Sentences with phrase «less religion in this world»

Either way, we could do with a lot less religion in this world and lot more clear thinking.

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His warning in Science and the Modern World that metaphysics could not go far toward presenting an idea of God available for religion is less obviously relevant to the later formulations of the philosophical doctrine.

None the less, the resulting divisions of the church were to weaken it in the eastern Mediterranean world and make it vulnerable to the spread of the new religion of Islam in the seventh century.

The whole article is little more than desperate christian rationalization - an attempt to stay pertinent in a world that has increasingly less use for religion.

The distinctive denominational claims of all — catholic and protestant — have grown less spiritual with the years and therefore more foreign to the religion of Christ, so that the world has judged the religion thus set forth as in large part fictitious, and from it the multitudes are slowly turning away.

Mainly, because in all the verbiage about freedoms of beliefs there is something so important, so blatantly acute yet everyone do not even mention it, except - oh genial me: Why would anyone in the whole world support any type of creed / belief / religion where a whole lot of humans — as in millions of human women — are not allowed to go to school, to even just read and write - less become a teacher, doctor, lawyer, president of their own companies, their own countries, mutilated by the millions when they reach puberty, WHY is this allowed?

Having faced such violent persecution at the militant atheist hands of the Communist regime, it is a blessing to see the growth of the Church in Russia, especially in an era when religion is becoming less and less relevant in the Western part of the world.

As it seeks liberation from this dimension of its past, as it encounters feminist theology, the new consciousness of women, blacks, third world peoples, and their suppressed traditions, post-Holocaust Judaism as well as other religions, Christianity is transformed, becomes more authentically relational and creative, richer, more inclusive, less trivial in its harmony.

Although he thinks more blood is likely to be spilled along the way, the author is a modern optimist in thinking that Muslims will, more or less inevitably, adapt their religion to the peaceful constraints by which the rest of us - meaning those of us who are in charge of the world - abide.

In fact, although the United States is one of the most religious developed countries in the world, most Americans scored 50 percent or less on a quiz measuring knowledge of the Bible, world religions and what the Constitution says about religion in public lifIn fact, although the United States is one of the most religious developed countries in the world, most Americans scored 50 percent or less on a quiz measuring knowledge of the Bible, world religions and what the Constitution says about religion in public lifin the world, most Americans scored 50 percent or less on a quiz measuring knowledge of the Bible, world religions and what the Constitution says about religion in public lifin public life.

What a great showing of solidarity it would be for him to align himself with the millions of women around the world who are living far far less than equal lives in societies where male supremacist religions are powerful.

Considering his condition is likely what allowed him to spend most of his time thinking and doing physics, thus making him one of the world's most well respected physicists and living far longer with ALS than any other individual before him, and is still able to communicate, I would imagine Maire is correct and he is an atheist not because he is all that bitter, but because the further people tend to go in science, the less they tend to believe in religion.

The Universe, known and unknown, is possibly not the most used definition of God, at least in the western world... but it is the Pantheistic version that jives so much more with science and is not a misappropriation of the smaller definitions of God, merely an unfamiliar definition to those with less knowledge of various more advanced religious and philosophic thought, within and outside those religions... The idea of Pantheism also thoughtfully considers why there is, rather than ridiculing, such a wide range of philosophical and ritual beliefs from a scientific perspective... without having to classify large groups of people, as senseless idiots from one end or destined for hell from the other.

Jus tthink how much LESS hate and murder and misery there would be in this world if people would just not worry about everyone else's religion.

Also non-scholars, though this concerns us here less directly: a graphic example was the article «The Moslem World» (actually on its religion) in Time, August 31, 1951, pp. 32 - 37, which gave great offense in the Muslim world and resulted in Time's being banned for a while in more than one Muslim couWorld» (actually on its religion) in Time, August 31, 1951, pp. 32 - 37, which gave great offense in the Muslim world and resulted in Time's being banned for a while in more than one Muslim couworld and resulted in Time's being banned for a while in more than one Muslim country.

As Sara Silverman smartly noted in one of her stand - up performances, if someone invented a religion today like one of the world's older, mainstream religions, it would be seen as bizarre, at best, and no less so than more recent systems like Scientology.

In a similar vein, middle - class and more - educated parents tend to shape Christian schools toward less tension with the outside world, greater emphasis on academic excellence, less rigid social control of students, greater room for individual creativity and expression, and less denominationally distinctive ways of integrating religion into school life.

There will be a less prominent world history section and pupils will be asked to study a theme such as changes in politics, religion or culture across the medieval, early modern and modern eras.

For those who might be initially inclined to disagree, Philip Wood explains that by around 900CE the great religions had more or less settled their moral systems and had little to contribute to the creation of rules that followed in an ever - evolving world.