Sentences with phrase «religious texts did»

The people who wrote religious texts didn't know what micro and macro physics were.

So from a Whiteheadian perspective, understanding of a religious text does not rest so heavily upon existential appropriation of its message as the Heideggerians claim.

Education in religious text does not give you a relationship with God it gives you knowledge not even understanding of the deeper things of the Bible.

Eric G: You are claiming that religious texts do not need to be accurate, (or even factual) because the message needs to be «dumbed down» so the masses can understand it.

You are claiming that religious texts do not need to be accurate, (or even factual) because the message needs to be «dumbed down» so the masses can understand it.

Not exact matches

Lichtenfeld covers all the basics: stay active and healthy, exercise, play sports, eat right, socialize a lot with family and friends, meet new friends, keep learning, do volunteer work, be involved in your community, run for office, attend church or other religious / spiritual activities, read books and newspapers, check your email and text your friends.

I just don't like it when people cherry pick their religious sources or, in the case of this article, outright go against what their religious texts teach to try and appear more politically correct.

If he truly believes his religious text as a Christian or Jew would their own then he is doing the right thing in the eyes of god.

outside of the bible, or any other religious texts (which, again, are only relevant to those accept the claimed authority) do you see any evidence of heaven, hell, sin, or redemption?

Should students never perform any music with a religious text, even if done in a secular setting and with the purpose of providing a complete education, not for the purpose of worship or of promoting a particular belief?

Why do all religious texts promote hate a bigotry?

She may not have been indoctrinated / brainwashed by someone within her household, but she didn't form these beliefs about Christianity in a vacuum where no one around her was attempting to convince her to believe, and she was just studying various religious texts until she happened on the bible and other apologetics.

«god» doesn't exist and is make believe, your religious texts were written by human beings without any kind of «divine inspiration» regardless of what you read in them... written by people who thought the Earth was flat... it isn't.

I can only say that I do this when religious people use the «bible» as a historical text.

I also have a copy of Jewish religious texts, Islamic texts and a few other faiths texts and can speak intelligently with the devout of any of them and have done so.

Don't allow religious philosophy to intrude into biology classrooms and texts, they say, for that is to soil the sacred precincts of science, which must be reserved for hypotheses that can be rigorously tested and confronted with data.

The idea that religious texts are a kind of «instruction manual» and all you have to do is just read it and the truth becomes plainly obvious used to be well outside the mainstream of religious thought.

Presuming that religious texts are accurate, how did you determine that the hindu, sikh, etc texts were not accurate but that christian texts were?

But they don't leave it there — they want to set laws based upon their religious beliefs, set school curricula based upon their religious beliefs, have their religious prayers in public meetings, put their religious texts on public buildings, etc..

While I do not consider myself an expert on all the religious writings of all of the main religions in the world, I have read most of the main religious texts for most of the main world religions, and while it is not uncommon to find violent events being described in these other religious books, no other set of religious writings comes even close to describing the violence and bloodshed that one finds within the pages of the Hebrew Scriptures.

I didn't catch how this makes the Hebrew bible unique or more inspired than all other religious / spiritual texts, but it doesn't matter, the message is what matters.

The great irony is that some religious fundies use the Bible to keep gay people away from their «table», and feasts, using the very texts that the Bible intended to teach hospitality, to do the opposite.

You might wasnt to read more religious texts (do you think they are all true) and some high quality science fiction in which new religious ideology is often invented.

The members of today's intense religious groups and not a few members of the larger public like to get even closer to home, rubbing texts like these into contemporary Christian consciousness: «Now great multitudes accompanied Jesus; and he turned and said to them, «If any one comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he can not be my disciple»» (Luke 14:25 f.).

literal vs metaphoric: Do you take the hard line that your religious text is literally true or do you interpret it as metaphoDo you take the hard line that your religious text is literally true or do you interpret it as metaphodo you interpret it as metaphor?

I don't think he can be considered a Christian just because he agrees with some passages from the bible - they may have well come from any other religious text.

That doesn't mean they didn't have their various religious beliefs, but they knew that they should not limit their ideas of freedom and governance to what was in a religious text.

Not all religious thought waited until texts could be written to start and not al religions focus on do's and don'ts though they all do try to help us make better decisions if they are worth the long survivals they've had; both in their own religion and those that took their ideas and reformed them for their current times.

There absolutely nothing in your bible, or other religious texts that tells us things we did not know at the time.

Perhaps Christians don't actually read their religious text.

no proof the bible quran or any other religious text has anything to do with God.

In America, marriage does not have to be a religious event, and quoting from your religious text has no persuasive effect on those who don't follow your particular brand of religion.

I wonder, PRISSY, do you think Samuel Barber is in heaven because he composed beautiful music and set religious text to it, or is he in hell because he was gay?

We do right by each other and right by our community because it's the good and righteous thing to do, not because we suffer the burden of guilt hung on us by some religious text.

You don't get to decide that others must live by the laws of the Bible or any other religious text.

You need NO religious texts to do this.

Enough food, water, medicine and aid to those who need it, and you do NOT need any kind of religious texts to accomplish any of that.

They do take a position — it's just not the position prescribed by a religious text or an imam.

And insofar as Mr. Miller saying those who are «spiritual but not religious» not reading sacred texts: I most definitely do, and do not limit my exploration to a particular religion, idea, or spiritual concept.

Alcoholics Anonymous, being «spiritual, not religious,» doesn't use the Bible at all; rather it uses another sacred text, the inspired Word of God as expressed through Bill Wilson, the Big Book... Unlike the Oxford Group, which claimed salvation and redemption by Jesus through the Oxford Group, AA proclaims «recovery» by one s «Higher Power» through the Twelve Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous (Ken Ragge, The Real AA: Behind the Myth of 12 - Step Recovery [AZ: Sharp Press, 1998], pp. 82 - 83).

You can post quotes from and references to this book all year long and it will not change the fact that: Yes, there are some practical words of wisdom for peaceful human behavior in it (as there are in most religious texts), but just because this is true it does not make all of the supernatural fantasies in it true.

-- religious books try to make people look better than they really are — koran, and all the other texts, that's what they do.

To many of the jewish faith, the Christians hijacked part of their religious writings and applied their own interpretations, often own «translations» which in parts are different from older texts (that Christianity did not control).

He also makes quite a few arguments from omission, concluding from the fact that the text doesn't explicitly report that Esther «went to synagogue» that she must have been a worldly, lukewarm Jew, forgetting that Esther is the one who calls for a fast later in the story, reflecting something of a religious background and personal religious conviction.

So, what does this mean for Catholics, Mormons, Muslims, Orthodox Jews, and so many more who believe that their authoritative religious texts teach something the prevailing culture finds so unacceptable that they are no longer welcome within the mainstream context, even if they are (as Louie Giglio is known for) working to eradicate slavery?

This is such a truism that one is almost ashamed to pen the words, and yet it remains a fact that, in a great deal of the more conservative biblical scholarship, it does seem to be assumed that the appeal to factual accuracy would he as valid and important a factor in the case of ancient Near Eastern religious texts as it would be in a modern western court of law or in a somewhat literally - minded western congregation.

I have little knowledge of other religious texts, therefore I don't place judgement.

This means that context — in the broad sense of cultural, religious, social, political and economical circumstances — and text — as Scripture in its process of transmission and interpretation, that is, its Tradition — do mutually interpret each other.

My point about the bible is that I don't necessarily think that it is MORE important than all other religious / spiritual texts.

«No one who pretended to any sort of theology or religious reflection at all wanted to go counter to the «real» applicative meaning of biblical texts, once it had been determined what it was, even if one did not believe them on their own authority,» he remarked.