Sentences with phrase «religion after centuries»

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Religions incorporated and codified these basic social values and skills, and quickly learned to take credit for them — as if, without the religion, we would be doomed to not have them — although we see them in every human society, including hunter - gather tribes with no sense of gods as we understand them After many centuries of religious domination, enforced through pain of death, ostracization or other social sanctions, allowing religion to take credit, as well as failing to question other religious claims — has become a cultural habit.

For many centuries after Constantine I, the Roman Emperor from 306 to 337 A.D., backed Christianity as a common religion for the Roman Empire in the 4th century, Christians used violence and the threat of death to expand and maintain their control of populaces.

Centuries after Spain formally and sometimes violently prevented Jews from practicing their religion, forcing them to convert or leave the country, the proposed law would open the country's doors to the dispersed descendants of Sephardic Jews.

Four of the names who he claims are likely to be very surprised by the «science undermining religion» claim lived after the 17th century advent of modern science.

How can you believe in a religion that is still going after its very priests have been molesting little boys for centuries?

Rome had their post-Greek pagan religion for about 3 - 4 centuries after Jesus death, them and the Jews also supposedly had persecuted Christians until Constantine came around and established Christianity as the main religion of Rome..

After the terrible experience of the European wars of religion occasioned by the sixteenth - century Reformation, many of the brightest and best, including many thoughtful Christians, decided that God and the gods could have no place in the public telling of the myth of origins.

We tend to think most immediately of religions and sects that have sprung up over the centuries after Jesus.

After attending classes in Eastern religion and the 19th - century English novel, she walks down the main street of this small university town with her new friend, Helen Kim to one of their favorite eating spots, Hoagie Haven, which is owned by Greek immigrants and run by Guatemalans.

to madtown, Why Jesus was sent in Israel, because that place was part of the Roman Empire, the center of the worlds civilizatoon at that time, in the third century after Him, the Roman emperor, Constantine decreed that christianity was the official religion of the empire, and soo the teachings of Jesus inspired the whole empire, now the present Europe and the Middle East has prospered more than anywhere else in the world, The Americas was not even discovered yet by Columbus, With the prosperity of the empire was the growth of scientific knowledge that leads to what we are now, it happened because its part of Gods Will, History is its Reflectiom.

After the triumphs of Darwinism in the nineteenth century, science and religion reached a gentleman's agreement not to trespass on each other's territory.

The rise of new popular religions in the nineteenth century and again after 1945 gave practical expression to that possibility.

Women have been punished for being in power, for being powerful for many centuries and I thought that was the remarkable thing about making Prospero into Prospera... You can bring in that history of female struggle, and certainly in Shakespeare's day and for many centuries before and after women of knowledge were punished for that knowledge... We can see now in the extreme fundamentalist states, whatever religion they are, that they want to exclude women from education... because an educated woman is a dangerous thing.

Black homeownership should be phenomenally higher a half - century after the 1968 Fair Housing Act prohibited housing discrimination based on race, color, religion, or national origin.