Sentences with phrase «faith than other religions»
John: Christians seem to be more persecuted for their faith than other religions.
https://www.premierchristianity.com/ Not exact matches
many times i find myself having more in common with atheists and agnostics and those of other religions than i do with the more conservative brethren in my own faith.
The treatment of other religions by Islam must be judged by a simple test: How did the Muslim rulers behave for more than a thousand years, when they had the power to «spread the faith by the sword»?
Professionals or secularists within the UK or Western world will accept these religious tenets more sympathetically if they came from a faith they recognise, or indeed may once have been part of, more so than other newer religions.
Guiding Principles Religious and theological studies depend on and reinforce each other; A principled approach to religious values and faith demands the intellectual rigor and openness of quality academic work; A well - educated student of religion must have a deep and broad understanding of more than a single religious tradition; Studying religion requires that one understand one's own historical context as well as that of those whom one studies; An exemplary scholarly and teaching community requires respect for and critical engagement with difference and diversity of all kinds.
And again, we don't have to push our own faiths on each other to make it seem like my religion is better than your religion...
Your religion takes more faith than any other I know and I am not capable of that much faith.
And that is a purely faith based ideology, no more or less so than Christianity or any other of the world's religions.
Unless we learn to challenge our own beliefs the way we challenge others», whatever they may be can be no more than a blind faith at best or a delusion at worst, be that for or against religion (especially the puerile version of Christianity).
«First we affirm that we desire to follow Scripture alone as a rule of faith and religion, without mixing it with any other things which might be devised by the opinion of men apart from the Word of God, and without wishing to accept for our spiritual government any other doctrine than what is conveyed to us by the same Word without addition to diminution, according to the command of our Lord.»
18th April The Corriere della Sera assistant editor Magdi Allam, whose controversial Easter Vigil baptism by the Pope we reported upon in the May edition of this column, has stated that «the person who influenced me more than any other in determining my conversion to Catholicism was certainly the Pope, Benedict XVI, in indicating that the indissoluble union of faith and reason is fundamental to authentic religion.»
This does not make them more intelligent than others, it just means they think differently on the topic of spiritual faith and religion.
To James: «In truth, as far as I've been able to tell, religion and faith have lead to more bloodshed than any other force in all of human history, and are currently responsible for an unwarranted amount of pain and suffering in the world».
Maybe, it is a kin to a fear in a Faithful if he or she has the relationship with God or Gods that is correct (religions)... but at least it is a Faith that something is out there so there is not the same level of fear we witness here from some Atheist and the ones that scream the most probably have more fear than the others.
In truth, as far as I've been able to tell, religion and faith have lead to more bloodshed than any other force in all of human history, and are currently responsible for an unwarranted amount of pain and suffering in the world.
It is worse in other parts of the world where more Christians are currently being killed for their faith than members of any other religion.
They also have faith in their own personal subjective experiences that people of every other religion have, if they are all right how is that different than they are all wrong?
ok i've decided — after soul searching and observing my and other's reactions to these religious blog news on CNN learning more about religion from this alone and about the mideast than from anywhere else in my USA educated life i need to be more tolerant of others having religious based governments THAT is what is confusing me — that religion are governments are not seperated that is hard for much of USA population to understand perhaps it is for me i think you would have to actually live in a society like the mideast to truly understand it i mean — actually be part of the society the religious part is truly offputting — since most in USA seperate church and state like — church is for faith and imagination and celebration and family and community involvement and state is for protection and education and health and infrastructure, etc., for all it is hard to be serious about religion — when the serious side of society is state it is hard to see religion being the serious side of enforcement — and the state enforcing the faith based side of society egad — doesn't god get lost in all that?
An atheist has more faith than any believer in any other religion.
Before you say another word, think for a minute about how members of your faith continuously push for legislation to force others to your way of life, force your morality, spark witch hunts for radicalized members of other religions even though it's more often than not white guys gunning down crowds in schools, theatres, grocery store parking lots, etc..
The authentic Christian faith that Bonhoeffer upholds is something other than the «religion'that Marx criticised.
When applied to theology, the principle of positivity highlights those features of Christian faith and existence which are determinate transformations of generic characteristics, rather than to those which are shared with humanism or other religions.
Such a concession could be exploited by promoters of rival sources of knowledge, such as philosophy and religion, who would be quick to point out that faith in naturalism is no more «scientific» (i.e., empirically based) than any other kind of faith.
Communist evil, Niebuhr said, resulted from its monopoly of power (absolute power over other men producing evils worse than injustice), its utopianism (attribution of the source of evil to something outside man — private property), its faith in revolution (a substitute religion), and its dogmatism (ideology masquerading as science).
My answer is simply this, that it is because at present our magnificent Christian charity lacks what it needs to make it decisively effective, the sensitizing ingredient of Human faith and hope without which, in reason and in fact, no religion can henceforth appear to Man other than colorless, cold and inassimilable.
It seems there's more tolerance for religion coming from other faiths than from non-believers.
The program takes more satirical jabs at spiritual matters than any other TV show, yet the erratic cartoon family has an appreciative audience among many people of faith and among many analysts of religion.
But persons holding this view would not seek to equate one religion with another any more than they would hold that their faith was the only faith, and that others» were only «religions.»
«It is pathetic to read and watch the way the Christian faith is often attacked by some folks in the media and academia relentlessly» Do you mean the say way that those who aren't on board with Christians or any other religion one chooses not to follow is deemed lesser a person and more than often chastised for not being like you?
Qualities which are purported to make religions «unique» are usually talking points designed to convince the believers that their own faith is more objectively true and real, more fulfilling, than others» - this is essentially religious intolerance with a positive spin instead of a negative one.
Christianity has shed more blood than any other faith in the name of religion.
All human religion, other than the Judeo - Christian faith was thought to consist of various forms of natural religion which could all be traced back to Noah.
Priests may... appear more likely to molest children because cases of abuse come to light in huge waves... Allen suggests a final reason we hear so much more about Catholic abuse than transgressions in other religions: [the Church's] sheer size... «When you consider the per capita data,» says Allen, «I don't think they have a larger incidence than other faiths.»
I know you need an absence of logic and reason to have faith but come on mormonism is a bigger joke than pretty much all other religions, which are a joke in themselves.
More often than not, however, those who study other religions with firm conviction about their own faith are what Hocking calls «partly prepared men.»
For it is apparent that most, presumably all, other religions have likewise their historical aspect; they have their great moments and their great achievements which, not less than in Israel, enter into the total of faith.
I certainly do not believe in any deity that looks over my shoulder every minute of every day and intervenes in the affairs of man; none of the religions make sense to me other than being a blight and scam on the supporters of the faith.
If By virtue of his parents faith, obama can not be a Christian, then why are we Preaching the Gospel to the 41 % of the Unreached people groups, the Two - thirds of the world's population - more than 4.4 billion people, esp in windows1040 who are predominantly of islam and other religion?
The Conservatives also promised during the election campaign to remove the cap on faith - based free schools, which stops them allocating more than 50 % of their places on grounds of religion - which would have brought them in line with other faith schools in the state sector.
The Conservatives also promised during the election campaign to remove the cap on faith - based free schools, which stops them allocating more than 50 % of their places on grounds of religion — which would have brought them in line with other faith schools in the state sector.
It was observed that finally such discussions end in religion being recognized as pure faith as Paul of Tarsus insisted; he maintained strongly that it is a mistake to try to base it on any other argument; he said it actually weakens the essence of religion to attempt to base it on anything other than absolute faith.