Sentences with phrase «of religious texts»

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

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.

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

Atheists just don't believe that the source of religious texts, or anything for that matter, comes from god.

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

The bible is a collection of religious text compiled into a book and approved by the catholic church in the early days of Christianity.

He also told a story of another hedge fund manager in London who was planning to launch an ICO of a company that aims to put the entire Quran online, and use the new cryptocurrency to compensate people who contribute to the digitization of the religious text.

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..

I like the concept behind Jesus — sharing, helping others, forgiveness (you forgive me, I'll forgive you, let's move forward together) et cetera, but it's what people do in Jesus» name, while hiding behind the parts of the religious text that condones bad behavior (while utterly ignoring the other parts in the same book that denounces the same behavior)...

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.

your God vs my God: Are you talking about God as defined by (insert name of religious text here) or more generically as the one «creator» (for lack of a better word)?

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.

An individual like Brevick or a group like Al Qaida may find justification in the reading of a religious text for their perverted acts, but it is the responsibility of all others including teachers, religious scholars and parents at home to show a different side of religion which teaches love, compassion and justice.

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

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

How - to books abound — for preaching, leading discussions of religious texts, proselytizing.

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.

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.

His notebooks reveal repeated scribbles of self - motivational phrases to meticulous lists and copying of religious texts.

If we can agree that killing, slavery and hurting another human is wrong, then we have to agree that some of the religious texts we read are misinterpretations of God's word.

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

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

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?

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