In this episode we talk about evolution, genetics, and even the touchy
subject of religion with author of Evolution 2.0, Perry Marshall.
Apparently he can't even have an intelligent discussion on
the subject of religion with someone who doesn't share the same views.
Not exact matches
Where debate on the
subject of religion versus secularism is concerned, it's always easy to find voices shrieking over the banishment
of religion and Christianity from American life, and claims the nation is morally bankrupt because
of the success progressives have had
with marginalizing or outlawing religious practices.
Shadowplay highlights the wealth
of contemporary allusion surrounding Portia's espousal to Bassanio, designed to remind the Queen
of her allegorical flirtation
with England» and before Jacobs ridicules the idea
of a lost level
of meaning in which Bassanio represents Elizabeth's
subjects, a reviewer who professes to respect the «various forms and genres and techniques
of literary writing» will be aware that poems and plays in the mid-sixteenth century regularly celebrated England's courtship
of the monarch, and that literary characters representing England were commonplace, though disguised in order to subvert the ban on discussing contemporary politics and
religion.
Of course, with this belief, believers subject themselves to all kinds of atrocities at the hands of their religion and then exclaim «oh but I have suffered in this world, surely I will rejoice in the next!&raqu
Of course,
with this belief, believers
subject themselves to all kinds
of atrocities at the hands of their religion and then exclaim «oh but I have suffered in this world, surely I will rejoice in the next!&raqu
of atrocities at the hands
of their religion and then exclaim «oh but I have suffered in this world, surely I will rejoice in the next!&raqu
of their
religion and then exclaim «oh but I have suffered in this world, surely I will rejoice in the next!»
Equally important, the connection between
religion and morality has everything to do
with the situation in the newly liberated countries that is the
subject of Mr. Wieseltier's reflection.
actually you do nt have to prove the many deities or Gods that they really exist, because they really had existed in their times, They are part
of the evolutionary process for us humans to transcend to higher consciousness.To simplify the analogy, when we were young and we are in the lower grade school, we were taught simple
subjects not advance literatures but simple stories even mythicals, The same
with religion, thousands
of years ago when there was no science yet, primitive people had a
religion,
of course man made faiths to conform
with their state
of mind or intellect.But later atfter thousands
of years we evolve into a more educated people and so new concept
of God again was presented to them, another man made concept, and this go on and on, until a few thiousand years ago.monotheism, Judaism, christianity, islam, buddhism, etc also evolved, But
with the accelerated evolution, these faith again is threatend
with obsolesencs because
of of scientific developments and education.In panthroteistic faith, the future
religion needs to conform to evolutionary process, This proves that God is always there guiding the change.And it his will that made this a reality in history since the begining
of the universe 13 billion years ago, and this will continue to exist until He will completely fulfill His will to infinity, Thats PANTHROTHEISM, the futue, man made
religion under His guidance through scientifiic evoluition after the Bi Bang
Is your response to this
subject truly
with a desire to free scripture and theology from the shackles
of religion including the shackles
of unscriptural Calvinism, or is your true allegiance to a theology
of man's making, i.e. Calvinism?
In the Abbasid period Muslim culture became society - oriented,
with emphasis on such
subjects as the sciences and engineering and architecture; but no contradiction was felt between these fields and
religion, for all scholars combined religious knowledge
with mastery
of other fields
of learning.
This understanding
of God's relationship to the world has been enormously influential in contemporary philosophy
of religion, especially since the publication in 1948
of The Divine Relativity from which the above quotation was taken.2 Although the consistency
of divine relativity
with the understanding
of simultaneity in modem physics is a recognized point
of contention, the question I wish to ask is whether the theory
of divine relativity is metaphysically possible.3 How could it be possible for God to know and feel the different experiences
of radically distinct
subjects with equal vividness all at the same time?
The leading question in every course dealing
with any
subject matter must be this: How does this
subject matter (be it «logic, or Mexican - American history, or the sociology
of religion») contribute to assessing the validity
of Christian witness?
I have every respect to those angels and consider bringing such
subject up as disrespect for what those do to our world
with their kindness... Those nuns and popes were once my teachers in the kindergarden in Aden Colony
of Southern Arabia although I was considered as Muslim from Muslim parents... so you can say I hold for them great respect although we are from different
religions beliefs...!
There never was a time in History that atheists exist, only in this present stage
of our intellectual developement that they deny His exisrence, but it can be easily explained that they are just part
of the dialectical process
of having to have two opposing arguments or forces to arrive to the truth, The opposing forces today are the theists or religious believers
of all
religions and the other are the atheists who denies
religion, The reslultant truth in the future will be Panthrotheism, the belief that we are all one
with the whole universe
with God, and that we Had all to unite to prepare for human survival that will
subject us humans in the future.Aided by the the enlightend consevationist, environmentalists, humanists and all
of the concerned activists, we will develop a kind
of universal harmony and awareness that we are all guided towards love and concern for all
of our specie.The great concern
of the whole conscious and caring world to the natural disaster in the Phillipines,, the most theist country now is a positive sign towards this religious direction.Panthrotheism means we will be One
with God.
As Bellah noted in his initial essay on the
subject, civil
religion in America seems to function best when it apprehends «transcendent religious reality... as revealed through the experience
of the American people»; yet the growing interdependence
of America
with the world order appears to «necessitate the incorporation
of vital international symbolism into our civil
religion» (Beyond Belief [Harper & Row, 1970], pp. 179, 186).
so, now you proceed
with the next attempt, namely that you can prove that «despots always attempt to eradicate the
religion of indigenous peoples» by showing instead that the gods
of those CONQUERING empires are no longer worshipped because as you put it they «were themselves conquered and
subjected to the same technique [
of religion eradication]».
Therefore after the revolution, initially the Bolsheviks gave tolerance to
religion with the exception
of Orthodoxy which was
subject to massive persecutions.
The
subject matter is defined as
religion, a feature
of human reality that does not necessarily have any close connection
with thinking at all.
(Because his contribution in this respect is not often referred to in the literature on the
subject, I mention here the important lectures
of Jacob Burckhardt, translated under the title Force and Freedom,
with their discussion
of the interaction
of religion, culture, and the state.)
For a competent handling
of subjects which pertain to the domain
of psychology, sociology
of religion etc., a solid grounding in methodology and, generally, an acquaintance
with the results
of scholarship in the respective field has to be expected.
At the recent AAR meeting these postconservative evangelicals held a forum
with Paul Knitter, a «pluralist» on the
subject of other
religions, and Jürgen Moltmann, an ecumenical theologian.
That God's love, manifest in diverse ways throughout the duration
of the universe, might come to a full and unsurpassable self - expression in an individual human being who lived and died in the Middle East almost two thousand years ago does not seem incongruous
with what we now understand about the nature
of an evolving universe, especially if we regard
religion as a phenomenon emergent from the universe rather than just something done on the earth by cosmically homeless human
subjects.
A telling instance
of Safranski's rather uncritical approach involves Schleiermacher's 1799 lectures On
Religion, a work that epitomizes the period's attempt to supplant theological tenets, liturgical practices, and normative commitments
of confessional
religion with emotional intensity and conjectural meanings
of the individual
subject.
A very interesting qustion in all
of this is how do some christians reconcile their religious beliefs
with the cilvil rights
of people who are not members
of their
religion and hence not
subject to their religious laws.
The new and awful discoveries made
of the polluting and murderous nature
of their superstitions, in writings
of unquestioning authority,
with the success
of the missionary labours
of the excellent men
of other denominations already employed there, the committee think ought to be considered as special calls upon British Christians to increase the means
of acquainting their natives
of India
with their divine
religion; and to persevere in the glorious toil, until the name
of Christ shall be sounded throughout the vast extent
of our oriental dominion, and one God and Saviour shall be worshipped by every
subject of the British throne.4
Wach always asserted that the method
of the history
of religions must be commensurate
with its
subject matter, that is, the nature and expressions
of the religious experience
of humankind as that experience has been unfolded in history.
Some years ago when President Jimmy Carter was traveling in South Korea he held a lengthy conversation
with the South Korean president on the
subject of religion.
Assertions that Protestantism is against
religion, or that Christianity or revelation is an attack on
religion, have,
of course, been
with us for a considerable time now, and nearly everybody has had a word to say on the
subject.
I am going to weigh in, being a catholic and the whole shabang... First
of all this is not infringing on anyone's right to practice their
religion... Requiring insurance companies to provide contraception for women does not mean the woman has to use it or purchase it... Catholic hospitals take federal funds for their patients, therefore they are not exempt from employment laws... If the Catholic Diocese doesn't want to provide the insurance claiming religious beliefs, then they can no longer accept federal funded patients... They also know that they will be
subjected to discrimination lawsuits based hiring and religious discrimination — non-catholics work there, and therefore are being denied healthcare due to catholic beliefs... Majority if not all Catholic women do, have, or had used contraception in their lifetime... God does not nor does the bible say anything about contraception, since it had not been invented yet — so this is a man - made law, made by a bunch
of men, who have never had a menstrual cycle — and the pain that comes
with it....
The report deals
with the
subject: The Kingdom
of God and Human Struggles, under five areas
of concern: The Kingdom
of God and the struggles
of people in countries searching for liberation and self - determination; The Kingdom
of God and the struggles for human rights; The Kingdom
of God in contexts
of strong revival
of institutional
religions; The Kingdom
of God in the context
of centrally planned economics; and The Kingdom
of God in the struggles
of countries dominated by consumerism and the growth
of big cities.
Theologically, we shall seem to have gone absurdly far in a Pelagian direction; and all the more so if our descendants have been driven the other way by the grief and pressure
of events, and have come to remember that this
religion of the Resurrection starts
with the Cross, has evil and suffering and death as its raw material, its prime
subject - matter.
The Supreme Court interposed unsupported conclusions about the teachers in elementary and secondary parochial schools and concluded that the difficulties involved in avoiding the teaching
of religion along
with secular
subjects would pose intolerable risks.
The
subject of double lives comes up a lot
with Crews — particularly the way
religion can breed them.
Second, religious liberalism stressed the continuity
of Christianity
with other
religions and preferred the philosophical to the theological approach to the
subject of religion.
For example, the historians
of religions who are engaged in the religio - scientific inquiry into Buddhism or Hinduism tend to be preoccupied
with their
subject matters and do not always relate their findings to the generalists in the field.
The crucial problem is how to develop coordination and co-operation among (a) theoreticians
of the systematic aspects
of the general history
of religions, (b) historians
of religions who deal
with regional cultures and specific
religions, (c) historians
of religions who are competent in auxiliary disciplines, as well as scholars in the related
subjects.
In brief, while the research on symbols in general and religious symbolism in particular by specialists in other disciplines deserves his consideration, the historian
of religions is obliged in the final analysis, to approach the
subject with his own means
of investigation and in his proper perspective.
, and rush out
of the house
with four minutes to spare for a five - minute sprint to church, and then... then I would simply turn north, through the small woods between our house and Mass, and head to the village bakery, perhaps, or just stroll unconcernedly along the railroad tracks, a free man,
subject to no ancient
religion and its pompous authority, bound by no rules and regulations — an independent spirit, a young man choosing his road for himself.
The variable in acts
of terror is plainly not
religion and one would really have to become dangerously obsessed
with the
subject to think otherwise.
Of course this did not justify threatening Rushdie with violence or even banning his book, but what I found interesting was the fact that in the course of the controversy his Muslim critics managed to forcibly insert themselves into the exclusive conversation he had set up with their religion as its subjec
Of course this did not justify threatening Rushdie
with violence or even banning his book, but what I found interesting was the fact that in the course
of the controversy his Muslim critics managed to forcibly insert themselves into the exclusive conversation he had set up with their religion as its subjec
of the controversy his Muslim critics managed to forcibly insert themselves into the exclusive conversation he had set up
with their
religion as its
subject.
On the
subject of admissions, 37 % thought it was understandable the lengths some parents went to get their children into their preferred school,
with 60 % saying it was wrong for parents to pretend to belong to a
religion to get into a school.
I don't think there should be any
subjects that, I know,
religion tends to be kind
of the elephant in the room very often, and when you start debating those kinds
of things, but I'm always up for a conversation; which I think is the most important thing to remember, when you're having a discussion —
with gigantic ironic quotes around it, a «conversation
with someone» — is to make it a conversation, not falling into the trap
of thinking the person you're talking to is an idiot, because they might believe something idiotic.
During these class
of areas next to
of the fact that you perhaps he speak very well along
with the unique people you also perhaps he situate interesting things
with regard to various
subjects as the politics, the
religion, the media etc..
But
religion is still something
of a taboo
subject (one lobbying group had called it «an assault on the Catholic Church»), but perhaps more importantly the series ran into creative trouble: Pascal had apparently been hands - off
with Scott on the pilot, and the studio were reportedly unhappy
with the finished cut.
However, given that the
subject is, to say the least, touchy, the fact that this film was even made is worthy
of at least some kudos to Maher for having the guts to potentially offend the vast majority
of people in the country, and perhaps the world,
with his expression
of doubt in their beliefs and his own belief that, though many individuals have found great benefit from the ancient scriptures,
religion ultimately does more harm than good when looking at it in its totality from a global historical scale.
While directed
with intelligence and visual flair by Scott McGehee and David Siegel, this family drama ultimately is undone by the same trait that makes young spelling whizzes insufferable — a continual need to impress
with how smart he or she is on
subjects such as Jewish mysticism, the meaning
of religion and dysfunctional parenting.
In addition, the students were asked to «report the frequency
with which they were bullied in each
of five ways — belittled about
religion / race, belittled about looks / speech, hit / slapped / pushed,
subject of rumors or lies, and
subject of sexual comments / gestures.»
One approach to dealing
with religions and belief systems is to design specific
subjects taught over a number
of years.
That's normal across the whole nationals, not just unique to this institution; but it means, in that
subject knowledge, in terms
of what is
religion,
with the facts
of Sikhism, and Hinduism, etc., it's slightly lost.
With its teenage protagonist, Maybe A Miracle has the potential to appeal to readers from the older teens through to adults, both men and women; and with subject matter that runs the gauntlet of hot topic subjects, including religion and politics, this is also a shoe - in for book clubs who enjoy a little contention in their reading matter... (Reviewed by BookBrowse Review Te
With its teenage protagonist, Maybe A Miracle has the potential to appeal to readers from the older teens through to adults, both men and women; and
with subject matter that runs the gauntlet of hot topic subjects, including religion and politics, this is also a shoe - in for book clubs who enjoy a little contention in their reading matter... (Reviewed by BookBrowse Review Te
with subject matter that runs the gauntlet
of hot topic
subjects, including
religion and politics, this is also a shoe - in for book clubs who enjoy a little contention in their reading matter... (Reviewed by BookBrowse Review Team).
In terms
of topics
of conversation, World War II, communism,
religion, and relations
with Germany and Russia might be touchy
subjects to some.