Sentences with phrase «superstitious view»

As materialists dismissed the soul altogether, Christian thinkers felt the idea more and more to be an intellectual embarrassment, associating it with denigration of the body and a superstitious view of creation.

Christ died to spare us, among other things, the superstitious view that brute suffering is God's will.

I have often thought that the church has an almost superstitious view of baptism.

Not exact matches

Her earliest work on the relationship between ritual purity and holiness, and her later work on the true literary and theological meaning of the Book of Leviticus do much to counter the neo - Freudian view that Judeo - Christianity is based on a primitive, superstitious, patriarchal, taboo ridden ideology.

Science also helped liberate man from superstitious and magical views of religion.

Both shows are ready to see an innocent child as tainted irreversibly by its father's crime — a superstitious and inhumane view that, fortunately, has no place in The Innocents.

Too many Jews accept the distorted view that Christianity is pagan, idolatrous, superstitious, morbid, and inhumane.

This may be fine for Protestants who believe that Catholicism simply perpetuates feudal ideas and superstitious belief, but it is not a very helpful point of view when trying to understand the French with sympathy.

Almost overnight, the perception of alchemy became conflated with an unforgiving view of the protoscientific world as one populated by mystics and superstitious fools.

Also, by religion's focus on supernatural / superstitious beings or realms, I am not endorsing their view that they exist.