Sentences with phrase «taking religious text»

There might be a Buddhist monk who has been in solitary meditation for 30 years who might know but nobody that takes religious texts at literal face value has any idea.

Not exact matches

You said, «Religious texts should NOT «always be taken with a grain of salt.»

Religious texts should NOT «always be taken with a grain of salt.»

The 31 - year - old Democrat said she will take her oath of office on the Hindu religious text Bhagavad Gita in January.

There is a need to draw attention to the bias and hidden assumptions contained in the text books — and not just in religious studies, but in subjects across the curriculum where political indoctrination is taking place.

Progressive religious folks of all stripes tend to share a post-triumphalism (a sense that it's time to move beyond the old triumphalist paradigm in which one religion is The Right Path to God and all the other paths are wrong), as well as an inclination toward reading our sacred texts through interpretive lenses which take into account changing social mores and changing understandings of justice.

literal vs metaphoric: Do you take the hard line that your religious text is literally true or do you interpret it as metaphor?

Taken in totality we have natural explanations for all that religious texts offer as the work of a god.

All religious texts have such incidents described or alluded to — take them all strictly in a literal sense and you end up being a fanatic and likely manipulated rather than being a truly spiritual being who imbibes the best that the religion is trying to teach.

Not all religious thought waited until texts could be written to start and not al religions focus on do's and don'ts though they all do try to help us make better decisions if they are worth the long survivals they've had; both in their own religion and those that took their ideas and reformed them for their current times.

Without religious texts, would oaths of office be taken «by Jupiter, Juno, Minerva, Proserpine or Pluto»?

They do take a position — it's just not the position prescribed by a religious text or an imam.

Most of these lectures aim at bringing the insights of Hinduism and Buddhism closer to Indian and Western Christians as well as philosophers, to deepen their understanding of faith and expand it to other forms of belief.43 His anthology «The Vedic Experience» which has been accepted and respected by many Hindus, tries to present texts from the Veda and the Upanishads in such a way that they become open towards other beliefs and transparent for the depth of faith.44 An important aspect of his literary production, already central at the beginning, but gaining prominence again lately, has been to address a Western public that faces the challenge of having to seek its religious identity and not being able to take it for granted.

The folks in Pakastan need to take their noses out of the Koran and all religious texts and use their brains.

I'll take a moderate religious person, who understands that their texts are fallible and their beliefs only their own, over an insufferable ass like you any day of the week

Following on from the legal ceremony, we staged our own take on a wedding ceremony, including «there in love in you» by Four Tet (an album Jon bought for Nat as a gift on their first valentine's) whilst our friends and family contributed beautiful readings and poetry from Baha'i, Christian and non religious texts.

Maybe that's why religious texts across faiths are based around stories — people take heed!

Working in photography, video and sculpture, Idris Khan layers appropriated images taken from literature, religious texts, music scores, and other art works to create ghostly visual interpretations of these materials that evoke considerations of time, authorship and image - making.