Sentences with phrase «more of the religious people»

more and more of these religious people are getting positions of power in political system the day is coming when we have religious police enforcing the will of the old man in the sky.

I think more of the religious people and churches out there could pick up his lead and perhaps people wouldn't be so «bleeding» out of their churches.

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As weddings grew more secular over time, and people weren't limited to dress codes of religious buildings, strapless dresses (for brides, bridesmaids, and guests alike) skyrocketed in popularity.

Despite the demonstrable negative consequences in states that have passed laws that undermine LGBTQ equality, the coming months will indicate whether the ascent of Donald Trump to the White House is emboldening religious conservatives to press for more such bills after a series of gains for gay and transgender people at the federal level under the Obama administration.

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

A million times more people have been kiIIed by religious zealots in the name of their relgion than an atheist in the name of atheism.

I just don't like it when people cherry pick their religious sources or, in the case of this article, outright go against what their religious texts teach to try and appear more politically correct.

In reality, the religious person has far more freedom of thought than an athiest.

The more educated one becomes the less religious one is... when you see educated politicians and professional people of all kinds talking religiousness it's lip service for the ignorant... it's part of their job... other wise there's trouble from the little people.

I know people who are not affiliated with any religion (agnostic, not atheist) that are far more humane in action than any number of «religious» people.

So one group of radicals whom I doubt represent more than 1 / 10th of 1 % of the world's religious folks, and all religious people are radical nuts.

Indeed, they do not, any more than religious folks, experience emptiness, lack of purpose, lack of pleasure or such negativity generally stereotyped to religion - free people.

Numerous studies have shown that religious people donate more time, more money, and donate more blood than any other group of people.

Community of the kind Christ desires can only occur with another when He is shared as more necessary than breath amidst all persons present, whether they be the person «giving» or the one receiving — Christ must not be fore - fitted to some other monstrous conceit that is paraded as «communion» and «fellowship» — the common bane of our religious activity.

«A study in the United States, published in the Social Forces journal and conducted by Sociology researcher Lisa A. Keister while she was at the Ohio State University, found that adherents of Judaism attained the most wealth, believers of Catholicism and mainline Protestants were in the middle, while conservative Protestants accu - mulated the least wealth, while in general people who attend religious services achieved more wealth than those who do not (taking into account variations of education and other factors).

You sound like a wonderful person (if you were religious or not)... the professor you had obviously thought more of himself than he did of anyone else.

It's more like the religious world did a poor job of reining in people's natural desires.

Science and the scientific method is universal and consistent all over the World whereas religion is regional and a person's religious conviction, no matter how deeply held, is clearly nothing more than an accident of birth

Those of the religious agenda keep on telling themselves that whoever this person that wrote it should be more involved with religion and should keep on pushing the «topic of religion» onto dying people instead of just being a human being and focusing on the person's feelings at their last hours on earth.

According to the work produced by David B. Barrett's religious statistics organisation (FYI, the man was a Christian no less) atheists number more than Jews, Sikh's, Shintos, Baha'is, Jains, combined, and if you want to consider all «non - religious / secular / agnostic / atheist» together, since the whole «non-religion» movement is kinda riddled with people who find conontations of words like «atheist» to be bad enough to not want to declare themselves atheist, you'll find the number of that non-religious group also amounts more than those religions plus buddhism, and taoism or even Confucianism.

Religious people are terrifying and usually more than willing to inflict their way of belief on the rest of the people.

I am for the elimination of hate, fear and control, religion is just the catalyst that people use to hate, fear and control, getting rid of religion won't solve the problem, its like putting a band aid on a severe cut, its temporary, and it just hits the surface, instead we need to go deeper than that to the root cause, I know lots of religious people who don't hate, fear or control, there are also many beliefs such as paganism, Buddism, Taoism, which doesn't use hate fear, and self righteousness to condemn others, I think if maybe more of the most major religions followed there teachings then we wouldn't have as much problems as we do.

«For the sake of no more blood shed, people of all faiths and religious beliefs, including Muslims, would be most wise to acknowledge that what Jehovah God has ordained in His... etc»

Put some food in people's stomach that act of charity is more in line with a religious act than erecting that statue

For the sake of no more blood shed, people of all faiths and religious beliefs, including Muslims, would be most wise to acknowledge that what Jehovah God has ordained in His «times and seasons» (get down to the truth), has and will, contnue to happen.

While the more educated may smirk about such articles, there is a lot of value in helping people analyze and understand the book upon which they place their beliefs, especially when it becomes legislation and policy that affects people outside the religious bubble.

Atheists simply have their natural instincts of empathy less - adjusted than religious people and so, generally are more moral.

And especially after the Noachian Flood, did false religion take a leap, with false religious doctrines and practices such as the trinity, immortality of the soul, that God torments people in a «hellfire», the establishment of a clergy class, the teaching of «personal salvation» as more important than the sanctification of God's name of Jehovah (Matt 6:9), the sitting in a church while a religious leader preaches a sermon, but the «flock» is not required to do anything more, except put money when the basket is passed.

RICO statutes are about organized crime, much more relevant in going after religious people who often support criminal organizations operating behind the name of religion.

Thank you for demonstrating just what it is we Atheists are trying to get people to take more notice of when it comes to the sheer hatefulness that religious beliefs create in people.

A very high percentage of people here are religious, but you can look at the demographics of a great many European countries and see that overall, Western Europe is far less religious and more Atheistic than America.

Underscoring this point, they note that religious switchers adhere even more closely to the dominant moral ethos of their new groups than do people raised in those groups.

Reasoning with people of faith is more tricky than the happiness one finds by abandoning their own faith in religious delusion.

So... why are these people not saying what really needs to be said... some of these Presidents were no more than DEISTS and had no religious affiliation...

The official publication of the Christian Booksellers» Association recently carried an article on trends in religious publishing which predicted more books on homosexuality «down the road (maybe five years or so)» and noted that just as there has been evidence of more compassion toward divorced persons, «Christians in the future will be saying homosexuality is still wrong but God loves homosexuals and values them as persons» (Bookstore Journal, January 1976).

@Troy in Austin - more people were killed in the 20th century by atheistically - driven ideology than by all religious - driven killings in all of history.

However, I have lived most of my life in more populated / diverse areas and most of the religious people I know seem to think the stories in the bible are just as crazy as I do.

Unlike the more «spiritual» and heroic religious literatures of the world, the Bible gives attention to a host of ordinary people, doing rather ordinary things.

«People who go to church are more likely to volunteer and give to charity — not just because they're religious, but because they're part of a community.»

It wasn't the summer that brought an end to my doubt, but it was the summer I encountered a different Jesus, a Jesus who requires more from me than intellectual assent and emotional allegiance; a Jesus who associated with sinners and infuriated the religious; a Jesus who broke the rules and refused to cast the first stone; a Jesus who gravitated toward sick people and crazy people, homeless people and hopeless people; a Jesus who preferred story to exposition and metaphor to syllogism; a Jesus who answered questions with more questions, and demands for proof with demands for faith... a Jesus who healed each person differently and saved each person differently; a Jesus who had no list of beliefs to check off, no doctrinal statements to sign, no surefire way to tell who was «in» and who was «out»; a Jesus who loved after being betrayed, healed after being hurt, and forgave while being nailed to a tree; a Jesus who asked his disciples to do the same...

A former singer in a leading US Christian metal band has claimed that, like him, many «Christian» bands are made up of people who have lost their religious... More

Well, actually Rev.... «We the People of the United States, in order to form a more perfect Union, ESTABLISH JUSTICE,...» Yep, right there in the Preamble of the Const itution... something you religious folks only support when to your advantage.

To paraphrase Jesus» comment, people who are concerned only with the affairs of this world often show more ingenuity in seeking their ends than religious people do in trying to accomplish God's will.

it is more like things like this are why people are skeptical of the religious.

The study, published in the January edition of the British Journal of Psychiatry, says spiritual but not religious people, as opposed to people who are religious, agnostic or atheist, were more likely to develop a «mental disorder,» «be dependent on drugs» and «have abnormal eating attitudes,» like bulimia and anorexia.

I think each religious person should be more concerned about their own religion instead of taking cheap shots at another.

I do believe people who are unable to accept their own mortality or rationally explain the concept of eternity are more likely to find religious solutions.

Can you back up your implication that atheists are more attached to money than religious people with any kind of facts?

That is more than I can say of most devout religious people I know.

So, are we as Americans becoming less religious or is the media becoming more skeptical of religion and therefore driving the image of a more elite group of people?