Sentences with phrase «religion than philosophy»

If this strikes you as closer to religion than philosophy, then you are thinking like an early Christian.

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science and philosophy have answered more of my questions than religion ever could.

I do not know who these rather shell - shocked former practitioners of identity politics might be or what makes them into people who could be receptive to the lessons embedded in Moses Mendelssohn's philosophy of religion and who could apply them to religions other than Judaism.

everything in the universe evolves, not only life forms but also memes, Religion is a meme so it also change in conformity to its era or time of its conception as faith.Because in pre scientific times thousands of years ago, the scientific method of approach or philosophy has not existed yet, myth or merely story telling is considered facts, The first religion called animism more than 10,000 years ago believed that spirits or god exists in trees, rivers, mountains, boulders or in any places people at that time considered holy.hundreds of them, then when the Greeks and Romans came, it was reduced to 12, they called it polytheism, when the Jews arrived, it was further reduced to 1, monotheism.its derivatives, Christianity And Islam and later hundreds of denominations that includes Mormonism and Protestants flourished up to today.So in short this religions evolved in accordance to the scientific knowledge of the age or era they existed.If you graph the growth of knowledge, it shows a sharp increase in the last 500 years, forcing the dominant religions at that time to reinterprete their dogmas, today this traditional religions are becoming obsolete and has to evolve to survive.But first they have to unify against atheism.in the dialectical process of change, Theism in one hand and the opposing force atheism in the other, will resolve into a result or synthesis.The process shall be highlighted in the internet in the near future.

Some turn to the East, particularly to Taoism; some to Native American perspectives and other primal traditions; some to emerging feminist visions; still others to neglected themes or traditions within the Western heritage, ranging from materials in Pythagorean philosophy to neglected themes in Plato to Leibniz or Spinoza; and still others to twentieth - century philosophers such as Heidegger or to philosophical movements such as the Deep Ecology movement.9 As one would expect in an age characterized by a split between religion and philosophy, few environmental philosophers turn to sources in the Bible or Christian theology for help, though some — Robin Attfield, for example — argue that Christian history has been wrongly maligned by environmental philosophers, and that it can serve as a better resource than some might expect (WTEE 201 - 230).

Uhh... and I think you're talking about Islam, not Christianity, Judaism, or Buddhism (yes, more of a philosophy) than a religion.

At the end of the day, those people who can accept and respect that others think differently than them, and can realize that making generalizations about a race / religion / philosophy truly makes you ignorant, those are the people who are truly intelligent.

The detailed framework of Whitehead's philosophy is far less known than his aphorisms, for example: «Christianity has always been a religion seeking a metaphysic ’28 — with the implication that it never rests in any one metaphysic, or philosophy.

More of a philosophy than a religion.

Such a concession could be exploited by promoters of rival sources of knowledge, such as philosophy and religion, who would be quick to point out that faith in naturalism is no more «scientific» (i.e., empirically based) than any other kind of faith.

The Christ of the gospels teaches a very different religion than that of the Hebrews and includes many eastern philosophies.

Though he preferred to speak of biblical «saga» rather than «myth» in order to distinguish biblical myth from the monist mythologies of other religions and philosophies, he urged that, by either name, the «mythical» aspects of scripture should not be regarded as dispensable for theology.

Traditions of every kind, hoarded and manifested in gesture and language, in schools, libraries, museums, bodies of law and religion, philosophy and science — everything that accumulates, arranges itself, recurs and adds to itself, becoming the collective memory of the human race — all this we may see as no more than an outer garment, an epiphenomenon precariously superimposed upon all the other edifices of Nature (the only truly organic ones, as it may appear): but it is precisely this optical illusion which we have to overcome if our realism is to reach to the heart of the matter.

Although the results of the studies in the psychology and philosophy of religion have not yet led to unanimous agreement among the scholars, the present - day knowledge of the place of religion in human experience is firmer than ever before.

It is impossible to achieve more than superficial correlation of studies in the history and philosophy of religion, in psychology and sociology, with the older disciplines, unless the relations of the Church to religion in general, to the particular religions and to secular culture have been intelligibly defined.

The modest revival of interest in medieval philosophy in the past forty years might augur a change in fortunes for reasoned discussion of how to understand God's role in all three religions, but one finishes these two lucid books far more aware of lost opportunities than of newfound hope.

However Ritschlianism was already giving way to the religionsgeschichtliche Schule, whose philosophy of religion centred in a decided preference for cultic experience over ethical action, and whose historical reconstruction saw primitive Christianity orientated like other Hellenistic religions to the cult's dying and rising Lord, rather than to the Jesus of the Sermon on the Mount.

igaftr, the higher purpose is not religion, but for the good of and survival of humanity, Thats what the God of panthrotheism expects from us, there should be paradigm shift in our teleology or purposefullness of our existence from individualism to holism.One direction in achieving this goal is with philosophy, Marxism did wonders to China and Russian economy, but not to Cuba and Korea,, because they stick to hard core philosophy, China and Russia restored capitalism, but the process of Marxism was violent revolution, I believe that through religion we can more than achieved our goals of unifying the world and inculcate us the tenets of putting humanity to the pedestal of Gods Will.

In essentials like religion, ethics, philosophy; in history, literature, art; in the concepts of all science, except perhaps mathematics, the American boy of 1854 stood nearer the year 1 than to the year 1900.2

Buddhism is more of a philosophy than a religion, so Whole Foods is the only company on this list that hasn't incurred my ATHEIST WRATH and intention of a boycott.

The «crucifixion of our passions» is then no more than a striking euphemism for self - mastery, which is the quest of all the higher religions and philosophies.

Fr Pereiro's interest is chiefly, it appears, in the Oxford Movement as an episode in the history of ideas rather than in the history of religion, and as such he seems to see it as culminating, through the growth of Newman's ideas about ethos, in the philosophy of The Grammar of Assent, rather than in the conversion of numerous Anglicans to Rome.

Thus, religion is always saying more than science or philosophy about man and his world, even though it is not privy to special information.

But we can not determine that ANY ONE religion is more than a philosophy of thought — because there is no verification available..

Wieman's work is primarily philosophy of religion rather than systematic theology, and for this reason his inclusion, too, raises questions.

Hegelian philosophy of religion as such can not be understood as a natural theology, since it sought to supersede theology rather than to provide it a basis.

I am (a) A victim of child molestation (b) A r.ape victim trying to recover (c) A mental patient with paranoid delusions (d) A Christian The only discipline known to often cause people to kill others they have never met and / or to commit suicide in its furtherance is: (a) Architecture; (b) Philosophy; (c) Archeology; or (d) Religion What is it that most differentiates science and all other intellectual disciplines from religion: (a) Religion tells people not only what they should believe, but what they are morally obliged to believe on pain of divine retribution, whereas science, economics, medicine etc. has no «sacred cows» in terms of doctrine and go where the evidence leads them; (b) Religion can make a statement, such as «there is a composite god comprised of God the Father, Jesus and the Holy Spirit», and be totally immune from experimentation and challenge, whereas science can only make factual assertions when supported by considerable evidence; (c) Science and the scientific method is universal and consistent all over the World whereas religion is regional and a person's religious conviction, no matter how deeply held, is clearly nothing more than an accident of birth; or (d) All of the above.

Steiner wrote more than 50 books and gave over 6,000 lectures on such diverse subjects as science, philosophy, religion, art, agriculture, medicine, and education.

Culture means more than just a set of learned behaviors that vary from place to place, some argued; culture means history and tradition, art, philosophy, and religion — the last barrier, together with language, that separates humans from other species.

Rich's nutrition philosophy is more than a diet, it's more like a regimen or religion: «I can say with full confidence that my rapid transformation from a middle - aged couch potato to Ultraman — to in fact, everything I've accomplished as an endurance athlete — begins and ends with my PlantPower Diet.»

Also, Clancy Brown has a good (if brief) role as Meacham, Absolution's weary preacher / sawbones, who espouses a version of religion that is more personal philosophy than dogma.

We can see these drawings as a return to «the root» of the practice of an artist who strives never to lose sight of the essential humility of creation which is, probably more than any other philosophy, political thought, or religion, the true guarantor of society and evolution.

A well - read academician and a professor at Hunter College with a thorough understanding of philosophy and literature his work, maybe more than anyone else's in the group drew its inspiration from literature and philosophy rather than ancient Greek, Christian and Judaic mythology and religion.

For centuries now, Western science, philosophy, and religion have believed that we could escape this amazing and abundant reality, that our brilliant minds meant we were not subject to the laws and balance of the intricate and complex web of life, that we were somehow outside and above it, able to manipulate it according to our will, with some fate independent of it and higher than it.

Gandhi, Ecology & World Religions by Adela DiUbaldo Torchia which deals with «a Gandhian ethics of economics which helps us to reengage the religion and ecology debate, and to re-envision ecology's more - with-less philosophy as an invitation to liberation rather than deprivation».

Now, more than 40 years later, the program is still one of the forerunners of the green movement: Students have won awards including the Udall Scholarship in Environmental Policy and the Fulbright Grant; author Bill McKibben worked with six students to create the Step It Up movement in 2007; and students can choose specialties including conservation biology, environmental policy, religion, philosophy, and the environment.

«My concern is that far too much of Islam has come to resemble a violent political philosophy more than peace - loving religion,» he said in an email.

For Westerners, who tend to see Daoism as an ancient philosophy rather than a modern - day religion, the elaborate rituals of modern Taoism can be bewildering.

Minneapolis, MN About Blog Secular Buddhism focuses on Buddhism as an applied philosophy rather than a religion.