Sentences with phrase «less about their religion»

I could care less about his religion because I care most about the United States of America!

In my book «Religious Literacy,» I argued that the United States is one of the most religious countries on Earth, and yet Americans know very little about their own religions and even less about the religions of others.

You should read more about biology and less about religion.

first off i am a catholic, actually i was growing up, i currently could care less about religion.

For almost the last 3 millennia, man has been shackled to an outdated, antique, donkey - and - cart theology, worshiping a God that could care less about religion, and even less about which denomination you belong to.

I couldn't care less about their religion if it had no affect or wish to affect me.

Obama is about as far away from being a Christian as a person can get and that's fine cause this country could care less about religion anyway.

But both parties saw sharp increases in the number of voters who want to hear less about religion from politicians.

And your totally off - topic comment conveniently explains why you know less about religion than I do.

Because the Pew Forum couldn't find any indication that such a survey has ever been done before, it can't say if Americans today know more or less about religion now than they did in the past.

It's less about religion and more about the fact that teachers and students would either take off or skip school in order to celebrate with their families.

I'm an atheist and I could care less about religion, and I have friends who are both theists and atheists.

«It's almost like Islam - radicalized Islam,» he continued, «in a way to where radicalized Islam is less about religion than it is about politics.»

A new study shows that many devout Americans know less about religion than do atheists.

I could care less about his religion.

WOW — I never heard someone who knows less about religion (don't worry — I am certain you have read the Bible in it's entirity).

If religion was more about God and people and less about religion it would be in a lot better shape.

The idea is based on his experiences with a similar worship service called The Bridge back in Ventura, where he feels the «very community - based» approach made worship services «very real, more about relationship and less about religion.»

Not exact matches

It may well be this says less about the correlation of intelligence and religion than it does how religion is presented to people, and why they might reject it...

This case is about one thing and one thing only: Religious money attacking a scientific organization that actively uncovers information that makes religion less and less relevant.

I am not sure that a practicing believer of any faith, taking a break from verbosity about their religion, will be any less religious... or gain much insight into the commonality of humanity and human experience.

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.

(A similar set of questions could be asked, mutatis mutandis, about Jewish involvement with Islam, a religion that also claims, although to a much lesser extent than Christianity, descent from Judaism.)

This may all be less problematic with simple, concrete objects («chair»), but is far more difficult with abstract concepts and ideas, particularly about God, religion, politics, metaphysics, etc. («love», «faith», «nature», «sacrifice», «purity», «freedom»).

Forcing the case for this kind of living moral alternative into the narrow confines of an argument that is just about religion and liberty makes the treasure we seek to protect seem smaller and less significant than it truly is.

Anyway, if we didn't have to put up with religion, it would undoubtedly be much nicer because it would be one less difference that humans would have to focus on and get all uppity about.

B, which religions are you talking about when you make the large claim, «In other religions we have no pretense that someone is talking about his own private vision, or that stuff is more or less poetic.

Again, this says nothing about the inherent ethical superiority of secularism, but it does dispel the myth that the irreligious are somehow less moral than those with a religion.

Most agnostics could care less about these things, but you seem radically convinced that religion can be «cured» when im telling you it is a part of every human being.

In other religions we have no pretense that someone is talking about his own private vision, or that stuff is more or less poetic.

The more you know about science today and the religions of the ancient world, the less it is possible to believe what you were taught as a child, even if you wanted to.

From the article, talking about the UK — «In fact, the country is one of the less religious ones in Europe, home to vociferous critics of religion like Richard Dawkins, and those who find belief in a higher power simply unnecessary, like Stephen Hawking.»

and then they are excommunicated and the fight is over... this is a hopeless fight especially when religion is involved... they either fight for rights and lose it all (and essentially go to hell) or give in and listen to their religious leaders... I do not believe in what they do and could care less really but they are in a no win situation and they as nuns should not be worried about birth control or anything of the such... they took the vows..

I cant speak much for the other Religions, but one can say the same about them as well... Buddhism for example... while their temples can be seen as less grandiose in the native locations, in the West they become Statements of what MAN can do to show - off, and not what man can do to seek the Divine.

The more you know about religion, the less you believe?

«Of course, we make lots of mistakes and we have lots of impulses, but people are as sensible about their religion as they are about everything else — no more sensible perhaps, but surely no less.

The less you know about religion, the more you believe?

If you are devout in a particular religion, it makes you much less likely to want to learn about other religions.

Mainly, because in all the verbiage about freedoms of beliefs there is something so important, so blatantly acute yet everyone do not even mention it, except - oh genial me: Why would anyone in the whole world support any type of creed / belief / religion where a whole lot of humans — as in millions of human women — are not allowed to go to school, to even just read and write - less become a teacher, doctor, lawyer, president of their own companies, their own countries, mutilated by the millions when they reach puberty, WHY is this allowed?

when people stop using religion to pursue any agenda in the public arena we can worry less about talking of the atheist point of view.

Young white male who thinks that bigotry of all sorts (including racism) are intentional ignorance, detrimental to our future as a species, adn relaly about the only thing a person can engage in that makes even less sense than religion.

In fact, although the United States is one of the most religious developed countries in the world, most Americans scored 50 percent or less on a quiz measuring knowledge of the Bible, world religions and what the Constitution says about religion in public life.

And if they seem to «care» more than before, it's because they are fed up with the introduction of religion into places it use to be less talked about, like politics.

For him, a campaign to repeal 1701's Act of Settlement is less about anachronistic oppression of Roman Catholics than about unravelling the constitution in favour of a prescriptive secular republic, devoid of religion.

There's a torrent of comments on our story this week about most Americans scoring 50 percent or less on a Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life quiz measuring knowledge of the Bible, world religions and what the Constitution says about religion.

Actually you bonehead, Europe has frankly been dealing with the «oppression of religion» less than just about anywhere on the planet.

Ok now I know most atheists are live and let live and couldn't care less about what other people believe, but whenever you get defensive and wonder why «theists» often call atheism just as much a religion as Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, etc look at things like this.

I could care less what religion he is, it's not going to affect what he does in office - should he win - or what «Christians» say about Muslims, how they treated Jews and Catholics... it's never ending, as long as you agree with them you are right in their eyes, if you disagree - and that includes different beliefs - you are wrong and damned to hell.

In describing and accounting for the lives of the Religious Right, which we define simply as religious conservatives with a considerable involvement in political activity, the book and the series tell the story primarily by focusing on leading episodes in the movement's history, including, but not limited to, the groundwork laid by Billy Graham in his relationships with presidents and other prominent political leaders; the resistance of evangelical and other Protestants to the candidacy of the Roman Catholic John F. Kennedy; the rise of what has been called the New Right out of the ashes of Barry Goldwater's defeat in 1964; a battle over sex education in Anaheim, California, in the mid-1960's; a prolonged cultural war over textbooks in West Virginia in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently in community after community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt over the election of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was, of all things, a Democrat; the rise of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and state.

The more people know about religion the less likely they are to believe.