Sentences with phrase «other religious dogma»

One area where we atheists have performed a valuable community service is in keeping creationism and other religious dogma out of public schools.

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Others choose to do so without the assistance of ignorant religious dogma and I'd say it works even better than the misplaced focus encouraged by fear of not «believing» (in religious dogma).

Both of these types of organizations, among others, tend to have diverse populations, it would be nothing short of doctrinaire to impose a particular religious dogma on the medical care of everyone who is a patient, a student or an employee.

I don't agree with any kind of dogma and yet, Marx was a very dogmatic person, no different from Jesus or any other religious leader.

In other words, the fact that so many people can be swayed by religious myths and religious dogma helps us understand why the world is so messed up — people can be talked into just about anything, including things that are bad for them.

E.g., in regards to scientific support for evolution and rejection of creationism and the young earth dogma, in 1986, 72 US Nobel Prize winners, 17 state academies of science and 7 other scientific societies, signed an amicus curiae brief asking the US Supreme Court in Edwards v. Aguillard to reject a Louisiana state law requiring the teaching of creationism, which the brief described as embodying religious dogma.

In 1986, an amicus curiae brief, signed by 72 US Nobel Prize winners, 17 state academies of science and 7 other scientific societies, asked the US Supreme Court in Edwards v. Aguillard, to reject a Louisiana state law requiring the teaching of creationism (which the brief described as embodying religious dogma).

The religious person allows the dogma of their religion to override their conscience without empathy of others due to blind obedience or personal integrity.

On the other end of the spectrum, revisionists like Paul Tillich and Hans Küng claimed that dogmas and propositions are expressions of religious experiences or spiritual intuitions, alerting us to an encounter with God that goes beyond all formulas or man - made intellectual systems.

People do not need the God of Abraham to live a moral life, no more than the millions of religious zealots who use their interpretation of religious dogma to dominate, subjugate and kill other human beings.

i admit — i am resistant to religious dogma — but in my own defense — that is considered a virtue by myself and many others.

Religious experience, in other words, spontaneously and inevitably engenders myths, superstitions, dogmas, creeds, and metaphysical theologies, and criticisms of one set of these by the adherents of another.

It's quite easy to reconcile embracing both Rand's philosophy and Christianity, and people do it all the time: complete and total ignorance, borne out of an inability to read with any sort of comprehension, or an outright refusal to read with an open mind, either Rand's books, or the scriptures and other Christian religious dogma such as the catechism, or both.

You on the other hand judge God good because your religious dogma tells you that is how you must judge.

If on the other hand we defend these atrocities out of blind subjection, then we need face that our religious dogma has completely corrupted us.

But with regard to halakhah, resistance to change is not only due to the need for legal stability, but is also based on a most powerful religious dogma, that the Word of God is unchanging and His Law immutable, this Word and this Law being mediated through the Talmudic Sages and through no others.

Dogma is what Christ (or Buddha, or any other religious leader) taught.

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Laws should not be based on religious or other dogmas and individual freedom should not be curtailed where the interests of others are not significantly affected.