Sentences with phrase «of dogma of a religion»

The body of dogma of a religion 5.
The body of dogma of a religion: the Muslim faith.

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Bigotry and unprovable / unknowable / unquestionable dogma of the religions which (many / some) believers may place all of their morality around comepletely, is at the heart of the problem here.
There is a depth of understanding here that is all too often lost in the dogma of organized religion.
In a rich country with a weak knowledge of art, this was possibly a laudable goal - though perhaps a little too confident of government's power to legislate things like aesthetics and a little too sure of the nineteenth - century dogmas of man as perfectible and art as universal religion.
I think a combination of Christianity (micro: this life time) and Hinduism (Macro-scale) is the best for humankind as both religions, despite their dogmas and some imperfections, by and large are most tolerant.
So although it claims to challenge irrationalism and anti-scientific prejudice, it tends to confine its anger to the dogma of the three Abrahamic religions.
Fundamentalism uses the culture, rituals, sacraments, texts, language, and metaphors and allusions and symbols (verbal, visual, musical, etc.) of religion in blind adherence to a dogma as defined and interpreted by a person or group who is self - aggregating and self - justifying raw personal power for the sole purpose of controlling the lives of others.
When the journalist says for the thousandth time, «Living religion is not in dull and dusty dogmas, etc.» we must stop him with a sort of shout and say, «There — you go wrong at the very start.»
If you think causality is true at all, there are no such things as uncaused suspensions of physical laws («miracles») and therefore no possibility of the sort of miraculous events all religions claim as basic to their dogmas.
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.
[246] Hitler maintained that the «terrorism in religion is, to put it briefly, of a Jewish dogma, which Christianity has universalized and whose effect is to sow trouble and confusion in men's minds.»
In a country that values freedom so highly, it amazes me that so many give up their intellectual freedom for the dogma of religion.
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.
The desire, my desire is to be spiritual — spirit filled — not dogma based religion — someone else's point of view.
Perhaps materialism was a liberating philosophy when the need was to escape from dogmas of religion, but today materialism itself is the dogma from which the mind needs to escape.
They need a religion that helps them respect differences (like the Hindu philosophy that we all find a path to the truth, independent of what god we worship), or the Buddhist philosophy of improving ourselves and working with our community (independent of gods and dogma), or the native religions that respect nature and it's boundaries.
Yet in his Essay in Aid of a Grammar of Assent, John Henry Newman insists on the necessity of individual experience and weakness of theoretical knowledge in forming religion and morality: «many a man will live and die upon a dogma; no man will be a martyr for a syllogism.»
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.
atheist and evolutionist are like religion, full of illusion and dogmas.
That is if they have not surrendered the liquid liberty of enlightened sonship to the doctrine, dogma and authority of the traditional religions of the races.
There are no absolute truth claims involved at all... except, of course, the absolute dogma that there are no truth claims in matters of religion and morals!
They also become rivals when religion claims it's denomination to be the highest form of wisdom to the denial of everything else simply based on 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.
Spirituality is supposed to bring us together, but every organized religion on earth that is not openly mocked by the majority of people on earth has women can't do this and women shouldn't do that hardwired into the dogma and spelled out in sacred text.
everything in the universe evolves, not only life forms but also memes, Religion is a meme so it also change in conformity to its era or time of its conception as faith.Because in pre scientific times thousands of years ago, the scientific method of approach or philosophy has not existed yet, myth or merely story telling is considered facts, The first religion called animism more than 10,000 years ago believed that spirits or god exists in trees, rivers, mountains, boulders or in any places people at that time considered holy.hundreds of them, then when the Greeks and Romans came, it was reduced to 12, they called it polytheism, when the Jews arrived, it was further reduced to 1, monotheism.its derivatives, Christianity And Islam and later hundreds of denominations that includes Mormonism and Protestants flourished up to today.So in short this religions evolved in accordance to the scientific knowledge of the age or era they existed.If you graph the growth of knowledge, it shows a sharp increase in the last 500 years, forcing the dominant religions at that time to reinterprete their dogmas, today this traditional religions are becoming obsolete and has to evolve to survive.But first they have to unify against atheism.in the dialectical process of change, Theism in one hand and the opposing force atheism in the other, will resolve into a result or synthesis.The process shall be highlighted in the internet in the near future.
These words immediately take us to the very core of Christian religion, the dogma about Christ as the only - begotten, monogenes or unigenitus, Son of God.
This attitude, implicit in the religion of the American Indian, is the affirmation of a God who transcends all dogma, laws and codes.
Leave science to those who value reason over dogma and leave religion to those who want to keep believing what they were taught to believe regardless of any evidence to the contrary.
On the face of it, this dogma may seem to force a choice between Christ and the universe, or between the world to come and this world, or between religion and science.
Troeltsch argued that religion is primarily a matter of experience and subjectivity, not dogma and fact.
It's not the belief in a deity that's usually the problem, it's the following the dogma of the Abrahamic religions and those followers who persecute those not like them.
Only two influences can modify and uplift the dogmas of natural religion: the pressure of the slowly advancing mores and the periodic illumination of epochal revelation.
If you have arguments against the philosophy of the Church or the dogma of the religion, I can respect the difference and argue the points.
I'm of the firm opinion that acceptance of spirtuality or a higher power, with no more evidence for it than organized religion has for its dogma, is merely subst.ituting one fantasy for another whilst shedding the guilty baggage on the way.
That is what I find wrong with religions, they preach subservience to their dogma to the exclusion of others.
Ephesians 1 Revelation 2 Freedom of religion also means that you as Christian may not force me as a Christian to bow to your dogma I believe John is correct in identifying Paul to be false Remember Satan is a persecutor created by God and God does not make mistakes right Jesus was not persecutor.
All religions - that is, belief systems delineated by scriptures, doctrines or dogmas that posit some form of deity or deities - are the work of man and all are equally absurd.
Those basic tenets do not come from religion; indeed they predate religion which has incorporated them into its dogma as if it were the original source of such inherent wisdom.
The problem of chronological and axiological priority of theory (myths, beliefs, ideas, concepts, doctrines, dogmata) and practice (worship, rites, ritual) in religion was discussed by students of different religions and civilizations (W. Robertson Smith, Andrew Lang, Wilhelm Schmidt, Otto Gruppe).
Once the spheres have become independent of the original principle of the civilization, «religion» no longer means just the whole of one's existence in its relation to the Absolute but a special domain of dogma and cult.
JUST KEEP YOUR RELIGION TO YOUR SELF, and especially my tax dollars out of anything related to your dogma.
At the end of the last century, Arnold advocated art as a solution to the evident collapse of religion: «There is not a creed which is not shaken, not an accredited dogma which is not shown to be questionable, not a received tradition which does not threaten to dissolve.»
To me, all discussion of religion or political dogma is deadly serious.
Anybody who kills or persecutes another for their own religious beliefs is missing the whole «kernel» of what the dogma of those religions say.
If humans didn't devote themselves to so much perverse indulgence of Man Made religous dogma and rather tuned in to their inner voice and discovered their spirtiual life resided there and not in religions whose primary goal is a tool to control and manipulate through fear and ignorance.
Therefore, «the dogmas of civil religion ought to be simple, few in number, precisely fixed, and without explanation or comment.
Such economics had no place for freedom either in the formulation of economic ideas — the liberal faith was a dogma as absolute as that of the most orthodox religion — or in the control of economic affairs.
[1][2] He was a controversial rationalist of his time, attacking the dogmas of religion and rejecting the claim that Islam possessed any monopoly on truth.»
Nazism, Communism and religion are all the same in principle — a man - made created dogma (teaching) created by madmen that instigates other people to follow it under threats of harm.
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