Sentences with phrase «positive value of their religion»

Feuerbach, for example, was one of the first to understand the positive value of religion in society, even when religion is understood as a human creation and expressed in naturalistic terms.

One can not find any convincing proofs that, for such persons, the positive value of their religion in assuring their salvation was done away with after Jesus Christ.

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The «everything associated with religion is bad» approach is ridiculous on its face; Dennett tries to examine the value of religion to society from an objective viewpoint, examining whether it is a net positive despite being based on fantasy.

Positive moral value is taken in most religions as an expression of the will of God.

We are learning to appreciate the positive value in the nature religion of indigenous peoples; we see it as a genuine form of spirituality, no longer to be arrogantly dismissed as primitive magic.

All this being granted, Father Vagaggini said, it would appear that one can accept a further hypothesis: There is nothing to deny the fact that in the non-Christian religions even after Jesus Christ there have been elements, in greater or lesser number — whether of a ritualistic, institutional or doctrinal nature — with a positive value for salvation, in the sense that God makes use of them to effect the salvation of those persons of sincere faith who belong to these religions.

However, there are groups of tamed adherents of secular ideologies and religious faiths who feel that in the dialogue between religions and secular ideologies they must find some alternative path to save the positive human values and what modernity has realized of them through the last three or four centuries.