Sentences with phrase «do with religious people»

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A person's military affiliation has nothing to do with their political, religious, or societal views.

Even if one's religion requires prayer at rigidly specific intervals or times or with items that not everyone may be familiar with, where do those religious procedures say that the praying persons aren't allowed to let the people around them know what it is that they are doing?

First, people often kill other human beings because they believe that the creator of the universe wants them to do it... Second, far greater numbers of people fall into conflict with one another because they define their moral com.munity on the basis of their religious affiliation...»

If religious people don't have their totally invented delusional fantasies like «The Invisible Man In The Sky» and «Atheists Are Angry», then they would have to deal with the real world as it actually is.

They would be on much better intellectual and moral ground if they just allowed for the fact that yes, the religious Jews had Jesus killed so that they could protect their authority, but that as much to do with modern Jewish people as the Romans killing the Maccabees has to do with modern Italians — it's utterly irrelevant.

But believe anything that can give u with full eveidence ex: science with evidences All religious books are just a «bully» only to common people to believe for not doing any bad things & live as a human only (not as animals).

How do you argue with people who are so insane that they think your very existence somehow infringes on «their religious freedom»?

But the claim with which Keister begins her study» that a person's religious beliefs will exert some influence on whether he will pursue material wealth and how he will go about doing so» seems eminently reasonable.

Funny, you don't seem to have a problem with all of the religious people doing the very same thing all over this country.

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.

This very big book is an excellent guide to pertinent laws and regulations, prepared by people associated with the Rutherford Institute, which does important work in defending religious freedom.

It has nothing really to do with religious faith - it has to do with people's ability, in their final hours or days, to see love as way to understand their life and their relationships and find some comfort in that understanding.

I don't know all that much about God, but I know this is the root of the problem with religious people.

Live and let die, live and let live, religious people do neither as we can see with our own eyes every day.

So many religious well intended people want to impress God and religion upon others with various beliefs and arguments that include you will, «burn in hell if you don't» or other not so harsh or threatening consequences.

My great question of the day is why does the God of the religious right and his followers seem ubiquitously obsessed with other people's sex lives?

I do not see any of the religious folks with much in the way of good things to say about gay people.

You don't think that people can be brainwashed into a belief system with the more subtle indoctrination techniques used by religious organizations and have it stick?

I know that I see elements of divine around me in things and in ways that others don't, including other religious people... And as long as different religions and even sects constantly argue about what god truly is, and as long as they come up with different asnwers, then I have to say that the spiritual elements of our universe simply manifest differently for different folks, including not at all for some... as with those who label themselves as athiest...

It's to the point with some Christian posters here that any criticism of their actions and religious beliefs garners the immediate judgment that the person doing so is being hateful when, in reality, they are only fulfilling that very same Bible observation made by Jesus.

By the way, the Secular West gave you that computer you are typing on: if it had been up to people in Asia, you would still be doing foot - binding, adding with an abacus, all with at least as much cultural and religious arrogance as in the West.

Buhhda, I will STFU when people stop coming to my door with their religious BS and refuse to leave, Ivan, Where do you get your data?

Confession time here: although I don't usually end up at places such as drunken parties, stripper bars and porn shops while hanging out with friends, since those activities and places hold little appeal for me, I know I need to stay away from certain «religious» people, those who seem to love only themselves and who seem hell - bent on being nasty to people they describe as «sinners», supposedly in the name of truth - telling.

And especially after the Noachian Flood, did false religion take a leap, with false religious doctrines and practices such as the trinity, immortality of the soul, that God torments people in a «hellfire», the establishment of a clergy class, the teaching of «personal salvation» as more important than the sanctification of God's name of Jehovah (Matt 6:9), the sitting in a church while a religious leader preaches a sermon, but the «flock» is not required to do anything more, except put money when the basket is passed.

So how, in a society like the United States where the right of an individual to worship or not worship the God they choose is a fundamental and constitutional right, does a religious person reconcile the sense of preeminence with a pluralistic culture?

Religious people rejoice in these stats, as it shows that only 3 - 5 % of people may if they do nt change not get the experience of paradise with God.

You'll quickly discover that, some people's opinion, he doesn't have a «relationship» with God because he doesn't possess the correct «religious» understanding.

Actually, many people seem to think that a lot of people who attend church do not follow Jesus, but merely attend church for their own reasons, such as needing some sort of religious system to identify with.

Once upon a time people were happy enough with their religious faith and did not have to boast about proof....

In interviews with CNN, religious leaders from Newtown, the site of last year's school shooting where 20 children and six adults were killed, said that a recent gun control agreement does not do enough to fight gun violence, leading one rabbi to doubt whether Congress was actually working for the American people.

They think they are following God, but in reality, they are under the influence of religious rules, regulations, and requirements that have less to do with God than with some person's attempt to gain cash, credit, or control for themselves.

It wasn't the summer that brought an end to my doubt, but it was the summer I encountered a different Jesus, a Jesus who requires more from me than intellectual assent and emotional allegiance; a Jesus who associated with sinners and infuriated the religious; a Jesus who broke the rules and refused to cast the first stone; a Jesus who gravitated toward sick people and crazy people, homeless people and hopeless people; a Jesus who preferred story to exposition and metaphor to syllogism; a Jesus who answered questions with more questions, and demands for proof with demands for faith... a Jesus who healed each person differently and saved each person differently; a Jesus who had no list of beliefs to check off, no doctrinal statements to sign, no surefire way to tell who was «in» and who was «out»; a Jesus who loved after being betrayed, healed after being hurt, and forgave while being nailed to a tree; a Jesus who asked his disciples to do the same...

To paraphrase Jesus» comment, people who are concerned only with the affairs of this world often show more ingenuity in seeking their ends than religious people do in trying to accomplish God's will.

I have actually been banned from a few «religion is always bad» atheist blogs as I try to show them that most people's religions have very little to do with right belief — even though their religious professionals may wish otherwise.

And just what kind of buffoon do you think would believe in something with can not be proven??? Oh right, religious people, sorry I forgot about them.

Only a religious person could think that gay people fighting for marriage rights has anything to do with religion.

Why don't believers respect that it is a government business meeting, and not waste the peoples time with a religious display.

Or could these be informed people who actually see what Obama is trying to do to this country what with SOPA and his wanting to enforce martial law in America... Surely it isn't just religious people who see this... In fact, if you read news outside of CNN and Fox, you see just how bad Obama really is

In other words, they intended the U.S. to be a safe haven for people to practice their faith or lack thereof without government interference — as long as the religious didn't interfere with the secular.

- LIE Atheists do not really exist, they just pretend that they don't believe in God and argue with religious people.

† Atheists do not really exist, they just pretend that they don't believe in God and argue with religious people.

Yet the draft describes wide - ranging protections, saying, «Persons and organizations do not forfeit their religious freedom when providing social services, education, or healthcare; earning a living, seeking a job, or employing others; receiving government grants or contracts; or otherwise participating in the marketplace, the public square, or interfacing with federal, state, or local governments.»

I certainly have not done any sort of scientific research into this segment of the population, but I work in an environment where I get to interact with a lot of religious and non-religious people, and I have had countless conversations with people who probably count as one of the 35 million people who used to attend church and identify as Christian, but no longer do.

Our churches, whose steeples dot every cityscape and small town in the land, are exempt from paying taxes, and unlike many people of other faiths, we don't have to worry about fighting with our employers to take time off to celebrate our religious holidays as they are largely taken for granted.

I don't have a problem with the general idea that there is much we don't know about the universe and reality, the problem is when people... «spiritual» or «religious»....

You ignorant person, don't you know the bible and other religious works are written by men from a long time ago who hated women except to procreate with them and have them serve them as their slaves?

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.

The fact that many people are surprised by this now probably has a lot to do with their lack of religious education or curiousity.

I don't care if people agree with my religious beliefs, what I do care about is that they know I don't sacrifice babies or engage in homilies to Satan during ritual.

So why do people with religious experiences assert that their feelings of God's presence are valid and believable, but when another person who has never experienced God admits this, they are told that they...