Sentences with phrase «very idea of religions»

Some suggest that the very idea of religions, in the plural, came from a pluralistic society with a democratic form of government.

It can be argued that the very idea of religion came to be because people a long time ago were trying to comfort themselves about why we are here and what becomes of us after death.

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religion is the very basis of hate, you are taught to hate anyone not like you through your false beliefs and ideas.

As a non-believer, I find the idea that a particular religion would view a peacemaker as bringing about the end of the world very scary.

These ideas were composed litterally thousands of years after Eastern religions and philosophies that garner very similar ideas.

I can tell you as a religious studies scholar that your use of «religious» to differentiate between some idealized, sincere faith (a very Protestant idea, by the way) and hypocritical institutional religion and its trappings is pretty specious.

Only where historical developments have led to a degeneration in the life of the fellowship, and hence to a weakening of this feeling, will there be a rationalistic or mystic or spiritualist protest against the actual manifestation, or against the very idea of a communion and community in religion.

In the 17th century, the ideas of the Reformation were spreading throughout the world and the Church did not accept very graciously the new scientific ideas that mixed themselves with God and religion.

It is difficult to imagine how belief in historical revelation can be abandoned without destroying the very foundations of biblical religion, but every effort must be made to remove from the idea any shadow of arrogance.

The simple fact that there have been so many different theistic religions throughout history, should show that the idea of a «god» is one that has been fabricated by humans to fill a very primitive need.

Today, in fact, the idea of revelation must be unfolded with an eye toward rendering intelligible the very fact of the plurality of religions themselves.

Although Lincoln is often praised for this remark by those who oppose the mixing of religion and politics, it contains three of the most controversial ideas in American politics: that it is legitimate to invoke the name of God within the realm of political discourse; that God's existence isn't merely symbolic, but that he is always right; and that since God takes sides on certain issues, some people will be divinely justified while others will stand in opposition not only to their political opponents but to the very Creator and Sustainer of the Universe.

It was his tendency throughout the book to pursue the first alternative, very probably in response to the Whiteheadian vision, that led him to conclude in his preface to the 1971 edition that «In this book I still retained features of the idea of God beyond the reach of empirical inquiry and hence obstructive to the full cooperation of science and religion» (RESM 3).

This forum is giving me a very good idea what cynics and atheists sound like, and while I cant know if there is a God I do know a truly free society respects freedom or lack of religion and that believers of both should learn some respect and toleration.

I am not lessened by those that do not believe what i believe, i served this country and spent a year in Iraq, many of my fellow soldiers were Christian but i served beside Atheists, mormons, Catholics, wiccans, Jews, even a satanist, yes a satanist, and guess what, we were friends, I cared deeply for them and they for me, These were the guys that protected me so i could sleep, my life was in their hands and theirs in mine... I think you all have a very bad idea of what a Christian is, i think you have no idea what you're talking about when you judge us all as a religion... you need to get out of your house and off of your computer chair and learn what people are really about... Maybe then you will understand Humanity rather than just secularizing everybody and hating them... you are sad people, yet my beliefs teach me to pray for you, and hope that you come to reason...

One of the very harmful notions I find in all religions is the idea that bad things are caused by nasty demons, evil Satan, angry spirits and the like.

The very idea of creating web sites dedicated to Christian dates corresponds to some people's tendency of choosing their life companion according to religion as well.

Whether written by an iconic Southern author in 1947 or compiled from emails written by a young pastor to the president in 2010, these gift books explore the enduring themes of spirituality and faith, reminding us that contemplating the divine can confirm our very humanity.Spiritual thinking has been with us from the beginning, as The Religions Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained reminds readers...

Inside is a very odd experience — an unsettling merger of sci - fi and medievalism, and a treatise on ideas around replication and religion.

Blasphemy laws are, by their very design, contrary to the idea of secularism — the separation of church and religion from the state and laws which govern people.

They are all ideas born of ignorance and the need to calm our fears born from that ignorance, to explain what was then unexplainable, and perpetuated from generation to generation because of continued ignorance, only slowly being eroded as our understanding of our physical world around us expands and we very slowly lessen our need as a species to have these «religions» explain the world for us, to calm our fears.