also, PS: not that I'm a «Satanist», nor that I defend
it more than any other religion, but I will say that a lot of Christians don't know much about them other than H0llyw00d myths.
As debate continues over President Obama's assertion about the religious nature (or lack thereof) of the Islamic State (ISIS) terrorist group, a new Pew Research Center study finds that more Americans across the board believe that Islam encourages violence
more than other religions.
Now in the US, we get Christianity crammed our throats so much, that is is natural for the rest of us to react to Christianity
more than other religions.
In all your complaints about some priests (while overlooking the amazing greatness of the many saints...
more than any other religion) do you pray for them?
Far
more than all other religions combined for all of recorded history.
Other than the Protestants and the Muslims, Nonbelievers or at least non affiliated make up
more than all other religions.
No wonder that Buddhism,
more than any other religion, is a natural ally of environmentalism: interconnectedness is written into both their creeds.
Not exact matches
Please, are the gods so stupid that just because an alive person claims a dead one is now a different
religion said god would have to throw them out of their old
religion heaven and send them to the
other heaven??? Really, some of you are
more obsessed with dead people
than the ones living.
My christian
religions have successfully killed
more people in history
than any
other single group.
Clearly she is a bit
more enlightened
than you, and doesn't feel the need to separate herself from
others by her race, gender or
religion.
So how do you go from that reasoning to «Since it wasn't accidental then it must have been this ancient male diety named (fill in blank depending on
religion) who loves me and knows me and cares for me and wants me to perform rituals that have nothing to do with morality like prayer, not eating certain things, sabaath and many
more just because he said so, even though we have no record of him saying anything, just records of humans who wrote things down that they claim he said, but I want to believe it all so badly I will base my beliefs on no
other evidence
than «it just can't be accident».
many times i find myself having
more in common with atheists and agnostics and those of
other religions than i do with the
more conservative brethren in my own faith.
The treatment of
other religions by Islam must be judged by a simple test: How did the Muslim rulers behave for
more than a thousand years, when they had the power to «spread the faith by the sword»?
Professionals or secularists within the UK or Western world will accept these religious tenets
more sympathetically if they came from a faith they recognise, or indeed may once have been part of,
more so
than other newer
religions.
That being that during the crusades the Islamic world was
more advanced
than the Christian world in every way including their acceptance of
other religions.
Guiding Principles Religious and theological studies depend on and reinforce each
other; A principled approach to religious values and faith demands the intellectual rigor and openness of quality academic work; A well - educated student of
religion must have a deep and broad understanding of
more than a single religious tradition; Studying
religion requires that one understand one's own historical context as well as that of those whom one studies; An exemplary scholarly and teaching community requires respect for and critical engagement with difference and diversity of all kinds.
We can assume that all the Justices sitting on the Court today, like
other humans, have their own preferences and biases about
religion, but the judicial opinions of one of them, Justice John Paul Stevens, raise
more than a slight suspicion that some of his actions on the bench stem from animosity, if not to animal sacrifice, at least to certain less exotic religious beliefs and practices.
The dirt in our minds, like someone hurling insults at
other religions and strangers, that bothers God
more than the frequency of our baths.
But it's it's a heck of a lot
more likely that people raised with
religion will leave it
than the
other way around.
And he cited
other poll findings that suggest
more Americans
than ever before define themselves as having no
religion.
Michael «As a gay man I appreciate there efforts and support, but I think putting up this sign isn't really the best way to get through to people, all it does is create
more hate, intolerance, and separation, I am not a christian but I am very spiritual, and putting up this sign implies that all gay people are atheists which is the furthest thing from the truth, I have no problem with
religion, I have a problem with those who use there
religions to control and hate
others, same applies with atheism, if you don't want to believe in anything
than fine, just don't push your non beliefs on me.»
Can you see how much
more sensible it is to believe in the Leprechaun King
than in Christianity or the
other religions?
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.
Wow... there is a ton of hatred towards the Mormons... I thought that we were much
more tolerant... and besides Mitt Romney doesn't represent his
religion any
more than any
other candidate....
The Gallup research indicates that American confidence in all societal institutions in general are at all - time lows, although confidence in
religion has declined
more quickly
than others.
Just because there were (likely)
more «Christians»
than followers of
other religions, doesn't give them the right to display any symbol in a
more prominent fashion
than those of the
religions of any
other person that died in that event.
Mormonism isn't any
more of a cult
than any
other religion.
Perhaps Sabio can speak to the amount of trickery present in
other world
religions as he has studied them
more than I.
As a gay man I appreciate there efforts and support, but I think putting up this sign isn't really the best way to get through to people, all it does is create
more hate, intolerance, and separation, I am not a christian but I am very spiritual, and putting up this sign implies that all gay people are atheists which is the furthest thing from the truth, I have no problem with
religion, I have a problem with those who use there
religions to control and hate
others, same applies with atheism, if you don't want to believe in anything
than fine, just don't push your non beliefs on me.
Granted, Mormonism is not much
more silly
than any
other religion.
Peace to you Reality and Guys for helping me to realize why you dispute
religions and not for disbelieving but for knowing that this is not what is reflected on earth towards each
other as you saw
more hate among them
than it is love and
more wars among them
than it is peace...?!? But surely what we are doing is not the right solution to correct this and to make them do what they should for good deeds causes and not co-nspir-acy causes..
In my opinion, and the opinion of many
others,
religion is nothing
more than a tool, created by mankind (not suggested by god) thousands of years ago to do nothing
more than control people through force and fear.
An all loving
religion has murdered
more people throughout history
than any
other religion.
Lengthy and long winded to prove a point — that there have been countless gods and
religions throughout history, none any
more or less credible
than any
others.
We will keep repeating it until you realize that there really is no evidence, that your
religion has no
more validity
than any
other religion, and that the only reason you believe is that you grew up with it and conformed, or your life bottomed out and you got desperate enough to believe anything, and conformed.
I p1ss on your «anointed one» and I p1ss on your stinking nasty
religion that is doing
more to turn this world into an overflowing sewage dump
than any of the
other religions.
At some point they met reason and figured out it was all a bunch of hokum with no
more reason to believe in it
than any
other god or
religion.
People baptized Christian have slaughtered
more people
than all
other religions, plus atheists, combined.
«Christianity, just like every
other religion is nothing
more than a fictional narrative its adherents choose to believe because they find it
more appealing
than the
other alternatives.»
Your
religion takes
more faith
than any
other I know and I am not capable of that much faith.
It is difficult to avoid the implication that what is authentic in Christianity is its «soul,» that is, the ways it agrees with
other revealed
religions, and that Christianity's «body»» all the ways it is distinct and particular» serve
more to obscure
than reveal the truth.
Almost 80 percent of Americans identify themselves as Christians, with, despite all the talk about growing religious pluralism, no
more than 5 per cent claiming
other religions.
Nobody thought much of
religions other than Christianity; as was obvious by our public school pledge — which admonished us all to be good Christian citizens... Sure, I had questions too, but our church was pretty low - key so I was safe from some of the
more radically - minded (read: brainwashed) of my peers.
And that is a purely faith based ideology, no
more or less so
than Christianity or any
other of the world's
religions.
these
religions are disgusting, perverted, murderous, and have
more blood on their hands throughout history
than any
other organization!
Unless we learn to challenge our own beliefs the way we challenge
others», whatever they may be can be no
more than a blind faith at best or a delusion at worst, be that for or against
religion (especially the puerile version of Christianity).
No
religion is true, but some are
more disturbing
than others.
I think one thing that has been overlooked by most of the
other comments is why the hell does a cleric of a
religion that is supposed to not even have a hierarchy have $ 6000, which as the article pointed out is
more than 6 times what the average Pakistani makes in a year, to throw around...
Atheism is a
religion, whose god is mankind, self, and science, through the power of reason, logic, and intellect, whose prophets are Darwin, Dawkins, and Hitchens, and whose disciples zealously seek converts with
more passion and fervor
than other religions.
Why is Christian morality
more right
than any
other religion's morality, or our atheistic morality?