Sentences with phrase «religious texts on»

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.

Because a god might exist... but it isn't the man made religious stupidity found in the fictional bibles and other religious texts on this planet.

No religious texts on the face of the planet is substantial evidence either and that's the believer's proof, that and the word of mouth of others.

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..

I have read many religious texts on the major and some minor religions How many books have you read that cast doubt on the existence of god?

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..

Not exact matches

The standard intelligent design belief has been proven in court to be completely based on changing a few words in a creationist text to try to make it legally «not religious.»

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.

That data directly conflicts with religious texts and you think it is an attack on religion?

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.

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.

The 31 - year - old Democrat said she will take her oath of office on the Hindu religious text Bhagavad Gita in January.

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].

In light of my series on the violence of God in the Bible, in which I said that the Bible is the most violent religious text in the world, someone sent this picture to me.

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.

These texts also cover the origin of law, whether religious laws governing prayer, religious tax, and fasting, or prohibitions against such acts as manslaughter or attacks on the chastity of a woman, and laws governing the use of property.

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.

The Bible can't be used to verify claims any more than the Quran or the Book of Mormon, as all religious texts first require a basic belief on the part of the reader that they (the texts) are right in order to be viewed as such.

On the other hand, the full spiritual import of a religious ceremony, informed by text and tradition, eludes even the most devoted artist.

I have a theory that SBNRs are so because one or more or a combination of the following: (1) they can't justify their spiritual texts - and so they try to remove themselves from gory genocidal tales, misogyny and anecdotal professions of a man / god, (2) can't defend and are turned off by organized religious history (which encompasses the overwhelming majority of spiritual experiences)- which is simply rife with cruelty, criminal behavior and even modern day cruel - ignorant ostracization, (3) are unable to separate ethics from their respective religious moral code - they, like many theists on this board, wouldn't know how to think ethically because they think the genesis of morality resides in their respective spiritual guides / traditions and (4) are unable to separate from the communal (social) benefits of their respective religion (many atheists aren't either).

Religious texts are hardly black and white on these issues..

IMHO every religious text I've ever read is clearly based on «man's» perceptions, not some being capable of creating the entire universe — of which we are merely a spec of sand.

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.

Your insinuation that I arrived at my conclusions based on your «talking snake» is not only untrue, you are basing your opinion upon untrue information, your delusional bias, your schizophrenic religious texts, and your ignorance.

Gradually that tie has largely gone, but the christians in the USA at least want to impose their religion on the rest of us despite the First Amendment: biblical texts on public buildings, their god on the currency, their religious beliefs to be law, christian prayer at public events, etc..

The type of atheists, like most on this post, that continue with the ridiculous assertion that there can be nothing greater than us that exists above or outside of our little physical realm, are simply either intellectually stunted individuals, or more likely, bitter people who have gotten their panties in a bunch because some religious text contains some apparent condemnation of their lifestyle.

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.

On the matter of self and fulfillment, John Boswell, a Yale historian who has written some of the major texts employed by homosexual activists, asserts, «Not only is homosexual eroticism the oldest and most persistent strand in the Christian theology of romantic love, but Christian religious life was the most prominent gay life - style in Western Europe from the early Middle Ages to the Reformation, about two - thirds of the period since Europe became Christian.»

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.

It is, in particular, the second of evangelicalism's two tenets, i. e., Biblical authority, that sets evangelicals off from their fellow Christians.8 Over against those wanting to make tradition co-normative with Scripture; over against those wanting to update Christianity by conforming it to the current philosophical trends; over against those who view Biblical authority selectively and dissent from what they find unreasonable; over against those who would understand Biblical authority primarily in terms of its writers» religious sensitivity or their proximity to the primal originating events of the faith; over against those who would consider Biblical authority subjectively, stressing the effect on the reader, not the quality of the source — over against all these, evangelicals believe the Biblical text as written to be totally authoritative in all that it affirms.

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.

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.

Arguements based on any religious text will not be persuasive to someone who is not of that faith and, as he pointed out, those who are of that faith will likely already agree with the arguement.

Religious readers, on the other hand, assume they have come into the presence of a text with inexhaustible depth.

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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.

Kübler - Ross's On Death and Dying has been recommended more frequently by pastors and chaplains than any religious or theological text.

During these two years, most of the influential texts of the council were forged into their final form: the Constitutions on the Church (Lumen Gentium), divine revelation (Dei Verbum), and the Church in the modern world (Gaudium et Spes), along with the decree on ecumenism (Unitatis Redintegratio) and the declarations on religious liberty (Dignitatis Humanae) and on the Church and non-Christian religions (Nostra Aetate).

Yeshiva is an Orthodox Jewish university that includes a focus on the study of traditional religious texts, mainly the Torah and the Talmud.

On the interior walls of these burial places were carved religious texts as well as many other things that tell of the life and thought of the ancient Egyptians.

«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.

The texts on character education, says Kohn, «describe religious dogma, not scientific fact.»

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

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

This is why religious texts are often written on many levels.

The significance of In the Valley of the Shadow rests not on its ability to convert anyone» an immensely rare quality in any text» but on its eloquent defense of the utter necessity of religious belief.

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.

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.