Sentences with phrase «humans than any other religion»

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So how do you go from that reasoning to «Since it wasn't accidental then it must have been this ancient male diety named (fill in blank depending on religion) who loves me and knows me and cares for me and wants me to perform rituals that have nothing to do with morality like prayer, not eating certain things, sabaath and many more just because he said so, even though we have no record of him saying anything, just records of humans who wrote things down that they claim he said, but I want to believe it all so badly I will base my beliefs on no other evidence than «it just can't be accident».

We can assume that all the Justices sitting on the Court today, like other humans, have their own preferences and biases about religion, but the judicial opinions of one of them, Justice John Paul Stevens, raise more than a slight suspicion that some of his actions on the bench stem from animosity, if not to animal sacrifice, at least to certain less exotic religious beliefs and practices.

The dog story is sweet — not really about religion at all, but a good reminder of the love in animals other than humans.

Other than religion, the human race's major conflicts were over land and resources — mainly food.

A historian of religion takes into account authentic factors of human life other than his historicality experienced in given point of time in history.

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.

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».

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.

This assertion is not meant to imply that religion is either false or ultimately nothing more than the fabrication of human minds — indeed, Berger argues in other writings that the transcendent seems to break through humanly constructed worlds, as it were, from the outside, However, the social scientist must recognize the degree to which religion, like all symbol systems, involves human activity.

[1] however some religions were persecuted for political reasons rather than dogmatic zeal, [2] and other rites banned which involved human sacrifice.

More blood and repression has taken place in the human experience due to religion than any other thing.

The problem is that organized religion is as much political animal as any other human convention involving more than 2 people, and spiritual, thinking individuals are intelligent enough to know that churches / mosques / community reprogramming centers actually have very little to do with what one actually believes...

If religion (as opposed to morality) was anything other than empty promises meant to sate human insecurities, would we not expect movements TOWARD greater religiosity to be predominant in World history and viewed in a positive light?

Feuerbach agreed with his theological teacher, Schleiermacher, that «[t] he basis of religion is the feeling of dependency», but went on to assert that «that upon which human beings are fully dependent is originally, nothing other than Nature.

Traditions of every kind, hoarded and manifested in gesture and language, in schools, libraries, museums, bodies of law and religion, philosophy and science — everything that accumulates, arranges itself, recurs and adds to itself, becoming the collective memory of the human race — all this we may see as no more than an outer garment, an epiphenomenon precariously superimposed upon all the other edifices of Nature (the only truly organic ones, as it may appear): but it is precisely this optical illusion which we have to overcome if our realism is to reach to the heart of the matter.

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.

after years of study I have concluded that more human beings have been killed and or oppressed by the followers of the «prince of peace» than any other religion in the history of mankind....

And I'm also pretty sure that Acroyear's comment about organized religion being the cause of more human deaths than any other reason is absolutely correct (Bubonic plague included).

It is entranced by the image of homo faber to such an extent that it makes theology into nothing other than our own human creation, and one gets the impression at times that Kaufman sees religion also as nothing but a human construct.

You pointed out the Christian religion to a TEE, the Crusades killed more non believing HUMAN BEINGS than ANY OTHER religions in human hisHUMAN BEINGS than ANY OTHER religions in human hishuman history.

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.

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.

The student of comparative religion begins with the postulate that it is possible to understand a religion other than one's own.44 In our day, this postulate is being tested — urgently, severely, by our concrete human situation.

i guess what would be more interesting than showing that muslims have the same feelings and issues as other humans (which shouldn't be surprising) is to focus on what similarities and differences occur due to the religion itself.

Islam is more than a religion, it is an overpowering political system that if implemented strips most human rights from the followers and bans all other belief systems, including atheism.

Culture means more than just a set of learned behaviors that vary from place to place, some argued; culture means history and tradition, art, philosophy, and religion — the last barrier, together with language, that separates humans from other species.

«I would never want anyone to think I was making some sort of spiritual claim other than the pure joy of being human that belongs to everyone free of religion.»

«Science and religion are diametrically opposed, and will remain so unless and until God can be empirically demonstrated to be something other than a figment of human imagination...»