Not exact matches
The «religiously devout» is important, for Geck puts to death the notion, prominent from the early 1960s through the 1980s, that correct dating of Bach's cantata production proves that his interest
in writing liturgical music was a professional obligation only and that Bach had no abiding commitment to the
religious texts he was paid to set.
«god» doesn't exist and is make believe, your
religious texts were
written by human beings without any kind of «divine inspiration» regardless of what you read
in them...
written by people who thought the Earth was flat... it isn't.
On the matter of self and fulfillment, John Boswell, a Yale historian who has
written some of the major
texts employed by homosexual activists, asserts, «Not only is homosexual eroticism the oldest and most persistent strand
in the Christian theology of romantic love, but Christian
religious life was the most prominent gay life - style
in Western Europe from the early Middle Ages to the Reformation, about two - thirds of the period since Europe became Christian.»
Not all
religious thought waited until
texts could be
written to start and not al religions focus on do's and don'ts though they all do try to help us make better decisions if they are worth the long survivals they've had; both
in their own religion and those that took their ideas and reformed them for their current times.
It is,
in particular, the second of evangelicalism's two tenets, i. e., Biblical authority, that sets evangelicals off from their fellow Christians.8 Over against those wanting to make tradition co-normative with Scripture; over against those wanting to update Christianity by conforming it to the current philosophical trends; over against those who view Biblical authority selectively and dissent from what they find unreasonable; over against those who would understand Biblical authority primarily
in terms of its writers»
religious sensitivity or their proximity to the primal originating events of the faith; over against those who would consider Biblical authority subjectively, stressing the effect on the reader, not the quality of the source — over against all these, evangelicals believe the Biblical
text as
written to be totally authoritative
in all that it affirms.
«The importance of studying parallels lies
in providing a check against isolating the Hebrew prophet from his specific historical context as if his
text represented a timeless
religious literature that floated above all historical particularity,» he
writes.
Finally,
in reading such
texts one must keep
in mind the end to which they were
written, namely,
religious edification.
Religious texts are typically
written in such a way making it impossible to prove or disprove their deities» existence.
(As regards the secondary character of intellectual constructions, and the primacy of feeling and instinct
in founding
religious beliefs, see the striking work of H. Fielding, The Hearts of Men, London, 1902, which came into my hands after my
text was
written.
Anyone who is facinated by his work, or Tolkien's should look into the writings of another one of the Inklings, Charles Williams, who
wrote religious texts, poetry, and fiction, including the novels WAR
IN HEAVEN, ALL HALLOW»S EVE, and MANY DIMENSIONS.
if were only going to use the KJV why stop at greek, or latin why not only read the original
texts which were
written in Coptic the simple fact is not a single one of us, including our highest
religious leaders, other then about 30 ancient language specialist
in the world have ever read an original scripture.
Many
religious texts are
written with tales of magic and exageration to draw people
in so they eventually get down to the deeper meanings and more life useful stuff.
As well as polemics Luther was
writing his pastoral theology, his Fourteen Consolations for the very ill Elector, and a
text on The Blessed Sacrament of the Holy and True Body of Christ, compared
in its nature as a fellowship event with the degenerate «
religious» fellowship of the craft brotherhoods.
And I freely admit I sometimes use too many extraneous, space - consuming, overly - descriptive, qualifying, words or sentences
written quickly and
in a stream - of - conscientiousness, run - on sort of fashion with occasional typos mostly due to fatigue of being up way too late (which also explains this post
in general) after a long day of political discussion which refreshingly had little
religious content though of course there is often much overlap between the two but posting is barely a hobby but more of an occasional passtime so now i wonder if what I
write could be considered abuse as I've can't really recall seeing much if any sorrt of «
text filibustering» not that this is exactly filibustering more a spontaneous
text performance response joke and meant
in jest to be absurdly long and useless so of course i hope you appreciate the spirit.
My children will have approximately 1 / 7th greater life experiences because they won't be wasting a day trying to commune with a non-existent all - powerful being with pathological tendencies, if you base his existence on what you read
in the various
religious texts some men (no women)
wrote several thousand years ago.
Times when Henry VIII's secretary
wrote in grim jest to his friend Erasmus that the scarcity and dearness of wood
in England were due to the quantities wasted
in burning heretics, or when later the Puritan Cartwright, defending by Biblical
texts the barbarities of
religious persecution, exclaimed, «If this be regarded as extreme and bloodie I am glad to be so with the Holy Ghost»?
Texts Cruddas and Rutherford's NS review of Richard Reeves and Philip Collins's The Liberal Republic; «No turning back», by Neal Lawson (NS, 5 March 2009); Bunting has
written sympathetically about another communitarian philosopher, Michael Sandel, who,
in his 2009 Reith Lectures, called for
religious ideas to be given greater prominence to counter the amoralism of the market.
In addition to half a dozen important
texts, Kepler
wrote hundreds of letters sharing the details of his personal affairs — how he married, mourned the deaths of his children, moved from place to place to escape
religious persecution.
LANGUAGE 10 - About 60 F - words and its derivatives, 1 F - word
written in a
text message, 1 obscene hand gesture, 5 sexual references, 18 scatological terms, 12 anatomical terms, 15 mild obscenities, name - calling (stupid, dumb, retarded stepchild, idiot, playboy, deadbeat), exclamations (keep your mouth shut, jeez), 5
religious profanities (GD), 15
religious exclamations (e.g. Oh My God, Holy [scatological term deleted], Oh God, God Forbid, Jesus, Lord Almighty, Gold Almighty).
«There is an increasing focus on the good use of sacred
texts in GCSE
Religious Studies with a higher expectation that students will understand the references they are drawing on when they
write in their exams,» he explained.
Some of these include the tenth - century Book of Deer, which is probably the oldest surviving Scottish manuscript and contains the earliest known examples of
written Gaelic; the thirteenth - century Life of Edward the Confessor, which contains masterpieces of illumination; the Cairo Genizah collections, which are glimpses into the everyday live of a Jewish community
in Egypt over a period of 1,000 years; digital versions of its Islamic and Sanskrit collections of both secular and
religious texts, including some of the earliest surviving Qur» ans; the Nash Papyrus, which contains one of the oldest
texts from the Hebrew Bible, the Codex Bezzae, one of the most important New Testament manuscripts; and others.
In 1996, Daniel Birnbaum wrote for frieze on Kamprad's elaborate moral philosophy as outlined in his 1976 text The Testament of a Furniture Dealer: «It is easy to forget that Kamprad's highly - strung manifesto concerns a furniture company, and not some religious or political movement hoping to save mankind from the temptations of worldly evil.&raqu
In 1996, Daniel Birnbaum
wrote for frieze on Kamprad's elaborate moral philosophy as outlined
in his 1976 text The Testament of a Furniture Dealer: «It is easy to forget that Kamprad's highly - strung manifesto concerns a furniture company, and not some religious or political movement hoping to save mankind from the temptations of worldly evil.&raqu
in his 1976
text The Testament of a Furniture Dealer: «It is easy to forget that Kamprad's highly - strung manifesto concerns a furniture company, and not some
religious or political movement hoping to save mankind from the temptations of worldly evil.»
Rather «My case is that of the IPCC my chosen priests of my
religious faith who are rewarded based on their faith
in my religion, backed up by evidence that I refuse to present (because I refuse to present information that contradicts my
religious faith) and the Science my sacred
Text as
written by the chosen priests of my
religious faith.»
The approach advocated by the Commission gives full weight, as a matter of interpretation, open
in the
text, to the word «traditional»
in sub-sec 223 (1), and avoids the mockery which would be constituted by mandating failure of a claim if there be any gap revealed
in the admissible (eg non-hearsay) evidentiary description of the social and
religious conduct of people without
writing from pre-1788, continuously, until and during the shock and disruption of non-indigenous settlement.