Sentences with phrase «god than other religions»

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Please, are the gods so stupid that just because an alive person claims a dead one is now a different religion said god would have to throw them out of their old religion heaven and send them to the other heaven??? Really, some of you are more obsessed with dead people than the ones living.

I am simply saying one can get power (meaning / purpose) from thing other than your one socket (God / religion).

If it's the matter of god, then you're dealing with something other than atheism considering atheism focuses on religion, not the matter of whether god exists or not.

The dirt in our minds, like someone hurling insults at other religions and strangers, that bothers God more than the frequency of our baths.

The entire concept of God is distasteful and I see no reason to believe religion is anything other than a man made control system.

Here you are putting the blame on al Islamic branches for one Islamic branch although the as branches contradict each other and they are always in disputes among them and that's was the reason they became branches rather than one Islam so really it is not fear to hold all at guilt for one misbehave or abuse... nor it is fair to address the whole Islam belief, Quran and Prophet of God for the fault of ones or few that are not in the right track of Islam being the religion of peace and justice to mankind..

In my opinion, and the opinion of many others, religion is nothing more than a tool, created by mankind (not suggested by god) thousands of years ago to do nothing more than control people through force and fear.

Lengthy and long winded to prove a point — that there have been countless gods and religions throughout history, none any more or less credible than any others.

At some point they met reason and figured out it was all a bunch of hokum with no more reason to believe in it than any other god or religion.

Your religion is based on many myths that preceded it, yours is no different than ALL of the other religions... man made stories, man made myths, man made gods.

That fight was resolved in favor of the modernists who maintained that God's revelation is ongoing, that religion and science are not inherently irreconcilable, and that the tension between the two ought to elicit discussion and reflection rather than the abandonment of one subject or the other.

«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.»

Atheism is a religion, whose god is mankind, self, and science, through the power of reason, logic, and intellect, whose prophets are Darwin, Dawkins, and Hitchens, and whose disciples zealously seek converts with more passion and fervor than other religions.

But there is no method by which verifiable measurable results might demonstrate that one god belief / religion is more likely to be true than any other.

everything in the universe evolves, not only life forms but also memes, Religion is a meme so it also change in conformity to its era or time of its conception as faith.Because in pre scientific times thousands of years ago, the scientific method of approach or philosophy has not existed yet, myth or merely story telling is considered facts, The first religion called animism more than 10,000 years ago believed that spirits or god exists in trees, rivers, mountains, boulders or in any places people at that time considered holy.hundreds of them, then when the Greeks and Romans came, it was reduced to 12, they called it polytheism, when the Jews arrived, it was further reduced to 1, monotheism.its derivatives, Christianity And Islam and later hundreds of denominations that includes Mormonism and Protestants flourished up to today.So in short this religions evolved in accordance to the scientific knowledge of the age or era they existed.If you graph the growth of knowledge, it shows a sharp increase in the last 500 years, forcing the dominant religions at that time to reinterprete their dogmas, today this traditional religions are becoming obsolete and has to evolve to survive.But first they have to unify against atheism.in the dialectical process of change, Theism in one hand and the opposing force atheism in the other, will resolve into a result or synthesis.The process shall be highlighted in the internet in the near future.

People of religions other than Islam who speak Arabic refer to God as Allah, even those Christians in Arabic speaking countries.

Having said that, there have been wars waged between religions claiming «my imaginary friend (God) is better than yours»... I feel like as a reasonable person, I am above that, and I wont get into emotional responsiveness that can incite anger in others, leading to an unproductive discussion.

I've heard these very things said by those who are on the other end of the people who use religion and politics to enrich themselves, give them power and authority over their fellow human beings and draw attention to themselves rather than to God.

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.

If you are correct, that some god is the ultimate judge, than you might find out that one of the other religions were correct.

Off the cuff, I do think that religion has a lot to do with encouraging an elitist, critical, condemning attitude in some people, especially the type of religion that causes one group to speak and act as if they were closer to God than every other group.

They don't have any more understanding of God, than any follower of any other religion.

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?

Can we moderate Christians tell the world that most Americans don't believe that you should devote your energy to judging others, that you should try to focus to improving yourself; that most Americans want religion protected by keeping it separated from «State» rather than the extremist push to make biblical law the law of the land; that each individual's morality is between him / her and God, not a morality imposed by Christian extremists?

DO the math, more people have been killed or died in the name of some obscure god or religion than any other single reason in the recorded history of mankind.

However, I am more spiritual than religions, as Spirituality is a relationship with a higher power, whereas Religion is a man made construct to tell others how to worship a specific version of God

Therefore, I don't think my God would appreciate me joining a religion which dooms the majority of the world for no other reason than because they don't follow a certain religion.

All religions revolve around the same «god», so in order to coexist peacefully, please show some respect and appreciation for other people that are different than us.

Now the point I wish to raise is this: to exist other than abstractly (and abstract «existence» is not sufficient for the God of religion) an essence must be instanced in some concretum.

Reason is the default position so until I can come up with tangible physical evidence that he can verify God or gods simply do not have meaning other than sociological implications of religion.

Until religions acknkowledge that they have NO MORE insight into what «God» is, does, wants or thinks than ANYONE one else on the planet, we need to keep their thoughts along side other fantasies where they belong!

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.

In «advanced» Judaism this God was identified with the «supreme God» of other religions, although there were special characteristics such as divine righteousness and loving - mercy (chesed) found in the Jewish picture more than in some of the others.

People in religions other than Christianity have experienced them... but, they went to their god's heaven or hell.

God is one with no partner, the religion with Allah is Islam, and seeks other than Islam will not accept it, the Jews worshiped idols and the Wailing Wall, and Christians worship the cross.So the Jews and Christians worship the devil.

More people have died fighting in / for the name of their god than any other reason in history and yet we hold religion any form is still ok?

Its almost as if over the years that the various books were written, they were copying off of other religions rather than describing the same God.

M.d religion is about man there is alot of man in the evangelical church as well as other churchs however the Holy spirit is the one we lean on to teach us Gods word he reveals the scriptures just as though Jesus was teaching his disciples in his day.Often after speaking in parable his disciples would ask what he meant and he would give them insight into the messages.I find for me if i struggle understanding a topic i ask the holy spirit to help me if you havent received him just invite him into your life if you have already confessed Jesus as your Lord and savior.We can not live a christian life without him.He is the one who empowers us to live righteously rather than according to our old nature.In the last year or so he has been showing me extraordinary insight into the word its new its fresh he is amazing.brentnz

More than any other doctrine, save for the singularity of the law God gave to Israel, it distinguishes Judaism from other religions.

Allah is God, so there's no difference other than each religion calls him something different (God, Allah, YHWH or Jehovah).

===== @Chad «Christian place of worship» [church] @Really - O «There are religions other than those based on the god of Israel that call their place of worship a «church».

«singular usage instead of «any god» - there are monotheistic religions other than those based on the god of Israel.

As to Iran although it looks extreme but she has Christians and Jews and God knows what living within them but don't know if they ever had problems... Any way dear it is a tough world we do not know where and when it is going to end... we are seeing times now that there is discrimination between Muslims them selves as Sunni or Shiat and maybe more than it is Islam to any other religion... hope you understood any thing at all

The Universe, known and unknown, is possibly not the most used definition of God, at least in the western world... but it is the Pantheistic version that jives so much more with science and is not a misappropriation of the smaller definitions of God, merely an unfamiliar definition to those with less knowledge of various more advanced religious and philosophic thought, within and outside those religions... The idea of Pantheism also thoughtfully considers why there is, rather than ridiculing, such a wide range of philosophical and ritual beliefs from a scientific perspective... without having to classify large groups of people, as senseless idiots from one end or destined for hell from the other.

I am waiting for you to tell me what other things, other than not believing your god, or any to be real, atheists «religion «embraces.

Feuding groups throughout history have used race, religion, and politics (the Jew - Gentile division was a toxic combination of all three) to look down upon each other and accuse one another of being less than human and less - loved by God.

Such a mission does not lead to syncretism and eclecticism but to «such growth in the essentials» as Asoka had demanded from the different religions, and that means nothing other than growth in love toward God and man.

The Hindu deities Krishna, Vishnu, Kali, and others were worshipped as manifestations of Brahma, the one transcendental God, the Hindu God, much more reverently, however, than was the God of Plotinus, because the Hindu religion presupposes a plurality of worlds as over against the geocentric narrowing of the world picture of classical antiquity.

I take Plato as on my side in this when he says that in God is both being and becoming, both permanence and novelty, a closed past and an open future, also that God cares about the creatures, thus siding in advance against Aristotle's unmoved mover, taken as the God of religion.14 What moves things is at least «self - moved,» and is soul, including the supreme and cosmic soul, God, whose body is all else than cosmic soul and other than forms.

In our revealed religion, God chooses to reveal the divine self more in some events, lives and books than in others.