Sentences with phrase «like organized religion»

Its kind of like organized religion.....

How very like organized religion to try and snow everyone and manipulate the political narrative to protect their own interests.

NO, NO, NO I am sorry I am not a racist but I see the Muslin religion as de evil that is spreading all over the World with one mission, to convert as many as possible into the brain wash religion (I don't like any organized religion) but the Muslin is a very dangerous one, you can argue with Christian, Catholic, Evangelicals and they will not tried to kill you (they might try to take your rights way but not kill).

Our church council used to joke that anyone who did not like organized religion would love our congregation.

It is totally irrational just like the organized religions of the world.

Not exact matches

I'd be willing to bet that the 20 unaffiliated percent (of which I am a part) is more due to the rise of agnosticism and of organized religion shooting itself in the foot by supporting buffoons like Rick Santorum.

wow thank you for sharing that!sadly stories like this are all to common and its ironic to hear church leaders acting all confused why so many young people are leaving organized religion in vast numbers.

People like DF are precisely and exactly the reason that organized religion tends to make me throw - up a little.

I urge you, fellow atheists, remember, we are united in a belief, but we are NOT an organized religion, so let's stop acting like it.

Seems to me from a few of these posts that some Atheists want to push their agenda on everyone else just like other organized religions.

A «Christian College» seems like a contradiction in terms; to survive, organized religion actively nurtures and is wholly dependent on ignorance.

I just feel like he's cut his strings from organized religion, but I think he's going to learn a lot about God.

Since organized religion and political systems often develop in tandem, its really impossible to separate the political motivations of events like the crusades from the religious ones

17th century thinkers like John Locke saw the horrors that organized religion brought on the world with the Thirty Years War.

I have a theory that SBNRs are so because one or more or a combination of the following: (1) they can't justify their spiritual texts - and so they try to remove themselves from gory genocidal tales, misogyny and anecdotal professions of a man / god, (2) can't defend and are turned off by organized religious history (which encompasses the overwhelming majority of spiritual experiences)- which is simply rife with cruelty, criminal behavior and even modern day cruel - ignorant ostracization, (3) are unable to separate ethics from their respective religious moral code - they, like many theists on this board, wouldn't know how to think ethically because they think the genesis of morality resides in their respective spiritual guides / traditions and (4) are unable to separate from the communal (social) benefits of their respective religion (many atheists aren't either).

People like me go to churches like mine because it's all the organized religion they can handle.

There were some noble reasons to try and organize ancient peoples, but in our current stage in history, religion has become an outdated, hypocritical source of leadership motivated by power and greed like all big business.

a set of values, beliefs, and structure in a person's life in order to give them direction and a sense of right and wrong is fine, but organized religions are no more than large corporations, and like any large corporation are only focused on their bottom line... trying to control the public and extract as much money as they can from them by any means necessary... promoting fear, uncertainty, hate and a sense that they alone can offer salvation... for a price (although they are very cleaver about getting to this hidden and unspoken cost... after all these hundreds of years they have perfected their craft well!)

I mention, only because my... paradigm (I'm not much on beliefs, in the usual organized religion sense)... includes a «Divine» of my own definition, that equates to something like «awe of life, love, and knowing that there is much we don't know» (< — sorry, not the easiest thing for me to get into words, hopefully that gets the gist of it) that I don't see as a «personal other», but, in my paradigm, I see that Divine as being systemic to everything, hence insights from what I learn / experience can be termed as the Divine acting.

inotherwards why can't our president be a agnostic or a buddist or even a good muslim or a hindi or admit he's not comfortable with organized religion???? Who really give a sh @@ t??? let's concentrate on the important issues, like the inability of this countries middle class to make ends meet!!!

I believe that the organized religions would like us to close our minds and follow them blindly.

I come here hoping to have reasonable discussions with folk who like logic and reason and just havn't figured out how they have been lied to and manipulated by organized religion yet.

Selling out your intellect because you're mentally lazy is one thing, constantly yammering at me to do the same (proselitizing) is another and that's where organized religion starts looking like to me like a giant scam.

Let's face it folks the vatican is mereley the mafia - like hq of a BIG, POWERFULworldwide organized crime and pedophile protection organization under the cloak of religion!

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He is the poster child for everything that is wrong in organized religion, and it is sad that there are more like him than you can imagine.

It's nut jobs like this that give christianity a bad name, which in my point of view is good, organized religion is evil, and the faster we get rid of religion the better this world will be.

We, as atheists, are not an organized religion and we need to stop acting like it.

By the way, I'm a Christian, but when I talk about these types of things I like to ignore all organized religion and just focus on the idea of a «creator» as it makes things much simpler.

But that's not a requirement, and claiming that it is, and that those who have rejected organized religion are simply too lazy and wishy - washy to take a stand, well, it makes you sound like you're throwing a tantrum because the churches are losing their power bases.

And what are these dangers the author keeps mentioning but not enumerating and how do they compared to the dangers posed by organized religion and other organized philosophies like fascism and communism, «manifest destiny» and other philosophies that those oh so nobly «organized» people have «blessed» us with over the centuries?

People like Long are the epitome of what is wrong with organized religion.

It's a far - flung concept — one that's been rejected by famous atheists like Sam Harris and Richard Dawkins, who have dedicated their lives to fighting against all organized religion.

«God has no place within these walls, just like facts don't have a place within an organized religion.»

I feel like I should clarify, to be fair, that I'm thoroughly and completely agnostic, and tend to treat organized religion with huge buckets full» o skepticism.

Sounds like you are doing the same thing you accuse organized religions of doing.

I've known people like this in organized religion as well.

Like so many in modern secular society, I considered myself spiritual but shunned most of the practices and beliefs associated with organized religion.

The problem is that organized religions claim that they can explain it, but their explanations are without merit and rely on blind faith, which leads to a host of problems like suicide bombers believing in 40 virgins after death, or bigotry against gays, to name just a couple examples.

The issue of organized religion is like career politicians, once a group discovers they can make a career of it and make money it gets corrupted.

Islam, like all other organized religions, have chosen a blind eye to view the GENOCIDAL effect in our land and upon our people since their arrivals.

Thankfully, I had to be around a lot of arrogant religous fools (like you) when I was young and that provided all the evidence I need... organized religion is the greatest scam ever perpetrated on mankind and is the root of most evil.

It means that there will always be a need within organized religions, and in spite of organized religions, for the heretical and the heterodox, always a need for people like me to close their remarks and listen carefully to what others have to say.

In that respect belonging to an organized religion is a lot like living in New Jersey.

I like you hate the corruption of what should be believe systems that benefit mankind mostly by organized religion in this «fallen» world.I think that Islam could well bring about a very destructive third world war.

Sure, I think there are great aspects of organized religion, like setting a good moral compass, however when you take the text literally it's akin to believing in Santa Claus.

Like Bellah, Habermas perceives a serious degree of erosion associated with institutionalized religion — so much so in fact that he seldom bothers to discuss organized religion.

It's behavior like this that turns the rational man away from organized religion forever.

To those of us who view organized religion as evil every one of the religions appear to be «cult - like».

We need a category called «seekers, for those like me who reject mainstream organized religion but continue to «seek» understanding.