Sentences with phrase «point of your new religion»

However, religion does not stop that at all, and in fact usually positions itself to profit handsomely — cases in point of your new religion: the Crusades, and the invasions of Russia in the 1200s by Teutonic Knights to bring the Eastern Orthodoxy back under Catholic rule (brutal, by the way).

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Six years before that, Paul Vitz had made a similar point in Psychology as Religion: psychology, he wrote, had become a substitute for faith» a new religion encouraging a cult of self - worship.

And the book also offers a deliberately wide array of approaches to trinitarian issues, including not only historical and systematic theologians, but biblical scholars and analytic philosophers of religion, writing from a variety of theological and communal points of view» Roman Catholic, Protestant, and, in one case, Jewish (the New Testament scholar Alan Segal, who contributes an instructive if somewhat technical chapter on the role of conflicts between Jews and Christians in the emergence of early trinitarian teaching).

The things I find most appalling about religion reach a new zenith in Islam --(i) a dulling down of individual thought and a dogmatic requirement to conform to the views of the masses; (ii) a stultifying ignorant education system in which anything inconsistent with the Qur» an is not just discouraged, but censored; (iii) the subjugation of women to the point of educating them to be nothing but mindless f * king, breeding machines for their insecure husbands; (iv) a political class that feeds off the religious - based ignorance it imposes on its populations; and (v) a general back - sliding against the rest of the planet because heads are buried in Dark Ages mythology.

Leaving aside lame arguments as to whether it provides some type of support for the Abrahamic religions, the author seems to have missed the entire point of the new discovery.

Martel points to this growing interest in religion, coupled with a rejection of materialism and a new concern for the environment as the source for youth activism.

From the point of view of serious Buddhists, the new religion of consumerism is a spiritual disaster.

Bousset has pointed out the gradual transformation of Judaism, during the period between the Old and New Testaments, from a national cultus to a religion of individual piety — a religion of observance rather than of theology, on the one hand, or of deep personal feeling, on the other.

One can point to the emergence of a variety of critical approaches to religion in general, and to Christianity in particular, which have contributed to the breakdown of certainties: These include historical - critical and other new methods for the study of biblical texts, feminist criticism of Christian history and theology, Marxist analysis of the function of religious communities, black studies pointing to long - obscured realities, sociological and anthropological research in regard to cross-cultural religious life, and examinations of traditional teachings by non-Western scholars.

The appeal of New Age and human - potential therapies is that they give expression to the personal and mystical and do so — as Catherine Albanese points out — by «reprimitivizing» religion.

Just because Wars had been waged in the name of religion doesn't make the point of it Wrong,,, otherwise why does it say (He who loves me, keeps my commandments) almost at the same time as it says (I give you a new commandment, love...) in short, Yes, Jesus is what matters, but to know Jesus I need His word, the Bible, I need a relationship with Him, I need to understand What He wants me to be Like (Be Holy as your Father in Heaven) which is not just an old testament quote, but a new Testament as well,,, at the end, if Religion was so pointless and to be hated, why Would God ask us to test the spirits, why does he tell us (by their fruits you would know them.)

The myth of a mystery religion (or the symbol of the comparative - religious school) could only point Out what ought to be; as the «law» of the Hellenistic world it would simply be a new legalism ending like the Jewish law in despair (Rom.

He reflects a most parochial view of religion in New York City where, he says, «dead churches are gutted to make nightclubs, supermarkets, and, especially, condominiums, in which the vaulted ceilings above the sanctuary became a valued selling point.»

This rebirth, as we have learnt from the History of Religions, is the universal longing of man, and the New Testament satisfies that longing by pointing to him who is exalted on the cross and to heaven (John 3).

On the contrary, he finds it useful to ponder an array of reductionist attempts to explain the existence of religion, from that which seeks to pinpoint the area of the human brain or the specific genes connected to religiosity to that which sees religion as a malfunction of the human mind or a vestigial remnant from a primitive stage of human development suitable only for whimpering, immature dullards (a point of view championed by the new atheists).

In fact, the vision of Peter that God in Christ had destroyed purity - impurity divide between Jew and Gentile (Acts 10) was a turning point in the early church to build a new koinonia transcending religions.

The general point that has been made is that in the new conditions of the modern world the comparative study of religion has moved into a new phase — first, in that the object of inquiry has on a quite new scale been seen to be communities of persons.

Mindful that even as new principles are proclaimed, old habits die hard and citizens and politicians could tend to entangle government and religion (e.g., «the appointment of chaplains to the two houses of Congress» and «for the army and navy» and «[r] eligious proclamations by the Executive recommending thanksgivings and fasts»), he considered the question whether these actions were «consistent with the Constitution, and with the pure principle of religious freedom» and responded: «In strictness the answer on both points must be in the negative.

Aloysius Pieris of Sri Lanka points out that the concept of «liberation» is not new and mentions various perceptions of liberation found in ancient philosophy, Roman theology, religions of Asia, and Marxism.

Now, I'm not going to go into great detail about how I think you might just be missing the point, though I will suggest that perhaps you'd be more persuasive if you considered the question of whether anyone ASKED those «black folks» whether or not they wanted to be brought in chains to the New World, kept in servitude for centuries, stripped of their cultures and their very names and forcibly converted to an alien religion.

DreamWorks Animation's toon film Home and The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water, produced by Nickelodeon Movies and Paramount Animation, are outside players, while the unrelated Brazilian movie The Boy and the World, The Boy and the Beast from Mamoru Hosoda and Studio Chizu, The Laws of the Universe Part 0 (based on the teachings of a new Japanese religion called Happy Science), the Finnish film Moomins on the Riviera and Regular Show: The Movie, an animated film based on the Cartoon Network original series — are unknown quantities at this point.

Allen revisits many (if not all) of his familiar themes: religion and the afterlife, misfit relationships, Los Angeles vs New York, jazz, older man / younger woman, and one of his favorites... «what's the point?»

Players are given the option of founding 11 different customizable religions powered by Faith points, a new resource similar to science and culture.

The painters and sculptors of the Italian Renaissance are most noted for their melding of religion and realism; the Romantic movement in England, appropriately, centered on the artist's individual feelings and motivations while still making the language accessible to the common reader; China's Tang Dynasty allowed art and poetry became more popular among the middle and lower classes than ever before, and while landscapes and nature remained the focal point of most art, increased contact with new foreign countries expanded their own artists» techniques.

A case in point is «the enigmatic, fantastically erudite artist Raymond Pettibon,» as Peter Schjeldahl called him in a recent New Yorker review, whose work embraces a wide spectrum of American high and low culture, from the deviations of marginal youth to art history, literature, sports, religion, politics, and sexuality.

Just calling environmentalism «a new religion» misses the point I think, since religion demands a conscious decision on the part of its believers.

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