Sentences with phrase «evidence as any other religion»

When one religion is backed up with as much evidence as any other religion (i.e. none), you can not simply «use your brain'to decide.

Not exact matches

If you think that your personal experiences and emotions consti - tute evidence, then by that same logic, every other god and religion is equally as valid, and their followers say and feel just as you do.

«Well aware that the opinions and belief of men depend not on their own will, but follow involuntarily the evidence proposed to their minds; that Almighty God hath created the mind free, and manifested his supreme will that free it shall remain by making it altogether insusceptible of restraint; that all attempts to influence it by temporal punishments, or burthens, or by civil incapacitations, tend only to beget habits of hypocrisy and meanness, and are a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion, who being lord both of body and mind, yet chose not to propagate it by coercions on either, as was in his Almighty power to do, but to extend it by its influence on reason alone; that the impious presumption of legislators and rulers, civil as well as ecclesiastical, who, being themselves but fallible and uninspired men, have assumed dominion over the faith of others, setting up their own opinions and modes of thinking as the only true and infallible, and as such endeavoring to impose them on others, hath established and maintained false religions over the greatest part of the world and through all time.»

And as you've obviously researched all religions to select the one you did, show us the evidence against the other gods and why you made your choice.

In the meantime, I offer you (and all other worshippers of the natural creation that evidences a Creator whom you have, for all intents and purposes, crucified) the opportunity in print to, as Jesus said, «repent or perish», and to change the direction of your «faith» from trusting in God - hating man (ultimately yourself) and trust in Jesus not religion.

Still more evidence that christianity is as bad as the other religions it complains about - chauvanistic, bigoted, and backwards.

The Bible differs from other ancient religions of the East in holding that the Creator is immeasurably more than His creation; that He is personal but can not be limited; that He is supremely intelligent, as evidenced by the intelligibility of the universe; and, above all, that He is good.

As evidence for their position they note the way in which religion is losing its functions to other institutions.

Just as much «evidence» exists about the Egyptioan gods, Buddha, and hundreds of other religions.

Here we have a phenomenon not without parallel in the history of other religions, as Lohmeyer notes — for example in Islam and in Mormonism — namely a shift from a first center to a second within the first generation of believers; and it is all the more striking that the evidence is preserved in Acts, whose whole interest and orientation centers in Jerusalem, not in Galilee, and whose earliest traditions are almost exclusively those of the capital city.

I am (a) A victim of child molestation (b) A r.ape victim trying to recover (c) A mental patient with paranoid delusions (d) A Christian The only discipline known to often cause people to kill others they have never met and / or to commit suicide in its furtherance is: (a) Architecture; (b) Philosophy; (c) Archeology; or (d) Religion What is it that most differentiates science and all other intellectual disciplines from religion: (a) Religion tells people not only what they should believe, but what they are morally obliged to believe on pain of divine retribution, whereas science, economics, medicine etc. has no «sacred cows» in terms of doctrine and go where the evidence leads them; (b) Religion can make a statement, such as «there is a composite god comprised of God the Father, Jesus and the Holy Spirit», and be totally immune from experimentation and challenge, whereas science can only make factual assertions when supported by considerable evidence; (c) Science and the scientific method is universal and consistent all over the World whereas religion is regional and a person's religious conviction, no matter how deeply held, is clearly nothing more than an accident of birth; or (d) All of the above.

why don't you start with why humans invented religion in the first place, the origins of the books of the bible, the multiple «christ» (copied) stories throughout the history of time, fossil evidence of evolution of man and all species, all the discrepancies in the bible, knowledge of all the gods that humans have believed in through recorded history, the political uses of christianity in the time of it's origin, the fact that every other religion has followers who believe just as strongly in their own god / book, that fact that if you had been born in another part of the world you would be a different religion and going to «hell», and that a good, kind, omniscient god wouldn't allow all the suffering and evil to happen, and wouldn't need «help» as christians like to tout... and then we'll get to all these ridiculous fools.

Jesus and the message of the gospel were not against other religions, but against false religion as evidenced by insincerity and hypocrisy in relation to one's God and one's neighbour.

The project regularly gives evidence to the hypothesis that peace education should start as early as possible, before prejudice, ignorance and agression against other cultures, religions and nations develop.

As you know, there's a trial now going on, on the other side of the big mountains far to the west of us, where a judge is deciding the constitutionality of Canada's anti-polygamy laws and has heard evidence that from members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints» belief that polygamy is required by their religions tenets.