Sentences with phrase «less than a religion»

For Rorty, that dream is nothing less than a religion, of whom the chief apostles are Walt Whitman and John Dewey, and of which America is the New Jerusalem.

Literature itself (no less than religion) is, in this view, an ideology, with the most intimate relations to social power.

For Abraham Walkowitz art was never less than a religion, and the artistic profession akin to a sacred calling.

Drought doesn't exist in a vacuum any less than religion and tribal ways and geopolitics and the oil / gas business don't.

Not exact matches

'' [SodaStream's] issues involve politics, ideological differences, religion, and management that appears to have been less than truthful and fair with internal and external audiences,» Smith says.

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.

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.

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

a neo-progressive civil religion, that of Franklin Roosevelt, which is less a new dispensation than a more pragmatic version of Wilson's internationalism;

common guys you are powerful beings... take your power back and eliminate all this man made religion... religion is not god is not allah or whatever you want to call it RELIGION IS A BUSINESS... religion mission is to exploit your emotional system and tell you that you are less than you are... BUT YOU ARE BIG AND POWERFUL religion... religion is not god is not allah or whatever you want to call it RELIGION IS A BUSINESS... religion mission is to exploit your emotional system and tell you that you are less than you are... BUT YOU ARE BIG AND POWERFUL religion is not god is not allah or whatever you want to call it RELIGION IS A BUSINESS... religion mission is to exploit your emotional system and tell you that you are less than you are... BUT YOU ARE BIG AND POWERFUL RELIGION IS A BUSINESS... religion mission is to exploit your emotional system and tell you that you are less than you are... BUT YOU ARE BIG AND POWERFUL religion mission is to exploit your emotional system and tell you that you are less than you are... BUT YOU ARE BIG AND POWERFUL BEINGS..

«The Hispanic community, however, is not immune from the nation's growing secularism, which concerns all religions, as church attendance seems less important to people,» Walsh continued, «and people move from religion to religion and declare themselves spiritual rather than religiously affiliated.»

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...

Taken as a whole they've made a very compelling argument that the explanations of the universe provided by both science and religion are incomplete and always evolving, and that one perspective is no more or less valid than another.

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.

Is satanism less of a religion than all the other similarly made up and ridiculous religions??

This video has less to do with religion than with acceptance.

(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.)

According to the work produced by David B. Barrett's religious statistics organisation (FYI, the man was a Christian no less) atheists number more than Jews, Sikh's, Shintos, Baha'is, Jains, combined, and if you want to consider all «non - religious / secular / agnostic / atheist» together, since the whole «non-religion» movement is kinda riddled with people who find conontations of words like «atheist» to be bad enough to not want to declare themselves atheist, you'll find the number of that non-religious group also amounts more than those religions plus buddhism, and taoism or even Confucianism.

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.

I have less of a problem with romneys religion than I have with his absolute spinelessness.

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

The details of law and the vital debates over the personhood of the fetus mattered far less than the success of a continuing ideological war to liberate women from male domination, orthodox religion, and oppressive notions of traditional sexual morality.

It would be my opinion that the LDS have stood for bigotry no less than any of the other major religions.

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

Those of a less determinist mind look upon culture and religion as examples of the human ability to transcend our genes, to see ourselves as more than our inheritance.

Lengthy and long winded to prove a point — that there have been countless gods and religions throughout history, none any more or less credible than any others.

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.

So less conflict with «religion» than not it would seem.

And that is a purely faith based ideology, no more or less so than Christianity or any other of the world's religions.

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.

Thus, language, law, science, art, manners, customs, history, and tradition are elaborations of the human spirit no less than is religion.

He conveniently overlooks certain other considerations favorable to socialism; when these considerations are given their due, even some practical people unafflicted by the need for a secular religion will find the alleged superiority of capitalism something less than obvious.

I think religious people aren't necessarily less intelligent or less educated than atheists — although a disproportionate number of highly educated people tend to reject religion.

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.

Then try to use religions to hide their less than humane demeanor!

Every time I interact with a Muslim I am aware that his religion considers me less than human for not sharing his beliefs.

Miller and Hoffmann said that only one other gender difference is similar to the one involving religion: females are far less likely than males to commit violent crimes.

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.

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.

Its real intent was more than plain ridicule and insult of Mohammed and Islam but rather not less than creating war and chaos between all religions.

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.

It is less inclined toward the psychology of religion or the sociology of religion than toward the theology of personhood and the theology of society.

So no, people with religion are much less adept than nonbelievers at coming up with creative solutions to problems.

Of course, one of the reasons religion disappears as we approach the present is that contemporary societies are much less religious than previous civilizations.

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.

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