On the other hand, psychiatrist Richard G. Johnson has stated that «a healthy mind is necessary for a person to get
the most out of his religion.»
Not exact matches
Which
religion out of all
of them do you demand
most evidence for?
All in all, a great ana.logy — you've pointed
out exactly what the parts
of religion are that atheists tend to despise the
most and why.
Because you are falling victim to one
of the
most subtle forms
of anti-semitism
out there... the view that the Jewish
religion and culture were somehow «broken» and that Jesus was there to fix it.
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?
Most Christianity today is, in my opinion, not a
religion that Jesus preached, but a
religion made up about Jesus by various authorities, and as the cartoon points
out, some still have a lot
of issues with gender, sexism, sexuality, power and control.
There were
of course some who saved records, but for the
most part Christianity tended to condemn anything not like them, blamed them as heretics and causes
of plagues and poisoners
of wells trying to wipe
out any alternate
religions that remained in Europe through much
of the last two thousand years.
Get
religion out of the equation and we can fix
most of these.
If God is not much concerned about
religion as a separate sphere
of private or public life and if he is present where the needy cry
out for help, then as Christians we can not fail to take
most seriously the analysis
of the concrete social situation in which we find ourselves.
The simplest and
most obvious reason we don't see in the world's
religions that is that all
of them are just made up
out of people's imaginations with no inspiration or guidance from any god because there were no such gods to inspire them.
Do you really think that if you built the
most magnificent and
most beautiful works
of art; that it makes your
religion and your god turn
out to be actually — real?
Religion News Service: Obama extols a biblical vision
of equality for all in second inaugural A presidential inauguration is by tradition the grandest ritual
of America's civil
religion, but President Obama took the oath
of office on Monday (Jan. 21) in a ceremony that was explicit in joining theology to the nation's destiny and setting
out a biblical vision
of equality that includes race, gender, class, and,
most controversially, sexual orientation.
I think one thing that has been overlooked by
most of the other comments is why the hell does a cleric
of a
religion that is supposed to not even have a hierarchy have $ 6000, which as the article pointed
out is more than 6 times what the average Pakistani makes in a year, to throw around...
Most governments don't publicly declare their hostility toward
religion; they use laws like zoning or employment to push it
out of the public square.
I, for one, do
most of my thinking about science
out of one mental box and my thinking about
religion out of another.
A new study
out of The Center for Studies on New
Religions in Italy has revealed that Christians are the
most persecuted religious group in the world.
«Not based on my merits but based on Jesus's obedience alone» this is one
of most contradictory statements
out of the whole lashing
out against
religion!!!
This fundamental function
of general civil
religion could be carried
out by churches that remained indifferent to the special civil
religion embodied in such documents as the Declaration
of Independence and bound up with the history
of the American nation, but
most American religious groups have been able to affirm both general and special civil
religion as well as their own doctrinal peculiarities.
What that
religion is, and how it branches
out from Christian orthodoxy, is perhaps
most fully explored in Rebel Angels, through the reflections
of a winsome Anglican divine, Simon Darcourt, whose scholarly pursuit is, significantly enough, New Testament apocrypha.
No Lutheran pastor in my childhood ever made — whether in or
out of the pulpit — a public political comment (though it was generally assumed that
most of them, if they voted at all, voted Republican), and while we occasionally talked politics at home (my father was a Robert Taft isolationist Republican), the true family passion was
religion.
Some Christians give me a chance to get a few words
out but
most of them just jump down my throat and beat me over the head with their
religion.
Perhaps the
most remarkable document to come
out of this deepening sense
of a new universalism was not Re-thinking Missions
of 1932, but a decree published a third
of a century later, on 28 October 1965, the Declaration on the Relationship
of the Church to Non-Christian
Religions, Nostra aetate,
of the Second Vatican Council.
I consider myself a christian, with religious knowledge and general knowlege, however I do not hold to a set
of views dictated by an organized
religion, I believe the organized
religions are where we have gone wrong, as someone pointed
out earlier to
most «religious people» to question ones faith or organization is wrong but that is exactly what the bible tells us to do... test ALL things to see what is true.
For as the Christian
religion emerges
out of the constantinian cocoon in which, throughout
most of its history, it has been so tightly enclosed, Christians find themselves relieved
of the burden
of assuming, as the raison d'être
of their movement, custodianship
of the random religious sentiments and moral codes that have clustered about the corpus Christianum.
For
most people I recommend taking what they like
out of a
religion and leaving the rest, in your case I'll reconsider that idea.
It would be better if he were to keep
religion out of political discussion, especially when it comes to an argument between RC and Protestant about who is the
most Satanic.
Maybe, it is a kin to a fear in a Faithful if he or she has the relationship with God or Gods that is correct (
religions)... but at least it is a Faith that something is
out there so there is not the same level
of fear we witness here from some Atheist and the ones that scream the
most probably have more fear than the others.
Your point is not well taken
most of the atheist do not hate
religions at all, if the devout would just stay
out of trying to run other peoples lives there would be no conflict.
In his journal Journey from Aleppo to Jerusalem at Easter A.D. 1697 he wrote: «The Latins take a great deal
of pains to expose this ceremony, as a
most shameful imposture, and a scandal to the Christian
religion; perhaps
out of envy, that others should be the masters
of so gainful business; but the Greek and Armenians pin their faith upon it, and make their pilgrimages chiefly upon this motive.»
Their ways
of doing this are
most varied, ranging from a sense
of acting in accordance with the «rightness in things» (as in much Chinese
religion), through a mystical identification
of the deepest self or atman with the cosmic reality or brahma (as in Hinduism), or a «blowing -
out»
of individual selfhood by sharing in the bliss
of Nirvana (as in
most varieties
of Buddhism), to the sense
of fellowship or communion with God found in our own Jewish - Christian religious tradition.
Out of all
of the
religions I have studied, the Muslims I fear the
most.
I know some Catholics are saved sad to say
most are not.If I were Catholic an got saved I would come
out of that
religion.
«Today, Christianity has become the
most persecuted
religion, where
out of five people killed [for] religious reasons, four
of them are Christians,» Catholic News Agency (CNA) quoted Hungary's Minister for Human Resources, Zoltan Balog, as saying.
It doesn't take an expert in anthropology to figure
out that the
most important factor in determining the nature
of one's existence, including one's
religion, is the place and time in which one is born, a factor completely
out of one's control.
So please, Christians especially, keep your
religion out of our government, schools, libraries, hospitals, courthouses, bedrooms, weddings, bedrooms, and
most especially, bodies.
Some
of the
most horrible acts in the history
of mankind have been carried
out in the name
of what
religions claim are the right answers.
The
most retrogressive aspects
of contemporary society are
religions leaders who have zero (ZERO) influence over extremists whose unending violence proceeds unchecked under their own banners, whose churches routinely abandon their principle mandates — the poor, infirmed, jailed, the hungry — to writers who view the thirst
of people without spiritual homes as «cop
outs».
I think that
most of those grieving are not even paying attention the
religion the cross adheres to where as those victims families just need to fine peace and comfort somewhere and somehow
out there.
People are doing this to not stand
out, its a way
of making one feel imporetant, as with
most if not all so called religious leaderrs they know very little or anything at all about the doctrines
of the
religion their in and this is a Fact.
Why can't people live without
religion (which is
most always the root cause
of war and other horrible things) and still be good people who can cope with mortality without flipping
out?
I mostly agree, except I am declaring war on J.W's brand
of christianity, it's insidious and the
most wrong
of all
religion out there.
As someone who believes in God whole heartedly and feels he is the way through alot
of the darkness on this earth but also the way to celebrate our greatest joys.I am happy she has found the love
of God.But I to find the choice
of religion somewhat suspiscious.As others have pointed
out the dicotomy makes one wonder if the fact that her boyfriend is a Catholic has alot to do with her choice.Alot
of women and men for that matter find conform to what their partners
religion is because it is just easier and more comfortable at home for them.Now I am not saying this is what happened in this case.but it is somehting ti ponder.For me loving God and your neighbor as much as yourself are the
most important part
of believeing in a Supreme Being and all the rest
of the Dogma just gets in the way and even is the cause
of alot
of the strife and wars in this world.So I hope she is happy but UP God for me... but no thatnks on the
religion!!
It would have been better, easier and best to for them if to read the
most recognized holy books
of the Three dominant
religions and choose
out a faith
out of them taking the positive for life and society and leave
out the negative for life and society rather than having it shoveled down your throat to take it as it is a be extreme on some thing that is mystic unexplainable or meant for different ages and unsuitable or scientifically disapproven.
Keeping
religion OUT of the public debate would be most helpful, keeping religion out of schools, out of government, out of my bedroom, and out of the lives of those who don't fit in the «mold» of what the religious approve of — NOW we can begin to agree on somethi
OUT of the public debate would be
most helpful, keeping
religion out of schools, out of government, out of my bedroom, and out of the lives of those who don't fit in the «mold» of what the religious approve of — NOW we can begin to agree on somethi
out of schools,
out of government, out of my bedroom, and out of the lives of those who don't fit in the «mold» of what the religious approve of — NOW we can begin to agree on somethi
out of government,
out of my bedroom, and out of the lives of those who don't fit in the «mold» of what the religious approve of — NOW we can begin to agree on somethi
out of my bedroom, and
out of the lives of those who don't fit in the «mold» of what the religious approve of — NOW we can begin to agree on somethi
out of the lives
of those who don't fit in the «mold»
of what the religious approve
of — NOW we can begin to agree on something.
This natural national
religion which is emerging
out of American culture expresses the
most characteristic ethical and spiritual aspects
of that culture.
Look at the
most well known atheists
out there right now, people like PZ Myers, Sean Harris, Richard Dawkins, they're among the
most liberal people
out there who argue vehemently for freedom
of religion.
In
most cases they chose to stay
out of religious affairs and live their lives without
religion all together.
If atheists claim that
most humans have relied on
religion out of fear, A. F. Christian asks why the current batch
of atheists are so sure that they are exceptionally brave and brilliant when compared to
most humans from the dawn
of time.
There was a reason why the founding fathers put kept
religion out of our government and now it seems we are being asked to» pick the Christian» in this next years election — we are not picking the leader
of a church here people, we picking someone to be the
most influential,
most powerful person on the earth... do we want someone who has our best interests at heart or someone who will time and again try to change the US laws to reflect his own personal beliefs?
@Rachel, Many, if not
most, atheists would tolerate the religious just fine, if they would keep their
religion out of everyone's laws, bedrooms, and science classes.