Sentences with phrase «validity as other religions»
... therefore abasing Christ to the category of a religion... equal in validity as other religions, as other «gods».
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This hypocritical belief applies to all lovers of the self, lovers of self - will, lovers of self - interest, lovers of self - rights...... lovers of the belief in freedom of rights and religion... making Christ into a «faith» of the same validity as any other man - made «religion».
This world universal belief stipulates that all «religions» are equal in validity and that there is no singular, omni present, and true god... all are equal to each other and are to be respected as having the same right of existence and worship.
Where Christianity and Islam are very articulate as to their universal validity and as the only way for the entire humanity, the other world religions display in different ways a similar penchant for monopoly.
In other words, religion can, for the purpose of these theories, in principle be either reconstructed or abolished and seen as pointing to a more comprehensive theoretical system.4 By locating religion in a larger explanatory context it gives «its public claim to validity a purely relative value».5
«9 Correlatively, Smith observes the word «religions» (plural form) comes into use only as one «contemplates from the outside, and abstracts, depersonalizes, and reifies the various systems of other people of which one does not oneself see the meaning or appreciate the point, let alone accept the validity.