Sentences with phrase «life upon his religion»

There is the effect of a man's personal experience of life upon his religion.

Not exact matches

Indeed, I tend to play melodies that regard show the hugeness of God, His open arms to all mankind, his love without any conditions, the giving of eternal life to anyone that calls upon him, and his willingness to tolerate all forms of religion... even my own.

With all the RCC's riches being horded and their hierarchies living in lives of humble luxuries, I'm sorry but I can not rightly commend such religious liars who would rather pilfer and lay sieges upon the emotionally despondent and financially poor... Give all that you have obtained by years of pilferage and give it back to your flocking poor oh pabulum pope... Only then will Christ Jesus find mercies upon your religion's unholiest vespers...

There's not much point to having a moral foundation based upon religion if it does not make you more moral in your actual life.

Do we not live in a country based upon freedom of religion?

Unlike Marx and others who tried to turn socialism into a science and thought they knew what would happen, Rorty's religion is radically open to, adamantly insistent upon, the new — making possible a life of «pure, joyous hope.»

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.

The role of religion in the lives of individuals and societies depends greatly upon personal and historical experiences and developments.

She came back after experiencing the life of fantasy that religion forces upon you.

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.»

Helpless to grow our own food — mechanization has destroyed the family farm, and we live mostly uprooted in cities and suburbs we are dependent upon the religion that threatens our faith.

As we see the devastation this religion is working upon our lives, America tries to find scapegoats.

while the writer has little knowledge of the bible, he is also greatly lacking what he should know to write such a article, the laws give to people of all walks of life is the commandments given by moses, religion does not have anything to do with goverments laws or rulings, he told us straight the one law that there is no forgiveness for is murder, rulers and goverments take it upon themselves to make the decision whether to go to war, or if a person should be put to death, as far as jesus and the apostles are concerned thier labours was a work of love and true humanitarian towards all peoples, races, religions, they never asked for anything for themselves, and they never took from one to give to another.

The man who has no religion, and denies the possibility of there being any such thing, imprisons himself within the closed - system of physical life upon this planet.

This means that religion must arise from the actual life experiences of people and not be dogmatically imposed upon them.

In spite of this, it is still true that universal religion must be based upon universal experiences which can be successively illustrated in actual life situations.

Frei calls upon the Christian community to regain «its autonomous vocation as a religion» by telling its distinctive stories about how God worked in the life of Israel, and God's self - revelation in the life of Jesus Christ.

The intensity of disdain increases with the direct impact of the religion in question upon the lives of non-believers, but your statement is patently false.

Responding to this «religion is for private life only» position, Greenawalt argues that in some circumstances citizens of a liberal / modernist state may rely upon their personal religious values in casting votes or framing arguments.

In my earlier work, I tended to emphasize an approach to religion by means of reflection upon what can be called the positive limit - experiences of life.

That through which all religion lives, religious reality, goes in advance of the morphology of the age and exercises a decisive effect upon it; it endures in the essence of the religion which is morphologically determined by culture and its phases, so that this religion stands in a double influence, a cultural, limited one from without and an original and unlimited one from within.

S.e.x.u.a.l.i.s.m is a socal oreintation the same way religion is a socially oreintated construct, Without society we could not oreintate our life upon or against a model of constructivism therefore social oreintations are the mainframes of individualities!

In African Religions and Philosophy, John S. Mbiti addresses the question of what remains after one's physical life by drawing upon a traditional African distinction between (1) the living.

but on the third day using his Power of Resurrection rose from the dead to claim his seat next to God in heaven, I mean next to himself since he was also God and then told the masses that he died for their sins, though oddly enough being God he could have simply absolved them of their sins and he really didn't die because he lives and is coming back to judge man based upon the original sins... but not sure if that would work since man can clearly kill a God with wood and nails... I know, I know confusing and likely to be labeled heresy... but debates about nomenclature and religion... i mean story telling... just don't mix.

with all and full respect; You know that your used name is dear to my heart, for having been a believer in God the Creator of the whole Universe he has all the beautiful names that we know or do not know, I believe that God starched his hand to mankind in love, sending among them his prophets and messengers to warn and guide to righteous, am not told to force belief or religion upon people of any faith or of non faith, am a mere reminder and Warner to my self and whom my want to know and judge their senses life is a spiritual challenge, life is a maze and only if make use of the heavenly codes that could be found in All Scriptures of God that was relaid upon mankind from prophets & messengers from Adam to Noah to Abrahim to Musa to Issa to Muhammed which many obviously seem to Ignore!!

It is about believing in something better than ourselves helping us in our lives, knowing spirituality (totally different than religion), being humble (after experiencing humiliation) and daily addressing our character defects and the wrong we have done upon others.

But one thing is the business of religion; it always has been the business of religion — to lay its hands upon life's holy places and insist that they shall not be violated.

The religious are always looking to put religion front and center in public life: displays and signs on public property, laws based upon their religious beliefs, their beliefs taught as science in schools, bells on Sunday, etc..

In a study of religion and nationalism, Ninian Smart writes that the flow of human events in society and individual life is such that entities that have phenomenological reality and a special shape (independent of whether they have actual existence) impinge upon consciousness and feeling.

thus of a sudden to seduce the Church which was devoted to him, and hung upon him through admiration of his genius, his learning, his eloquence, his manner of life and influence, while she had no fear, no suspicion for herself — thus, I say, to seduce the Church, slowly and little by little, from the old religion to a new profaneness, was not only a trial, but a great trial.

Islam is the fastest growing and the true religion... actually a way of life... All people are born Muslim and from Adam, Abraham, Jesus to the Prophet Muhammad, Peace and blessings upon them all... were Muslims.

Israel had been getting on comfortably enough with the traditional religion and the inherited faith, until suddenly a shadow fell upon the whole Israelitish life.

A comment upon Dr. Eugene W. Lyman's wise and balanced philosophy of religion may sharpen the point I am urging on the relation of redemption and creativity in life.

Religion, whatever it is, is a man's total reaction upon life, so why not say that any total reaction upon life is a religion?

He chooses to focus entirely on personal religion, leaving the institutional aside, since it lives «at second hand upon tradition.»

While the Humanists propose to solve the problem of the religious crisis by allowing only a religion which completely identifies itself with the spirit of secularism, and while the Modernists rely primarily upon the actuality and presence of the religious life, the Barthians wish to depend almost exclusively upon the Bible and on a church which recognizes the special worth of the Bible.

All religions have been left in the dustiness sideroads where Truth does prevail upon many of mankind's teachers and their students of Bio-Cellular Technicalities wanting to willingly know about the Kingdom Domains of God which lay upon the insides of all celestially nomenclatured biological life forms and life formations.

Because belief empowered and shaped political life, they granted all religions the right of free exercise, and knowing the human desire to dominate, they courageously insisted that government not infringe upon religious life.

I gave up a religion of studying a holy book for living a real life based upon navigating through life's experiences.

May the one Universe, in all its Godly and Satanic manifestations, continue to slightly smile upon us, skewed ever so gently towards life within the confines of natural death, as it has for 14 billion years according to Science, or eternally according to religion, or for 1million + years when humanism says «people» 1st appeared, or even for only 5,000 years when Adam & Eve were «created «according to the Bible.

So with that being said, why would anyone who believed its fundamental teachings look condescendingly upon living the religion to an extreme?

If the great religions continue to waste their energies in a fratricidal war instead of looking upon themselves as friendly partners in the supreme task of nourishing the spiritual life of mankind, the swift advance of secular humanism and moral materialism is assured.32

We can now live at peace, no longer subjecting ourselves to the ways of death and violence founded upon religion, but instead follow Jesus by faith into the ways of love and grace.

From religion one learns to cope with himself and to take upon himself the burden of his own life.

It is when we come to study the basic conceptions of God, the relationship between man and God, the impact of belief upon social conduct and the view of life after death, that we realize how wide and deep are the gulfs between the leading religions.

I have been dependent upon them for my life... I have had deep converse with them on their religions, I have been invited to attend their religious ceremonies - even in the Cathedral at Lhasa.

She endorses John E Kennedy's response of 1960 to the Baptist preachers of Houston when he assured them, in effect, that he would not let his religion impinge upon his politics (or, as it turned out, much else in his life).

If a person elects to bet his life on Christ, does it follow that he must despise and look down upon other religions?

The twice - born look down upon the rectilinear consciousness of life of the once - born as being «mere morality,» and not properly religion.

Our lives are full of symbols including those supplied by nature and religion, which touch upon the mystical and spiritual aspects of life.