Sentences with phrase «given religion»

One thing I have to give religion credit for is beautiful architecture.
Its people like this who give religion a bad name.
They're what gives religion its enormous potential for danger, division, oppression, and all things bad.
Faith is also one of the main reasons that the ancient ones gave us religion... to teach belief.
I have no problem with you worshiping as you choose, but don't give your religion credit where it is not due.
The forefather never gave any religion more power than the other, but here you guy are.
So God gave them a religion of priests and sacrifices and laws instead.
The assumption that we need to give a religion about 1500 years to stop being murderously exclusivists is nonsense.
I agree that the Crusades gave religion a black eye, but that was the error of politically driven men.
My original point was simply that to ignore the fact that religion does demand special rights is to continue giving religion that free pass I spoke of which does this country as a whole no good in the long run.
On the other hand, it can be said that all three religions needed a historical antecedent (like Abraham) to give their religion legitimacy.
«What I am doing is not giving religion respect that it wants but it doesn't deserve,» Silverman said.
Morality, he argues, probably gave us religion as a way of reinforcing the pre-existing community concern.
Members of other religions were not, however, and this Act closes this loophole giving all religions the same protection.
And you really don't have to look far to understand what i'm getting at — take a look at what political correctness has gotten europe especially britain into... There are so many challenges facing this country and the world and the last thing we really need is to give religion more importance than it deserves.
In a letter to the Lord Chief Justice and Lord Chancellor in January, he said: «By prioritising those who give religion as their reason for a quick burial, those who want rapid burials for other reasons are being unfairly treated.
The picture of God as a loving father may for some be a puzzle especially given that religion has painted God as a diety similar to Zeus waiting on the edge of his seat to raid a shower of lightning bolts to put us in our place.Or, we want to believe that God is indeed an incredible God of love yet, we wonder if he really loves us or sees us as worthy.
What's «troubling» to me is that you bring Muslim people that you know as your main source of information & give their religion credit as a peaceful religion because they themselves are peaceful.
Americans will be more tolerant of muslims when these so called «peaceful» muslims speak out publicly about the radical fundamentalists who give their religion a bad name.
Those calling themselves Christians are people who rebelled from the mainstream God given religion «Judaism» where Jesus himself belonged.
what gives religion a free pass on ridicule anyway.
So, Kevin, why don't you give us your religion.
In many cases we atheists are atheists because the evidence as presented to us does not make a strong case for a given religion.
Im choose to be Athiest because of the horrible history that the church has given the religion itself.
I give religion only one point; It's dictation on who is worthy of living makes for great population control.
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After all, it is «Christians» that give religion a bad reputation.
Only the Federal Government was prohibited from endorsing a given religion.
this is the kind of false prophets that gives any religion a bad name.
No given religion is at fault.
«Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day; give him a religion, and he'll starve to death while praying for a fish.»
You give religion a bad name.
The new philosophers of what came to be known as rationalism sought a theory of knowledge that excluded the subjective dimension of thought that gave religion its entree into the public square.
The actual concrete transformations of the general features of religions must be grasped in order to participate in a given religion in more than an abstract way.
That image of an angry, violent, judgmental God has kept people in line and has given religion an enormous amount of control over people, hasn't it?
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