Sentences with phrase «organized religion as»

The prompt came from the artist Ed McGowin: «I would like for you to use organized religion as a point of departure.»

Transforming Schroeder Romero into an Interfaith Center to explore the hypocrisy of organized religion as an increasingly corporate system is not much of a stretch for Eric Heist.

It should not be used as a reason to throw organized religion as a whole out the door.

To those of us who view organized religion as evil every one of the religions appear to be «cult - like».

And by implication, the date point to a hypocrisy deeply embedded within organized religion as a social institution.

We are talking about a large group of people who no longer feel connected to organized religion as they have become an arm of politics and no longer a place of worship.

I've known people like this in organized religion as well.

I saw an anwer to my entry that «a bigot is a bigot, even if you are a «Christian», his comment basically was that it is ok to be a bigot even if you claim to be a «Christian», well I agree that most are bigots, I just don't think it fits the description of «Christian», I could never be part of any organized religion as their members ar 99.5 % hypocrits.

And don't get me wrong, I am not refering to any religious persons, I mean organized religion as we know it.

To choose organized religion as a site of struggle for liberation presupposes a sense of ecclesial ownership as well as repentance of complicity with patriarchal religion.

More certainly, they view organized religion as hypocritical and superficial while valuing spirituality.

First, because Nazi ideologues saw organized religion as an enemy of the totalitarian state, propagandists sought to deemphasize - or eliminate altogether - the Christian aspects of the holiday.

An Agnostic believes there is something / someone but, does not accept organized religions as having any more «truth» than anyone else.

Not exact matches

Left alone to think on their own as they grow up, most adults will find any organized religion just a bogus scheme.

So the only words King actually is quoted as saying is that he «hates organized religion» and in his stories you find religious leaders as the great villains (prison warden in Shawshank Redemption) and this article concludes he is a great proponent of religious faith?

This is total illusion and mind control as all organized religion is.

Maybe we can look at it as a phase that many Christians from all demographics go through before a renewal, and that would be a good thing, for since organized religion, hence dogma, doctrine, religious practices, etc., is the primary cause for parting ways, it is a wake up call for the Christian church.

If that was the only side of organized religion that I encountered, I would run from it as well.

It says he identifies himself as a Christian and you can be a person of faith without belonging to an organized religion.

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As for the argument that we should look to our churches... the BILLIONS spent by organized religion to build exorbitant places of worship (Jesus preached in open fields and I'm confident that God hears MY prayers in the privacy of my home) and the building of health clinics in third world countries would help a lot — but they are not inclined to help those in need HERE!

Since that time, a variety of thoughts and biases have come toward an association with the label, such as libertarians, the southern agrarians, and the religious, as well as reconstructions of traditionalism (Kirk), calls for experience and history in the place of abstract reason (Oakeshott and Scruton), and a defense of moral and intellectual virtue outside organized religion (Strauss).

It therefore would be a mistake to understand their animosities as «secular» in the contemporary sense; instead, they took aim at Catholicism and other organized religion from their own theological position.

I can understand a distrust with organized religion and being an atheists, but are you not doing the same thing as Christians by saying what you think is real or calling out those that you think are wrong.

So, if organized religion is BS, then isn't organizing nobelievers as well?

Communist (extreme left wing) and fascist (extreme right wing) governments are totalitarian in nature and, as such, they opposed organized religion the same way that they opposed unions; because they held rival power over people.

These hate mongers and people putting meaning into things themselves and preaching that interpretation an meaning as law and edict are the exact reason i stopped believing in the concept of organized religion.

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.

The idea of being kind to your fellow man as you would wish him to be to you is found all over the world, and does not require the additional belief in all the hootenanny of organized religion.

Yes, Lennon was anti-religion in as much as he considered «organized, mainstream, hierarchical» religion bad.

As witnessed in the huge Exodus from modern organized religion.

Many people would say that my dis belief in a god that is described by any organized religion, and my rejection of jesus christ as our savior, and feel he was just another person, those two things alone would be sufficient to keep me out of heaven.

I've seen both very good and very bad fruit come from organized religion — including Christianity — and prefer to think of each individual as spiritually unique rather than the sum of his or her religious culture.

Since, as above mentioned already, I think that Christ was spiritual I wouldn't be surprised that he would shake his head about today's organized religion and how distorted the msg has become... and I think that he would also have plenty to say in regards about the bible and those who follow it to the t and think it's essential for being «faithful».

As an aside, I personally feel that organized religion is becoming increasingly inconsequential, insignificant, and is demonstrating that it's nothing more spiritual than «big business», giving nothing in return for the billions of dollars it takes from the masses.

Nothing but Star Wars, Star Wars todaaaaaay... The more I think about Jedi as an organized religion, the more I can't stop thinking about it.

a set of values, beliefs, and structure in a person's life in order to give them direction and a sense of right and wrong is fine, but organized religions are no more than large corporations, and like any large corporation are only focused on their bottom line... trying to control the public and extract as much money as they can from them by any means necessary... promoting fear, uncertainty, hate and a sense that they alone can offer salvation... for a price (although they are very cleaver about getting to this hidden and unspoken cost... after all these hundreds of years they have perfected their craft well!)

A seeker of truth can never subscribe to any religion, esp the organized kind... and the universe certainly was not created so that you and I could have a rollicking good time in it... as the author seems to suggest.

Considering that this is a league for private and PAROCHIAL schools, and a Jewish Day School is as much a parochial school as a Christian school of any denomination (or any other recognized organized religion, for that matter), it's a shame that TAPPS and other similar organizations not support a decision of faith as, at a minimum, an expression of tolerance.

I mention, only because my... paradigm (I'm not much on beliefs, in the usual organized religion sense)... includes a «Divine» of my own definition, that equates to something like «awe of life, love, and knowing that there is much we don't know» (< — sorry, not the easiest thing for me to get into words, hopefully that gets the gist of it) that I don't see as a «personal other», but, in my paradigm, I see that Divine as being systemic to everything, hence insights from what I learn / experience can be termed as the Divine acting.

Bill Nye never became irrelevant and has been working to increase kid's knowledge of science for decades unlike organized religion which is attempting to dumb down our children so they can be fooled into repeating the same mistakes as their parents, those of prejudice, exclusivity, hate, greed and ignorance.

American collegians are largely amenable to organized religion, and a substantial segment of them identify themselves as morally conservative.

The leaders within organized religions have made people believe in images of angry gods demanding all sorts of sacrifices «as no one can live up to what that image wants of us».

The immense mental health contributions of organized religion will be released only as increasing numbers of churches and temples become centers of healing and growth — centers for healing the brokenness of individuals and relationships, and settings where persons find stimulation for lifelong growth toward their fullest humanity.

For those whose ability to trust is limited as a result of early experiences (which means all of us to some degree), organized religion offers a way of reestablishing trust.

As a race, humans are slowly growing out of the antique notion of god and are moving forward to a better understanding of spirituality that is frankly not going to be under any organized religion we know of.

I consider myself a christian, with religious knowledge and general knowlege, however I do not hold to a set of views dictated by an organized religion, I believe the organized religions are where we have gone wrong, as someone pointed out earlier to most «religious people» to question ones faith or organization is wrong but that is exactly what the bible tells us to do... test ALL things to see what is true.

Mysticism doesn't float free of religion — with the exception of the past hundred years, when the dissatisfaction with organized religion has led some people to turn to mysticism as a kind of private religion.

Not only organized religion, but U.S. society as a whole is experiencing a crisis.

Tasawwuf is a spiritual path through which one seeks to rise above and evolve beyond the limited teachings, beliefs, rituals, practices, etc. of organized religion, whether Islam or any other religion, and establish a constant awareness of the One so as to receive all guidance from the One through one's heart.