Sentences with phrase «supernaturalism religion»

Under the old supernaturalism religion was regarded as a way of getting special favors from on high.

Not exact matches

We begin with the issue of supernaturalism in religion and its supposedly superstitious character.

However, we must remind ourselves of a vital historical fact, which is that many of these forms of supernaturalism were attacked, and at least partially overthrown, by biblical religion long before the advent of modern science.

Kaplan maintains that the Jewish religion can and should be divorced from supernaturalism and come to be associated with the natural processes of body and mind.

If, whenever personal will steps in to do something that nature by itself would not do, we call that supernatural, we obviously can not get supernaturalism out of religion, because we can not get it out of life.

Supernaturalism is not the stronghold of religion.

The former had profound implications for all aspects of human life, especially for traditional religions and their ancient cosmologies, theologies, and supernaturalisms.

In the late 1 960s at Berkeley, for example, Charles Glock had become a vocal proponent of a substantive approach, arguing for the importance of distinguishing between the supernaturalism of religious worldviews and the naturalism of humanistic worldviews, while Robert Bellah was advancing a functional approach that defined religion more in terms of any system of symbolism capable of inducing a sense of personal meaning.4 Elsewhere, J, Milton Yinger, Peter Berger, and Thomas Luckmann were also engaged in defending various definitional approaches to religion.

Within one century the world has seen traditional religion fail, to be replaced by «rationalist» ideologies that often proved more weird and sinister than the most arcane supernaturalism.

I think religion is not natural based on a rational assessment thus I have logically identified it as mere supernaturalism and superstition.

Likewise, when religion's supernaturalism / superstitionism is discussed then all aspects of religion's supernaturalism / superstitionism is and should be discussed, including contrast it to what isn't religion's supernaturalism / superstitionism.

When a one has naturally achieved, by one's natural capacity of reason, a metaphysical / epistemological system that has determined that to live a life of reason then one by necessity must exclusively exercise one's natural free volition to exclusively use man's natural capacity for reason exclusively on the natural world then one does not even reject religion's supernaturalism / superstitionism... one then has achieved the capability to say religion's supernaturalism and superstitionism is irrelevant to their metaphysical / epistemological system.

Thanks to him a lively valuable dialog contrasting science and religion's supernaturalism / superstitionism happened... Viva!