Sentences with phrase «for less religion»

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Citizens acknowledge they haven't rediscovered savings religion: in October, an Ipsos Reid poll for RBC found that more than one - third of Canadians were saving less than they had in the past, versus 19 % who claimed to be saving more.

For example, its members are less likely to be affiliated with religion and more likely to be politically independent.

Once I left religion behind and embraced humanity I found myself less judgmental, depression subsided when I realized I really wasn't in danger of burning in hell at the discretion of a God, and found that for the most part people are good.

If all religions would embrace the tenets and beliefs they share and focus less on their differences they could pull together and work in harmony for the good of those who are trapped in extreme poverty.

If it weren't for religion, I bet we'd be a lot less accepting of people's rights to brain - wash their children.

If my mission were to disprove religion, would I really trust a religious person, even a janitor, to work for me, much less enter my building?

It would be my opinion that the LDS have stood for bigotry no less than any of the other major religions.

A world without religion would be one with much less care shown for fellow human beings.

Trust me, I've been discussing politics, and to a lesser extent religion online for many years.

Only religion presumes to label human characteristics as «sinful», making it impossible for a bible botherer to ever feel «good enough», much less worthy of love and respect.

A religion that restricts lifestyle in a variety of other ways is less likely to be a over for drug use than a religion that teaches only the duty to take drugs.

For Rorty, that dream is nothing less than a religion, of whom the chief apostles are Walt Whitman and John Dewey, and of which America is the New Jerusalem.

Forcing the case for this kind of living moral alternative into the narrow confines of an argument that is just about religion and liberty makes the treasure we seek to protect seem smaller and less significant than it truly is.

He conveniently overlooks certain other considerations favorable to socialism; when these considerations are given their due, even some practical people unafflicted by the need for a secular religion will find the alleged superiority of capitalism something less than obvious.

Fourth, although there is a fixed canon in most religions, it is also true that there is often a body of supplementary literature which, while theoretically less sacred, does nevertheless constitute a highly important source of direction for faith and practice.

His warning in Science and the Modern World that metaphysics could not go far toward presenting an idea of God available for religion is less obviously relevant to the later formulations of the philosophical doctrine.

For those who are less initiated, like the poor Japanese Christians, a religion of outward practices is permissible, but that too tends of its nature towards an ever less visible and more spiritual mode of being.

Every time I interact with a Muslim I am aware that his religion considers me less than human for not sharing his beliefs.

The potential readership for a serious and sustained discussion of religion is no doubt much less.

Black Protestants are more likely (47 %) to rely on religion than in 2007 (43 %), and less likely to look to common sense than religion (41 %, compared to 47 %) when looking for similar guidance.

Butler shows how in the early national period, as the line of distinction between religion and the civil authorities («separation of church and state») developed and the citizenry relied ever less on the government for things spiritual or ecclesiastical, church life prospered.

For almost the last 3 millennia, man has been shackled to an outdated, antique, donkey - and - cart theology, worshiping a God that could care less about religion, and even less about which denomination you belong to.

The whole article is little more than desperate christian rationalization - an attempt to stay pertinent in a world that has increasingly less use for religion.

Less familiar are two further aspects developed in his systematic theology: his understanding of the intuition of the infinite and his view of religion as the struggle for truth.

There are people who use religion as a crutch, just as there are those who use religion to accomplish wonderful things and make life better for the less fortunate as Jesus taught consistently throughout the Bible.

For me more God and less religion is the answer.

and then they are excommunicated and the fight is over... this is a hopeless fight especially when religion is involved... they either fight for rights and lose it all (and essentially go to hell) or give in and listen to their religious leaders... I do not believe in what they do and could care less really but they are in a no win situation and they as nuns should not be worried about birth control or anything of the such... they took the vows..

I cant speak much for the other Religions, but one can say the same about them as well... Buddhism for example... while their temples can be seen as less grandiose in the native locations, in the West they become Statements of what MAN can do to show - off, and not what man can do to seek the Divine.

As a culture we have accepted this (more or less) and therefore it would not make sense to now add a holiday for another religion when these people have spent so much time and effort to remove all religion from school.

«My religion prevents me from hurting you for your lack of belief in my hateful god, but you better watch out because (other, less - cowardly religious people, angry jesus at judgment day, etc.) will get you!»

Here then is a second and less obvious explanation for America's capacity to generate a civil religion — the opportunity and inclination of its government agencies to use religious symbols.

The detailed framework of Whitehead's philosophy is far less known than his aphorisms, for example: «Christianity has always been a religion seeking a metaphysic ’28 — with the implication that it never rests in any one metaphysic, or philosophy.

Believe me, I have no great love for the democrats, but when it comes to religion they are definitely the lesser of two evils.

The multiverse idea offers an explanation of why we find ourselves in a universe favorable to life that does not rely on the benevolence of a creator, and so if correct will leave still less support for religion.»

If morality as proclaimed by various religions is denied a place at the policy table, then our nation will only be guided by those with a very cramped and limited moral view — which would have been a disaster for abolition and civil rights way back then — and would be no less a disaster today.

But at least an all inclusive school won't teach that your religion is better than another person's, and therefore they are lesser people for it and less worthy of life.

Someone said (para) that we are all athiests for other religions — real athiests just believe in one less god.

Adherents of the new Christian sects, of which there were many competing ones, e.g., Ebonites, Gnostics, etc., would have been familiar with the Serapis and likely would not have wanted their godman to seem any less impressive than the gods of the Serapis and other religions of the time, so there would have been a need for a miraculous birth story and other miracle stories for their godman, as well.

It must be recognized that in this, not less than in the concept of the covenant, there was profound ethical content which religious leaders were not slow to apply for the vitalizing of the religion of nation and individual, several of them commenting on the astonishing fact that Israel was a peculiar treasure of God.

For those who have had little exposure to anything but a specific religious tradition or a denominational faith, or a religionsaturated local or national culture, an introduction to world religions and to cosmopolitan cultures makes certainties less stable.

This is driven less by personal religious conviction than by the need to amend the inevitable distortions that resulted from centuries of scholarship that failed to account seriously for a phenomenon as massive as religion.

To suggest, then, that religious believers (much less majorities who, qua majorities, also have a second claim on shaping public policy) are «wards» depending on the Constitution for their religious freedom and its scope is, to use Posner and Segall's words against them, «to turn the Constitution upside down when it comes to government and religion.»

What a great showing of solidarity it would be for him to align himself with the millions of women around the world who are living far far less than equal lives in societies where male supremacist religions are powerful.

If she only would use her religion for more good and less horrific evil and gay - bashing, maybe she would be a better person and we would have a better, less divided world.

For him, a campaign to repeal 1701's Act of Settlement is less about anachronistic oppression of Roman Catholics than about unravelling the constitution in favour of a prescriptive secular republic, devoid of religion.

In a phone call last week, she said she got the idea for her project after following my RN140 Twitter course (@sprothero), where I attempted to tweet each of the major religions in 140 characters or less.

Now that so much data is available to make the unexplained less frightening... and that the historical record has shown that most church doctrine was made up and that even the Jesus birth story / son of god born of a woman etc etc has been recycled in numerous different religions for over 4000 years... preaching Faith in a fairy tale is a losing proposition.

For example, when people say all religions are «more or less the same,» I worry that we're moving to a point where we fail to recognize the unique differences between world religions and the things that distinguish the gospel of Jesus from other belief systems.

After years of participating in a comfortable faith tradition, many find themselves in a spiritual wilderness, feeling disillusioned with church, longing for more freedom and less religion in their lives.

But religion would be less open to the charge that it is an opiate if children were taught that salvation and happiness are the rewards for doing good rather than for not doing bad — for obeying the «thou - shalts» of the Sermon on the Mount rather than the «thou - shalt - nots» of the 10 Commandments.