Sentences with phrase «religious feelings humans»

For a more circumspect look at war, read Blood Rites, which explores the uniquely religious feelings humans bring to war.

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Such a new ecclesiastical body is designed to allow these pathetic human beings, who are so deeply locked into a world that no longer exists, to form a community in which they can continue to hate gay people, distort gay people with their hopeless rhetoric and to be part of a religious fellowship in which they can continue to feel justified in their homophobic prejudices for the rest of their tortured lives.

I am not religious or spiritual, but I, like Nyad, can feel amazed by the human experience.

Those of the religious agenda keep on telling themselves that whoever this person that wrote it should be more involved with religion and should keep on pushing the «topic of religion» onto dying people instead of just being a human being and focusing on the person's feelings at their last hours on earth.

When the U.S. Muslim community sounds out LOUD and CLEAR, without equivocation, and immediately against all forms of terrorism, including all aggressive religious intolerance for human rights, women's right, children, equal protection under the law, the respect for other religions to coexist, the right to free speech, and the ability to separate church from state, IF THEY FINALLY DO THAT AND LOUDLY, then we will begin to feel comfortable that they are truly embracing American ideals and here to join us, not to oppose, defy, or undermine what we hold dear.

Amazing, such rationality presented by you... oh wait, not really rational to poke fun at your human being unless your own self esteem is so low that the only means to feel superior to your fellow human being is to belittle them for their beliefs... kinda like what the religious do to you.

Nonetheless, human beings are naturally religious when by that we mean that they possess, by virtue of their given ontological being, a complex set of innate features, capacities, powers, limitations, and tendencies that give them the capacity to think, perceive, feel, imagine, desire, and act religiously and that under the right conditions tend to predispose and direct them toward religion.

The human existential condition does not require that people be religious or feel the need to address and answer such questions — many people appear happy to focus on the present, live as well as they can, and not be bothered by the Big Questions.

Greg: Charles Taylor believes humans are naturally ordered toward the good, which means they will always feel a religious impulse.

Thus a dedicated scientist who feels, because he is a human being, the need for something less coldly detached from humanity, may easily be drawn into a religious cult which is both crude and obscurantist.

Some will thrill to the contempt for the human; some will feel a jolt of free - floating religious awe; some will decide that enough's enough (though most of those are unlikely to have started the novel in the first place).

The religious ideology would no longer be necessary when its source in human feelings of finitude and limitation had been overcome by man's success in organizing his world.

thinks, that the Tigris and the Euphrates have not a common source, that the Dead Sea had been in existence long before human beings came to live in Palestine, instead of originating in historical times, and so on... We are able to comprehend this as the naive conception of the men of old, but we can not regard belief in the literal truth of such accounts as an essential of religious conviction... And every one who perceives the peculiar poetic charm of these old legends must feel irritated by the barbarian — for there are pious barbarians — who thinks he is putting the true value upon these narratives only when he treats them as prose and history.

One way of viewing the religious crisis of our time is to see it not in the first instance as a challenge to the intellectual cogency of Christianity, Buddhism, Islam, or other traditions, but as the gradual erosion, in an ever more complex and technological society, of the feeling of reciprocity with nature, organic interrelatedness with the human community, and sensitive attention to the processes of lived experience where the realities designated by religious symbols and assertions are actually to be found, if they are found at all.

This stress on the primacy of process and the ultimacy of constitutive relations means that, in considering the morphological structure of religious experience, attention must be directed to its origin in the physical feelings which comprise the primary mode of human experience.

As a fusion of physical and conceptual feelings, religious experience represents an emergent factor in human life.

When I reflect on the infinite pains to which the human mind and heart will go in order to protect itself from the full impact of reality, when I recall the mordant analyses of religious belief which stem from the works of Karl Marx and Sigmund Freud and, furthermore, recognize the truth of so much of what these critics of religion have had to say, when I engage in a philosophical critique of the language of theology and am constrained to admit that it is a continual attempt to say what can not properly be said and am thereby led to wonder whether its claim to cognition can possibly be valid — when I ask these questions of myself and others like them (as I can not help asking and, what is more, feel obliged to ask), is not the conclusion forced upon me that my faith is a delusion?

thank you... this concept is seemingly so foreign to the religious... you do good because it gives you the best feeling in the world to help fellow human beings... no strings attached, no heaven and hell stuff... just helping out someone who needs help... the human thing to do...

Later, in Reflections on America, Maritain wrote: «The Founding Fathers were neither metaphysicians nor theologians, but their philosophy of life, and their political philosophy, their notion of natural law and of human rights, were permeated with concepts worked out by Christian reason and backed up by an unshakeable religious feeling.»

See Between Man and Man (London: Regan Paul 1947), p. 89) Such communication by a teacher who has a deep feeling for a religious tradition often leads students to an encounter with the meanings which speak to human needs from that tradition.

Crucially important to Meland's enterprise is a recognition of myth as the felt expression of the depths of human culture, In his view, religious faith, and more particularly Christian faith, finds embodiment and expression not only in religious institutions and individual religious experience, but in the midst of secular cultures as well, The Judeo - Christian mythos underlies and is formative of the cultural sensibilities of Western men.

God is not to be perceived as an abstract remote deity insensitive to the deepest religious feelings which grow out of experiences of pain, suffering, death, and human agony.

The author also states «Yet the spiritual - but - not - religious outlook sees the human as one that simply wants to experience «nice things» and «feel better.»».

They aren't even really human so you can't discriminate against them...» The fact that the religious feel this way about atheists is shameful and disgusting but it's true.

But religious love is only man's natural emotion of love directed to a religious object; religious fear is only the ordinary fear of commerce, so to speak, the common quaking of the human breast, in so far as the notion of divine retribution may arouse it; religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge; only this time it comes over us at the thought of our supernatural relations; and similarly of all the various sentiments which may be called into play in the lives of religious persons.

Who better than he knew what base things can come from the black depths of the human heart, dealing as he did with extortioners and prostitutes, the cruelty of the strong and the bigotry of the religious, and feeling over all the tyranny of a vast military empire?

The former — religious experience — need not be highly articulated nor even highly conscious of God as God; it may be vague, diffused, and unformed, yet also a deliverance of what it feels like to be dependent upon a reality greater than anything human or natural.

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.

He feels thoroughly satisfied with a religious attitude derived from the human imagination because he believes that all men everywhere are naturally good.

What is exciting about religion in art as expressed in painting is the endless evocation of profound human feelings and the interaction of those feelings with great religious symbols and themes.

Early religious inklings of «another dimension» were felt especially in those aspects of nature considered important for human subsistence and survival.

The ruling Swedes might recognize that religious «feeling» is a legitimate aspect of human subjectivity, but they emphatically object when people act on the fantasies produced by this feeling to the detriment of other people, or when delusionary beliefs impede the achievement of important social objectives.

lol, yes clay i am an atheist... i created the sun whorshipping thing to have argument against religion from a religious stand point... however, the sun makes more sense then something you can't see or feel — the sun also gives free energy... your god once did that for the jews, my gives it to the human race as well as everything else on the planet, fuk even the planet is nothing without the sun... but back to your point — yes it is very hypocritical of me, AND thats the point, every religious person i have ever met has and on a constant basis broken the tenets of there faith without regard for there souls — it seems to only be the person's conscience that dictates what is right and wrong... the belief in a god figure is just because its tradition to and plus every else believes so its always to be part of the group instead of an outsider — that is sadly human nature to be part of the group.

Conversely, one who feels a strong bond with all other human beings usually has a sense of connection with nature and with all of life, whether or not it is expressed in conventional religious forms.

In a recent interview with the Washington Post (part of their ominously titled «Voices of Power» series), Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius discussed Archbishop Joseph Naumann's request that she not present herself for communion because of her public support for legalised abortion: «Well, it was one of the most painful things I have ever experienced in my life, and I am a firm believer in the separation of church and state, and I feel that my actions as a parishioner are different than my actions as a public official and that the people who elected me in Kansas had a right to expect me to uphold their rights and their beliefs even if they did not have the same religious beliefs that I had.

In a general sense, one can speak of four areas of struggle: (i) the system of economic exploitation and social stratification (racial segregation, women's working conditions, unemployment and the new legislation of «flexibility and «deregulation); (ii) the ideology (the way of representing the world, social relations, etc.) that justifies the system — the new ideologies of race superiority, the religious legitimation of competition and the so - called free market as the only and sufficient way of organizing human life (iii) the ways in which the consciousness of the oppressed, is led to interject this ideology of domination and to develop a feeling of self - denial and self - devaluation; (iv) the atomization of the society through the weakening and destruction of neighborhood, workers and local cultural manifestations.

However, there are groups of tamed adherents of secular ideologies and religious faiths who feel that in the dialogue between religions and secular ideologies they must find some alternative path to save the positive human values and what modernity has realized of them through the last three or four centuries.

Whitehead sees the ground or source of purpose, value, order, and novelty — and in human beings of moral and religious feeling — as divine.

A few reasons why are religious people so stupid: — do not understand Sunday is a day off for many people — they feel it's honorable to post on hobby / interest blogs while at work — do not understand time zones and / or that web sites may be accessed 24/7 by international visitors — do not understand that even within a single time zone humans may have different sleep habits

Religious conservatives felt that humans should not interfere in God's plan, denouncing the growing popularity of the birth - control pill in the 1960s and debating in the 1970s whether «test - tube babies,» produced by in vitro fertilization, would have souls.

«Teddy is a vehicle for the projection of one's human feelings in the same way god is,» says Perry, who loves religious art but describes himself as a Christian atheist.

Legatus, You pretend that human feelings of love, compassion, companionship, etc. — in short, all of the positive emotions displayed by people, are the result of religious indoctrination.