Sentences with phrase «religion which»

A noted, Mexica Empire had a specific religion which required human sacrifices to War God (Danielle Bolelli's recent History on Fire podcast had several excellent episodes on Cortez and the Spanish conquest of Mexica empire, for those not in the mood for more scholarly history books on the topic; and it covered pre-Cortez Mexica pretty well).

Schneiderman said it was pretty clear to him the intent of the order was to discriminate against immigrants based on religion which is unconstitutional.

If a child is raised not to respect the sanctity of life and if that child is exposed to a religion which preaches retaliation and if that child is uneducated, what you get is a sub-human with an animalistic urge to kill like a predator in the savannah.

Islam is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion which professes that there is only one god (Allah), that Muhammad is the last messenger, and the Qur «an is the scripture.

It's a road which connects the Anglican and Catholic cathedrals in a city where the two faiths are still prominent, but it's Liverpool's third religion which is in need of hope as it continues to struggle to live up to historic highs.

We need not go so far as to say with the author whom I lately quoted that any persistent enthusiasm is, as such, religion, nor need we call mere laughter a religious exercise; but we must admit that any persistent enjoyment may produce the sort of religion which consists in a grateful admiration of the gift of so happy an existence; and we must also acknowledge that the more complex ways of experiencing religion are new manners of producing happiness, wonderful inner paths to a supernatural kind of happiness, when the first gift of natural existence is unhappy, as it so often proves itself to be.

Nor is it merely the «hate speech» involved in mocking the Prophet of an ethnic religion which threatens the left.

Morons who think atheism is a religion which worships Dawkins or Gandhi or something are so incredibly boring, and they think «Oh yeah, well then since you believe something came from nothing, explain why my IPhone battery died» is a great comeback.

The supercession of religion which Teilhard envisioned bears a close resemblance to communist notions of secularization.

Orthodoxy has recognized that any religion which is to be effectual in the lives of men must be grounded in history, conveyed through institutions, and continuous with its past.

It is our contention that there are two kinds of sociology of religion, one derived from sociology and the other from Religionswissenschaft, despite Wach's hope: «We would like to believe that, though there is a Catholic and Marxian philosophy of society, there can be only one sociology of religion which we may approach from different angles and realize to a different degree but which would use but one set of criteria.»

The summer of 1895 finds him living with his old father in Southsea, aged thirty - two, with little money, thinning hair, few definite prospects and a vague wish to find «that form of religion which is best adapted to the men of the present day and which would form the religion of the future».

They object, that is, to the idea of any religion which is concerned with affirmations about the nature of things, with affirmations about historical personalities and their significance; and they prefer a religion which is concerned more with how we feel and think, or how we think we ought to feel.

America has freedom of religion which means any religion.

And it is most folk religion and natural religion which knows that there is suffering and cross in life, which we may escape by appeasing the right god, wearing the right amulet, incanting the right spell or prayer, changing states of consciousness through pleasure or pain or other things... It does not usually work out.

Even Judaism, which had itself descended from the Israelite faith which originated in a sense of joyful freedom, had for many Jews crystallized into a legalistic religion which constituted a new form of bondage.

A religion which can lend itself to such excesses as Christianity has experienced in this regard can not speak with the voice of God.»

In the history of religion which has engaged the interest of scholars, especially in the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries, thousands have sought to trace the inception and the development of religion and to describe the myriad forms which religion has taken, both earlier and in the contemporary scene.

Then also, the earlier stages of religion which mankind passed through stand in a meaningful and positive relation to this fulfillment of time and of the history of mankind.

Among them were pantheism and the positions that human reason is the sole arbiter of truth and falsehood and good and evil; that Christian faith contradicts reason; that Christ is a myth; that philosophy must be treated without reference to supernatural revelation; that every man is free to embrace the religion which, guided by the light of reason, he believes to be true; that Protestantism is another form of the Christian religion in which it is possible to be as pleasing to God as in the Catholic Church; that the civil power can determine the limits within which the Catholic Church may exercise authority; that Roman Pontiffs and Ecumenical Councils have erred in defining matters of faith and morals; that the Church does not have direct or indirect temporal power or the right to invoke force; that in a conflict between Church and State the civil law should prevail; that the civil power has the right to appoint and depose bishops; that the entire direction of public schools in which the youth of Christian states are educated must be by the civil power; that the Church should be separated from the State and the State from the Church; that moral laws do not need divine sanction; that it is permissible to rebel against legitimate princes; that a civil contract may among Christians constitute true marriage; that the Catholic religion should no longer be the religion of the State to the exclusion of all other forms of worship; and «that the Roman Pontiff can and should reconcile himself to and agree with progress, liberalism and modern civilization.»

I will fight for any religions right to practice as they wish as long as they don't stomp of individual rights and freedom of religion which means each person can make their religious moral judgements for themselves which is why there are millions of Christian women who have no problem with these 4 forms of birth control but they are now having their freedom of religion taken out of their hands and decided by their employer.

Whitehead is convinced that it is precisely religion which works at the complex problems expressed in these questions.

A religion which could produce the Ten Commandments and the inspired writing of the Old Testament prophets, for example, can not but command the greatest respect, while those of us who are Christians should never forget that the teaching of the New Testament sprang historically from Judaism.

Thus I believe it is essential to have revelation if we are to have a religion which can give purpose and power to human living.

Thus, while we are bound to reject the fictitious and fanciful content of Eastern religions, we might do well to accept techniques of practicing religion which we in the West have almost wholly neglected.

In the nineteenth century and still more in the twentieth century, the revolution reshaping these peoples threatened the existence of the religion which had become identified with them.

But if we are to find a religious system which can not be outdated or outgrown, from which the acids of modernity can only remove accretions and encrustations, a religion which properly practiced produces the highest forms of human behavior, and offers both supernatural pattern and spiritual power beyond human endeavor, then I believe we shall have to take a fresh look at Christianity.

We can live without the Islam religion which is nothing but barbaric, uneducated, and trouble makers and terrorist like cancer.

It is indeed hard not to be thought unfair to this monotheistic religion which has given so much to the moral thinking of the Western world.

The strife caused by the spread of Calvinism, the attempt of the monarchy to create a royal religion which could not be used to undermine monarchic authority, and the resistance to a coercive and intolerant state all created a place for religious discussion about tyrannicide, contract theory, divine right, and religious tolerance.

Opening up is the only path for the humanization of religion which will also enable it to communicate its message of spiritual salvation in relation to the humanization of society itself.

Another second when I wondered why I remain in a religion which men have turned upside down and made so ugly.

By «idolatry» I mean a religion which either does not know, or else refuses to recognize, that there is no god but God, and which therefore worships the creature instead of worshipping the creator.

As often in these pages our Cutting Edge and Letters columns highlight approaches to science and religion which we think are at the heart of the modern crisis given the fundamental role of human observation of the physical realm to human thought.

It is, therefore, high time for Christianity to retire from the stage and yield the floor to a new religion which claims to have a better understanding of human nature, and believes for that reason that it can produce results where Christianity has nothing more substantial to its credit than a scrap - heap of unfulfilled and unfulfillable ideals.

This is why I identify her as any form of Christian religion which also intermingles with the world.

This was dramatically illustrated by the other major sex abuse story involving religion which was obsessing the media at about the same time.

If I were choosing recent books in this area which most deserve to be read outside the country, I would start with Oliver O'Donovan's political theology in The Desire of the Nations; John Milbank's critique of the social sciences in Theology and Social Theory; Timothy Gorringe's provocative political reading of Karl Barth in Karl Barth: Against Hegemony; Peter Sedgwick's The Market Economy and Christian Ethics; Michael Banner's Christian Ethics and Contemporary Moral Problems; Duncan Forrester's Christian Justice and Public Policy; and Timothy Jenkins's Religion in Everyday Life: An Ethnographic Approach, which argues with a dense interweaving of theory and empirical study for a social anthropological approach to English religion which has learned much from theology.

Do you have a problem with a religion which has taught to respect everything in world.

The churches, in their presentation of their answers to this query, have put forward aspects of religion which are expressed in terms either suited to the emotional reactions of bygone times or directed to excite modern emotional interests of nonreligious character.

All human religion, other than the Judeo - Christian faith was thought to consist of various forms of natural religion which could all be traced back to Noah.

And as for the Syllabus of Errors, not one article of it mentions democracy, workers» unions or newspapers, and if it rejects «pluralism» (not a concept anyone at the time was familiar with) it is mostly in the sense that any religion which claims to be true, rather than a matter of opinion, rejects it.

For a religion which possesses only a certain conception of God and a morality acceptable to all mankind, does not belong to any special nation, and, consciously or unconsciously, breaks down the barriers of nationality.

The prophets were combating a type of religion which assumed that men could satisfy the will of God through careful observance of the cult and ceremonial cleanliness, and could in other matters follow their own will.

Along with this goes a sharp attack on religion which we have defined as any system using God to meet a need or to solve a problem, even the problem of not having a God.

your facts are pretty acurate «4) there is no other religion which believes in the killing of non beleivers.»

There are many absolutely absurd facts: 1) it never ever have been and doesn't exist muslim democracy; 2) there is no tolerance between christians and muslims in muslim dominated society; 3) tolerant and romantics type of beleives never governed any country successfully — from T. Moore's to M. Gandi's times; 4) there is no other religion which believes in the killing of non beleivers.

If we have lived in North America for 50 or 60 years, then, unless we are amongst the exceptions, we have witnessed the advent of public attitudes towards religion which are vastly different from those that were prevalent in our teens and twenties.

The people are free to worship in the religion of their choice & the government can't set up a state religion which we all must adhere to!

But the Indian Christians had already been living for centuries in a positive encounter with the high caste Hindus and had developed a theological vision of Hindu religion which was more positive and liberal.