Sentences with phrase «about religion at»

So I don't think of Traveling Mercies as a book about religion at all, but rather as a handbook, or maybe a sort of owner's manual, for people who are trying to live faithfully: which is to say, learning to cooperate with grace — even (or especially) when real life rears its very confusing head.

At 544 state schools, no one was entered for a GCSE in music and at 862 no one took a GCSE in religious studies - even though pupils have to learn about religion at school.

Leah Libresco is an editorial assistant at the American Conservative and blogs about religion at Unequally Yoked.

I just told you that I think if he made a slip like that it is because he doesn't care much about religion at all.

(CNN)- The U.S. ambassador to Malta has submitted his resignation, just over a week after he was called out in a State Department report for allegedly devoting time to writing about religion at the expense of his official duties.

As controversy about religion at the academy became more and more public, Focus on the Family jumped into the fray and created a video, shown at its headquarters, that attempts to frame the debate.

The dog story is sweet — not really about religion at all, but a good reminder of the love in animals other than humans.

So, you mean, don't tell them anything about religion at all?

Their fight was not about religion at all.

Not exact matches

At any rate, you people that are using this as an opportunity to insult whatever religion annoys / frightens you, and worse than that, engaging in a fight on this board, should really think about getting the sticks you have stuck up your rear ends removed.

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.

At STEVE: It's not about religion... it's about the amazing Grace that Jesus gave to us.

but don't believe NOTHING nobody else says about God because I know God and I know what he said in HIS book, but I have to tell you... 99.99 % of the stuff «religion» claims God said... Is not what he actually said... If you look at what he said.

There is much that could be said about this, but I will stick with one thing, based on discussion at about the 2 minute mark: When atheists insist that atheism does not drive behavior, and then then campaign on behalf of atheism, ridicule religion and religious believers in the name of atheism, seek to change laws in favor of their atheistic positions, recommend the extermination of religion, and practice falsehoods like Dawkins's in support of atheism, they prove that their atheism drives their behavior and that their premise is false, disingenuous, and (as far as I can tell) useless for anything but giving atheism rhetorical cover from being implicated in atheists» atrocities.

I would reasonably assume I could pray, in silence or out loud, on a plane and people wouldn't panic and might even understand that I am worried about our journey and praying that we all arrive safely, no matter what religion they choose to believe, or if they choose to believe in one at all.

Also I am a Christian and I don't bash other people or other religions, actually I get looked down at because I don't, I have a gay friend, I have a Muslim friends and boy oh boy do the Christians try to talk to me about how wrong they are, this is what I say to them» I'm not God, God says pretty clear that we are NOT TO JUDGE any one, and I don't, I just love them for who they are.

GOD is not religion and He did foretell about about increase of knowledge at the end of days and people will be running to and from more increasingly (airplanes / cars / mass transport) etc,..

The stories written about him decades later are inconsistent with each other on important details, went through an editing process hundreds of years later, and incorporate a number of myths of other religions popular at the time.

At least religions have books about their Gods and morality that have been claimed for thousands of years to have come from their Gods.

He says that he would «convert on the spot» if any of these could be shown to him: verifiable fulfillment of prophecies that couldn't have been contrived; scientific knowledge in holy books that wasn't available at the time; miraculous occurrences, especially if brought about through prayer; any direct manifestation of the divine; aliens who believed in exactly the same religion.

Let me add I have not seen your 3 posts asking me about how I feel about it before now when I copied and posted those above and If I had seen before I would have answered you with out any hesitation but did not because I moved to other blogs... And to satisfy you interest my saying I do not like it as a cultural habit but if religion failed to stop it and had to regulate it then what can I do about it... people can still lie and give you an elder age and how can you tell if 9 - 10or more at villages there are no birth certificate issued nor villagers interested to obtain it... what can you tell from their teeth like sheep??

have a look at the vatican website and you will see how insecure the vatican are about themselves now as the picture of Mr Benedict has been altered to make him look like the other pope and this proves that they are desparate now to make Mr Benedict seem different to waht he really is and we are watching the end of a very dishonest and corrupt society / religion

Did you miss the part about at least two pro religion ads are currently running?

We can assume that all the Justices sitting on the Court today, like other humans, have their own preferences and biases about religion, but the judicial opinions of one of them, Justice John Paul Stevens, raise more than a slight suspicion that some of his actions on the bench stem from animosity, if not to animal sacrifice, at least to certain less exotic religious beliefs and practices.

For me, this story is touching and at a point in my life where I am very confused about a lot of things with the Bible, religion, Christians, and pastors.

You nailed it - especially about the fact that her observations highlight the superfluos nature of religion and the fact that she just can't take the info at face value but still needs to put a Christian spin on it.

But if you notice, that «religion» has nothing religious about it at all.

It is also really only dangerous, fundamentalist religion about which I was speaking at the end, the harm that it has done and continues to do, and it's decline, revival etc..

I know that I see elements of divine around me in things and in ways that others don't, including other religious people... And as long as different religions and even sects constantly argue about what god truly is, and as long as they come up with different asnwers, then I have to say that the spiritual elements of our universe simply manifest differently for different folks, including not at all for some... as with those who label themselves as athiest...

Instead of burial at sea in a PC attempt to honor his religion of peace, his body should have been shredded and spread spread about on a hog farm.

If religion was about understanding and examining one's beliefs, catholic children wouldn't be taught the concept of transubstantiation at age 7.

If you do nt want to hear anything about Christianity, or any other religion, then maybe you should not read or comment about the subject at all.

For the past few weeks, Michael Novak ¯ a member of the First Things editorial board and a frequent contributor to the magazine ¯ has been blogging at the Encyclopedia Britannica site about religion, America, and the Founding Fathers.

IF you want to criticize another religion please learn something about it first, because you'd be amazed at how similar all of them are.

My neighbors wife has been cheating on her husband for 3 yrs now and they keep it quiet and their divorce is hush hush living in the same house, my wifes mother is mormon (my wife bolted from the «a womans job is to serve men and have babies» religion at a young age) she has been divorced 3 times and doesn't have a clue about just about any subject.

Just what is known about this religion (occult) is bizarre and disturbing who knows what goes on with their «Secret Ritual» in their «Sacred Temples» Bringum young's public writings were racist philosophy more then religion who knows what Mitt may have learned at his University of «Higher Learning»

You would be surprise at the number of parents who ask me every year about religion on campus.

A christian shouldn't feel their religion is under attack if they can't wear something on their chest or if they work at a place devoted to science and can't talk about ID

Becky... take all the stuff you were taught and put it on a shelf somewhere (it's not time to toss it yet)... forget about the religion ABOUT Jesus and look at the TEACHINGS attributed to Jabout the religion ABOUT Jesus and look at the TEACHINGS attributed to JABOUT Jesus and look at the TEACHINGS attributed to Jesus.

Roof, professor of sociology at the University of Massachusetts, and McKinney, professor of religion and society at Hartford Seminary, are interested not in issuing a jeremiad or an apology about the state of American religion, but in ascertaining just how the landscape of American religion is being altered.

It may be possible to spiritually dip a toe into some religions that are primarily about performing rituals, but a distinctive at the heart of the Christian faith is the offer of a relationship with the personal God.

Religion News Service: Man spends 12 months practicing 12 different religions, and finds peace at year's end Andrew Bowen sat yoga - style in his armchair, absent - mindedly fingering a set of Muslim prayer beads in his left hand as he talked about 2011 - his year of conversion.

Many people place man at a higher plateau in knowledge as we learn more and more about our universe through science, and yet our predecessors knew enough to not throw out their religion just because their knowledge grew in scientific matters.

I really do not care at all what religion any politician is — I would rather know if they are truth tellers or liars, honest or not and concerned about the people of this Country or just themselves or their party.

I was at college today and spoke to a hip but conservative theology professor mostly about post-modern religion, after chapel.

Nevertheless, understanding the words of Jesus in the Gospels will be much easier if we presuppose that Jesus may be telling a humorous story to poke fun at the religion and theology of His day, rather than the traditional idea that a dour - faced Jesus is telling a serious story about how to live and behave to truly be His follower.

The «religious» directed their white - hot anger at someone who dared challenge the prevailing story of what God and religion is all about and how it should be lived out.

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.

Topher's Southern Baptist arrogance was perfectly on display when he shrieked about not letting anyone teach his kid about their religion while bragging about forcing Southern Baptist tracts into the hands of trick - or - treaters at his door.

No it has not been proven where did you see that on an alien special on a & e, Read up on it those other religions did not have Jesus as a Savior and did not have men writing 1000s of years apart talking about the same events, and phrophecizing about things that happened in later chapters written hundreds of years later... and in no bok any where was there a man like Jesus, who spoke the words that Jesus spoke and died for people who hated Him like Jesus did, and spoke the parabales and life lessons like Jesus did... look at what Jesus spoke... read it nowhere has there been a better teacher of life then in His words.