Sentences with phrase «reasoning about religious beliefs»

The recognition of other beliefs (other religions as well as other beliefs in our religion), the desire to understand, the hope to explain to another, the wish to know the truth, and the attempt to unify all of one's beliefs into a coherent whole are motivations for reasoning about religious beliefs.

The reluctance to reason about religious beliefs must be overcome.

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Gary: The reason I'm hesitant about your definition of «religious» is because, as you say, your definition has everything to do with your personal views and beliefs, and not as much to do with how people who call themselves religious perceive themselves, nor with the 150 or so years of academic research into religious phenomena.

Having an academic discussion about religious views and theological beliefs is fine enough, but there is certainly no reason to go into a discussion of who is right an wrong because frankly, you do not know.

Which leads Eberstadt to this: «There is plenty of reason for pessimism about what the future holds for religious belief if by «pessimism» one means further decline.

Questioning long held religious beliefs can bring about very compelling reasons for making this change.

Just about everyone agrees that one reason religious belief and practice have flourished in the United States, in comparison with Western Europe, is that one state after another in the early republic ended the «establishment» of a preferred denomination and allowed all religious groups to....