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The religious views of Thomas Jefferson diverged widely from the traditional Christianity of his era. Throughout his life, Jefferson was intensely interested in theology, religious studies, and morality. [1][2] Jefferson was most comfortable with Deism, rational religion, theistic rationalism, and Unitarianism. [3]
Religious views of Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln in his late 30s as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives. (Photo taken by one of Lincoln's law students around 1846.) Abraham Lincoln grew up in a highly religious Baptist family. He never joined any Church, and was a skeptic as a young man and sometimes ridiculed revivalists.
Isaac Newton (4 January 1643 – 31 March 1727) [1] was considered an insightful and erudite theologian by his Protestant contemporaries. [2][3][4] He wrote many works that would now be classified as occult studies, and he wrote religious tracts that dealt with the literal interpretation of the Bible. [5] He kept his heretical beliefs private.
A Levite reading the Law to the Israelites. The Rambam famously rules that members of the tribe of Levi do not fight in the army. [3]Roots of Christian pacifism can be found in the scriptures of the Old Testament according to Baylor University professor of religion, John A. Wood. [4] Millard C. Lind explains the theology of warfare in ancient Israel as God directing the people of Israel to ...
Sigmund Freud's views on religion. Sigmund Freud's views on religion are described in several of his books and essays. Freud considered God as a fantasy, based on the infantile need for a dominant father figure, with religion as a necessity in the development of early civilization to help restrain our violent impulses, that can now be discarded ...
Why I Am Still a Christian, a book by Catholic theologian Hans Küng, published in 1987. Why I Am Not a Muslim, a 1995 book by Ibn Warraq, is also critical of the religion in which the author was brought up — in this case, Islam. The author mentions Why I Am Not a Christian towards the end of the first chapter, stating that many of its ...
e. Christian existentialism is a theo-philosophical movement which takes an existentialist approach to Christian theology. The school of thought is often traced back to the work of the Danish philosopher and theologian Søren Kierkegaard (1813–1855) who is widely regarded as the father of existentialism. [1]
The idea of religion can often seem serious like fire and brimstone, but it isn’t always a straight-face matter. Religion, and Christianity specifically, is full of joyful moments of laughter ...