The defense, both actual and fictional, wanted to isolate an ignorant, biblical literalism as
the only kind of religion that disputes evolution.
Not exact matches
Mormonism is another made up
religion and yes I understand they are true believers with
only noble purposes BUT we know the road to hell is paved with just that
kind of thinking.
I've been to funerals and encountered this
kind of prejudice where those leading the service insisted you must be a member
of their
religion to get over grief, and you can
only really talk about it in the language
of the Bible, no other discussion has any meaning.
Now, before you jump in with the standard BS rhetoric, i want you to know i'm
only stating these things because i want you to see what it's like to have your beliefs criticized and so you know that all you're pushin, is another
kind of religion.
There is
only ONE MESSAGE on earth now that can definitely end the war and all
kind of bloody feuds and conflicts within and / or between all
Religions and Sects; and here it is for all Peace Loving and Truth Seeking intelligent Humans all over the world now:
More stories showing how crazy
religion is, more religious posters rabidly defending the insanity as a special
kind of truth that
only they can see.
This
kind of organization
of service may be
of genuine value not
only to members
of local churches but also to others who, while sympathetic to
religion or the church, have nevertheless not gone so far as to join a church.
There never was a time in History that atheists exist,
only in this present stage
of our intellectual developement that they deny His exisrence, but it can be easily explained that they are just part
of the dialectical process
of having to have two opposing arguments or forces to arrive to the truth, The opposing forces today are the theists or religious believers
of all
religions and the other are the atheists who denies
religion, The reslultant truth in the future will be Panthrotheism, the belief that we are all one with the whole universe with God, and that we Had all to unite to prepare for human survival that will subject us humans in the future.Aided by the the enlightend consevationist, environmentalists, humanists and all
of the concerned activists, we will develop a
kind of universal harmony and awareness that we are all guided towards love and concern for all
of our specie.The great concern
of the whole conscious and caring world to the natural disaster in the Phillipines,, the most theist country now is a positive sign towards this religious direction.Panthrotheism means we will be One with God.
The corner stone
of ALL religions is also the ONLY religious principle that I was taught in the «business ethics» class I took in college... Put simply, if everyone did their very best to follow the «the golden rule» (i.e. due unto others as you would have them do unto you) in everything they do, WE WOULD HAVE A BETTER SOCIETY TODAY EVEN WITHOUT ORGANIZED RELIGION OF ANY KIN
of ALL
religions is also the
ONLY religious principle that I was taught in the «business ethics» class I took in college... Put simply, if everyone did their very best to follow the «the golden rule» (i.e. due unto others as you would have them do unto you) in everything they do, WE WOULD HAVE A BETTER SOCIETY TODAY EVEN WITHOUT ORGANIZED
RELIGION OF ANY KIN
OF ANY
KIND.
There is
only one God — but that god is
kind of three enti / ties... Anyone who can worship a trinity and insist their
religion is monotheistic is capable
of believing anything, given the time to rationalize it.
Whereas, earlier, it had been believed that the Aryans found
only peoples
of relatively undeveloped culture, now it is known that at least some
of these early Indians had developed the arts to a high degree, that they even had a
kind of hieroglyphic writing, not yet deciphered, and probably an equally well developed
religion which, suppressed for a time, gradually reasserted itself and greatly modified Vedic
religion, gradually transforming it into the Hinduism as practiced in India today.
Traditions
of every
kind, hoarded and manifested in gesture and language, in schools, libraries, museums, bodies
of law and
religion, philosophy and science — everything that accumulates, arranges itself, recurs and adds to itself, becoming the collective memory
of the human race — all this we may see as no more than an outer garment, an epiphenomenon precariously superimposed upon all the other edifices
of Nature (the
only truly organic ones, as it may appear): but it is precisely this optical illusion which we have to overcome if our realism is to reach to the heart
of the matter.
This was just the
kind of religious life portrayed in the New Testament, not
only as a model and pattern, but as a challenge and inspiration The New Testament was thus the abiding source
of power which enabled man to realize the true life
of religion, and Christ was the eternal symbol for the cultus
of the Christian Church.
This is some
kind of double standard when a
religion respects the 1st amendment
only when it is convenient for them.
Forde argued that there are
only two
kinds of religions or theologies: theologies
of glory (almost all theological systems) and theologies
of the cross.
Nietodarwin wants freedom
of religion only for atheists not for any other
kind of faith.
Given that 50 %
of the population profess some
kind of adherence to Christianity and
only 4.5 % to Islam and 1.3 % to Hinduism, it would be absurd and wrong for the BBC to operate on the basis
of «equal time to all the
religions».
Not
only has there been a greater degree
of differentiation between symbols and truth in modern
religion but there has also been an increasing degree
of differentiation among
kinds of symbols.
Whereas we commonly understand
religion and theology as beginning with an inner and personal experience that
only later seeks a community or tradition, the postliberal asserts that the community's ways
of speaking and acting, its rites and rituals, its patterns
of life and behavior shape and indeed make possible certain
kinds of experience.
He emphasized repeatedly the enormous value
of this
kind of personal contact with the contemporary religious forms for the student
of religion who ordinarily studies these forms
only from literary documents belonging largely to the historical origins or early classical epochs
of those
religions.
None
of them foster the
kind of entrepreneurial and scientific innovation that success in the global economy demands; most establish a
religion hostile not
only to individual initiative but to religious freedom, the education
of women, and other indispensable aspects
of modern society.
It is our contention that there are two
kinds of sociology
of religion, one derived from sociology and the other from Religionswissenschaft, despite Wach's hope: «We would like to believe that, though there is a Catholic and Marxian philosophy
of society, there can be
only one sociology
of religion which we may approach from different angles and realize to a different degree but which would use but one set
of criteria.»
While the impact
of these classical theories has remained strong, I would like to point to a specific contribution that, in my view, has served as a
kind of watershed in our thinking about the cultural dimension
of religion: Clifford Geertz's essay «
Religion as a Cultural System,» published in 1966.1 Although Geertz, an anthropologist, was concerned in this essay with many issues that lay on the fringes
of sociologists» interests, his writing is clear and incisive, the essay displays exceptional erudition, and it provides not
only a concise definition
of religion but also a strong epistemological and philosophical defense
of the importance
of religion as a topic
of inquiry.
Only a complete divorce between government and
religion, they came to believe, could prevent the
kind of abuses that would otherwise transform America into a bigoted Christian state.
«You need men and women
of strong character and courage who will not
only be able to turn down inducement
of any
kind but also act without consideration for tribe, friendship,
religion or any other parochial considerations.»
This means you are able to meet all
kinds of people from many walks
of life which might appeal to you more than a dating website that is limited to a specific type
of person or
religion, such as Christian dating websites which focuses on matching Christians
only.
Neither does the Bible, all the more so when it is trying to metaphorically convince me not
only of a fairy, but a cobalt blue fairy with peculiarly tinted wings, forcing me to also consider the sky blue fairy
of Judaism, the navy blue fairy
of Islam, the red fairies
of Hinduism, the purple fairies
of the Norse
religion, the green fairies
of paganism, the rainbow - colored fairies
of ancestor worship, all
of which are equally implausible and mutually exclusive alternative
kinds of fairies where we don't even have a single fairy
of any color trapped in a cage.
I say
religion because in my 62 years
of experience I have
only ever seen this
kind of ignorant thinking by well educated people, coming from newly born true believers.