Sentences with phrase «irreligious person»

These were not unbelievers or irreligious people.

This misunderstanding doesn't come about simply because commentators such as Beinart are themselves irreligious people, and so don't recognize the religious dimensions of political and other kinds of belief.

None of those movements were led by atheists, unbelievers or irreligious people.

The perpetrators commit atrocities with such malevolence that even the most irreligious people familiar with their acts describe them as «unrestrained evil.»

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The most «irreligious» people don't want to have this taught to their children.

In the civil war and struggle for power in the time of Uthman, the third Caliph, irreligious elements among the Muslim people did not refrain from fabricating traditions concerning the merits of some political figures.

There are countless people who would resent being considered irreligious but who reject the practice of group religion.

In contrast with the priest from the temple, and the scribe from the synagogue, Jesus was listened to gladly by the common people, and finally it was not the irreligious, but the religious authorities who had Jesus put to death, for He constituted too severe a threat to the vested interests of religion.

And those two people are also cited as being strongly irreligious.

Irreligious and idolatrous cultures may take many forms, from the pure self - seeking of irresponsible individualism, through the various types of more or less organized pursuit of advantage, to the collectivistic autonomy of a totalitarian «people's democracy.»

It is within the province of public schools not only to see that students are correctly informed about religious matters, but also to provide a setting in which older young people may learn to recognize and sift out irreligious and idolatrous tendencies and perversions in the various religious systems of mankind.

Irreligious & Atheist Countries with the greatest proportion of people without religion (including Agnostics and Atheists) from Irreligion by country (as of 2007):

Besides, more religious people have killed in the name of god than the irreligious have in the name of nothing.

For every person who disavows religion because some ancient and unrevised dogma outrages his intelligence, several become irreligious because the social impotence of religion outrages their conscience.3

Religious people are sometimes tempted vaguely to divide mankind into two groups, the religious and the irreligious, and then to assume that being religious confers a certain superior quality upon them.

Especially in Jesus» time, under foreign rule, most of the rich people compromised with the pagan rulers and became worldly and irreligious, while the poor more often remained faithful.

You put down a group of people who have used their influence to promote peace between people and cultures and countries and still consider yourself above them because you are irreligious?

2 People will be self - centered and lovers of money, proud, haughty, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, irreligious, 3 callous, implacable, slanderous, licentious, brutal, hating what is good, 4 traitors, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, 5 as they make a pretense of religion but deny its power.

I still remember how, when I was a pastor, I thought that it was the good, godly, obedient people who «went to church» and everybody else was just irreligious or disobedient.

THESE days most people think it unscientific to believe in «miracles», and irreligious not to believe in them.