Sentences with phrase «get organized religion»

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They are socialists, dislike the government, large corporations, organized religion and anyone who tells them to stop screwing around and get a real job.

Could it be that they are getting bored with the illogicality of organized religion?

In fact, what I said could pertain to all organized religions, now that you've gotten antagonistic.

Without the brainwashing effect organized religions have on it's followers, this would never have gotten so big.

That being said, I know that people will ALWAYS do terrible things, but hopefully by getting rid of organized religions we would make it hard for terrible people to geta footing and develop followers to spread the scale of those bad things.

Can we honestly say if we get rid of organized religion that these problems simply disappear?

I used to be unsure about whether there was a god, and as I got older and approached my late twenties, I decided I was not going to believe or participate in any organized religion.

a set of values, beliefs, and structure in a person's life in order to give them direction and a sense of right and wrong is fine, but organized religions are no more than large corporations, and like any large corporation are only focused on their bottom line... trying to control the public and extract as much money as they can from them by any means necessary... promoting fear, uncertainty, hate and a sense that they alone can offer salvation... for a price (although they are very cleaver about getting to this hidden and unspoken cost... after all these hundreds of years they have perfected their craft well!)

I mention, only because my... paradigm (I'm not much on beliefs, in the usual organized religion sense)... includes a «Divine» of my own definition, that equates to something like «awe of life, love, and knowing that there is much we don't know» (< — sorry, not the easiest thing for me to get into words, hopefully that gets the gist of it) that I don't see as a «personal other», but, in my paradigm, I see that Divine as being systemic to everything, hence insights from what I learn / experience can be termed as the Divine acting.

It's nut jobs like this that give christianity a bad name, which in my point of view is good, organized religion is evil, and the faster we get rid of religion the better this world will be.

I got the h - ll away, far away from any organized religion and even fellow believers.

Marx and Engels never get tired of noting the baseness of organized religion and the extent of its hypocrisy.

I think that's where we have to draw the line... younger people and much of the educated, get it... but I think «organized» religions will pay a price for their intolerance down the road... as people leave... in disgust.

Those of us striving for spirtuality over organized practice may be simply getting back to the roots of all religion.

If you're on the organized religion bandwagon, you don't EVER get to call someone else out for «avoid [ing] having to think too hard about having to decide».

The use of your religious criteria is the central problem with all organized religions, ESPECIALLY evangelical fundamentalist — either Christian, Muslim, or Scientology (all banes to any society)-- where some allegedly «religiously educated and therefore holy» person gets to command the suggestible faithful, usually to the direct benefit of the alleged «religiously educated» person.

I'm a little newer than you in my journey away from organized religion and while I may get to where you are, I'm trying not to throw the entire idea of God out the window along with organized religion.

Sorry organized religion, you ALL got it wrong... HIGGS BOSON: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTVT-MlRq6o

And don't get me wrong, I am not refering to any religious persons, I mean organized religion as we know it.

Its a ploy that was used to try and get people to be good help others and show them love and compassion which was then perverted by organized religion to control people and teach hate.

I would hope that those who follow an organized religion would restrain from getting angry at a non-believer during a discussion.

I have fallen away from the church though the older I get the more I realize that any organized religion freaks me out, but here is the thing there are lots of homeless shelters and hot food banks that run off churches so they do some good for the community.

If you want to get into arguments concerning organized religions doing harm fine, but organized religion doesn't have an account on CNN — only people do.

The issue of organized religion is like career politicians, once a group discovers they can make a career of it and make money it gets corrupted.

Having grown up catholic (catholic schools and all) and later getting disenfranchised from the church due to the hypocrisy and scandals, and then becoming a «devout» atheist after rejecting all the mythology and dangers of organized religions, I have to admit that the current pope at least is trying to be reasonable.

Today, as always happens when a supreme ideal endeavors to get itself expressed in human institutions, the general average of organized religion is lower than the best.

This type of wedding is getting increasingly common for couples who don't subscribe to any organized religion, interfaith marriages or when an officiant at your place of worship won't preside over an outside ceremony.