I can not
stand organized religion but call myself Catholic when asked.
Not exact matches
While
religion is just one frame of reference, it is one that has
stood the test of time for helping us
organize ourselves and lead healthier more productive and more fulfilling life.
Stand up to
organized religion and say «NO MORE!»
(a) Philosophical preoccupation with the various types of cultural activities on an idealistic basis (Johann Gottfried Herder, G. W. F. Hegel, Johann Gustav Droysen, Hermann Steinthal, Wilhelm Wundt); (b) legal studies (Aemilius Ludwig, Richter, Rudolf Sohm, Otto Gierke); (c) philology and archeology, both stimulated by the romantic movement of the first decades of the nineteenth century; (d) economic theory and history (Karl Marx, Lorenz von Stein, Heinrich von Treitschke, Wilhelm Roscher, Adolf Wagner, Gustav Schmoller, Ferdinand Tonnies); (e) ethnological research (Friedrich Ratzel, Adolf Bastian, Rudolf Steinmetz, Johann Jakob Bachofen, Hermann Steinthal, Richard Thurnwald, Alfred Vierkandt, P. Wilhelm Schmidt), on the one hand; and historical and systematical work in theology (church history, canonical law — Kirchenrecht), systematic theology (Schleiermacher, Richard Rothe), and philosophy of
religion, on the other, prepared the way during the nineteenth century for the following era to define the task of a sociology of
religion and to
organize the material gathered by these pursuits.7 The names of Max Weber, Ernst Troeltsch, Werner Sombart, and Georg Simmel — all students of the above - mentioned older scholars —
stand out.
It's clear from these results that agnostics are much more likely to move away from
organized religion, while Americans with no particular faith
stand as a bridge between some faith and no faith.
But that's not a requirement, and claiming that it is, and that those who have rejected
organized religion are simply too lazy and wishy - washy to take a
stand, well, it makes you sound like you're throwing a tantrum because the churches are losing their power bases.
When
organized religion stops the hipocracy of their own
religion maybe this guy can have some ground to
stand on.
At the same time it rebuked the pastors for opposing not Nazi totalitarianism in tow but only its encroachments on
organized religion; they were making a truly heroic
stand, but «the cause which they champion is not the fully Christian ideal» (February 7, 1934).
For the billions who have suffered at the hands of
organized religions and those who believe in them, and all that they have always
stood for, my heart goes out to you.
In summary, the virtues of
organized religions include but are by no means limited to the following: they give their adherents something solid against which to rebel; they allow one to see farther by
standing on the shoulders of giants; they insist on the primacy of lived experience; they work against illusion and historical insularity; they point to the power of the collective and the merits of deep diversity; and they are capable of the kind of mobilization that can transform the world.
That the «disgusting thing
standing in the holy place» is
organized religion which detours people away from using their free will to either forge their own relationship with God, or choose not to, is obvious to anyone not blinded by the churchs» (artificial) light.
We could all
stand to be reminded of Jesus» humanity - that despite his daily human struggle, he created a revolutionary loving and caring ethics and morality which should
stand at the heart of the Christian
religion but are often pushed to the margins in the
organized churches.
I can not
stand hypercritical and / or pushy «insert
organized religion here.»
For those of you who may not know I was born and raised in a muslim family while, I no longer feel the need to belong to an
organized religion, I have always respected and
stood up for all faiths including Islam.