You've hit the nail on the head regarding why I, a Christian millennial, no longer attend church and am struggling
with religion in general.
If religion in general means an adventure toward mystery, it is now clear that there is more than one way of moving toward this goal.
None of my reflections in this essay seek to offer an explanation of anything, least of all
of religion in general or of ritual in particular.
It was also meant to «broad stroke» for both humor and to illustrate what I believe to be a flaw
in religion in general, and Christianity in particular.
The Bible and
religion in general just gives people a reason to hate those with whom they may have otherwise been friends.
If there were islamic aliens coming to earth, sure they might be here to kill and conquer, but I'm focusing
on religion in general.
It's not
even religion in general but one religious practice in particular, what's called voile intégral in French (the word «burka» beside being inaccurate, isn't common anymore).
It is a turning away
from religion in general to a special religion, and then finding, incidentally, that the general is freshly illuminated as it never was before.
Second are those in
which religion in general, or a specific faith in particular, is favored against other beliefs, as in the older requirement at the state level that officeholders believe in God, or in the nineteenth - century practice of supporting some churches with taxes.
In the blind attempt of Jewish secular intellectuals to tear down and
delegitimize religion in general, they tear down and delegitimize Israel and Judaism, which of course may well have been their original goal after all.
Very interesting fairy tale like the rest of Christianity in particular and
religion in general providing answers for the unanswerable question of life after death.
For many decades there has been a militant form of atheism that
regards religion in general and Christianity in particular as a virus that needs to be eradicated.
He asks, «
Does religion in general and Protestantism in particular oppose or support the emergence of the new father — the father committed to egalitarianism in the home on issues of paid employment for both wife and husband, child care and domestic chores?»
Whereas in early modernism it was generally supposed that a rational religion of some form is needed to maintain social order, in late
modernism religion in general is typically seen as an oppressive and distorting force from which the human spirit needs to be freed.
Atheism is as justifiable a belief system and perhaps more so than the
Abrahmaic religions in general and the rights of an individual to express themselves must not be allowed to be infringed upon by anyone lest their actions create the very environment they sought to escape.
Ever since Aum Shinrikyo, another new religion, shocked the nation by releasing deadly sarin gas in Tokyo's subway system in 1995, many Japanese have
eyed religion in general with great suspicion.
How long is the global community going to tolerate the insanity of Islam and religion in general?????
The problem, as I see it, is that almost all the critique that is going on
concerning religion in general and the church in specific is that the solutions are actually a part of the problem.
Many Jews
disdain religion in general, and Judaism in particular, yet consider themselves to be authentically Jewish because they are strongly attached to other Jews and to Israel, or deeply identify with Jewish culture and history.