Sentences with phrase «other organized religion»

The very foundations of the Mormon religion, and yes, all other organized religion, is based on lies, mistruth, imaginary feelings and unfounded hopes of people who should have been comitted to assylums by their family for the saftey of others.

BTW, for the record, if we add it all up, The Roman Catholic church is responsible for more deaths than any other organized religion, especially when you include the Inquisition and the Conquest of the New World.

It is no better and no worse than any other organized religion.

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.

And while I am not a Christian (or any other organized religion) I do believe that Christ was on earth, he gave the Romans a lot of trouble and paid for it, but his teachings, if we believe what we read, were sound.

Seems to me from a few of these posts that some Atheists want to push their agenda on everyone else just like other organized religions.

I've been trying to come up with a pithy response that encapsulates the spirituality of being Catholic (which I suppose exists in other organized religions).

Islam, like all other organized religions, have chosen a blind eye to view the GENOCIDAL effect in our land and upon our people since their arrivals.

When they see themselves as not being heard they call Christianity and other organized religions «myths» and challenge them to prove that God exists.

Show Christians and other organized religions how wrong they are.

Not exact matches

I'm an atheist, and one of the things I hated about religion is that the Christians are always trying to force their absurd beliefs off on other people now there is an organized group of atheists trying to do the same thing with a non-religion.

Can't CNN find something else meaningful to report: the number of children in the US that go to sleep hungry; can we ever have a country that is not run by corporations; why has journalism gone down the toilet; why can't we tolerate each other; the real truth — organized religion divides people in this world instead of unitng them.

What is he allowed himself to be crucified (by not commanding or otherwise organizing a political kingdom or other form of resistance) because he knew from stories and other traditions (or even the Jewish tradition) that a prophet / king is only understood for so long and gradually the religion that spawns from that individual corrupts into something that the prophet never would have wanted.

More specifically, 18 percent disagreed with the church's stance on political or social issues, 17 percent said they were only going to church to please others anyway, and 16 percent said they no longer wanted to identify with church or organized religion.

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.

Masons are Christians, Jews, Muslims, Hindus and just about any other religious tradition, and many Masons are not a part of any organized religion.

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.

Americans don't need a bible (or other text) lesson, but they could use a history lesson on just how some organized religions came to be, and how they took hold.

Like several other major shows currently airing in primetime — like OWN's Greenleaf, Leah Remini's Scientology and the Aftermath and E's cult show The Arrangement — The Path not only looks at faith, but also the complicated world of organized religion:

(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.

Writing Searching for Sunday forced me to consider that perhaps real maturity is exhibited not in thinking myself above other Christians and organized religion, but in humbly recognizing the reality that I can't escape my own cultural situatedness and life experiences, nor do I want to escape the good gift of my (dysfunctional, beautiful, necessary) global faith community.

The prolem I've always had with organized religion is that at some point after all the «Do unto others» «Turn the other cheek» «Help thy neighbor» they all say «Oh, by the way, do it our way or burn in hell».

The problem is that organized religion is as much political animal as any other human convention involving more than 2 people, and spiritual, thinking individuals are intelligent enough to know that churches / mosques / community reprogramming centers actually have very little to do with what one actually believes...

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 KIND.

And what are these dangers the author keeps mentioning but not enumerating and how do they compared to the dangers posed by organized religion and other organized philosophies like fascism and communism, «manifest destiny» and other philosophies that those oh so nobly «organized» people have «blessed» us with over the centuries?

Obviously you bother because you are no different from organized religion in seeking to impose your vision on others.

Keeping the few good things about faith (helping others, feeling a connection to the Universe, trying to understand yourself and your place in the universe) while dumping all of the negatives (dogma, intolerance, that undeserved feeling of superiority) is beneficial to society in a way that organized religion never has been and never will be.

They are looking for a way to celebrate the pureness of their spirit — w / o tainting it with the hate, disdain, gossip and other ill - intention behavior that churches of organized religion has.

Jefferson, Franklin, Washington, Madison and many of the other founding fathers had similar beliefs — based on the fact that each organized religion spun what might be considered a true «set of principles» to fit their polical - religious conditions.

If organized religion were done away with, then we could possibly live in peace allowing others the rights we enjoy because we want the same from them.

The problem with organized religion is the same problem as with any other type of organization, people.

as for whoever else may work overtime to undermine the rights, liberties, freedom and equality of others... they're not the subject at present... right now it's just organized religion.

Its a ploy that was used to try and get people to be good help others and show them love and compassion which was then perverted by organized religion to control people and teach hate.

The well - known river metaphor, according to which there are many rivers that, ultimately, flow into the same ocean, is turned critically against the other pluralists by Panikkar: Jordan, Tiber and Ganges, metaphors for three types of religion, only meet as steam in the clouds: «Religions do not coalesce, certainly not as organized religions», Raimon Panikkar, «The Jordan, the Tiber and thReligions do not coalesce, certainly not as organized religions», Raimon Panikkar, «The Jordan, the Tiber and threligions», Raimon Panikkar, «The Jordan, the Tiber and the Ganges.

And I'm also pretty sure that Acroyear's comment about organized religion being the cause of more human deaths than any other reason is absolutely correct (Bubonic plague included).

Atheists overstate the case when they accuse organized religion of all or the bulk of humanity's true mass evils, but organized religion forms a natural class with other fanatical belief systems that demand unwavering faith in absolutes.

It means that there will always be a need within organized religions, and in spite of organized religions, for the heretical and the heterodox, always a need for people like me to close their remarks and listen carefully to what others have to say.

Originally organized around charismatic leaders, some new religions identify as Buddhist, others as Shinto and others as neither.

Jesus is a religious construct, Bethke's conceptualization of Jesus and God is simply a melange of whatever he has absorbed from the written and culturally transmitted artifacts of organized religion and his own and others interpretations of same.

As organizing images through which we see ourselves and all things, the powerful images of religion should bring certain aspects of our experience into prominence, should minimize the importance of other aspects, and should throughout function to illuminate our total environment by discovering to us otherwise unnoticed parallelisms, analogies, and patterns among our data.

Christian --(supposed) Follower of Christ Mormon — follower of the Christ depicted in the Book of Mormon and have differing traditions than most other organized Christian religions.

There are others who love traditional church meetings and organized religion and it goes good for them.

Civilization has moved on to being more progressive and caring — its time this kid's religion and his family do the same Or at least stay out of organized sports and other public events if you can't handle being around diversity.

SBNR includes: — Believers in «traditional» religions (like Christianity but who don't have a particular denominational affilliation)-- Believers in a higher power (but not an anthropomorphic God) like the Deists — Believers in new - agey pick - and - choosey cafeteria style religion with a bit of this and a bit of that eg: (hippy Jesus + reincarnation + feng shui)-- Believers who don't want to be associated with the «organized religion» label — Non-believers who don't want to be perceieved as «non-spiritual» (rather much like this topic)-- Non-believers who don't want to be associated with the «agnostic» or «atheist» labels — and «other»

I can't speak to the other issues, Chad, but In can tell you that the founding father were predominately deists and did not believe in organized religion.

Along with X's other relationships, his relation to organized religion has disintegrated.

Nor has the average school likely sources in industry, government, or organized religion to which it can turn for major grants to fund such projects - or even to fund research with a high enough surcharge for «administrative costs» to help release other funds for innovative projects.

In other words, balancing the leadership slots alternately between Christians and Muslims does not automatically guarantee that when it comes to the equitable distribution of the proverbial national cake, the adherents of these two globally dominant organized religions would also be afforded their fair share.

Whether they were part of a formal Pagan, Buddhist, or Christian religion (or any other organized faith with certain tenets and «rules»), these souls had dedicated a past life to this particular spiritual path, and usually made great sacrifices for it.