Sentences with phrase «old religion with»

Sikhism is a 500 year old religion with over 20 million followers worldwide.

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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.

And if you have an old dusty book filled with absurd stories, then your religion must be true

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.

I would say read the Holy Books start with the «Quran» being the latest Holy book that came combined to correct the older version ones read just for knowledge and not for finding a religion but to learn what they say about God..

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.

it's comical how religion can take a person with little more than a grade school education — and elevate their mind to the level where they literally believe they can argue subjects for which they are so completely ill - equipped — that virtually everything they posit seems as if it's coming from an 8 year old child.

Abrahamic religions believe the Old Testament, New Testament and Koran are not open to edit, because we do not believe in modern prophesy — Hell, if we did, Oral Robers would have rewritten everything by now cuz to hear him tell it, it basically lives in God's kitchen with Him 24/7.

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

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.

Religion encourages the need to cloak one's self in a security blanket which only belittles any argument presented by the religion — and they do it with a 2000 year old book.

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.

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.

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.»

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

Religions of today, at least the Western ones I am most familiar with, seem to hold on to the old stories without understanding their original dynamic value and rather look to them for creating rules and reconstructing an ever more implausible history.

Hinduism is the world's oldest living religion and the third largest — behind Christianity and Islam — with more than 1 billion followers.

Christianity is about 500 years older than Isam, and Judaism is much, much older than Christianity, and yet, with just a little reading one finds that though each religion has its own holy men, many of those who are revered as prophets or knowledgeable men are the same person.

In fact, the religion «with a human face» does allow itself to be judged by reason, but by reason guided by its own truth and not just any old reason.»

Although there are many religious folk with good intentions — some selflessly helping others, religions and religious organizations are, as a whole, just big old clubs — each trying to out do each other and inspiring hate and division (often disguised as love) along the way.

This view of aging and the place of the church aligns well with Vaillant's finding that organized religion is especially attractive for lonely old people, those with a tendency toward depressive illness and those whose childhoods were lacking in hope and love.

Furthermore, the «older son» is the worst kind of «lost son» because we think we have stayed with God our Father, when in reality, we have gone into the far country of religion, which allows us to look down our self - righteous noses at everybody else who is not good enough, smart enough, or disciplined enough to truly live for God.

The coming end of the world, complete with a saviour and the rising of the dead, all in a religion as old as Judaism.

Now the urge is almost irresistible to try to gather up the crumbs that fall from those tables where some form of old - time religion is served up with new relish.

Then light was liberated, and then gravity created the first stars and galaxies, then billions of years later, a local star went supernova and seeded the local nebula with heavier elements, elements necessary for life, elements that were not created during the Big Bang, then the sun was born, then the planets coalesced, and billions of years later some primate wrote a story about how the Earth was created at the same time as the rest of the universe, getting it wrong because that primate did not have the science nor technology to really understand what happened, so he gave it his best guess, most likely an iteration of an older story told prior to the advent of the Judeo Christian religion.

Beecher's emphasis on God's mercy and human freedom led critics to carp that he was replacing the solid, old - time religion with a vapid, good - time religion.

10/10 13 year old SDA (Christian) Although I don't necessarilly agree with other religions I respect them, and look into them by researching them.

(a) Philosophical preoccupation with the various types of cultural activities on an idealistic basis (Johann Gottfried Herder, G. W. F. Hegel, Johann Gustav Droysen, Hermann Steinthal, Wilhelm Wundt); (b) legal studies (Aemilius Ludwig, Richter, Rudolf Sohm, Otto Gierke); (c) philology and archeology, both stimulated by the romantic movement of the first decades of the nineteenth century; (d) economic theory and history (Karl Marx, Lorenz von Stein, Heinrich von Treitschke, Wilhelm Roscher, Adolf Wagner, Gustav Schmoller, Ferdinand Tonnies); (e) ethnological research (Friedrich Ratzel, Adolf Bastian, Rudolf Steinmetz, Johann Jakob Bachofen, Hermann Steinthal, Richard Thurnwald, Alfred Vierkandt, P. Wilhelm Schmidt), on the one hand; and historical and systematical work in theology (church history, canonical law — Kirchenrecht), systematic theology (Schleiermacher, Richard Rothe), and philosophy of religion, on the other, prepared the way during the nineteenth century for the following era to define the task of a sociology of religion and to organize the material gathered by these pursuits.7 The names of Max Weber, Ernst Troeltsch, Werner Sombart, and Georg Simmel — all students of the above - mentioned older scholars — stand out.

Others were the revivalists who wished to be bothered with no intellectual problems and wanted the «old - time religion» preserved intact.

after much thinking the calts called the Denisova the Elves (the children o Danu) and the Neanderthal the Fomorii (children of Danu) we were hums (the children of MIll) in their mythological text making the pretanic religion older and with a biblical story of the creation making them closer to the true religion,... what the mahabharata is an older text what the book of Tets has an even older creation

condo corp told me to put the old one back — that's their LAWS, nothing to do with religion

«27 It grew rather from an opposition to the church as a definite socio - political form which in the name of so - called religion defended the old social order with all its injustices, its cultural backwardness, and its conservative immobility.

A special feature keeping us up to date with issues of science and religion TEMPLETON WINNER, MIND AND MATHEMATICS In mid-March it was announced that this year's winner of the Templeton Prize — an extremely valuable prize awarded annually in recognition of, and promotion of, work for «research or discoveries about spiritual realities» — is Fr Michael Heller, a 72 - yr - old Polish priest and physics professor.

The responses to Christianity amid the old religions of Europe that we meet in Patrick or Bede or Gregory of Tours are worth taking side by side with the Christian interaction with the primal religions of Africa.

Furthermore, if we consider the teachings of «original» Buddhism to be identical with the nucleus of the older sources of the Himayana scriptures, then we must immediately admit that these teachings, as well as the whole «religion of Buddha,» underwent a marked change in their later development; and we can readily understand how, from the standpoint of the «classical ideal» this development might be viewed as nothing but deprivation and decline.

Conversely, young adults ages 18 - 29 are much more likely than those age 70 and older to say that they are not affiliated with any particular religion (25 % vs. 8 %).

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

Some throw in a few other explanations (I just grew up with it... It's the oldest religion... We have a great tradition.)

But let us assume for a moment that the pope cited Emperor Old Word because he meant to initiate — however inartfully — a candid conversation with believers and nonbelievers about faith and reason and about religion and violence in the modern world.

This revision of theological concepts beginning with an exegesis of the New Testament centered on the preaching of the Kingdom to come finds support in the parallel revision of the theology of the Old Testament inspired by Martin Buber, which insists on the massive opposition between the God of the promise — the God of the desert, of the wandering — and the gods of the «epiphanic» religions.

It was actually what God intended all along, but regardless, this new way of loving others and being with God was not compatible with the old religion.

It is not that the old theories have been replaced with the new — naturalistic ideas have been around for millennia, as has religion.

The religion of the Old Testament and of later Judaism by no means ignored the suffering which is the lot of man, with which his existence is bound up.

There are 3 major religions that have evolved from that Middle Eastern «scripture»... each with subsets (thousands of them in the case of Christianity), who don't agree with each other because of how they translate and interpret those old writings and ideas... each saying that they are the «true» one.

The Christians adopted Yahweh to give themselves street cred with the Romans — it made them look much older as a religion than they were.

The most drastic example of the application of this principle is to he seen in the view of religion which underlies the recently published report of the Laymen's Appraisal Commission on Missions.4 In agreement with the opinions of a minority group among the missionaries, it implies the abandonment of the old methods leading to conversion, which are based upon the conviction of Christianity's possession of absolute religious truth.

This is a great book, with groundbreaking information that will transform how you read the Old Testament and the New Testament, and how you understand the role of religion in society and culture.

I used to think it was the old European women from three or four generations back that had religion and superst.ition fed to them in equal amounts — even some as recent as my mother's generation with the nuns» stories about lying before communion and having their tongue fall out of their mouths, or having the stone lions in front of the protestant church come to life and eat them or having the earth open up and swallow them because they didn't go to confession.

It is impossible to achieve more than superficial correlation of studies in the history and philosophy of religion, in psychology and sociology, with the older disciplines, unless the relations of the Church to religion in general, to the particular religions and to secular culture have been intelligibly defined.

In contrast, traditionalists have reacted to change by reemphasizing orthodox religious beliefs, stressing historic religious practices, and identifying with religious movements working to maintain or restore the «old - time religion.»