Sentences with phrase «christians than any other religion»
Just because there are more Christians than any other religion doesn't make it a Christian country.
http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/ Not exact matches
My christian religions have successfully killed more people in history than any other single group.
Christians worldwide have a higher murder rate than any other religion, which is approximately 11.3 / 100k.
That being that during the crusades the Islamic world was more advanced than the Christian world in every way including their acceptance of other religions.
Michael «As a gay man I appreciate there efforts and support, but I think putting up this sign isn't really the best way to get through to people, all it does is create more hate, intolerance, and separation, I am not a christian but I am very spiritual, and putting up this sign implies that all gay people are atheists which is the furthest thing from the truth, I have no problem with religion, I have a problem with those who use there religions to control and hate others, same applies with atheism, if you don't want to believe in anything than fine, just don't push your non beliefs on me.»
Perhaps most important to this topic is that Christians would almost unanimously agree that my criteria are extremely accurate when I apply them to any religion other than Christianity
Just because there were (likely) more «Christians» than followers of other religions, doesn't give them the right to display any symbol in a more prominent fashion than those of the religions of any other person that died in that event.
As a gay man I appreciate there efforts and support, but I think putting up this sign isn't really the best way to get through to people, all it does is create more hate, intolerance, and separation, I am not a christian but I am very spiritual, and putting up this sign implies that all gay people are atheists which is the furthest thing from the truth, I have no problem with religion, I have a problem with those who use there religions to control and hate others, same applies with atheism, if you don't want to believe in anything than fine, just don't push your non beliefs on me.
6 / Any religion other than Jewish, Muslim or Christian?
People baptized Christian have slaughtered more people than all other religions, plus atheists, combined.
In a country where Christianity is and always has been the dominant religion being a Christian requires less courage than any other option.
also, PS: not that I'm a «Satanist», nor that I defend it more than any other religion, but I will say that a lot of Christians don't know much about them other than H0llyw00d myths.
Almost 80 percent of Americans identify themselves as Christians, with, despite all the talk about growing religious pluralism, no more than 5 per cent claiming other religions.
Nobody thought much of religions other than Christianity; as was obvious by our public school pledge — which admonished us all to be good Christian citizens... Sure, I had questions too, but our church was pretty low - key so I was safe from some of the more radically - minded (read: brainwashed) of my peers.
Then again, Jesus would probably be hanging out with the sinners, prostitutes and all the others who don't quite fit the mold of what a good Christian should be, rather than sitting in a booth at the mall debating religion and theology with the religious types.
Why is Christian morality more right than any other religion's morality, or our atheistic morality?
I am a Christian but avoid christian religions other than as a place of meditation, worship and intellectual debate, certainly not as a place for moral guidance as they change the rules with the politics ofChristian but avoid christian religions other than as a place of meditation, worship and intellectual debate, certainly not as a place for moral guidance as they change the rules with the politics ofchristian religions other than as a place of meditation, worship and intellectual debate, certainly not as a place for moral guidance as they change the rules with the politics of the age.
Mr. Hawking is right... Christians will never believe other than their own doctrine... nor will the Taliban... or Muslims... or Mormons... or Catholics... or or or or... religions are man made from the get go.
On the other hand I love conversations about religion and spirituality with atheists more than with christians.
While the multiplicity of religions today threatens the individual Christian more than at any other time, still non-Christian religions can be channels of grace.
People of religions other than Islam who speak Arabic refer to God as Allah, even those Christians in Arabic speaking countries.
Some turn to the East, particularly to Taoism; some to Native American perspectives and other primal traditions; some to emerging feminist visions; still others to neglected themes or traditions within the Western heritage, ranging from materials in Pythagorean philosophy to neglected themes in Plato to Leibniz or Spinoza; and still others to twentieth - century philosophers such as Heidegger or to philosophical movements such as the Deep Ecology movement.9 As one would expect in an age characterized by a split between religion and philosophy, few environmental philosophers turn to sources in the Bible or Christian theology for help, though some — Robin Attfield, for example — argue that Christian history has been wrongly maligned by environmental philosophers, and that it can serve as a better resource than some might expect (WTEE 201 - 230).
This is what is typical of many Muslims, they react strongly if you «diss» their religion, but they have no problem «dissing» Christians and others in order to make Islam seem more benign than it really is.
Christian interest in Buddhism and the attempt to appropriate its insights is far more widespread than Buddhist interest in Christianity Still, the situation is not a simple one in Japan, he said, Much of the vitality of religious life and practice in Japan is in the so - called new religions, some of which draw on Buddhism more than others.
I could fill a large hotel full of the most World's most «learnerd» Jewish, Christian and Islamic theological scholars (to take the, inaptly named, monothistic religions) and they would be unable to agree on anything other than some nauseating throw away line like «we should all rewspect each other's views»».
It is worse in other parts of the world where more Christians are currently being killed for their faith than members of any other religion.
The dumb christian rednecks in TN don't quite know what to do with religious freedom when they finally realize it protects religions other than theirs.
bubbles, there are more Christians in the US than any other religion.
He was more open to other religions than most Christians.
Can we moderate Christians tell the world that most Americans don't believe that you should devote your energy to judging others, that you should try to focus to improving yourself; that most Americans want religion protected by keeping it separated from «State» rather than the extremist push to make biblical law the law of the land; that each individual's morality is between him / her and God, not a morality imposed by Christian extremists?
The Mormon religion is quite different than any other christian religion.
The authentic Christian faith that Bonhoeffer upholds is something other than the «religion'that Marx criticised.
John: Christians seem to be more persecuted for their faith than other religions.
When applied to theology, the principle of positivity highlights those features of Christian faith and existence which are determinate transformations of generic characteristics, rather than to those which are shared with humanism or other religions.
Adherents of the new Christian sects, of which there were many competing ones, e.g., Ebonites, Gnostics, etc., would have been familiar with the Serapis and likely would not have wanted their godman to seem any less impressive than the gods of the Serapis and other religions of the time, so there would have been a need for a miraculous birth story and other miracle stories for their godman, as well.
For me, anyone that smacks of «Christian» fundamentalism is just as bad, if not worse than their counterparts in other religions.
My answer is simply this, that it is because at present our magnificent Christian charity lacks what it needs to make it decisively effective, the sensitizing ingredient of Human faith and hope without which, in reason and in fact, no religion can henceforth appear to Man other than colorless, cold and inassimilable.
Other than the easter bunny, the whole christian religion is nothing but a way from priests, etc. to bugger kids.
With the sense of the special responsibility which religion imposes upon man, they devote themselves more than any other group of past or present Christian history to the cause of a holy society.
God is one with no partner, the religion with Allah is Islam, and seeks other than Islam will not accept it, the Jews worshiped idols and the Wailing Wall, and Christians worship the cross.So the Jews and Christians worship the devil.
The primary factors which bear on the question seem to me to be five: (1) the churchgoing habit in these churches is earlier and more persistently associated with religion; (2) the emotional accompaniments of worship are more vivid and dramatic; (3) greater demands — or at least, greater consciously recognized demands — are made on church members; (4) more concrete instruction is given in Christian doctrine; and (5) in spite of some false notes, other notes are struck which in certain great essentials lie closer to the heart of the Christian gospel than the usual liberal emphasis.
So in four of the ways that Christians believe their religion is better than others, it really is not.
No different than christian (or any other religion) criminals, sure they believe, but that doesn't mean they always follow through.
M.d religion is about man there is alot of man in the evangelical church as well as other churchs however the Holy spirit is the one we lean on to teach us Gods word he reveals the scriptures just as though Jesus was teaching his disciples in his day.Often after speaking in parable his disciples would ask what he meant and he would give them insight into the messages.I find for me if i struggle understanding a topic i ask the holy spirit to help me if you havent received him just invite him into your life if you have already confessed Jesus as your Lord and savior.We can not live a christian life without him.He is the one who empowers us to live righteously rather than according to our old nature.In the last year or so he has been showing me extraordinary insight into the word its new its fresh he is amazing.brentnz
Felix, I'm not sure there was assertion that only Christians voted for GW Bush, rather merely that the Christians who did vote for GW Bush tend to wear their religion on the sleaves and push their agenda more so than others.
The latest global findings from the Pew Research Center, released two days before Religious Freedom Day in the United States, show that overall restrictions on religion in nearly 200 countries and territories have reached a six - year high, and Christians are harassed in more countries than any other religious group (though Muslims are a close second).
religions other than christian should not have to sit thru christian prayers..
Do you actually think I'm going to help the US or christians more than I would help any other religion?
However, many bloggers such as yourself, David, Frogist, NL, etc. seem not to have any interest in learning from religion (which makes me wonder why you're here in the first place, no offense) other than to incite the Christian community which, for the most part, overwhelmingly disagrees with ordaining openly gay pastors.
Those dictators tried to wipe out religion in their countries and killed millions of innocent people... so don't give me that crap about religion killing more than anyone else... Christian Evangelicals and Protestants do more to feed the poor, hungry and sick in this world than any other groups...