Sentences with phrase «believing in a religion which»

Here's a thought: rather than following a group of men who play with little boys or believing in a religion which has you eating flesh and drinking blood every sabath or believing in a divine being that calls for you to stone disobedient children, why don't you simply think for yourself.

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In regards to your comment to OneTrueKinsman, «You believe that «religion should be a private affair for the adherent, regardless of which belief system it is», right?
But until we come to the end of ourselves then we are going to do and say what we want, even as it was with me: It's one thing to be a heathen, even as I was, but a whole other ball game to set our hearts on God and His truth; yet, that can only come when we are sick and tired of being sick and tired of our own lives and we just give up, we know then who has given up by the one they advocate for, even has given place to: Paul said; with my heart I want to do what is right, but my flesh does what I hate: This is when God's grace is sufficient, because our hearts are right with God, but our flesh is not: There is a war going on within these temples, therefore; even as our flesh wins out to do what we hate, our hearts are set on God and His ways which has been established in the Word of Truth, which then causes us to stand and speak forth what we believe, even as this causes a rending to happen within us, for Christ to be formed in us this needs to be, as we come up in His glories even for a better resurrection for them who believe: The heart wars against our flesh, even as Christ wars against the man of sin within: For out of the abundance of our hearts our mouth doth speak, therefore; if we speak not the Wholesome Words of our Lord, Then our hearts are still wicked: But to advocate for wickedness instead of Christ, one has become a teacher of lawlessness, he then advocates for the man of sin: Many who have come out of religion has done this, as they went from one mountain top «from the extreme right» of self exaltation (Religion) to the other mountain top «to the extreme left» of the (Heathen) and missed the valley in - between that is takes to humble us: One extreme to the other, and missed Jesus: Jesus is taking ones through the valley's to strip us down of all who we are before exalting us to be just as He, even as the Christ in us overcomes that man of sin (Adam) through theses valleys of contrast that cause a rending to happen within; and when we are rent in two, we stand on His word of truth, so we too can become one with Him, even as Jesus is with our Father: This is how Christ is formed in us: Thank - you Father; in Jesus Name Alexandria
If you believe in religion you don't believe in scientific theory, which includes research.
But whatever concerns are mentioned, this much is certain: The organized Jewish community will present a long wish list to the chief cleric of a religion in which it does not believe.
Since that argument could be applied to any religion, I must ask you: which religion should I believe in?
They can claim all they want that they made in their purpose in life and don't need religion, but they have deluded themselves, because they believe we just die off (which by they way, they can't prove LOL!)
Which religion you are is based almost entirely on where you were born, If you were born in the west, you were indoctrinated practically from birth to believe in Christianity, so that's what you believe.
martinpaul i tend to think that religion only understands the human condition in terms of which god you believe in.
Michael «As a gay man I appreciate there efforts and support, but I think putting up this sign isn't really the best way to get through to people, all it does is create more hate, intolerance, and separation, I am not a christian but I am very spiritual, and putting up this sign implies that all gay people are atheists which is the furthest thing from the truth, I have no problem with religion, I have a problem with those who use there religions to control and hate others, same applies with atheism, if you don't want to believe in anything than fine, just don't push your non beliefs on me.»
i believe that religion should bring out the best in a person, which is why i left.
«Lincoln was reticent to discuss religion, particularly after his election, which has fueled the ongoing debate about whether he believed in God or if he was Christian in the way we would explain it today,» said Nathan Raab of the Raab Collection.
As a gay man I appreciate there efforts and support, but I think putting up this sign isn't really the best way to get through to people, all it does is create more hate, intolerance, and separation, I am not a christian but I am very spiritual, and putting up this sign implies that all gay people are atheists which is the furthest thing from the truth, I have no problem with religion, I have a problem with those who use there religions to control and hate others, same applies with atheism, if you don't want to believe in anything than fine, just don't push your non beliefs on me.
Truth is many evangelical preachers are involved in priestcraft which actually turns people so off of organized religion that they stop going to church and then stop believing in a higher power.
I feel really sorry for the lady, I deeply and truly respect her faith in her religion, however at the same time I reject any religion or practice which prohibits a woman to look beautiful... God made woman beautiful and they have all the rights to look beautiful... I believe she is cutting her nails for the same reason she has all the rights to get her facial hairs remove... but I know she wont do that..
You may one day be surprised to learn that there is a universe of things to believe in and discuss — none of which have anything to do with religion or god.
Yes Vance, hard to characterize atheist, so many of my nephews / neices, and those folks I've met from communist East Europe are angry with the Power in which they do not believe, hostile to organized religion.
a: allegiance to duty or a person: loyalty b (1): fidelity to one's promises (2): sincerity of intentions 2a (1): belief and trust in and loyalty to God (2): belief in the traditional doctrines of a religion b (1): firm belief in something for which there is no proof (2): complete trust 3: something that is believed especially with strong conviction; especially: a system of religious beliefs
Yes, most do believe in a god of some form but that does not mean they are religious, just delusional, which also does not mean they are insane or killers... those are the extremest but not isolated to any one god or religion.
I'm not defending their current policies which need more transparancy and alterations to allow anyone to believe in any religion they want, but this article masks real religious injustice of the discrimination against Tibetians and their religious practices by making it a «Christian» persecution thing.
If I, as an atheist, suddenly realized I actually believed in God, I would need to spend a lot of time discovering which religion was best.
About religion... is there Allah or is there is GOD, which one, Religion is nothing more then a believe in a higher spirit, a spirit is nothing more then a believe that it exist.
Conceding to believers that they can redefine the term «religion» to encompass «atheism», or whatever other ideas they wish to encompass within the word, if that suits their purposes in trying to put anyone who doesn't believe in their god or any god into the same category as themselves, grants to them the opportunity to dismiss anyone who doesn't believe in their god as holding a religious belief no more valid then their own and to classify you as just another follower of a «false religion» unlike their own, which is the «true» religion.
I don't believe in the bureaucracy between man and God which is religion.
ops sorry i meant Amniculi... blah blah blah about Poe's Law,, its hypocrisy!!!!!! talk trash about Christianity should be able to do the same about Islam, not encourging it just saying do nt be scare!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! do it will its not a felony yet, cause soon you wont be able too... Let me be clear, I meant express your opinions, comments about any religion as you do about Christianity, plus Im not religious, i just believe in jesus christ son of god and the word of the bible which is difference religion is made by people...
Disclaimer: my specific god, to my specific religion, and my specific denomination, and not any other god in any other religion or any other denomination which believes in a god which created the universe.
HOWEVER, when you sit there and complain about people trying to make you believe in God, and throwing religion in your face, which you should rightly complain about no one should try and make you believe anything, you lose all credibility when you try and do the same and force your believe on other people.
The fact that these principles have such great similarity to principles of obligation found in other religions and philosophies has led many theologians to believe that what is unique about Christian principles of obligation is not so much their context as the particular view of the world that follows from the metaphors and stories which surround them and which are found in the Christian drama.
However, we certainly do not believe in the hundreds of god's that currently exist, the tooth fairy, santa clause, nor the fable of the Creation of the Earth some 6000 years ago or less depending on which religion one follows.
It isn't a matter of which religion is better, or whether you believe in religion at all.
These previous points once again are believed by many religions, but there are also many religions that don't make this clear distinction as with some forms of Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism and others which believe in the transmigration of the soul through reincarnation from humans to animals and vice versa.
Please notice the kind of God I am talking about here is not some force in the universe as is believed in many of the eastern religions, but rather a God that is a person, and this person is different from that which he created.
with all and full respect; You know that your used name is dear to my heart, for having been a believer in God the Creator of the whole Universe he has all the beautiful names that we know or do not know, I believe that God starched his hand to mankind in love, sending among them his prophets and messengers to warn and guide to righteous, am not told to force belief or religion upon people of any faith or of non faith, am a mere reminder and Warner to my self and whom my want to know and judge their senses life is a spiritual challenge, life is a maze and only if make use of the heavenly codes that could be found in All Scriptures of God that was relaid upon mankind from prophets & messengers from Adam to Noah to Abrahim to Musa to Issa to Muhammed which many obviously seem to Ignore!!
Which I suspect means that not only is religion is too incredible to truly believe in this day and age, but that it's leaders also don't actually believe either.
All came right down the Silk Road, to the keepers of the bible, who realized that the philosophies that were coming to them were eroding their control, so they elevated this Jesus character to a man - god (since we have to keep people believing in OUR god), make up a bunch of stories, where Jesus says these things, which will make it more pallatable when we propogate it to the people, and voila... the new testament... a repackaged ready for propogandizing, religion... based on previous cultiures stories, and intermixed with eastern philosophy.
Religions are cults that believe in things for which there is no evidence.
A small amount of logic and common sense proves athiest belief to be nothing more than a belief which is a religion that does not believe in a god, nothing more, nothing less.
As we shall see, the values, assumptions, and worldview of television «s «religion» are in almost every way diametrically opposed to the values, assumptions, and worldview of the historic Judeo - Christian tradition in which the vast majority of Americans profess to believe.
Christians must not claim that Christian revelation makes Christianity superior to other religions, she believes: «What Christianity has going for it is its substantive proposal of a way of life — a way of life over which Christians argue in the effort to witness to and be disciples of Christ, and with which they enter into argument with others.»
I believe people in the US are confusing the violence that is epidemic in certain middle - eastern cultures as being a part of the Islamic religion which is think is an error.
Many of the world's religions are polytheistic (Mormonism is a form of polytheism called «henotheism», which means that while it believes in multiple Gods, only one should be worshiped).
People refusing medical treatment because they think they can pray disease away, The demoralizing way religion makes you feel about yourself (I am a wretch, a sinner, a bad person by nature), the religious wars that have been fought for millenia, the self righteous passing laws based on THEIR beliefs (change to the pledge of allegience which now excludes anyone who does not believe in a fairy godfather, the change to the national motto that turned it into the lie «in god we trust», the bigotry that «my religion is the right one and you are wrong so I'll pray for you» kind of crap... don't you realize that it is insulting to me when someone says they will pray for me... its the same as saying I'm going to do something for you but there won't be any effect, so it is just a waste of time.
but i started to chnage my life and search for forginess, and search for Jesus... i really want Jesus in my heart... i know im a lost ship and a torned cloth which if even fix but scars will be there still... But i strongly belief there is place for me in Heaven if i really repent and search for Christ... so i used to pray but my believe is 50 - 50 as im still non religion, but my gf plays a role she always tries to make me understand and proves me that God is alive and mercifull..
But one of the problems, I believe, is the fact that when extremists in any religion do things that are appalling, which happens all the time; others in that same faith parrot the claim that «TRUE» members of the faith would never have done such things, so they can not really be... whatever religion was claimed by the criminals.
The main tenet of religion and belief in god is faith, which is nothing more than believing in something because you «want» it to be true.
no no no, i first engage them in a conversation... normally ending badly due to them not liking my choice of argument or tools i use in a conversation over belief... so in short i am norally the one insulted and left to think... which i believe is the same way children act when they hear the word «NO»... but i have had some great conversations with people over religion, its just a rare thing.
Kaplan believes that different religions result from the fact that each civilization sees in the important elements of its life media through which its people may achieve self - fulfillment or salvation.
I.E. the big bang theory which would require belief in the fact that some kinds of Matter ALWAYS existed and that at some point it all exploded and created a universe, a belief i might add, that in my view takes more faith to believe in than most modern religions.
Christianity, and in fact any religion that believes in a personal god / creator, has two fundamental flaws that have absolutely nothing to do with science and everything to do with logic, which incidentally forms the foundation for the only universal / objective truths of reality (putting aside the Cartesian dualism problem).
In the current era of privatized religion, this mode of interpretation has led to believing that the Song is basically about the way in which Jesus loves me as an individual, even to the point of overlooking my faults in order to praise my inner and outer beautIn the current era of privatized religion, this mode of interpretation has led to believing that the Song is basically about the way in which Jesus loves me as an individual, even to the point of overlooking my faults in order to praise my inner and outer beautin which Jesus loves me as an individual, even to the point of overlooking my faults in order to praise my inner and outer beautin order to praise my inner and outer beauty.
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