what is doctrinalism?
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Methods of Constitutional Interpretation - Doctrinalism \n  \nBobbitt, Constitutional Fate Bobbitt\nStrauss, "Conmon Law, Common Ground, and Jefferson's Principle" \n search about the names to find out it...
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Seperation of church and state.  \n\nWhat a joke, eh?\n\nReligion is constitutionally supposed to have no say in politics.  Really working out for us, isn't it?
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Legalism loses sight of the main purpose, and gets wrapped up in peripheral or side issues, traditions, and minor points of compliance or (usually) good deeds or other behavior.  In religious legalism, one forgets that God looks on the heart, and begins to concentrate instead on people's exact words and actions.  The usual focus of legalism is on condemnation, rather than on loving and helping other people.
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go to\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianism
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It depends on what you are reffering to as strict rules.  Mosat of what you have referenced would be called legalism or the belief that you have to perform certain  ritualistic actions in order to gain favor from god. Catholicism and many other false christian doctrines have similar belief structures although not as violent as islam. Christinaity in its purest form is a personal relatioship with Jesus Christ as your lord and savior. Salvation is a gift given for the belief in the saving grace of Jesus Christ there is nothing a man can do beyond that, no actions or good deeds that can make him worth before god to enter the kingdom of heaven. That being said Christianity cannot exist within legalism so there would be no christian church that would meet this description. although im sure there are hundreds of churches meeting this description that call themselves christian.
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The term "legalism" means a concentration on "the law."  In fundamentalist christianity it would mean a lot of attention paid to what a person looks like (are their skirts too short?  does the man have a "christian looking" haircut).  Also, do they listen to rock music?  Go to the wrong kinds of movies?\n\nIt's like...putting people under "the old testement law."
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I am a Catholic, but of an Eastern Church.\n\nOne fascinating aspect of the Antiochean Orthodox are their hymns.  They date from the first century, when pastors complain that their hymns are from the fifties, they could take a lesson from the hymns of the actual fifties.\n\nI find the Buddhist use of negation a powerful tool for thinking about issues.  The scientific method is a philosophical method that says you cannot show things are true, rather you can only show things are false.  The rest is tautology.  This really is a powerful method and limits discord and division really.\n\nThe Jain idea of ahimsa is really agape made practical.\n\nTwo components of Wicca are interesting.  The idea of a Book of Shadows, which is an individual recording of that which is useful, meaningful etc.  In essence, you write your own scripture.  That leads to the second component of Wicca, and why I don't believe it will last more than two more generations, is that it is a very idividualized religion.  There isn't a lot that is mandatory, and hence little to object to. It opens itself up to syncratic thought, but it doesn't then have the problem of followers not fitting the orthodoxy.  Very few people are really orthodox, though many believe they are.  Wicca purposefully bypasses the problem\n\nI love the Cargo Cults, it proves that religion is such a deep part of human existance, and that real knowledge and religion can be completely disconnected.  Just a note, I believe intelligent design is a Cargo Cult, a comment that will likely bring screams of blasphemy down on me.  Nonetheless, it has all of the features of one.\n\nIslam is fascinating in its absolute insistance upon submission to the will of God.  Most people don't realize that the United States and Islam are really philosophical mortal enemies.  Submission really requires a complete surrender of freedom.  It is philosophically an anti-freedom religion.  The whole goal is to eliminate anything against the will of God and to bring the world back to God.  Certain radicals have decided to do this violently, but that isn't really the point.  The United States is the pure autonomy, do what you want state personified.  The government is designed to create a laizze faire environment, even if that has partially disappeared since the crisis of the Great Depression.  Protestant Christians from the US often mistake Americanism for Protestantism.  Christianity has a submission element to it as well, just not as pronounced.  It also has the balancing passages that proclaim that if the Father has given us free will, why should we take away the freedom of others.\n\nTao is interesting.  If you abolish good and evil and look at balanced and unbalanced you get a different view of the world.  It is a fundamentally different question to ask if you are in line with what is natural for you and are you doing it in a healthy (balanced) way.\n\nOne thing interesting I think about my own part of the Catholic Church is that our service is a reduced down version of the Liturgy of James.  The service has changed little since it was given at Antioch.  We still have the lines, optional when out of times of persecution, "The doors, the doors, in Wisdom be attentive!"  Reminding the doorkeeper to watch for Roman soldiers, but also that what is going on inside is far more important and so to be attentive.  The only real changes our service has was the adding of "air," to the line where we pray for "all who travel by sea, air and land," with the coming of flight.  There was a change in the year 750 to move the prayers of the faithful from after the scripture readings to before in order to put ourselves in prayer before God as the first action.  There was an insertion called the hymn to the Only Begotten added in the 400's I believe.  There was a shortening by John Chrysostum in the early 300's and a shortening (taking it to about 1 1/2 to 2 hours) by Basil of Ce
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Faith is a born freedom. Once it is institutionalized its growth is stunted and thwarted as in the case of any other freedom.\n\nFanaticism and fundamentalism are the by-products of the institutionalized faith called 'organized religions'.
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Pastafarianism.\n\nAlso known as Flying Spaghetti Monsterism.
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Paganism is an umbrella term for all of the various non-Abrahamic faiths.  They were never one entity to begin with.
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Not a bad question!!\n\nNot sure that I can help though.\n\nThe first thing that came to mind was this quote by Hightower:\n\nDiscipline without Freedom is Tyranny.\n\nFreedom without Discipline is Choas.\n\n\nI hope that helps\n\nGood Luck\n\nJimmy
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Clericalism, intolerance and hypocrisy.
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a controversial belief system developed by L. Ron Hubbard, based on a person being an immortal spiritual being whose survival depends on him/herself and his/her attainment of brotherhood with others and the universe\nHope that helps ya! God Bless!!
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Theology is the study of all religions and their concepts and is not contained within a specific belief system. Religion is the practice of a certain belief system, or dogma if you will, and is very narrow in scope. One can be a theologist without being religious or even practice any religion.\n\nI think what they are telling you is that you are not accepting or knowledgable of other belief systems outside of your own. In other words, your religion is the ONLY TRUE religion--which seems to be the down fall of most religious entities.
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Theocratic Conservative.  Otherwise known as the religious right.
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Intellectual surrender. Good phrase! I (as you may gather) am a member of the second group. I feel that some people cling to the Word or God and the word of God only idea because they are lazy. If everything I need to know is already written down and needs no interpretations then I don't have to think for myself. It gives them an out and makes the spiritual life a no brainer with no work required.\nIt's just "here are the rules, go live by the rules" They have no need to pray or listen to God speak to them. They never have to wonder about anything. They never have to do any of the work of being human. Like cattle. Just follow the rules and then die. Easy instructions.\nThis is why I belong to a church that values education and thought.
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Oftentimes, we mean "An organized, militant Evangelical movement originating in the United States in the late 19th and early 20th century in opposition to Protestant Liberalism and secularism, insisting on the inerrancy of Scripture." \n\nBut the concept of fundamentalism can be extended to any ideology or theology whose tenents include a strict adherance to a code, especially one which demands the observance by persons who do not subscribe to that code.\n\nNaturally, this makes for a source of conflict. And an understandable one at that. For example, say you believe some act is wrong. Furthermore, you believe you have a duty to prevent wrongdoing altogether. Consequently, you have a moral obligation to prevent any person from doing that act - including people who do not think that act is wrong.\n\nAny critical examination of a dogmatic theology or ideology will reveal how necessary this is, yet any objective look at disparate cultures will reveal how subjective - and frightening - this can be.\n\nThe hope of the future is that fundamentalist evangelism will be enacted by appeal to reason rather than dictates of law. Ideally, people would choose to perform 'right' acts for their own sake, rather than out of fear of punishment.