Sentences with phrase «at organized religion»

Looking at organized religion objectively, they are myths from stone age societies that were trying to explain the world, and there is virtually no chance any one is truth.

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I find it amazing that almost every organized religion during that time was at least partially, if not fully involved in bigotry toward blacks, including outright banning them from their membership and congretations altogether (which Mormans have never done), but only Mormons are still chided constantly about their history with blacks, despite the fact that black members have had full benefits for almost four decades, and despite the fact that Mormons have been actively proselyting and doing charitable missionary work in Africa for over 160 years.

Maybe we can look at it as a phase that many Christians from all demographics go through before a renewal, and that would be a good thing, for since organized religion, hence dogma, doctrine, religious practices, etc., is the primary cause for parting ways, it is a wake up call for the Christian church.

Each of them is capped at 165 people, and all are sold - out affairs with long waiting lists, said Victor Ludlow, a BYU religion professor who has been organizing campus Seders for almost four decades.

It therefore would be a mistake to understand their animosities as «secular» in the contemporary sense; instead, they took aim at Catholicism and other organized religion from their own theological position.

Look at history — most organized religions have a pretty shameful moral records, particularly the catholic church.

The younger generation will continue to reject organized religion while at the same time, seek relevant pathways to a spiritual vitality that values the present and works to help ensure a promising future for generations to come.

[74] Women following no organized religion were indexed at 4.02.

At the same time there is a new age wave that is beginning to gain momentum at a rate of 10,000 per week that are also walking away from or have never connected to organized religioAt the same time there is a new age wave that is beginning to gain momentum at a rate of 10,000 per week that are also walking away from or have never connected to organized religioat a rate of 10,000 per week that are also walking away from or have never connected to organized religion.

At the top of the hit list was organized religion.

hate to say it, but Greed is what a lot of organized religion is about, look at the Catholic church, and how the pope is adorned and all the wealth that church has, disgusting.

(CNN)- This country is changing rapidly, and at the very time modern medicine puts life - or - death decisions in our hands, organized religion has faded from the lives of many Americans.

it's a slightly different kind of magic than organized religion, but at the end of the day it's just superst.ition and fairy dust.

The Huffington Post: American Confidence In Organized Religion At All Time Low According to a recent Gallup poll, the number of Americans who have faith in organized religion is at an all - time loAt All Time Low According to a recent Gallup poll, the number of Americans who have faith in organized religion is at an all - time loat an all - time low.

Considering that this is a league for private and PAROCHIAL schools, and a Jewish Day School is as much a parochial school as a Christian school of any denomination (or any other recognized organized religion, for that matter), it's a shame that TAPPS and other similar organizations not support a decision of faith as, at a minimum, an expression of tolerance.

Their anti-religion songs to me are targeted at hypocritical religious people and organized religion that is money - centered and man - centered.

Selling out your intellect because you're mentally lazy is one thing, constantly yammering at me to do the same (proselitizing) is another and that's where organized religion starts looking like to me like a giant scam.

Teams from the London School of Economics and Erasmus University Medical Center in the Netherlands found that involvement in organized religion was more effective at producing «sustained happiness» than sports, political groups, charity work or continuing educational efforts.

Like several other major shows currently airing in primetime — like OWN's Greenleaf, Leah Remini's Scientology and the Aftermath and E's cult show The Arrangement — The Path not only looks at faith, but also the complicated world of organized religion:

I find it highly ironic that you mock organized religion for being thoughtless, yet you seem (at least) equally unaware of how shallow Marshall Brain's arguments are.

Jesus was offended by, and took aim at, the one organized religion of his day.

The prolem I've always had with organized religion is that at some point after all the «Do unto others» «Turn the other cheek» «Help thy neighbor» they all say «Oh, by the way, do it our way or burn in hell».

My position is this — organized religion is used as a tool to control people, whether at the local level, national, or transnational level.

I abandoned organized religion a long time ago, in part because in my view it promotes hypocrisy and intolerance, at the same time believers seem to think they have a monopoly on morality.

Some folks are confident that they are steering themselves from a more pure moral compass than that of those imposed by organized religions which have, unfortunately and due to a few bad apples at the margins, proven themselves to be corruptible.

Just look at the massive wealth of organized religion, especially the catholic church.

At the same time it rebuked the pastors for opposing not Nazi totalitarianism in tow but only its encroachments on organized religion; they were making a truly heroic stand, but «the cause which they champion is not the fully Christian ideal» (February 7, 1934).

The truth is, most of us are not fence - sitters at all, but people who've tried organized religion already and found it to be insincere, stifling, and hypocritical.

I will celebrate the day all organized religion is gone and human beings will be free at last.

For the billions who have suffered at the hands of organized religions and those who believe in them, and all that they have always stood for, my heart goes out to you.

Creative and dynamic religious forces are finding their expression not in the context of the organized church, but in film, literature, and the arts, and also in some aspects of science and industry, where people are seeking ways to give institutional expression to their basic religious concerns while at the same time rejecting alliances with institutional religion.

Go on making your choice, although I do nt agree with organized religion I do believe a life without any sense of spiritual nature is a boring life at most.

as for whoever else may work overtime to undermine the rights, liberties, freedom and equality of others... they're not the subject at present... right now it's just organized religion.

I would hope that those who follow an organized religion would restrain from getting angry at a non-believer during a discussion.

strictly speaking, atheism is not a religion, but scientifically amd based in the panthrotheistic faith they are part of the will of God to become active and organized at this point of our evolutionary stage of change from the present obsolescent religions to a future scientific faith.

If the goal of organized religion is to call all people into the fullness of their humanity, as I believe it is, then perhaps church leaders ought to look at those they hold up as role models.

I would have to at least partially agree with King on the matter of organized religion.

All of these are occur at the larger level of organized religion, but that doesn't mean that the religious experience / belief / and hope of the individual is wrong or baseless or false.

Pure Comedy is a sprawling, conceptual epic that starts at the birth of mankind and continues through mankind's self - destruction at the hands of the technology, organized religion and the entertainment industrial complex.

I'm not a fan of organized religion at all, but I do consider myself a Christian in a philosophical way.

«It is inconceivable that there should be a world movement for a full franchise for women in politics without there being at the same time a movement for full opportunity for women in organized religion.

We could all stand to be reminded of Jesus» humanity - that despite his daily human struggle, he created a revolutionary loving and caring ethics and morality which should stand at the heart of the Christian religion but are often pushed to the margins in the organized churches.

On previous visits, beginning in 1988, I lectured at Hebrew University and spoke on programs organized by scholarly and civic organizations, the discussion always being about religion - and - society.

It's fine, Steve, if you want to hold up your church as the exception — maybe it is, I haven't been or even know what church it is (you'll have to excuse our skepticism, though — but how can you look at the whole system of organized religion and deny this trend?

Civilization has moved on to being more progressive and caring — its time this kid's religion and his family do the same Or at least stay out of organized sports and other public events if you can't handle being around diversity.

Then, after a few months, at best only three years, of a public career in which He was hailed by a crowd which proved fickle and had won the adherence of a coterie of men and women who did not fully understand Him, He ran afoul of the leaders of the organized religion of His people, was accused by them of fomenting rebellion against the civil government, that of Rome, and was crucified by the order of the local representative of that government.

I don't believe in gods at all, I am certain that organized religions are a mechanism of control, and I believe that at the beggining, middle, and end of the day we are all responsible for our own lives and actions (which is why it is so important that we humans that actually live and die in this world figure out how to work together).

Having grown up catholic (catholic schools and all) and later getting disenfranchised from the church due to the hypocrisy and scandals, and then becoming a «devout» atheist after rejecting all the mythology and dangers of organized religions, I have to admit that the current pope at least is trying to be reasonable.

Your Sophia picture illustrates this so well, but also speaks deeply on another level, of the bondage of women by various means, withing relationships, within organized religion, but also within society at large.

Parenthetically, Ellinwood, who was professor of comparative religion at New York University, was instrumental in organizing the American Society of Comparative Religion in 1890.