Sentences with phrase «religious texts which»

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.

Believers claim gods — they should provide some evidence; all they have are the incorrect religious texts which are wrong.

Not exact matches

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.

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?

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.

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

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.

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.

Grasping the literary dimensions of these writings enables students to see what kinds of questions readers can expect such religious texts to answer, and which they can not answer.

It required them to move from literal interpretations of the texts to allegorical interpretations in which the religious insight of the texts was uncovered.

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).

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.

Progressive religious folks of all stripes tend to share a post-triumphalism (a sense that it's time to move beyond the old triumphalist paradigm in which one religion is The Right Path to God and all the other paths are wrong), as well as an inclination toward reading our sacred texts through interpretive lenses which take into account changing social mores and changing understandings of justice.

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.

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.

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.

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

Finally, in reading such texts one must keep in mind the end to which they were written, namely, religious edification.

The alterity of the text, however, is not to be identified with the socio - cultural, economic or religious realities which its linguistic code and repertoire reflect.

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).

These two Alien Groups were seen as God (s) which explains the many contradictions in the Bible and other religious text.

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).

(As regards the secondary character of intellectual constructions, and the primacy of feeling and instinct in founding religious beliefs, see the striking work of H. Fielding, The Hearts of Men, London, 1902, which came into my hands after my text was written.

The kind of reading we practice approximates what Paul J. Griffiths has called «religious reading,» as distinct from «consumerist reading,» which makes us users, buyers and sellers of texts.

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.

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.

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.

This means that a traditional religious education provides no independent language skills with which to read the text critically.

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.

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.

What these bishops did was to remove the totally inadequate religious textbooks and the advisers / inspectors who wrote and promoted them and provide the teachers with sound Catholic text - books which were not only faithful to the Catechism of the Catholic Church but which also taught the faith clearly, comprehensively and without any ambiguity.

Home births, which women choose for a variety of religious, cultural and financial reasons, account for about 1 percent of deliveries in the United States, or about 40,000 births a year (this sentence as published has been corrected in this 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.

Peterson and Seligman conducted an extensive literature and cultural review which examined not only scientific texts, but also politics, fables, plays, religious texts, customs, greeting cards, and even video game character profiles.

Some of these include the tenth - century Book of Deer, which is probably the oldest surviving Scottish manuscript and contains the earliest known examples of written Gaelic; the thirteenth - century Life of Edward the Confessor, which contains masterpieces of illumination; the Cairo Genizah collections, which are glimpses into the everyday live of a Jewish community in Egypt over a period of 1,000 years; digital versions of its Islamic and Sanskrit collections of both secular and religious texts, including some of the earliest surviving Qur» ans; the Nash Papyrus, which contains one of the oldest texts from the Hebrew Bible, the Codex Bezzae, one of the most important New Testament manuscripts; and others.

With a close and erudite reading of the major religious texts, he documents the ways in which religion is a man - made wish, a cause of dangerous sexual repression, and a distortion of our origins in the cosmos.

The exhibition opens with a selection of later fifteenth - century woodcuts, by unknown artists, which were invariably employed to illustrate religious texts.

Mother of God's religious undertones are amplified by a collaged advertisement for the Catholic Review, found in the lower right corner, which reads «An invaluable spiritual road map...» This bit of text draws together the title of the painting, the maps, and the spiritual allusions of the circle, yet it also walks a line between sincerity and tongue - in - cheek humor.

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.