New religious movement

pluralism and exclusivism are the effect of a similar cause, that being the infinite nature of divine reality. In nature, most religious doctrines appear exclusivist. In the more primitive era of religious doctrines, tribal gods were beings that united the tribe but also separated the residents of that tribe from their neighboring tribes. Even within our present religious conceptions Jesus is the way the truth and the life, while liberation into Nirvana can only be achieved through Buddhism.…

It seemed as if Voltaire despised religious intolerance disdained it. His works seem to suggest that religious groups should be more accepting to other religious groups or the lack there of. For example in his piece “the ignorant philosopher” he argues that the many deaths and executions of many victims were unjust and unfair. His overall stance on religious intolerance is interesting because these ideas during that time almost humanitarian but why did so many oppose or reject these viewpoints…

Serrano-Serra’s actions were tangential, without any culpable knowledge, and bolstered by his redemptive act and do not, therefore, bar him. Furthermore, the persecutor bar should not apply to Serrano-Serra because the accurate interpretation of the persecutor bar includes an exception for duress, requiring those barred to possess personal culpability in their actions. I. Serrano-Serra neither assisted persecution nor had sufficient knowledge of it occurring because his actions, when viewed as…

aggregate obliviousness of God. Such religious organizations, ashrams, sanctuaries, sections, social orders, missions, establishments, and so forth., are risky foundations deceiving the masses, like the visually impaired driving the visually impaired. They incapacitate, enter, make agitation, complete dark enhancements, compliment, make a dream paradise and cheat the oblivious masses. Sacrifice is common in most religions and can also be found in the bible. Per Genesis 22:2 of the King James…

Darlan, Vallet, Laval, and Petan yet all these men exhibited anti-Semitic views and used them as a moral justification to implement legislation against the Jews. Helene Berr writes about this betrayal when she denounces the actions of Darnard, the new Commissioner for the Maintenance of Order. She writes how he has become a pawns of the Germans, able to kill anyone under the guise of protection. There is now nothing that the Jews are able to do to help better their situation because those in…

In Anne Bradstreet’s poem “Verses on the Burning of our House,” the speaker discusses her attempt to reconcile the loss of her earthly possessions with religious tenets and, in doing so, highlights the struggle of Puritans to maintain the religious ideal of valuing only spiritual worth, as depicted through the concept of weaned affections. Frequently in her poem, Bradstreet emphasizes the dichotomy between her emotions as she experiences the transpiring events and what she wants to feel through…

In his book Fundamentalism, Steve Bruce starts by admitting that religion is a “very rich diet” for most. Most people are not willing to put their entire lives into religious traditions and choose instead to practice religion with few rituals, helping fund their religious communities, and trying to work with what their religious leaders say is a moral, good life. After all, not everybody can be a monk or priest, as there have always needed to be people keeping the secular life functioning,…

In a small classroom at Liberty University, students enrolled in an upper level psychology course have discussed the various models of the integration of psychology and Christianity as proposed by David N. Entwistle (2015). The models that were discussed include Enemies, Foreign Spies, Domestic Spies, Colonialists, Rebuilders, Neutral Parties, and Allies. One specific part of the curriculum for the class includes the input of each student on which of these seven models seem to be the strongest.…

While it is easy to criticize the new medium of film for lack of substance—Aichele and Walsh wrote that “one does not expect especially valuable insights from [film]—it is clear that audiences can learn from the morals and values taught in biblical movies CITATION (Screening Scripture p.viii). Parallel narrative techniques used by biblical filmmakers represent an excellent example of a novel format through which religious teachings could be conveyed to mass audiences; through direct, immersive…

dedicates a great amount of space to instructions for construction. Some of the content seems easy enough to understand. Other content seems strange. All of this content comes bound together as one book, but there are two so-called “Testaments” (old and new) as well as sixty-six individual books written over the span of about 1,500 years. Do all of these books fit together somehow? Is this one book or many? Is this book telling one story or many different stories? It can all be quite…