Sentences with phrase «knowledge of the religion of»

On November 29, Tarcisio Cardinal Bertone, secretary of state, wrote to Prince Ghazi bin Muhammad bin Talal of Jordan, the chief organizer of the letter of the 138, on behalf of the pope: «Common ground allows us to base dialogue on effective respect for the dignity of every human person, on objective knowledge of the religion of the other, on the sharing of religious experience, and, finally, on common commitment to promoting mutual respect and acceptance among the younger generation.

The apparent moral weakness and inefficiency of the creedal churches, together with the wider knowledge of the religions of foreign and ancient peoples, produced in many minds a critical attitude toward the church, comparable in many ways to the situation which had threatened the medieval establishment centuries before.

Not exact matches

Islamic faith based traders can invest with the knowledge they are being fully compliant with the banking and investing rules of their religion and UKoptions even makes it convenient for Islamic faith traders to follow the rules of Hibah that make it easy to donate and avoid fees when doing it.

The whole «Tree of Knowledge» part of the Garden story remains a philosophical debate within religion.

For instance, while Star Wars has very evident religious Buddhist and Taoist overtones, Star Trek shows religion from a cold perspective (e.g., science is supreme and only cultures and worlds without an in - depth knowledge of science need religion).

But, I don't think religion has anything to say about it, by way of describing details, and «knowledge».

To participate effectively in a constitutive dialogue carried on in the venue of the courts, one must be a member of the priestly class of our civil religion: a lawyer or someone with a large measure of legal knowledge.

reborners, everyone of them, is absolutely clueless, brainwashed, has a book do all their thinking, reparded, is an imbecile, indoctrinated, duped by his parents, abused by priests, hates almost everyone, is a hypocrite, unthinking, addicted to religion, closed - minded, untrustworthy, greedy, two - faced, cheap, shallow, biased, republican, racist, uneducated, materialistic, boring, bland, judgmental, w / o love and knowledge of the bible, child abusing abortionists and genocidal cowboys and pro-slavery

GOD is not religion and He did foretell about about increase of knowledge at the end of days and people will be running to and from more increasingly (airplanes / cars / mass transport) etc,..

So it's important every time we learn more in that maybe that incremental piece of knowledge will convince a few more that religion is idiotic.

But if this is used to invalidate all claims to discern the truth, it is in fact an arrogant claim with the kind of knowledge which is superior that you have just said, no religion has.»

Since humans are flawed creatures, we must recognize that each one of us is capable of being wrong or bad, so, the consequences of our actions must be consistent or no law and no amount of knowledge of any religion will matter.

He says that he would «convert on the spot» if any of these could be shown to him: verifiable fulfillment of prophecies that couldn't have been contrived; scientific knowledge in holy books that wasn't available at the time; miraculous occurrences, especially if brought about through prayer; any direct manifestation of the divine; aliens who believed in exactly the same religion.

In a rich country with a weak knowledge of art, this was possibly a laudable goal - though perhaps a little too confident of government's power to legislate things like aesthetics and a little too sure of the nineteenth - century dogmas of man as perfectible and art as universal religion.

The knowledge of this religion would be impossible apart from these two texts.»

With education and knowledge so widespread these days, it's only a matter of 2 or 3 centuries before religion dies out entirely.

The trial set modernists, who said evolution was consistent with religion, against fundamentalists who said the word of God as revealed in the Bible took priority over all human knowledge.»

The more knowledge someone has the more likely they are to see the ridiculousness of organized religions.

If you were raised without religious education of any kind, including your own study, or raised within the Mormon religion, you wouldn't have the strength of this core knowledge to know the difference.

I was taught, for example, the Enlightenment mythology of the dark, anti-intellectual ages dominated by the Church and the growth of human knowledge and freedom brought by those who rejected religion and discovered science.

The fact that I scored 100 % on the little online multiple - guess sub-sample of the test is not a testament to my intelligence, just my general knowledge of religions.

You shrill ignorance, your hatred of anything different, your bigotry and lack of knowledge of even your own religion, your stunning lack of education regarding basic science and history, and now your attacking the men and women of the military?

In a New York Times blog, Ross Douthat notes that Pew created two nonbeliever categories instead of one: the much publicized atheist / agnostic category (which got 21 out of 32 religious knowledge questions right) and a much larger category of respondents who described their religion as «nothing in particular» (which got only 15 right — a bit below the national average of 16 correct answers).

I think you're unwilling to tolerate differences in opinions, practices, or beliefs (intolerant), strongly partial to your own group, religion, race, and politics and intolerant of those who differ from you (bigot), and lacking knowledge and information (ignorant) in our laws and why they exist.

So yes, the first problem with the article was the word «smart» to describe general knowledge of world religions.

These have been formulated in different ways, but a typical list would cite life (including health, safety, and procreation); knowledge (including appreciation of beauty); holiness or religion (in the sense of harmony with ultimate reality); self - integration, justice, friendship (including marriage); and the kind of exercise of skill in work or play that enriches human life.

two hundred - and - fifity in one archdiocese!?!?! I am not catholic, and therefore make no claims to specific knowledge of the religion nor those in positions of authority.

What I learned from the story of Adam and Eve was that religion abhors knowledge!

The holy book of your respective religion is always true, always right, and always accurate, being inspired of a higher source than human knowledge.

Maybe he gave the real religion to a different culture you have no knowledge of, and you're the one following the false path.

You should be asking why religion uses scientific advances and knowledge all the time (electricity, chemicals, etc) and why science doesn't use any of religion's «advances.»

as time goes on and more facts are acquired, one has to make an ever greater leap to jump from the world of knowledge into the world of religion.

3) Knowledge of the actual history of the traditional religions 4) Failure of the faith to which they were born and in which they were raised to answer the fundamental questions regarding morality and ethics to the satisfaction of the seeker.

One of the many reasons why Christians are mocked in their belief is because those who defend the religion lacks knowledge, especially science.

It is also far easier to slip from religion into the world of knowledge.

The religions of today are more sophisticated, more carefully constructed in such a way that they have managed to survive the increased knowledge we have of the world, but they are just as much fairytales as the stories of Thor or Zeus, and with no more evidence to support them.

You should support the advancement of human knowledge and understanding, even if it means the possibility that religion might be diminished.

religion is the man made wall that devides us from the knowledge of our natural surrounding.

The second is the equally incontestable fact that culture is derived from and connected to religion: architecture to temples of worship, drama to religious ritual, universities to acquiring sacred knowledge, music, sculpture and painting to the praise of the divine, indeed science and political economy themselves to categories generated by divine stories.

«Truth Be Known was created in 1995 by independent scholar and author of comparative religion and mythology D.M. Murdock, also known as «Acharya S.» Acharya's work is designed to bring to light fascinating lost, hidden and destroyed religious, mythological and spiritual traditions that reveal an exciting core of knowledge dating back thousands of years.

What religion offers: — The opportunity to avoid eternal punishment for not worshiping / believing in my god (not worried enough to care)-- An explanation for the universe and why we are here (I'll take the knowledge gained from the application of the scientific method, but thanks)-- Living forever in heavenly bliss (I am content with this life)-- The opportunity to divide humanity based upon different belief systems (There is enough dividing us already)-- Purpose, a code of ethics, and fulfillment (I have that already, without religion)-- Develop a personal relationship with god (I've never seen or heard from any gods nor have I seen any independantly verified scientifically collected peer reviewed proof.

According to Dagen newspaper, Hans - Erik Nordin, bishop of the Diocese of Strängnäs, said: «What knowledge does the Migration Agency have about religion and faith?»

Dispassionate readers, who have studied the Galileo caricature of a war between science and religion will know that, apart from that sorry, somewhat isolated affair, the Catholic Church and the science lab have long been conjoined twins in the advancement of knowledge.

This is the highest the nature of things will permit us to go in matters of revealed religion, which are therefore called maters of faith; a persuasion of our own minds, short of knowledge, is the result that determines us in such truths.

to Jake, in every era or times in the past, humans have different perception of reality, because our knowledge improves or changes toward sophistication, For example during the times of Jesus, there was no science yet as what we have today, since the religion in the past corresponds to their needs, it is true for them in the past, but today we already knew many new ideas and facts, so what is applicable in the past is no longer today, like religion, we have also to change to conform with todays knowledge.The creation or our origin for example is now explained beyond doubt by science as the big bang and evolution is the reason we become humans, is in contrast to creation in the bibles genesis,.

A more reliable description of religion would make reference to its many aspects, including knowledge, beliefs, experience, ritual practices, social affiliation, motivation and behavioral consequences.

Yet in his Essay in Aid of a Grammar of Assent, John Henry Newman insists on the necessity of individual experience and weakness of theoretical knowledge in forming religion and morality: «many a man will live and die upon a dogma; no man will be a martyr for a syllogism.»

But that this should be interpreted as freedom from religion, and used as a means of sealing our culture against the imparting of religious knowledge, has no justification in fact.

Fact and knowledge are the enemies of religion.

To judge the two realities by a supposed knowledge of what is «really» real, gained by some means alien to both, is to abandon the perspective of the history of religions.