The body
of dogma of a religion 5.
The body
of dogma of a religion: the Muslim faith.
Not exact matches
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.