Sentences with phrase «religion in the world today»

George Bernard Shaw Peter L. Berger, the most eminent sociologist of religion in the world today, many of whose sociological works as Berger says «read like a treatise on atheism,» has written a mature and skeptical affirmation of Christianity in his new book Questions of Faith: A...

There are roughly 20 major religions in the world today and thousands if not tens of thousands have existed.

This unit is designed to educate students on the 12 most common religions in the world today through web - based research: Baha'i, Buddhism, Christianity, Confucianism, Hinduism, Islam, Jainism, Judaism, Shinto, Sikhism, Taoism and Zoroastrianism; while at the same time facilitating the development of opinions on spiritual matters, teaching tolerance, and strengthening student writing through daily prompts and a final creative writing project.

There are hundreds even thousands of religions in the world today, and each has its own history.

Not exact matches

While historically it may have been a discipline associated with all the major world religions, today it actually can work to improve health and productivity, in addition to any kind of spiritual benefits it may produce.

My point is you are expecting the «LAST» major acknowledged religion in the world to be just as «like minded» today as Christianity.

It makes me very nervous that Islam today finds more and more acceptance in the Western World though it is clear that it is a religion of war, evil, destruction, death, sorrow, torture, pain, doom, darkness, backwardness, hatred, revenge, bossiness, etc..

In this world today, I don't care who you are, you need to use a little common sense... and considering what happened on 9/11, in the name of a religion, people are going to be hyper - sensitivIn this world today, I don't care who you are, you need to use a little common sense... and considering what happened on 9/11, in the name of a religion, people are going to be hyper - sensitivin the name of a religion, people are going to be hyper - sensitive.

I wonder just how empty your life is that you need to cling to a make believe religion made up by a small group of people 2000 years ago that has no relevance in todays world.

In his op - ed piece last Sunday in USA Today, Edward O. Wilson makes a sweeping pronouncement: «The two world views — science - based explanations and faith - based religion — can not be reconciled.&raquIn his op - ed piece last Sunday in USA Today, Edward O. Wilson makes a sweeping pronouncement: «The two world views — science - based explanations and faith - based religion — can not be reconciled.&raquin USA Today, Edward O. Wilson makes a sweeping pronouncement: «The two world views — science - based explanations and faith - based religion — can not be reconciled.»

Oh, I could mention other religions where neither historically neither today hold 50 % of the world's population in one such standing.

There is not one person in the world today who really knows anything about it regardless of their religion or lack of same.

The major religions we see in the world today have evolved over hundreds or thousands of years, but they most follow the pattern I described, so for the most part they all involve some form of worship, the concepts of rewards, punishments, and obedience, and so on.

There has been more blood shed in the name of religion, not to mention the hatred that continues today for gay's and lesbians who did nothing more than be born into this world as they are.

The religions of today are more sophisticated, more carefully constructed in such a way that they have managed to survive the increased knowledge we have of the world, but they are just as much fairytales as the stories of Thor or Zeus, and with no more evidence to support them.

Does it have anything to do with what has been called the fundamentalist movement in world religions today?

While it might be true that those who lived in the time of the Prophet could understand religion better than the people of today who must study Islam by means of documents only, we can not ignore the considerable change in the social situation and world conditions during the past fourteen centuries.

The vast majority of Christians in the world today, as well as those of other religions, find their calling within this system.

If fertility rates, the size of youth populations, and rates of religion switching remain the same, Christianity will still be the largest religion in the world in 2050, according to a detailed report released today by the Pew Research Center.

The scholars who study Islamic culture today point out that the chief factors which have influenced contemporary Arab Muslim society are: the Western ideas which penetrated Arab society through education and increased contact with the West, socialist concepts which have spread throughout the world, communist doctrines which challenge religion in general, the expansion of university education, the admission of Muslim women to higher education, the study of ancient and modern philosophy in the universities, and the modern Muslim movements which have been so influential.

But the reality of the world today is that grounding ethics in religion is no longer adequate.

Faith and religion are often judged today by their usefulness in our world of experience.

All this religious violence occurring in the world today could be completely negated with a little practical sense: religion doesn't matter in the light of science OR in the light of God.

The reason there are so many false religions and false beliefs in the world today is because all those who are false do not have the one Lord, the one Faith, and the one Baptism.

I would like to say a few words about this long debate, first of all today Islam religion reached every in the world from east to west, north to south.

There never was a time in History that atheists exist, only in this present stage of our intellectual developement that they deny His exisrence, but it can be easily explained that they are just part of the dialectical process of having to have two opposing arguments or forces to arrive to the truth, The opposing forces today are the theists or religious believers of all religions and the other are the atheists who denies religion, The reslultant truth in the future will be Panthrotheism, the belief that we are all one with the whole universe with God, and that we Had all to unite to prepare for human survival that will subject us humans in the future.Aided by the the enlightend consevationist, environmentalists, humanists and all of the concerned activists, we will develop a kind of universal harmony and awareness that we are all guided towards love and concern for all of our specie.The great concern of the whole conscious and caring world to the natural disaster in the Phillipines,, the most theist country now is a positive sign towards this religious direction.Panthrotheism means we will be One with God.

What games religion is playing in America and the world today?

Of all the major world religions today, Islam is undoubtedly the most muscular not only in its religious stance but in its resistance to cultural concessions.

Yusuf Qaradawi (the most influential Muslim cleric in the world today, the spiritual head of the Muslim Brotherhood) said: «Islam is not a religion in the common, distorted meaning of the word, confining its scope only to the private life of man.

The fundamental question that Bonhoeffer poses before us is «If religion is no more than a «garment of Christianity» which must now be cast aside because it has lost its meaning in a «world come of age», if the real problem facing Christianity today is not so much that of religionlessness, but precisely that of religion, then what does all this mean for the church?»

In today's America, the word must be stretched to include not only Protestants, Catholics and Jews, but significant numbers of Muslim, Buddhist, Hindu and other citizens representing various world religions.

In this emerging world community our challenge today is to look around at the other religions of the world and their prophets and to see what insights we can glean from them in the struggle for justice and freedoIn this emerging world community our challenge today is to look around at the other religions of the world and their prophets and to see what insights we can glean from them in the struggle for justice and freedoin the struggle for justice and freedom.

It's this longing, this desire to belong that allows religion to survive in today's world.

All religions are the cause of all the worlds problems today and what hold mankind in the stone age... OUTLAW all religions!!!

Nearly everywhere we look in the world today we witness an unanticipated resurgence of traditional religion.

We must expect today, when we all know that a new era has begun in the history of human civilisation, that if the religion of Christ is true, and is founded upon the only claim which makes Christianity the hope of mankind - upon the Divinity personal and unambiguous of Jesus Christ - that we will find within the bosom of the Church's doctrine all that we need to fire the world anew, and to restore all things in Christ.

We are talking about christiantiy, and how many humans in the world, throughout history and still today, have no knowledge of your preferred RELIGION, christianity.

Since the time of the pioneers around the Second Vatican Council, dialogue between religions has become even more necessary today, given that there is an even stronger mixture of cultures and religions in most parts of the world.

The majority of religions today teach that for one, God is the ruler of this world and that he «works in mysterious ways» and therefore the problems we see today are simply by - product.

so on and so on, one thing I can say for religion in today's world, is that is helps the poor and the one who can't help themselves.

I think that will be very clear to everyone that the predominant religions of today is ancient beliefs that might have been reasonable at the time when they were written, but that was more than 1,600 years ago and we have learnt a lot since, even though I sometimes question that when I see what is going on in the world.

We see in his example how He lived aboved the Synagogue and spread the Goodnews of God, not bound by the Synagogue but the TRUTH — doing good all over the world and making Himself example, but today people preach what they don't do and brain wash people to be and remain in a particular organisation called religion.

Jefferson in his many words is todays paul by basically testifying to a lost society by preaching «The heart «that is what God wants not the shell which will rott away.I can stand with this truth until the day I die because I also have had disagreements in my church about this same topic.I dispise religion and encourage salvation which come from having a relationship with Jesus.Many may ask how do i have a relationship with him?by simply asking God through prayer, not what we know as pray but simply given up and telling God he win.That is what being righteous means saying «lord your're right and i will believe and obey that.Last i will like to thank jefferson for this clip, becuase for so long I have been feeling like todays churches in not like the first churches.They are stuck into their four cornered walls preaching to those who already obtain the word and people who already think they are perfect, but what about the weak and the sinners who we are suppose to love, go after, preach to, help and deliver the same way as Christ camed for the sinners so do we also be like him.Jefferson basically telling all us young people and old no matter who have suffered in the world, the church, or no matter what party or the past that there is hope and «God wants that person» not the sin but the person.Jefferson wants us to know that God can become personal with us and we do exist or can exist in the christian world not because we are perfect but because «he is perfect and he saw our broken spirits and rescued us!

If religion in today's world still supplies (in Peter Berger's words) the «sacred canopy» for our ordinary lives, it has surely become as precarious a canopy as the thinning ozone layer.

The problem of writing about evangelicals, liberals and fundamentalists in today's world of religion is one of undisciplined squads of definitions.

Separation of Church and State is there to protect THEM as much as anyone because religion is the biggest balkanizing force in the world today.

Religion is the practice of faith... and although the two are related they are not the same thing — in today's age there is far more religion in the secular world than in most modern faith centered worlds.

There isn't a single problem in the world today that religion can solve, not one!

Thus the dream of today's young American man, reared in the religion of the gridiron, is not very different from that of the young Roman legionnaire or the young medieval crusader or, more important, of the young European immigrant to the new world, his own ancestor.

But today in our Third World contexts, for obvious reasons, theological enterprise needs to be nurtured by other disciplines such as social sciences, cultural anthropology, study of religions, political sciences, economy, etc..