Saving a lot of time protesting
about religious matters: A PowerPoint slide for your refrigerator doors -
Once a Gandhian leader came to Kohima and we had fellowship with him As I was sitting by him, he started conversing with
me about religious matters: «There are some extreme Christians who say that human being can be saved through Christianity only and thee is no other way.
Where people join an institution to achieve religious objectives — like the pursuit of faith, prayer, and salvation — they are giving that institution the authority to make decisions
about religious matters.
I'd hate to live in a country where people are extreme
about religious matters.
It is within the province of public schools not only to see that students are correctly informed
about religious matters, but also to provide a setting in which older young people may learn to recognize and sift out irreligious and idolatrous tendencies and perversions in the various religious systems of mankind.
Is it asking too much to be clear
about religious matters?
In addition, there seems to be another, less familiar sort: people who don't see the need to think
about religious matters at all.
about a religious matter, all they do is throw an unverified book in your face and tell you «That's why!»
Not exact matches
It doesn't
matter if you are:
religious, homosexual, skin colour, political alignment, etc. everyone is welcome to voice their ideas and nobody has been killed for their beliefs or background, though there have been some serious heated discussions
about Bitcoin and altcoins or the regulatory or non-regulatory stance.
Religious leaders free themselves from the obligation of talking
about evil, by pretending that it's only a
matter of free will and people can choose what they want and the consequences are only personal («between you and God»).
In addition to testify with other Christians at congress on the
matter, President Harrison has been a signatory to a number of letters along with other
religious leaders expressing concern
about the mandate, most recently a few days ago.
I listen to how they talk
about matters of faith, religion, what they watch on their favorite
religious tv programs, often listening as well to their radios playing their favored «Christian music» radio stations in the background, what are in the lyrics.
I actually agree that its pretty stupid to troll a blog dedicated to
religious belief, but you couldn't be more wrong
about upsetting atheists (or anyone for that
matter) over evolution.
Once he starts answering one question, he has to spend his time explaining all the questions that follow; spending time answering
religious questions takes away from talking
about issues that
matter to Americans.
It was not meant to be a proposal for an all - encompassing theory for making
religious truth claims but, rather, an intramural Christian conversation
about secondary
matters of faith.
What concerns me the most
about the mindset of these people is that they think sports are important enough to warrant a prayer — if they're that certain prayer works, shouldn't they be embarrassed
about not using their
religious fervour to pray for more important
matters?
Specifically, it's far less common to hear
about how a student who finds their way to or from Christianity, Islam, or Judaism (or even Atheism for that
matter) while attending a university.Taking classes and sharing experiences alongside classmates from varying backgrounds can cause even the most
religious or nonreligious person to inspect, analyze, and even question their beliefs.
The state of New York recognized, in the landmark
religious liberty case People v. Phillips (1813), that compelling a priest to testify
about matters heard during confession would be a fundamental violation of Catholics»
religious liberty:
Jules suggests to me that as many as eighty per cent of techies are
religious, but that this number is highly uncertain because the subject
matter is taboo among most modern scientists; it's not something we talk
about in our daily working lives.
The word «God» is irrelevant to the
religious problem unless the word is used to refer to whatever in truth operates to save man from evil and to the greater good no
matter how much this operating reality may differ from all traditional ideas
about it (MUC 12).
Because he is a
religious authority figure, people spontaneously project on him a rich variety of associations from their early life, including powerful feelings
about such
matters as God, heaven, hell, sex, parents, Sunday school, death, sin, and guilt.
However, I think my point
about not using force of law to compel actions based on someone else's
religious beliefs is valid, no
matter who holds those beliefs.
As the middle ground between traditional
religious morality and secular hedonism continues to shrink in America today, college students like Cox's are realizing that they must make a choice
about whether truth
matters.
if you can lie to yourself with immunity, you might be an atheist if you think the indifferent support your side, you might be an atheist if you don't think at all, you might be an atheist if you are drawn to
religious discussions thinking someone wants to hear your opinion, you might be an atheist if you copy paste every piece of crap theory you find, you might be an atheist if you think you are right no
matter what the evidence shows, you might be an atheist if you can't hold your water when you think
about science, you might be an atheist if you can't write the word God, with proper capitalization, you might be an atheist if you think your view has enough support to be a percentage of the seven billion people on earth, you might be an atheist if you think The View has enough support to be a percentage of the seven billion people on earth, you might be an atheist if you live in a tar paper shack, writing manifestos, you might be an atheist if you think you're basically a good person, and your own final authority you might be an atheist if you think your great aunt Tillie was a simian, you might be an atheist if you own an autographed copy of Origin Of The Species, you might be an atheist if you think that when you die you're worm food, you might be an atheist if you think the sun rises and sets for you alone, you might be an atheist if all you can think
about is Charles Darwin when you're with your significant other, you might be an atheist if all you can think
about is you when you're with your significant other, you might be an atheist if you attend a church but palm the offering plate when it passes, you might be an atheist If think this exhausts all the possibilities of definition, you might be an atheist.
On the
matter of self and fulfillment, John Boswell, a Yale historian who has written some of the major texts employed by homosexual activists, asserts, «Not only is homosexual eroticism the oldest and most persistent strand in the Christian theology of romantic love, but Christian
religious life was the most prominent gay life - style in Western Europe from the early Middle Ages to the Reformation,
about two - thirds of the period since Europe became Christian.»
I think the average atheist knows more
about religious doctrine than he does
about scientific
matters.
But why does all this
matter to
religious conclusions
about the methods we employ to study religion follow from my analysis?
If I have found anything from posting this question, its that it doesn't
matter if your
religious or anti-
religious, people are always defensive
about their views (not enough open - mindedness or politeness for that
matter).
Your own calculation of your self - interest, and your own moral and
religious beliefs
about ethical health care coverage,
matter not at all under Obamacare.
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.
Let's all attend all the possible
religious holidays that we can came up with and forget all
about school, does it really
matter?
Since most secularists consider religion a strictly private
matter, they generally deem it impolite to express
about a believer's
religious ideas the kind of scepticism they might reveal in response to someone's notions
about the economy or race or gender.
What I find funny
about your conclusions is that the vast majority of atheist persons did not come from atheist households but came from
religious households, so the retention rates don't really
matter.
Its other inevitable effect is to foster and nurture the messages that this culture already sends
about religious commitments: since they're really all the same, it doesn't
matter which you have.
Oh, that's right, we can't, because the GOP is all
about telling people that Christians are the only people in this country who
matter, and that the First Amendment isn't really concerning
religious freedom, but the freedom to pick what ever flavor of Christianity you choose.
We have a free country and we can say or do just
about anything we want to do but in the end, and it doesn't
matter what your
religious belief (s) is / are — we will all answer to GOD.
Again, what I don't get is why atheists should care one way or another
about thie CNN
Religious Belief Blog; they have no religious belief, so why does it matter
Religious Belief Blog; they have no
religious belief, so why does it matter
religious belief, so why does it
matter to them?
While
religious perspectives have nothing to do with the technical content of a lecture, they are relevant to a number of aspects of the academic situation.1 Where appropriate to the objectives of the course and closely connected with the subject
matter, some of the questions which we have raised
about the effects of an invention on society or the ethical dilemmas faced by the scientist can legitimately be mentioned in the classroom.
They are presenting Christianity as an ethical religion in which ethics are directly related to a certain set of convictions
about God, man, and the world, a set of convictions
religious in their subject
matter and theological in their expression.
Religious liberty is about freedom of action in matters of religion generally, and the scope of that liberty is directly correlated to the civil restraints placed upon religious
Religious liberty is
about freedom of action in
matters of religion generally, and the scope of that liberty is directly correlated to the civil restraints placed upon
religious religious practice.
How callous he is
about these
matters I do not know, but he gives much
religious aid and comfort to those who are callous, and he provides political support for those who seek to solve our national problems at the expense of our most vulnerable people.
Analytic philosophy typically assumes that
religious language is meaningful only if it makes universally valid statements
about matters of fact in the form of propositions.
You are attempting to say that we should throw away everything we do know
about matter because we don't know everything
about it yet which is just the sort of position a lazy
religious zealot would take.
There is more division
about the first trimester because one's views of the early embryo are largely a
matter of belief, often
religious belief.
I definitely love to debate, discuss
religious matters with just
about anyone, always taking the devil's advocate's position.
If basic spiritual, moral, and
religious matters are not included in the primary understanding of why people do what they do, why civilizations follow the courses they follow, and why cultures get shaped the way they do get shaped, then something essential
about the human condition is falsified.
Similarly, they did not merely say there should be separation of church and state; rather, they actually separated them by (1) establishing a secular government on the power of «We the people» (not a deity), (2) saying nothing to connect that government to god (s) or religion, (3) saying nothing to give that government power over
matters of god (s) or religion, and (4), indeed, saying nothing substantive
about god (s) or religion at all except in a provision precluding any
religious test for public office.
Many appear to be much concerned
about it, but nothing is more evident, both in reason, and in the holy Scripture, than that religion is ever a
matter between God and individuals; and therefore no man or men can impose any
religious test without invading the essential prerogatives of our Lord Jesus Christ....
«Everybody's got baggage,» said Teresa McGovern, who added that what
mattered most to her was «the
religious aspect of it as well, who feels one way or another
about God, because that is important.
In the adjudicator's decision last August, he wrote that «The diocese... has published guidance to schools on admissions and this is where I would expect to see such
religious activities laid out if they are to be [permitted]... However, the guidance is silent on this
matter» — and therefore, while being wrong
about the silence, correctly concluded that paragraph 1.9 i is breached.