Sentences with phrase «of religious text»

So, «socialism» is often merely useless, while dogmatic literal interpretation of religious text is a real impediment and thus worse than socialism.

But if praise comes only when a child succeeds, the child is likely to develop a sense that his or her parents» affection depends upon good grades, or touchdowns, or mastery of a religious text, or whatever the parents» priorities might be.

The very fact that we have so many sects of Christianity (and just so many religions in general) should bring to light that there is a no real consensus as to a universal interpretation of religious text.

All the quoting of religious text in all their forms means absolutely NOTHING as long as people continue to act like animals.

I can understand the comfort that an imaginary friend or hope may provide to a child, but why must that be the god of the bible, or of any religious text?

That's the danger of strict literal interpretation of any religious text for that matter.

So from a Whiteheadian perspective, understanding of a religious text does not rest so heavily upon existential appropriation of its message as the Heideggerians claim.

But by the interpretation of religious text, It would seem most likley that he would indeed be pro-life.

I would say Evans, and many of the commenters, are missing the point that several hundred years of scholarship in the fields of literary and textual criticism enable us to arrive at at - least reasonable interpretations of religious texts driven by context, the literary genre, etc..

If there is such a passage in any of the religious texts, please enlighten me.

maxi, Yes atheists lack a reason to believe in your sky - fairy and the creationist pseudo-science that attempts to muddy the water about the real science that disproves the foundation of your religious texts.

God wants humanity to understand that nothing and nobody is beyond the scope of His redemptive purposes, and so by sending Jesus as the fulfillment of the most violent of religious texts, God not only revealed Himself by way of a stark contrast to that violence, but also showed how to reinterpret and understand those violent events in light of the self - sacrificial God dying on the cross for the sins of the whole world.

There is no evidence outside of religious texts and our modern knowledge shows that the creation myths of all religions are not correct, so as their foundational texts are incorrect, religions offer nothing to support the idea of a god.

All religions claim to worship the only true god — proof needs to be verifiable outside of your religious texts.

Figures because studies suggest we atheists have a better understanding of religious texts then the religious.

Iredell responded, referring to the «dreadful mischiefs» and «utmost cruelties» that had occurred «under the colour of religious texts» throughout history.

Enough food, water, medicine and aid to those who need it, and you do NOT need any kind of religious texts to accomplish any of that.

Rather, they discuss small portions of religious texts with an eye toward discovering how these texts apply to their personal lives.

discarding the portions of religious texts as allegorical that do not match their knowledge.

You do NOT need any kind of religious texts whatsoever to love or be loved, to be happy, and to have tolerance.

We need to also consider here that interpretations of religious texts that lead to extremist ideas are not all that far fetched.

And in a spot where you might typically find Jehovah's Witnesses smiling silently beside a display of religious texts, Public Advocate Letitia James was loudly and proudly handing out free condoms.

The use of religious texts to underpin the messages was found to be fundamental.

Our mission is to deepen understanding and nurture discipleship among Latter - day Saints and to promote mutual respect and goodwill among people of all faiths through the scholarly study of religious texts and traditions.

Not exact matches

To put things in context, Bell followed that quote up by expressing his disappointment when communities of faith discourage people from asking questions about religious texts or beliefs.

Arguing that the Quran incites violence, it insisted that «the verses of the Quran calling for murder and punishment of Jews, Christians, and nonbelievers be struck to obsolescence by religious authorities,» so that «no believer can refer to a sacred text to commit a crime.»

There are many, many schools which prohibit any and all music with a religious text from their curricula and prohibit teachers from programming such music for concerts no matter how balanced the program may be (that is, it encompasses secular and sacred, accompanied and unaccompanied, difficult and easy, music in a variety of styles and from a variety of musical eras.

I just don't like it when people cherry pick their religious sources or, in the case of this article, outright go against what their religious texts teach to try and appear more politically correct.

In the same breath, let us also just believe that the religious fanaticism shown by some Muslims is also an act of corruption of their own sacred text.

If he truly believes his religious text as a Christian or Jew would their own then he is doing the right thing in the eyes of god.

«People who find themselves wanting to insert religious texts and religious authority into public life,» he said, «are in fact recognizing something correct: namely, the nonneutrality of secular reason.»

You are advocating censoring education by prohibiting instructors who ARE musically knowledgeable from giving students a well - rounded and balanced musical experience by pretending that there was no music of value that was composed with a religious text or through the pat ronage of the church.

outside of the bible, or any other religious texts (which, again, are only relevant to those accept the claimed authority) do you see any evidence of heaven, hell, sin, or redemption?

Should students never perform any music with a religious text, even if done in a secular setting and with the purpose of providing a complete education, not for the purpose of worship or of promoting a particular belief?

The «religiously devout» is important, for Geck puts to death the notion, prominent from the early 1960s through the 1980s, that correct dating of Bach's cantata production proves that his interest in writing liturgical music was a professional obligation only and that Bach had no abiding commitment to the religious texts he was paid to set.

«god» doesn't exist and is make believe, your religious texts were written by human beings without any kind of «divine inspiration» regardless of what you read in them... written by people who thought the Earth was flat... it isn't.

Most religious laws are based off of laws that are much older than the religious texts they appear in.

Consequently, it is possible to have more informed interpretations of texts than others, whether or not you believe some religious text is divinely inspired or not.

I also have a copy of Jewish religious texts, Islamic texts and a few other faiths texts and can speak intelligently with the devout of any of them and have done so.

If you loook to the Quran to find parts where you believe they are told to kill non believers, then you have to look at the religious texts of other religions as well.

Don't allow religious philosophy to intrude into biology classrooms and texts, they say, for that is to soil the sacred precincts of science, which must be reserved for hypotheses that can be rigorously tested and confronted with data.

The «Declaration on the Relation of the Church to Non-Christian Religions» now known simply as Nostra Aetate (or, «In our Time,» from the first words of its Latin text), denounced all forms of religious hatred, and called for a new dialogue among the world's religions.

A religious text that can be used to justify everything from unselfish acts of kindness to the keeping of slaves and the mistreatment of women is worthless.

The idea that religious texts are a kind of «instruction manual» and all you have to do is just read it and the truth becomes plainly obvious used to be well outside the mainstream of religious thought.

You said, «Religious texts should NOT «always be taken with a grain of salt.»

By contrast, traditional philosophy tends to emasculate texts like the above, construing them as mere anthropomorphisms, since obviously Gad can not be described in emotional and temporal terms — or so the doctrine goes, despite massive evidence of religious experience to the contrary.

Religious text are not proof of anything.

Religious texts should NOT «always be taken with a grain of salt.»

There is every danger of a piously suppressed smile at artistic faults in the performance of the text engendering doubts of the true religious feeling and faith of the actors, danger also of misinterpretation of the... motives of the community in performing the Play.

He wanted to show us that God's role in those violent religious texts is not in the inflicting of pain and suffering of others, but in receiving and suffering that pain along with us.