Sentences with phrase «look upon religion»

Every dictator which includes Stalin, Hitler, Lenin, etc.... held no particular religious belief, but instead looked upon religion as the «opiate of the people».

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Those of a less determinist mind look upon culture and religion as examples of the human ability to transcend our genes, to see ourselves as more than our inheritance.

The problem with religion is that it serves as a platform from which people can look down upon others.

In these days when «organised religion» is looked upon with suspicion we are losing sight of this most wonderful truth about God's work.

Modern Christianity is apt to look back upon the religion of Puritan days as joyless; yet as we have earlier suggested it may be questioned whether there is not a greater lack of joy in modern religion, with so many of its exponents tied up in nervous knots.

So, those that can not help but look down upon others (whatever the reason, doesn't have to be religion) and feel like they must «enlighten» those others... how about you shove your pity where the sun don't shine.

These fears assumed a fever pitch in 1832 when Pope Gregory XVI de?nounced separation of church and state, prompting Tocqueville to remark that across America «the Catholic religion has erroneously been looked upon as the natural enemy of democracy.»

But if you make the same claims for a religion that's been followed (granted, often poorly) for a couple thousand years, then it's looked upon with skepticism.

Long before the 1960s progress became increasingly identified with an enterprise, science, looked upon in many quarters as incompatible with religion.

Or maybe you just ignored them because you wanted to pretend only your religion is looked down upon for its nutcases.

I hope to one day see the day when religions are looked upon as something of the past and we see ourselves as humans not different religious affliliations.

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..

It seems that most studies in comparative religion look at all the various options, find the scores upon scores of similarities between the religions, and conclude that «they are basically all the same.»

[29] Marxist propaganda depicted Buddhism as superst ition, and religion was looked upon as a means of hostile foreign infiltration, as well as an instrument of the «ruling cla ss».

Though critics usually look upon the UUA as a union of unbelief and uncertainty, the church body's Web site upholds a belief that «personal experience, conscience and reason should be the final authorities in religion.»

We confess as Christians that we have often looked for the worst in others and have passed negative judgement upon other religions.

The doctrine that the divine element in the world is to be conceived as a persuasive agency, not a coercive one, should be looked upon, says Whitehead, as one of the greatest discoveries in the history of religion (Whitehead 1933, 196).

Teachers of Asian religions tend to look upon general introductions to the religions of the world as useful only for quick reference, and to prefer books dealing with a specific religion, supplemented with readings from original sources.

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

Feuding groups throughout history have used race, religion, and politics (the Jew - Gentile division was a toxic combination of all three) to look down upon each other and accuse one another of being less than human and less - loved by God.

The decline of Western Europe's world position, the rise of existentialist philosophies and moods, the Western «return to religion,» the rise of communism, and the resurgence of Eastern civilizations on a religious base, have all conspired to bring about this new situation, wherein the secular intellectual, like the religious believer, takes his place as a member of one group of men, one of the world's communities, looking out upon the others.

They have realized only imperfectly, however, the concept of humanity toward which they strive because they have detached themselves from other religions striving for the same goal and because they have looked upon one another as competitors or even as enemies instead of brethren and children of the same family of God.

The reigning tendency of current Protestantism, the so - called dialectical theology, denies every revelation of God outside the Christian Bible and looks upon the non-Christian religions as mere attempts at self - apotheosis which are under the judgment of God.

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

The Christian has a particularly clear obligation to look with reverence and respect upon Judaism — the religion, which Jesus said he came «not to destroy but to fulfill.»

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

Much of the content of the collection has little or nothing to do with religion at all and popular religion may not have looked to it as the final authority, but higher religion in China has found in it a secure foundation, and morally it has been the predominant influence upon the Chinese people for more than two thousand years.

Yet religion is in fact a guarantee of authentic liberty and respect, leading us to look upon every person as a brother or sister.

«Ofsted inspectors came to our school looking for extremism, looking for segregation, looking for proof that our children have religion forced upon them as part of a religious plot,» he said.

«Ofsted inspectors came to our schools looking for extremism, looking for segregation, looking for proof that our children have religion forced upon them as part of an Islamic plot,» he said.

scientist are humans also ------ and like all of us ---- can pick and choose what they want to believe -------- just look at the how people can be ------ IS and their warped sense of religion ------ racism ---- and what it is based upon ------ need I go on