Sentences with phrase «religious doctrine does»

So let me try and get this straight, if religious doctrine does not define some practice as against the law or evil but yet the laity performs these unlawful acts, it keeps the church free from culpability?

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Dawkins argues that while there appear to be plenty of individuals that would place themselves as «1» due to the strictness of religious doctrine against doubt, most atheists do not consider themselves «7» because atheism arises from a lack of evidence and evidence can always change a thinking person's mind.

However, I do not fail to recognize that there is a difference between spirituality and religious doctrine.

Additionally, that fact that religious groups have killed in the name of their religion does not translate into that religion's doctrine.

Logic please don't read proof religious doctrine that you do NOT subscribe to.

MY gauge is a bit more accurate, those who abuse their religious doctrines as an excuse to commit murder and arson do NOT represent the vast majority of those who follow that particular faith.

And especially after the Noachian Flood, did false religion take a leap, with false religious doctrines and practices such as the trinity, immortality of the soul, that God torments people in a «hellfire», the establishment of a clergy class, the teaching of «personal salvation» as more important than the sanctification of God's name of Jehovah (Matt 6:9), the sitting in a church while a religious leader preaches a sermon, but the «flock» is not required to do anything more, except put money when the basket is passed.

He does not import into his philosophy any doctrines that have emerged into dominance in particular religious traditions.

In Chapter VI, we will consider whether his philosophic doctrine can illumine aspects of religious experience in relation to which he did not himself test it.

While it is impossible in a scientific age to consider any literal acceptance of the doctrine of resurrection, it does point even better than the doctrine of immortality to some of the fundamentals of religious experience mentioned above.

If we do not wish to speculate about this other world of which we can have no experience here, it is still important to recognize the religious dimension of the problem to which the doctrine of immortality is an attempted answer.

As we attempted to outline in our last editorial, when we search the pages of human history we do find such a line of spiritual and religious tradition that not only claims the direct authority of the Absolute Transcendent One whose name is «I Am Who I Am», but is also coherently developmental in doctrine and in providence across millennia.

Examine your religious doctrine thoroughly if you dare, and if you know how to do so honestly.

I do care if religious doctrine becomes an excuse to exclude my fellow citizens from the rights and protections our country promises.

We can say that Whitehead sees his interpretation of the doctrine of God's being within the pattern of St. Augustine's «faith seeking understanding», provided by faith we do not understand the acceptance of dogma; but the religious intuition born out of the impact of Jesus upon the world.

For that reason only we find now the ruling powers are in the hands of secular non religious ones... The conference above stated that the secular regimes in the West had used the indifference between religions, branches, doctrines by creating «Fitnah» said to be harder than killing... because you get all those with Fitnah to fight among them selves... beside establishing and supporting terrorist groups to get the area unstable far from investment and development environment that has caused the mass immigration of the capital heads, professions and skilled labour hands from their countries to the west and be treated as garbage at countries that they do not belong to whether as culture, race or religion....

3 In the only passage from The Problem of Christianity where the doctrine of the Trinity is discussed at length, Royce does not make clear whether he affirms an ontological triunity of persons within the Godhead or simply a distinction of divine persons within the religious experience of the believer (PC 135 - 39).

I think the average atheist knows more about religious doctrine than he does about scientific matters.

I'm not suggesting that all persons of faith are this way, but many of the more vocal religious people that get air time in the media (especially elected officials) choose to believe certain aspects of their religious doctrine and ignore / reject those tenets that do not fall in line with their socio - political agendas.

Religious leaders must maintain the doctrines of the community, it is suggested, so long as such doctrines do not get in the way of the truth.

He responded by relating the parable of the Good Samaritan, one of my personal favorites... bear traps are hidden, and often unseen till bear or human are caught in them... the traps are deliberately placed, they don't just suddenly appear... the answer to the question was the man who had compassion on the man taken by robbers... he was a social and spiritual outcast who had compassion on someone who in normal circumstances would have hated his guts... because his doctrine and «lifestyle» were not acceptable to the religious establishment... I have had life experiences that bear this out, experiencing love and compassion from people whom today's religious establishment demonizes and looks down upon... any reading of the Good Samaritan story should be followed up by a reading of 1 Corinthians 13....

We can do this and still admit that the other person's mistaken doctrines are valid religious beliefs.

For Baptists, the great doctrines of the Reformation were refracted through the prism of persecution and dissent which informed their intense advocacy of religious freedom and, especially in the American setting, the separation of church and state (which does not equal the divorce of religion from public life).

Hoefer 1979) says that the «rite has become a legal condition for the entry into the church which functions as a religious communal group; in this context it fails to convey its full meaning and purpose as the expression of or solidarity with the new humanity in Christ which transcends all communal or caste solidarities»; he also refers to the conclusion of Joseph Belcastro's book A New Testament Doctrine of Baptism for Today, that «the N.T. does not teach that baptism was a condition of salvation or church membership, but baptism was to be available for the disciples of the coming church....

The first explanation — that the Protestant doctrine of religious liberty led to the kind of church - state separation wherein clergymen, even while politically active, did not «compete» politically — is seen here in mirror image.

Doctrine and Covenants 134:7 7 We believe that rulers, states, and governments have a right, and are bound to enact laws for the protection of all citizens in the free exercise of their religious belief; but we do not believe that they have a right in justice to deprive citizens of this privilege, or proscribe them in their opinions, so long as a regard and reverence are shown to the laws and such religious opinions do not justify sedition nor conspiracy.

But the ground of the ambiguity does not consist in the idea that Whitehead's theological doctrines are false; rather the whole position is not fully developed in terms of coherently interrelated religious categories.

Doctrine and Covenants 134:9 9 We do not believe it just to mingle religious influence with civil government, whereby one religious society is fostered and another proscribed in its spiritual privileges, and the individual rights of its members, as citizens, denied.

Doctrine and Covenants 134:10 10 We believe that all religious societies have a right to deal with their members for disorderly conduct, according to the rules and regulations of such societies; provided that such dealings be for fellowship and good standing; but we do not believe that any religious society has authority to try men on the right of property or life, to take from them this world's goods, or to put them in jeopardy of either life or limb, or to inflict any physical punishment upon them.

alright I am spiritual and consider myself to be fairly religious how ever i do not belong to an organized religion do not have some hundre year old religious doctrine telling me what i can and can not do.

Spiritual, but not religious can also describe a large number of people who have very solid, very defined beliefs but do not feel the need to dress them in doctrine and dogma and ritual.

I'm an atheist because I decided that I didn't agree with religious doctrines, and that by extension those doctrines couldn't have divine authority, and a divine being with authority would surely correct religion if it existed.

For me included, it doesn't have to do with fence sitting, it has to do with rigid religious doctrines and the varying degrees of intolerance that comes from them.

Religious doctrine has nothing to do with it.

People are doing this to not stand out, its a way of making one feel imporetant, as with most if not all so called religious leaderrs they know very little or anything at all about the doctrines of the religion their in and this is a Fact.

The FCC has ruled, however, that the fairness doctrine does not apply to the broadcast of religious material because religion has not reached the level of social controversy.

This being postulated, do those in high places realize the revolutionary power of so novel a concept (it would be better to use the word «doctrine») in its effect on religious Faith?

Following the lead of Archbishop Lefebvre, the clergy of the Priestly Society of St. Pius X (SSPX)-- the ordained members of the Lefebvrist movement — have long claimed that what the Council taught on religious freedom is false because it contradicted settled Catholic teaching — a claim that has more to do with the agitations of post-1789 French politics than with a serious account of the history of Catholic church - state doctrine.

Let that be our doctrine, our religious practice and the nucleus of all we do.

Gays can not be sinners if they do not follow your particular religious doctrine.

Those atheists are trying to preach their «religious» doctrine to everybody... we don't need that.

And many of the leaders of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious do not embrace the doctrine of the Catholic Church as truth.

look up doctrine... Atheists have the same sense of morals as any religious people have as we get our morals from many millenia of evolution, just as all social animals do.

But if he does not believe in a religious doctrine (a terrible sin, I know) at least Hawking does not tell anyone that they will burn in hell for not thinking the same way he does.

Atheists are here to make their point known that the relious do not control society nor allow religious doctrine to make the laws of the land.

I'd be willing to call a truce, and allow science to move forward unhindered by religious philosophies looking to debunk findings simply because sometimes the findings don't fit in their narrow doctrine.

Prior to the event, calls were going back and forth with Rome to make sure that what was said did not compromise Catholic doctrine by religious syncretism.

He seems wholly unacquainted, for example, with any argument that might be advanced on behalf of the unborn other than one deriving from Roman Catholic or other religious doctrine, and he does not pause to examine even those.

My current ministry is taking care of widows and orphans, ministering to those with drug & alcohol problems — in other words doing what the true God would want; not going after the civil rights of millions of Americans — we need to keep church separated from hate — and stop trying to deny civil rights based on perceived religious doctrine.

I don't see how this is proof that God doesn't exist — rather it is evidence that this particular interpretation of religious doctrine is flawed.