Sentences with phrase «religious texts if»

Please read something other than a religious text if you want to try to sound intelligent.

Not exact matches

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.

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?

If there is a perfect being that created the universe and believes in interfering with our world (through Jesus, Mohammad, Buddha... whatever you believe), then why are all religious texts so flawed and flimsy?

If you find the Bible is not reliabile you would be better off making your own religious text.

If you loook to the Quran to find parts where you believe they are told to kill non believers, then you have to look at the religious texts of other religions as well.

If there is such a passage in any of the religious texts, please enlighten me.

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.).

I'm a christian but I feel as if there are so MANY denominations and translations of the Bible AND other religious text that running a country based on religion would bring that nation to its knees.

Not if the other religious texts of Islam are true.

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.

if it is all «context» and can be so subjectively read, there is either NO authorial intent (and therefore no permanent meaning) or you are assuming a larger foundation of truth to read along with the text (but that invites all the criticism you are levying against the religious).

«The importance of studying parallels lies in providing a check against isolating the Hebrew prophet from his specific historical context as if his text represented a timeless religious literature that floated above all historical particularity,» he writes.

If you refute Buddhism with an ancient religious text like the Bible, can I refute Christianity with my ancient religious text?

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?

I believe that if you wish SCOTUS to allow religious symbolism / texts / imagery etc...

«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.

if were only going to use the KJV why stop at greek, or latin why not only read the original texts which were written in Coptic the simple fact is not a single one of us, including our highest religious leaders, other then about 30 ancient language specialist in the world have ever read an original scripture.

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

I don't have any axe to grind if you wish to square your favorite religious text with modern science by assuming this or that non-literalist interpretation.

But just acknowledge that you can do the same with other religious texts as well and if you REALLY want to get to the meat of modern scientific understanding, go straight to the scientific sources.

It's embedded in the religious texts and life if you look close enough.

Again, coming from a religious studies department at a secular university; if the Bible is not inspired by God, I can't trust it more than any other religious text (even if it has truth in it).

If you do believe this, why practice Mormonism, which has in its primary religious text: And [God] had caused the cursing to come upon them, yea, even a sore cursing, because of their iniquity.

If other later religious texts, nonetheless, seem to suggest that Muhammad did perform miracles, they stand in direct opposition to these verses, among many others, in Islam's scripture.

And I freely admit I sometimes use too many extraneous, space - consuming, overly - descriptive, qualifying, words or sentences written quickly and in a stream - of - conscientiousness, run - on sort of fashion with occasional typos mostly due to fatigue of being up way too late (which also explains this post in general) after a long day of political discussion which refreshingly had little religious content though of course there is often much overlap between the two but posting is barely a hobby but more of an occasional passtime so now i wonder if what I write could be considered abuse as I've can't really recall seeing much if any sorrt of «text filibustering» not that this is exactly filibustering more a spontaneous text performance response joke and meant in jest to be absurdly long and useless so of course i hope you appreciate the spirit.

If there is a proper application of this text today, it would be better to direct it to the religious leaders in our churches, rather than to the people in the pews.

My children will have approximately 1 / 7th greater life experiences because they won't be wasting a day trying to commune with a non-existent all - powerful being with pathological tendencies, if you base his existence on what you read in the various religious texts some men (no women) wrote several thousand years ago.

Times when Henry VIII's secretary wrote in grim jest to his friend Erasmus that the scarcity and dearness of wood in England were due to the quantities wasted in burning heretics, or when later the Puritan Cartwright, defending by Biblical texts the barbarities of religious persecution, exclaimed, «If this be regarded as extreme and bloodie I am glad to be so with the Holy Ghost»?

If religious authorities interpret their ancient texts in a way that allows them to give this new food their blessing, now - banned kosher cheeseburgers and Hindu hamburgers, as well as an undisputed method of producing halal meat, could be possible.

But if praise comes only when a child succeeds, the child is likely to develop a sense that his or her parents» affection depends upon good grades, or touchdowns, or mastery of a religious text, or whatever the parents» priorities might be.

Ultimately, if the idea the political Samaritan — of introducing openly religious texts and motifs into political discourse — leaves us uncomfortable, that may be because the business of negotiating different conceptions of the personal and public good that lies at the heart of politics, is an uncomfortable business.

For instance, she noted, evangelicals «were more than twice as likely as the rest of the sample to say that they would turn to a religious leader or text if they have a question about science.»

If a «religious» text were to tell me to eat milk I would ignore unless given information to shift my belief.

If you don't «get» the Judeo - Christian religious allusions and texts that make the questions in this film, it will remain

If you don't «get» the Judeo - Christian religious allusions and texts that make the questions in this film, it will remain incomprehensible, I suppose.

As if The Da Vinci Code wasn't enough to make religious types foam at the mouth with barely controlled fury at Tom Hanks» hair, along come MEGA films with a plan to spoof no lesser sacred text than the Ten Commandments.

The next day, the young Sayat - Nova places the religious texts on the church roof to air - dry, laying among them with arms outstretched as if hoping that the wind rippling the books» pages might carry some of their knowledge into him.

Do I have to make sure, that if my application wouldn't even start correctly on a device, that the user is able to start the application in an impossible, absurd, magic or religious way to ensure that he can read the legal texts or is it enough to state it on the website then?

Even if we accept Appellants» argument that we should interpret «cultures» to include «religions,» the text does not ban all religious laws.

The approach advocated by the Commission gives full weight, as a matter of interpretation, open in the text, to the word «traditional» in sub-sec 223 (1), and avoids the mockery which would be constituted by mandating failure of a claim if there be any gap revealed in the admissible (eg non-hearsay) evidentiary description of the social and religious conduct of people without writing from pre-1788, continuously, until and during the shock and disruption of non-indigenous settlement.