Is one
kind of religion bad and another good?
Not exact matches
Furthermore, the «older son» is the
worst kind of «lost son» because we think we have stayed with God our Father, when in reality, we have gone into the far country
of religion, which allows us to look down our self - righteous noses at everybody else who is not good enough, smart enough, or disciplined enough to truly live for God.
this is the
kind of false prophets that gives any
religion a
bad name.
They did, however, understand that government and
religion (
of any
kind) were a
bad mix and were very careful to make sure that American citizens, immigrants all, would be free to practice as they wished without governmental interference.
People refusing medical treatment because they think they can pray disease away, The demoralizing way
religion makes you feel about yourself (I am a wretch, a sinner, a
bad person by nature), the religious wars that have been fought for millenia, the self righteous passing laws based on THEIR beliefs (change to the pledge
of allegience which now excludes anyone who does not believe in a fairy godfather, the change to the national motto that turned it into the lie «in god we trust», the bigotry that «my
religion is the right one and you are wrong so I'll pray for you»
kind of crap... don't you realize that it is insulting to me when someone says they will pray for me... its the same as saying I'm going to do something for you but there won't be any effect, so it is just a waste
of time.
In other words, the
kind of person who gives Christians a
bad name, and why so many people abhor people like you who uses
religion to try and quash people's rights.
I've always questioned the belief that just because you were born in a poor country or one where a different
religion was generally practiced, that that was simply your
bad luck or some
kind of karma.
To assume any God - ordained supremacy based on
religion, nation
of origin, pigmentation, orientation or native tongue — is a perversion
of the work
of Jesus and idolatry
of the
worst kind.
Men give themselves for all
kinds of things, good and
bad, creative and destructive, for fame, money, infatuation, homeland,
religion, dogmas, prejudices.
Under attack now is any display
of Santa Claus, Rudolph, Christmas trees, poinsettias, holiday lights, and even the colors red and green» all
of which are condemned for being «religious,» and the very
worst kind of religion, meaning Christian.
It's not that I hate Christians or their
religion (alright I do feel a bit sad for them to believe in such muck) it's self help
of the
worst or best
kind..
The words
of one
religion at the same time, have been used to skew and distort the perceptions
of others into believing it's
bad, or evil, or heresy
of some
kind.
Were Dostoevsky living at this hour, he might well ask whether the American reduction
of nearly every aspect
of human existence, including
religion itself, to either entertainment or commodification constitutes a yet
worse kind of herd - existence than the one Ivan describes — a subtler and therefore deadlier attempt to relieve humanity
of its suffering and sin, and thus
of its real character and interest.