One imagines behind that Scotchman's life such a home as Burns described in «The Cotter's Saturday Night,» where
the profound meanings of religion and right living were bred into the very marrow of the children.
Not exact matches
What you have to lose is the genuine and
profound meaning in THIS life that you are distracted from by
religion with its dishonest promises
of eternity, with its abundance
of gifts that you are said to receive only after you die, when it is far TOO LATE to validate the claims.
the diversity
of religious faith through out the world through the ages is just part
of gods will, in the evolutionary process
of change it is necessary to have multiple variable inputs to achieved a sucessfull synthesis.since all
religions is gods will, the purpose
of such is beyond our comprehension or immediate understanding but it has a
profound meaning and direction
Once we come to some such religious vision, however, those who share in a
profound faith such as the great
religions make possible (and in our own part
of the world, that
means the Christian faith) can have a deep confidence that from the ruination
of existence, which is the result
of those evils just mentioned, the cosmic Love can extract genuine and abiding good.
Objection: But a literalistic interpretation
of the resurrection ignores the
profound dimensions
of meaning found in the symbolic, spiritual and mythic realms that have been deeply explored by other
religions.