Cosmic Coincidence Einstein once wrote that for a scientist, «
religious feeling takes the form of a rapturous amazement at the harmony of natural law» and that «this feeling is the guiding principle of his life and work.»
Not exact matches
It seems as if since the
religious zealots God is unable to call down lightning as they think he should when they
feel we have blasphemed him, the zealots enjoy
taking matters into their own hands and attempt to bully and persecute and even murder atheists on their God's behalf.
I
take it simply that you meant that even while you
felt your
religious views were reinforced by your sister's STD, that you showed her love even though you
felt she had brought her illness on herself.
Jura Nanuk, founder & President of Central - European
Religious Freedom Inst.itute, wrote the minister an open letter in which she stated: «Did it ever occur to you that instead of pretending to be a victim due to your hurt
feelings you might show some compassion for people who were
taken to the brink of extinction by your ancestors?
So I
take it that since you are not
Religious do you
feel that the ones born to Atheist parents are also a accident of whom they were born too?
So should we
take the tendency for certain people to get
religious feelings about Apple as evidence for the legitimacy of claims that Steve Jobs is god?
He laid the foundation of the Nadva, a rival educational institution at Lucknow, because he
felt that Sir Sayyid was
taking the Muslims much too far from their proper
religious outlook, and because he
felt that
religious education should be combined with secular education.
We
take our inhuman behavior; we bless it with
religious phrases and
religious jargon; then we beat on one another in the name of God so that Catholics and Protestants
feel justified in killing each other in Ireland, and Christians and Moslems do likewise in Lebanon.
... No, this has been the
feeling of most people all along, that you do nt push your
religious beliefs on others at the cost of
taking away their right to the pursuit of happiness.
Ultimately the
religious will never give up their gun's because they don't really have any faith in God to save them and
feel they have to
take the key's to life and death away from Jesus, then sit back and claim they are defending God and their rights when really they are shouting loud and clear «I DO N'T TRUST YOU TO PROTECT ME JESUS!!
CNN: Bill Maher
takes on Tim Tebow and
feels the wrath On Christmas Eve the Denver Broncos were getting destroyed by Detroit Lions on the football field and comedian, liberal commentator, and
religious provocateur Bill Maher couldn't help but tweet about it.
The fact some atheists on here
feel the need to
take over a thread about a
religious figure is sad really.
If you
feel as though you need to
take your child out of school 2 - 3 days a year for
religious purposes, do so.
Good Grief - It's not that we
take religion «SO personally», as you put it, it's just that nobody else seems interested in challenging
religious beliefs seriously, something that many of us
feel is absolutely necessary considering how much harm they can cause within society.
well you konw what, if all muslim or other
religious folks
feel offended having «
religious» spring and winter break, don't
take them.
It is men who have «
taken what they want» and «discarded the rest» that embark on
religious crusades, and pogroms, and persecution of their neighbors, and who practice their pedophilic filth and perversion in the Houses of the Lord because their false idols of personal vaingloriousness tell them that everything they're doing is somehow acceptable, because they're doing «what they
feel is right», instead of doing what they are told.
Imagine if Jesus was in our world right now and he headed right over to someone who cooperated with and benefitted from oppression, someone who had traded integrity for political power, someone we distrust, someone who we
feel is dangerous, someone who stole from people in a socially acceptable and governmentally blessed way, someone who
took the very
religious or national identity that we cherished and basically stomped all over it for his own gain.
The most serious impact is likely to be
felt, he thinks, in the churches, where vicars and priests conducting
religious marriage ceremonies could be
taken to court for refusing to carry out a gay wedding.
i can
feel love for him throughout my heart and soul... i want to grow old with this man... i am 47 and he is 45... he has never been married... he said there is not a chance of getting back together again regardless of how we
feel towards each other because we committed adultery and God will never forgive us and it will be wrong to do so... so am i supposed to go on living my life being so deeply in love with this man i can never have... why would God put him in my life to make me
feel so spiritually happy, so wonderful, so at peace with myself and someone I can finally worship Him with just to
take him away from me... I've never been with someone who was so
religious and i thought this was it... i finally have someone to read the bible with and go to church with and put God first and share things with my self and my daughter as a loving relationship would be....
Personal
religious experience and inner
feeling, therefore, began to
take precedence over
religious thought and dogma at the very time when traditional Christian doctrines were becoming increasingly out of kilter with the new ideas and advancing human knowledge of the last two centuries.
A great many internal and external portents (political and social upheaval, moral and
religious unease) have caused us all to
feel, more or less confusedly, that something tremendous is at present
taking place in the world.
Personally my
feelings when some
religious dolt insists that I must believe in jesus and find him is to
take their bible and shove it up their hole sideways where it belongs.
And can we do so in such a way that the
feeling of being on an endless
religious journey actually integrates us more fully with the cosmos instead of inspiring us to
take flight from it?
In other words, the persons who have passed through conversion, having once
taken a stand for the
religious life, tend to
feel themselves identified with it, no matter how much their
religious enthusiasm declines.»
This was has so much hatred for a
religious symbol that not only symbolizes Christianity but it is also a huge part of Italian culture that she would go as far as
taking the matter to court... why is her opinion, her
feelings more important than the opinion and
feelings of the rest of the Italian population?
we all tend to fear what we do not know - rather than
take someone else's word for it explore for yourself -
take a yoga class at the Y or the local yoga studio - tune into your own experience - your own
feelings - yoga is NOT a
religious practice and never has been - it is a process of yoking (yoga means to yoke or to join) body and mind - when body and mind are integrated we experience the NOW - peace - and that leads the to experience of ONEness - we are all connected - I am you, you are me - be love my loves - be love...
This is common for any judgmental society or person, as long as they use their
religious background and beliefs to justify
taking away rights, implementing rules to defame groups of other people they
feel are not of their group's «norm.»
An interesting common trait of the poets referred to in the title of this essay is that they seem (it is hard to be sure about this) to believe in God but not in metaphysics, not in the then available theoretical explications of the idea of deity They knew the dangers of
religious intolerance and
felt that truths of the intellect must
take second place compared to truths of the heart.
Disagreed.CNN posts something
religious every Sunday to encourage debate and sometimes humorous comments.The only folks that get upset are the ones that
take the postings seriously and
feel a need to defend their unreasonable beliefs in god.PS: the non-believers are the only ones with an actual sense of humour.Maybe some people weren't in line when god handed out the funny - bones.
We analysed religion, here is a religion, where the idols are washed in milk and there is no milk for the children to drink, the rich being overfed and the poor starving and yet the
religious leaders have no
feelings, why are these big temples empty, why can not poor people
take shelter in these temples.
One person
felt strongly that the peas
took away from her nearly -
religious mushroom experience.
His Father and Many
felt my husband was not going to get away with his defiance to the agenda they had and started using harsher ways to keep him from what he was demanding It eventually earned him a nickname the retaliation and left grown men crying when they had to try and deal with him Christmas 2003 it was thought o0ur deacon came up with the perfect plan by claiming
Religious need over my husbands refusal to work the 2003 down week My Husband Decided he was going to Ruin his life in response to making him work both the Ireland vacation and The holidays, I told him before the Ireland trip if he wanted to go he could have just
taken our offer in 2001.
At previous rallies I have heard church leaders say that they had no idea they were being
taken to such a rally and I have heard other
religious leaders that they
felt pressured to participate or risk losing the Senator's support.
And the ending which
takes things to a level of mad,
religious grandeur — in lesser hands likely to drown in cheap theatricality —
feels truly immense.
That Lee was able to make a $ 100 million dollar movie about these themes at 20th Century Fox was impressive enough, that he turns it into something of a Rorschach test for the audience (I
felt that the film was suggesting that belief in God is a comforting fiction,
religious friends
took it as an affirmation of their faith) even more so.
This man is at first reluctant to
take on the job, but as the facts of the woman's life
take shape - she was an engineer from the former Soviet Union, a non-Jew on a
religious pilgrimage to Jerusalem, and, judging by an early photograph, beautiful - he yields to
feelings of regret, atonement, and even love.
Lord John Stuart and his Brother, Lord Bernard Stuart (after 1638) by Anthony van Dyck This glittering portrait of two dandified cavaliers
takes us to the aristocratic heart of Charles I's highly cultivated elite, which was dangerously ignoring the
religious feelings of Londoners and other middling Britons.
From about 1520, as the Northern Renaissance
felt the impact of Luther's revolt against the corrupt practices of the Roman Church, a new set of aesthetics
took hold, in the form of Protestant Reformation Art, which reflected the Christian agenda of the Protestant movement, which rejected the humanist art and ideology of the High Renaissance, and celebrated a more austere
religious experience, with minimal decoration.
Justice Abella
felt that the interests of the Hutterites trumped the province's policy concerns and that the community's
religious beliefs made the very
taking of a photograph a form of indirect coercion.
At first, as Carol sat small and waiflike in a chair in front of me, I
felt an internal pull to rescue her from her husband and her
religious congregation — a road I knew I couldn't
take without perpetuating her sense of insignificance.