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Some scholars of religion have labelled it an Abrahamic religion, [5] while other scholars have also classified it as a new religious movement, [6] a sect, [7] a cult, [8] and a revitalisation movement. [9] Having arisen in Jamaica, it has been described as an Afro-Jamaican religion, [10] and more broadly an Afro-Caribbean religion. [11]
A soul who destroys all its passions and desires has no desire to interfere in the working of the universe. If godliness is defined as the state of having freed one's soul from karmas and the attainment of enlightenment/Nirvana and a god as one who exists in such a state, then those who have achieved such a state can be termed gods (Tirthankara).
Sikhs believe that God has been given many names, but they all refer to the One God, VāhiGurū. Sikh holy scripture (Guru Granth Sahib) speaks to all faiths and Sikhs believe that members of other religions such as Islam, Hinduism and Christianity all worship the same God, and the names Allah , Rahim , Karim , Hari , Raam and Paarbrahm are ...
The religion has not adopted the Christian notion of sin, [195] and does not present a particular model of ethical perfection for its practitioners to strive towards. [196] The focus of the practice is thus not perfection, but power. [11] It has been characterised as a world-embracing religion, rather than a world-renouncing one. [197]
Cultural religion" must be taken into account: non-religious people can be found in religious categories, especially where religion has very deep-seated religious roots in a culture. [17]: 59 Many of the religiously unaffiliated have some religious beliefs. [19] [20]: 24 Also, some of them engage in certain kinds of religious practices.
One example is Eshu, a trickster god from Yoruba religion who deliberately fostered violence between groups of people for his own deeds, saying that "causing ire is my greatest happiness." Many polytheistic deities since prehistoric times have been assumed to be neither good nor evil (or to have both qualities).
Caputo, who distances himself from death of God theology, asserts that atheism is the beginning of theology rather than the point of it, as he stresses the role of theopoetics in which people respond to the call of "God" through things such as metaphors, narratives, songs, poems, and parables rather than propositions and arguments.
Irvine eventually began preaching a new order in which the hierarchy that had developed within the church would have no placement. This teaching became controversial within the church and led to his expulsion by church overseers around 1914. One of the church's most prominent evangelists, Edward Cooney, was expelled a decade after Irvine. The ...