Sentences with phrase «of organized»

The majority of our founding fathers realized the terrors of organized religion, especially Thomas Jefferson.

The second virtue of organized religion is that it gives people a chance to be smarter than they would be on their own.

All of these are occur at the larger level of organized religion, but that doesn't mean that the religious experience / belief / and hope of the individual is wrong or baseless or false.

I would have to at least partially agree with King on the matter of organized religion.

It would have been better, of course, if there had only been one bit of organized nonsense to guide the clueless.

If the goal of organized religion is to call all people into the fullness of their humanity, as I believe it is, then perhaps church leaders ought to look at those they hold up as role models.

I am overtly anti-religion however I know there is a creator and I believe Jesus was a great prophet — one of but many — however I despise the judgment and arrogance of the organized Christian religion.

We can see more clearly now than ever before that the human race is part of an ageless cosmic struggle upward toward more intense versions of organized complexity, and toward a deepening of consciousness.

Even in the absence of organized effort by church leaders there are enormously important things which any layman can do to discover, to act upon, and to communicate the gospel.

But as the book's title suggests, from the beginning Cairns was unafraid of the language and categories of organized Christianity, though he tended to embody them in immediate and contemporary narrative situations.

Debate, polarization, defection, daring bold action, and mistakes marked the life of the organized church; but through it all the church once again laid claim to the entire world as its legitimate domain.

The search had many forms, some of which were distinctly outside the domain of the organized church: Zen, various kinds of meditation, the occult.

A major contribution of organized religion is to enable clergymen to develop healthy emotional attitudes among those they serve.

The issue of organized religion is like career politicians, once a group discovers they can make a career of it and make money it gets corrupted.

As long as that War was in progress, it was important to the capitalist system to have the support of organized labor and to give enough aid to the poor to prevent appreciation for Marxism from arising among them.

finally, the hard questions are being asked of organized religion.

There is little evidence of organized interest in the issues of land use and food production, and the voting public seems content to let farm subsidies artificially support the corn industry and postpone transformation.

Hate is a cornerstone of organized religion because once a group claims to be «the chosen ones», by definition those not in the group have not been «chosen» by God and the fun begins!

Westboro Baptist is not a real church, they are hiding behind the appearance of an organized church, but there are no members besides Fred Phelps family, they do not have a place of worship, their sole purpose is to protest at funerals, of gay people and members of the military, which is not protected by the first amendment, it is harassment of people on the worst day of their lives, when they have to bury a loved one.

Almost everyone comes to AA having no interest in the god of organized religion.

hate is an inherent part of organized religion, no matter the simpering tone it takes.

Thirty - seven reports of organized research on the personality characteristics of chronic alcoholics were surveyed by E. H. Sutherland and his associates.

to follow Jesus outside of organized religion.

Prohibition in the 1920s did little to curb the desire for alcohol and increased the power of organized crime mobs that specialized in the illegal production and sale of alcoholic beverages.

The totalization in progress in the modern world is in fact nothing but the natural climax and paroxysm of a process of grouping which is fundamental to the elaboration of organized matter.

Campus Jewish life has moved closer to the center of concern of the organized American Jewish community.

So you don't think that the removal of organized religion from the world would have a countless number of benefits?

I saw an anwer to my entry that «a bigot is a bigot, even if you are a «Christian», his comment basically was that it is ok to be a bigot even if you claim to be a «Christian», well I agree that most are bigots, I just don't think it fits the description of «Christian», I could never be part of any organized religion as their members ar 99.5 % hypocrits.

One could pursue a spiritual life outside of any organized church; but, given that my spiritual commitment is based on reverence for a specific religious heritage, such lonliness would be unsustainable.

But I was reminded of a cultural norm that so much of organized religion participates in that I no longer want to be a part of.

You may not believe in the current set of organized religions, but could there not be a creator somewhere?

Creative and dynamic religious forces are finding their expression not in the context of the organized church, but in film, literature, and the arts, and also in some aspects of science and industry, where people are seeking ways to give institutional expression to their basic religious concerns while at the same time rejecting alliances with institutional religion.

Today Manmohan and Rao have surrendered the state to the ideology of the free - market with the backing of the greedy middle class (which includes also a good part of the organized working class) who have coopted Indian Nationalism to serve their vested interests.

... These defendants, some of whom have been tagged by the press as «contrapreneurs,» represent the very epitome of organized crime, but on an international stage.

Okay so he figured out the corruption angle of organized religion but he's still talking to invisible man name Jesus in the sky.

The gods of all organized religions, if true, would all be horribly unjust and evil deities to send billions of people to eternal suffering for choosing the wrong one or being born in the wrong place.

«In Searching for Sunday, Rachel's honest and hopeful wrestling tore through my cynicism about the perils of organized religion and touched my heart, reminding me why this broken but beautiful Bride is worth the fight.»

Someone needs to inform this fellow that his church is apart of organized religion or Christendom.

A state of tightening compression, in short; but even more, thanks to the biological intermingling developed to its uttermost extent by the growth of Reflection, a state of organized inter-penetration, in which each element is linked with every other.

The first manifestation of this organized, political structure was the Church of Rome.

Or «god of justice» may arise within the experience of the impulse towards equity in the life of organized society.

They were always ready to call out on the dark side of organized religion:

For the billions who have suffered at the hands of organized religions and those who believe in them, and all that they have always stood for, my heart goes out to you.

I was unaggressive and nonauthoritative; I was more interested in intimacy than expansion; I avoided ecclesiastical trappings and tried to promote service to the neighborhood instead of the internal activities of an organized church.

Indeed, it was more extreme than certain modern expressions of the theory, for it did not leave the secular rulers as a sort of subdepartment under the princes of organized religion, but instead the hierarchy gathered into itself the functions of both.

The discussion of the organized political and social action plan to have intelligent design as a required subject in public schools is appropriate to this thread as christians want ID taught to all children in the USA in spite of the separation of church and state.

As Provine summarized the matter, «The destructive implications of evolutionary biology extend far beyond the assumptions of organized religion to a much deeper and more pervasive belief, held by the vast majority of people, that non-mechanistic organizing designs or forces are somehow responsible for the visible order of the physical universe, biological organisms, and human moral order.»

«Virtually all of organized Christendom,» they argued, «is embracing the concept.»

Instead of addressing the fact that humans are organic beings that are part of the evolutionary life cycle, members of organized religion can fall back on biblical quotes and canonical teachings.

This is not to say that he was uncritical of organized and doctrinaire forms of religion, but it is to warn ourselves to put aside traditional Christian stereotypes of a legalistic and barren Judaism.