Sentences with phrase «kinds of religion in»

My typical readers have had some kind of religion in the past, although they may not consider themselves religious now.

I even searched the scriptures, with no kind of religion in my life.

Not exact matches

While historically it may have been a discipline associated with all the major world religions, today it actually can work to improve health and productivity, in addition to any kind of spiritual benefits it may produce.

Hopefully someone will read this and realize that all of the bickering in these posts regarding God vs No God, bill boards, religion, and freedom of choice will simply chill out, self - reflect, and work to live their lives sharing kind thoughts, practicing good deeds, showing extreme patience, and exampling humility.

Atheists in the modern age really don't go for this kind of violence — they for the most part just ignore religion and go do something better.

Kind of like when the Catholics got teaching religion banned from being taught in schools.

But if this is used to invalidate all claims to discern the truth, it is in fact an arrogant claim with the kind of knowledge which is superior that you have just said, no religion has.»

They let off the Turkish guests in Mumbai when the visitors read some kind of khalima to prove their religion, what a shame.

There are all kinds of things people get away with in the name of religion that would otherwise be considered illegal.

Well let me tell you that all corruption, destruction and decline of morals is not caused by religious ones but in the contrary it was and still is caused by disbelievers who have nothing to stand on except standing against all good morals brought by religions... well Mr. Go enjoy your infidelity with your kind and leave out religious ones from your hopelessness...

I've been to funerals and encountered this kind of prejudice where those leading the service insisted you must be a member of their religion to get over grief, and you can only really talk about it in the language of the Bible, no other discussion has any meaning.

Spin it how you will, religion constantly gets a free pass in this country and when its ever called out for its discriminatory practices and beliefs it claims religion has the right to discriminate based on those beliefs... but everybody else doesn't have the right to even make the accusation that religion is getting all kinds of special rights allowing them to justify their own discrimination.

I am not being merely petty in saying that of them, I actually know some that follow that kind of religion, know personally how really superficial, shallow, they are.

Kind of the same way «Faith» is a tool and «Creation» the theory... Bottom line, our country and everything great about it was founded in freedom of religion.

Kevin your right personal beliefs and or religion does not belong in law, and I am not saying that what this atheist organization is doing is wrong or anything, I think what there doing is a good thing, I just think this particular message could have been done from a different perspective, this message makes them appear like the self righteous ones, and it might give out the wrong kind of message, instead it should have said something like you believe in god fine, but don't put it in our laws.

I can't believe people actually believe in any kind of religion.

Now, before you jump in with the standard BS rhetoric, i want you to know i'm only stating these things because i want you to see what it's like to have your beliefs criticized and so you know that all you're pushin, is another kind of religion.

These have been formulated in different ways, but a typical list would cite life (including health, safety, and procreation); knowledge (including appreciation of beauty); holiness or religion (in the sense of harmony with ultimate reality); self - integration, justice, friendship (including marriage); and the kind of exercise of skill in work or play that enriches human life.

But the kind of truth we usually discuss in the context of the religion blog is metaphysical truth.

While convergence does happen in religion from the perspective of the human psyche being adapted through its self - deceptive capabilities (e.g., as a coping mechanism), we didn't land in the new world with the discovery of the same kind of scripture stemming from a singular God.

Whether it is changing text books to teach religion as a «science,» making laws that prohibit stem - cell research which would without question help those in need, to stopping of any kind of gay rights, trying to put religion (christianity) into schools, a woman's right to choose, etc, etc...

They can «study» their religion, but it still comes down to faith in the teachings, and personal experience, neither of which can ever be meaningfully tested true or false in any kind of objective way.

According to Nathan Hatch, professor of American religious history at the University of Notre Dame, this kind of populist sentiment - expressed in 1803 by the New England politician and polemicist Benjamin Austin, Jr. - represents the salient contribution of American religion to the formation of our cultural ethos.

All I'm trying to say here is that when I'm told to love God with my whole heart, soul and mind, and to love my neighbor as myself, and to forgive others unconditionally, and to love my wife unconditionally, and to be kind and compassionate to others and to love my en emies and to take care of orphans and to feed the hungry and not to li e or to e nvy or be boastful or arro gant or hypoc ritical or a gossip or proud, and when I'm told that God demonstrated his love for us in that while we were still in s in, Christ di ed for us, I realize that these things have no relevance to the grie vances I find in» religion.»

The Mormon religion is a cross between what JS learned in church, from the Freemasons, and what just seemed kind of cool at the time.

Typically this process leads to a characterization of God as a being so advanced, powerful, immortal, and not subject to the laws of time, matter, and space that his followers can make up any excuse they choose to address questions, since nothing about their god (or gods) can be subjected to any kind of objective verification or scrutiny, just like everything else in the religion.

The idea of being kind to your fellow man as you would wish him to be to you is found all over the world, and does not require the additional belief in all the hootenanny of organized religion.

Shame on you for chastising someone for being kind, and then pressuring them to be ugly instead in the name of religion.

This kind of religion «lacks the biblical picture's resources and rigour, but it makes up for them in flexibility.

These assumptions come to light in all kinds of ways, but especially through religion — the various faiths that treat women as though they are not equal to men.

There are all kinds of mechanisms in religion to discourage questioning it, leading me to suspect that they know it falls apart under scrutiny.

Capitalism, in turn, creates the economic base on which may be built, with guidance from religion and democracy, a more humane society of the kind called for by both Christian and Jewish traditions.

Many religions have that kind of psychic safety valve built in.

But if we take Ezekiel's teaching as a whole we shall not suspect him of the kind of pure individualism in religion which has become familiar in the modern world.

These injunctions are of two kinds — those which constitute the inner core of religion and are in full accord with the laws of nature, and others which form a protective cover to the original commands.

Of course, with this belief, believers subject themselves to all kinds of atrocities at the hands of their religion and then exclaim «oh but I have suffered in this world, surely I will rejoice in the next!&raquOf course, with this belief, believers subject themselves to all kinds of atrocities at the hands of their religion and then exclaim «oh but I have suffered in this world, surely I will rejoice in the next!&raquof atrocities at the hands of their religion and then exclaim «oh but I have suffered in this world, surely I will rejoice in the next!&raquof their religion and then exclaim «oh but I have suffered in this world, surely I will rejoice in the next!»

If so, the variety of gods in other religions are explained to be the attributes of the greater God, kind of like Son, Holy Ghost, Virgin, saints, angels etc..

Most wars are religions that fight one another... Pray for Peace??? what the hell kind of church can say that and then say kill gays??? Let us remember there are those in the religious order who molest your children and hide under the sheets so nobody can find them..

There is no [rational] place for religion of any kind in government.

It is in the fourth stage that religion comes into prominence because city life exposes men to all kinds of temptations arising from the ample leisure and wealth of the richer classes.

On the basis of the First Amendment, as well as the general principles of the Constitution, he opposed public payment for chaplains in Congress and the military, spoke out against national proclamations of days of prayer (though as president he did «recommend» them) and while president vetoed congressional efforts to incorporate churches in the District of Columbia (fullest statement, V: 103 - 105) At the same time, Madison frequently opined that it was appropriate for private citizens to support chaplains and various kinds of semiorganized public religion through voluntary contributions (V: 104,105)

Writing in the Washington Post, Michael Horton has offered a concise but compelling historical account and theological critique of the kind of religion White represents.

From a canadian standpoint it is kind of frightening in 2012, to hear people challenging to become president of United States speak religion.

* In the first place, while the language of religion is metaphorical, this blanket statement needs to be broken down so that we see that certain distinctive forms of speech are appropriate to certain distinctive kinds of biblical reference.

I, like most other persons who attempt to engage in some kind of ojbective reasoning process, have great doubt about the «mystical» elements of all religion.

Christ came among men with a simple ministry of teaching whose main purpose was to confirm that the kinds of ways in which God had been understood in Natural religion, and the very language used to express those insights, were broadly right.

«Whenever... preachers, instead of a lesson in religion, put [their congregation] off with a discourse on the Copernican system, on chemical affinities, on the construction of government, or the characters or conduct of those administering it, it is a breach of contract, depriving their audience of the kind of service for which they are salaried, and giving them, instead of it, what they did not want, or, if wanted, would rather seek from better sources in that particular art of science.»

What bring peace is community support of the kind discussed in this article more than any priestly service and once again the social benefits of religion I think are highly over-rated.

He felt that Whitehead had yielded to the natural human tendency to conceive of God in terms which offered a merely pleasant feeling about religion without demanding the kind of ultimate commitment to the creative process itself which Wieman felt was urgently needed.

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.