Sentences with phrase «religious texts for»

But as President of the United States, and as a world leader, he dares not utilize religious texts for pluralistic secular solutions.

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.

That's the danger of strict literal interpretation of any religious text for that matter.

Not exact matches

Arguing that the Quran incites violence, it insisted that «the verses of the Quran calling for murder and punishment of Jews, Christians, and nonbelievers be struck to obsolescence by religious authorities,» so that «no believer can refer to a sacred text to commit a crime.»

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.

There are many, many schools which prohibit any and all music with a religious text from their curricula and prohibit teachers from programming such music for concerts no matter how balanced the program may be (that is, it encompasses secular and sacred, accompanied and unaccompanied, difficult and easy, music in a variety of styles and from a variety of musical eras.

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?

The «religiously devout» is important, for Geck puts to death the notion, prominent from the early 1960s through the 1980s, that correct dating of Bach's cantata production proves that his interest in writing liturgical music was a professional obligation only and that Bach had no abiding commitment to the religious texts he was paid to set.

Look into what the symbolism says it might make religious texts a little easier to understand and less bothersome for you.

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 «Declaration on the Relation of the Church to Non-Christian Religions» now known simply as Nostra Aetate (or, «In our Time,» from the first words of its Latin text), denounced all forms of religious hatred, and called for a new dialogue among the world's religions.

They idea that religious truth is revealed through persistent study and devotion to religious texts has been around for centuries.

God wants humanity to understand that nothing and nobody is beyond the scope of His redemptive purposes, and so by sending Jesus as the fulfillment of the most violent of religious texts, God not only revealed Himself by way of a stark contrast to that violence, but also showed how to reinterpret and understand those violent events in light of the self - sacrificial God dying on the cross for the sins of the whole world.

On Wednesday, the Muslim leaders released the Marrakesh Declaration: a 750 - word document calling for religious freedom for non-Muslims in majority - Muslim countries [full text below].

Now, John 14 has become a go - to text for discussions around salvation, exclusivism, and religious pluralism, which are worthy discussion to have, but that tend to pull verse six out of its context.

Raimundo Panikkar in his great collection of Vedic texts for modern man or woman called The Vedic Experience, whilst recognising that the Vedas are «linked for ever to the particular religious sources from which they historically sprang», also says that the Vedas are a monument of universal religion and therefore of deep significance for all people.

Religious virtuosos, on the other hand, engage in ressourcement: they draw on the resources of profound traditions and project them into the future, calling for action in light of what the ancient texts themselves project.

Finally, aware of the religious dimensions of the texts, they are able to appreciate how claims to ultimate significance are inevitably forged in terms that are anthropologically rooted, historically conditioned and literarily defined; on the other hand, for the first time, many of them come to perceive Christianity as in fact making a number of extremely interesting religious claims.

There might be a Buddhist monk who has been in solitary meditation for 30 years who might know but nobody that takes religious texts at literal face value has any idea.

It's important for everyone to be able to understand irrelevant and highly unreliable religious texts.

It is only by changing religious and secular text which informs such notions for new citizens will this change and finally women will own God on equal terms.

During the Abbasid era, for example, Muslim culture progressed rapidly, and the religious texts were interpreted in a way which suited the spirit of the age.

The same can be said for other religious texts, but my point is that faith should never be more important than reason.

Another cause for concern is the way the christian agenda is pushed right here: christian religious beliefs to be taught as science, christian religious texts on public buildings, christian prayers at public meetings, christian beliefs as law, etc..

Taken in totality we have natural explanations for all that religious texts offer as the work of a god.

all of which can not be said for almost any religious texts.)

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.

The fact is that * both * religious texts have passages that can be read as justification for abhorrent acts, and so * both * religious traditions have a responsibility to examine and deal with those issues.

But the process of ecumenical and interreligious dialogue that Pope Benedict XVI has repeatedly endorsed may cause participants to question whether any canonical story of violence — such as the conquest narratives in Joshua and Judges, or functionally equivalent texts in the history of Islam — may legitimately be claimed to offer a religious warrant for continued violence in today's world.

The author lacks the discipline necessary for a sincere look at any religious text.

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.

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.

All the more powerful then are insights whose very genesis lies in those religious texts which have throughout human history provided the symbolic landmarks for life's orientation.

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?

Without proclamation, the symbols (crossresurrection - incarnation) lose their tensive, religious reality and become occasions for other kinds of reflection... Only with a sense of the religious - event reality named proclamation is the New Testament recognized anew as the Christian classic text, the scripture.

One can point to the emergence of a variety of critical approaches to religion in general, and to Christianity in particular, which have contributed to the breakdown of certainties: These include historical - critical and other new methods for the study of biblical texts, feminist criticism of Christian history and theology, Marxist analysis of the function of religious communities, black studies pointing to long - obscured realities, sociological and anthropological research in regard to cross-cultural religious life, and examinations of traditional teachings by non-Western scholars.

That's not really a fair argument since there are no «religious» texts for atheism.

Such a charge is not unfounded, for when the actual calls for violence and bloodshed are tallied, the Bible has more bloody texts than the Muslim Qur» an or any other religious holy book.

Most of these lectures aim at bringing the insights of Hinduism and Buddhism closer to Indian and Western Christians as well as philosophers, to deepen their understanding of faith and expand it to other forms of belief.43 His anthology «The Vedic Experience» which has been accepted and respected by many Hindus, tries to present texts from the Veda and the Upanishads in such a way that they become open towards other beliefs and transparent for the depth of faith.44 An important aspect of his literary production, already central at the beginning, but gaining prominence again lately, has been to address a Western public that faces the challenge of having to seek its religious identity and not being able to take it for granted.

Everyone has the right to believe whatever they want, but they should not force those beliefs on others and indeed, should examine such beliefs in light of empirical evidence, of which there is zilch for the Bible and other religious texts.

He must, for instance, make up his mind about what is «true» in the Biblical text, and what is only «temporary» — i.e. to be interpreted in the light of the world view or the religious environment of the age.

And I would also hope it brings people to truely learn whatever their religious text says for themselves.

In a day when jihadist violence is an almost - daily occurrence, apologists for Islam sometimes claim religious equivalence — asserting that the sacred texts of the Judeo - Christian tradition have their own incitements to violence.

Jain religious texts offer some of the earliest refutations of an omnipotent, monotheistic God responsible for the creation or governance of the world.

Proud Jewess... if you need a religious text to know the difference between right & wrong, I feel sorry for you.

And an admittedly hurried examination of several texts intended for use in courses of instruction before confirmation or in «religious studies» in schools for adolescents has made it plain that this whole set of ideas is either entirely absent or is so «muted» (to put it so) that it plays no really significant part in what children or confirmands learn as they are introduced to the Christian faith and its theological implications.

When morality is based on religious text, its OK to: • behead one's daughter to restore a family's «honor» • deny emergency medical aid to a child • kill gays, children who misbehave, anyone who works on a particular day of the week, entire groups and races of peoples, and many others for equally capricious reasons • buy and sell humans as chattel, including one's own family members • kill anyone who visually depicts Muhammad

The text book in question is the official one for the Religious Studies GCSE set by EdExcel, the country's largest examination board.

Perhaps best known for his text on the sociology of religion, The Sacred Canopy, Berger has also shown a keen interest in issues of development and public policy and in the nature of religious belief in the modern world, as evident in A Far Glory: The Question of Faith in an Age of Credulity (1992) and in his most recent book, Redeeming Laughter: The Comic Dimension of Human Experience.

I condemn any religion that is, for instance, proposing the superiority of one race based on a religious text.