Sentences with phrase «as most religious people»

Are you good according as most religious people you know behave or you are good because that makes you happy.

Not exact matches

For years, I watched in horror as most of the most remarkable, honest, hard working, compassionate, productive, contributing & patriotic; people one could ever hope to know in life & have the privilege of calling friends; die a slow, agonizing, disfiguring & vastly premature death, amidst the muted joy & exaltation of conservative religious groups & individuals.

Dawkins argues that while there appear to be plenty of individuals that would place themselves as «1» due to the strictness of religious doctrine against doubt, most atheists do not consider themselves «7» because atheism arises from a lack of evidence and evidence can always change a thinking person's mind.

Most people don't care whether a person is religious or not (as long as they don't try to push it off on others).

Well it is true that some people seek sorcerers to implement Jinn that are satanic demons into mankind or his house or his business to finish him or make his life miserable or to stop flow of his business income... In such case it is either you are religious enough and say your prayers often then it becomes hard for this to harm you or otherwise you need to find some one who practice exorcism to remove this evil... But many are just pretending to be good at it and help you not but squeeze money out of you with tales and stories... There is another type of possessions and that is not through a sorcerer but directly by coincidence what man is at his weakest moments and those weakest moments for a possessions are when you come through a great fear or when cry or laugh loudly in hysteria, or during a certain moment of mating... or even when sneezing loudly... That's why there are prayers to be said on daily basis to guard you from such things and specially if passing haunted places such as deserted houses but most evil ones are residents of public toilets and market places... Some of them even would claim that you have made a wrong action by which you have killed a dear one to them and for that they have possessed you and that is mostly night time such as throwing a cigaret butt to a dark place or stepping killing an insect or even an animal at night which could have been one of them or possessed by one of them... So this is true thing happening to many who suffer unexplainable illnesses or sufferings which could look like mental illness that comes and goes as pleased...

I have absolutely no reservation that you are very nice person, as are most religious folks I know..

In other words with all the things going on in the world this long winded ambiguous rant about the religious beliefs of a horror writer whose name I've barely heard mentioned in the last decade is being presented as the most important information people need to know at this particular time.

When comments treating religious people as morons are posted, that makes atheists look just as asinine as the far right religious nut jobs that most here rail against.

I am for the elimination of hate, fear and control, religion is just the catalyst that people use to hate, fear and control, getting rid of religion won't solve the problem, its like putting a band aid on a severe cut, its temporary, and it just hits the surface, instead we need to go deeper than that to the root cause, I know lots of religious people who don't hate, fear or control, there are also many beliefs such as paganism, Buddism, Taoism, which doesn't use hate fear, and self righteousness to condemn others, I think if maybe more of the most major religions followed there teachings then we wouldn't have as much problems as we do.

I have never been able to understand why many atheists have as much antipathy towards people whom profess religious faith as most religious «believers» have toward atheists.

If God is truly love, and Jesus truly said «treat others as you would have them treat you», that the «religionists» are the ones who hate and condemn the most and those who are not religious preach brotherhood and consideration for all people?

However, I have lived most of my life in more populated / diverse areas and most of the religious people I know seem to think the stories in the bible are just as crazy as I do.

so most atheists know very well why people are religious as they were once religious themselves.

that the task of the proletariat corresponds to the world - historical mission of the chosen people, that the redemptive and universal function of the most degraded class is conceived on the religious pattern of Cross and Resurrection, that the ultimate transformation of the realm of freedom corresponds to the transformation of the civitas Terrena into a civitas Dei, and that the whole process of history as outlined in the Communist Manifesto corresponds to the general scheme of the Jewish - Christian interpretation of history as providential advance toward a final goal.

I have elected to believe that most people's (atheist as well as religious) concept of «God» is very narrow.

To me it is a sickening abomination of God's will that the most advanced nation on the face of the earth has to be held hostage to these willfully ignorant, dark - age dwelling crackpots, who turn concepts such as Capitalism into false religious idols which they expect people to worship mindlessly.

I have actually been banned from a few «religion is always bad» atheist blogs as I try to show them that most people's religions have very little to do with right belief — even though their religious professionals may wish otherwise.

As Christians, our most «deeply held religious belief» is that Jesus Christ died on the cross for sinful people, and that in imitation of that, we are called to love God, to love our neighbors, and to love even our enemies to the point of death.

The common people accepted as a matter of course the control of these political and religious groups, save for chronic grumblings against those who touched their pocketbooks most directly, the hated publicans or tax - collectors.

A conservative comedian (They fear these people the most because if they use their «Alinsky» principle of ridicule on them, they'll get as good as they give) 6 A religious person (Even though, ironically, most lower income democrats, like the mexicans, are devout catholics 7.

They are just as good and bad as most people when they are doing secular activities, unless the activity and their actions are based on religious bias.

Most people lose or forget the subjectively religious experience, and redefine Religion as a set of habits, behaviors, dogmas, forms, which at the extreme becomes entirely legalistic and bureaucratic, conventional, empty, and in the truest meaning of the word, antireligious.

Even if the human person is most himself and freest when least encumbered with social, traditional, religious or familial ties, society is a necessary evil which protects as much as possible the freedom of the individual without being much of a threat to it.

The treatment of people outside Christianity was even worse, such as our treatment of «pagans» who refused to convert to Christianity after it became the official religion of the Roman Empire, or the Jews during most of Christian history, or other religious groups in Germany and Great Britain who were slaughtered and enslaved by invading Christian armies, or the enslavement of Native Americans and Africans by imperialistic Christian settlers of the «New World.»

My opinion as far as the lack of contemporary evidence of Jesus is that at the time Jesus was not looked at by most of the religious people as a spiritual leader, but more as a threat to Judaism.

Most religious people were indoctrinated as children.

I consider myself a christian, with religious knowledge and general knowlege, however I do not hold to a set of views dictated by an organized religion, I believe the organized religions are where we have gone wrong, as someone pointed out earlier to most «religious people» to question ones faith or organization is wrong but that is exactly what the bible tells us to do... test ALL things to see what is true.

The implication is that «religious people are ignorant about religion» (and, I suspect, the most accurate description of the intent would be to paint religious people as ignorant, period).

did anyone take the quiz... there is a question about what is the religion of most people in indonesia... the answer is muslim, yet... the picture that goes along with the question and answer is confused... i think i saw an elephant trunk on the idols face... maybe the folks who put together the quiz and slide show should brush up on thier religious and cultural studies as well...

If people lived their lives in a simple moral way as indicated by the stories of most religious publications we would all live in a better world!

Most people in the world today believe that God expects them to perform a wide variety of religious practices, such as going to church, attending mass, tithing, going to confession, giving up tobacco and alcohol, and a list of other rules that are variously taught in churches and on television.

Then there is the sad and, to my mind, unmistakable fact that people who have adopted the so - called «presumption against war» tend to get things wrong, time and again: as the U.S. bishops got the dynamics of the Cold War wrong in their 1983 pastoral letter, «The Challenge of Peace»; as most religious leaders and intellectuals got it wrong in predicting a Middle East Armageddon in the first Gulf War and the recent Iraq War.

What would this look like for this minority view to also become known, by religious and secular people alike, as the most life - giving view?

Clearly, it is within the canon of most religious traditions themselves to regard their followers as a pilgrim people whose tents must always, in a sense, be in motion through the wilderness.

America is a Christian nation — and while the First Amendment affords all people the right to believe as they will, efforts to change the religious fiber of our nation to conform to the rantings of a bloodthirsty pedophile (specifically: Mohammed) should be met with the most ferocious resistance.

Propaganda is most effective when it is able to separate a person from outside points of reference, such as a transcendent religious reference, in order to encourage a tunnel vision which unquestioningly accepts this society «s worldview as «the way it is.

Later I did stop going to Church but also never joined a gang — moved on from that neighborhood FYI — If this all puzles u, even as an Atheist my morals are as strong and probably stronger than those of most religious people.

well just thinking about these wars in the muslim / mid-east world over religious differences (which may reflect mental states in many ways) in a world where most realize that living in the present moment is best way to happiness and being in the moment in non-strife and awareness through the teachings of masters such as found in the buddhist, taoist, zen, etc., etc., etc. spriritually based practices of religious like thought and teachings, etc. that to ask these scientifically educated populace whom have access to vast amounts of knowledges and understandings on the internet, etc. to believe in past beliefs that perhaps gave basis and inspiration to that which followed — but is not the end all of all times or knowledges — and is thus — non self - sustaining in a belief that does not encompass growth of knowledge and understanding of all truths and being as it is or could be — is to not respect the intelligence and minds and personage of even themselves — not to be disrespected nor disrespectful in any way — only to point out that perhaps too much is asked to put others into the cloak of blind faith and adherance to the past that disregards the realities of the present and the potential of the future... so you try to live in the past — and destroy your present and your future — where is the intelligence in that — and why do people continually fear monger or allow to be fear — mongered into this destructive vision of the future based upon the past?

But if he did, and he's infallible as you claim, and he created us as you claim, and he gave us free will as every religious person I've met claims, then we most certainly can blame god for free will.

«Today, Christianity has become the most persecuted religion, where out of five people killed [for] religious reasons, four of them are Christians,» Catholic News Agency (CNA) quoted Hungary's Minister for Human Resources, Zoltan Balog, as saying.

Our foundIng fathers are probably rolling in their graves as they were not «religious» people, not to mention, most were not even Christians!

I think that most of the people who are self - identified as «spiritual but not religious» have come to the realization deep inside that they don't really believe in God, but they are unwilling to let go, for two reasons:

Hundreds of thousands of people, most of them from what used to be known as the Third World (relatively few from Europe), stream into the country every year, bringing their religious identities with them.

In my experience, most atheists do consider religious people to be religious primarily as a result of their upbringing.

So who cares about religious people, you can't convince someone of reality when they fabricate their own, they fabricate their proof, their facts, best thing is just do your thing and stay way from them as much possible, most of the times they turn more people into atheists than atheists themselves by the things they say and do anyway, lol so no need for us to do it.

People are doing this to not stand out, its a way of making one feel imporetant, as with most if not all so called religious leaderrs they know very little or anything at all about the doctrines of the religion their in and this is a Fact.

Primarily because most people are taught religious ideas as children and because often these ideas are given a seriousness and a sacredness that precludes an open and investigative approach to them.

Well, most of the things I regret having done in life I did as a religious person acting on faith that what I was doing wasn't really hurting people, but helping them.

If the divine mystery is present in a special way among the poorest and most misused of his or her children, as the biblical images and stories — from the slaves in Egypt to the official lynching of Jesus — constantly remind us, then allegedly religious people who insulate themselves from the city are putting themselves at considerable risk.

Since Shi`a depends upon the one who is the most learned and accepts him as the public deputy, in every epoch the person who is the most learned and most pious is regarded as the public deputy, and the people follow his ideas and his decisions concerning religious affairs.