Not exact matches
There are
other religions than yours in the
world.
Professionals or secularists within the UK or Western
world will accept these religious tenets more sympathetically if they came from a faith they recognise, or indeed may once have been part of, more so
than other newer
religions.
That being that during the crusades the Islamic
world was more advanced
than the Christian
world in every way including their acceptance of
other religions.
And By the way... 1 in 50 would be only 2 %... the number of gay priests and higher is quite a bit higher
than the
world average, and higher
than in any
other religion... which is explained (at least in theory of why that is the case) in the frontline I saw... they estimated it is closer to one in 5
Perhaps Sabio can speak to the amount of trickery present in
other world religions as he has studied them more
than I.
I p1ss on your «anointed one» and I p1ss on your stinking nasty
religion that is doing more to turn this
world into an overflowing sewage dump
than any of the
other religions.
And that is a purely faith based ideology, no more or less so
than Christianity or any
other of the
world's
religions.
It is common factual knowledge that christianity has done significantly more
than Islam or any
other world religion (this is not a knock on
other religions) in terms of humanitarian giving.
In the 1500s, King Sigismund of Transylvania, who was converted to Unitarianism by his court minister, issued the
world's first Edict of Religious Toleration, allowing his subjects to choose to observe
religions other than the King's.
The
religions have caused more death and destruction in the
world than any
other source, except maybe the plague.
Another day of
religion marring the
world for no
other reason
than that religious people believe in something that just is not there.
too true; you're right, we are holistic people in a holistic
world living holistic lives and political theory,
religion, ethics, behavior, psychology, these and many
others are all so inextricably intertwined with each
other that it may be better to think of them as different views of the same object rather
than distinct objects that are inter-related (using «object» here, of course, metaphorically)
To James: «In truth, as far as I've been able to tell,
religion and faith have lead to more bloodshed
than any
other force in all of human history, and are currently responsible for an unwarranted amount of pain and suffering in the
world».
I could fill a large hotel full of the most
World's most «learnerd» Jewish, Christian and Islamic theological scholars (to take the, inaptly named, monothistic
religions) and they would be unable to agree on anything
other than some nauseating throw away line like «we should all rewspect each
other's views»».
In truth, as far as I've been able to tell,
religion and faith have lead to more bloodshed
than any
other force in all of human history, and are currently responsible for an unwarranted amount of pain and suffering in the
world.
It is worse in
other parts of the
world where more Christians are currently being killed for their faith
than members of any
other religion.
This assertion is not meant to imply that
religion is either false or ultimately nothing more
than the fabrication of human minds — indeed, Berger argues in
other writings that the transcendent seems to break through humanly constructed
worlds, as it were, from the outside, However, the social scientist must recognize the degree to which
religion, like all symbol systems, involves human activity.
Can we moderate Christians tell the
world that most Americans don't believe that you should devote your energy to judging
others, that you should try to focus to improving yourself; that most Americans want
religion protected by keeping it separated from «State» rather
than the extremist push to make biblical law the law of the land; that each individual's morality is between him / her and God, not a morality imposed by Christian extremists?
most do and they give everyone else a bad rep but every «
religion» does as well, i don't have any
religion i just try to do what is right and help
others i think these simple practices would help the
world out more
than anything else.
Therefore, I don't think my God would appreciate me joining a
religion which dooms the majority of the
world for no
other reason
than because they don't follow a certain
religion.
If
religion (as opposed to morality) was anything
other than empty promises meant to sate human insecurities, would we not expect movements TOWARD greater religiosity to be predominant in
World history and viewed in a positive light?
BTW, for the record, if we add it all up, The Roman Catholic church is responsible for more deaths
than any
other organized
religion, especially when you include the Inquisition and the Conquest of the New
World.
and relight old fires of hatred and pain, I would worry about the safety too of the good American Muslims, although it was radicals to have a Mosque where 3,000 were killed seems to me to rub salt in wounds for many, I don't really understand what happened to the plans of statues and tributes to those lost in 911,
other than a money factor.It seems like this Mosque will be viewed as a Trojan horse, no
religion would want a house of worship to be a reminder of hatred.it should be a place reminding the
world of peace and love if it's a place of worship, and in that location it will not bring a feeling of peace.
Considering his condition is likely what allowed him to spend most of his time thinking and doing physics, thus making him one of the
world's most well respected physicists and living far longer with ALS
than any
other individual before him, and is still able to communicate, I would imagine Maire is correct and he is an atheist not because he is all that bitter, but because the further people tend to go in science, the less they tend to believe in
religion.
The Enlightenment showed an interest in Asian
religions, but it was not until the second half of the nineteenth century, beginning with Max Muller in 1867, that serious scholarly study of the
religions of the
world, of
religions other than the scholar's own, was undertaken.
Those whose interest in the
religions of Asia has been aroused to the point that they want to consider some of the comparative problems raised by the study of religions other than one's own will find thoughtful and searching discussions in two books recently published: World Religions and World Community, by Robert Lawson Slater, and The Meaning and End of Religion, by Wilfred Cantwe
religions of Asia has been aroused to the point that they want to consider some of the comparative problems raised by the study of
religions other than one's own will find thoughtful and searching discussions in two books recently published: World Religions and World Community, by Robert Lawson Slater, and The Meaning and End of Religion, by Wilfred Cantwe
religions other than one's own will find thoughtful and searching discussions in two books recently published:
World Religions and World Community, by Robert Lawson Slater, and The Meaning and End of Religion, by Wilfred Cantwe
Religions and
World Community, by Robert Lawson Slater, and The Meaning and End of Religion, by Wilfred Cantwell Smith.
Is this the only way that you can feel like you contributed something to the
world other than being the baby machine your
religion wants you to be?
Native American beliefs are more in line with ecological thinking
than any
other religion the
world over.
Those dictators tried to wipe out
religion in their countries and killed millions of innocent people... so don't give me that crap about
religion killing more
than anyone else... Christian Evangelicals and Protestants do more to feed the poor, hungry and sick in this
world than any
other groups...
This observation may prove offensive to many who think that science deals more concretely with the
world than does any
other approach, especially
religion.
As to Iran although it looks extreme but she has Christians and Jews and God knows what living within them but don't know if they ever had problems... Any way dear it is a tough
world we do not know where and when it is going to end... we are seeing times now that there is discrimination between Muslims them selves as Sunni or Shiat and maybe more
than it is Islam to any
other religion... hope you understood any thing at all
The Universe, known and unknown, is possibly not the most used definition of God, at least in the western
world... but it is the Pantheistic version that jives so much more with science and is not a misappropriation of the smaller definitions of God, merely an unfamiliar definition to those with less knowledge of various more advanced religious and philosophic thought, within and outside those
religions... The idea of Pantheism also thoughtfully considers why there is, rather
than ridiculing, such a wide range of philosophical and ritual beliefs from a scientific perspective... without having to classify large groups of people, as senseless idiots from one end or destined for hell from the
other.
it is a telling fact that, the
world over, the vast majority of children follow the
religion of their parents rather
than any of the
other available
religions.
religion has caused more harm and death
than any
other issue in the entire history of the
world.
The Hindu deities Krishna, Vishnu, Kali, and
others were worshipped as manifestations of Brahma, the one transcendental God, the Hindu God, much more reverently, however,
than was the God of Plotinus, because the Hindu
religion presupposes a plurality of
worlds as over against the geocentric narrowing of the
world picture of classical antiquity.
Some Christian theologians in Asia, particularly some of us from the reformed tradition, have taken upon ourselves the arduous task of doing Christian theology in this vast part of the
world historically and culturally shaped by
religions other than Christianity.
If By virtue of his parents faith, obama can not be a Christian, then why are we Preaching the Gospel to the 41 % of the Unreached people groups, the Two - thirds of the
world's population - more
than 4.4 billion people, esp in windows1040 who are predominantly of islam and
other religion?
I am (a) A victim of child molestation (b) A r.ape victim trying to recover (c) A mental patient with paranoid delusions (d) A Christian The only discipline known to often cause people to kill
others they have never met and / or to commit suicide in its furtherance is: (a) Architecture; (b) Philosophy; (c) Archeology; or (d)
Religion What is it that most differentiates science and all
other intellectual disciplines from
religion: (a)
Religion tells people not only what they should believe, but what they are morally obliged to believe on pain of divine retribution, whereas science, economics, medicine etc. has no «sacred cows» in terms of doctrine and go where the evidence leads them; (b)
Religion can make a statement, such as «there is a composite god comprised of God the Father, Jesus and the Holy Spirit», and be totally immune from experimentation and challenge, whereas science can only make factual assertions when supported by considerable evidence; (c) Science and the scientific method is universal and consistent all over the
World whereas
religion is regional and a person's religious conviction, no matter how deeply held, is clearly nothing more
than an accident of birth; or (d) All of the above.
learing to be wrong... and guys those who blaspemy about christianity... goodluck... hehe your atheist, modern
religion,
other religion... Its better that we got believe even its so hard, because we doesn't prove to our 3rd dimentional
world that there is heaven...
than afterwards you died and actually there is heaven and you did not believe when you are alive...
Moreover, due to technology and personal interactions, cultures,
religions and spiritual traditions the
world over are influencing each
other more quickly
than ever before.