Sentences with phrase «around a religion of»

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Another part of the prosecution's argument centered around Adnan's religion.

Early on, he reportedly designed a lucrative $ 100 million trade — then the largest of its kind Goldman had ever handled — for an Islamic client to get around the religion's rules against receiving interest payments.

He later came around, he said, acknowledging «religion is a very important piece of information» and that the project «actually does provide a huge value.»

They come amid growing scrutiny of blunders Facebook has made in policing content around the globe — from riots and lynchings sparked by the spread of hate speech and misinformation in countries such as Sri Lanka and Myanmar, to inflammatory posts attacking religions and races — even after U.S. users flagged them.

But if you keep these old murderous religions around, you'll never get rid of religion - motivated violence.

Traditional religions try to explain the world around us by actions of a supreme being (s).

Bigotry and unprovable / unknowable / unquestionable dogma of the religions which (many / some) believers may place all of their morality around comepletely, is at the heart of the problem here.

Incidentally, women in traditional religions, or who are politically conservative, or members of minorities from both genders, tend to really not appreciate people who presume to be more enlightened throwing around «Stockholm Syndrome!»

They will tell you Galileo was never arrested, tried, and imprisonedf for verifying earlier theories that the earth revolved around the sun rather than, as religion claimed, being the center of the universe itself.

This is all about control with religion and it has to stop.Gay people getting married doesn't have anything to do with straight people getting married.People are so full of hatred and disrespect it isn't funny.I'm glad this has come out now, because it really shows how evil people really are.But these people who are so into GOD, the Bible, Church, and the only way of life they live 4 god, by god are the 1s who prmote going around the world starting WARS, killing innocent women, men, children and families because Jesus guides them in everything they do.That is a crock of B.S. if I ever heard it.They will continus to use GOD and continue their EVIL ways to get whatever they want and CONTROL who ever they can.

Must really tick you off that people can now think for themselves, go against your grain, and break the yoke of religion from around their throats.

Children are currently seen as having a religion by virtue of their parents but it could be argued that children have no religious faith until such time as they are deemed mature enough to make decisions around consent..

I sure get a chuckle out of the «Great Disappointment» story — and then marvel at the fact that the religion is still around!

None of us were around to witness the events that brought any particular religion long, long, ago.

What you described is the same type of experience people of conflicting religions all around the world claim.

John, what you described is the same type of experience people of conflicting religions all around the world claim.

If we also keep in mind Isaiah 45:7, this divergence in theology becomes explainable and the contradiction is exposed for what it probably is; a shift in the theology of the Hebrews, influenced by the dualistic Persian religion at the time of the Persian's conquest of Babylon in around 539 BCE.

Moreover, many of the established religions around, are more centrally organized, with central training and control over the clergy.

Should we rattle sabers as other religions, or should we seek a non-violent mean to end the suffering of our fellow beings around the globe?

There are two sides to that coin Lawrence... non-religious people are tired of people cramming their religion down their throats as if it is okay for them to tought it around in other people's faces because their God says they are saved from something... It used to be considered decent to not talk about religion and politics, but people just have to put one or the other, or both in your face now - a-days.

When the threat of death is all around, religion, is a larger than normal part of our thoughts.

They cry «persecution» when they can't fork over their religion on others, for example around the time of the winter solstice.

But I do not go around calling individuals «immoral» when they do not conform to the tenets of my religion (as the bishops, etc. have done in their outcry against birth control).

But it's it's a heck of a lot more likely that people raised with religion will leave it than the other way around.

All that, plus they want to hide fact that all the premises of their religion around the divinity of Christ and the supposed benevolent nature of their rather horrid BOMITS and so on have zero support in evidence, and their bizarro ceremonies and smokescreens don't fool people quite as well as they did in pre-internet times.

Maybe the idea of trying to keep the secular outside the doors of religion and church needs to get turned around, that division between religious and secular torn down, stop worrying about the secular creeping into the sacred, the religion, but rather, taking the sacred, the religion, out into the secular.

Religious co-opted morality as it's dominion, but there was morality before religion and there are millions of perfectly moral, non-religious people walking around right now.

Hence, he didn't want to express the denial of the existence of God in the cultural context of his time and due to his sincere sensitivies to those around him who he loved and were religious, but he personally did not believe in a God and certainly had abandoned Christianity or any religion for that matter.

Besides taking religion out of politics and look at what each candidate has to offer us as Americans, ans how they can get us turned around as a country.

And although it's great that you won't consider religion when you vote, most of the LDS around here (Salt Lake City) are practically p - ing in their pants over having two mormons in the race (although they suspect Huntsman is not sufficiently right - wing).

The members of the LDS faith have a 20 % chance of divorce and considering that in the east coast Divorce rate is up to 60 % and on the west coast it's at around 60 - 70 % I would say that even if the religion makes no sense in the end it will keep your family together and that should be whats most important.

I guess what I see, as I watch Christianity whirl around me, is the religion molding to fit the mentality of modern humanity... just like a business.

From a book on Werhner Von Braun: around 1975 when illness was advancing, «His desire to see the world of science and technology in full harmony with the world of religion, particularly as it is manifested in Christian faith, grew even stronger,» Ordway says (p. 272).

Even though it has only been around a «short time», the impact of this religion based on an «imaginary guy in the sky» has caused numerous deaths and wars.

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...

The EPRDF has successfully kept religion as a background political discourse by placing the focus of democratic life around ethnic and regional identities, which go together.

in a time where religion has seemed to become irrelevant in the lives of many around this country, this is a great way to become «relevant» again.

It was a mix of learning about cosmology, biology, and other religions around the world.

No matter what religion says I for one will not sit around for the end of the world.

The throw - weight of the Holy See, the papacy, and the Catholic Church in twenty - first - century world affairs reflects the perception that the Church has become the world's preeminent institutional defender of basic human rights — and thus the greatest bulwark, among the great world religions, to the freedom project around the globe.

In the dark ages you're religion suppressed science.When Copernicus said that The earth revolved around the sun you ridculed him.Also, you push the wrong theory of creationism.

Habibi is not only a moving artistic experience» surging off the page and swirling around the reader's head» but also a reminder of one key aspect of religion: relationships.

I believe the vast majority of religions are the product of sincere people trying to fill in holes in their understanding of the universe, the world around them, of the people around them.

Many of the posts here center around the unjustness of religion, but it is people who are unjust, not God.

Evolutions makes sense for a little bit but than you are going to need some faith to fill in the gaps of that religion because it breaks down real fast as soon as you start poking around.

«Christianity is the largest and most popular religion in the United States, with around 77 % of those polled identifying themselves as Christian»

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If atheists have any disdain for religion, it is because of all the harm religion does around the world and the inherent discrimination that we face every day by the likes of people, like you.

The effects of prejudice and racism are all around — constant fighting in Israel and Palestine, wars in the Middle East because of religion and killings in big cities and small towns all over the world because of the color of someone's skin or sexual orientation.

Well, the nice thing is that I don't walk around thinking that I was born with something called «sin» (which is a concoction of religion) and spending my time trying to please an invisible friend.