Sentences with phrase «beings than the religious»

Interesting how the non religious trend to be more decent human beings than the religious.

Not exact matches

In Turkey, more than 32,000 people were put in jail and 100,000 have been dismissed from jobs in the security and civil services for their alleged links to a religious network the government says staged the July 15 military coup.

More than 100 businesses and religious organizations have sued the federal government to be exempt from the ACA's contraceptive requirements since Obamacare became law in 2010.

But having one's religious conscience protected from intrusion by one's fellow citizens is a much less compelling need than having it protected from the government.

Among Canadians who would be affected by a restriction on religious clothing and symbols, more say they would fight the ban than accommodate it.

Loyola keeping a Catholic identity helps promote real intellectual diversity in American public life (and, again, I'd say the same as to other religious universities; I can imagine some religious belief systems that are so pernicious that, while they must be constitutionally protected, we can still say they hurt American life more than they help it, but I think that most of the traditions that found universities do have a good deal to contribute).

If you work for a religious organization that doesn't pay into the Social Security program, you must pay Social Security taxes if your earnings are more than $ 100 per year.

There are rare creatures like highly religious congregants who tithe 10 or 20 percent of their incomes to charity regardless of income, but most people earning less than $ 100,000 give away less than 5 percent.

That implies that religious people are somehow more caring or generous than others.

Will Bunch's CNN.com tirade earlier this week against television host Glenn Beck and David Barton - the founder and president of WallBuilders, a national pro-family organization that emphasizes history's «moral, religious and constitutional heritage» - for allegedly creating «pseudo history» reveals more about Mr. Bunch than it does about what Mr. Beck and Mr. Barton are presenting.

This is what I find so distasteful in religious belief — the answers to many of our common needs is simply to care for others rather than delegate that role to a divine source.

- The Book of Mormon is considered the most correct and accurate religious book on Earth yet it has been revised more than 10 times.

A million times more people have been kiIIed by religious zealots in the name of their relgion than an atheist in the name of atheism.

Why are you listening to black clerics over this issue, Blacks are having more kids out of wed lock than whites, they are also like white, living in sin, but the church's say nothing about having babies without a husband or sitting in church and living in sin, talk about glass houses, and besides the marriages are Cival marriage not religious marriage, what a bunch of hipocrites..

In a study that comes as a surprise to approximately no Christian under the age of 40, the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project says technology use among religious people is no different than among anybody else.

Recent studies indicate that religious people are better educated on average than secularists.

These examples are far more simple than religious beliefs, but I have never chosen whether I believed or didn't, I just examined what was available to me.

The religious students created more words from non-religious words than from religious words, and it was interpreted that they had less motivation when they saw religious words.

Please cite the research that shows that religious people are «religious people are much better adjusted than those who refuse to believe.»

That's what this concert is, and it has no more military support than all those other religious practices being performed on the base every day.

The problem I have is that these «churches» using these schools are not paying enough to even cover the cost of the overhead of opening the building for them, and that if any group other than a Christian church tried to use the facilities for religious services, they would more than likely be denied.

By the way religious people are also happier, and more generous than the non-religious.

I personally hear the atheists I know complain more than the religious people about others talking about their beliefs, could just be the people I know though.

I was looking at all the ignorant comment garbage I expected, and FINALLY found your comment... I'll be there too, choosing to express my freedom of thought and my intellect rather than abide by the unabated subjugation that all religious folk subscribe to.

goes through this long exposition of how those who attack ID as a religious theory encroaching on science are simple minded and that ID is somehow more complex than that betrays their own beliefs.

And later: «The language of Latin Mass was only understood by the top - heavy minority of clergy, and those steeped in religious education, rather than the lay majority.»

And even non-religious scholars agree that his teachings are more morally sound than any other religious figure.

Just as ridiculous as being an extreme religious person or being an atheist which both have more in common with each other than they let on.

Actions speak a lot louder than words, and the fact that you feel that adding in the religious baggage to the help given to those who are starving speaks volumes.

The real kicker is that intelligence itself continues to grow and expand at an exponential rate, therefore deep religious faith causes one to fall behind the curve at a geometric rate, rather than a linear rate.

I will no longer be respectful of the leadership of the Archbishop of Canterbury, who seems to believe that rude behavior, intolerance and even killing prejudice is somehow acceptable, so long as it comes from third - world religious leaders, who more than anything else reveal in themselves the price that colonial oppression has required of the minds and hearts of so many of our world's population.

First, the writers — quoting atheist proselytizer Richard Dawkins — claim that children of religious parents should not be considered religious, more than implying that their «beliefs» should be considered those of the secular state.

You are doing more damage to education than a religious zealot ever could.

I just don't know what to say, other than Akin is a religious zealot.

I know people who are not affiliated with any religion (agnostic, not atheist) that are far more humane in action than any number of «religious» people.

Also, they're not saying the religious students had lower motivation IN GENERAL than the non-religious students.

Professionals or secularists within the UK or Western world will accept these religious tenets more sympathetically if they came from a faith they recognise, or indeed may once have been part of, more so than other newer religions.

Also, I doubt you were ever an atheist since the vast majority of us come from Christian or religious backgrounds and only became atheist after doing years of research and often reading our bibles far more than our «faithful» counterparts.

Why is it that if someone hears voices other than» from god» he or she is a candidate for psychoanalysis or psychotropic drugs, but religious people are given a pass?

I would agree, however, with the underlying religious point, that too much God is painted as a deity of petty rules rather than the awesome Creator.

But the religious have become so domineering that no one should be allowed to comment on it other than to parrot their own particular set of beliefs.

LinCA «That implies that religious people are somehow more caring or generous than others.

In fact religious laws and rules are no different than kid's tree house ones.

So one group of radicals whom I doubt represent more than 1 / 10th of 1 % of the world's religious folks, and all religious people are radical nuts.

However, I think that Republicans are afraid that the Tea Party would actually become more powerful than the Republican party due to all the religious zealots in America today.

Keeping in mind that believing a dead man came back to life and ascended bodily into heaven is no more plausible than anything Mormons believe, you have to wonder what Barnum would say about all religious people.

Thank goodness that the supreme court has not been influenced to the same extent or we would be living in a country that would make you toe a religious line rather than a secular one, scary.

Anyway, that father is the ambassador of the United Arab Emirates to Russia and one of his points of advice is: [we need to] «educate ourselves and work hard and engage with life's difficult questions rather than retreat into religious obscurantism.»

You atheists are no better at logic than the religious who post here.

«Religious people think Atheists are people who have been subtly convinced by the devil to believe in themselves more than believing in God...»