Sentences with phrase «more religious name»

If you are looking for a more religious name you can turn to the bible for inspiration in choosing a baby name.

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I think more effort and resources would be more effectively and more critically placed into keeping our government secular, keeping Creationism out of the science class, and religious fundamentalism away from interfering with women's reproductive choices — just to name a few priorities.

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.

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.

The good news is that Jesus has survived the embarrassing things that we Christians have done in His name, as found in the dark side of the history of fundamentalism, the messiness of the religious Right, and even more recently, in folks who burn the Koran and hold signs that say «God Hates Fags,» all in the name of Christianity.

More wars and death have been created by religious leaders than any that can be said are done in the name of atheism.

As an athiest, when I read the copy of the Qu «ran I own (I like to collect religious tomes, especially older copies) I see the term «fight» being more on par with «resist» given that the chapter's name is Repentence.

The evidence for this phenomenon is incontestable: the influx of non «SBC evangelical scholars into Baptist seminaries; the changing of the name of the Baptist Sunday School Board to the more generic LifeWay Christian Resources; the presence and high profile of non «Baptist leaders on SBC platforms, e.g., the closing message at the 1998 SBC delivered by Dr. James Dobson, a Nazarene; the aggressive participation of the SBC's Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission as an advocate for the conservative side of the culture wars conflict; new patterns of cooperation between SBC mission boards and evangelical ministries such as Promise Keepers, Campus Crusade for Christ, the National Association of Evangelicals, Prison Fellowship, and World Vision.

Exponential church growth has always struck me more as a marketing plan for a religious group instead of loving people in Jesus» name.

But what makes the lack of love even more heretical, is that a lack of love often leads religious people to do horrendous and hurtful things «in the name of Jesus,» which makes these actions not just heretical, but satanic and evil.

Devout religious people are more than willing to go out and kill and maim in the name of their god and religion.

More than 100 different student gatherings occur weekly under the auspices of more than 20 diverse religious groups (Hindu, Jewish, Muslim and Unitarian, to name a fMore than 100 different student gatherings occur weekly under the auspices of more than 20 diverse religious groups (Hindu, Jewish, Muslim and Unitarian, to name a fmore than 20 diverse religious groups (Hindu, Jewish, Muslim and Unitarian, to name a few).

Besides, more religious people have killed in the name of god than the irreligious have in the name of nothing.

Hardly anyone seriously doubts any more that there was a Galilean Jew named Jesus, who for a short time attracted local attention as a teacher who took an unusual interest in people and uttered some startling things, and who for this reason fell foul of the religious authorities, the result of it all being that the Roman governor had him crucified.

My working definition of the congregation is this: A congregation is a group that possesses a special name and recognized members who assemble regularly to celebrate a more universally practiced worship but who communicate with each other sufficiently to develop intrinsic patterns of conduct, outlook, and story.9 We can sharpen our appreciation of congregational structure by comparing its thick culture with that of other religious associations.

Do you think religious intolerance is nothing more than name calling?

In fact, with Proudfoot's two - term option his own book begs for a more sophisticated approach — for while it denies realism in the name of a contemporary hermeneutics of suspicion, it claims to offer a realistic account of past scholarship on religious experience.

When we recognize, as Rollins writes, that «negation is embedded within, and permeates, all religious affirmation... that a desert of ignorance exists in the midst of every oasis of understanding,» we can more humbly dialog with those with whom we disagree and avoid using God's name carelessly by inserting it into our presuppositions.

The new religious identities and communities which emerged from these conflicts — Lutheran, Calvinist, Anglican, and the more radical groupings often lumped together under the name «Anabaptist» — did indeed share some beliefs and attitudes in common.

So a nice religious person is actually more at risk to commit violence in the name of «good» religion than a non-believing nice person.

«Hey look, we can steal a few more bucks from students by denying them health insurance, and we get to make a political statement at the same time while using the pathetic excuse it is for religious reasons, even while we are actually trying to make even more money... in the name of God...»

I think much more needs to be researched on this question, but if she actually perpetuated or failed to alleviate the suffering of others when she had the means to do so, in the name of a twisted view of the religious value of suffering, she is very much in reproach in my opinion.

The scandals of Oral Roberts, Jim and Tammy Bakker, and Jimmy Swaggart are only the surface manifestations of this corruption; far more serious are programs that denigrate authentic Christianity in the name of Christianity and make use of God in the name of God, misleading millions of persons about the nature of genuine religious experience.

In Jesus time, these religious leaders were more concerned with the outward appearance than feeding their «flock», even calling the common people a disdainful name, am - haarets (Hebrew) or «people of the land», looking down on them.

If atheist were as rational as they propose, they would realize that calling religious people names isn't furthering the goal of converting anyone to their way of thinking any more than it is affecting pending legislation.

Messiah is a «trending» name somewhat like Jesus or Mohammend, which are more closely identified with specific ethnic / religious backgrounds.

Sin does not exist, it is nothing more than regret dressed up in a fancy religious name.

Folks talk about the soul as a religious item — that it synonymous with religion — But religions don't really explain what a soul is — because they don't know — only a possible destination — Before you get all huffy, please consider where my concept comes from — I am no longer religious — I studied Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs for dozens of years, and determined a different design, for what the glyphs could portend — and found some interesting thought processes hidden within — including what the soul is — for instance: The Ankh symbol represents Life — the charcters for An and kh, I translate as an = thought and kh = soul — Thus Life = the thought of the soul — The soul as described by the AE, is a continuity between 2 or more enti - ties — including the enti - ty Environment — Our environment creates us — some name their environment as god — some believe there is a continuity with their environment — that is soul --

In the 1800s it was more common for names with family ties or religious significance to be chosen.

While the name has spiritual and religious connotations, the name is much more accessible than other religious names that deter parents from using them.

This might mean a religious dating site would allow you to choose a more specific sector of that religion, whereas generic sites may only allow you to select the name of a religion as a whole.

Today brings yet another eclectic collection of movie posters, which feature masked murderers, religious vampire hunters, monster - patrolling detectives, rocking easter bunnies and a more - than - half - naked man tattooed with a variety of brand names.

Conant's spirited account brings all these characters and their wartime intrigue to scintillating life as she drops names and exposes more extramarital affairs among the nation's powerbrokers than today's religious right wingers could shake a «shame - on - you stick» at.

But the number of affected people was many more - likely in the tens of millions - because the data routinely available to app developers in that era also included information on a user's list of friends, including names, education, work histories, birthdays, likes, locations, photos, relationship statuses, and religious and political affiliations.