Sentences with phrase «religious dogma as»

I speak of religious dogma as reveled truth, statements of fact.

In the long term, rejection of religious dogma as it pertains to basic society's needs will prevail, and the zealots touting their own religion will be relegated to their proper place.

«Knowledge» must come after faith... it is faith to accept religious dogma as knowledge.

how some folks post abstract metaphysical religious dogma as if it were empirical, incontrovertible fact.

Not exact matches

However Christians demand that society accept the existence of their god as fact and validate their religious dogmas by incorporating them into civil law.

Maybe we can look at it as a phase that many Christians from all demographics go through before a renewal, and that would be a good thing, for since organized religion, hence dogma, doctrine, religious practices, etc., is the primary cause for parting ways, it is a wake up call for the Christian church.

As a God - fearing soul - filled person, I see no reason to bargain with atheists or their idiotic vestiges of palpable dogma they spew forth by their desicrating religious faiths of abundant measures Teach your children well you parents of Atheistic dissention.

Kerry Egan observed something as a divinity school student that escaped her divinity school professor... that at or near the moment of truth \ death, up to a lifetime of religious dogma evaporates, and only reality remains.

Well, it's because no religious value, rule, law, tenet, or bit of dogma EVER trumps this nation's laws and we all agree on that, otherwise you might as well make the sleazy pope President and let the Ayatollah Khomeni be Vice President and we will live under religious sharia law with death for anyone who speaks blasphemy or who «dishonors» any religious figure whether real or not.

Now, realize that in today's society you are still just as hated, shunned and looked down upon for declaring that same differing belief... or even non-belief — just because people are still too hung up on their precious religious dogma to realize that, though the outcome is obviously less drastic than in the past, they are still doing the same thing that religious people did in the past?

That fact, all by itself, is a spiritual enterprise; however, it is not the same thing as religious dogma.

Indeed, science has a long history of refuting religious dogma held as «truth»..

Religious language is also historical and evolutionary: it depicts the people of God as on a journey to the holy land, the Church as a mystical body evolving toward the fullness of Christ, the liturgy as consisting of cycles of growth, the Christian life as an exodus, grace as growth in the fullness of Christ, dogma as evolving, etc..

your understanding of the change process is very simplistic, because your mind is not open, you specifically believe already in the traditional doctrines, Dogmas as shown in thousands of years of history evolves, and the need for input variables, meaning the diversity of religious belief is necessay because nature through his will is requiring this to happen, we are being educated by God in the events of history.In the past when there was no humans yet Gods will is directly manifisted in nature, with our coming and education through history, we gradually takes the responsibilty of implementing the will.Your complaint on your perception of abuse is just part of the complex process of educating us through experience.

I think it's great that we have such an amazing president, one who can actually see past religious dogma and can stand up to an entire country and say «Gay men are parents too and they should be recognized as such!»

I see heretics not as people who resist God but as people who do not bow to religious tradition and dogma.

Most people lose or forget the subjectively religious experience, and redefine Religion as a set of habits, behaviors, dogmas, forms, which at the extreme becomes entirely legalistic and bureaucratic, conventional, empty, and in the truest meaning of the word, antireligious.

Now, realize that in today's society you are still just as hated, shunned and looked down upon for declaring that same differing belief... or even non-belief — just because people are still too hung up on their precious religious dogma to realize that they are still doing the same thing that religious people did in the past.

When this happens, religious propositions are taken as dogmas and religious insight atrophies (RM 144f).

Although held in theory over a long period, the belief was accentuated during the latter part of the nineteenth century and since, and became finally a basic dogma underlying the Japanese Imperial thrust, which is often regarded as the beginning of World War II.9 The idea was taught in the schools, in the army, and resulted finally in a fanatical religious, as well as patriotic, devotion to the emperor, without which, it seems to the writer, it is impossible to explain the daring attack of the island empire of Japan upon the richest and most powerful nation in the world, the United States.

E.g., in regards to scientific support for evolution and rejection of creationism and the young earth dogma, in 1986, 72 US Nobel Prize winners, 17 state academies of science and 7 other scientific societies, signed an amicus curiae brief asking the US Supreme Court in Edwards v. Aguillard to reject a Louisiana state law requiring the teaching of creationism, which the brief described as embodying religious dogma.

Public education can be religious in this sense without violating religious liberty and without teaching sectarian doctrines as official public dogma.

I can asssure you, if you ever should find youself questioning Lutheran dogma — some of which Catholics, Eastern Orthodox, and Calvinists condemn as heresy, BTW — your experience of your religious community would become quite different.

In 1986, an amicus curiae brief, signed by 72 US Nobel Prize winners, 17 state academies of science and 7 other scientific societies, asked the US Supreme Court in Edwards v. Aguillard, to reject a Louisiana state law requiring the teaching of creationism (which the brief described as embodying religious dogma).

While these programs are usually beneficial to the community, they serve as platforms for religious dogma — the old «hey we are doing something for you so you need to listen to, and believe what we tell you regardless of how counterintuitive it may seem».

Though of less exalted origin, and not of equal value with sruti, as a basis of religious dogma, it is perhaps quite as influential in the lives of the people in inculcating and nourishing religious faith and practice.

It's quite easy to reconcile embracing both Rand's philosophy and Christianity, and people do it all the time: complete and total ignorance, borne out of an inability to read with any sort of comprehension, or an outright refusal to read with an open mind, either Rand's books, or the scriptures and other Christian religious dogma such as the catechism, or both.

Richard, there is nothing in Christian dogma that can be interpreted as a claim that the followers of Jesus are sinless, even though there are too many professed Christians who seem to believe that grace has made them not only righteous; but inerrant in spiritual / religious matters.

How can it be a freer society if certain corporations are allowed to force their religious dogma on their employees, compared to where every individual as equal access?

Because creation ostensibly ended with the biblical era, we who follow are not considered a part of the ongoing creative process, but are to function as the custodians of religious dogma and ritual, oblivious of Christ's words, «You have a fine way of rejecting the commandments of God, in order to keep your tradition!»

As much as I think ALL religion is a crock and that common sense should trump religious dogma, to force people who don't want to use the service is just as wrong as the church trying to deny it to everyone regardless of their faitAs much as I think ALL religion is a crock and that common sense should trump religious dogma, to force people who don't want to use the service is just as wrong as the church trying to deny it to everyone regardless of their faitas I think ALL religion is a crock and that common sense should trump religious dogma, to force people who don't want to use the service is just as wrong as the church trying to deny it to everyone regardless of their faitas wrong as the church trying to deny it to everyone regardless of their faitas the church trying to deny it to everyone regardless of their faith.

There is room for religion in school as a subject for social science, not as dogma; but Creationism is religious dogma that depends on misconceptions and ignorance to pass itself off as science.

To identify the evaluation or rejection of doctrine as simply «confirming us in our selfishness» is such a self righteous (and stereotypical) way to defend religious doctrine and / or simple dogma whichever the case may be.

Vic You know in your heart you are stating this multi cultural / religious nation must be dominated by the Christian religion, but you Christians can not even get together on what you mean as a religion, so many different dogmas.

This dogmatic intolerance becomes all the more difficult for non-Catholics when it is associated not only with distinctly religious dogma, but also with elements of natural law that are not accepted as divinely sanctioned moral demands by most non-Catholics.

Religious faith means abandoning rational inquiry and accepting dogma as truth.

Definition of CULT 1: formal religious veneration: worship 2: a system of religious beliefs and ritual; also: its body of adherents 3: a religion regarded as unorthodox or spurious; also: its body of adherents 4: a system for the cure of disease based on dogma set forth by its promulgator 5a: great devotion to a person, idea, object, movement, or work (as a film or book); especially: such devotion regarded as a literary or intellectual fad b: the object of such devotion c: a usually small group of people characterized by such devotion

Does not this statement, he asks, mean today «that human life in society, liberated as far as possible from alienations, constitutes the absolute value, and that all religious institutions, all dogmas, all the sacraments and all ecclesiastical authorities have only a relative, that is, a functional value?»

Historically, of course, this meant that it held its ideological commitments lightly, recognising that doctrine and dogma — secular or religious — could blunt its effectiveness as a political movement dedicated to an improvement in the material conditions of working people.

Energy work has no religious dogma associated with it, yet it can be used as a path to help us remain more connected to our inner selves, our spirituality, and support us as we grow, heal, and transform. . .

For example: Taubes says that Japanese sumo wrestlers are fat due to eating more carbs but they also eat 2 - 5 times as much protein as the normal lean Japanese people who eat 300g of starch a day in defiance of idiotic low - carb religious dogma.

Too often fitness professionals, web sites and magazines treat their programs or approaches as religious dogma.

One woman's struggle to abide by religious dogma in 1970s America forms the basis of Higher Ground, the directorial debut for Vera Farmiga (Up in the Air), who also stars in this film as Corinne.

I've been exposed too often to distressing news such as pushing not just religious dogma, but that of one particular religion into public school curriculums and textbooks — «reading» would then render one to be a captive of... the Twilight Zone.

Boucher introduces Lotto as «an outlier in Italian Renaissance art, a portrait painter capable of capturing the soul on canvas, a man whose religious art struck a note of sincerity in an age bound by ritual and dogma, a figure overshadowed in life by Titian and Raphael and condemned to poverty and relative failure in his own day.»

And the modern Islam is replete with subjugation of women and religious intolerance as dogma.

As such, you undoubtedly know all about religious dogma and Holy Scripture.

In Only the Paranoid Survive — Andrew Grove — then Intel's president — listed the reasons why Intel did nothing for a full year: Numerous factories, thousands of employees — and «religious dogmas» within Intel about «memories as the backbone of our manufacturing and sales activity.»