Sentences with phrase «n't religious dogma»

Isn't religious dogma exactly the sort of thing many secularists don't want tolerated?

Faith is not religious dogma or a religion.

Not exact matches

Shaping religious dogma is, of course, not something most of us can do, but we are responsible for our own thoughts and actions.

I don't just deny a belief in a God (s), but oppose those that do and vigorously oppose those that seek to impose their religious dogma on our political decision making.

A mind that believes, that has dogmas, conclusions, that plays with rituals, is not a religious mind... It is only a very still, quiet, untortured mind that sees the truth.

A Hasidic Jew presents problems to any organization since they are bound by a higher set of religious dogma that might not agree with established governmental policies.

Others choose to do so without the assistance of ignorant religious dogma and I'd say it works even better than the misplaced focus encouraged by fear of not «believing» (in religious dogma).

I think dogma, religious or otherwise, is dangerous and frankly stupid, but I don't understand the desire to end religion itself

Right wing religious extremists don't care about the scientific process all they want to do is promote the dogma.

The difference is that the supernatural claims of religious dogma are things which can not ever be proven true outside of the context which I have already mentioned, which is the context of belief.

The same can not be true of religious dogma.

It's not that I disagree with you about keeping religion out of schools (public schools, ones not set up specifically by a religious community for their community and paid for by that community), but dogma is what you also both adhere to and propagate, so you might want to rephrase.

Well, it's because no religious value, rule, law, tenet, or bit of dogma EVER trumps this nation's laws and we all agree on that, otherwise you might as well make the sleazy pope President and let the Ayatollah Khomeni be Vice President and we will live under religious sharia law with death for anyone who speaks blasphemy or who «dishonors» any religious figure whether real or not.

Many of us who have ditched religion did so upon realizing that religious dogma, religious practice, and biblical scripture is illogical, impractical and can not hold up under any rational analysis.

Health care, like everything else, should be based on that fact, not some anti-human religious dogma.

Need to test beliefs — A conviction that dogmas, ideologies and traditions, whether religious, political or social, must be weighed and tested by each individual and not simply accepted by faith.

That fact, all by itself, is a spiritual enterprise; however, it is not the same thing as religious dogma.

Far from being lazy, I find that being «spiritual but not religious» (SBNR) forces me to stand on my own two feet, be self - accountable, and to think for myself, and to boldly question everything, rather than hiding behind a religion and it's dogma.

Marx's critique of religion can not be accepted or refuted merely on the basis of religious dogmas, for the dogmas themselves are to be evaluated on the basis of the «truth of man» and not outside it.

your understanding of the change process is very simplistic, because your mind is not open, you specifically believe already in the traditional doctrines, Dogmas as shown in thousands of years of history evolves, and the need for input variables, meaning the diversity of religious belief is necessay because nature through his will is requiring this to happen, we are being educated by God in the events of history.In the past when there was no humans yet Gods will is directly manifisted in nature, with our coming and education through history, we gradually takes the responsibilty of implementing the will.Your complaint on your perception of abuse is just part of the complex process of educating us through experience.

We can say that Whitehead sees his interpretation of the doctrine of God's being within the pattern of St. Augustine's «faith seeking understanding», provided by faith we do not understand the acceptance of dogma; but the religious intuition born out of the impact of Jesus upon the world.

Freedom of thought and freedom of expression can not be tolerated, since they directly threaten the maintenance of religious dogma.

They usually don't even have half a clue about the ideas, evidence and science they are rejecting and they know even less about the religious dogma they are backing up.

I see heretics not as people who resist God but as people who do not bow to religious tradition and dogma.

I don't agree with any kind of dogma and yet, Marx was a very dogmatic person, no different from Jesus or any other religious leader.

Dogma doesn't say that women shouldn't have higher positions in the hierarchy, or that decision - making in the church should not be shared with female religious.

Atheists do not believe in anything — it is a belief, but it is not tied to any religious dogma.

Millions of humans have been murdered by religious freeks because they (the murdered) didn't believe in THEIR religous dogma.

Many of those ethical values have migrated their way into religious dogma, however, it is religious dogma that greatly has been shaped by ethical valuations, not vice versa.

While we are interested in bearing witness to the gospel of Jesus, our mission is not to recruit people from one religious institution or belief system for another; nor to give them new laws, dogmas and rituals; but rather to persuade all to change our lives and ways, and adopt a new way of seeing, doing and being.

By grounding religious claims in human experience, Schleiermacher did not have to begin with metaphysical speculation nor by requiring intellectual assent to the dogmas of the church.

Marriage in my view belongs more to religious dogma not so much a biblical teaching, educate me.

Can you not come up with a better world view than the hogwash of antiquated, out - of - touch, religious dogma?

Theology is not infallible religious dogma.

I'm not a GOPer: «The «spiritual but not religious» eschews dogma for buffet - style «beliefs».

We can't run a society based on any one group's religious dogma.

Spiritual, but not religious can also describe a large number of people who have very solid, very defined beliefs but do not feel the need to dress them in doctrine and dogma and ritual.

i think the writer misses the point that many who are spiritual and not religious have explored what religions have to offer in the form of moral compass and dogma and organizations and whatnot — and have found it hard to find the peace within themselves that they innately attribute to what they seek through contact and participation in religion to begin with.

While these ideas are not necessarily being mentioned by the author, his failure to understand that dogma and intolerance are the simultaneous catalyst not only for the injustices committed by «religious» groups, but also for the exodus away from those same groups by the thinking people who just can not conscientiously go along with their craziness.

I wonder if «spiritual but not religious» is a bit of a cultural transitional stage in which it is becoming clear that formal religious dogma is at best intellectually unsatisfying, and at worst not only false but dangerous; and yet we don't really know what to do with that part of our brain that seeks magical explanations for what we can not easily understand.

Just because they don't have a religious dogma doesn't excuse them.

Religious education classes are not where we learn dogma and bible stories.

People do not need the God of Abraham to live a moral life, no more than the millions of religious zealots who use their interpretation of religious dogma to dominate, subjugate and kill other human beings.

Though of less exalted origin, and not of equal value with sruti, as a basis of religious dogma, it is perhaps quite as influential in the lives of the people in inculcating and nourishing religious faith and practice.

So sad that you don't see the difference between a billboard posted next to a highway — paid for by private funds — and religious dogma and prayer being forced on citizens and paid for by tax dollars.

Dogma is not uniquely religious though.

I do not want to give money to religious charities knowing that some or all off the money will simply go to promoting religious dogma.

We don't need to spend our time and money poking holes in religious dogma, we need to use the facts and evidence to demonstrate that Atheism is and always has been morally and intellectually superior to religion.

Richard, there is nothing in Christian dogma that can be interpreted as a claim that the followers of Jesus are sinless, even though there are too many professed Christians who seem to believe that grace has made them not only righteous; but inerrant in spiritual / religious matters.

Religious dogma and spirituality are not the same; one is a doctrine, ones a personal experience.