Sentences with phrase «true religious feelings»
There is every danger of a piously suppressed smile at artistic faults in the performance of the text engendering doubts of the true religious feeling and faith of the actors, danger also of misinterpretation of the... motives of the community in performing the Play.
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This isn't one of those times, and I feel like it's dangerous to lump this scenario in with those instances of true religious bullying.
If you have been burned by religion, have suffered from the manipulation of religious leaders, or feel that God has lied to you, left you hanging, and can not be trusted, begin the path toward understanding God's heart for you, and gaining the true freedom He wants for you today.
If Rubio is a seeker he can not be a true born again Chritian and the crazy religious nuts in the Republican party will not feel he is one of them... That is his political challenge and it ain't gonna be pretty... Those pesky religious litmus tests...
thinks, that the Tigris and the Euphrates have not a common source, that the Dead Sea had been in existence long before human beings came to live in Palestine, instead of originating in historical times, and so on... We are able to comprehend this as the naive conception of the men of old, but we can not regard belief in the literal truth of such accounts as an essential of religious conviction... And every one who perceives the peculiar poetic charm of these old legends must feel irritated by the barbarian — for there are pious barbarians — who thinks he is putting the true value upon these narratives only when he treats them as prose and history.
Author John Charles Cooper, dean of academic affairs at Winebrenner Theological Seminary, sums up the situation: «People do feel that religion is losing its influence on society, and they may be right — but the majority of people do not wish this to be true, and so it is an important time to be publishing good religious books.
To know that what is impenetrable for us really exists and manifests itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty, whose gross forms alone are intelligible to our poor faculties — this knowledge, this feeling... that is the core of the true religious sentiment.
Because each religious person «feels» his religion is the true one and he «feels» he needs to share it (force it) on anyone within ear shot (and then some).
-- forgetting that ancient religious writers, unlike scholarly historians, did not as a rule feel it incumbent upon them to give, in a footnote or otherwise, their source for every anecdote or event, or to anticipate the modern reader's constant query, «How can we know that what you say is true, in every detail?»
They aren't even really human so you can't discriminate against them...» The fact that the religious feel this way about atheists is shameful and disgusting but it's true.
For the religiously orthodox, religious belief systems were felt to represent «objective» reality as it really is, and thus if one of them is true the others must be false, either absolutely or in some degree.
The problem with most religious people is that they feel theirs is the «ONE, true religion»... Catholics, Muslims, Jewish, Protestant, etc..
In all honesty, the «religious people» that don't legislate against things based solely on their religious convictions and thereby hurt the rights of individuals, and who don't condemn science and medicine and societal progression and other religions and other denominations and people who are not religious, and who don't claim to know that something is true beyond all other truths, are probably a very slim minority, and I'd have to argue that they aren't really religious, they are just doing whatever makes them feel good, which could be accomplished through secular means as well.
But this does not seem to do justice to the true character of the religious fact, which is to make us feel the resistance of an Other through the awareness of the laws of our own being.
In the religious life the control is felt as «higher»; but since on our hypothesis it is primarily the higher faculties of our own hidden mind which are controlling, the sense of union with the power beyond us is a sense of something, not merely apparently, but literally true.
Among those sampled, 46 percent of highly religious Protestants reported that it was «somewhat» to «very» true that they felt targeted because of their religion.