During creation of this work, the artist considers the idea of art as an act of worship, as the sun has been the center of worship for the earliest
of human religions.
From there, Beltz has delved into the secret history of weeds in drawings that take a plants - eye view of human history, particularly the role psychedelics have played in the development
of human religions and even early America.
Indeed, in this sense transcendence may be taken as a constitutive characteristic
of all human religions.
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.
Yet he refuses to collapse biblical theology into the history of the religion of Israel, distinguishing the two this way: ««History of religion» is concerned with all the forms and aspects
of all human religions, while theology tends to be concerned with the truth - claims of one religion and especially with its authoritative texts and traditions and their interpretations.»
Nor does the rise of Christianity render obsolete the diversity
of human religions and philosophies.
But mysticism is only a relatively small area within the vast array
of human religion.
But just as God provided a human king in part to show the failure of human kings, so also, God provide a human religion in part to show the failure
of human religion.
If Jesus came to teach that we do actually need good works to get God to love us, then Jesus is actually supporting the central idea
of human religion.
As James Barr pointed out, «Fundamentalism is the imposition upon the Bible of a particular tradition
of human religion, and the use of the Bible as an instrument of power to secure the success and influence of that religion.»
I see six fundamental problems with the Enlightenment taken as a solution to the dilemmas
of human religion.
Not exact matches
The top three categories getting most
of donations last year were
religion ($ 122.94 billion), education ($ 59.77 billion) and
human services ($ 46.8 billion).
Canada seeks a world where freedom — including freedom
of religion, the rule
of law, democracy and
human dignity are respected.
Anytime one
religion interferes with another
religion, or the life
of humans, I tend to take it a little more seriously, not because I believe in their beliefs, but because their beliefs can cause me death.
Intermittent fasting over a certain period
of time is a feature
of great
religions all over the world and it is well known that nutritional habits, sleeping patterns and meal frequency have profound effects on maintaining
human health.
Some would say,
of course, that O'Leary's
religion is money; that he appeals to the worst aspect
of human nature, greed, and that this in itself disqualifies him from participating in Canadian political life.
She's the world's highest paid female CEO and she just so happens to have also formed Terasem, a
religion that hypothesizes that «a person's mind file may be downloaded into a robotic, nanotechnological or biological body to provide life experiences comparable to those
of a typical
human.»
This is not to dismiss or marginalize the importance
of civil and political rights such as freedom
of expression and
religion, but rather to adopt an integrated approach recognizing that all internationally recognized
human rights are universal, indivisible, interdependent and interrelated.
Yet persistent and credible reporting on
human rights violations continue, particularly in the areas
of repression
of political dissent, harassment
of lawyers and
human rights advocates, and suppression
of religion and ethnic minority cultures.
An understanding
of good and evil doesn't just come from
religion, it comes from being
human.
One day, ALL
religions will be relegated to the dustbin
of history, and
humans will realize what utter delusionary non-reality they are!
The offense against
religion is that it promotes a God that has poorly designed
humans to have too small a birth canal, too large a cranium (pushing wisdom teeth into often painful positions), and since roughly 20 percent
of pregnancies end in miscarriage, is responsible for more abortions than anyone.
This «no,» grounded in Hobbes, has tended increasingly to a policy
of exclusion
of religion, causing a flattening
of human life and a sense
of spiritual emptiness.
religion is the scourge
of the
human race, not the mention mankind itself.
They would rather kill me for saying, «muhammad was just another
human with illusions
of grandeur», then be confident in their
religion.
The common image
of Calvinism — and I hear it portrayed in this way often, even by people who know some things about theology — is that the
religion of John Calvin is a mean - spirited, narrow - minded perspective where a nasty God decides to save a few people while arbitrarily consigning the vast portion
of the
human race to eternal suffering.
- Pursue the UN Commission
of Inquiry's recommendation
of referral to the International Criminal Court; - Thoroughly consider and instigate appropriate alternative justice mechanisms to compliment the International Criminal Court process; - Ensure that all discussions on the North Korea at the UN and the EU include
human rights and especially the «orphaned right»
of freedom
of religion and belief: Article 18.
Get rid
of all
human discriminating
religions, or let them evolve; but since their evolution is not possible, let them die like the other ancient myths.
I think many practices
of many
religions stem from
human OCD tendencies.
So how do you go from that reasoning to «Since it wasn't accidental then it must have been this ancient male diety named (fill in blank depending on
religion) who loves me and knows me and cares for me and wants me to perform rituals that have nothing to do with morality like prayer, not eating certain things, sabaath and many more just because he said so, even though we have no record
of him saying anything, just records
of humans who wrote things down that they claim he said, but I want to believe it all so badly I will base my beliefs on no other evidence than «it just can't be accident».
a universalistic millennial civil
religion, the meddlesome vision
of democracy, peace, and
human rights that we live under today, «the first global civil
religion.»
Mockery
of religion is one
of the most essential things... one
of the beginnings
of human emancipation is the ability to laugh at authority.
see what
religion does... all in the name
of some imaginary sky - daddy, who is nothing but just one
of the thousands
of «gods» invented by man over the course
of human history.
This is not a reflection on the Muslim people or their faith, but a reflection on the way
of all the
human race and their
religions, including Christianity.
The ignorance bred by
religion regarding what
human beings as containing a ghost in the machine led the way for the misconceptions believed by communists regarding
human beings as blank slates, since both
religion and communists envisioned
human beings in this flawed conceptual manner, denying the evolved components
of the brain and the innate nature we are born with due to our genetic make up.
In an exclusive interview at the launch
of a new report into
human rights abuses in North Korea he said: «If you are caught practicing
religion by yourself then you're sent to prison camps - no question.
I mean, I'm all for (creationism) in philosophy class, history
of religion class,
human psychology class,» but bring it into science class, and Nye gets upset.
Just as this article said, and my comment above, to solve the divide, we can: (1) Argue about the definition
of Race / God (2) Argue about identification in a
religion / race (3) Or realize the fundamental problem
of prejudice that sneaks into
human - made abstractions like «race» and «God».
Religions incorporated and codified these basic social values and skills, and quickly learned to take credit for them — as if, without the
religion, we would be doomed to not have them — although we see them in every
human society, including hunter - gather tribes with no sense
of gods as we understand them After many centuries
of religious domination, enforced through pain
of death, ostracization or other social sanctions, allowing
religion to take credit, as well as failing to question other religious claims — has become a cultural habit.
Your freedom
of religion would be «grandfathered in» but would not be allowed to transfer to any other
human being.
(Albert Einstein, 1954) From Albert Einstein: The
Human Side, edited by Helen Dukas and Banesh Hoffman, Princeton University Press — The
religion of the future will be a cosmic
religion.
The origins
of morality in
human cultures are not
religion.
You can believe in God without
religion, all
religions are a creation
of the
human mind.
Jefferson said some critical things about
religion and
human nature - that were spot on... Martin Luther apparently actually hated a group
of people to the point that he wanted them gone.
I frankly believe while there is plenty
of need to introduce and reinforce ethics in
human endevours, and to have frank, open discussions
of these endevours,
religion is at its bottom line a matter
of faith and, while it can be an individual's guiding influence, it is not something that should be associated with science.
Bellah and his colleagues praise
religion because they note that religious groups, unlike other groups in our society, are concerned not only with the common good
of the nation but also with the common good
of all
human beings.
Any one who knows the long and convoluted, very
human process
of the integration
of the «Yahweh» god, (the god
of the armies), into Hebrew culture, could never for a moment take it seriously, as well as the development
of the major tenets
of Christianity, most
of which were not spoken
of by the so - called «founder»
of that
religion, (but instead were developed by his followers), many years later, including the long, and very interesting concoctions
of his cult.
Since
humans are flawed creatures, we must recognize that each one
of us is capable
of being wrong or bad, so, the consequences
of our actions must be consistent or no law and no amount
of knowledge
of any
religion will matter.
I am not sure that a practicing believer
of any faith, taking a break from verbosity about their
religion, will be any less religious... or gain much insight into the commonality
of humanity and
human experience.
Hatred founded on a lack
of experience or understanding
of fellow
humans is the worst any person can possibly be, and no nationality or
religion will make it otherwise.