Sentences with phrase «reading of a religious text»

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«god» doesn't exist and is make believe, your religious texts were written by human beings without any kind of «divine inspiration» regardless of what you read in them... written by people who thought the Earth was flat... it isn't.

The idea that religious texts are a kind of «instruction manual» and all you have to do is just read it and the truth becomes plainly obvious used to be well outside the mainstream of religious thought.

While I do not consider myself an expert on all the religious writings of all of the main religions in the world, I have read most of the main religious texts for most of the main world religions, and while it is not uncommon to find violent events being described in these other religious books, no other set of religious writings comes even close to describing the violence and bloodshed that one finds within the pages of the Hebrew Scriptures.

I have read many religious texts on the major and some minor religions How many books have you read that cast doubt on the existence of god?

IMHO every religious text I've ever read is clearly based on «man's» perceptions, not some being capable of creating the entire universe — of which we are merely a spec of sand.

Progressive religious folks of all stripes tend to share a post-triumphalism (a sense that it's time to move beyond the old triumphalist paradigm in which one religion is The Right Path to God and all the other paths are wrong), as well as an inclination toward reading our sacred texts through interpretive lenses which take into account changing social mores and changing understandings of justice.

You can not point to any one and say this is the right one (with any authority other than «what you want to believe») Every religious text I've ever read is clearly written via the various perceptions of man, not some divine being.

(3) Like many of our contemporaries, Schweitzer read the great Asian religious texts not as a historian only, but as one whose profound sense of the failure of Christianity led him into a genuine religious quest.

if it is all «context» and can be so subjectively read, there is either NO authorial intent (and therefore no permanent meaning) or you are assuming a larger foundation of truth to read along with the text (but that invites all the criticism you are levying against the religious).

The kind of reading we practice approximates what Paul J. Griffiths has called «religious reading,» as distinct from «consumerist reading,» which makes us users, buyers and sellers of texts.

One who is armed with historical knowledge may silently slip into the role of a superior modern man who condescendingly reads ancient religious texts.

At the very moment at the end of the nineteenth century that the universities were consolidating the triumph of objectivism, many of the religious were claiming that religion meant dogmatism based upon a peculiar reading of the Scriptures (Genesis as a geology text.

Now that I've read some other religious texts and explored a relationship with God outside of institutionalized church I now hear and see God's truth in many things.

Fourth, more generally, I believe this text can be read philosophically, i.e., in search of wisdom, without prior religious commitment; one need not be a believer either to understand what is being said, and why, or even to affirm or deny the truth of the account.

if were only going to use the KJV why stop at greek, or latin why not only read the original texts which were written in Coptic the simple fact is not a single one of us, including our highest religious leaders, other then about 30 ancient language specialist in the world have ever read an original scripture.

The full texts of the Council's reports can be read on - line at their web - site Religious from The Start A recent discovery of carved - ivory artefacts in caves in south - western Germany have served to demonstrate more clearly than ever that early man had an innate spiritual dimension.

With a close and erudite reading of the major religious texts, he documents the ways in which religion is a man - made wish, a cause of dangerous sexual repression, and a distortion of our origins in the cosmos.

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Mother of God's religious undertones are amplified by a collaged advertisement for the Catholic Review, found in the lower right corner, which reads «An invaluable spiritual road map...» This bit of text draws together the title of the painting, the maps, and the spiritual allusions of the circle, yet it also walks a line between sincerity and tongue - in - cheek humor.

Another problem is Westerners tend to embrace the philosophical aspects of Daoism (primarily by reading the ancient text called the «Tao Te Ching» or popular works like «The Tao of Pooh») while rejecting the religious aspects that mark the lives of millions of folks in Asia.