Sentences with phrase «presented by religions»

As such, I feel it is a natural side effect of our ability for abstract thought answering questions we don't yet understand but not reality in the sense presented by religions.

Religion encourages the need to cloak one's self in a security blanket which only belittles any argument presented by the religion — and they do it with a 2000 year old book.

Not exact matches

Cosmology theology is the traditional theology found within the Jewish - Muslim - Christian - Catholic religions and elaborated in a space - time context of our present universe and confined by it.

All the other religions of the world, past and present, were created by man as well.

Because of the tendency of the illiterate to want religion presented to him in a way which suits his imagination, we find that educated Muslims today disapprove of the innovations invented by the Sufi orders, such as veneration of saints, seeking blessings from tombs, seeking the mediation of religious leaders, and excessive asceticism.

The alternative method, often used by scholars, considers one epoch of Biblical religion at a time, presenting the entire complex of ideas which characterized that era, and then moves on to study the next succeeding epoch as a whole.

It might seem that a book whose purpose is to present an intelligible view of religion ought to begin by stating what religion is.

Doc V also presents many instances of awful violence directly caused by your religion in other comments here.

in other words worshiping the idea's (or the one providing them) presented by any organization regardless of religion or be (lie) f system is incorrect since they can not absolutely define what they are pointing at.

There never was a time in History that atheists exist, only in this present stage of our intellectual developement that they deny His exisrence, but it can be easily explained that they are just part of the dialectical process of having to have two opposing arguments or forces to arrive to the truth, The opposing forces today are the theists or religious believers of all religions and the other are the atheists who denies religion, The reslultant truth in the future will be Panthrotheism, the belief that we are all one with the whole universe with God, and that we Had all to unite to prepare for human survival that will subject us humans in the future.Aided by the the enlightend consevationist, environmentalists, humanists and all of the concerned activists, we will develop a kind of universal harmony and awareness that we are all guided towards love and concern for all of our specie.The great concern of the whole conscious and caring world to the natural disaster in the Phillipines,, the most theist country now is a positive sign towards this religious direction.Panthrotheism means we will be One with God.

Sure, there may be a afterlife, but many different kinds of afterlife have been presented by the world's religions.

The pure prophets are distinguished from the apocalyptic ones, as from the seers and diviners of other religions, by the fact that they did not wish to peep into an already certain and immutable future but were concerned only with the full grasping of the present, actual and potential.

The fearful aspect of the present situation is that those who have inherited the major tradition of the West now have an ethic without a religion, whereas they are challenged by millions who have a religion without an ethic.

But whether by way of myth and ritual, or through interior meditation or prophetic faith, religion seeks to annul all opposition between the sacred and the profane, thereby seeking a renewal of paradise in the present moment.

Natural science, by the mouth of positivism, presented itself not only as a natural science, but as a substitute for history (under the name of sociology), a substitute for religion (under the Comtian name of «la religion de l'humanité») and a substitute for metaphysics (under the name of positive philosophy).

The breakdown of the Egyptian empire and the circumstances contributory to the capture of Babylon by Cyrus, besides hosts of incidents from those days to the present, show that organized religion, strange as it appears, can be no less an obstacle to social and political advance than the reactionary policies of vested political or economic interests.

It may be that, given Milwaukee's present mix of private providers, the bulk of the aid to parents would have wound up in the hand of schools that promote religion; but this is not something in itself forbidden by federal law.

Hence, by its challenge to our favored images of God, especially those that present God as one whose favor we must win by our religious or ethical performances, the subversive, revelatory image of a God who participates in our own shame pulls the rug out from under a society that seeks by way of religion to legitimate its exclusivism.

They have done us a tremendous service by presenting the evidence that makes it impossible to deny the violence of religion and thus avoid taking responsibility for it.

Moreover, every legitimate celebration of the Eucharist is regulated by the bishop, to whom is confided the duty of presenting to the divine majesty the cult of the Christian religion and of ordering it in accordance with the Lord's injunctions and the Church's regulations, as further defined for the diocese by his particular decision (48 - 49; 54 - 55).

Anyone familiar with the contours of recent discussion of the role of religion regarding politics and conflict will be both gratified and frustrated by the present book.

This may well be because it was actually written and promulgated (and Islam created as a pan-Arabic religion) in its present form some time after the man Mohammed lived and died, but Muslims get round the issue by saying that the real Quran is eternal.

Whether among the secularized masses of industrial societies, the emerging new ideologies around which societies are organized, the resurging religions which people embrace, the movements of workers and political refugees, the people's search for liberation and justice, the uncertain pilgrimage of the younger generation into a future both full of promise and overshadowed by nuclear confrontation - the Church is called to be present and to articulate the meaning of God's love in Jesus Christ for every person and for every situation.

to madtown, Why Jesus was sent in Israel, because that place was part of the Roman Empire, the center of the worlds civilizatoon at that time, in the third century after Him, the Roman emperor, Constantine decreed that christianity was the official religion of the empire, and soo the teachings of Jesus inspired the whole empire, now the present Europe and the Middle East has prospered more than anywhere else in the world, The Americas was not even discovered yet by Columbus, With the prosperity of the empire was the growth of scientific knowledge that leads to what we are now, it happened because its part of Gods Will, History is its Reflectiom.

Msgr. Jaeger expanded upon that theme, noting that «while often presented as if it were absolutely new,» the teaching of Nostra Aetate «perfectly corresponds to the most ancient intuitions of Christian theology» when it affirms there can be, and in some cases are, «elements of truth and holiness» in other religions, particularly Judaism, as explained by St. Paul in the Epistle to the Romans.

Here he presented religion as a phase of the dynamic life process in which the shared valuations of a cultural group, influenced by the whole matrix of social patterns and habits inherited in the historical situation, are carried forward and readjusted.

That is not to say there shouldn't be Christian or other religious values present but it is to say that people shouldn't be conned and public opinion shouldn't be manipulated by claims of righteous values — as we have seen, it is just too easy to fake and sway people to support what may not be in their best interests based on having a cloak of religion.

I trust that the present work will convince the reader that religion has plenty of material content which is characteristic, and which is more important by far than any general psychological form.

The right of religious propagation given by medieval theocratic religious states was only for truth recognized as true by the established religion and state, It was different from the present democratic freedom of persons to pursue truth as dictated by one's reason and conscience and to propagate the truth to which he decides to commit him / her - self.

I came from a very loving home and came to be an atheist by actually using my brain to see that all of the thousands of religions, both past and present, were the products of man.

I'm usually at least gentle pleased by your cartoons, but your comment presents interesting contrasts... between sacred and secular, I get - but between religion and pagan?

A particular problem is posed by an attempt to classify the Jews, for while they are a Semitic people who have had relatively little racial intermixture through the centuries, it is an ever - present problem as to whether the terms «Jew» and «Jewish» refer mainly to a race or to a religion.

Dr. Hammond expresses a need to revitalize concern for civil religion, for the despair in the present it holds out hope for the future by renewing an understand of the past.

Again, the publishers proclaim on the dust - jacket of another recent work (Edmund Perry, The Gospel in Dispute [see n. 34, below], the publishers are Doubleday): «Dr. Perry has used the skills of the cultural anthropologist in presenting a clear picture of the four leading non-Christian religions — a picture accepted enthusiastically by their exponents.»

Perhaps also sheerly by being written it would give some intellectualization to the fact that again, in the present period of human history, those great religions seem in some degree to be in process of ceasing to be quite so separate, even perhaps of ceasing to be quite so surely entities.43

If the civil religion — its symbols, rituals, and tenets — are captured by those in power and invoked on behalf of present arrangements, it becomes all the more difficult to advocate change in the name of civil religion.

One should not close the book on these signals by restricting them to formal religion from Native American through present - day Churches of Christ.

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2010/jan/14/can-science-explain-religion/?pagination=false But Wright's book can not be judged only, or even primarily, by whether it presents a capable history of religion.

This effort, like that of the NCBCPS, relies heavily on the distinction made by Justice Thomas Clark in the 1963 Supreme Court decision forbidding devotional reading of the Bible in public schools: «Nothing we have said here indicates that such study of the Bible or of religion, when presented objectively as part of a secular program of education, may not be effected consistently with the First Amendment.»

Therefore, educators (whose goal it is to improve science literacy) should not alienate students by presenting science and religion as dichotomous.

In his new position, he seeks to foster scholarship and teaching beyond the interdisciplinary science of astrobiology with particular emphases on the interface of science and religion, and using the full spectrum of creative expertise presented by the arts and humanities to visualize and communicate science and engineering.

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Didy Veldman's latest work for the Ipswich venue explores the place of marriage in present - day western society: playing with the rituals, the social expectations and the myth of happy - ever - after endings peddled by religion and popular culture.

The movie presents Eastern religions as mysterious, «magical,» something that's wildly different that exists only to be understood and mastered by a white person.

All seven religions are present, so that the two used by the school can be selected from these.

When asked by a Christian radio station, Bennett said that their science curriculum presents evolution, creationism, and intelligent design as equally tenable explanations for the existence of life,» adding «We're centered in the Judeo - Christian tradition, we do not ignore faith and religion, we do not ignore the arguments against evolution, because there are some...»

Therefore, the inhibitions presented by state constitutions are by no means limited to the state religion clauses.

By the 16th century, when Europeans first arrived, Islam was the dominant religion, though it was mixed with the already - present Hindu and Buddhist culture.

Presenting rediscovered and rarely seen works by Old Masters including Luca Giordano, El Greco and Pedro de Mena, the exhibition will show classical works together with modern masterpieces by two artists strongly influenced by texture, religion and historic art: Antoni Tàpies and Miquel Barceló.

P.S. 1 will present the video Double bubble, in which Bajevic addresses contemporary misuse of religion by displaying two new forms of religion.