Sentences with phrase «many secular people»

But don't you dare go making sweeping generalizations of secular people who are kind, peace loving and law abiding... unlike some people of faith who harbor child abusers within their own confines.

As social scientist Arthur Brooks has documented, religious people give far more to all manner of do - gooding than do secular people.

The history of many secular people is far less bloodstained than their christian counter parts.

I'm a very secular person and I don't really subscribe to any religion, but I think in doing this, she reveals herself as the stuck - up, conceited, and holier - than - thou person she truly is.

«I know secular people don't get it,» he says.

They don't help us secular people, all they do is give ammunition to the Sarah Palins of the country.

Secular people are responsible for nasty things, too.

But a religious person needs him as much as the secular person, because the modern Protestant or Catholic or Jew has plenty of trouble hearing God's voice.

I do believe that most contemporary secular people are not asking if there is life after death, but if there is life before death.

Ancient peoples were smarter and wiser than most secular people give them credit for.

While the modern secular person dismisses Being altogether, the modern religious person meets Being only on consecrated ground: it is all deafness to Being, one way or the other.

So I assume you're trying to convince secular people like myself.

Far from surrendering to the self - obsessed therapeutic culture Hitchens decries, AA regularly brings thoroughly secular people into an authentic personal relationship with the living God, and most of our meetings even close with a recitation of the Lord's Prayer.

Secular people can be extremely aggressive.

Why doesn't he get a non secular job and develop relationships with non secular people?

In my experience, moderately religious or secular people don't get themselves addicted to drugs or behaviors.

This is a sort of religiosity that it is difficult for modern, secular people to understand and appreciate; she goes against the grain not only of the more obvious kind of rationalistic secularism embodied in Rayber but against all of the best in liberal Christianity, whether Catholic or Protestant.

Secular people «fall in love».

A secular person would have walked!

His book How to Reach Secular People is good, as is James Emery White's book called The Rise of the Nones: Understanding and Reaching the Religiously Unaffiliated.

«Don't worry, cool, liberated secular people.

It was done with the best of motives, a desire to make the gospel meaningful to the modem person but it resulted in a systematic revision of an Christian categories and, ironically, an almost total failure to reach the secular person for Christ.

Ask the pastor sitting on his righteous throne to explain how it is that during the holocaust it was secular people who were more likely to help the Jews than the Christians.

What is strange, to me, is that when I show my true self as a proactive Christian man, I'm accepted by secular people and people of other faiths and rejected by... you guessed it... churchgoers.

Religious believers certainly cause their share of trouble, and can be obnoxiously close - minded to new insights and outsiders, but there're also not universally a den of vipers; religious people are more likely to donate to charities (including secular ones) and volunteer for civic groups than secular people, for instance.

«Most of my time I'm speaking to secular people and I'm saying, «You know, you may think religion is for idiots, but...» «I've switched 180 degrees from where I thought religion was for children essentially — people who had no education, people who had this infantile relationship to the world and needed some sort of fi gurehead to help them,» he continues.

What would this look like for this minority view to also become known, by religious and secular people alike, as the most life - giving view?

Postliberal thinkers have to find new ways to connect with the secular people who surround them, Green urges.

Bonhoeffer reminds us that it is Christ, and Christ alone, who validates the world of responsible secular people.

If Jews are more successful than most people, it's because a secular person has an advantage over a mystic, which would be true of any secular person, of any ethnic background.

I believe most gay people on this site believe God created them with sex organs and a mind that is contrary to their physical sexual identity... The argument comes when Christian or secular people define normal differently, namely that males can only be males and females can only be females.»

The argument comes when Christian or secular people define normal differently, namely that males can only be males and females can only be females.

There is still sin though, its just like everything else the secular people want any hint of God out of Society.

The secular people, well it's not just secular people, the people of this nation and other nations as well, spend so much money on nonsense that if it could have been used to help the unfortunate in this world, there would be no hunger.

Their religious understanding is limited; they know about as much as any secular person, which is to say, very little.

Secular people can have those values also without any need for delusional and fake authority being involved.

It mews that we all — religious and secular persons alike — need to find effective responses to the growing fragmentation and deterioration of the civil sphere.

we do not agree... MY point is that the SECULAR people say it is just a theology book..

If you're a secular person today, Christianity will never demand that kind of intellectual schizophrenia.

[T] he number of the devout people in the country is increasing, as well as the number of secular people.

Paradoxically, this process frustrates the spiritual desires of many modern secular people, who are unsatisfied with thin consumerism and wish to participate in something greater than themselves.

Reading this verse, we must take in account that it was written for devout Christians and not for secular people.

Among the various good reasons why the company forbids secular persons to enter our cells, the principal one is that thus we may the easier be kept in poverty.

We rational secular people should be scared, very scared of these fear mongerers.

Sure, very secular people tend to be Democratic.

The Marxist philosopher Ernst Bloch thinks that the relative neglect of the problem of death in modern secular thought is due to the unconscious influence of inherited Christian views: «Thus in its ability to suppress the anxiety of all earlier times, apparently this quite shallow courage [of modern secular people] feasts on a borrowed credit card.

So here's my counter-thesis: The loss of a Catholic presence in mainstream literary culture is not because we are suffering from a dearth of gifted Catholic writers but because ideological blinders have prevented religious and secular people alike from perceiving and engaging the work that is out there.

We all know a secular person or three who converted, a Jew for Jesus, a Catholic who switched, a mainstream Protestant's child who was Campus Crusaded and is born again, but there seems to have been no move of a cohort, no mass migration into evangelicalism and conservative Protestantism.

In this way, conventionally religious and secular persons alike may learn to think less in terms of static states of interior, privatized subjectivity, and more in terms of processive - relational modes of doing.

Commenting on the spiritual impasse Americans are experiencing as secular people who seek meaning in such «diversity, complexity, [and] richness» that they fear being overcome, Oppenheimer suggested: