Thus, a serene indifference to the human need for fixed spiritual maps by which we can navigate through life, no matter how variable the weather, betrays an ignorance of the major
meaning of religion for human existence.
Not exact matches
Can you see why equality under the law and equal rights
for everyone
means throwing out the bias
of religion, as none
of them agree with the others on anything.
I
mean if I were to reconcile the two in favor
of religion, I would simply say that science is just our method
of trying to figure out how God (or whatever) defined reality
for us.
Atheists: I know many there are many people that practice
religion just by fanaticism, I've seen many people in my opinion stupid (excuse the word) praying to saints hopping to solve their problems by repeating pre-made sentences over and over, but there are others different, I don't think
Religion and Science need to be opposites, I believe in God, I'm Catholic and I have many reasons to believe in him, I don't think however that we should pray instead
of looking
for the cause and applying a solution, Atheists think they are smart because they focus on Science and technology instead
of putting their faith in a God, I don't think God will solve our problems, i think he gave us the
means to solve them by ourselves that's were God is, also I think that God created everything but not as a Magical thing but stablishing certain rules like Physics and Quimics etc. he's not an idiot and he knew how to make it so everything was on balance, he's the Scientist
of Scientist the Mathematic
of Mathematics, the Physician
of Physicians, from the tiny little fact that a mosquito, an insect species needs to feed from blood from a completely different species, who created the mosquitos that way?
Freedom
of religion and freedom
of speech should
mean there is no discrimination
for or against a group because
of what it is teaching.
If you are aware that Jesus specifically spoke just to the israelites and many
of his various parables were
meant for israelites, then you would know the «having an open mind» and «turning the other cheek» and «loving one another» was also just
for jews and he was totally fine with killing non-jews, fighting back against non jews and being completely closed minded when it came to other
religions.
Thanksgiving, a time to give thanks
for what we have is being quickly pushed aside in our desire to buy stuff
for Christmas which is certainly not the true
meaning of Christmas, who cares about
religion when I can get 75 % off.
I
mean, I'm all
for (creationism) in philosophy class, history
of religion class, human psychology class,» but bring it into science class, and Nye gets upset.
So, unless you are willing to accept your daughters from being excluded from education, your sons from being forced to pray to Allah in school, women being second class citizens, women being sent to prison
for adultery after being raped, etc., you may want to consider what it truly
means to have freedom
of religion.
They still have to comply with federal and state laws, which
means gays are out, but everyone else has to be considered
for employment by the company (the only exceptions to the law are where your
religion or other protected status are essential
for the job...
for example, a Muslim couldn't sue an Episcopalian church who wouldn't hire them in an administrative role because their faith clashes with that
of the church — things like that don't apply to a fast food chain).
It is what has lead me to my veiw that Atheism as a
religion, the passion most Atheist have
for their point
of view from the start you may not fall in this category but I'm sure you know someone that does.The same applies to Christians that freak out on someone and start forcing their view on others, I see that as wrong also if someone asks or brings the debate to you then by all
means debate but why be rude how does it help?
So many people who advocate or speak publicly
for political or personal reasons aren't acknowledged as much when it comes to
religion when someone is wanting to speak out about there faith a light bulb goes off and says we don't want to hear, or talk, or, air any thing that has to do with the mentioning
of God but because
of the high profile story and because this is the President
of the United States it's ok hats off to them
for not being ashamed to speak about there faith I agree with Richard some people just because they profess there faith doesn't
mean there trying to push there beliefs on anyone people
of faith have a right to free speech also.
I respect your views and beliefs and by know
means wish to take away your choices and rights according to your beliefs, also i'm glad we live in such a land that grants freedom
of religion and will gladly fight to keep that right
for us all.
On that, not a single candidate in the GOP is deserving to even run
for President, let alone serve as Commander in Chief, regardless
of whatever fairy tale, I
mean religion, they wear more often than not as a guise.
Most importantly, note this: I am a Christian, I'm gay, I'm a recovering alcoholic, I believe in Evolution, I believe the universe is 13 billion years old and that the Earth is 4.5 or so billion years old, I believe man evolved from lower primates and that Adam was the first man who God gave a soul and sentience, I do not believe in hell but I do believe in Satan, I do not believe the Bible is a book
of rules
meant to imprison man or condemn him but that it is rather a «Human Existence
for Dummies» guide, I believe Christ was the son
of God but I do not believe Christianity is the only «valid»
religion, I do not believe atheists will go to hell, while the English Bible says God should be feared, the Hebrew word used
for fear, «yara», such as that used in the Book
of Job, actually
means respect / reverence, not fear as one would fear death or a spider.
The Christian Post: Paganism and Witchcraft Placed Alongside Christian Studies in UK Schools A U.K. school system has included the study
of witchcraft and druidry on its official religious education syllabus
for the first time,
meaning pagan practices will be taught alongside contemporary
religions, such as Christianity, Islam and Judaism.
You
mean the way the Mormans used / use
religion to justify gathering up a smorgasbord
of young wives
for one guy to choose from?
Saying that Jesus came to save us * from *
religion might make
for Tweetable theology but it is not an accurate representation
of what the word
means (via the dictionary definition), how it was defined in both the ancient and modern worlds, and how the New Testament presents it.
We don't say there are six types
of Theists, we focus on the
Religions, and that is what is missing — a modern Religion / Belief system
for Atheists — as Atheism does not
mean without rules, just about whether God exists or not.
This did not
mean that
religion would disappear; some would always be too weak to face up to the demands
of the day, and
for them the arms
of the church will always be open.»
Your religious war figure would be about right
for a
mean of straight up
religion driven wars and genocides... source: Wikipedia.org war and genocides combined.
@Good / Bad LOL I have never seen anyone, atheist or not, assume that the
religion or lack
of one instantly
mean that they are
for «viability» or anything else along those lines.
Islam is a
religion that embrace and cultivate peace.Islam is Syumul which
means suitable
for everybody.Islam never allows suicide bombing and other attacks that coul lead toward the disaster.Islam Is Beautiful and Complete.Study About Islam and u will learn the truth
Of Islam.the word Islam itself
means salam which
means peace.
Certainly Equiano became an eloquent critic
of slavery; nevertheless,
for him, Noll writes, biblical
religion meant «the nearly total application
of Scripture to the liberating effect
of the Christian gospel
for the individual person.»
: Schools, published in December by Bishop Patrick O'Donoghue
of Lancaster, the actual text
of which many
of you will already have acquired, the reaction to which, however, — both hostile and the reverse — needs also to be registered as part
of its necessary import:
for, there is not much point in being a Sign
of Contradiction if nobody notices, and the secular reaction to a subversive
religion like Catholicism is part
of its authentic
meaning.
De Waal recently published a book called «The Bonobo and the Atheist: In Search
of Humanism Among the Primates,» which synthesizes evidence that there are biological roots in human fairness, and explores what that
means for the role
of religion in human societies.
Some
religions, it is true, succeed precisely by helping persons forget the misery and drudgery
of daily toil; but such faiths provide a
means for coping with work, they do not ignore it.
With the definition
of religion given, Marxism would have to be considered a
religion, at least
for those who do not use it as a
means to some political or economic end, but who find «in the conception
of the «dialectic
of history» with its inevitability, its total relevance, its impersonal justice - making power, the object
of supreme valuation and complete relevance to life....
It carried to fulfillment a long development
of thought, disentangling persons from submergence in the social mass and giving to each one status,
meaning, and rights
of his own; it concentrated attention on the spiritual value
of personality and its possibilities; it created a
religion to be entered by free personal choice, regardless
of race or nation; it set persons to building a social fellowship
for the redemption
of souls; and it proclaimed as the ultimate goal
of divine creation and human hope the kingdom
of God in «new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.»
At the heart
of each
of the world's
religions there is a method that can be applied
for one's personal
meaning.
These Christian symbols are drawn from the very depths
of nature,
for religion itself — I
mean Christianity — is supernatural, not unnatural.
As Roof points out, their
religion affirms: (a) the centrality
of ethical principles in their
meaning systems; (b) a parsimony
of beliefs, few attributions
of numinosity; (c) breadth
of perspective; (d) piety defined as a personal search
for meaning; and (e) license to doubt.
Speaking personally, it
means the grievous loss
of something about Catholic observance which always used enormously to impress me as a non-Catholic: the spectacle
of Catholics keeping their weekday obligations, often at enormous inconvenience to themselves: as an Anglican,
for whom any liturgical obligation was essentially a matter
of my own whim, this was immensely attractive: there was the sense that Catholics were under obedience, and that their
religion was a real force in their lives, one not to be diverted by secular pressures or values.
We are likewise learning more about first century
religion in Palestine — as,
for example, about the place
of synagogue, Torah, temple and sacrifice; the
meaning of the terms «Pharisee,» «Essene,» «Sadducee,» «apocalyptist»; the nature
of Judaism and
of rabbinic teaching.
There is no where in any part
of Quran or Sunnah where it says people or youth are to be chained... and kept in dungeons... Thisnis ignorance, arrogance and conspiracy done by ill hearted people in the name
of religion when it is by no
mean a part
of religion... I have seen such cases only at remote poor areas when they have mentally sick youth or people who could be dangerous
for others and can not afford to hospitalize are being kept chained like that but not in religious establishments, rather at places where fraud witch doctors who claim that those are possessed...!!!
First, as the title
of a key chapter puts it, the American example shows that
religion can «Make Use
of Democratic Instincts» in a manner mutually beneficial to itself and democracy; second, sustainable democracy needs
religion, which
means we can expect democratic peoples to remain attached to its continuance or at least potentially receptive to its revival (cf. II, 2.17, # s 17 - 20); third, democratic times, because they are enlightened times, tend to be ones
of increasing doubts about
religion; fourth, the relevant
religion for America and Europe, Christianity, will be tugged against and perhaps eroded by powerful and ongoing democratic currents toward liberationist and materialist mores; and fifth,
religion's authority in democratic society will always rest upon common opinion.
For many other scientists, however, and for people of a modernistic bent of mind who saw in the sciences «a new messiah,» or at least a directive of life displacing both religion and philosophy, this preoccupation with the immediacies to the exclusion of ultimates meant frankly a secularizing of life, that is, a relinquishing of all ideal or transcendent aspects which hope and wonder might evo
For many other scientists, however, and
for people of a modernistic bent of mind who saw in the sciences «a new messiah,» or at least a directive of life displacing both religion and philosophy, this preoccupation with the immediacies to the exclusion of ultimates meant frankly a secularizing of life, that is, a relinquishing of all ideal or transcendent aspects which hope and wonder might evo
for people
of a modernistic bent
of mind who saw in the sciences «a new messiah,» or at least a directive
of life displacing both
religion and philosophy, this preoccupation with the immediacies to the exclusion
of ultimates
meant frankly a secularizing
of life, that is, a relinquishing
of all ideal or transcendent aspects which hope and wonder might evoke.
Priyath there are horrible atrocities committed in the name
of religion for centuries but they go against the very
meaning of religion and compassion
for others.
As an expert on various religious cultures, and with a knowledge
of the role
of religion in personality structure and function, the specialist is in a position to offer relevant insight
for psychodynamic diagnosis,
for evaluation
of the manner in which religious issues should be dealt with in treatment, and the
means by which religious resources may be used in rehabilitation.
a set
of values, beliefs, and structure in a person's life in order to give them direction and a sense
of right and wrong is fine, but organized
religions are no more than large corporations, and like any large corporation are only focused on their bottom line... trying to control the public and extract as much money as they can from them by any
means necessary... promoting fear, uncertainty, hate and a sense that they alone can offer salvation...
for a price (although they are very cleaver about getting to this hidden and unspoken cost... after all these hundreds
of years they have perfected their craft well!)
The Latin word religio
meant devotion or commitment, «a conscientious concern
for what really matters»; the English word «
religion», while often implying a sense
of the sacred, originally referred to the human attitude
of devotion.
I love Jesus and I do feel that he had died
for each and everyone
of our sins and I feel we are all loved equally no matter what we do rather it be
for murder to just plain old coursing He loves us all honestly I've debated in my mind that if Christianity is about being
mean hateful and thinking that you're going around better than everybody then that's not the
religion for me
That book defends the first and obvious
meaning of publicness (viz., as
meaning and truth available to all intelligent, reasonable and rational persons through persuasive argument)
for the logically ordered questions
of religion, God and Christ.
DO maintain equality
of treatment
for different
religions (does not
mean acquiescence with anything they want whether Moslem women's veils on I»D's or praying 5 times at work..
= > nonsense as atheism has resulted in the deaths
of over 50 million in the last century alone, and it has been shown that «
religion» (that's all
religions) have only been responsible
for 7 %
of ALL wars to date (which would
mean approximately 25 million in the past 2000 years)
It's their way or the highway and to compromise is to show a lack
of faith which
means you have one side willing to make exceptions
for all peoples
religions as long as they don't force it on others, and the religious side that says making exceptions or compromising is against their
religion so if they are not a majority in the democracy they instead decide to play obstructionist.
Since the theme
of this symposium is the
meaning of process thought
for us, my paper will discuss the use that I have made
of this mode
of thinking to articulate and develop my views, especially in the philosophy
of religion.
Islam mentioned this
for the longest time and as you can imagine, at a time when people had no access or
means to verify those claims (people like yourself, opted to disbelief and argue about the existence
of God) but now that those scientific «discoveries» became realities and the same as supported by the Quran (that was sent to Prophet Mohammed, Peace and Blessings be upon him), from God), it only solidifies Islam as the true
religion of God.
If Christ's message
of brotherhood was only in reference to the Jews, then all
of Christianity is mistaken, as the
religion itself was
meant only
for Jews.
A book on practical theology now preoccupies me in the same way that an earlier struggle
for public criteria in fundamental theology concerned me in the early «70s and the struggle
for criteria
of meaning and truth in the disclosures
of the beautiful and the holy in the classic works
of art and
religion preoccupied me in the late «70s.