Sentences with phrase «older religions in»

The collapse of the Tsarist regime and its eventual replacement by the communist soviet rule dealt disastrous blows to all of the older religions in Russia.

Besides there are plenty of records showing Genesis «borrowed» ideas from other older religions in that region.

Here are some common misconceptions about one of the oldest religions in the world.

There was a a great deal of cultural exchange, and it is EXTREMELY likely that the eastern philosophies, started weakening the old religions in the region, and the NT was written in responce to this, so it is very likely that what Jesus allegedly taugh WAS from the Buddha and other sources, just as the rest of the bible took from many other cultures.

As Hanukah and Christmas are over is time to take a look back at the importance of Judaism, one of the oldest religions in the world and its connection with Christianity.

Not exact matches

Like it or not, we're in a New Age, and religion is part of the old.

There is sooooo much more proof that religion is a farce then there is supporting the fables in your book of Mormons, old testaments, new testaments and Quran!!!

MEII Old Pew research 2007 religion in America, I was lazy.

The church = Oldest criminal organization in the world; Accepted because people can not accept their own death; Still people are going to be dead when dead; No religion will get you past that fact.

Religion teaches people THAT crap about the universe creator which is TOTALLY NOT what either the 10 commandments were about OR what they are for or all about and I can 100 percent prove it so religious people HATE me because... by God I do the 10 commmandment and since I do the 10 commandment and work so hard to always do the 10 commandment... YOUR burning in hell cause you broke one and SINNED... its is ridiculas... what religion HAS done regarding what God gave Moses... in the old testement.

«The report is dominated by the old fashioned view that traditional religion is declining in importance and that non-adherence to a religion is the same as humanism or secularism.

Just because I am capable of imagining a pagan world and find the culture emotionally innate to me does not imply I believe in the old religion.

I wish I had a dollar for every time a Christian in this forum had disavowed the Old Testament when it is used to show your religion's infantile foolishness..

We are in a New Age, and religion is part of the old.

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.

While I do not condone religion in any way, I do think that the architecture of some of the old churches are awesome.

period end of all discussions, in addition to being the first monotheistic religion 1000 years earlier than Christianity and 1500 years earlier than islam hence the word new testimit because it came after the old testimit by 1000 years.

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.

I used to be unsure about whether there was a god, and as I got older and approached my late twenties, I decided I was not going to believe or participate in any organized religion.

4) Believe in borrowed material from other religions... i.e. Noah's flood... there are much older almost identical stories of a great flood.

Most importantly, note this: I am a Christian, I'm gay, I'm a recovering alcoholic, I believe in Evolution, I believe the universe is 13 billion years old and that the Earth is 4.5 or so billion years old, I believe man evolved from lower primates and that Adam was the first man who God gave a soul and sentience, I do not believe in hell but I do believe in Satan, I do not believe the Bible is a book of rules meant to imprison man or condemn him but that it is rather a «Human Existence for Dummies» guide, I believe Christ was the son of God but I do not believe Christianity is the only «valid» religion, I do not believe atheists will go to hell, while the English Bible says God should be feared, the Hebrew word used for fear, «yara», such as that used in the Book of Job, actually means respect / reverence, not fear as one would fear death or a spider.

Many ideas in the bible are lifted from older and different religions.

«327 The Jewish faith, unlike other non-Christian religions, is already a response to God's revelation in the Old Covenant.

(14) So unto this (religion of Islâm alone and this Qur» ân) then invite (people)(O Muhammad SAW), and stand firm [on Islâmic Monotheism by performing all that is ordained by Allâh (good deeds), and by abstaining from all that is forbidden by Allâh (sins and evil deeds)-RSB-, as you are commanded, and follow not their desires but say: «I believe in whatsoever Allâh has sent down of the Book [all the holy Books, — this Qur» ân and the Books of the old from the Taurât (Torah), or the Injeel (Gospel) or the Pages of Ibrâhîm (Abraham)-RSB- and I am commanded to do justice among you.

I believe that forcing young children to swallow the indoctrination of religion before they are old enough to decide for themselves is symptomatic of the greater problem in society today; be it Christian, Muslim, Hindu, or any other recognized religion.

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.»

On the one hand the maxim, «The Bible and the Bible alone is the religion of Protestants», was construed in a way which demanded that equal and absolute authority should be accorded to every part of the Old and New Testaments indiscriminately, since it was all «verbally inspired».

This early absorption of the individual in the social group is made clear in the Old Testament by the further fact that, at the start, there was no such experience as would be called now «personal religion.»

i do nt understand what religous people really believe is waiting for them in an afterlife when we know for a fact that the body doesn't go there and the fact that animals apparently cant go to heaven because they have no soul is well thats just good old conceited man made rubbish that is everywhere in the bible and before i get attacked i was raised religious and got very religious for a few years till i actually thought about it and applyed logic to it after that the whole concept of religion made me feel sick

It is scarcely questionable, however, that this symbol originally pointed to the final consummation of a dynamic process of the transcendent's becoming immanent: of a distant, a majestic, and a sovereign Lord breaking into time and space in such a way as to transfigure and renew all things whatsoever, thereby abolishing the old cosmos of the original creation, and likewise bringing to an end all that law and religion which had thus far been established in history.

While achievements in practical and scientific matters has progressed by leaps and bounds, the presentation of the Christian religion is still frequently made in an atmosphere at once stuffy and old - fashioned.

The quotation captures the noble project of the book in this way: «The old Catholic religion - culture of Europe is dead... the inheritance of classical culture... has been destroyed, overwhelmed by a vast influx of new knowledge, by the scientific mass civilisation of the modern world.

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.»

Modern day Christian «Good Old Boys» who are comfortable in their religion will defend the institution they call the church, and they will defend their leaders, the Pharisee, Scribe, and Sadducee.

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.

In his view, the Holocaust and the Jewish return from exile, as well as the general opening of the Church toward non-Christian religions, had exploded the old, supersessionist view.

Marx's critique of religion is in many ways similar to those of the prophets of the Old Testament.

Lord Zealous was right, and every historian of religion knows it: the idea of putting oneself under a master, of feeling absolute and even fanatic about the cause, is an old one in religion.

These gods of the boutique can come from anywhere — native North American religion, the Indian subcontinent, some Pre-Raphaelite grove shrouded in Celtic twilight, cunning purveyors of otherwise worthless quartz, pages drawn at random from Robert Graves, Aldous Huxley, Carl Jung, or that redoubtable old Aryan, Joseph Campbell — but where such gods inevitably come to rest are not so much divine hierarchies as ornamental étagères, where their principal office is to provide symbolic representations of the dreamier sides of their votaries» personalities.

Progressive religious folks of all stripes tend to share a post-triumphalism (a sense that it's time to move beyond the old triumphalist paradigm in which one religion is The Right Path to God and all the other paths are wrong), as well as an inclination toward reading our sacred texts through interpretive lenses which take into account changing social mores and changing understandings of justice.

The two perennial temperaments of religion — the ethical and the liturgical — thus had representatives in the development which the Old Testament records.

Today we still speak of the cross only in the explicit language of the Church and religion; perhaps some pious old Christians may still use the expression for the experience of their own life.

Higher education in religion is offered in Morocco at the University of Qarawiyin in Fez and the Big Mosque in Tatwan; in Tunisia the center of higher studies is at the famous old University of Zaitouna and its subsidiaries; and in Libya advanced work in religion is given at the University of Benghazi.

Thus, in the very things most characteristic of the religion of ancient man, namely altars, sacrifices and temples, the prophets of Israel took the first steps in the direction of their abolition, for YHWH, being wholly different from the ancient gods, neither required the old cultic offerings, nor did He dwell in a house made by hands.

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.

On a different note, Carson Holloway says the HHS mandate reveals the logic of liberalism as a creeping and creepy secularism: ``... for an older generation of liberals religion had to be kept private in the sense that it could not try to control the government for its own distinctively religious purposes.

Then, in a letter to one Canon Lougham, penned on December 21, 1882, he writes: «Few days pass without my having letters from strangers, young and old, men and women, on the subject of the Catholic religion.

Call me old fashioned but I still believe in the good in people, freedom of religion, and tolerance.

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

I love Jesus and I do feel that he had died for each and everyone of our sins and I feel we are all loved equally no matter what we do rather it be for murder to just plain old coursing He loves us all honestly I've debated in my mind that if Christianity is about being mean hateful and thinking that you're going around better than everybody then that's not the religion for me