Sentences with phrase «raised by the religion»

I was raised by the religion that has been responsible for plenty of terror and death.

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I wonder how many of those who do believe were raised in a religious family by religious parents and thus had religion forced upon them from birth.

I wonder how many of those who do NOT believe were raised in a non religious family by non religious parents and thus had an intollerance for religion forced upon them from birth.

You raise a very good point that escapes most theists and that is while they argue against atheists for not believing in their god, they forget that most of those arguments could be applied to them by somebody of another religion.

I just believe that as someone who wasn't raised with religion, my instinctual sense of morals is a lot more pure than those influenced by religion.

And he cites Steven Cohen who wrote that, by the early 1980s, most «American Jews had been raised with the understanding that liberalism or political radicalism constituted the very essence of Judaism, that all the rest — the rituals, liturgy, communal organizations — were outdated, vestigial trappings for a religion with a great moral message embodied in liberalism.»

Never must one of these new religions be laughed at or dismissed easily; rather it must be understood on its own terms and as a serious response to some fundamental issues raised by the women's movement.

Raised by a devout Christian mother and a staunch atheist father, Jan followed in his father's footsteps, and spent his entire life looking down on organized religion.

I do not practice any religion at all and it took years for me to heal from being raised by Fundamentalist Christians.

Instead, we have two competing research programs, each with its own fundamental intuitions and program of inquiry to pursue, as in Imre Lakatos's philosophy of science.15 Only «over the long haul» can we judge which will be more progressive more able to handle the classical challenges raised by the entire history of metaphysics, by dialogue with existing religions (Christian and otherwise), and by the experience of contemporary religious believers.

I myself was raised by parents who said that Catholicism was the only true religion and that others were doomed.

Whether it be conflict from his childhood when he was raised in Muslim household, or from his time in Hawaii when his Communist mentor likely eschewed any religion, or during college bringing him closer to a community likely agnostic at best, atheist perhaps, followed by years in which he sat listening to Black Liberation Theologian Wright, his relationship with Christianity's basic tenet is uneasy to say the least.

Perhaps it is the fate of theistic religion always to be raising the standards and thereby guaranteeing that it will always be hounded by the problems of theodicy.

An encyclopedia defined by a religion raises these questions in an acute form.

i was raised «pagan» [in the current specific sense of «religion based upon an older religion that pre-dates Christianity and was replaced by Roman / Christian practices»] i LIKE Christianity.

Recently Rustom Bharucha's The Question of Faith (published as no: 3 of the Tracts for the Times by Oriental Longman 1993) raises the question of the relation of Indian Secularism to religion as Faith.

If you or any of the fundies were adopted by Muslims when you were babies, and raised in Iran, you would be followers of the religion of Islam.

70 % of Americans raised by atheist parents to believe that God does not exist, eventually become a member of a religion as an adult.

I was raised CAtholic, and by choice became pagan (actually, not Pagan, which is it's own religion, but Druid, for those Christians out there who care to learn something) because to not see god in everything around you is utterly ridiculous to me.

Schools should also pay more attention to the philosophical issues raised by the controversy over creation and evolution — although attentiveness should not mean sneaking in sectarian teaching of religion under the subterfuge of «scientific creationism.»

God has addressed his messages to generations through chosen one's to remind and warn those evil doers and the ones who are astray to come back to the truth but when messanger gives up on his people God would bring upon them heavy natural disasters, losses and grieves... there among any religions or branches of religions you will find people worship and do good deeds for the sake of God and would do all could to raise his name and belief... there are others who careless for it as a religion or faith but taking advantage of the posts for their own personal vast interest or the gangs interests as named by you... «Those are as a Walves using the Sheeps Skins in Disguise for hunting and feeding its greeds».

His Holiness raised his voice in an eloquent appeal for the basic principles of justice, charity, and hospitality for refugees of whatever religion or race, thrust from their countries by shameful persecution.»

Those whose interest in the religions of Asia has been aroused to the point that they want to consider some of the comparative problems raised by the study of religions other than one's own will find thoughtful and searching discussions in two books recently published: World Religions and World Community, by Robert Lawson Slater, and The Meaning and End of Religion, by Wilfred Cantwereligions of Asia has been aroused to the point that they want to consider some of the comparative problems raised by the study of religions other than one's own will find thoughtful and searching discussions in two books recently published: World Religions and World Community, by Robert Lawson Slater, and The Meaning and End of Religion, by Wilfred Cantwereligions other than one's own will find thoughtful and searching discussions in two books recently published: World Religions and World Community, by Robert Lawson Slater, and The Meaning and End of Religion, by Wilfred CantweReligions and World Community, by Robert Lawson Slater, and The Meaning and End of Religion, by Wilfred Cantwell Smith.

The Religion of Java deserves careful reading, not only for what it tells about Islam in Java, but for its insights into the comparative problems raised by the study of religion as it is followed in distant parts of the world.

My own writing about religion grew out of the fundamental question raised by the new situation: Is religion something that may or may not be very important to humans, or must it in some way integrate all other aspects of existence?

So Altizer lays out the problems raised for him by the death of God in terms of the sacred and the profane, and this enables him to make interesting use of Eliade's studies of the meaning of the sacred in archaic and modern religion.

Yet, if you are born in a Muslim state, raised by loving parents who teach you GOOD morals in a Muslim religion... Christian God sends you to hell.

It's a picture showing a throng of the disaffected, the abused, the former fundamentalists, the kids who were raised by fundamentalists, people whose parents were alkies», religious, but wildly hypocritical, who never actually studied religion, science, philosophy, etc..

Burger's statement can only mean that the court sees itself empowered by our history and tradition to forbid the people and their elected representatives from discussing, for any practical purpose, issues that might raise questions about the meaning and intention of the religion clause of the First Amendment.

But he said the recent controversy in Birmingham, where six non-faith schools have been put into special measures and a further five criticised following allegations of a plot by hardline Muslims to infiltrate them, had raised important questions about the relationship between education and religion in a multicultural society.

I was raised to believe that all people are equal, and that we should judge one another by our actions and ideas — not by our race, our religion or our sexual orientation.»

I was raised strictly Mormon (even by Mormon standards, my parents were a bit extreme) and then lived in Utah for several years, so 95 % of the people in my life (despite having left that religion five years ago) are Mormon.

Long Introduction [1] By extolling freedom of religion in the schools, President Bill Clinton has raised the level of debate on the importance of religion to

I am Rakina by name i am 34 female with no kids... never been married... 5» 7 feet tall and athletic and I was born and raised in Ghana and my race is Ghana My heritage is English, may be u may ask what i mean by my heritage is English is all cuss our Colonial masters was the British and my religion is a Christian, never mind about me been a Christian

Introduction [1] By extolling freedom of religion in the schools, President Bill Clinton has raised the level of debate on the importance of religion to Colorado Public Radio (CPR) produces and curates in - depth and meaningful news and music, establishing thoughtful connections to Colorado for listeners

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The resources is a word document with a link to the online resources developed by a research team at the University of Exeter http://humanities.exeter.ac.uk/theology/teachers/religioninthemedia/ These resources aim to equip teachers to critically engage with the topic of religion and the media and to challenge students to think deeply about the issues raised.

The two Italians are similarly connected by their ironic evocation of religion, evident in Cattelan's eyebrow - raising installation with a buried fakir at this summer's Venice Biennale.

While religion is a central theme in this case, Shuber points out that the main issue is not necessarily religion, but rather the custodial parent's desire to raise her child without the interference with and undermining of her custodial decisions by the grandparents.

I was raised in a Christian household myself so I have an appreciation for the values instilled by religion, the importance of tradition, and the strength of community.

Even if you and your spouse conflict on which religion your child should be raised in, by breaking down your child's religious upbringing into specific activities, you may find that there are areas where you and your spouse actually agree, or may be able to compromise.