I call him a Religionist who overruns with religious rules and conceptions things that do not come under them--completely distinct from the native simplicity and sovereignty of Religion in a piously religious heart.
The new religionist cries out for some god to be his.
Nothing daunted, the religionist then insists that nothing can exist without a cause, except cause, and that this uncaused cause is God.
Will the religionist pretend that the real end of science is to ascertain how and why God acts?
Nothing is more gratifying to a religionist than to destroy his enemies at the command of God.
But would his conduct be any more wonderful than that of a religionist who asks that before examining his creed you will have the kindness to throw away your reason?
Besides this natural inclination to avoid personal responsibility, is and always has been, the fact, that every religionist has warned men against the presumption and wickedness of thinking for themselves.
The religionist of to-day wants the ship of his soul to lie at the wharf of orthodoxy and rot in the sun.
No religionist seems capable of comprehending this plain truth.
They consider the pathway to the good pleasure of God a pathway of blood, and the more a religionist kills, the nearer he draws to God.
Humanitarian Philosophy" is an eye opener for the true religionist who never before thought on the wickedness of killing.
The religionist who lives on hallucination or believes that faith alone "is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen," and will not reason, is living in the dark ages still.
No doubt every religionist looks upon that painting as a masterpiece--an inspiration.
I also aimed to prove that the flesh-eating religionist is an accessory to a crime more bestial in the sight of God than any other sin known to the human family.
What do you think of a religionist who says, "I am living under a new dispensation since Christ came and went, and I now eat anything the Lord sets before me?
The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose" may well be applied to the religionist who upholds the killing of our dumb fellow creatures.
Humanitarian Philosophy" is a blessing for those who wish to live the Christ life, although it will not appeal to the religionist who is inhumanly self-righteous.
It is left to the religionist to argue that a bias which has wrought for truth, justice, and mercy will somehow fail to preserve other virtues.
Without resort to that tribunal, the religionist could not discriminate between the sanction of the sixth commandment and the law of the levirate, which he has cancelled.
Then, at last, my old friend and co-religionist let his wrath loose.
The religionist is apt to regard and designate Science as "profane," and Religion per se, as essentially "holy.
Commerce and pilgrimage together" are not allowed by their religion; but nobody seems to suffer any pricks of conscience in taking to his co-religionist in Arabia a few articles from distant Turkomania.
Hence every religionist who is not a Jew must investigate his religion to see if it is justified in opposing the religion which is acknowledged to be divine.
At the same time it is a truth which it behooves every religionistand particularly every Jew to believe.
His treatment is more thorough and elaborate, and his requirements of the religionist more stringent.
The explanation is simple enough: theReligionist trusts, the Rationalist distrusts, his emotions.
The religionist is apt, I think, to lose sight of the fact that conversion is not confined to any one particular creed; that it cannot witness to the truth of the one and not of the other.
The usual answer of the religionist is that, if we could not do wrong, we should be mere machines.
There remains the usual retort of the religionist when closely cornered: "The finite mind cannot expect to understand the Infinite.
How is it, then, that Religionist and Rationalist arrive at such contrary conclusions?
The Devil--man's sinful nature--the Religionistwill reply.
The religionist takes these general ideas as his foundation, and upon them builds the supernatural structure.
A thoughtfulreligionist would reply that the first point concedes the truth of all that has been said against Socialism, while the second evades the question at issue.
On the one hand as a religionist I can be any and everything but an orthodox sectarian.
To the religionist truth is something that is unchanging, that is fixed, final, and heretical to question.
He remembers that a religionist had told him that disease is a visitation of the Lord for our sins, in the same breath with which he had added that the Lord was loving and compassionate.
The religionistreplies that man's mind cannot fathom the will of God.
It is therefore not so much Science that the religionist is fighting, but the scientific method.
If a religionist is asked what he thinks of a secular institution which vigorously condemns and persecutes inquiry, experiment, and truth, he will reply with the logical answer.
The religionist closes his mind to all facts which he is unwilling to believe, everything which will endanger his creed.
The prostitute has been hounded and abused by ecclesiastics since Biblical times, yet, it is only true to say that the religionist is not vitally interested in prostitution.
He was thus left to figure for posterity as a religionist "for his own hand," who rejected all current religion while angrily dismissing current unbelief as "freethinking chatter.
But the religionist knows that the world which lies before our mortal vision so splendid and so ruthless, so beautiful and so dreadful, does really gain both its substance and significance from immaterial and unseen powers.
The false sentiment and partial science of the pagan which stresses the identification of man and beast is the first quarrel that religionist and humanist alike have with him.
Before the spectacle that many of us saw on those sodden fields of Flanders, both humanist and religionist should be alike aghast.
Of course, in asserting the importance of these "supersensuous" values the religionist does not mean that they are beyond the reach of human appraisal or unrelated by their nature to the rest of our understanding.
Here, then, is an immense separation between religionist and both humanist and naturalist; a separation so complete as to come full circle.
This common attitude of the religionist toward nature as a remote and cruel world, alien to our spirits, is abundantly reflected in literature.
Religionist and humanist alike share this clear sense of separateness.
Indeed, the devout religionist almost never thinks of nature as such.
The Free Religionist goes a step farther, and decides by his own private judgment what is true and what false, no matter whether taught by Jesus or not.
Besides this natural inclination to avoid personal responsibility is and always has been the fact that every religionist has warned men against the presumption and wickedness of thinking for themselves.
As a religionist he continued true to the end; but if we accept the high testimony of Froude and Lecky, the same cannot be said of him as a patriot and a gentleman.
The mistaken religionist says--"It is morality only, not the entire essence of Christianity.
The mistaken religionist only magnifies this on a large scale.
The legislator prohibits crime--the moralist transgression--the religionist sin.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "religionist" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
