Sentences with phrase «societal macrosystem»

The fact is that religion is societal brainwashing.

I've experienced it everywhere — this culture of personality, willfulness, and arrogant self - indulgence, and I think it's at the root of our societal and economic crisis.

Believe me, the societal pressure to attend church is not the same as it was 40 years ago.

One likely «scenario» is that people with mental illness gravitate toward spiritual paths that are less rule driven (not to mention less likely to treat them as outcasts due to the societal stigma of mental illness) in order to feel supported.

Since this view introduces no new divine acts, it furnishes no new argument in favor of adopting the societal view of God.

Present evidence suggests that a voucher plan would probably be better for poor and minority children, increase integration, strengthen the family, better respect societal pluralism, renew moral values and cost less.

we base our morality on our current societal norms and empathy.

This book, in my opinion, is to actually minimize the great apostasy taking place in our churches; especially among those who were never taught the real meaning of being «last instead of first», to help those who come into the church who may bring with them societal norms of entitlement and «whats in it for me» attitudes and behaviors.

There is a deep cleavage between those who agree with Whitehead in describing God as a single actual entity, nontemporal in his primordial nature and everlasting in his consequent nature (the «entitative» view), and those who prefer with Charles Hartshorne to regard God as a personally ordered temporal society of successive occasions (the «societal» view).

@ total non sense Perhaps we're splitting hairs here, but I was trying to be kind by implying that rather than treating religiosity as a mental disability, for which the supposedly clinically sick can receive insurance benefits and evade personal actionable responsibility by claiming illness, it would be better to treat religiosity as a societal functional disorder which can be addressed through better education and a perceptional shift towards accepting scientific explanations for how the world works rather than relying on literal interpretations of ancient bronze age mythologies and their many derivations since.

Abortion is not a desirable thing; it would be much better not to have unwanted pregnancies or unhealthy fetuses in the first place, but the reality is it is a societal necessity, and ultimately ought to be up to each woman what to do with her own body.

More importantly, for the societal view as well as for the entitative, the primordial nature is an adjustment of pure conceptual possibilities, so that although in the former view there is a temporality to its successive reconstitution, there is no temporality in its valuation.

Dr. Felt calls attention to a peculiar aspect of one the arguments used to support the «societal» view.

The most obvious solution might seem to lie in adopting the societal view of God, as Brown in fact recommends.

I believe that morals are based on societal norms and that regardless of belief / disbelief you get your good and bad.

Societal views change all the time.

Which societal taboos are a result of immutable, divinely mandated morals and which are relative to the time / place / society?

Some may let the proselytizing go unchallenged, but I feel a societal obligation to curb the onslaught of irrational thinking.

AAthiest — how is your «societal obligation to curb irrational thinking» (your beliefs no God) different from a religious person's «societal obligation'to «proselytize» (their belief in God)?

People who absorb their religious beliefs through osmosis from societal or parental influences are not thinking for themselves.

The Gallup research indicates that American confidence in all societal institutions in general are at all - time lows, although confidence in religion has declined more quickly than others.

And it says something very important about marriage, which is under assault throughout the world by the forces of moral confusion, misconstrued «tolerance,» and societal deconstruction.

And I hold the church largely responsible for the societal discrimination my friend faces.

Recent years have witnessed a general assault upon, and consequent weakening of, societal taboos.

Another societal consequence of scientism is its impact on language.

It is self - defeating and simply silly to pretend that Jews are not disproportionately represented in many sectors of societal leadership.

Religion poisons everything: clear thought, societal issues, scientific advancement.

I think if you did a more careful analyis of many of these «differences» between men and women you would find that both the degree of difference and the prevalence for many of them would vary greatly from one culture and time to another as they are largely influenced by our environments and societal attitudes.

We offer them not only for their intrinsic worth but because women's concerns, as they are called, will undoubtedly come before the bishops again, and because the problems posed by «One in Christ Jesus» illustrate difficulties that all the churches have when it comes to making statements on questions of societal moment.

... Data correlations show that in almost all regards the highly secular democracies consistently enjoy low rates of societal dysfunction, while pro-religious and antievolution America performs poorly.»

Many evangelicals believe that societal reform is a top - down process: Remove President Barack Obama and frustrate initiatives of the Democratic Party and you're well on your way.

The extensive study, «Cross-National Correlations of Quantifiable Societal Health with Popular Religiosity and Secularism in the Prosperous Democracies,» published in the Journal of Religion and Society examines statistics from eighteen of the most developed democratic nations.

Morality is the product of societal norms.

It's also important to note that Humanae Vitae deals more with the personal and societal effects of contraception and roots its argumentation not so much in Christian revelation but in nature and reason.

But he rightly points out that the loss of the deepest, more mysterious realities of marital commitment is a societal issue.

There are other societal guides (women teaching) that we need to approach with humility, and ask for guidance on.

His son has taken steps away from his daddy dearest and raised up a good number of churches to yes fleece his sheep by introducing state of the art issues such as holographic imaging and stage lights and props made to «impress» his emotionally dysfunctional masses all seeking a little societal excitement!

The ethics have changed based on societal opinion.

And yet when it comes down to the final moments, when it gets real, when we have no more need for the societal benefits of religious posturing, we learn what is really most important, and the answer (given the real purpose of life, see above) is what we should reasonably expect: family.

Societal norms generally support their superior position, affirming their rights to humiliate or insult and simultaneously condemn children who might retaliate.

I try to show that CA is a societal problem that has impregnated the priesthood rather than the other way around as the bigots would like to have us believe.

The brittle hucksters of diminutively frail verbal cloistering increments within societal armadas are all likened to being as justifiable sandy shoals that are constitutionally vacated, idiosyncratically bred and ironically celebrated vespers of humane fooleries forbearance pleasing ways.

There are examples of societal ideals based on principles other than Gods.

Only when science educators can proactively engage all societal elephants in the room and illustrate science's relatively limited power will two vitally important things happen:

Don't kid yourself, Jews and Muslims (kissing cousins) and Christians, when taking their religion to the extreme, are a detrimental to societal advancement and overall worldwide well - being.

He proposes radical societal abstinence rather than prudent chastity.

I would say if someone saw me as intolerant for pointing out a practice that does come complete with societal problems attached to it — then so be it.

The effect is that everyone, like William, perceives child abuse as a Catholic issue which is patently false and only contributes to the societal denial of the epic problem.

But the fact remains that there are clearly societal and circumstantial oppression which will continue to make such change impossible for some no matter how hard they try.

Your tastes are above reproach and your musical canon has been arrived at after more academic thought than a doctoral dissertation on the «Ebb and Flow of The Mental Qualitative State Due to the Societal Imperatives of Pezz Dispensers.»