Sentences with phrase «about organized religion»

Where did Kris say anything about organized religion causing problems?

And 79 % say «Christianity today is more about organized religion than loving God and loving people.»

And I'm also pretty sure that Acroyear's comment about organized religion being the cause of more human deaths than any other reason is absolutely correct (Bubonic plague included).

I was thinking of what David was writing in light of his recent posts about organized religion mandating a «vision» or «agenda» on people.

Regardless of what any of the Founding Fathers believed about organized religion, they felt that our rights were «God» given, in the sense that they proceeded from Natural Law and existed a-priori, with no need of proof or precedent.

Not much positive about any organized religion, actually, but especially the Muslim world.

I keep my faith seperate from church & all the terrible things I hear about organized religion (much of it here).

We're supposed to be all about organized religion.

I disagree with just about all organized religions.

the thing I love the most about organized religions is the tolerance they preach.

Not exact matches

I'm an atheist, and one of the things I hated about religion is that the Christians are always trying to force their absurd beliefs off on other people now there is an organized group of atheists trying to do the same thing with a non-religion.

I find it amazing that almost every organized religion during that time was at least partially, if not fully involved in bigotry toward blacks, including outright banning them from their membership and congretations altogether (which Mormans have never done), but only Mormons are still chided constantly about their history with blacks, despite the fact that black members have had full benefits for almost four decades, and despite the fact that Mormons have been actively proselyting and doing charitable missionary work in Africa for over 160 years.

I think if Jesus were alive today (literally... I know to Christians he is alive) he would have so much to say and clarify about the tragedies that have unfolded out of this organized religion.

I am skeptical about most of the bureaucratic trappings of organized religion, and I constantly pull and push to improve the church I attend.

Talk about putting down organized religions.

I've discussed with quite a few people about the positives and negatives of organized religion & government and I've discovered that some people aren't going to see anything but their viewpoint because they refuse to....

I have never been enthusiastic about any form of organized religion.

People have the right to leave church and organized religion, they have a right to question an institution that will do anything to save face even if it means letting children be harmed (and trust me, there are Priests that have issues with girls - my mom when to an all girls» Catholic school in the 60s and talks about how many of the priests used to «hang out» with the young girls out and girls have been abused), churches that are not practicing social justice.

I'm right there with him about «organized religion».

I used to be unsure about whether there was a god, and as I got older and approached my late twenties, I decided I was not going to believe or participate in any organized religion.

RICO statutes are about organized crime, much more relevant in going after religious people who often support criminal organizations operating behind the name of religion.

And you have absolutely no idea what RICO is about; if you did, there would be a much larger push to tax the biggest racketeers of all: organized religion.

I just feel like he's cut his strings from organized religion, but I think he's going to learn a lot about God.

hate to say it, but Greed is what a lot of organized religion is about, look at the Catholic church, and how the pope is adorned and all the wealth that church has, disgusting.

They are trying to scare him inti keeping his mouth shut about much more than this... The Vatican and the Pope are nothing more than organized crime hiding behind a false religion...

«full of BS organized religion is» the book of 1st Timothy Chapter one tells us about how Satan was trying to inflitrate the church through devil following people, and possible believers led astray by the devil.

Since, as above mentioned already, I think that Christ was spiritual I wouldn't be surprised that he would shake his head about today's organized religion and how distorted the msg has become... and I think that he would also have plenty to say in regards about the bible and those who follow it to the t and think it's essential for being «faithful».

Nothing but Star Wars, Star Wars todaaaaaay... The more I think about Jedi as an organized religion, the more I can't stop thinking about it.

a set of values, beliefs, and structure in a person's life in order to give them direction and a sense of right and wrong is fine, but organized religions are no more than large corporations, and like any large corporation are only focused on their bottom line... trying to control the public and extract as much money as they can from them by any means necessary... promoting fear, uncertainty, hate and a sense that they alone can offer salvation... for a price (although they are very cleaver about getting to this hidden and unspoken cost... after all these hundreds of years they have perfected their craft well!)

«Nothing depresses me more than hearing an organized religion worry about membership.

The example you gave about your mother did you feel compassion for her or anger because what she did had nothing to do with organized religion organization is unity religion can be just religious until you began a journey with Christ.

Masons are Christians, Jews, Muslims, Hindus and just about any other religious tradition, and many Masons are not a part of any organized religion.

Think about this for a moment... What is the commonality between all the organized religions of the world?

If anything she was agnostic, meaning she had doubts about her religiousness rather than convictions about the absurdity of organized religion.

It's about time someone spoke out against organized religion.

You are right about organized crimes, terrors, religions all these organization are behind all the world crushing on it's inhabiters.

The vast majority of atheists are non-confrontational people who came to the decision after learning about various religions, and often were raised in an organized religion.

Clearly if you KNEW anything about actual Marxism you would know the Marxist theory rejects organized religion.

Students» questions about religion are usually handled with the utmost caution and are referred back to parents and ministers for answering, for fear of reactions by representatives of organized religion to any treatment of religious matters by teachers of another affiliation.

You wonder about why «so many young people who remain evangelical» and «want intimacy with God» are «dropping out of organized religion.»

But then, organized religion is all about power and control and as an authoritarian regime we should expect that they would find questions about their legitimacy dangerous.

All this BS talk about loving your fellow man is a crock — people who run organized religions are such hypocrites.

In a few exchanges the same posted about the evils of all organized religions.

But America is good, it seems, in part because it can find places for Southerners, especially Southern Stoics (think the novelist Tom Wolfe, Atticus Finch, Admiral Stockdale, Navy SEALS, and the proud men of Morehouse), Catholics (as, to begin with, the best organized in countercultural thought and action of our large institutional religions), and Heideggerians (who are right, after all, about the American propensity for inauthentically deferring to the «they» of public opinion and scientific expertise).

I would just add that not all organized religions are all about money.

By the way, I'm a Christian, but when I talk about these types of things I like to ignore all organized religion and just focus on the idea of a «creator» as it makes things much simpler.

There's NOTHING fence sitting about my position on organized religion.

If you're on the organized religion bandwagon, you don't EVER get to call someone else out for «avoid [ing] having to think too hard about having to decide».

Keeping the few good things about faith (helping others, feeling a connection to the Universe, trying to understand yourself and your place in the universe) while dumping all of the negatives (dogma, intolerance, that undeserved feeling of superiority) is beneficial to society in a way that organized religion never has been and never will be.

The funny thing about organized atheism is that it is structured on the same foundations as the mainstream religions.