Sentences with phrase «organised religion»

"Organised religion" refers to religious systems or institutions that have a structured framework and established practices. It typically includes religious organizations with formal leadership, specific beliefs, rituals, and hierarchies. Full definition
I think your cartoon portrays the reality of organised religion very well.
Interviews with 19 GPs in Scotland found that some family doctors are dismissing the idea of spirituality because they don't believe in organised religion.
(4) Thirdly, religious themes that have no connection with organised religion are being developed.
The future for organised religion is bleak, unless we work at re-imagining and re-creating the God symbol, so that it really does speak to the spiritual needs of our time.
Oh, how I despise organised religion with its awful people who, like much revered Luther, cause immeasurable suffering and bloodshed.
In the 19th century, Hegel, another father of modern political science, viewed organised religion as essentially seditious unless it was reduced to a propagandistic organ of the State.
-LSB-...] For the majority of people in this country organised religion is a thing of the past, adhered to by a rapidly decreasing mount of elderly people.
Organised religion likes to promote certainty, but spirituality accepts and embraces the beauty of mystery.
First because we don't need organised religion and all it's hypocrisy, to show us what is moral and how to be moral.
I for one am amazed that the leader of the most powerful country in the world believes in ancient fairy tales about a magic fairy man in the sky... no matter what organised religion they choose... it's still bronze age myths!!
Society has its own interests and agenda and these rarely include religion, especially organised religion.
Organised religion stresses rules without examination of the reasoning behind the rules.
But many also try to provide for the spiritual longings of those today who reject organised religion.
«This was deeply satisfying to me... and I began to develop a respect for the Mass that has little or nothing to do with how I may happen to feel one way or another about organised religion
But while there is merit in reading this connection in order to understand organised religion in all its forms, there exists simultaneously a tendency to overdetermine theological concepts by falling into the trap of teleology.
The special exemptions enshrined in the Act to permit organised religions to treat lesbian and gay people unkindly, unfairly, and discriminate against them are so wide that the legislation itself may even be in breach of European equality legislation.
Cities, writing and organised religion soon followed.
And you can feel the serious actor in this celebrated comic tearing into the film's eleventh - hour broadside against organised religion in a face - off in Philomena's onetime convent that finds the magnificent Barbara Jefford in memorably implacable form.
Some of my techies were devout churchgoers; others were scornful of organised religion.
The intolerance of other views or interpretations proves what is wrong with organised religion
The religionists behind this bill insist that it does nothing to infringe upon an individual's religious freedom and that nothing within it would result in anyone being compelled to take part in organised religion.
In these days when «organised religion» is looked upon with suspicion we are losing sight of this most wonderful truth about God's work.
organised religion was created by man to control the population... the fact that people still believe it after all the advancements in science... baffles me no end!!!
We live in a pluralist society in which the relationship of people to organised religion has been weakened.
With the «spirit of the age» it can be popular to be though of as «spiritual but not religious» with a negative disposition to organised religion.
The voice of the NIV audio Bible has admitted moving away from «organised religion» through making a new documentary on the three Abrahamic religions....
Those still belonging to organised religions or politics separating themselves from others will also some day awaken to the fact, that our earth needs organisations only such as hospitals, firemen, Red Cross etc. bringing help to suffering people, animals, nature catastrofs etc..
«My guess is that they are people who believe that organised religion is a major problem, so they choose to attack Christianity by claiming that it is rooted in a fairy tale.
ALL organised religions are fairy tales!!
That's why in the 20th Century, one of the first acts of totalitarian regimes was the targeting of organised religion.
Perhaps each one of them is in thrall to organised religion.
Five thousand years ago, Egypt became the world's first territorial state with strict borders, organised religion, centralised administration and intensive agriculture.
In 2016, marriage rates were at a historical low of 50.1 % (ONS), with the decline in marriage a product of gender imbalance and rise of feminism in society (Silva, Goulart & Obreshkova, 2016), as well as the waning impact of organised religion.
The diminishing importance of organised religion is another factor already having an impact on traditional relationship structures.
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This time it is homosexuality and the attitude of society, government and, in particular, organised religion, to those who are openly homosexual.
For example, Lion Hudson, the main Christian publisher in the UK, say they can't sell books that mention Jesus or have an overt conversion scene, as their readers are typically disenfranchised with organised religion: they are predominantly backsliders or unbelievers.
Through this body of work, which pushes the boundaries of contemporary portraiture, Opara highlights some of the existing tensions between the cultures of animist belief and organised religion.
Similarly, the pseudo-crucifixion of Untitled need not be seen as a blasphemous critique of organised religion, even as it engages with the polychrome sculptural tradition of Cattelan's own Catholic background.
Whilst Simpson is deeply critical of ideological dogma and the brutality of organised religion, his paintings also adopt an ambivalence towards the obfuscating glamour of pop culture and the illusions of our seemingly liberated times.
He focuses on the traditions and values of British society, its class system and organised religion.
Even though I find it hard to believe in organised religion, I was and am deeply touched by this song ever since I first heard it in the early 90ies.
He stressed that you can find enlightenment only through your own efforts, not via any organised religion.
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