Sentences with phrase «better than any religious person»

Jake, how can you think you are a million times better than any religious person on the planet?

Yes, my life is a million times better than any religious person.

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As social scientist Arthur Brooks has documented, religious people give far more to all manner of do - gooding than do secular people.

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

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

Some athiests are just as bad as the fundimentalists... because they «know» I being and agnostic, however, take issue with anyone who says that people who are not religious do not think... in fact, it has been found that statistically, athiests and agnostics know the bible better than christians.

So, if you have actually read a bible and have a better argument for me than «I want proof» (because there is none, it's a religious BELIEF) or that Christians judge people or hate people (because as a TRUE Christian you must not judge & you must love thy neighbor) then I'm all for it!

we are animals... some people are stupid and pray to imaginary beings... there is no natural code of conduct requiring us to think you are somehow better than just another moron... you want respect, EARN it... one way to do that is to keep your religious beliefs to yourself instead of inflicting that crap on everyone around you...

All you people with religious beliefs had better sit down and consider how the real world works and how your belief system fits in, rather than the other way around, like you've been doing.

who are they going to talk to other religious people about and tell each other that they are better than THOSE people?

This in your face I'm better than you because I'm a Christian who uses the term The Lord Jesus Christ blah blah blah and so on are killing our faith in a world where people are more laid back and want nothing to do with some snake oil religious sales person.

When White House press secretary Jody Powell was asked how well the media handled the religious dimension of Jimmy Carter, he replied: «The American people, as a whole, are probably better equipped to understand that aspect of Jimmy Carter's life than are the people who are trying to explain it to them.

They call them peddlers of religion, and they do not mean that in a positive way, but rather are referring to people they believe are trying to push their own agenda of a psuedo - religious toxic mix of some sort of religious something, politics, power, control, personal profit (think $ $ $) and efforts to feel good about ones self while at the same time looking down on neighbors (condescension) rather than loving neighbors.

Religious people tend to lie more than non-religious people do... and not just about their religion, they bring it into their work lives as well.

Okay, does anyone need links to the research that proves non-religious people are smarter and better educated than religious people, or is this story enough?

Unfortunately the whole article does not describe people who are actually spiritual anymore than those that decry religion are talking about good religious followers.

That said, I think it would be better to say «I hate what religion does to people» rather than «I hate religious people».

If the point of religion is to bring peace and guide a culture toward certain specific behaviors, primarily for order and the preservation of the good qualities of society, then how can one say that one religion is better than another or that a «religion-less» person who STILL acts the SAME way (i.e. does right unto their neighbors, lives according to the thing the bible suggests) but is more tolerant is not as high quality a citizen as another who is associated with a Major League Religious Team?

A good argument can be made, in fact, that the person who is solidly grounded in a religious identity is more free to be tolerant than another for whom differing beliefs are a threat.

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.

RD.. How path - et - ic to see your hate and fear driving you to death...!?! Man pull your self together and have the courage to face the returns of your deeds... Wars were always there in life whether were religious or not so stop doing it on your self... Beside learn to wish people well whether you agree or disagree with might you succeed in life rather than being a loser... by being a cowered... My posts were meant for the friendly people I had known for some time, whom I found they were full of compassion and not for black hearted one's like you who hate all God creations...

-- religious books try to make people look better than they really are — koran, and all the other texts, that's what they do.

You sound like a good person to me just as you are and more moral than many religious people.

It is also the well - established case that natural scientists and people working at the edge of technological advances tend to be more religious than those in the humanities and social sciences.

I think that a good person who lives an ethical life and is a credit to society but is not religious will get more in the world to come than a religious person who is unethical and does bad things.

I used to be religious, and I am a better person now than I was before letting go of religion.

Because if grace is water, then the church should be an ocean It's not a museum for good people, it's a hospital for the broken Which means I don't have to hide my failure, I don't have to hide my sin Because it doesn't depend on me it depends on him See because when I was God's enemy and certainly not a fan He looked down and said I want, that, man Which is why Jesus hated religion, and for it he called them fools Don't you see so much better than just following some rules Now let me clarify, I love the church, I love the Bible, and yes I believe in sin But if Jesus came to your church would they actually let him in See remember he was called a glutton, and a drunkard by religious men But the Son of God never supports self righteousness not now, not then

In a recent interview with the Washington Post (part of their ominously titled «Voices of Power» series), Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius discussed Archbishop Joseph Naumann's request that she not present herself for communion because of her public support for legalised abortion: «Well, it was one of the most painful things I have ever experienced in my life, and I am a firm believer in the separation of church and state, and I feel that my actions as a parishioner are different than my actions as a public official and that the people who elected me in Kansas had a right to expect me to uphold their rights and their beliefs even if they did not have the same religious beliefs that I had.

After all, Wesley notes, Genesis 2:18 says it is not good for man to be alone, the apostle Paul writes that it is better to be married than to burn with passion, and Jesus warned against religious leaders tying up «heavy burdens, hard to bear,» and laying them on people's shoulders (Matthew 11:30).

Gil you have asked some very good questions why does bad things happen in the world i personally do nt know God did nt explain to Job either why he had to suffer.What i do know is that God desires that none of us should perish but that all would have eternal life in him through Jesus Christ.This world will one day pass away and the real world will be reborn so our focus as christians is on whats to come and being a witness in the here and now.Both good and bad happens to either the righteous or the sinner so what are we to make of that.What we do know is that God will set all things right at the appointed time the wicked will be judged and the righteous will be rewarded for there faith isnt that enough reason for us to believe.Free will is only a reality if we can choose between good and bad but our hearts are deceitfully wicked we naturally are inclined toward sin that is another reason whyt we need to be saved from ourselves so what are we to do.For me Christ died and rose again that is a fact witnessed by over 500 people that were alive at the time and was recorded by historians how many other religious leaders do you know that did that or did the miracles that Jesus did.As far as the bible is concerned much of the archelogical evidence has proven to be correct and many of prophetic words spoken many hundreds of years ago have come to pass including both the birth and the death of Jesus.Interested in what philosophy you are believing in if other than a faith in Jesus Christ so how does that philosophy give you the assurance that you are saved.Its really simple with christianity we just have to believe in Jesus Christ.brentnz

I can also better understand that in times of uncertainty It may be easier for people to trust a learned religious leader than a democratically elected elite put in place by dubiously motivated political constituencies.

After meeting with Muslim scholars the author has a better understanding that in times of uncertainty it may be easier for people to trust a learned religious leader than a democratically elected elite put in place by dubiously motivated political constituencies.

I do agree that religious belief is doing more harm than good to humanity in todays world, I am not sure that enough people have the intellectual ability to embrace the fact that their belief system is not based in reality.

So a nice religious person is actually more at risk to commit violence in the name of «good» religion than a non-believing nice person.

I think you have two fundamental misconceptions in your comment: (1) That Christianity is more threatened than the minority of other religions and non-religious people out there, (2) That only religious people can hope for a better future.

However as a human being I would relate much better with a religious person who has an open mind than with an atheist who only wants to argue why there right.

Atheists are probably better aware of that than most «religious» people.

It was present in the Old Testament period before Jesus made it his central message; it is present in the worship and moral endeavors of those of faiths other than Christianity; in acts and attitudes of compassion and a determined effort to bring about a better world, it may be present in persons of no acknowledged religious faith.

Some other news about young people: 57 percent said that the primary reason they helped others was that it «makes them feel good personally»; 19 percent would not fight for their country under any circumstances, 24 percent were uncertain and 60 percent would not be willing to volunteer one year to serve their country; 17 percent could think of no famous person or celebrity they admired (only 1 percent admired Mother Teresa, and Donald Trump received a similar vote — indicating that religious and business leaders are among the least admired adults); 65 percent would cheat on a major exam in school, while 36 percent would lie to protect a friend who vandalized; 53 percent claimed that growing up for them is harder than it was for their parents (minority young people were more likely to say it was easier).

It is a well known fact that atheists are more likely to help people in need than religious folks.

Still love the video of his brother at his memorial going off on all the religious people that came there to look good by invoking their own beliefs rather than showing respect for the beliefs of the deceased!

So those who are posting and saying they belong to Christian organizations and volunteer to help others REALLY are better people than all the smugly «reasonable» posters whose venomous diatribes against having any religious belief make them sound like a logically mirrored reflection of a religious extremist.

If there is a proper application of this text today, it would be better to direct it to the religious leaders in our churches, rather than to the people in the pews.

Do you really believe that USA, a country that offers FREEDOM of pretty much everything to its people is no better than a dictatorship (Saudi Arabia) or a country run by religious fanatics (Iran)?

Unfortunately, Darren Sherkat, a sociologist at Southern Illinois University, found that marriages between people of the same religious beliefs tended to have a better chance of lasting than interfaith marriages.

In fact, studies show that most religious people have better and more fulfilling relationships than their non-religious partners.

Psychological research has found that religious people feel great about themselves, with a tendency toward higher social self - esteem and better psychological adjustment than non-believers.

In that sense, religious people can have a better chance at sniffing out bad science, than do supposedly rational scientism people, who have an unshakable faith in science saving the planet.

Interestingly, those «crazy» religious people know human embryology better than most physicians I know.