Sentences with phrase «less religion in»

Here's to less religious idiocy and less religion in 2013.

After years of participating in a comfortable faith tradition, many find themselves in a spiritual wilderness, feeling disillusioned with church, longing for more freedom and less religion in their lives.

Either way, we could do with a lot less religion in this world and lot more clear thinking.

Not exact matches

Millennials, in particular — who are less likely to be married, less likely to belong to organized religion, and less likely to join outside organizations than previous generations — increasingly look to employers to give their lives purpose, meaning, and a moral anchor.

Citizens acknowledge they haven't rediscovered savings religion: in October, an Ipsos Reid poll for RBC found that more than one - third of Canadians were saving less than they had in the past, versus 19 % who claimed to be saving more.

CNN: My Take: When it comes to «God» in our political platforms, less is more Stephen Prothero, Boston University religion scholar and author of «The American Bible: How Our Words Unite, Divide, and Define a Nation,» discusses how the Republican and Democratic parties have used God as a ««prop» of our politics» during the 2012 presidential race.

I don't see Christians as more honest, more faithful in marriage, less violent, more giving, more polite, or more anything than the millions of people who are indifferent to religion and who only go to a church if there is a wedding or a funeral.

Once I left religion behind and embraced humanity I found myself less judgmental, depression subsided when I realized I really wasn't in danger of burning in hell at the discretion of a God, and found that for the most part people are good.

In less than 500 years, religions will be a thing of the past, like witchcraft.

If all religions would embrace the tenets and beliefs they share and focus less on their differences they could pull together and work in harmony for the good of those who are trapped in extreme poverty.

Given that only 18 percent of American adults say they're more active in organized religion today than they were ten years ago, while 32 percent said they're less active, perhaps religious leaders should take some comfort in the data here.

Christians argue that evidence in religion is no less credible than evidence in science.

really — i never said any religion is dirty or less clean then any other... i said most people don't wash there hands, then i stated that it is a sin in islam to not be clean....

But it's not clear how conservative Christians are going to persuade Muslims to reshape their religion to make them at once less susceptible to Wahabi literalism and at the same time fit to be eager warriors in Western culture wars.

A recent Pew poll suggests that John Q. Public wants more religion in American public life, not less.

But I will never believe in the religion, nor its hypocrisies, outdated dietary rules, misogynistic origins, brutal treatment of baby boys, nor the silly practices + clothing favored by the orthodox, much less the Hasidim.

Or might you be a little less sure of your religion and have more love and empathy than you do faith in it.

Furthermore, the more science can explain the less we rely on religion to explain things, and this undermines a fundamental reason religions spring up in the first place, which is to explain the unexplainable.

I'd like to believe that more of the younger generations are less interested in religion because they have more educated / enlightened parents.

In one study of a fundamentalist Protestant academy (Bethany Bible Academy), a Jewish intellectual found the Bethany students more tolerant on issues of race, religion and freedom of speech and less concerned with making a lot of money than their public school peers.

A religion that restricts lifestyle in a variety of other ways is less likely to be a over for drug use than a religion that teaches only the duty to take drugs.

In a country where Christianity is and always has been the dominant religion being a Christian requires less courage than any other option.

When religion is used to divide and / or judge people, in tiime, there are less supporters to judge and divide.

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.

«In this circumstance, religions that can not do justice to the value of other faiths will be less and less credible to their own believers.»

But after Constantine made Christianity the official state religion, Christians in Rome were less counter-cultural and more complicit in the acts of the empire.

(Islam in the modern period has had less occasion to articulate itself in relation to other religions, but the case is made by some learned Muslims that in this respect it does not differ from Judaism and Christianity.)

Fourth, although there is a fixed canon in most religions, it is also true that there is often a body of supplementary literature which, while theoretically less sacred, does nevertheless constitute a highly important source of direction for faith and practice.

His warning in Science and the Modern World that metaphysics could not go far toward presenting an idea of God available for religion is less obviously relevant to the later formulations of the philosophical doctrine.

Religions SEEK power, it is the only way they can inflict their beliefs on others; otherwise, like in Europe they become less and less relevant.

Tis mind boggling that your religions can be brought down to earth in less than ten seconds.

If the earliest conception of Jesus had been something less than that reflected in Acts 1 - 12, Christianity would perhaps never have arisen as a religion distinct from the Jewish.

Black Protestants are more likely (47 %) to rely on religion than in 2007 (43 %), and less likely to look to common sense than religion (41 %, compared to 47 %) when looking for similar guidance.

According to this understanding, the role of religion in political debate is not so much to supply these norms, as if they could not be known by non-believers — still less to propose concrete political solutions, which would lie altogether outside the competence of religion — but rather to help purify and shed light upon the application of reason to the discovery of objective moral principles.

The nones were also slightly less likely in 2014 to pray daily (20 % vs. 22 %) and to say religion was very important to them (13 % vs. 16 %) than they were in 2007.

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.

Being spiritual and not believing in religion means not having to adhere to dogmas, it means LESS limits, limits (in thinking and belief) that traditional religions often impose.

In the face of his predecessor Sydney Ahlstrom, who made much of the Puritan thread in American religion, Butler announces a program that attaches less importance to Puritanism and more to what he calls throughout the book «religious eclecticism.&raquIn the face of his predecessor Sydney Ahlstrom, who made much of the Puritan thread in American religion, Butler announces a program that attaches less importance to Puritanism and more to what he calls throughout the book «religious eclecticism.&raquin American religion, Butler announces a program that attaches less importance to Puritanism and more to what he calls throughout the book «religious eclecticism.»

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

None the less, the resulting divisions of the church were to weaken it in the eastern Mediterranean world and make it vulnerable to the spread of the new religion of Islam in the seventh century.

Butler shows how in the early national period, as the line of distinction between religion and the civil authorities («separation of church and state») developed and the citizenry relied ever less on the government for things spiritual or ecclesiastical, church life prospered.

However, we certainly do not believe in the hundreds of god's that currently exist, the tooth fairy, santa clause, nor the fable of the Creation of the Earth some 6000 years ago or less depending on which religion one follows.

The whole article is little more than desperate christian rationalization - an attempt to stay pertinent in a world that has increasingly less use for religion.

I'm answering to the question of religion preventing violence in terms of the sum total of violence — is there more or less violence with religion.

Less familiar are two further aspects developed in his systematic theology: his understanding of the intuition of the infinite and his view of religion as the struggle for truth.

Putting the kibosh /» google» on all religion and its lack of relevance to preventling violence in less than ten seconds: Priceless!!!

We have religious freedom in this country, which means I couldn't care less whether or not you think I'm going to hell, and there's nothing you can do to force your religion on me.

The distinctive denominational claims of all — catholic and protestant — have grown less spiritual with the years and therefore more foreign to the religion of Christ, so that the world has judged the religion thus set forth as in large part fictitious, and from it the multitudes are slowly turning away.

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.&raquIn 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.&raquin Europe, home to vociferous critics of religion like Richard Dawkins, and those who find belief in a higher power simply unnecessary, like Stephen Hawking.&raquin a higher power simply unnecessary, like Stephen Hawking.»

This morning CNN's expert panel appeared to be unanimous that an academic discussion of religion was less useful than belief in something that resulted in being kind to our fellow man.