Sentences with phrase «adherents do»

A perfect counter-example is Hinduism, which by construction is more spiritual than religious — it's adherents do not have strict rules or norms, and there is incredible diversity of norms within one umbrella (some who believe in caste system, even though a large majority of urbanites study in Christian missionary schools; some who believe cows are sacred though 2/3 of Indians are actually non-vegetarian).

I think most religious adherents do not believe in all of this stuff, deep down.

Just because so many old composers were Catholic or CofE adherents did not make their music religious even though their religion may have «inspired» them.

Not exact matches

It wasn't exactly a superheist, but it does nothing to assuage forfeiture critics or Bitcoin adherents, many of whom embrace the currency precisely because they lack faith in the integrity of governments.

You don't need to be a devotee of «servant leadership» or an adherent to the notion of «leading from behind» to recognize that leadership typically requires a sensitive appreciation of the talents, motives and desires of a team of people.

All religions compel their adherents to believe and do strange, irrational things.

«A study in the United States, published in the Social Forces journal and conducted by Sociology researcher Lisa A. Keister while she was at the Ohio State University, found that adherents of Judaism attained the most wealth, believers of Catholicism and mainline Protestants were in the middle, while conservative Protestants accu - mulated the least wealth, while in general people who attend religious services achieved more wealth than those who do not (taking into account variations of education and other factors).

In all honesty, would you vote for a man that was a former imam of a mosque that advocates converting everyone to Islam, and teaches that all adherents should do anything, including lie, to advance the aims of creating a global kingdom for Allah on earth?

Are you actually pretending that adherents of other religions don't have faith?

His final explanation (note the «purely») of any religion refers only to what that religion does for its adherents, and only to the mechanisms of the evolution of social organisms.

I'd challenge you to show me any religion or philosophy (including atheism) that does not have in its history some dubious statements made by individuals that nearly all adherents would condemn and condemn harshly.

Of course if you didn't think it was shocking to find priests serially molesting young male adherents, or that the current pope fought for nazi germany, maybe this newest development won't phase you either.

Where did I suggest annihilation of religious adherents?

Why do you assume that the dictators who are in control of the region today are adherents of Islam?

Fortunately, the incriminating standards of organized religion do not leave their adherents in perpetual gloom.

Adherents of the Christian faith may continue to love these enemies of the Divine, but as a Jew I believe that the bin Ladens of this world chose their path freely, and that, like David, we ought to «hate them with perfect hatred» — for they know well what they do.

All religions are therefore organizations that willfully participate in the rejection of Science and encourage their adherents to do the same.

How do you figure Islam is spread across every corner of the globe with 1.5 Billion adherents.

We need a way of doing ministry that catches up what is most valuable in each of the two dominant parties of American Christianity and reconciles their adherents at a new level beyond the present competition between them.

One church, because of the gifts, talents — and personalities — of its members (or attendees, adherents, etc.), has the ability to reach people that another church does not.

Unfortunately, fundamentalism doesn't need religion to spawn dogma — and rabid adherents.

If other faiths wish to propose special symbols to be displayed out of respect for adherent victims, let them do so.

Even if the effort doesn't have that effect, its adherents view it as worthwhile.

These two cataclysmic conflagrations of our century, which broke the back of the liberal Protestant faith in progress, do not appear to trouble the adherents of Divine Principle, by and large members of a generation conveniently undistressed by stark memories of those «triumphs» for the heavenly side.

Very few adherents of those religions post, but if / when they do, they are asked for the same evidence that you are asked for.

Lewontin thus saw creationism as falsified not so much by any discoveries of modern science as by universal human experience, a thesis that does little to explain either why so absurd a notion has attracted so many adherents or why we should expect it to lose ground in the near future.

I don't think many people know LDS adherents, especially women, must wear prescribed undies.

Finally, I vehemently disagree with Taylor that the Christian faith does not require the deconstruction and reconstruction of its adherents.

archeologists... she also fails to mention that it is a book written by goatherds who didn't know why the sun came up in the morning and were this god to exist, believing in him or worshiping him would have little effect as his adherents are subject to his «will» so that our needs and desires are fulfilled at an equal rate to hoping and wishing.

These words are more than a lyrical garland tossed toward Saul's adherents in an effort to win them (although we do not suppose for a moment that David was unaware of the positive political implications of his public and phenomenally articulate grief).

Since mainstream religions don't control language, their religious authorities simply can't exercise the degree of power over membership that cult leaders can when they make an active effort to reduce the critical capacities of their adherents.

Do cults tap their adherents for money?

I don't doubt that most theists believe their religion liberates its adherents; but from the perspective of those who don't share the belief, the opposite is true.

Prof. Levenson notes that, among other differences between traditional Judaism and Christianity ignored by Dabru Emet, Jewish adherents of Judaism do not consider the New Testament to be their sacred scripture, do not believe that Jesus was either Messiah or God, do not believe in a Trinitarian God, and do not believe that Christianity either supersedes or fulfills Judaism.

Formerly an adherent, I now dismiss her ideas as two dimensional and extreme to the point of absurdity (just like the Tea Party - and we can all see how much good they've done since invading the House.)

the religion does teach nonviolence, though the history of it's adherent often commit violence.

There is not a verse in the New testement that cites the Trinity either, that doesn't mean its adherents haven't been able to concoct it.

Transhumanism doesn't conflict with religion, Vatinno insists, though he admits that it «does tend to avoid recourse to an external deity and, in fact, most adherents are materialists.»

When some of your detractors post here saying you are looking for adherents or people to «agree» with you, what they don't understand is that we come here because we are free to disagree with you, and to discuss it.

Not only that, the federal RFRA does not protect against state laws that infringe upon religious liberty, and state religious protections are now vociferously opposed by progressive political adherents and large corporations — as Indiana discovered recently when it was threatened with economic ruin for attempting to pass an RFRA that extended to the operation of businesses.

> If you're a Bible adherent, how do you know whether Catholic, Easter... >... or Umbanda is the REAL interpretation of your God's words?

Contrary to what some church leaders have assumed about educational results in the ecumenical setting, our students do not emerge as adherents of some homogenized set of lowest - common - denominator beliefs.

Any church that does not increase the scope of its demand for social justice can in the long run expect to attract fewer adherents.

Duh, it's what religions do, cause their adherents to find meaning and reason where there is none, using what passes for reason without actually THINKING.

It is extremely necessary to point out that the crazies that made this outrageous comparison and those that spit on 8 - year - old girls are not ultra-orthodox Jews, but lunatics that do not understand what it means to be a Jew adherent to the Torah laws pertaining observance and social conduct.

In the context of the life and work of other religious traditions it is incumbent on the Church in India to evolve more open ecclesial structures that do justice to its experience of an interrelatedness and mutual inclusiveness with other religious traditions and their adherents.

Its adherents stressed that human institutions ought to be manageable in size, respectful of the human scale, and sanely run so that they did not damage the people involved in them.»

You should have realized by now, Austin, that my beef is rather: «Why does something written 1.5 thousand years ago causing crimes against humanity in Uganda today by way of many of its adherents?»

However, they put its adherents under discriminatory disabilities: they did not allow Christians to serve in the Arab armies, they required them to wear a distinguishing garb, they placed on them a special tax, and they forbade them to give such public expressions to their faith as religious processions or the ringing of loud bells.

Millennials who are able to distinguish between the body of Christ (church) and the local building / assembly (church) recognize the difference between being the church (Christian) and doing church (adherent).