Sentences with phrase «faith than any religious person»

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Reasoning with people of faith is more tricky than the happiness one finds by abandoning their own faith in religious delusion.

People born into any given religious faith — Christian, Muslim, Hindu, etc, etc, etc — have probably actually contributed to the scientific research and understanding than you that led to that science journal you copied and pasted from.

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...

That is an ancient doctrine of the faith, but too often today people shy away from it and try to mitigate the revealed truth that a religious vocation is more perfect than any secular life can be.

And that means you are someone who is easily swayed to believe something... way more than any other religious person who at least require a basis for their faith.

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.

i know that faith is strong in most religious people, but i have been told that i am more christ like than many christians, and i am an Atheist!

Science has shown atheists have a higher intelligence than people with a strong religious faith.

Also, atheism does use faith, you have faith that there is no god (s), you can't prove your point more than religious people can prove theirs, so there is no facts, no proof either way.

People can be disposedto believe things on the ground that they are things which Christ said or which the Church teaches, and this could be called faith in Christ or faith in the Church; but religious faith seems to be something more than this and prior to it; it is through having it that we are disposed to believe Christ and the Church.

I'm by no means a religious person, but if he has the balls to display his faith like he does in front of millions of viewers and never says a single negative thing about any of the horrible things that people say about him or his faith, then he is more of a man than anyone who mocks him or what he believes in.

I would never give money to a religious organization that doesn't pay taxes — that is like giving money to my kids — and they need it more than the church... I think faith is a wonderful thing for a lot of people — including myself (I have faith in myself)-- I just wish others would keep their «faith» personal, and out of politics and government.

The reality of divine revelation is a truth closer to the center of the faith than is the truth that religious freedom is a right of persons that should be recognized in law; but both are true.

Religious liberty is about more than just the protection for «religious organizations and persons... as they seek to teach the principles that are so fulfilling and so central to their lives and faithReligious liberty is about more than just the protection for «religious organizations and persons... as they seek to teach the principles that are so fulfilling and so central to their lives and faithreligious organizations and persons... as they seek to teach the principles that are so fulfilling and so central to their lives and faiths.»

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

When a person begins to make accommodations in their religious world view for salvation by means other than Jesus and the teachings of the Bible, they have effectively denied one of the primary tenets of their faith.

It is high time that people of all faiths should come clean and explicitly support peaceful co-existence with people of different faiths and get away from archaic, tunnel - visioned view that people of different religious orientation than theirs are to be considered their «enemies».

Design - debunkers such as Dawkins will point out that religious people draw the line there for reasons of «irrational» faith rather than science.

Colson e-mailed more than 500,000 people of faith Thursday afternoon and called the contraception policy «the greatest threat to religious liberty in the history of this country.»

It is significant that the terms of the debate about faith in the world are deemed to have been set by people like Richards Dawkins, just as it is significant that the debate is seen as a «political and secular», rather than a religious, one.

«Jews, Christians, and Muslims in the world pray to the same God...» Yes, this is true if you look at the holy writings and traditions of these faiths — but in 2010 it's «My God can beat up your god» Catholics, Baptists, Hasidim Jews, Reform Jews, Sunni and Shia Muslims all have their own «personal» gods now — I know there have always been religious splits, but in our Instant Communication world it's easier than ever to divide people by stirring up emotions.

When persons watching television are motivated to change their attitude toward religious faith, even to make a religious commitment of some sort, most frequently they integrate that decision within their existing environment rather than changing their environment.

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.

I often feel more spiritually «connected» to people of faith in other Religious Traditions than I do to those whose Christian dogmatic beliefs that I share.

A person who's a conservative / Republican politically and atheist faith wise, typically self - identifies far more as the former than the latter, and as such would be less inclined to discuss their religious views in the first place in public (even witout concern of their political ambitions).

He further has said that science and faith pose no conflict for most religious people, including more than 12,000 Christian leaders who have signed the Clergy Letter Project in support of teaching evolution.

It can include «an almost religious faith» in hard work and the American dream; yet he describes his town as one «where 30 percent of the young men work less than twenty hours a week, and not a single person [is] aware of his own laziness.»

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.

28 April, 2018, Unceded Coast Salish Territories (Burnaby, BC)-- Religious leaders and more than 100 members of diverse faith communities joined the protest against the expansion of the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain Pipeline in Burnaby on Saturday, joining more than 200 people who have been arrested blocking Kinder Morgan's Burnaby tank farm gates since March 10th.