Sentences with phrase «religious texts offer»

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

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

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There is no evidence outside of religious texts and our modern knowledge shows that the creation myths of all religions are not correct, so as their foundational texts are incorrect, religions offer nothing to support the idea of a god.

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.

Believers only offer their religious texts as proof.

His most interesting chapters offer several examples of how Bach's musical settings put «a religious spin on its religious text.»

This is a theological question, and it all depends on whether they follow the sacred texts themselves or the reinterpretations offered by modern religious scholars.

The Scouts have refused to dump religious words from their membership pledge, but offered concessions to secular groups by introducing an atheist alternative text.

This isn't the Old Testament prehistory we've seen before — Aronofsky draws from both Christian and Jewish religious texts to fill out the story (which is actually quite short in the Bible) and offers bleak, poisoned world before the flood quite different from the Mediterranean deserts and forests of previous films — and it accomplishes something quite powerful, vivid and unexpected as a result.

There are no religious texts that mention such offerings,» a scholar I Gusti Ngurah Sudiana argued.

We all have our sacred texts — not necessarily religious in derivation — texts that offer comfort, that answer an unarticulated need.