Filipina Christians are also particular with how their partners give their own point
of view on religion differences.
Not exact matches
i think if every
religion had a massive get together day or something along those lines it would be good... there is not so many different
views on islam, however there is something like 30,000 different branches
of christianity... this could unite the collective and make for a meaningful belief.
A person can hold a personal
view of God that does not depend
on any organized
religion.
@HotAirAce For those that do not want
religion forced down their throat (even though I don't even remotely believe that to be the case), certainly have no problem trying to force their
views on others and try to deny them them pursuit
of their beliefs.
Therefore, if this country had a single state
religion, these theocrats complaining today that they are not allowed to impose their beliefs
on the rest
of us, would themselves be unable to develop & express their own religious
views.
I too think there is a trouble with Ayn Rand's
view of religion, and I anticipated a thoughtful analysis
on the order
of Hart's discussion
of the New Atheists in the May 2010 issue.
It is what has lead me to my veiw that Atheism as a
religion, the passion most Atheist have for their point
of view from the start you may not fall in this category but I'm sure you know someone that does.The same applies to Christians that freak out
on someone and start forcing their
view on others, I see that as wrong also if someone asks or brings the debate to you then by all means debate but why be rude how does it help?
Jeff Cox is right
on the point
of using their
religion for their own points
of view.
This was an uplifting story - REGARDLESS
of your
views on Christianity or
religion.
Hence, part
of the reason
of the concept
of the «separation
of church and the government... or church and the secular,» so, no
religion including Christianity can stomp
on the rights
of people to express themselves fully and in their own way... whether you agree, disagree or don't have an opinion one way or another
on others
view and comments... yes...?
Apparently he can't even have an intelligent discussion
on the subject
of religion with someone who doesn't share the same
views.
But if you insist
on your point
of view I would expect that you could be one
of those intended with such operations agenda to bring
religions to fighting each other in this same method world wide reducing God believers
on the globe..?
I personally think
religion should not be a factor.No one should ask the candidates what their religious
views are and they should never mention them.Their religious preferences have absolutely no effect
on what type
of leader they will be.Unless they are some kind
of a religious fanatic.I think it's time for an atheist.There was not a Christian president for over the first 50 years
of our nations existence.And, I do not think there has been one since.If you look it up you will find not one
of our founding fathers were Christian.Not even Jefferson.I know he wrote the Jefferson bible, but, that's just because he, like the other founding fathers, did not believe Jesus to be
of divine decent.So, he kept his philosophy while removing all the mystical and dogmatic concepts.
Joan Bakewell, in the February 6th edition
of The Times, decided that the Pope's decision to lift decrees
of excommunication from four Lefebvrist bishops, one
of whom absurdly denies the historical veracity
of the mass extermination
of Jews during the Second World War, should be linked to his Regensburg Address: in her
view this was a sign
of an increased antagonism
on the part
of the Vatican towards other
religions.
The «prevailing Christian
view» until relitively recently, would have been against any notion
of the rapture, the equality
of women, the emancipation
of slaves, and a host
of other things that most Christians today look back
on with some disgust being attached to their
religion's history.
I never appreciated his use
of gratuitous nude pictures he used earlier
on to increase his numbers... but I saw it for what it was... I can also see why my husband and I'm sure others, would be offended by what they see & read here if this is not their
view of church &
religion.
And the book also offers a deliberately wide array
of approaches to trinitarian issues, including not only historical and systematic theologians, but biblical scholars and analytic philosophers
of religion, writing from a variety
of theological and communal points
of view» Roman Catholic, Protestant, and, in one case, Jewish (the New Testament scholar Alan Segal, who contributes an instructive if somewhat technical chapter
on the role
of conflicts between Jews and Christians in the emergence
of early trinitarian teaching).
(
Religions act
on their principles regardless
of how the opposition responds) This implies that ISIS is nothing more than a business run by egocentric tyrants that happen to identify with a particular
religion... thus tainting that
religion with their insecurity as they attempt to use it as a platform to try and convince their selves
of control and eliminate any challenge to their personal
views... All because their figurative pee pees can't handle it.
He sets forth his
views on the universal human need for
religion, Freud's and Jung's
views of religion, and the psychoanalyst as physician
of the soul.
This is especially obvious if you
view religion as essentially a source
of ethical rules for human behaviour rather than theological truths about God and make the techie assumption that content equals rules; then, if all your churches come up with the same rules, they must all be based
on the same content, and thus they must ultimately all be the same.
Evangelical leaders constantly warn that young people are deserting churches; pastors struggle to address changing
views on homosexuality; and others wonder how evangelicals can remain relevant when a growing number
of Americans refuse to identify with any
religion.
The things I find most appalling about
religion reach a new zenith in Islam --(i) a dulling down
of individual thought and a dogmatic requirement to conform to the
views of the masses; (ii) a stultifying ignorant education system in which anything inconsistent with the Qur» an is not just discouraged, but censored; (iii) the subjugation
of women to the point
of educating them to be nothing but mindless f * king, breeding machines for their insecure husbands; (iv) a political class that feeds off the religious - based ignorance it imposes
on its populations; and (v) a general back - sliding against the rest
of the planet because heads are buried in Dark Ages mythology.
But I am less thrilled when such an appeal is based
on a
view of religion as essentially private.
Process thought is usually defined in one
of three ways: (1) as any
view of reality that is dynamic and relational and based
on the findings
of modern science, (2) identified with «the Chicago School,» the University
of Chicago Divinity School, both in its earlier phase
of applying evolutionary theory to historical research, seeing
religion as a dynamic movement that reconstitutes itself in response to felt needs, as well as its later philosophical phase, and (3) synonymous with the philosophy
of Whitehead and Hartshorne.
I think this book had a lot
of impact
on how I
view religion.
From Origen's hope that salvation will eventually be received by all, to Karl Rahner's assertion that other
religions can serve as pointers to Christ, to Clark Pinnock's biblical case for a more optimistic
view of salvation, I've found that tucked away in the dusty corners
of Christian libraries is a wealth
of scholarship
on the subject.
In terms
of procedure in constructing a
view of religion, the demand for communicability will probably be satisfied best by approaching the description
of each basic religious concept from a variety
of directions, all
of which converge
on a common center.
You along with other seem to have bridged the two together when it comes to Muslims, but rightfully failed to do so when terrorists
of other religous backgrounds commit acts
of terrorism
on some ill - guided
views of their
religion.
The Public
Religion Research Institute asked 1,017 Americans their
views on religion and homosexuality between October 14 and 17, in the wake
of a highly publicized rash
of suicides by gay people.
Mr. Green is attempting to force his personal
views as his
religion dictates
on all
of his employees... perhaps he should speak to them and see what their position is
on the subject matter.
They drew their definition
of religion from the point
of view of its impact
on society.
Nevertheless, Rushdie goes
on to say that he also uses the dream technique to offer his
view of the phenomenon
of revelation and «the birth
of a great world
religion,» a paragraph unfortunately mangled by a printing flaw.
I've never had member
of Barbershop quartets or the NAACP try to convince me their
views were better or superior
on a
religion blog like this.
It seems that for some their idea
of freedom
of religion is the freedom for them to impose their personal religious
views on others through law thus limiting the freedom
of religion of others.
I could fill a large hotel full
of the most World's most «learnerd» Jewish, Christian and Islamic theological scholars (to take the, inaptly named, monothistic
religions) and they would be unable to agree
on anything other than some nauseating throw away line like «we should all rewspect each other's
views»».
Their
view on women,
of other
religion and encouragement
of violence against LGBT classifies it as a cult.
One can lay out all the evidence and build (and have built) an airtight case against every single
religion on Earth past and present, but still believers will not budge from their point
of view, even when presented with the lies and contradictions in the very scriptures they they base their beliefs
on.
On issues such as women in church leadership, and other
religions, we are free to come to a «developed, or even different,
view» from what we find in the canon, just like William Wilberforce did with slavery; but that is ok, because the word
of God is «ultimately a person, not a manuscript».
Divergence
of opinion is caused not so much by the variety and difference
of the
views on society as by those
on religion.
This means that television is itself becoming a kind
of religion, shaping the faith and values
of many people in the nation, and providing an alternate worldview to the old reality, and to the old religious
view based
on that reality, for millions
of viewers.
Besides being illegal, it is also one
of the most divisive issues
of our time, when one
religion attempts to force a belief system
on others who have a differing
view.
Harvey does not venture a systematic statement
of his own
views on religion.
He rightly cautions against the excessive politicizing
of religion, which has reached the point where people choose their church
on the basis
of their social or political
views.
The CNN Belief Blog asked some prominent voices with different
views on religion how they make sense
of such suffering, where they see inspiration amid destruction and how they respond to people who wonder, «How could God let this happen?»
Such things might be included here as natural theology (the making
of inferences about God from a study
of the natural world); the teachings
of other great
religions — again, to the extent they are compatible; or even the Old Testament prophets, depending
on how you
view their relationship to Jesus.
Bishop Paulose points out how Marx found the
views of Feuerbach
on religion more helpful.
The few references to
religion made by Marx in his later years indicate that, in spite
of his lack
of interest in this kind
of problem, his
view on religion and atheism did not change as the years passed.
Hegel's
views on religion played a vital role in the formation
of his thought.
A world
view (metaphysics) is significant for
religion because it provides a basis for our understanding
of the universe around us, for our acceptance
of the world
of sense experience, and for our capacity to look
on the world as God's world.
Neither would it resonate with those academics and so - called liberals who reduce
religion to mere ethics or diversity, to some inner psychoanalytic conversation, or some Marxist egalitarian
view of heaven
on earth.