Sentences with phrase «around religion with»

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Even if one's religion requires prayer at rigidly specific intervals or times or with items that not everyone may be familiar with, where do those religious procedures say that the praying persons aren't allowed to let the people around them know what it is that they are doing?

Obamas religion however is straight up christian and it won't really do much good to follow him around with a moving billboard that lists death tolls from christian persecution or other things about the dogma that people already know and either don't care or already accept.

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.

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

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.

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).

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...

Wow, you'd think with all these «theists» running around, we'd have some real religion down here.

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

Of course, most comments had nothing to do with our story, revolving instead around the debate about legitimacy of religion itself.

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.

It has nothing to do with religion, as some atheists do belong to religions that do not center around gods).

The need for a political religion was formulated by state authorities around 2010 — something that coincided with the election of Kirill, a Russian World enthusiast, to the Patriarchal See of Moscow.

Also, any religion which considers itself Christian and murders, including and specifically Catholics, in Ireland and around the world, and in history, Crusades, etc. don't go along with the New Testament principles.

His honest answer would most likely be this: «Because of where I was born and my parents & peers I grew up around told me that the bible was the only true holy text and that I would be shunned if I even looked at another religion with interest.»

Perhaps I should have said that no one perceived by the population as a non-Christian could be elected in this country... There is enough lack of clarity around whether or not Mormonism is a Christian religion that it allows «non-Mormon» Chritstians to feel comfortable with Romney as a candidate.

Whether you look within America or around the world, the level of violent crime, violent acts, if anything, increases with the level of religion in a population.

In our independent - minded Western approach to religion, we gather around those with similar doctrines.

One of the problems with religion is their incapability to describe their world around them accurately without resorting to meaningless faith - based semantic terms like light, glory, faith.

I am tired of how people who believe in their own «gods» try to shove religion down other peoples throat, what I mean is if your religion doen not let you support guns then don't support it but also don't try to change it for everyone else who doesn't see it your way, I don't go around asking for you all's religion to remove crosses from public view because I don't believe and to remove the bible from public places (i.e. Hotels, Bookstores, etc.) so it can only be seen in their respective places of workship, Remember WE ALL ARE BORN ATHEIST, YOU ARE NOT BORN WITH THE KNOWLEDGE THAT THERE IS A GOD, YOUR PARENTS HAVE TO TELL YOU THERE IS A GOD, A DEVIL, HEAVEN AND EARTH... THEN IT BEGINGS.

The problem with religion is simple; rules have been devised around the MOST unprovable thing you can think of.

Being with someone of a different religion in such a closeknit friendship has enabled me to see the world around me and my own faith in a fresh, new way.

With this success, Martel has opportunities to speak around the world... and he often speaks of religion.

Well, grab the bible, read it, and think on about what your reading... and compare the message of the Christ with the religions that you see around you and ask yourself... Is this religion teaching this?

Of course, people who stunt both their intellectual and ethical development with religion are around, too.

And don't forget the Persian Empire ruled Palestine from 500 something BC to Alexander around 330 BC with their dualistic religion Zoroastrianism, withe their God and bad (satan - Angra mainyu) gods with angels and Sun / Son Mithras, the haloed one, retaining influence in the area years after they were chased out.

no parents expect their children to be a bad person to the community but other way around... so i advice to my brothers and sisters in mankind who are involved with this unwanted action to think twice and correct yourselves... but its all in ur hand and there is no compulsion in religion (AlQuran 2:256)...

JPT: «Seperation of church and state has to do with keeping the state out of religion, not the other way around.»

Seperation of church and state has to do with keeping the state out of religion, not the other way around.

The point is is that it IS wrong to force someone not to talk about their god, but that it is ALSO wrong to take money from someone who doesn't believe in that god by force (e.g., taxation) and then turn around and give that money to someone who does to promote their views about that religion (such as funding a memorial with public funds).

Just as we can't understand why Third World countries repress their masses with religion and control, they can't understand why we can walk around freely saying whatever it is we want to say, where what we choose and believe in what we want to.

There is a preoccupation with the belief that just about everything around us is Satanic and demonic except the religion of course.

The Western nations have spread their culture, religion, and economic system around the world with the same idealist zeal.

And yet, for some reason, we are tip - toeing around saying what is true: That this religion is one that does not tolerate ANYONE speaking ill or disagreeing with it.

PS - Much of the wars around the world are more about control of natural resources and have nothing to do with religion but you see, you can not get someone to kill in the name of diamonds, or oil, or access to natural gas and other natural resources.

«Because when I think about the aim, the purpose of religion, I think it becomes — when you put aside the social institutions that spring up around religions in all their strains and various forms of strands — I believe that the purpose of religion is love and connection, to feel connected to one another and to feel at ease with who we are... a kind of oneness, a kind of wholeness.

You say you want religion left out of it, and then turn around and want someone with «true christian principles».

And there is your problem lol The religion is not based on facts... however I do think Joseph Smith did really carry around magic rocks with his hat while scamming people.

However, organized religion has largely failed to square itself with the world around us, leaving people to find their own set of beliefs that isn't logically inconsistent.

While religion allows people to be comfortable with their own cruelty and ignorance because they can apologize for it on Sunday, I will actually attempt to better myself (granted I have a long way to go) and I will attempt to help the world around me instead of praying that something that does not exist does it for me.

Among these are: A Season for Nonviolence; [29] the Synthesis Dialogues with His Holiness the Dalai Lama and progressive multi-faith leaders from around the world; an annual Awakened World conference bringing together scientists, futurists, and spiritual activists; participation in the 1998 UNESCO Seminar on Religion and Peace, and the 1999 and 2004 Parliament of the World's Religions.

Around junior high I had a hard time with the concept of hell and how a God who supposedly loves all his children could condemn anyone to hell indefinitely... over time I stopped believing in the religion entirely.

Another preacher preaching what ever goes is ok with Christianity... If your going to preach Christianity based on the Bible, then you might as well forget gay marriages are ok... If you want to twist it around then thats up to you... Paul said, «The Berens were of noble charachter because they didn't believe what they heard, but they took what they heard and confirmed it with the Bible... So its like the Yen or Yang... Its either Gods church or Satans Church... Can't be any other way... Do I hate gays, no... I have some very close friends that I have had for over 30 years that are gay, but I think they will be accountable for their life styles... Thats the thing about Christianity, we are held accountable, its not an everything goes belief... Its rules we have to follow... And rules we will be held accountable... So maybe this preacher needs to start a dfferent faith or religion... One where there are no rules and where its people are not accountable for their actions...

It is not that the old theories have been replaced with the new — naturalistic ideas have been around for millennia, as has religion.

We have become used to dismissing matters of religion («Oh, it's all rubbish»; «Causes more trouble than it's worth» etc) and we find it easier to sludge along with our culture soaked in TV soap operas and rising crime figures and drunken teenagers hanging around bleak shopping centres shouting at one another on Saturday nights.

I was struck by a remark Paul Haggis made, that other religions give you all their most basic beliefs in the first few minutes, while with Scientology you can be years into it and hundreds of thousands of dollars down before they get around to telling you about Xenu and the volcano people and so on.

Moreover, with religions that have been around for more than a few generations and have weathered more than a few schisms, the deeper you get into them the more you find that the way - out - wacky stuff at the beginning is of a piece with the insights that have kept people coming back to them over the years, and that those insights include vital truths not generally available elsewhere.

It's becoming abundantly clear to those growing up in the 21st century that religion is a sham, and the idea of god doesn't square with the world around them.

What a great showing of solidarity it would be for him to align himself with the millions of women around the world who are living far far less than equal lives in societies where male supremacist religions are powerful.

Hard conversations are coming, perhaps legislation, around gun control, about hatred, racism, religion, about our culture's glorification of violence, our nationalism, and the divisions between us, yes, those conversations need to happen, but not just now: now is the time for grieving, now is the time for loving, for burying, for mourning with those who mourn, for gathering humanity together, and for compassion.