Sentences with phrase «upon religion as»

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Every dictator which includes Stalin, Hitler, Lenin, etc.... held no particular religious belief, but instead looked upon religion as the «opiate of the people».

Not exact matches

A majority of the Justices went so far as to proclaim, «The Free Exercise Clause commits government itself to religious tolerance, and upon even slight suspicion that proposals for state intervention stem from animosity to religion... all officials must remember their own high duty to the Constitution.»

You justify your animosity in the name of your faith, just as you justify our silencing on the bed of millions upon millions of corpses «silenced» in the name of religion before us.

I argued that religion, as a compendium of stories, a system of ethics, and a model of behavior could be drawn upon as a popular alternative to norms and ideals of competitive consumer capitalism.

That is, if Wilson's purely functionalist explanation of religion were to become widely accepted by religious people, it would then be rendered false» for the adaptive features of religions depend, on Wilson's account, upon religious people thinking it false that their religions are best understood as adaptive social organisms.

But the claims of religion which touch upon things which can be observed and tested in the real world can be proven true or untrue as the evidence for or against those things is discovered.

Dismissing religion as fairy tales doesn't address the fact that millions of people take their religious beliefs very seriously and make decisions and take action based upon those beliefs.

You have to respect a religion that expects you to study an issue, contemplate upon its ramifications, then act as you feel you should without coercion from others.

3) There is no reason why religion should hold a monopoly upon morality, and I would go so far as to argue that any morality which is based on religion is always going to be weaker than a secular morality.

To use the world religion in this manner is to go beyond the typically agreed - upon meaning and use it as a code word.

Those of a less determinist mind look upon culture and religion as examples of the human ability to transcend our genes, to see ourselves as more than our inheritance.

The problem with religion is that it serves as a platform from which people can look down upon others.

The irony here is that this bill would have actually increased attacks upon religion, as many gays and lesbians, as well as their supporters and those who are not biased towards them, are actually also members of churches, albeit more liberal ones.

But to demand that they should be able to force their religious beliefs upon all of their employees as a freedom of their religion,....

Though with every previous charade, Satan had erected a false Satan and then used society, culture, government, and religion to «cast out Satan,» when Satan turned that same ploy upon Jesus, it truly was Satan himself who got cast out, and as a result, his kingdom crumbled.

Call upon representatives of the various religions, sects and denominations to confront all forms of religious bigotry, villification, and denegration of what people hold sacred, as well as all speech that promote hatred and bigotry;

Now the relevance of Jesus to the issue of human rights, often missed as Christian religion, is touched upon by Durant quite interestingly:

if we mean to have those appointed to public offices, who are sincere friends to religion, we, the people who appoint them, must take care to choose such characters; and not rely upon such cobweb barriers as test - laws are» (IV: 640)

Such putative rights as, for instance, the right to abortion not only have no warrant in the Declaration but clearly violate its insistence upon the rights of the family, of religion, and of conscience.

As we see the devastation this religion is working upon our lives, America tries to find scapegoats.

Religion as a whole will eventually be part of that «once upon a time» and along with it will go religion's history of war, murder and death.

Just as science must constantly revise its models so as to surmount the deficiencies of its abstract (usually mathematical) models of nature, so also religions are called upon continually to revise their enigmatic representations of cosmic significance in keeping with primary perceptions intuition of an ongoing cosmic adventure.

while the writer has little knowledge of the bible, he is also greatly lacking what he should know to write such a article, the laws give to people of all walks of life is the commandments given by moses, religion does not have anything to do with goverments laws or rulings, he told us straight the one law that there is no forgiveness for is murder, rulers and goverments take it upon themselves to make the decision whether to go to war, or if a person should be put to death, as far as jesus and the apostles are concerned thier labours was a work of love and true humanitarian towards all peoples, races, religions, they never asked for anything for themselves, and they never took from one to give to another.

Modern Christianity is apt to look back upon the religion of Puritan days as joyless; yet as we have earlier suggested it may be questioned whether there is not a greater lack of joy in modern religion, with so many of its exponents tied up in nervous knots.

According to this understanding, the role of religion in political debate is not so much to supply these norms, as if they could not be known by non-believers — still less to propose concrete political solutions, which would lie altogether outside the competence of religion — but rather to help purify and shed light upon the application of reason to the discovery of objective moral principles.

These fears assumed a fever pitch in 1832 when Pope Gregory XVI de?nounced separation of church and state, prompting Tocqueville to remark that across America «the Catholic religion has erroneously been looked upon as the natural enemy of democracy.»

First, as the title of a key chapter puts it, the American example shows that religion can «Make Use of Democratic Instincts» in a manner mutually beneficial to itself and democracy; second, sustainable democracy needs religion, which means we can expect democratic peoples to remain attached to its continuance or at least potentially receptive to its revival (cf. II, 2.17, # s 17 - 20); third, democratic times, because they are enlightened times, tend to be ones of increasing doubts about religion; fourth, the relevant religion for America and Europe, Christianity, will be tugged against and perhaps eroded by powerful and ongoing democratic currents toward liberationist and materialist mores; and fifth, religion's authority in democratic society will always rest upon common opinion.

is simply too ingrained, too much a part of what sin is all about, for us not to feel vexed when reminders come of the opposite reality, which it is precisely the office of religion to provide: «Accordingly, it has always been the office of Religion to protest against the sophistry of Satan, and to preserve the memory of those truths which the unbelieving heart corrupts: both the freedom and the responsibility of man, the sovereignty of the Creator, the supremacy of the law of conscience as His representative within us, and the irrelevancy of external circumstances in the judgment which is ultimately to be made upon our conduct and character.»

For Schleiermacher, as we have seen, 20 the essence of religion lay in the individual's feeling of dependence upon the Infinite.

Frei calls upon the Christian community to regain «its autonomous vocation as a religion» by telling its distinctive stories about how God worked in the life of Israel, and God's self - revelation in the life of Jesus Christ.

Long before the 1960s progress became increasingly identified with an enterprise, science, looked upon in many quarters as incompatible with religion.

Islam mentioned this for the longest time and as you can imagine, at a time when people had no access or means to verify those claims (people like yourself, opted to disbelief and argue about the existence of God) but now that those scientific «discoveries» became realities and the same as supported by the Quran (that was sent to Prophet Mohammed, Peace and Blessings be upon him), from God), it only solidifies Islam as the true religion of God.

This insight explains the vehemence of his attack upon the German quest for the historical Jesus, just as it illuminates his behavior» during his first years at Lambaréné, when he ransacked the intellectual storehouses of the world's religions in order to find some way to conceive of an affirmation of the world that was not merely mindless hedonism, a way that could motivate a powerful urge toward human betterment, toward perfection within the structures of natural existence.

D. Allen is of the view that History of Religions must be «aided by and dependent upon a normative discipline such as theology».

I hope to one day see the day when religions are looked upon as something of the past and we see ourselves as humans not different religious affliliations.

When I reflect on the infinite pains to which the human mind and heart will go in order to protect itself from the full impact of reality, when I recall the mordant analyses of religious belief which stem from the works of Karl Marx and Sigmund Freud and, furthermore, recognize the truth of so much of what these critics of religion have had to say, when I engage in a philosophical critique of the language of theology and am constrained to admit that it is a continual attempt to say what can not properly be said and am thereby led to wonder whether its claim to cognition can possibly be valid — when I ask these questions of myself and others like them (as I can not help asking and, what is more, feel obliged to ask), is not the conclusion forced upon me that my faith is a delusion?

Besides missing the mark, as even a cursory survey of the history of religions shows, Harnack's barrage falls back down upon his own head.

As evil as Bin Laden was, he was also a casualty of an interminable war between these two religions and the delusions they brought upon hiAs evil as Bin Laden was, he was also a casualty of an interminable war between these two religions and the delusions they brought upon hias Bin Laden was, he was also a casualty of an interminable war between these two religions and the delusions they brought upon him.

In addition their is a great book called the 7 Truths of the Bible that have nothing to do with proving religion but the historical facts as agreed upon by archaelogist / historians / anthropologists, many of whom are nonbelievers / skeptics / atheists

Some of the ideas that religion imparts upon politics are good, such as helping your fellow man, but religion is not necessary for those ideas to exist and indeed can confound those ideas when mixed with other messages from the same religion.

By the way by no means does this mean that I am particularly against Islam, I am also against Judaism, Christianity, and any unproven dark age manifestation of a all knowing, creator, If there was a god he sure does «nt need help enforcing his edicts and morals, remember that if there is a god then as many religions state, people will be judged upon there beliefs and sins after death and spend eternity in heaven or hell, so why is it so important for people to butt in and start trying to control each other and force people to believe in something that many think is absurd and insane.

In direct proportion to its being deprived of the cultural props that have sustained it as the established religion of the western world, the Christian church is being cast back upon its rudimentary confessional basis.

Many — if not most — studies — such as literature, philosophy, history, religion, geography, and anthropology (to name only some of them)-- by their very nature draw upon a variety of other fields of study and thus are particularly suited to general education, provided they are not ruined for that purpose by professional zeal to make them into precise, technical, exclusive disciplines — as occurs even in such a naturally general field as literature, when its promoters restrict it to technical textual analysis.

As Berger puts it, «religion legitimates social institutions by bestowing upon them an ultimately valid ontological status, that is, by locating them within a sacred and cosmic frame of reference.

China turned Chinese in the matter of religion also, «China as it has so often done, turned away from the world and turned in upon itself.

Such an understanding is present in Schleiermacher's definition of religion as a sense, feeling, or awareness or human dependence upon God.

The religious are always looking to put religion front and center in public life: displays and signs on public property, laws based upon their religious beliefs, their beliefs taught as science in schools, bells on Sunday, etc..

In his journal Journey from Aleppo to Jerusalem at Easter A.D. 1697 he wrote: «The Latins take a great deal of pains to expose this ceremony, as a most shameful imposture, and a scandal to the Christian religion; perhaps out of envy, that others should be the masters of so gainful business; but the Greek and Armenians pin their faith upon it, and make their pilgrimages chiefly upon this motive.»

Actually, it's listed as the fastest growing religion because people are tired of all the hatred and war that my religion, christianity, is throwing upon the world.