Sentences with phrase «whole idea of religion»

Isn't the whole idea of religion to end up in heaven?

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I am an Atheist and I have made a life long study of religions and the whole idea of even having a religion.

The alternative method, often used by scholars, considers one epoch of Biblical religion at a time, presenting the entire complex of ideas which characterized that era, and then moves on to study the next succeeding epoch as a whole.

J. W. C. Wand, an Anglican theologian, wrote several decades ago that «it is actually possible to regard transfiguration as the fundamental idea in the Christian religion and as placing in a nutshell the whole story of the individual Christian life as well indeed as that of society as a whole.»

A little research goes along way — the whole idea behind the resurrection has it basis in much earlier religions — thousands of years before JC.

On the whole, the idea of religion as sacred canopy has not yet been tested sufficiently to suggest that its merits outweigh those of several other contending approaches in the sociology of religion.

The world is not black and white and your whole idea of «us against them» is fundamental to your inability to understand true spiritual growth outside of one religion.

The whole idea of tithing is rooted in an entirely different time, culture and religion.

It sounds pretty exclusive to me, and it excludes a whole lot of ideas, concepts, and religions.

The whole force of the Christian religion, therefore, so far as belief in the divine personages determines the prevalent attitude of the believer, is in general exerted by the instrumentality of pure ideas, of which nothing in the individual's past experience directly serves as a model.

Indeed, it has been supposed by some that the teraphim, household gods, (Genesis 35:4; 31:19; 30 - 35; I Samuel 15:23; 19:13, 16; II Kings 23:24) were originally images of ancestors; that they were honored as such and were part of the apparatus of popular religion; (Hosea 3:4) that mortuary customs which the prophetic school later condemned grew up around them; (Cf. Deuteronomy 26:13 - 14) that the right of performing the necessary ceremonies for one's ancestors devolved upon a son and that this fact underlay both the sense of tragedy in being sonless and the practices of levirate marriage and of adoption to avoid such disaster; (Cf. Genesis 15:2 - 3; 30:3 - 8; Deuteronomy 25:5 - 10) and that this set of ideas and customs was an integral part of the whole clan organization of early Israel.

I can understand the idea of religion as a guide you can use to help you move forward, but the whole idea of using the Bible as some kind of legal case book is just repugnant, because the cases that are made are almost invariably regressive and inhuman.

As Steven Weinberg points out here, the argument made against extremists ends up invoking a moral sense to argue that the religious ideas of the extremists are wrong, when the whole point of religion is that it should be the other way around.

Actually the whole religion of «global warming» is based on this false idea.