Sentences with phrase «majority of religious people»

In addition, the vast majority of religious people I know don't even contemplate this (which tells you their pastor, Sunday school teacher, etc. isn't bringing it up).

All of these approaches are valid and rational and reasonable, and based on the fact that this man's actions are inconsistent both with the non-religious person's experiences, and what the non-religious person sees the vast majority of religious people doing, we can say that this man was most likely delusional.

The majority of religious people are remaining silent on the rapid increase in incarceration and even more quiet on the unfair, racially imbalanced and bankrupting threat of America's drug laws.

the majority of religious people have NO training in esoteric philosophy and therefore fail at understanding the true message of Christ.

Not exact matches

Majority of Atheists don't understand the purpose of religion, while on the other side most religious people don't understand their religion.

The Vatican is NOT talking about those people who are the majority of Catholic religious.

Opus Dei is a religious order founded in 1928 and made up of roughly 90,000 members, the vast majority of whom are lay people.

Actually, it stands to reason that if there are 7 billion people in the world and a majority of them are religious, then the few that aren't religious CAN be considered «special».

The majority of LGBT people and supporters accept a large number of people, because they see how often religious groups do not.

Were religious people promoting peace when they voted down gay marriage (a civil rights issue, opponents of which will be viewed in the same light as the opponents against civil rights in the 50s and 60s) You are just so comfortable in the majority, you can't see the prejudice and bias you put on people that aren't like you.

That's true and a majority of people who are into such major events (and also large religious gatherings) are religious and superstitious and love to PANIC!

People like you really have to come to grips with the fact that a majority in this country oppose your attempt to impose your religious beliefs on us through the force of law.

As a world leader for freedom and the protection of basic human rights, the United States should take every opportunity to advocate for people — including Americans here at home — to think, believe, and act according to their religious belief whether they belong to a minority or majority religion in their nation.»

The Dutch people are tolerant, he told me, and hence in Amsterdam, there are no ethnic or religious minorities, an achievement made possible by the fact that although a majority of residents are of Dutch descent, only around 25 percent call themselves Christian.

I assumed this hard - core complementarian Calvinist was just going along with the majority, just making the easiest decisions, just bumbling along without considering the views or experiences of other people so that his safe little religious world would remain intact.

Soon, the majority of people are going to see the religious for what they are.

But do you think that maybe the majority of the body of religious in general (religious being the majority of the planet, and about 85 % of the USA) are decent folk, and not like these politicians, and that maybe you are offending a lot of good people.

I would like to suggest the opposite, that not only in leadership, but in the people inside the church, outside of the church, and in the majority of all humanity, secular and religious, there lies a profound and deep fear of powerlessness.

It's their way or the highway and to compromise is to show a lack of faith which means you have one side willing to make exceptions for all peoples religions as long as they don't force it on others, and the religious side that says making exceptions or compromising is against their religion so if they are not a majority in the democracy they instead decide to play obstructionist.

A lot of muslims are nice and they're just normal people, but the vast religious majority hates non-muslims.

Author John Charles Cooper, dean of academic affairs at Winebrenner Theological Seminary, sums up the situation: «People do feel that religion is losing its influence on society, and they may be right — but the majority of people do not wish this to be true, and so it is an important time to be publishing good religious People do feel that religion is losing its influence on society, and they may be right — but the majority of people do not wish this to be true, and so it is an important time to be publishing good religious people do not wish this to be true, and so it is an important time to be publishing good religious books.

, I was concerned about the rise of the religious right, the moral majority — not because of the politics, but because a lot of people think that's the way to make America a Christian country again, whatever that means.

The task for the morning was to identify the religious feelings of people we work with, especially among the excluded majority.

Religious people seem to think that since they are a majority, and their brand of belief is dominant (if not examined closely), everyone else can just look the other way or close their ears.

The vast majority of people in the country do not want to turn this into 1 giant religious country!

When religious people stop attempting to codify their religious beliefs into our laws just because they are the majority and think they have some kind of divine right to do so, then they wouldn't need to be bad mouthed.

Eberstadt writes: «But the majority of people, to continue this complementary religious anthropology, do not re-invent the theological wheel this way.

Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks has made a compelling case for the creative and culturally dynamic role that religious minorities can play, even in societies where the majority of people deeply oppose their religious inclinations, as was the case for much of the history of the Jewish people in....

What I find funny about your conclusions is that the vast majority of atheist persons did not come from atheist households but came from religious households, so the retention rates don't really matter.

majority of people who claim to be, «religious,» are hypocrites and bend and twist the words of there religion to fit there own needs, and use it as a means to an end for all types of things.

The number of people that now call themselves non-religious has increased so rapidly that the majority of non-believers were at some point religious.

One of the many attacks on our country from the Religious Right is the claim that our country is a Christian Nation... not just that the majority of people are Christians, but that the country itself was founded by Christians, for Christians.

From reading the posts on this blog, along with other posts on other blogs, it seems that the majority of people against abo - rtions are also religious and against bigger government.

Faith in Public Life: People of Faith Support Minimum Wage Raise Majorities of all religious groups favor increasing the minimum wage from $ 7.25 an hour to $ 10.00 an hour, including black Protestants (87 %), Catholics (73 %), Americans who are religiously unaffiliated (68 %), white mainline Protestants (61 %) and white evangelical Protestants (61 %).

On the basis of the majority of the identified perpetrators of September 11 being Saudi Arabians, including the alleged plotter and financier, Osama bin Laden, one could conclude that what has been behind the September 11 incident, and some of the earlier incidents of terror, is the religious worldview of the Wahhabiya (ahl - al - tawhid «People of Unity») movement.

Members of these religious bodies today are children of the people who, coming to majority after World War II, finally lost the capacity as citizens to be genuine political actors in America.

I think the only reason why a majority of people believe the religious nonsense if because they have been brainwashed since birth to believe this crap.

Had the majority allowed the definition of marriage to be left to the political process — as the Constitution requires — the People could have considered the religious liberty implications of deviating from the traditional definition as part of their deliberative process.

«As several of the dissenting opinions pointed out, though, the majority opinion did not very strongly affirm the religious freedom of persons and organizations that for religious reasons believe in the historic conception of marriage,» said Carlson - Thies.

I find it difficult to believe God / Jesus would approve of tattoos but whatever, the amount of people who are truly christian is very low anyhow, If you ask me the desire to tattoo religious imagery onto yourself is quite shallow / conceited and I'm almost certain these people are just pretending to be something they're not in an effort to fit in or be «cool», like the majority of so - called «Christians» Jesus will turn away from them and will «profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.»

From what I've seen, there isn't much difference in religious people and atheists because majority of atheists come from religious backgrounds (parents, grandparents), so their moral system is something inherited from them.

Despite the denials, majority of people raise their kids religious (but not so religious) and this includes ALL religions!

The majority of 1700 comments here are posted by atheists attacking religious people

As noted, the majority of the audience of religious television programs are people who are already actively involved in a local church and there is therefore little empirical evidence to support the contention that religious programs on television are «draining people out of the local churches.»

I think the majority of Christians, and most religious people, are absolutely crazy.

They are not now convincing the huge majority that to take the life of an embryo in order to save the life of a mother is simple «murder,» as the bumper - stickers (but not most people in the reasoned, religious, Christian and even Catholic traditions before 1973) would have it.

While others in the burgeoning Christian Right wanted to organize only among their own flocks, the Moral Majority chief pushed an idea called co-belligerency: people of different religious backgrounds setting aside theological differences to pursue common political goals.

Yet the great majority of people in the world live under regimes that are either constitutional theocracies — where religion is formally enshrined in the state — or where religious affiliation is a pillar of collective political identity.

«The vast majority of people in Britain are not members of any local church, religious group or community, and so to lay such emphasis on religious identities as being the ones most important for encouraging voluntary work or community building is misguided.»

BHA Chief Executive Andrew Copson, who was on the steering group for the review, commented, «Government surveys have suggested that a majority or perhaps even two - thirds of young people today are not religious, so for religious education to remain relevant it is vital that this large group's beliefs are taught about alongside those of their religious peers.