Sentences with phrase «through organized religion»

From Guys And Dolls to Sister Act (and probably dozens more examples), pop culture has long had a place for stories about delinquents and hoodlums finding salvation through organized religion.

Not exact matches

Maybe we can look at it as a phase that many Christians from all demographics go through before a renewal, and that would be a good thing, for since organized religion, hence dogma, doctrine, religious practices, etc., is the primary cause for parting ways, it is a wake up call for the Christian church.

Reading Phylis Tickles» book the Great Emergence which traces through history 500 year cycles of re-formation of organized religion.

«full of BS organized religion is» the book of 1st Timothy Chapter one tells us about how Satan was trying to inflitrate the church through devil following people, and possible believers led astray by the devil.

So we can not entertain the idea that God orders public life through laws and directives coming from organized religion or the institutional church.

Tasawwuf is a spiritual path through which one seeks to rise above and evolve beyond the limited teachings, beliefs, rituals, practices, etc. of organized religion, whether Islam or any other religion, and establish a constant awareness of the One so as to receive all guidance from the One through one's heart.

«In Searching for Sunday, Rachel's honest and hopeful wrestling tore through my cynicism about the perils of organized religion and touched my heart, reminding me why this broken but beautiful Bride is worth the fight.»

«when we go through deconstruction, we find ourselves outside the gates, outside of our beliefs and organized religion.

Tried to work my way through a concept of casting the «church» (Western organized religion) in the role of the prodigal son awhile back.

Pure Comedy is a sprawling, conceptual epic that starts at the birth of mankind and continues through mankind's self - destruction at the hands of the technology, organized religion and the entertainment industrial complex.

The headiest time to belong to an organized religion is when it's going through hell, which it tends to do on a fairly regular basis.

As organizing images through which we see ourselves and all things, the powerful images of religion should bring certain aspects of our experience into prominence, should minimize the importance of other aspects, and should throughout function to illuminate our total environment by discovering to us otherwise unnoticed parallelisms, analogies, and patterns among our data.

A 90 - minute, years - in - the - making comic wind - up machine that begins by mocking its own audience for paying good money to see what it can watch at home for free and proceeds from there through the most wickedly funny arsenal of assaults on big government, organized religion and corporate America this side of «Borat.»