Sentences with phrase «rational coherent thought»
Not once though have you really given a rational coherent thought.
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Most believers are simply not capable of forming a coherent, rational thought.
Thus, for the founders of modern science and philosophy, the world was rational in the sense of conforming to an intelligible pattern, and thought about the world should be coherent.
(Religion in the Making, Cleveland: Meridian Books, 1960, 31) This goal of elucidation is apparent when he says that rational religion's aim is to make it «the central element in a coherent ordering of life... in respect to the elucidation of thought, and in respect to the direction of conduct...» (Religion in the Making, Cleveland: Meridian Books, 1960, 30) Religion's final product is the provision of «a meaning, in terms of value, for our own existence, a meaning which flows from the nature of things.»
In summary, he defines rational religion as»... religion whose beliefs and rituals have been reorganized with the aim of making it the central element in a coherent ordering of life — an ordering which shall be coherent both in respect to the elucidation of thought, and in respect to the direction of conduct towards a unified purpose commanding ethical approval.»