Sentences with phrase «of dead religion»

But we need to fill the void and tell of the real Christ, free from all the baggage of dead religion and historical corruption, in his pure, loving and powerful position as God.
Funny how Toby et al consider a picture or sculpture of a naked woman an obscenity and their elected officials cover even «blind justice» statues, but they think that a PAID SALESMAN of a dead religion tormenting a dying nonbeliever deserves no rebuke or prohibition.

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Well, yeah... and I mean if what someone is really trying to achieve with this is to reduce practices that in any way, shape or form could indicate that someone bears them or their faith ill will... I don't think publicly humiliating people who would take the time to look up your dead ancestor's name and then take the time to drive to a temple and then get immersed in water on their behalf so that they (by their belief) have the option to accept your religion post mortem is really misguided and contrary to the spirit of freedom of religion in what it advocates.
Please, are the gods so stupid that just because an alive person claims a dead one is now a different religion said god would have to throw them out of their old religion heaven and send them to the other heaven??? Really, some of you are more obsessed with dead people than the ones living.
I think of all the dead innocent, of every religion, nationality, creed, gender, and age that have died from the bullets and bombs of Muslim terrorists and extremists.
Anyway, all you Christians here who want to bash on Mormons, why don't you take a good long look at your own religion, which worships a man who was sacrificed on a cross for BILLIONS of dead people.
I don't understand why anyone would be offended by someone praying for the souls of their dead ancestors, whatever religion you happen to be, if you don't believe in God it isn't like it hurts anything, if you beleive in a different God, again it isn't like it hurts anything...
You might not understand that non-Mormons do not believe in your religion and are OFFENDED by your beliefs and your practices of trying to Mormanize the dead, particularly those who were killed for not being Christian such as Anne Frank.
the same priests that take an oath under God to do good mispresent themselves again and again its morally not right» anybody under legal law to be molested in the name of religion is wrong dead wrong and the point is a pedaphile can never be cured sp whats the alternative (death that way innocence is not lost on bottom dweelers) i say feet first in a meat grinder in low gear i'm just saying
Adhering to Muslim Law by burying bin Laden at sea had nothing to do with showing a dead terrorist mercy for his body or fulfilling bin Laden's wishes; it had to do with showing the world we are respectful of religion and cultures that may be different than our own; our war on terror has nothing to do with culture or religion.
For centuries the only way this religion of sword has been able to proliferate has been to brainwash people by getting them angry, and injecting sorrow, into their souls about the dead and martyrs, as well as creating hate towards an enemey, even a made - up one Without a funeral, mourning, and a physical shrine, muslims are lost!
I now baptize all dead people in the religion of Nonsense.
While this is a vile act — An act that spits on the beliefs of Anne Frank and the entire Jewish religion — one must ask, is this really worst than the thousands upon thousands of other Baptisms for the dead that the mormons perform?
freedom of religion means that each person can worship as they see fit, not that anyone religion can invoke its will on others whether living or dead.
Lets vote for Romney who talks about religious abuse and yet his religion is abusing the religion of others continually... bet he does nt suspend his money to them... they just wait till people are dead then baptise them... this is an extremist religion and not one we want for president
We need billions of them dead so we can cure humanity from this mental cancer called religion.
Students have the right to air extremist political «doctrine,» secular philosophical «doctrine,» even, presumably, the «doctrine» that God is dead and that religion is the opiate of the people.
To look in Eastern religions, such as the three major ones of Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism, will also be a «dead end street» in looking for God.
Wow, The Catholic Herald has proclaimed «new atheism» (which they made up) to be dead since obviously, atheists can see the everyday benefits of religion.
Yes, religion is a form of insanity / delusion when people continue to believe this childish nonsense about a big guy in the sky and some schizophrenic rabbi they believe came back from the dead and refuse the real world all around.
This song always sounded of the olde religion: There were three men came out of the west, their fortunes for to try And these three men made a solemn vow John Barleycorn must die They've plowed, they've sown, they've harrowed him in Threw clods upon his head And these three men made a solemn vow John Barleycorn was dead
You might be surprised to find out that there are virgin births in 16 dead religions and three persistent ones (not including Christianity), great deluges in 28 other religions, raising of the dead and walking on water in nearly every major religion since 4400 BC.
It will be a wonderful day when christianity is put to the shelves of history as a dead religion (and it will happen).
If a lack of religion were the problem, then centuries of Christian rule leading up to that event wouldn't have yielded over a hundred million dead in wars of conquest and dogma, genocidal campaigns, witch - hunts, and death camps.
In a single dense volume this fine survey offers an account of the whole by close consideration of the various parts: sacrifices, religious associations, domestic religion, the cult of the dead, mystery religions, magic, the cult of the rulers, and philosophical religion (e.g., Stoicism), with a concluding chapter on Gnosticism.
Where are Zeus, Odin, and a host of other «dead» religions?
The quotation captures the noble project of the book in this way: «The old Catholic religion - culture of Europe is dead... the inheritance of classical culture... has been destroyed, overwhelmed by a vast influx of new knowledge, by the scientific mass civilisation of the modern world.
The result was an attempt to «demythologise» religion, to prune away all references to the supernatural: events like miracles and the resurrection of the dead, and doctrines like the Holy Trinity and the divinity of Christ.
All the VERY BEST RELIGIONS HAVE A DEAD LEADER who of course, you can't then argue with.
But that worry was only one aspect of his thought, for he balanced a fear of excessive religious «enthusiasm» with a correlative worry about dead religion, which would soon lead to its inevitable offspring, secularism.
We are forever putting conditions and qualifications on the love of God: «If you rid yourself of your racism, if you vote Democratic, if you accept Jesus as your savior, if...» Such conditional, achievement - oriented, self - made - men religion certainly doesn't need Jesus dying on the cross and rising from the dead to make itself plausible and reasonable in an achievement - oriented, you - get - what - you - deserve capitalistic culture.
The coming end of the world, complete with a saviour and the rising of the dead, all in a religion as old as Judaism.
After leaving religion, the maze of many dead ends.
Human history is littered with the corpses or dead religions, all of which were false according to todays followers.
So, I think fear is the main driving force behind religion - fear of death, the unknown, not existing anymore, never seeing dead loved ones again, not having a «purpose» in / of life, etc..
@Davin Unfortunately the world will only know peace when the entire world is dead, regardless of whether or not religion still exists.
but on the third day using his Power of Resurrection rose from the dead to claim his seat next to God in heaven, I mean next to himself since he was also God and then told the masses that he died for their sins, though oddly enough being God he could have simply absolved them of their sins and he really didn't die because he lives and is coming back to judge man based upon the original sins... but not sure if that would work since man can clearly kill a God with wood and nails... I know, I know confusing and likely to be labeled heresy... but debates about nomenclature and religion... i mean story telling... just don't mix.
In the basic theme of religion, every person that dies is dead because God willed it.
Russ says:@ Honey Badger: so what comfort do you have to offer the parents of a dead 8 year old — aside from ridiculing religion?
I would have voted for Osama Bin Laden for president if he had renounced Islam, apologized, and said that the world would be a better place without religion (provided of course that he could meet necessary citizenship requirements... oh, and if he weren't dead).
Many ancestral «religions» (a relatively new contrived word) have not gods, just spirits of dead ancestors or places or things.
One wonders how Eliade will respond to this nonbook, for it attempts to unmask him as a historian of religions and to unveil him as a Christian homo religiosus immersed in a labyrinthine world in which God is dead.
With all of God's first born son (s) being an established view among our many religious constabularies, many of one - God religions are dead - set against each others» claims as to which religious convictions are truly the most righteous.
Trying to be sure of what He is doing results in dead religion because we expect Him to do what we think He ought to do.
And while i'm ususally at the head of the line to lmao at your collective stupidity, not today, and never about the dead, heck that's the whole reason people invented religion to begin with so use it for what it's good for.
Folklore and religion, therefore, emphasized the «spirit of the soil» as against the scientific view that saw soil as dead matter.158 It is this close relationship between humankind and the earth that led L. H. Bailey to remark,
I'm an atheist, too, and I find displays of religion as a response to an attack motivated by religion somewhat ironic (though not quite as perverse as stepping over 2500 dead bodies to find a 90 - degree angle and then hoisting it up and saying «see, god is here!)
Let us shake the tree of religion, and the dead parts will fall off.
Now I have actual proof of Jesus» resurrection from the dead, from 2000 years back... What proof do you have about the mormon religion?
Yet even today, when the Faith of Christ is decayed among the nations, and when Christianity seems to belie the promises of Christ, and to be passing into the dead world of human religions, one more among many, even today, whatever individual values we hold sacred, whatever sanctity we claim for the personality of man, whatever freedoms, above the rut of biological materialism, we try to salvage from the ruins of a culture, all these are the droplets which remain within that chalice of the Christian Faith dashed down by the nation.
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