Sentences with phrase «most religious doctrines»

It's a good thing God is compassionate and forgiving, at least according to most religious doctrine.

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Dawkins argues that while there appear to be plenty of individuals that would place themselves as «1» due to the strictness of religious doctrine against doubt, most atheists do not consider themselves «7» because atheism arises from a lack of evidence and evidence can always change a thinking person's mind.

@Bryan — funny, I see the biggest and most hypocritical violations of Christian doctrine by Fundamentalist Christians who are quick to try to enforce their religious law on non-adherents.

The religious whose doctrines rely strictly on a literal interpretation are most at risk of losing their faith through education and understanding the history of the bible.

One of the creative process philosophers, Charles Hartshorne, states in the beginning of Man's Vision of God his conviction that «a magnificent intellectual content — far surpassing that of such systems as Thomism, Spinozism, German idealism, positivism (old or new) is implicit in the religious faith most briefly expressed in the three words, God is love».1 If this be true what is needed is not the discarding of metaphysics but the exploration of this new possibility in the doctrine of God's being.

The Weavers gradually absorbed not only the racist religious doctrines of Christian Identity, but became familiar with the world of UFOs and alien intelligences, the supposed machinations of the Bilderbergers and the Illuminati and, most of all, the alleged conspiracies of those who were said to be the literal offspring of Satan, the Jews.

Yes, Barack Obama is the wrong type of Christian for white evangelicals in America, they are willing to fall head over heels in love with Mitt Romney the Mormon, of which most of these churches have preached against this religious group from the inception that it's a CULT and you need to stay away from that type of doctrine.

You may disagree with the premises of religion as much as you want, buddy, but the reasoning and conclusion leading to religious doctrine, especially catholic doctrine, are among the best works in logic in the history of mankind, made by men a lot more skilled in it than most who live today, I dare say.

Ask yourself: what institutions are most likely to find their religious principles in conflict with the doctrines of the modern secular state?

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.

Niebuhr insisted that the poetic and religious imagination of the Bible most readily expresses the basis for the doctrine of man.

He was the most pious man of his time and the most learned in religious doctrines.

Let them blend new sciences and theories and the understanding of the most recent discoveries with Christian morality and the teaching of Christian doctrine, so that their religious culture and morality may keep pace with scientific knowledge and with the constantly progressing technology... Thus they will be able to interpret and evaluate all things in a truly Christian spirit,... and priests will be able to present to our contemporaries the doctrine of the Church concerning God, man and the world, in a manner more adapted to them so that they may receive it more willingly.»

Such was the beginning of the Bible's conception of the afterworld, and the development of thought from this crude primitiveness of Sheol to the New Testament's doctrine of eternal life constitutes one of the most significant contributions of the Scriptures to religious history.

The most important of these is that a religious body doesn't have the right, simply because it may be in the majority or be better organized than other groups, to bind its specifically religious doctrines upon others or to require that others help pay for the propagation of those doctrines.

I am (a) A victim of child molestation (b) A r.ape victim trying to recover (c) A mental patient with paranoid delusions (d) A Christian The only discipline known to often cause people to kill others they have never met and / or to commit suicide in its furtherance is: (a) Architecture; (b) Philosophy; (c) Archeology; or (d) Religion What is it that most differentiates science and all other intellectual disciplines from religion: (a) Religion tells people not only what they should believe, but what they are morally obliged to believe on pain of divine retribution, whereas science, economics, medicine etc. has no «sacred cows» in terms of doctrine and go where the evidence leads them; (b) Religion can make a statement, such as «there is a composite god comprised of God the Father, Jesus and the Holy Spirit», and be totally immune from experimentation and challenge, whereas science can only make factual assertions when supported by considerable evidence; (c) Science and the scientific method is universal and consistent all over the World whereas religion is regional and a person's religious conviction, no matter how deeply held, is clearly nothing more than an accident of birth; or (d) All of the above.