Sentences with phrase «like out of a religion»

For most people I recommend taking what they like out of a religion and leaving the rest, in your case I'll reconsider that idea.

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The very first thing is to get business out of government just like we did with religion.

Also, the majority of us are forced into Christianity from birth... later on to find out that there are more peaceful religions out there... like Buddism

One day people will grow out of this religious tribalism... Nothing fails like god / religion; Only greed keeps it afloat; Like Nigerian like god / religion; Only greed keeps it afloat; Like Nigerian Like Nigerian scam

A company that even printed out a contract like that would be liable under the Civil Rights Act, because it is illegal to discriminate in employment decisions on the basis of religion.

I don't like it when atheists want to secularize our culture and shut out any public mention of religion... But I also don't like it when modern evangelical fundamentalists are so ignorant of the Christian Church's teachings and traditions of two thousand years.

My thought, if there is some sort of God or being out there, he certainly isn't like anything any religion envisions as God.

So relieved to read the comments (a lot of sensible people here in America are voicing out their thoughts re: this article) following this plastic fantastic comparison of chairs used in the east and the west - a chair is just a chair - like Dionne Warwick sang... people in America know their minds now and hand manipulation of religion in every way possible is out the door.

99.9 % of Religion in this day is like a very bad used car salesmen trying to sell you something to get your money and you drive off thinking you got something nice and you what you are getting is a clunker that will take you just far enough away that the saleman can steal your money because 99.9 % of what all religions claim about God is just a bunch of lies ON God taken out of context.

Things like that is why relegion is front and center in politics, not because the GOP is trying to get political mileage out of religion.

They still have to comply with federal and state laws, which means gays are out, but everyone else has to be considered for employment by the company (the only exceptions to the law are where your religion or other protected status are essential for the job... for example, a Muslim couldn't sue an Episcopalian church who wouldn't hire them in an administrative role because their faith clashes with that of the church — things like that don't apply to a fast food chain).

The complete and utter absence of any indication that there is a god, let alone one that is like you think he / she / it is, knocks the foundation out from under your religion.

There were of course some who saved records, but for the most part Christianity tended to condemn anything not like them, blamed them as heretics and causes of plagues and poisoners of wells trying to wipe out any alternate religions that remained in Europe through much of the last two thousand years.

I gave up the concept of God when I was 12 years old because I did a little research and found out it's all a bunch of cr ap taken from other religions before it like Zorastrianism.

if the inner of of us started with that we will find out that we were not the only ones needing to change but no Change if we do not started within our own inner selves first «souls» because it is only our souls ride us like untrained wild horses and only with faith and religion we are to train it for total control of the wild horse that lives within us all male or female!?

On the other hand, if your religion tells you things that can't be backed up with good secular arguments (like putting to death or shunning certain «undesirables») then those religious aspects should be kept out of the larger secular world.

Kevin your right personal beliefs and or religion does not belong in law, and I am not saying that what this atheist organization is doing is wrong or anything, I think what there doing is a good thing, I just think this particular message could have been done from a different perspective, this message makes them appear like the self righteous ones, and it might give out the wrong kind of message, instead it should have said something like you believe in god fine, but don't put it in our laws.

This way we can leave religion out of politics like it should be.

But all religions are elitist to a point - they all think they are right and the best - but you can not go out and preach the word of Christ by alienating those you wish to hear the word... it's like someone from a country club going to a homeless person and throwing out all the benefits of the country club and the amazing life of the people who are members... Not exactly welcoming and understanding.

I like how in you're very first sentence, you yourself lash out at a group of people who's perspective you don't understand, without defending your religion at all, then in the very next sentence say you'll «stop here for fear of retaliation for defending your religion».

But the sheer number and variety of Google's holidays make the absence of religion stick out like a bruised reed.

As their view grew with technology they revised and refined their theories and some got thrown completely out of the window, but did they stubbornly stick to their predetermined conclusions despite the facts to the contrary like religion does?

Well thank God (no pun intended) that religion is now dictated by common sense and facts, Its like children with Father Christmas, we grow out of it and logic tells you it just is «nt real.

Your book helps me with my journey out of religion into being what Christ would like me to be each day.

Maybe that has something to do with it, offenders can proclaim the are good even after they are caught breaking the law or breaking the laws of their religion like they have a get out of jail card.

Most governments don't publicly declare their hostility toward religion; they use laws like zoning or employment to push it out of the public square.

I consumed Greek myth like it was going out of style, and started reading books on comparative religion by the fifth grade.

In many places, the growing influence of other major world religions like Hinduism, Buddhism, and Islam has threatened to crowd out the proclamation of the gospel.

I'd like to point out that the writer is not unique, and as member of AA for over 20 years, I have known people to get sober in AA from every religion, denomination as well as other atheists, agnostics or non-believers.

Please for the love of whatever God you believe in stop playing victim like CNN is out to get your religion and convert people away, you just sound like a lunatic waiving a book.

And no one who thinks you're a cannibal for eating the flesh of Jebus has to rent to you, and no one has to let you into their store who thinks your age makes the place look like a place the old fogies hang out, and no one who's religion is fitness has to let fat asses anywhere near them.

Pippa Evans and Sanderson Jones — two British comedians — have opened the Sunday Assembly, which is calling itself the first atheist church in the U.K. «We thought it would be a shame not to enjoy the good stuff about religion, like the sense of community, just because of a theological disagreement,» says Mr. Jones, who once sold out a show the Sydney Opera House by selling all his tickets by hand, which is pretty impressive.

Sociologists of religion like Max Weber and Émile Durkheim have observed that being religious in this broad sense refers not to a matter of personal choice but to a fundamental human drive to make sense out of reality.

I like what you said here Carol «Actually, magical thinking takes the mystery out of religion and puts the believer back in control».

when i was 15 and having doubts, i wish there had been a blog like this, pointing out the ridiculousness of religion.

Like the historian of religion, the biblical theologian ought never set out to update the sense of the Bible, bringing it into the modern world.

The freedom of religion clause in the first amendment was to keep the government from establishing a state religion that all must be party to like it was in England (hince the Church of England) not to keep prayer out of anything the government has it's hands in.

Your arguments try to nullify all the good work done by the Ahmadi Prophet Mirza Ghulam Ahmad to take the violent jihad out of Islam like a malignant cancer and transform it from a primitive, violent version into a modern and respectable religion.

Jim, my friend, Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, prophet or no prophet, was Indian, and that is more than enough for any Pakistanis to kill his followers, wise up and get the hell out of place where you can't practice your religion freely, like Dalai Lama

When atheists like myself point out the destructive forces that religion brings, its the rationalization of the horrendous acts that are carried out, not just the act itself.

You say government needs to stay out of religion — I agree, but that should include eliminating unique benefits like tax breaks, etc..

I really like this cnn religion site and checking out these comments is one of my guilty pleasures but sometimes it just kind of brings you down.

We all know about the peacefulness of the so called religion of peace, so to point out horrendous acts perpertrated by its devotees is like kicking in open doors... But spending billions & billions on preventing 1 individual murder by terrorists (on US soil), is that really smart and proportionate?

I would like to point out that the trraditional «state religion» of progressive socialism is atheism.

This is the very stuff out of which religions like the Nazi religion are eventually compounded.

Even though Jeezus said he was coming back before his generation died out and then failed to do so, they MUST HAVE MEANT something else... like... oh... gee, what can we make up to fit because Jeezus couldn't have been lying or else our religion will fall apart... oh, it MUST HAVE MEANT the entire population of Jews forever and ever on the face of the planet!

Look at the most well known atheists out there right now, people like PZ Myers, Sean Harris, Richard Dawkins, they're among the most liberal people out there who argue vehemently for freedom of religion.

The myth of a mystery religion (or the symbol of the comparative - religious school) could only point Out what ought to be; as the «law» of the Hellenistic world it would simply be a new legalism ending like the Jewish law in despair (Rom.

It is easy to stand and prophecy that in the future there will be strange new religions, that people will do things foreign to our understanding, and swear that our gods will not be pleased... and be correct... because it is the nature of human beings to change, to modify our beliefs to fit our experience, to seek out new understanding, change the way we dress and do our hair, and unfortunately, it is in our nature to fight over stupid crap like land and religion.

Now this all presumes that scripture is a valid source to go to to figure out what this «God» character is like, and the nature of human will (free or not) according to this religion.