Sentences with phrase «religion is alien»

Suddenly, my religion is alien to me — small, petty, reactive.

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a. My reaction is that of shock as I assume aliens would be beyond religion, all religion let alone one that mirrors something on earth so closely.

In my personal opinion, if we ever actually come into contact with other alien species and it is they, with superior technology, who contact us, the idea that a religion were pervade their society seems unlikely as I'm sure you and I are both aware that religion is mostly divisive and an impediment to progress.

What would be shocking however is if this alien race had an incredibly similar story to that found in the bible complete with a single god, a jesus, some miracles, some parables, etc.... It would be the similarity of religions between alien races in this hypothetical that would truely shock me and at least make me question if that would be a solid point of evidence for the religious.

He says that he would «convert on the spot» if any of these could be shown to him: verifiable fulfillment of prophecies that couldn't have been contrived; scientific knowledge in holy books that wasn't available at the time; miraculous occurrences, especially if brought about through prayer; any direct manifestation of the divine; aliens who believed in exactly the same religion.

After watching the History Channel on Ancient Aliens, I feel as though my faith, not in God or a superior being, but religion in itself, is waning.

Oh, forget this debate about religion and cheer up folks because NASA's Special Effects department keeps discovering alien planets left and right and they're gonna build us some kind of tin - can «Ark» to take us there just before we destroy this Earth...

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.

If these aliens land and walk out and are human looking, down to the closeness in DNA and they have a similar religion to say, Islam.

But the notion that God is some passive source of power is totally alien to all revealed religion as well as most natural religion.

If these aliens came form a planet of similar size, chemical composition, and distance from its star it stands to reason that they could be very similar to us in many ways up to and including our penchant for religions.

I also don't want to theorize what sort of religion these space aliens have, I was just choosing islam because that's a religion I have no intention of ever converting to, but in this highly unlikely event, it could change my mind.

All responded to an individualistic quest for salvation that was alien to primal religion.

No it has not been proven where did you see that on an alien special on a & e, Read up on it those other religions did not have Jesus as a Savior and did not have men writing 1000s of years apart talking about the same events, and phrophecizing about things that happened in later chapters written hundreds of years later... and in no bok any where was there a man like Jesus, who spoke the words that Jesus spoke and died for people who hated Him like Jesus did, and spoke the parabales and life lessons like Jesus did... look at what Jesus spoke... read it nowhere has there been a better teacher of life then in His words.

To judge the two realities by a supposed knowledge of what is «really» real, gained by some means alien to both, is to abandon the perspective of the history of religions.

When any religion, in this case islam, espouses ideas that are in direct conflict with the Constitution and openly work to impose an alien political / religious system called sharia on the United States, at some point the right to claim constitutional protection is lost.

Some people think we were planted here by aliens, some religions say we were born from a giant snake.

Remember, too, that economic dynamics are part of being human, and nothing that is human is alien to Christianity, the most humanistic of religions.

Romney religion teaches he is a alien from the planet calob, jesus christ and the devil is brothers, blacks are from the satan and whites are from Jesus.

Many other people will be willing to share their opinion that the evidence for their religion, or alien abduction, or past lives, or encounter with ghosts, or fairies is also «reasonable».

Though the religion of northern China was basically Buddhism, the first emperor of T'ang dynasty, Kao - tsu, the father of Tai - tsung turned anti Buddhist accepting the usual Confucian argument that Buddhism was alien and unChinese.

Suffering and mystery, to which Feuerbach attributed the existence of religion, are now seen more precisely as the sorrows brought about by enforced, unreasonable, incomprehensible and alien conditions of life (social structure).

And the further interesting thing is that the forms of religion that are more bizarre or alien to modern Western «scientific» culture — astrology, occultism, Zen, yoga, Sufism — appeal to the «intelligentsia» and so ironically tend to cluster about our contemporary university centers (the remaining seats of that culture).

Or let me put it another way if it DOES belong there then we should also be teaching L. Ron Hubbard's Scientologist Xeno Alien origin story along with all the other religions.

Though he had been on a three - year pilgrimage, had «devoured» churches like a religious fanatic, his God was the art of an alien religion, and he was not at peace.

Correction I don't believe in Bigfoot, Aliens or Unicorns but you wouldn't argue it's a religion to NOT BELIEVE any of those either, would you?

Since Buddhism, like Jainism or Sikhism, is an Indic religion, it is not considered alien.

So you're saying its either believe in some man made religion's guess at the origin of life or that aliens started life on our planet even though we don't have any scientific evidence to support it?

Is there anything to be learned from a religion as alien as Shinto?

Theology may have moved on from the «God is dead» phase of the sixties, but to many in the West the language of religion and even more the reality of spiritual experience is still alien.

New York's «alien and demoralizing environment» was simply not conducive to a majority religion's performing its proper function.

Hell, Aliens being our creators makes more sense then your religion.

Who wants to believe in a religion that says that we're here on the whim of an evil alien overlord who killed us to take care of a population problem.

Who wants to believe in a religion that says that we're here on the desire of an evil alien overlord who killed us to take care of a population problem.

Moreover, in holding that a statute prohibiting aliens from being imported for labor was not intended to prevent a church from hiring a foreign Christian minister, the Court quoted approvingly from two previous judicial opinions showing «we are a Christian people, and the morality of the country is deeply ingrafted upon Christianity» and «the Christian religion is a part of the common law of Pennsylvania.»

We have freedom of religion and whether you believe in Jesus, Allah, aliens, or think its a complete scam all views should be left out.

The historical - critical method is an essential and useful tool for the Catholic exegete when freed from those philosophical presuppositions alien to the Bible and the Judeo - Christian religion.

Now, I'm not going to go into great detail about how I think you might just be missing the point, though I will suggest that perhaps you'd be more persuasive if you considered the question of whether anyone ASKED those «black folks» whether or not they wanted to be brought in chains to the New World, kept in servitude for centuries, stripped of their cultures and their very names and forcibly converted to an alien religion.

Selective prosecution, or prosecution based on race, religion, or the exercise of constitutional rights, is prohibited, although aliens generally can not assert selective prosecution as a defense to removal.

If you look at it thematically Alien: Covenant is again pitting religion and science against each other, as represented by the characters Oram and Daniels.

The four black American soldiers were like aliens to the Italian villagers, yet some of them had a lot in common, especially in terms of the centrality of religion in their lives.

Written by Dan Simmons, this tale imagines a future in which St Peter's basilica is moved from the Vatican to another planet, and the Catholic Church becomes a universal religion across the galaxy, thanks to an alien life form that causes a form of reincarnation.