Sentences with phrase «which adherents»

They may prove to be at least as important as the mathematical models, from which adherents of human caused warming tend to extract the worst case scenarios.

By the thirties these voices became a major force in creating a new climate in which adherents of the earlier synthesis were increasingly on the defensive in intellectual circles.

Not exact matches

My key point is this... religion should be a private affair for the adherent, regardless of which belief system it is.

In regards to your comment to OneTrueKinsman, «You believe that «religion should be a private affair for the adherent, regardless of which belief system it is», right?

some religions brainwash their adherents, and some have the hose on so hard it removes their brains altogether... I will let you guess which one that is

Moreover, the Northern European Jewish thinkers who advocated this view (unlike their contemporary counterparts in Spain) were in no wise adherents of Aristotelian philosophy and its natural theology, which argued that God's existence could be demonstrated outside of historical revelation.

So, though southerneyes44 writes of Christian «appreciation of alternate views», there's a long and brutal history of Christians persecuting adherents of other religions, including the followers of Judaism, from which Christianity arose, during various European pogroms against Jews throughout many centuries, and adherents of other branches of Christianity.

But Mormonism is unique in the degree to which it's adherents are connected to the church.

Numbering over 5 million adherents each, the two largest churches are the Kale Heywet Church (KHC), which is primarily Baptist, and the Lutheran Evangelical Church Mekane Yesus (ECMY).

Mormonism demands adherents» first allegiance is to Mormonism (which isn't necessarily any different from other religions), and ALSO gives adherents an ethical obligation to lie if it benefits the religion.

And to make matters much worse, it's not just a matter of two sets of conflicting beliefs, it's a matter of hundreds or thousands of sets of conflicting beliefs when you consider all the world's religions, all of which have devoted adherents just like you.

It contains ceremonies and incantations which it's adherents believe will result in supernatural intervention in their mundane problems.

Because if so then you might want to take a look at Buddhism which has been around for at least 2600 years and has nearly 500 million adherents.

Capitalism is designed primarily to prevent the objectives which socialists seek, and its adherents will strongly resist the measures necessary to adapt private enterprise to anything seriously approaching a socialist program.

«you might want to take a look at Buddhism which has been around for at least 2600 years and has nearly 500 million adherents.»

Mary was not only still alive at the crucifixion, it's clear in Acts that she herself was a follower and adherent — which says A LOT, considering women had no leadership powers (so no special treatment) and normally family members are the first to expose charlatans (note: even his brothers came to believe in Acts 1, after being skeptics earlier).

Many of its adherents refuse to acknowledge the sanctity and equality of human life, instead taking the so - called «quality of life» approach, which determines the moral value of each organism — whether human, animal, or plant — by measuring its individual cognitive capacities.

In the same letter he argues that Catholicism will be the only lasting form of Christianity; this argument also appears in Democracy, as Peter mentions, but without mention of the letter's key point that Protestantism is a half - way house between «reason» and «authority» that can not maintain its contradictory position over the long run, and which thus must lose its adherents to these two poles.

The changes in social structures of moral action, which previously were strongly linked to and supportive of Christian faith, has important implications both to how we conceive our relationship as Christians to our host society, and how we nurture ethical behaviour within adherents of the Christian faith who also participate fully as members of this society.

Here again, evangelical media could have a crucial role in focusing the thinking and concern of their adherents on issues like world hunger and the plight of our urban minorities — issues that correspond to the problems of slavery and child labor which 19th century evangelicals successfully attacked.

Not only were these churches leveling off from the heady gains of the postwar revival era (the main Presbyterian bodies from 1940 to 1960 had gained adherents at more than twice the rate of the preceding 20 years), but just as important, even more than before they were «losing» members and potential members because the regions in which they were strongest were «losing» population.

Rational choice is a presupposition of another sociological model embraced by Stark: the «theory of religious economies,» which posits that churches and other religious groups operate in a market in which they must compete for adherents.

Modernity's emphasis on secularism involves three elements - a) the desacralisation of nature which produced a nature devoid of spirits preparing the way for its scientific analysis and technological control and use; b) desacralisation of society and state by liberating them from the control of established authority and laws of religion which often gave spiritual sanction to social inequality and stifled freedom of reason and conscience of persons; it was necessary to affirm freedom and equality as fundamental rights of all persons and to enable common action in politics and society by adherents of all religions and none in a religiously pluralistic society; and c) an abandonment of an eternally fixed sacred order of human society enabling ordering of secular social affairs on the basis of rational discussion.

It provided an ideological framework within which the many religious communities of India as well as the plurality of linguistic caste and ethnic cultures (in the formation of which one or other religions had played a dominant role) could participate together with the adherents of secular ideologies like Liberalism and Socialism (which emerged in India in the framework of the impact of modern humanism of the West mediated through western power and English education).

Rather, each is a kind of pseudopod into which the Jewish energies of their adherents have flowed.

This from a person who practices a religion that has millions of it's adherents everywhere calling for the death of anyone who draws their child touching, slave owning prophet, but is upset when new yorkers are mad about the building of a mosque (which as everyone knows, become hotbeds of islamic fundamentalist education) right next to the spot that your pathetic comrades killed thousands of innocent people.

These two cataclysmic conflagrations of our century, which broke the back of the liberal Protestant faith in progress, do not appear to trouble the adherents of Divine Principle, by and large members of a generation conveniently undistressed by stark memories of those «triumphs» for the heavenly side.

But he says this symbolism is «adherent,, rather than being a true act of language (a true act of language being, for example, the metaphor, which is a free invention of speech).

But because the homogenizing worldview of liberal individualism exalts individual autonomy over all standards outside the will, adherents regard with suspicion all communities based on non-individualist assumptions, especially those such as marriage, family, and even the gathered church which are not obviously reducible to private contract.

A perfect counter-example is Hinduism, which by construction is more spiritual than religious — it's adherents do not have strict rules or norms, and there is incredible diversity of norms within one umbrella (some who believe in caste system, even though a large majority of urbanites study in Christian missionary schools; some who believe cows are sacred though 2/3 of Indians are actually non-vegetarian).

The erosion of Christian membership continued not only for lack of nurture from the church but also because the jobs which the government reserved for «scheduled castes» (the official term for the so - called untouchables) in government employment were not open to those who claimed to be adherents of a non-Hindu religion, and therefore no longer in any caste at all, «scheduled» or otherwise.

But other commentators have responded that Islam is a militant faith, which at times requires its adherents to make war on non-Muslims.

The literalist point of view is now more common among the sects than in the mainline churches, but it still has its adherents in the latter, as any denominational paper which has a forum of letters to the editor will make evident.

Adherents of the new Christian sects, of which there were many competing ones, e.g., Ebonites, Gnostics, etc., would have been familiar with the Serapis and likely would not have wanted their godman to seem any less impressive than the gods of the Serapis and other religions of the time, so there would have been a need for a miraculous birth story and other miracle stories for their godman, as well.

I'm not personally interested in creation stories that have only small numbers or adherents and little or no impact on the cultures that brought forth the western technological society in which I live.

Theologians influenced by positivism, whose adherents saw reality as strictly that which can be experienced through the senses and knowledge as that which can be obtained through a narrow definition of the scientific method, and linguistic analysis, which purported that the only proper function of philosophy is the study of the usage of words and sentences, also treated science and religion as separate realms, distinct «language games,» each with its own set of rules.

Article I of the Statement of Belief, which must be signed by all who seek membership in the First Church of Christ Scientist in Boston, the Mother Church, reads: «As adherents of Truth, we take the inspired word of the Bible as our sufficient guide to eternal life.»

When Muhammad lost the support which his uncle afforded him in Mecca, he left the town to look elsewhere for allies and adherents.

Christian faith is so much faith and so little sight that its adherents are always seeking for some demonstration which will prove to themselves and others that it is true, though the demonstration is bound to be somewhat beside the point — like most miracles — proving not truth but utility, and exhibiting a power which may be that of God, but may also be that of faith itself, or of spiritual forces somewhat less than divine.

The adherents of John the Baptist had their special prayer, as we know from an allusion in Luke 11:1; similarly the early Christian community had its prayer, the Lord's prayer, which was attributed to Jesus, as the sect of John ascribed their prayer to their master.

The confusion of a proximate, churchly, with the ultimate, divine, context and the attendant confusion of goals, lies at the heart of many dilemmas in which the Christian missionary enterprise is involved in its dealings with the adherents of other religions.

'' Cult» is not regarded by its adherents as something «quaint» or particular at all; they regard it as the axis mundi, the very connection between God and the world, and that which gives humans their true place in the cosmos.

But in spite of all apparent failures, dogmatic definitions arose, and precisely in their long - lasting continuance contrasted with the always short - lived heresies which flourish and gain adherents for a while but then fade into obscurity.

It is only that freedom can only be kept by rulers which are adherents of a very kind and moderate Protestantism without any bigotry.

Unlike adherents to some of the other religions which have commanded the allegiance of men, Christian believers are gathered together as a fellowship, meeting at specific times and in specific places to engage in the action of divine worship.

In summary, the virtues of organized religions include but are by no means limited to the following: they give their adherents something solid against which to rebel; they allow one to see farther by standing on the shoulders of giants; they insist on the primacy of lived experience; they work against illusion and historical insularity; they point to the power of the collective and the merits of deep diversity; and they are capable of the kind of mobilization that can transform the world.

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In response, these churches, temples, synagogues and mosques produce the cultural material that enables their members and adherents to locate themselves with respect to the places and time in which they currently live, to identify with others, to find their moral bearings, and to achieve some measure of efficacy with respect to their own needs and aspirations.

This, I submit, is uncharitable in the extreme, and it also violates the principle, to which Griffin subscribed in Searching for an Adequate God, that a position ought to be criticized on the basis of its «core doctrines» and not on the basis of views that may have been espoused by some adherents but are not essential to the position itself.

The fact that, in spite of its early association with that world and of the antagonism felt because of this seeming alliance, Christianity won some adherents from other cultures is evidence of the striking universality and vigor of the impulse which created it.