While the name has spiritual and religious connotations, the name is much more accessible than
other religious names that deter parents from using them.
Not exact matches
1: Have no
other gods — NOT A LAW = > In God we trust is on our legal currency 2: Make no graven image — NOT A LAW = > intellectual property is a God to many, we have tones of laws protecting against false copies 3: Don't take the
name in vain — NOT A LAW = > false testimony is a crime as is swearing in some states 4: Honor the Sabbath — NOT A LAW = > employment law in many states prohibits forced labor on
religious days 5: Honor thy father and mother — NOT A LAW = > minors have limited right to transact commerce under 19.
The quran, unlike
other religious books, mentions the
other religions by
name condoning hatred and violence specifically against Jews and Christians and non believers
Jeff - Most Catholics have no
religious convictions about the
other issues you
named.
In
other words with all the things going on in the world this long winded ambiguous rant about the
religious beliefs of a horror writer whose
name I've barely heard mentioned in the last decade is being presented as the most important information people need to know at this particular time.
Most of us are concerned about how his
religious views might or might not affect his policies, but you on the
other hand, are worried about his underwear and his
name.
Some of them are
religious sinners and probably suffer from all sorts of spiritual blindness to their own sin, and how they mistreat
others in the
name of God.
Yes, you are correct that the
religious leaders of Christendom gave their blessing to its members to kill
others «in the
name of Christ», such as Catholic Dominican inquisitor Tomas de Torquemada (1420 - 98) of Spain, who ruled tyrannically for 15 years (1483 - 98, with the blessings of Pope Sixtus IV [who praise him for «directing his zeal to those matters that contribute to the praise of God»] and Innocent VIII) and saw that over 114,000 (of which 10, 220 were burned at the stake) people were put to death.
(Updated) USCIRF's new list of
religious freedom violators has familiar
names, but contrasts with
other lists.
There is no doubt in it that you have not created yourself someone or whatever your believes are you have been created you can call it whatever
name you choose and there are physical laws in that universe so you can call that force behind those fundamental laws is The Creator so Creator is not an issue it is
religious practice we may disagree with each
other
Now, you claim the
others were atheist, but did they do what they did in the
name of atheism, like so many
religious zealots have claimed they did things for their gods?
But one could say that the movement had never been
other than «religiocified» «-- though it was the «Reverend» prefixing
names like King, Young, Shuttlesworth, Fauntroy, Abernathy and Bevel that made the public aware of the deep
religious roots of the civil rights movement and of black rhetoric.
Curiously, there is little to no effective protest (within the United States or the wider world) of the
religious persecution of the Coptic Christians (and
other non-Muslims) BY Muslims (in Egypt and the wider stretches of geography ruled in the
name of and / or for Islami).
In my opinion it probably served a purpose for a time, but I agree that what may have started as a sincere desire to question presuppositions now has become a place where people are about
name, career, money, ego, etc. just like every
other established
religious structure.
This déchristianisation included abolishing contemplative
religious orders; confiscating monastic and
other ecclesiastical properties; forcing the clergy to sign an oath of loyalty to the state in the Civil Constitution of the Clergy (1790); killing thousands of non-oath-taking priests in the Vendée uprising of 1793; pillaging churches and monasteries throughout France and Europe to finance the revolutionary armies fighting abroad; the abrogation of the Gregorian calendar and attempt to introduce a new one based on Revolutionary - era sensibilities; the renaming of streets and locales from saints»
names to figures and ideals of the Revolution; the brief transformation of the venerable Notre Dame cathedral into a «Temple of Reason,» dedicated «to philosophy»; and, not least, the abduction and exile of no less than two popes, Pius VI (1798) and Pius VII (1809).
In
other words, they're dumb enough to get in a self righteous
name calling uproar for the simple sake of offending amd being offended over a
religious holiday they don't beleive in anyways but still want to celebrate.
We take our inhuman behavior; we bless it with
religious phrases and
religious jargon; then we beat on one another in the
name of God so that Catholics and Protestants feel justified in killing each
other in Ireland, and Christians and Moslems do likewise in Lebanon.
There is no where in any part of Quran or Sunnah where it says people or youth are to be chained... and kept in dungeons... Thisnis ignorance, arrogance and conspiracy done by ill hearted people in the
name of religion when it is by no mean a part of religion... I have seen such cases only at remote poor areas when they have mentally sick youth or people who could be dangerous for
others and can not afford to hospitalize are being kept chained like that but not in
religious establishments, rather at places where fraud witch doctors who claim that those are possessed...!!!
Otherwise the only way to view those wars, is as all
other wars — one group of thugs attempting to kill another group of thugs, both doing so in the
name of their own ego, misappropriating whatever political,
religious, and social pressure and propaganda they can, to their cause.
ISIS has bombed revered
religious sites, murdered hundreds and tortured and enslaved many
others - all in the
name of building an Islamic state.
The blood of so many people have been spilled in the
name of God by Christians as well as many
other religious sects.
New research released by a Christian insurer has revealed that three quarters of UK adults can not
name any of the activities that take place inside their local church
other than regular services and
religious festivals.
It is also an assurance that these absolutely respected leading intellectuals from the 20th Century scholarship, of whom most were
religious, have agreed to have each
other's
names associated with their own and that they felt comfortable with what each
other were saying in an academic setting and commanded world - wide respect as conservative, careful, and sincere, life - long teachers, academics and scholars.
Democratic movements, on the
other hand, reflect a
religious spirit, when in the
name of truth, equity, and universal rights the idols of race, class, economic privilege, party, and nation are tumbled down.
«Russians, Chinese, North Koreans, and
other none
religious peoples around the world have been waging war and torturing and killing people for centuries in the
name of non religion.»
The Russians, Chinese, North Koreans, and
other none
religious peoples around the world have been waging war and torturing and killing people for centuries in the
name of non religion.
Like the
religious people in Jesus» day, many in Christianity seem to prefer to follow the first Joshua......... The first Joshua sought to kill
others in the
name of God.......
In Village Atheists: How America's Unbelievers Made Their Way in a Godly Nation, Leigh Eric Schmidt tells the story of these unbelievers (who also went by «infidels,» «atheists,» «secularists,» «freethinkers,» and
other names) through extended portraits of four «public atheists,» who «built infidel personas of far - flung notoriety upon their
religious ruptures.»
I come from «shameless» caretakers, abandonment, ridicule, abuse, neglect — perfectionistic systems I am empowered by the shocking intensity of a parent's rage The cruel remarks of siblings The jeering humiliation of
other children The awkward reflection in the mirrors The touch that feels icky and frightening The slap, the pinch, the jerk that ruptures trust I am intensified by A racist, sexist culture The righteous condemnation of
religious bigots The fears and pressures of schooling The hypocrisy of politicians The multigenerational shame of dysfunctional family systems MY
NAME IS TOXIC SHAME
Muslim appeasers who compare crime committed by people who happen to be nominal members of
other religions to
religious terror committed EXPILICITLY in the
name of Islam are comparing apples to oranges.
My working definition of the congregation is this: A congregation is a group that possesses a special
name and recognized members who assemble regularly to celebrate a more universally practiced worship but who communicate with each
other sufficiently to develop intrinsic patterns of conduct, outlook, and story.9 We can sharpen our appreciation of congregational structure by comparing its thick culture with that of
other religious associations.
And
Religious people have NEVER been condescending, they have NEVER persecuted
others for their beliefs, They have NEVER killed in the
name of their God or even worse used the
name of their God to justify killings for political, territorial, and economic reasons or even just because they hate someone.
Yes because as we all know no
other culture ever
names their children after
religious figures (Jesus, Peter, Paul, Joseph, Mary, etc...).
Without proclamation, the symbols (crossresurrection - incarnation) lose their tensive,
religious reality and become occasions for
other kinds of reflection... Only with a sense of the
religious - event reality
named proclamation is the New Testament recognized anew as the Christian classic text, the scripture.
you sit there in your home having nothing to do with anything that happened, then blame someone else who is in that same position for what happened, and he has to condemn it, and apparently he's guilty because of his religion... and about «no
other religious freedoms in muslim countries»... you cant
name a SINGLE muslim county that denies
religious practice... not a single, including saudi arabia... just because they don't premit building
religious buildings doesn't mean they don't respectively let you practice whatever you want to practice... unlike in some WESTERN countries they are banning
religious practices such as; the headscarf!
Like a coward he refuses to look at the camera, has a smug, holier - than - thou expression, hates how he was born so he has mutilated his ears, too lazy to shave and get a real job he makes money from preaching his
religious beliefs to
others, gets his «opinion» published SOLELY because he steals Stedman Graham's
name to try to validate himself.
Why do we keep protecting
religious people's rights to cause harm to
others in the
name of their God?
Religion, teaching and promoting hate, contempt or
others, self - righteous anger and acting on it (OK by God) ignorance and that if you have religion you have rights but
others who don't subscribe and submit to your
religious authority, well then, it's ok to walk all over them, discipline them in the
name of God, take away their rights and judge them.
The practice of giving
names to
religious traditions is likewise a modem phenomenon, as Wilfred Cantwell Smith has pointed out, 4 and it derives from the growing awareness of
other cultures and civilizations.
If we already presuppose, then, that the theistic
religious language employed by the Christian witness in authorizing faith in God's love as our authentic self - understanding can be metaphysically justified, we can say — as I, in fact, have already been saying — that ultimate reality includes not only the self and
others but also the encompassing whole of reality that theists refer to when they use the
name «God.»
(All the
other WW2 leaders were
religious, at least in
name.)
You expect
others to respect your
religious belief, but you refuse to respect his, and even call him
names!
lets be real, we make our choices, not a fantasy man / woman, I decide what I want to do and not do, what is true and believable is yourself and my family that is the truth and not a story, repeated everyday every sunday, so can u let me know who your GOD is and then let me know the
names of all the
other religious GOD's??
The executive order in question, issued by President Clinton and affirmed by President Bush in 2002, states that while
religious organizations that receive federal funds can not discriminate against beneficiaries of their programs, they «may retain
religious terms in its organization's
name, select its board members on a
religious basis, and include
religious references in its organization's mission statements and
other chartering or governing documents.»
The greatest mass murders in history — by far and away — were committed in the
name of «banning
religious symbols» and
other such things.
I think there was a time that many believed their faith drove them to seek justice - abolitionists, civil rights leader, healthcare, etc. but now it just seems many want to isolate themselves from the «
others» who won't «turn to Christ» and deny them rights in the
name of
religious liberty.
The reasons for this preference are partly to be sought in his own personal development (Hindu home, Christian instruction), partly in his primary interest in the intellectual expression of
religious experience or, in
other words, the philosophical bent of his nature, and, last but not least, in his often voiced conviction that we have to «get behind and beneath all outward churches and religions, and worship the nameless who is above every
name.
Writing and speaking theologically and
naming the divine seem to me a most dangerous activity, for though we are quick to see the limitations of
other religious groups or theologians, we fail to recognize our own limitations.
I think much more needs to be researched on this question, but if she actually perpetuated or failed to alleviate the suffering of
others when she had the means to do so, in the
name of a twisted view of the
religious value of suffering, she is very much in reproach in my opinion.
I once worked with a man
named Govert who was a universalist and he believed the Bible was God's Word, but he also believed that the Koran, the Vedas, the Buddhist Sutras and
other religious writings were also God's Word.