Sentences with phrase «controlled by the religions»

There is no country is the world's history that was controlled by religion that was a good place to live.

This is exactly what our founding fathers wanted to avoid; a populace controlled by a religion that is controlled by the state, which is what was going on in Europe at the time.

# 2 «what our founding fathers wanted to avoid; a populace controlled by a religion that is controlled by the state, which is what was going on in Europe at the time.

The Founding Fathers wanted to avoid a STATE controlled by religion.

Although this does not mean that the education system is religious, everything is governed and controlled by religion.

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This is all about control with religion and it has to stop.Gay people getting married doesn't have anything to do with straight people getting married.People are so full of hatred and disrespect it isn't funny.I'm glad this has come out now, because it really shows how evil people really are.But these people who are so into GOD, the Bible, Church, and the only way of life they live 4 god, by god are the 1s who prmote going around the world starting WARS, killing innocent women, men, children and families because Jesus guides them in everything they do.That is a crock of B.S. if I ever heard it.They will continus to use GOD and continue their EVIL ways to get whatever they want and CONTROL who ever they can.

Only thing wrong with religion is that it was created by man to control man!!!

It was only later in history, that religion was corrupted by malicious intentions of authority and control over people.

Let's stop letting the extremists control all religious discussions by claiming the whole of the religion as their own.

All religions were created by men - not women - to control the masses.They have discriminated against women from the beginning and in «the name of God» have created more wars, deaths and destruction than anything else in the world.Religions are nothing more that dictatorships in the «name of God»... pure bull!!!

At some point and time through - out history, all religions have been taken over and control by men, not God.

jesus jokes mean most people aren't afraid of god and the people who want us to be afraid of god because HE»S NOT REAL and its funny to laugh at people who think he is real... religion was invented by men in power to control the masses.

.1 where there was all different religions and governments controlled by corrupt people... or the other side where people just lived together in peace with no religions or governments directing them..

Most Christianity today is, in my opinion, not a religion that Jesus preached, but a religion made up about Jesus by various authorities, and as the cartoon points out, some still have a lot of issues with gender, sexism, sexuality, power and control.

The Truth regarding Man is, we are all individual islands controlled by our individual consciousness and no matter how much religion or education one has, it's ones day to day conscious decision to decide to do right or wrong.

It is about time women take back control over their lives instead of bowing down to religion that are ruled by men who want women to be second class citizens of the world.

Fundamentalism uses the culture, rituals, sacraments, texts, language, and metaphors and allusions and symbols (verbal, visual, musical, etc.) of religion in blind adherence to a dogma as defined and interpreted by a person or group who is self - aggregating and self - justifying raw personal power for the sole purpose of controlling the lives of others.

Granted they are being controlled via the chosen 144,000 in Brooklyn but what religion isn't being controlled by and handful of pastors?

In my opinion, and the opinion of many others, religion is nothing more than a tool, created by mankind (not suggested by god) thousands of years ago to do nothing more than control people through force and fear.

its not really atheism or religion that I have a problem with, its the hate, control, and fear that goes along with it that I have a problem with, you say that those who are spiritual are into new agey, crystal ball, stuff, see that's what I'm talking about, you assume to know what something is about when you don't understand something you naturally fear it, your self righteous clouds you, don't you get that by being narrow minded in your view towards things, you really act no better than religious fundamentalists, being spiritual is a lot more than just the new agey, think positive all the time that you think it is, its about being aware of who you are?

All these religions and the Gods associated with them were created by man to gain power and control the ignorant masses and put some order into societies which were dispersed throughout the planet.

Unfortunately, my experience with religion was that too often the congregation was controlled by fear of consequences and not the desire to do what was right and good.

The reality is that ALL organized religion was created by men to maintain power and control over the people.

Such theorists as Mary Daly appear to employ goddess imagery as a symbolizing of the Verb which is divine power within us and sustaining the universe, but increasingly, revolutionary feminism insists that religion is both an expression of the self and the means by which we control the inner self.

This simply shows that religion is created by man as a tool for control.

Repressive regimes often ally themselves with a particular religion as a means of control, and consequently encourage the punishment of those who won't abide by the tenets of said religion.

(Religions act on their principles regardless of how the opposition responds) This implies that ISIS is nothing more than a business run by egocentric tyrants that happen to identify with a particular religion... thus tainting that religion with their insecurity as they attempt to use it as a platform to try and convince their selves of control and eliminate any challenge to their personal views... All because their figurative pee pees can't handle it.

The problem with religion is that is is run by people... It is a good control for the uneducated masses to keep them in line.

II, p. 241) At the stage of development represented by such an attitude, the value of religion was measured by the control given the devotee over superhuman powers and, so far as prayer was used, its object was to persuade a god to do the bidding of a man.

That only proves religions are made up stuff by men to keep the general populace under their control or scared out of their minds.

So by stating that there must be a Christian presence in government you're kinda unconsciously outlining the mind controlling hypocrisy you're indoctrinated into, of early Byzantine cultists who subverted a good religion and plugged 2000 years of pagan rituals into a philosophy that was about love and created the most hypocritical, torturous, murderous, blasphemous, demonic and satanic era of human history, that would have made the devil himself, if he happens to be real, enthralled and delighted at the inhuman acts perpetrated by men who's skill lay only in great fornication and great defilements, that can only be possessed by those that truly revel in the pain and the blood of the innocent.

Bible condoning slavery does prove that religion was invented for control and fear by the wealthy and those in power.

a set of values, beliefs, and structure in a person's life in order to give them direction and a sense of right and wrong is fine, but organized religions are no more than large corporations, and like any large corporation are only focused on their bottom line... trying to control the public and extract as much money as they can from them by any means necessary... promoting fear, uncertainty, hate and a sense that they alone can offer salvation... for a price (although they are very cleaver about getting to this hidden and unspoken cost... after all these hundreds of years they have perfected their craft well!)

Also I'm most of the time very good at judging others to some kind of standard that I expect people to live by, meaning I want to put them into religion or at least have some kind of control over them.

Our Western culture, in fact, is primarily «left hemispheric» in its application of rational thinking to almost every facet of human existence: science, economics, politics, education, religion, law (the French word for law, droit, comes from «right hand,» the hand that rules and is controlled by the left hemisphere).

You mean being forced by her religion to cover her natural beauty, to be oppressed; to not be allowed birth control; to be forced to take part, at a very young age, in female circumcision; to risk being stoned to death for disobeying her husband; to be forced to marry a man she doesn't love.

Because every culture prior — Egyptian, Chinese, Greek, Indian — was controlled by a dominant religion that invariably described the world as a mashup of multiple deities nitpicking with each other.

Free a $ $ embly of any type is generally oppressed by dictators, which is why religion is either controlled, or suppressed in dictatorships.

By the way by no means does this mean that I am particularly against Islam, I am also against Judaism, Christianity, and any unproven dark age manifestation of a all knowing, creator, If there was a god he sure does «nt need help enforcing his edicts and morals, remember that if there is a god then as many religions state, people will be judged upon there beliefs and sins after death and spend eternity in heaven or hell, so why is it so important for people to butt in and start trying to control each other and force people to believe in something that many think is absurd and insanBy the way by no means does this mean that I am particularly against Islam, I am also against Judaism, Christianity, and any unproven dark age manifestation of a all knowing, creator, If there was a god he sure does «nt need help enforcing his edicts and morals, remember that if there is a god then as many religions state, people will be judged upon there beliefs and sins after death and spend eternity in heaven or hell, so why is it so important for people to butt in and start trying to control each other and force people to believe in something that many think is absurd and insanby no means does this mean that I am particularly against Islam, I am also against Judaism, Christianity, and any unproven dark age manifestation of a all knowing, creator, If there was a god he sure does «nt need help enforcing his edicts and morals, remember that if there is a god then as many religions state, people will be judged upon there beliefs and sins after death and spend eternity in heaven or hell, so why is it so important for people to butt in and start trying to control each other and force people to believe in something that many think is absurd and insane.

Modernity's emphasis on secularism involves three elements - a) the desacralisation of nature which produced a nature devoid of spirits preparing the way for its scientific analysis and technological control and use; b) desacralisation of society and state by liberating them from the control of established authority and laws of religion which often gave spiritual sanction to social inequality and stifled freedom of reason and conscience of persons; it was necessary to affirm freedom and equality as fundamental rights of all persons and to enable common action in politics and society by adherents of all religions and none in a religiously pluralistic society; and c) an abandonment of an eternally fixed sacred order of human society enabling ordering of secular social affairs on the basis of rational discussion.

The question is, whether in religion or in secular modernity, these perversions of the messianic spirit can be redeemed by the spirit of genuine humanism within it and / or controlled by the rule of law from outside it, without suppressing the basic spirit of democratic freedom.

It looks as if one religion is trying to claim love as its own even though loving human beings have always existed long before any of the «gods» were ever conceived by human beings and used by scamming human beings in their efforts to control others.

What Max Weber saw in the sequence of Protestant developments was a remarkably different way to «ease tension» between religion and politics: «inner - worldly asceticism can compromise with the facts of the political power structures by interpreting them as instruments for the rationalized ethica1 transformation of the world and for the control of sin.

By the way, Mohammad was nothing more than a crafty merchant who formulated a religion with the sole purpose of taking control of Mecca and the profits from the pilgrimages that went on before and after the rise of Islam.

mormons being sent out in droves to do damage control... you guys don't need to come knock on my door, I shall tell you as the day is long YOUR «RELIGION» WAS MADE UP BY A CHARISMATIC CHARLATAN 170 YEARS AGO... YOU FOLLOW NOTHING OTHER THAN THE LAW OF THIS LAND.

Organized religion was always there to «corral the cattle» and send them off in a direction where their thoughts and actions could be controlled by the leaders of the church.How is Jesus going to «mobilize the troops» when everybody is going every whichadamnway?

My concern is that religion gets overrun by fundamentalists, idiots, control freaks and abusers...

Most don't make it past that step since the idea of magic unseen powers controlling your life is so ingrained in them by religions, but it's a good first step to rationalism.

All religions in the last 2000 years, with the possible exception of buddahism, have been about control and demanding you live your life by a set of principals concocted out of thin air under the guise of getting to a better place.

Sorry... I'll just have to accept the reality that christianity was created by men to control men just like all other religions.