Sentences with phrase «kind of religion as»

On the contrary, Christians and Muslims often enough face the same harsh criticism from people who view every kind of religion as an unbearable offense against human intellect.

Jesus is just as upset and angry about this kind of religion as George Carlin is.

lol — funny that include any kind of religion as reality; with respect to metaphysics, I view religion as the hunchbacked assistant to the mad scientist..

Not exact matches

200 years into the future, religion will probably have dropped GOD and JESUS as their focus and will probably morph into a kind of social movement that denounces the injustices of future societies.

Guiding Principles Religious and theological studies depend on and reinforce each other; A principled approach to religious values and faith demands the intellectual rigor and openness of quality academic work; A well - educated student of religion must have a deep and broad understanding of more than a single religious tradition; Studying religion requires that one understand one's own historical context as well as that of those whom one studies; An exemplary scholarly and teaching community requires respect for and critical engagement with difference and diversity of all kinds.

CNN, you would never run this kind of article that bashes other religions such as Islam.

I look at Christmas and New Year as a time to be with family and be kind to everyone not because of religion.

Those curious about Romney's religion should be wary of those on this comment log that condemn it as a cult or some kind of mass conspiracy.

While convergence does happen in religion from the perspective of the human psyche being adapted through its self - deceptive capabilities (e.g., as a coping mechanism), we didn't land in the new world with the discovery of the same kind of scripture stemming from a singular God.

Whether it is changing text books to teach religion as a «science,» making laws that prohibit stem - cell research which would without question help those in need, to stopping of any kind of gay rights, trying to put religion (christianity) into schools, a woman's right to choose, etc, etc...

I have a similar view of religion as Einstien and Ben Franklin — kind of agnostic.

All I'm trying to say here is that when I'm told to love God with my whole heart, soul and mind, and to love my neighbor as myself, and to forgive others unconditionally, and to love my wife unconditionally, and to be kind and compassionate to others and to love my en emies and to take care of orphans and to feed the hungry and not to li e or to e nvy or be boastful or arro gant or hypoc ritical or a gossip or proud, and when I'm told that God demonstrated his love for us in that while we were still in s in, Christ di ed for us, I realize that these things have no relevance to the grie vances I find in» religion.»

Finally, to make it perfectly clear, what he was getting at is that he (as well as I) believe people don't always turn to religion for the right... or maybe not for the traditionally intended reasons, or if they were already «kind of» religious, they strengthen that religion for the wrong reasons.

Typically this process leads to a characterization of God as a being so advanced, powerful, immortal, and not subject to the laws of time, matter, and space that his followers can make up any excuse they choose to address questions, since nothing about their god (or gods) can be subjected to any kind of objective verification or scrutiny, just like everything else in the religion.

The idea of being kind to your fellow man as you would wish him to be to you is found all over the world, and does not require the additional belief in all the hootenanny of organized religion.

Unless these aliens brought some kind of evidence for their religion and the existence of their deity, such as a demonstration of the power of their form prayer, I really have to much to rethink.

These assumptions come to light in all kinds of ways, but especially through religion — the various faiths that treat women as though they are not equal to men.

But if we take Ezekiel's teaching as a whole we shall not suspect him of the kind of pure individualism in religion which has become familiar in the modern world.

On the basis of the First Amendment, as well as the general principles of the Constitution, he opposed public payment for chaplains in Congress and the military, spoke out against national proclamations of days of prayer (though as president he did «recommend» them) and while president vetoed congressional efforts to incorporate churches in the District of Columbia (fullest statement, V: 103 - 105) At the same time, Madison frequently opined that it was appropriate for private citizens to support chaplains and various kinds of semiorganized public religion through voluntary contributions (V: 104,105)

Now if we regard all real religions as attempts to get at a special kind of truth to provide some answer to man's intuitions about his own nature, we shall, I believe, find that what we know as «Christianity» comprehends, develops and fulfills all that at heart we hold to be true.

He often suggested that the communists of the late»30s and»40s, because they had this commitment to communism as a kind of religion, were even more dangerous than the fascists.

More stories showing how crazy religion is, more religious posters rabidly defending the insanity as a special kind of truth that only they can see.

Although Jesus had some decent ideals (regardless of what kind of being you think he was), history shows us that Christianity, the religion, for as much as it has aided people, has been political, corrupt (well just human to be kinder) right from the git - go, and the cause of enormous evil and suffering throughout its history.

As for «filicide,» the next time you shout out objections to a religion, please be so kind as to understand the background of the evenAs for «filicide,» the next time you shout out objections to a religion, please be so kind as to understand the background of the evenas to understand the background of the event.

As to all your claims about believing until you believe and then pretending to sort of believe until you kind of believe a little more, I've heard it all before... from various members of various cults, religions, and pop philosophies.

Think about it people - what kind of religion seriously regards an 800 year old heart as a sacred relic?

human beings, «born free and equal in dignity and rights,» are entitled to human rights «without distinction of any kind, such as race, color, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status.

A seeker of truth can never subscribe to any religion, esp the organized kind... and the universe certainly was not created so that you and I could have a rollicking good time in it... as the author seems to suggest.

This kind of organization of service may be of genuine value not only to members of local churches but also to others who, while sympathetic to religion or the church, have nevertheless not gone so far as to join a church.

But more important are the changing patterns and attitudes of campus life, the enormously increased and still increasing numbers of young people who are on campuses, and the various kinds of movements that combine to make young people think of religion and the church as false, traditional, or irrelevant.

Please notice the kind of God I am talking about here is not some force in the universe as is believed in many of the eastern religions, but rather a God that is a person, and this person is different from that which he created.

Mysticism doesn't float free of religion — with the exception of the past hundred years, when the dissatisfaction with organized religion has led some people to turn to mysticism as a kind of private religion.

The philosophical foundation of Solzhenitsyn s Christianity is the plebian's mythopoetic conception of religion as the practice of virtue (as opposed to Sartre's modernist idea of it as a kind of mystified ideology).

The usual assertions are (1) that this kind of religion is today on the defensive; (2) that the defensive posture is occasioned by the flourishing of «conservative churches» (although the alleged liberal enervation is also seen in more autonomous terms); (3) that the growth in religious conservatism and conservative churches is itself the result of widespread reaction against «secular humanist» values and against those who hold such values; (4) that our society as a whole has been experiencing a breakdown in moral consensus, a loss of moral coherence somehow connected with a decline in oldline Protestant dominance; and (5) that some or all of these happenings have been quite sudden, so that the early 1960s can be taken as a kind of benchmark — as a time before the fall.

It's this kind of over the top judgement, holding others to your personal religious beliefs, that are responsible for so many Americans today feeling that religion in general has nothing to offer besides bigotry, judgement, and a sad credo that everyone who doesn't think exactly as you do is wrong and evil.

«I think there is a genuine embarrassment / horror when people in the West look at, for instance, some of the Pentecostal traditions, and I'm always very worried when people look at Asian or African religion and present it as a kind of syncretism, as a kind of survival of the pagan,» says Jenkins.

Here's the problem — we all know that putting this kind of passion and ferocity into religion is known as extremism, and isn't healthy.

Should they come to power, all other religions as well as other Christian denominations would be disenfranchised, and what kind of liberty would we have then?

Many X-tians and, in fact, a lot of organized religions promote this kind of anger / hatred / whatever - you - want - to - call - it tacitly simply by defining everyone who isn't with you as against you.

I enjoy reading all kinds of ancient texts... as you find out when doing this, reading about other religions and their texts of faith... you find that there are alot of common denominators..

In addition, sociologists can object that the concept of plausibility structures as venues of discourse and interaction diminishes the importance of other kinds of social resources for maintaining religion.

Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms of this Declaration without distinction of any kind such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status».

They did, however, understand that government and religion (of any kind) were a bad mix and were very careful to make sure that American citizens, immigrants all, would be free to practice as they wished without governmental interference.

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.»

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.

Even though the cosmic process is hopeless, the absurdity of the universe as a whole provides each of us with the opportunity to exercise a kind of courage to create our own meanings and values that would be impossible if we thought, with religion, that the universe were itself inherently purposeful.

most churches represent the community in which it is found in many respects if the community is multi-disciplinary in it's religions — then multi-disciplinary churches, as well as many other churches of all kinds, can be found there are real differences in the religious atmosphere and realities in the USA compared to the Mid-East the seperation of church and state is taken fairly seriously — and — from what i have seen so far — is a good thing for most

In asserting that «we are moving toward a completely religionless time» and that religion is opposed to being Christian, he declares that we must live as persons who manage our lives in a kind of Christian worldliness, a Christianity without religion, but certainly not Christianity without God.

The few references to religion made by Marx in his later years indicate that, in spite of his lack of interest in this kind of problem, his view on religion and atheism did not change as the years passed.

My guess is that people are in the church as they are and religion is used as a kind of cloak for that.