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The Waaqeffanna religion has no scriptures or holy books that exist today. [1] The Waaqeffataas believe that Waaqa gave human beings their minds with their capabilities to distinguish right from wrong, give them 'ayyana' that guide them, and help them to communicate with God. For Waaqeffata, it is not mandatory to have written book at hand to ...
St. Augustine (354–430) believed that the determinism of astrology conflicted with the Christian doctrines of man's free will and responsibility, and God not being the cause of evil, [1] [2] but he also grounded his opposition philosophically, citing the failure of astrology to explain twins who behave differently although conceived at the ...
It turns God into nothing more than a tool for us to use when we want something, rather than the majestic creator of the world. [37] On the Union for Reform Judaism website Jeffrey K. Salkin derides astrology as "a new-age trap": If you visit a Barnes and Noble superstore, you will see what much of American religion has become.
'An Astrologer Casting a Horoscope' from Robert Fludd's Utriusque Cosmi Historia, 1617. Renaissance scholars commonly practised astrology. Gerolamo Cardano cast the horoscope of king Edward VI of England, while John Dee was the personal astrologer to queen Elizabeth I of England.
The white supremacist Creativity movement has also been described as a nontheistic religion. [44] The sociologist Auguste Comte devised a religion called the Religion of Humanity based on his Positivist principles. The Religion of Humanity is not a metaphysical religion and as such there are no gods or supernaturalisms in its belief. [45]
The rabbis have distinguished between gaining an occult knowledge of the stars' influences on human beings (which is permitted) and the actual worshipping of the stars (which is prohibited), a view that is also met with the Scripture; cf. [the stars and all the host of heaven] "which the Lord thy God hath divided unto all nations" (Deut. 4:19 ...
[24]: 424 There is no mechanism proposed by astrologers through which the positions and motions of stars and planets could affect people and events on Earth. In spite of its status as a pseudoscience, in certain religious, political, and legal contexts, astrology retains a position among the sciences in modern India. [25]
However, the same survey showed that 11.1% of all respondents stated "no" when asked if they believed in God. [198] According to a 2014 report by the Pew Research Center, 3.1% of the US adult population identify as atheist, up from 1.6% in 2007; and within the religiously unaffiliated (or "no religion") demographic, atheists made up 13.6%. [199]