Sentences with phrase «mind of a religious person»

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Dawkins argues that while there appear to be plenty of individuals that would place themselves as «1» due to the strictness of religious doctrine against doubt, most atheists do not consider themselves «7» because atheism arises from a lack of evidence and evidence can always change a thinking person's mind.

The distinction the Oliners made between the appropriation of religious traditions by non-rescuers and rescuers comes to mind here: The rescuers tended to understand the inclusiveness and extensiveness of injunctions to love to extend to all persons and groups.

It seems that you have filled your mind to the max of things to prove to religious people that you know what you are talking about.

So many religious people whine about «context, context», yet either never give what the context is in their mind, or the «context» is contradictory to other parts of the bible, and it merely turns into excuses and assertions.

Why do super religious people put such blind faith in other humans to tell them the truth, why can't they read the bible and its history and make up their own minds instead of having the same thoughts their parents or preachers do?

The law and most people's understanding of their rights and yours are clear: People can go on all day expressing their religious beliefs if they want and you are free to express whatever you have on your mind, keep silent, or people's understanding of their rights and yours are clear: People can go on all day expressing their religious beliefs if they want and you are free to express whatever you have on your mind, keep silent, or People can go on all day expressing their religious beliefs if they want and you are free to express whatever you have on your mind, keep silent, or leave.

The people there, Hooper maintains, will remain provoked by «the mind - boggling actions of people who've been in the country a decade and still don't understand the cultural and religious sensitivities.»

This is an example where interpretation can be very dangerous and people allow themselves to be brain washed and follow evil in the name of religious idiology, next people like this will be blaming the woes on our country on the gay / lesbian community, Hitler and Germany come to mind.

Of course, these biblical passages have in mind, in particular, the transmission of a religious tradition: the story of God's care for his peoplOf course, these biblical passages have in mind, in particular, the transmission of a religious tradition: the story of God's care for his peoplof a religious tradition: the story of God's care for his peoplof God's care for his people.

How tolerant are atheists of religious minded people working for them?

The Imams and religious preachers do not discuss the problems which are agitating the minds of the educated people; they are even ignorant of the very existence of such problems.

While reading the English writer and theologian Samuel T. Coleridge, one of the most influential Christians in England and America, Bushnell was persuaded that religious truth was not grasped primarily by the mind but by the response of the whole person centering in the heart and moral nature.

I feel that the religious excitement that is supposed to come to people who meditate on the flame of a single dark candle in an otherwise dark room was no greater than the pleasure I felt when I looked down a gun - sight and become very close to my own mind and consciousness.

Psalm 10: 3 - 4 — This talks about the wicked men, how they do nt have God in their hearts or in their minds, which is a fine piece of scripture but it can hardly be used for either myself or the maker of the video since we both seem to advocate a deep and personal relationship with the Lord rather than letting a group of «religious» people ruin it for you.

Since any rational judgement requires a rational mind, the crazy judgments of religious people are always worthless.

Those who allowed them self to spill blood of a Muslim for any reason religious or non religious, will not mind spilling bloods of any people Muslims or non for any reason they will invent because they became as addicted as those playing it video games on play stations... What is happening to the world?

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 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 religious people are more likely to donate to charities (including secular ones) and volunteer for civic groups than secular people, for instance.

Luke and Camian's study reveals that religious boundaries at the level of belief systems and rituals are not so marked in the minds of the people in villages.

Then there is the sad and, to my mind, unmistakable fact that people who have adopted the so - called «presumption against war» tend to get things wrong, time and again: as the U.S. bishops got the dynamics of the Cold War wrong in their 1983 pastoral letter, «The Challenge of Peace»; as most religious leaders and intellectuals got it wrong in predicting a Middle East Armageddon in the first Gulf War and the recent Iraq War.

Why can't we all just mind our own business when it comes to peoples bedrooms and wedding albums, neither side get's to preach in schools, though I understand how you would think of it as the atheist getting his way by just not having you preach your God to his children in a publicly funded school, but he's not sending an atheist spokesman to influence your children, he just doesn't feel it's right to allow the religious spokesman into the schools to influence any children on his tax dollar.

The Editor in the Preface says that the Tract «polemises against a form of narrow sectarian Secularism which refuses to be sensitive to tradition and faith» and argues that Secularism needs to be rethought taking religious faith seriously, that «only then can Secularism reclaim the ideological space which Fundamentalists are threatening to take over, only then can Secularists capture the minds of the people» (p.vi).

well just thinking about these wars in the muslim / mid-east world over religious differences (which may reflect mental states in many ways) in a world where most realize that living in the present moment is best way to happiness and being in the moment in non-strife and awareness through the teachings of masters such as found in the buddhist, taoist, zen, etc., etc., etc. spriritually based practices of religious like thought and teachings, etc. that to ask these scientifically educated populace whom have access to vast amounts of knowledges and understandings on the internet, etc. to believe in past beliefs that perhaps gave basis and inspiration to that which followed — but is not the end all of all times or knowledges — and is thus — non self - sustaining in a belief that does not encompass growth of knowledge and understanding of all truths and being as it is or could be — is to not respect the intelligence and minds and personage of even themselves — not to be disrespected nor disrespectful in any way — only to point out that perhaps too much is asked to put others into the cloak of blind faith and adherance to the past that disregards the realities of the present and the potential of the future... so you try to live in the past — and destroy your present and your future — where is the intelligence in that — and why do people continually fear monger or allow to be fear — mongered into this destructive vision of the future based upon the past?

Whereas the East was interested in Wisdom, the divine Law, and the Kingship of God, the less abstractly minded, more concretely thinking and believing West — it will be said — demanded the adoration of a person, of a divine - human being, a Son of God, as the center of its religious loyalties.

But once, during the war, the editors pondered foxhole religion and the fact that «every analyst of religious trends in wartime notes a quickening of interest in religion in the minds of many persons who have hitherto been indifferent to it.

There is nothing more painful than the helpless attempt at the interpretation of religious documents or monuments by one who does not know what «awe» is or to whom these testimonies to man's search for communion with ultimate reality are just the dead records of the experience of «sick - minded» or backward people.

Its a good work to use encounters like this to let people see that your not a version of the religious caricatures they usually have in mind about Christian's.

Bearing this in mind, we can nevertheless see that being religious entails having intellectual commitments whose scope is universal; that the institutionally dominant modes under which interaction among serious religious persons now occurs, both within the academy and outside it, largely prevents the airing of intellectual differences, and so inevitably trivializes religious commitments; and that if this distressing situation is to be remedied, the rehabilitation of interreligious polemics is essential.

«The kingdom has drawn near,» Jesus» first proclamation, was followed by healing of bodies and minds; by freeing persons who felt bound; by challenging authorities, religious and secular, when they stepped beyond their limits (the cleansing of the temple; on paying tax).

Religious sales people believe that they can sell their version of Christianity to weak - minded Christians.

Religious people seem to sense that, but spend too much effort tying their minds in an endless loop of symbolism and ritual, and atheists appear to be happy to tie their minds in an endless loop of pseudo-intellectual empirical nonsense.

I believed the religious superiority complex that said only bad people entertained the idea of divorce, so it was never on the table in my mind — but some days, it felt like it should be.

Especially when there are people acting on religious dogma to withhold medical treatment from their children, kill doctors, sabotage the education system, fill kid's minds with imagery of gratuitous torture, fly planes into buildings, stone women to death for driving alone... etc...

It's quite easy to reconcile embracing both Rand's philosophy and Christianity, and people do it all the time: complete and total ignorance, borne out of an inability to read with any sort of comprehension, or an outright refusal to read with an open mind, either Rand's books, or the scriptures and other Christian religious dogma such as the catechism, or both.

What I absolutely detest is the divisive nature of religious mind control that makes good people do horrible things without question based on fear.

And all of this... is being attempted by virtue of the fact of the very things you claimed to hate earlier in your posting where you said:» What I absolutely detest is the divisive nature of religious mind control that makes good people do horrible things without question based on fear.

Your detesting the «divisive nature of religious mind control that makes good people do horrible things» is again, part of what the whole issue is about, in the opinions of people like myself, @BG and others.

The loud minority of religious people that aggravate me so describe their beliefs with the assumption that they are invariably correct, their ideas are not subject to change and their minds are closed to discourse.

@TBT The more you post the more I see you are insane, I have dealt with people of your mind set before; most religious fanatics of one stripe or another, but you remind me of a member of the KKK, you will never see through your indocrination and your hatred.

Keep in mind that the last people who decided Jesus couldn't be the real messiah, were the religious leaders and scriptorians of the day.

Colin, stop making people aware of God, Lucifer and Religious BOGUS stories to used by those with over active imaginations to make the stories «stick» over generations along with abuse, torture and indoctrinations of helpless minds.

I can't help but think how cool it would be if the first thing that came to people's mind when they hear about us «religious» Christians is how loving we are to others, regardless of their race, gender, political preference or sexual orientation.

The influence of Hinduism on the social and religious life of Adivasis has been considerable, particularly in the last 10 - 15 years... the BJP and other Hindu organizations such as the Mandir, the Arya Samaj, saints and sadhus, and some Adivasi politicians have succeeded in inculcating the Hindutva RSS, the ABVP, Bajrang Dal, Shiv Shena, the Hindu Milan ideology in the minds of the Adivasi people?

They don't mind using some religious person's ignorance and delusions against them, nor do they mind using «token» blacks and other minorities despite a large number of clear indications that they are racist, h.om.ophobic sociopaths.

The simple minded people I was referring are the people responding to this post who are implying that if you don't believe in religion, then you can't believe in god or some kind of intelligent creator, and not religious people in general.

Never mind that Mother Theresa is a hero and inspiration to millions of people both secular and religious while the PRC killed millions of people both secular and religious (est. 65 mil.

Religious people answer the same meta question by expressing the presence of belief in their mind, which is an equally reasonable answer of course.

Therefore the religious person needs to be disciplined and equipped in body and mind for the task, with more calmness and mastery in the midst of peril and turmoil, more sensitivity and deeper insight into the bonds of interdependence that hold people together in rich community, a more passionate and richly integrated life purpose which can transmute the common things of daily experience.

As people fortunate enough to live far away from the horrors of religious violence, anaesthetized as we are by technologies and amusements, we seem able to banish from our minds the incessant slaughter of those elsewhere who are killed simply because of their faith.

@religion weak minded Religious people are people of faith.

We're just going to ignore the billions of muslims, hindus and various other religious - minded people on the planet who are praising their gods right now for exactly the same reasons?