First, I'll outline what the Church
teaches about religious freedom.
So let's turn first to what the Church
teaches about religious freedom.
Not exact matches
Why is the poorest
religious group in America the one that thinks the most
about what the Bible
teaches about work, and what do they believe the Bible
teaches about it?
Lawrence, You started by asking a foolish question
about why not
teach religious origins theories in science class?
I don't care
about how school buildings are used unless teachers in those buildings are forced to
teach a particular
religious belief.
These
religious right extremeists who get all up in arms
about scientists are hypocrits and don't follow their own
teaching.
Religion
teaches people THAT crap
about the universe creator which is TOTALLY NOT what either the 10 commandments were
about OR what they are for or all
about and I can 100 percent prove it so
religious people HATE me because... by God I do the 10 commmandment and since I do the 10 commandment and work so hard to always do the 10 commandment... YOUR burning in hell cause you broke one and SINNED... its is ridiculas... what religion HAS done regarding what God gave Moses... in the old testement.
To fix this we need to put in people who can actually think and care
about the people and not some hypocrite that can't eve follow their own
religious teachings.
How
about we throw out Constantine and his pals excluding books from the Bible that
teach how to develop a direct personal relationship with God, rather than submitting to
religious authority?
They talk
about an attack on
religious teachings while speaking at an NRA event
about how abortion is murdering unborn children while at the same time wanting to go to war and bomb thousands of innocent men, women, children, as well as innocent pregnant women with unborn babies.
You can even make judgments
about the value of the
religious ideas you were
taught or that you possess.
Many
religious people I have talked to don't even know much
about their faith, only what they are
taught by rote.
What is funny is, Catholic nuns
taught me
about all of the above, except the
religious wars in our streets, that was learned later.
Although I was brought up in a
religious family, I still had questions and concerns
about what I was
taught if it was actually true.
I used to believe that our epidemic of
religious illiteracy was rooted in large part in a system of public education unwilling and unprepared to
teach our young people
about the Bible and the world's religions.
Today this overlaps with debates
about the actual content of
religious education and
about the freedom to offer children what the Church really
teaches.
«The exposure to new bodies of knowledge also heightened King's doubts
about the
religious teachings he had learned at Ebenezer.
It seems then, that the only place in the Bible which speaks
about the «Holy Writings,» Paul is writing somewhat
about the Jewish
religious view of the Law, a view in which he was
taught and trained (as was Timothy), but which is proved to be untrue in light of the revelation in Jesus Christ.
The factors of chief importance in the development of this theology were: (a) the Old Testament — and Judaism --(b) the tradition of
religious thought in the Hellenistic world, (c) the earliest Christian experience of Christ and conviction
about his person, mission, and nature — this soon became the tradition of the faith or the «true doctrine» — and (d) the living, continuous, ongoing experience of Christ — only in theory to be distinguished from the preceding — in worship, in preaching, in
teaching, in open proclamation and confession, as the manifestation of the present Spiritual Christ within his church.
If you believe all that happened randomly, that the bang was powered by nothingness, then you could
teach us
religious folks a few things
about faith.
Interfaith Core President Eboo Patel said, «By responding to a moment of
religious prejudice with grace, Balpreet
taught hundreds of thousands of people
about her Sikh tradition and showed them that religion can be a source of strength and bridge of cooperation.»
It evolved from constitutional traditions respecting private property and individual rights, it arose from
religious teachings about human dignity, and it sprang from the mind of Kant.
When you reject a
religious group because they are closed off
about science, or
teach you to hate people because they're different, or tell you that genocide is good and holy, or cover up child molestation to protect a pastor, God cheers you on.
As she continues to read, we hear
about Paul's incarceration and persecution,
about how Jesus is «the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation,»
about watching out for all those false
teachings that circulated through the trade routes,
about how we ought to stop judging each other over differences of opinion regarding
religious festivals and food (I blush a little at this point and resolved to make peace with some rather opinionated friends before the next sacred meal),
about how we should clothe ourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience, and love,
about how we must forgive one another,
about how the things that once separated Jew from Greek and slave from free are broken down at the foot of the cross,
about how we should sing more hymns.
But a couple of bona fide scholars — not professors
teaching religious studies in universities but scholars nonetheless, and at least one of them with a Ph.D. in the field of New Testament — have taken this position and written
about it.
To the extent that they are careless
about their instruction in the faith, or present its
teaching falsely, or even fail in their
religious, moral, or social life, they must be said to conceal rather than to reveal the true nature of God and of religion.»
When particular elements in the traditional
teaching about the nature of things have been challenged by demonstrable scientific findings, the whole structure of
religious dogma has been called into question.
I wonder then why Mr. Nye is wasting so much oxygen complaining
about the great «harm» the
teaching of Creationism does to children... though I may not personally agree with the tenets of Creationism, I do believe in the right of parents to pass their personal
religious beliefs on to their children - whether those beliefs are Christian, Hindu, Muslim, etc....
Whatever their exact number, Christians are leaven in deeply troubled Pakistan whose Muslim majority disallows increasingly the Prophet's
teachings about restraint from violence and his injunctions to honor the Ummah (
religious community) Internecine Muslim murders are a daily occurrence in Pakistan, and, whatever the discrimination against Christians, it is more social and economic in nature and far less violent than what Muslims do to one another.
Yup, Love you neighbor as yourself, take care of the orphans and widows, visit the sick, and
teachings about some silly guy named Jesus who went around rebuking the
religious and healing the sick and demonized.
We are so accustomed to thinking in other ways, thanks to centuries of philosophical and
religious teaching, that we are very ready to talk
about substantial selfhood.
School is their to
teach our kids and get them ready for the real world who cares
about religious holidays.
How
about if we use our schools and the money that they consume to
teach academic and scientific subjects, not a bunch of make - believe
religious nonsense?
well just thinking
about these wars in the muslim / mid-east world over
religious differences (which may reflect mental states in many ways) in a world where most realize that living in the present moment is best way to happiness and being in the moment in non-strife and awareness through the
teachings of masters such as found in the buddhist, taoist, zen, etc., etc., etc. spriritually based practices of
religious like thought and
teachings, etc. that to ask these scientifically educated populace whom have access to vast amounts of knowledges and understandings on the internet, etc. to believe in past beliefs that perhaps gave basis and inspiration to that which followed — but is not the end all of all times or knowledges — and is thus — non self - sustaining in a belief that does not encompass growth of knowledge and understanding of all truths and being as it is or could be — is to not respect the intelligence and minds and personage of even themselves — not to be disrespected nor disrespectful in any way — only to point out that perhaps too much is asked to put others into the cloak of blind faith and adherance to the past that disregards the realities of the present and the potential of the future... so you try to live in the past — and destroy your present and your future — where is the intelligence in that — and why do people continually fear monger or allow to be fear — mongered into this destructive vision of the future based upon the past?
Guides were published
about how to treat
religious holidays in the schools, how to
teach students
about religious traditions, and how to create equal access for organizations, including
religious clubs on campus.
Examples are 9/11 hijackings, The holding back of stem cell research that could save countless human lives, Aids being spread due to
religious opposition to the use of condoms, Christians legally fighting this year to
teach over 1 million young girls in America that they must always be obedient to men, the eroding of child protection laws in America by Christians, for so called faith based healing alternatives that place children's health and safety at risk, burning of witches, the crusades, The Nazi belief that the Aryans were god's chosen to rule the world, etc... But who cares
about evidence in the real world when we have our imaginations and delusions
about gods with no evidence of them existing.
We don't
teach any
religious beliefs in my household and my children have come to their own opinion
about them.
Yes, this was evidence that God also was upset
about what this man named Jesus was
teaching, and had seen fit to make Him a public spectacle in the sight of all so that nobody would ever again seek to challenge the
teachings of the
religious leaders or the traditions of the Jewish people.
When we turn the calendar to December, I'm usually looking for ways to
teach my children
about the
religious underpinnings of Christmas.
Whenever the Council
teaches something
about faith and morals, what it
teaches is certainly true, either through the specific note of infallibility or from the
religious submission of mind and will owed to the ordinary Magisterium.
Word of Christ's ministry and miracles had spread, and the
religious ruling class had heard rumors
about Christ's
teachings and the way the crowds flocked to hear Him.
Tragically, the only people in John 10 - 11 who want to kill are the
religious people who feel threatened by what Jesus is
teaching about God: that God is not a God of death and war, but is a God of life and peace.
What you are doing to those children is brainwashing them... you are
teaching them strictly
about christian practices and not
about the numerous other
religious practices out there.
But apart from the
teaching about sheol, borrowed or inherited from more primitive modes of
religious thought, the Jew at least was prepared to recognize the full reality of death.
And when we see his point, we will also see what Moses was
teaching about sacred spaces,
religious spaces, or holy ground.
They said they have made «a personal commitment to Jesus Christ that is still important in their life today,» that their faith is very important in their life today; believe that when they die they will go to Heaven because they have confessed their sins and accepted Jesus Christ as their Savior; strongly believe they have a personal responsibility to share their
religious beliefs
about Christ with non-Christians; firmly believe that Satan exists; strongly believe that eternal salvation is possible only through grace, not works; strong agree that Jesus Christ lived a sinless life on earth; strong assert that the Bible is accurate in all the principles it
teaches; and describe God as the all - knowing, all - powerful, perfect deity who created the universe and still rules it today.
Fifty years ago
religious teaching in the Turkish area was following
about the same methods which had been used for centuries.
From 1870, the state has taken increasing control, although the Church of England and Roman Catholic churches still have a significant role, and
religious education, which now includes
teaching about the other major world religions as well as Christianity, is still required, as well as a daily act of collective worship.
The most important thing
about the
religious and ethical
teachings of Jesus is not that he
taught them but that he thought them.
There is probably very little
about my
religious upbringing and
teachings that are different from yours, with the exception that I listen.