Sentences with phrase «of a religious text does»

So from a Whiteheadian perspective, understanding of a religious text does not rest so heavily upon existential appropriation of its message as the Heideggerians claim.

Not exact matches

I just don't like it when people cherry pick their religious sources or, in the case of this article, outright go against what their religious texts teach to try and appear more politically correct.

If he truly believes his religious text as a Christian or Jew would their own then he is doing the right thing in the eyes of god.

outside of the bible, or any other religious texts (which, again, are only relevant to those accept the claimed authority) do you see any evidence of heaven, hell, sin, or redemption?

Should students never perform any music with a religious text, even if done in a secular setting and with the purpose of providing a complete education, not for the purpose of worship or of promoting a particular belief?

«god» doesn't exist and is make believe, your religious texts were written by human beings without any kind of «divine inspiration» regardless of what you read in them... written by people who thought the Earth was flat... it isn't.

I also have a copy of Jewish religious texts, Islamic texts and a few other faiths texts and can speak intelligently with the devout of any of them and have done so.

Don't allow religious philosophy to intrude into biology classrooms and texts, they say, for that is to soil the sacred precincts of science, which must be reserved for hypotheses that can be rigorously tested and confronted with data.

The idea that religious texts are a kind of «instruction manual» and all you have to do is just read it and the truth becomes plainly obvious used to be well outside the mainstream of religious thought.

While I do not consider myself an expert on all the religious writings of all of the main religions in the world, I have read most of the main religious texts for most of the main world religions, and while it is not uncommon to find violent events being described in these other religious books, no other set of religious writings comes even close to describing the violence and bloodshed that one finds within the pages of the Hebrew Scriptures.

The members of today's intense religious groups and not a few members of the larger public like to get even closer to home, rubbing texts like these into contemporary Christian consciousness: «Now great multitudes accompanied Jesus; and he turned and said to them, «If any one comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he can not be my disciple»» (Luke 14:25 f.).

That doesn't mean they didn't have their various religious beliefs, but they knew that they should not limit their ideas of freedom and governance to what was in a religious text.

In America, marriage does not have to be a religious event, and quoting from your religious text has no persuasive effect on those who don't follow your particular brand of religion.

We do right by each other and right by our community because it's the good and righteous thing to do, not because we suffer the burden of guilt hung on us by some religious text.

You don't get to decide that others must live by the laws of the Bible or any other religious text.

Enough food, water, medicine and aid to those who need it, and you do NOT need any kind of religious texts to accomplish any of that.

Alcoholics Anonymous, being «spiritual, not religious,» doesn't use the Bible at all; rather it uses another sacred text, the inspired Word of God as expressed through Bill Wilson, the Big Book... Unlike the Oxford Group, which claimed salvation and redemption by Jesus through the Oxford Group, AA proclaims «recovery» by one s «Higher Power» through the Twelve Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous (Ken Ragge, The Real AA: Behind the Myth of 12 - Step Recovery [AZ: Sharp Press, 1998], pp. 82 - 83).

You can post quotes from and references to this book all year long and it will not change the fact that: Yes, there are some practical words of wisdom for peaceful human behavior in it (as there are in most religious texts), but just because this is true it does not make all of the supernatural fantasies in it true.

To many of the jewish faith, the Christians hijacked part of their religious writings and applied their own interpretations, often own «translations» which in parts are different from older texts (that Christianity did not control).

He also makes quite a few arguments from omission, concluding from the fact that the text doesn't explicitly report that Esther «went to synagogue» that she must have been a worldly, lukewarm Jew, forgetting that Esther is the one who calls for a fast later in the story, reflecting something of a religious background and personal religious conviction.

This is such a truism that one is almost ashamed to pen the words, and yet it remains a fact that, in a great deal of the more conservative biblical scholarship, it does seem to be assumed that the appeal to factual accuracy would he as valid and important a factor in the case of ancient Near Eastern religious texts as it would be in a modern western court of law or in a somewhat literally - minded western congregation.

I have little knowledge of other religious texts, therefore I don't place judgement.

Education in religious text does not give you a relationship with God it gives you knowledge not even understanding of the deeper things of the Bible.

This means that context — in the broad sense of cultural, religious, social, political and economical circumstances — and text — as Scripture in its process of transmission and interpretation, that is, its Tradition — do mutually interpret each other.

«No one who pretended to any sort of theology or religious reflection at all wanted to go counter to the «real» applicative meaning of biblical texts, once it had been determined what it was, even if one did not believe them on their own authority,» he remarked.

discarding the portions of religious texts as allegorical that do not match their knowledge.

But just acknowledge that you can do the same with other religious texts as well and if you REALLY want to get to the meat of modern scientific understanding, go straight to the scientific sources.

You do NOT need any kind of religious texts whatsoever to love or be loved, to be happy, and to have tolerance.

@jim, I hope you believe it because of the cultural shifts or perhaps because you had a vision or believe some messages in a religious text... and not because you're planning to do something.

If you do believe this, why practice Mormonism, which has in its primary religious text: And [God] had caused the cursing to come upon them, yea, even a sore cursing, because of their iniquity.

Don't deprive yourself of the entertainment and insight mythology can bring, just remember that it IS mythology, just as the bible is mythology, and all other «religious» texts are mythology.

Everyone is capable of SOME degree of hate, but the religious like to think their «god» tells them it's ok to do so because of some «holy» out - of - date texts

What these bishops did was to remove the totally inadequate religious textbooks and the advisers / inspectors who wrote and promoted them and provide the teachers with sound Catholic text - books which were not only faithful to the Catechism of the Catholic Church but which also taught the faith clearly, comprehensively and without any ambiguity.

I did turn to religious texts first, when I was trying to find words to use in the choral parts of the score.

The new e-readers will come with a copy of the Bible already loaded, reports The Telegraph, while guests also have the option of downloading other religious texts, provided they don't cost more than # 5 (about US$ 7.80).