Religion: What It Is, How It Works, and Why It Matters
² Others have decided that religion does not even exist “out there” to be studied and understood, but is only a modern, Western invention imposed on the world for political and religious purposes.³ I ...
What Is the Difference Between Religion and Spirituality?
The church does not ... gives us our purpose too — to “do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God.” Humanists say they can do justice and love kindness without religion, but ...
What is true religion?
Every religion in the world thinks that their religion is ... that knows every choice and action has a ripple effect throughout the cosmos. It brings with it a purpose to life that goes way beyond any ...
What We Owe God: Recovering the Virtue of Religion
We are not used to thinking about owing anything to God. In many ways, religion has become focused on "me," going to Church therapeutically to feel ...
What can religious Jews learn from Marx?
Here we see that Marx believed that religion in the modern era serves a purpose ... to fulfill their needs and actualize their purposes. But what does that mean for us? I believe we can be ...
What is there to vote for if not religion?
As electioneering heats up, the tensed debates around the religion of the presidential candidates will steam. Presently, the religious dialogue is about the savviness of a “Muslim-Muslim” ticket which ...
Religion without God
The theme of this book is that religion is deeper ... that human life has purpose and the universe order. A belief in a god is only one possible manifestation or consequence of that deeper worldview.
Science and Religion will always conflict. Discuss. (Nov 2002)
4.4. Thus, miracles does not only refer to supernatural occurences and Science and Religion may not be always at utter odds with each other. 5.1.1. Religion answers philosophical questions of ...
22nd Sunday in ordinary time: Irreligious religion
Today’s first reading highlights the fact that the purpose of religion in ... of personal discernment. James goes further to speak of “unspoilt religion”, which he defines as “coming ...
The purpose of Lent
What does it mean to become a Christian. The purpose of Lent is to keep alive in our consciousness and our life the fact that being a Christian can only take the form of becoming a Christian ever anew ...
What College Did to My Religion
To say that college does something to the average ... Obviously such a God would be too remote, too inaccessible, for the purposes of religion. I saw, too, that the Modernists were troubled ...
