inquiry into transparent religious certification practices and management,» the statement said.

As I stepped into 5775, I felt frustrated by the fact that in many ways I am no wiser, no more sure of my religious identity than I have ever been.

But I am not into preparing blintzes or latkes from scratch (though potato kugel is a regular Shabbos food) My husband's mother, in contrast, doesn't bake regularly, actually uses matzoh ball and pancake mix, but feels it a religious obligation to grind potatoes by hand (food processor use is alien to her) for latkes and to prepare blintzes for Shavuous.

My interest in this whole issue comes from the fact that if our law courts especially the highest court in Ghana, Supreme Court that is supposed to be final place in the country to deliver justice to all manner of persons regardless of one's political affiliation, religious beliefs, ethnic background etc in a just and fair manner is now seen to be turning into a place where citizens of Ghana who may belong to certain political affiliations do not feel confident or have trust in their handling of critical national issues in view of some of these «partisan» pronouncements on the part of some justices, then where would we be heading towards as a country?

This delight leads to tragedy (see: the predictable holiday on the beach scene, where Annie cavorts without properly warm clothing, apparently leading to her illness, a scene that is collapsed into parents» feelings of overwhelming guilt), a logic that is profoundly emotional, and hard to reconcile with religious faith (Innes offers up the explanation that «God works in mysterious ways»).

In a rather perplexing but nevertheless moving way, the film feels detached (in an almost religious sense, one might say) from the specific events within the film, never really delving deep into the particular emotions and minds of the characters.

That Lee was able to make a $ 100 million dollar movie about these themes at 20th Century Fox was impressive enough, that he turns it into something of a Rorschach test for the audience (I felt that the film was suggesting that belief in God is a comforting fiction, religious friends took it as an affirmation of their faith) even more so.

Why do religious people feel the need to always bring their imaginary friend into conversations where he is uninvited?

In this context, art making itself becomes an act of ritual; or as Gerhard Richter, whose thickly textured paintings draw the viewer into unexpected depths, once described it — the pure realization of religious feeling.

That is the question I asked at the end of my December 2010 article about my look into what was prompting religious communities to feel a need for involvement in the global warming issue.

With strong multilingual communication skills and significant insight into religious and cultural diversity, I feel that I am a knowledgeable and qualified candidate.

With strong communication skills and significant insight into religious and cultural diversity, I feel that I am a knowledgeable and qualified candidate.

Some clients feel it is important to include a spiritual and / or religious aspect into their therapy.