Sentences with phrase «of old religions»

Here are some common misconceptions about one of the oldest religions in the world.

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.

An interesting point to take is that Saturnalia, the god of the sun, was their god for Christmas celebration, and later turned «Worship the sun'to «worship the son», which would have occurred after they adopted Catholicism, and wanted to keep the traditions of their old religion by making parallels to the Bible (at least it sounds reasonable)

A little bit of this, a little bit of that... There are dozens of older religions that deal with the same central - casting characters.

They boasted about the abandonment of their old religion.

So long as men believe in a higher power who is believed capable of revealing himself to man, there will arise those who believe that God has spoken to them and will become his mouthpiece just as the prophets of older religions have done.

In imitating a kind of crucifixion, Merrick also invokes the traditional poetry of an older religion that for some of the Late Romantics retained its «traditional sanctity and loveliness» (as Yeats wrote) if not its grounding in historical truth.

For if nothing is put in the place of the old religion then men are left with a greatly diminished sense of their own value.

The collapse of the Tsarist regime and its eventual replacement by the communist soviet rule dealt disastrous blows to all of the older religions in Russia.

As Hanukah and Christmas are over is time to take a look back at the importance of Judaism, one of the oldest religions in the world and its connection with Christianity.

Compare its intelligence and earnestness, its infernal energy, against the disrespectfulness and self - satisfaction of The Cabin in the Woods to see that Evil Dead is not just a taste of the old religion, it's really pretty great.

Soft under my breath, masked from his Puritan ears, I murmur the Latin refrains of the old religion.

Not exact matches

As I've gotten older, I've been able to recognize some of the deeper themes of religion, power, and self - awareness that I didn't pick up on when I was 12 or 13.

Whatever our religion or ideology, we are still trapped by the centuries - old Protestant ethic, which viewed long hours as a badge of moral seriousness.

But if you keep these old murderous religions around, you'll never get rid of religion - motivated violence.

Like it or not, we're in a New Age, and religion is part of the old.

There is sooooo much more proof that religion is a farce then there is supporting the fables in your book of Mormons, old testaments, new testaments and Quran!!!

The modern religions are just a re-boot of age old philosophies of previous cultures.

No matter what religion you have to remember the people who wrote the stories of any holy book were doing it with a way of thinking that is over 1000 years old.

As more and more children get removed from the old ways of indoctrinating them all with religious belief from an early age, then atheism will become the norm, and religion the refuge of the minorities of the mentally ill and the lame seekers of cargo cults.

Just because I am capable of imagining a pagan world and find the culture emotionally innate to me does not imply I believe in the old religion.

As he grew older, he used the authority he had acquired to challenge those of his colleagues who believed that discussions of religion were beneath their dignity.

I gave up the concept of God when I was 12 years old because I did a little research and found out it's all a bunch of cr ap taken from other religions before it like Zorastrianism.

Oh yeah... And this so called religion of peace show us that they can't stop from killing each other... Shiite vs Sunni and all the stories from all these countries from the old Soviet block that we can't remember because of all the K's Z's R's and T's on their name (no criticism of their language... we just can't associate those names very well)...

My «problem» is that a so - called mainstream religion accepts the selling of 9 to 10 year old girls!!

We are in a New Age, and religion is part of the old.

What happened to the religion of my forefathers the eastern religions which are older than Christianity.

Sister Simone's message is consistent with the Old Testament, the New Testament and, I think, the teachings of the other major religions.

But some fundamentalist religions are stuck on the idea of using older translations, made by people who simply were uninformed or uneducated.

While I do not condone religion in any way, I do think that the architecture of some of the old churches are awesome.

period end of all discussions, in addition to being the first monotheistic religion 1000 years earlier than Christianity and 1500 years earlier than islam hence the word new testimit because it came after the old testimit by 1000 years.

What is FAR, FAR more remarkable (and perplexing) is that the world population is 20 % Muslim... and yet with 18,453 people killed by ISLAMIC Terror merely since 9/11, virtually the whole Islamic world goes nuts over a political cartoon by an older Danish cartoonist (Westergaard), or a novel by a World Class MUSLIM AUTHOR (Salman Rushdie), and that years and years later, this so - called «religion» incites the murder of these people.

Most of the North American Indian tribes and their spirituality / religions are well over 5000 years old, with understanding of God just as solid as that of the Roman Catholic Church.

4) Believe in borrowed material from other religions... i.e. Noah's flood... there are much older almost identical stories of a great flood.

Most importantly, note this: I am a Christian, I'm gay, I'm a recovering alcoholic, I believe in Evolution, I believe the universe is 13 billion years old and that the Earth is 4.5 or so billion years old, I believe man evolved from lower primates and that Adam was the first man who God gave a soul and sentience, I do not believe in hell but I do believe in Satan, I do not believe the Bible is a book of rules meant to imprison man or condemn him but that it is rather a «Human Existence for Dummies» guide, I believe Christ was the son of God but I do not believe Christianity is the only «valid» religion, I do not believe atheists will go to hell, while the English Bible says God should be feared, the Hebrew word used for fear, «yara», such as that used in the Book of Job, actually means respect / reverence, not fear as one would fear death or a spider.

The old religion was more human, more tolerant of shifts from one god to another, and less likely to breed fiercely embattled heresies.

I was not talking religion I very specifically used the word compassion, yet you feel you have to make you point vilifying someone's belief, gosh that is getting old with you... you can't even celebrate the fact that here is an example of a good deed.

(14) So unto this (religion of Islâm alone and this Qur» ân) then invite (people)(O Muhammad SAW), and stand firm [on Islâmic Monotheism by performing all that is ordained by Allâh (good deeds), and by abstaining from all that is forbidden by Allâh (sins and evil deeds)-RSB-, as you are commanded, and follow not their desires but say: «I believe in whatsoever Allâh has sent down of the Book [all the holy Books, — this Qur» ân and the Books of the old from the Taurât (Torah), or the Injeel (Gospel) or the Pages of Ibrâhîm (Abraham)-RSB- and I am commanded to do justice among you.

90 % of the New and Old Testaments is completely fabricated or evolved from other religions.

So before you regurgitate old canards about religion vis - a-vis wars and death, you might want to do some actual research of your own.

I believe that forcing young children to swallow the indoctrination of religion before they are old enough to decide for themselves is symptomatic of the greater problem in society today; be it Christian, Muslim, Hindu, or any other recognized religion.

It's a diagnosis of our sickness - unto death that's older than Amos — the confusion of religion with riches, of doing good with doing well: «In their eagerness to be rich some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many pains.»

On the one hand the maxim, «The Bible and the Bible alone is the religion of Protestants», was construed in a way which demanded that equal and absolute authority should be accorded to every part of the Old and New Testaments indiscriminately, since it was all «verbally inspired».

Concerning the Unbelievers of old, the Qur» an says, «Nay, for they say only: Lo we found our fathers following a religion, and we are guided by their footprints» (Surah XLIII, 22).

Also many religions are rehashed versions of each other and older religions.

This early absorption of the individual in the social group is made clear in the Old Testament by the further fact that, at the start, there was no such experience as would be called now «personal religion.»

i do nt understand what religous people really believe is waiting for them in an afterlife when we know for a fact that the body doesn't go there and the fact that animals apparently cant go to heaven because they have no soul is well thats just good old conceited man made rubbish that is everywhere in the bible and before i get attacked i was raised religious and got very religious for a few years till i actually thought about it and applyed logic to it after that the whole concept of religion made me feel sick

bring back Baal then we can have the good old days of innocent human sacrifice, a great religion we ignore at our peril.

LoL, so you've just solved the age old mystery of religion with one dismissive comment.

The struggle between consumer religion and the Christian faith is a battle at least as old as that of the prophets against Baalism or the early church against the divinized Roman Empire.