Beliefs about these matters could not define the attributes of personhood were they formed under compulsion of the State.” Freedom to choose trumps even reality itself, and relativism in all its forms was enshrined as dogma. The only self-evident truth is that there is no objective truth. Suc...
These data demonstrate that geographically, civically, and economically-similar groups differ in their moral reasoning and that such differences are best accounted for by religious and ontological beliefs.Tennant, JosephTennant, J. C. (2015). Harm and non-harm moral judg- ments and moral ...
The Holy Father most certainly had the Pachamama controversy in mind when he exhorted the Faithful to “not be quick to describe as superstition or paganism certain religious practices that arise spontaneously from the life of peoples. Rather, we ought to know how to distinguish the wheat growing...
The sun caught the stained-glass window and brought the scene suddenly to life creating an almost religious experience. The elusive frog so sensitive to water pollution, safe here where our waste was used to nurture life. A benign, quiet smell of wood shavings. I heard the characteristic ...
Since you prefer to discuss his religious beliefs, why not answer what he said so many years ago? What you have done, however, is attack him with your own unsupported “AGW religious” believes. Spencer’s arguments were: “In fact, it turns out that these large year-to-year fluctuations...
Jonathan Edwards Goes to Movies: What Story Structure Can Teach Us About Religious Affections The inciting event presents the hero with a decision: Shall I continue in the relative comfort of my business-as-usual life, or risk pursuing a new and more dangerous goal? A lot like Lent is desig...
1. Since the Blues feel that we consist largely of racists, religious fanatics and greedy capitalists who exploit the honest working people, they may be happy to be rid of us so that they may set up a more progressive polity without our interference. ...
2009. “Christians and Gays in Northern Ireland: How the Ethno-Religious Context Has Shaped Christian Anti-Gay and Pro-Gay Activism.” In Contemporary Christianity and LGBT Sexualities, edited by Stephen Hunt, 123–139. London: Routledge. (Open in a new window)Google Scholar...
The story was full of Catholic religious context due to syncretization and gained wider recognition. In 1987, Damiana Eugenio's Philippine Folk Literature: The Myths indigenized the legend, and it goes like this: There were seven moons in the heavens created by Bathala (the Tagalog supreme...
Mary Dalytaught for 33 years at Boston College. Her radical feminist philosophy -- thealogy she sometimes called it -- criticized androcentrism in traditional religion and tried to develop a new philosophical and religious language for women to oppose patriarchy. She lost her position over her bel...