Sentences with phrase «life of a religious person»

Now we have atheists worrying about the s e x lives of religious ppl.

Hey Swine, show me one single post here where an atheist cares about the sex life of a religious person.

On the contrary, I feel that there must be a void in the lives of religious people to feel that they need to force themselves to keep believing in these silly myths in order to have a reason to do good things and be good people... that it's not enough for them to be «good» for the sake of goodness, for the sake of our society and our world... that they must believe that there is to be some great reward for themselves or some great punishment after death in order to motivate them to be good.

But religious love is only man's natural emotion of love directed to a religious object; religious fear is only the ordinary fear of commerce, so to speak, the common quaking of the human breast, in so far as the notion of divine retribution may arouse it; religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge; only this time it comes over us at the thought of our supernatural relations; and similarly of all the various sentiments which may be called into play in the lives of religious persons.

The sacramental life of religious people to this day carries with it metaphors (such as the dying and rising of a god) that owe their original meaning to the religious imaginations of our forbears of the early agricultural period.

Not exact matches

These are «immoral» thoughts or urges that contradict the deeply held beliefs of people who live with them, like a religious Jew constantly imagining eating a pig.

Graham was the most prominent religious leader of his era, converting 3 million people to dedicate their lives to Christianity.

For years, I watched in horror as most of the most remarkable, honest, hard working, compassionate, productive, contributing & patriotic; people one could ever hope to know in life & have the privilege of calling friends; die a slow, agonizing, disfiguring & vastly premature death, amidst the muted joy & exaltation of conservative religious groups & individuals.

Such a new ecclesiastical body is designed to allow these pathetic human beings, who are so deeply locked into a world that no longer exists, to form a community in which they can continue to hate gay people, distort gay people with their hopeless rhetoric and to be part of a religious fellowship in which they can continue to feel justified in their homophobic prejudices for the rest of their tortured lives.

In a study that comes as a surprise to approximately no Christian under the age of 40, the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project says technology use among religious people is no different than among anybody else.

Mr. Hawking wins easy battles against uneducated (in science) religious persons, but taking his statement on perspective, He is based on assumptions with serious underlying problems, basically everything from mathematics, to the incompatibility of quantum mechanics and relativity, and the lack of proof and evidence for string theories, he is launching a very aggressive statement, probably his last effort on life to counter the anthropomorphic ideas of God, and this is very common in all scientists.

If you want to keep people focused on your religion as a unifying set of moral and practical codes to live by, make attendence to religious services and taking the day off work to attend mandatory or else it is a sin punishable by death.

It is not fair to simply group all believers of a religious into disillusioned when many people say they live their lives only through faith.

«People who find themselves wanting to insert religious texts and religious authority into public life,» he said, «are in fact recognizing something correct: namely, the nonneutrality of secular reason.»

Let's not forget what and how America was suposedly started as a place of relgious freedom by the pilgrams (according to so called american history books) these religious people proceeded to rob & kill the Indians who saved their lives, take & kill Mexicans for land & gold & oil enslave a whole group of people as property for financial gain all under the guise of being good «Christians» (WHITE) and now perceive all «Muslims» (NON-WHITE) are evil unless proven otherwise.

As Christians spread their religion into Europe in the first centuries A.D., they ran into people living by a variety of local and regional religious creeds.

I am really angry that religious people are unable to face the facts of life, reality, science, reason, logic, and that this causes them to waste their time, my time, vital resources, and to interfere in things they have no business interfering in as they violate the law, common sense, and refuse to respect any other people.

The life or condition of a person in a religious order.

I have heard deeply thoughtful religious leaders acknowledge that they came late to an appreciation of the pandemic, that preconceptions influenced their initial reactions, that some leaders have taken harsh stances (for example, refusing to bury people whose families acknowledge that they died of AIDS), and that their focus on ideal behaviors can obscure what is real and live.

People on both sides of the religious issue have some insane desire to dictate how other live.

Well it is true that some people seek sorcerers to implement Jinn that are satanic demons into mankind or his house or his business to finish him or make his life miserable or to stop flow of his business income... In such case it is either you are religious enough and say your prayers often then it becomes hard for this to harm you or otherwise you need to find some one who practice exorcism to remove this evil... But many are just pretending to be good at it and help you not but squeeze money out of you with tales and stories... There is another type of possessions and that is not through a sorcerer but directly by coincidence what man is at his weakest moments and those weakest moments for a possessions are when you come through a great fear or when cry or laugh loudly in hysteria, or during a certain moment of mating... or even when sneezing loudly... That's why there are prayers to be said on daily basis to guard you from such things and specially if passing haunted places such as deserted houses but most evil ones are residents of public toilets and market places... Some of them even would claim that you have made a wrong action by which you have killed a dear one to them and for that they have possessed you and that is mostly night time such as throwing a cigaret butt to a dark place or stepping killing an insect or even an animal at night which could have been one of them or possessed by one of them... So this is true thing happening to many who suffer unexplainable illnesses or sufferings which could look like mental illness that comes and goes as pleased...

If the righteous «religious» folks spend half as much time worry about their own lives and morals instead of butting into other people's, we'd all be better off.

At the time of death, there are no books or philosophy, or even religious teachings... It's just you and your loved ones, alive or dead, but only the closest people in your life.

It's called deconstruction and the GOP is leading the way because, as this nation knows all too well, the religious right of America hates to pay a fair living wage to workers, they prefer to enslave people to serve them.

I'm not a very religious person in my daily life, but those were some of the most spiritually clear moments that I have had.

My great question of the day is why does the God of the religious right and his followers seem ubiquitously obsessed with other people's sex lives?

It was a religious community and a bunch of loving people who helped Lucas deal with his CP and find meaning and joy in his life, and also helped a man who lost his son get through life in this cold and uncaring universe.

the point is that no one should have to live according to the religious beliefs of other people.

>> Nothing scares us about a cross but if you're going to place a cross then you must also place a religious symbol to represent the belief's of all the people who lost their lives that day.

Religious people tend to believe humans are a separate form of life created a few thousand years ago totally apart from all other life.

I find it funny though that Theo seems to be trying to point out that Hawking alluded to alien origins of life but forgets that he and every single religious person on the planet believe that aliens seeded, and in fact created our planet.

I guess I'm one of the very few people living in the 21st century, where the religious belive of a person are their own personal issue.

Those people who were in the Klan or any other religious organization claimed to be closer to God and felt they had the right to proclaim others way of life as wrong.

I used to live in the south and used to work for a company that was mostly comprised of very religious people.

Considering the track - record of religious violence throughout history, I'd say that puts YOU on the list to have your privacy violated to save the lives of the people you are terrorizing and oppressing with your religious - motivated CHOICES.

I think a lot of agnostic / atheist people would be perfectly content to live their lives without making their personal convictions a crusade if the other side didn't make a crusade out of their religious beliefs.

The point is not trying to force people to believe the same as the atheist; the point is to respect all people, allow them to live as they believe best, and do not allow people in positions of power or government to force their religious beliefs upon others.

Christianity isn't a religion as much it's a religious smorgasbord, ideal for the church - shopping crowd, people who want all the benefits of the core narrative but want to be able to pick and choose how and to what extent they have to incorporate it into their daily lives.

Each society has its own religious system, and the propagation of such a complete system would involve propagating the entire life of the people concerned» (ARP 5).

It will «need religious people who live with moral integrity and show the power of their ideas in practice.»

Christianity isn't a religion, it's a religious smorgasbord, ideal for the church - shopping crowd, people who want all the benefits of the core narrative but want to be able to pick and choose how and to what extent they have to incorporate it into their daily lives.

If the religious life of the person in question is itself an abomination, because false, that is another story.

Why are so many religious people this insecure over one man of faith trying something different with his life?

However, I have lived most of my life in more populated / diverse areas and most of the religious people I know seem to think the stories in the bible are just as crazy as I do.

My impression of these religious leaders was that they used tradition and their external «holy appearance» as a means of authority to simply govern people's lives and not truly lead them to God.

It's a shame that religious people don't get that moment of clarity when they die that they were wrong and wasted their lives on utter stupidity.

As Jacques Dupuis put it, Vatican II affirmed positive elements not only in the personal lives of people of other faiths but in the religious traditions to which they belong.

The awareness of the particularity, indeed the precious particularity, of our language, «even the language of «God» and «salvation,» made some unwilling to use» it to blanket the religious lives and experiences of people of other faiths.

It provided a respite, a space for repentance, before the final stroke fell; and so far as we can see, it was because of that respite that the Jewish people, unlike their kinsfolk of the north, survived the utter destruction of their state, and lived to hand on a great religious inheritance to the wider world.

I think they are people that host sodomite businesses and will even reap a person's life for any amount of [religious] currency.