Sentences with phrase «most of the religious people»

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.

My opinion as far as the lack of contemporary evidence of Jesus is that at the time Jesus was not looked at by most of the religious people as a spiritual leader, but more as a threat to Judaism.

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Graham was the most prominent religious leader of his era, converting 3 million people to dedicate their lives to Christianity.

There are rare creatures like highly religious congregants who tithe 10 or 20 percent of their incomes to charity regardless of income, but most people earning less than $ 100,000 give away less than 5 percent.

For years, I watched in horror as most of the most remarkable, honest, hard working, compassionate, productive, contributing & patriotic; people one could ever hope to know in life & have the privilege of calling friends; die a slow, agonizing, disfiguring & vastly premature death, amidst the muted joy & exaltation of conservative religious groups & individuals.

Majority of Atheists don't understand the purpose of religion, while on the other side most religious people don't understand their religion.

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.

Religious people are the most immoral of all people.

Most Islamic religious leaders are the main instigators of these violent actions, they seduce young people with their satanic teachings to commit all kinds of atrocities and justify these actions under their own Islamic dogmas.

I am the mother of 3 children and am an atheist (and a moral, law abiding, kind, charitable person like most other of my fellow humans regardless of religious affiliation).

And then, most crucially: «But rescuers did differ from others in their interpretation of religious teaching and religious commitment, which emphasized the common humanity of all people and therefore supported efforts to help Jews» (emphasis added).

You can't «believe in» God because you don't know for sure whether God exist (by most religious people's own admission, I think, though I coud be wrong, but either way its a fact that the existence of God has not been proven).

When we see religious communities spending most of their time trying to convince people not to sin, we are seeing a community that has missed the point.

The Nepalese government recently confirmed it would be changing the word, after it conducted a survey of its people and found most preferred the words «Hindu» or «religious freedom» to define the state instead.

Well it is true that some people seek sorcerers to implement Jinn that are satanic demons into mankind or his house or his business to finish him or make his life miserable or to stop flow of his business income... In such case it is either you are religious enough and say your prayers often then it becomes hard for this to harm you or otherwise you need to find some one who practice exorcism to remove this evil... But many are just pretending to be good at it and help you not but squeeze money out of you with tales and stories... There is another type of possessions and that is not through a sorcerer but directly by coincidence what man is at his weakest moments and those weakest moments for a possessions are when you come through a great fear or when cry or laugh loudly in hysteria, or during a certain moment of mating... or even when sneezing loudly... That's why there are prayers to be said on daily basis to guard you from such things and specially if passing haunted places such as deserted houses but most evil ones are residents of public toilets and market places... Some of them even would claim that you have made a wrong action by which you have killed a dear one to them and for that they have possessed you and that is mostly night time such as throwing a cigaret butt to a dark place or stepping killing an insect or even an animal at night which could have been one of them or possessed by one of them... So this is true thing happening to many who suffer unexplainable illnesses or sufferings which could look like mental illness that comes and goes as pleased...

I'm not a very religious person in my daily life, but those were some of the most spiritually clear moments that I have had.

«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).

A very large part of most religious beliefs involves free will and people are free to work towards affording healthcare, people and people can adopt healthy lifestyles which minimize the need for healthcare and of course, people can choose to help others through donations.

Many of the ruined buildings that are visible today and which are visited by thousands of people every year, were constructed by Aelred, abbot from 1147 to 1167, who became the most prominent religious figure of his day in England.

I am not the most religious of people, but I do believe in God, and Jesus... but many people seem to forget that God's SON sacrificied himself for our sins... in my book, a SON is part of a FAMILY... God put us on this earth to be of free will and to make our own way... Love being the biggest part of that way... we love God and we love Jesus... but we are also all part of his FAMILY... He made us all to be part of a unit that has hope and faith and love... we were meant to procreate... so what does it matter if a person who is dying does not automatically think of God, but of their loved ones?

Now in Africa, most people are rural, religious, and fairly conservative when it comes to sexual behavior, despite lurid stereotypes of oversexed African men forcing themselves on women and girls without a thought.

The man who wrote the original work was a promising young scholar in his early thirties at All Soul's College at Oxford; the person who issues the new edition is Rollins Professor of History at Princeton, the most renowned student of Augustine in the world, and one of the most respected historians of the religious history of the later Roman Empire.

In other words with all the things going on in the world this long winded ambiguous rant about the religious beliefs of a horror writer whose name I've barely heard mentioned in the last decade is being presented as the most important information people need to know at this particular time.

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.

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»

to Shai... your explanation fails to explain why much of the misery is focused on the most religious of people.

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.

if you look into any religion one of the first things is not to judge other people, and yet some how it happens that most judging comes from super religious folks.

Overweening moralism is, if you believe most of what you read in the newspapers, the unique sin of conservative religious people.

But most secular journalists have a tenuous grasp of what religious people actually believe.

One of the most insulting assumptions of many religious persons is that agnostics / atheists are incapable of having morals.

No, he acted pretty normal, and did what most religious people of his day wanted him to do... to accuse Jesus of being a false Messiah and give Him over to the Roman officials for crucifixion.

that the task of the proletariat corresponds to the world - historical mission of the chosen people, that the redemptive and universal function of the most degraded class is conceived on the religious pattern of Cross and Resurrection, that the ultimate transformation of the realm of freedom corresponds to the transformation of the civitas Terrena into a civitas Dei, and that the whole process of history as outlined in the Communist Manifesto corresponds to the general scheme of the Jewish - Christian interpretation of history as providential advance toward a final goal.

I have elected to believe that most people's (atheist as well as religious) concept of «God» is very narrow.

To me it is a sickening abomination of God's will that the most advanced nation on the face of the earth has to be held hostage to these willfully ignorant, dark - age dwelling crackpots, who turn concepts such as Capitalism into false religious idols which they expect people to worship mindlessly.

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

What concerns me the most about the mindset of these people is that they think sports are important enough to warrant a prayer — if they're that certain prayer works, shouldn't they be embarrassed about not using their religious fervour to pray for more important matters?

I think most of our evangelism methods, particularly many of the seeker - movement methods from the 80s and 90s really appealed to people's religious memory.

But I do have a question for all the religious people here: Q) why is it that all these «prophets» had visions of God, or God's messengers, most times in the middle of the night, and when no one else is around?

Most religious people I know are afraid of dying.

Yea, but most atheists do not post on religious blogs or air hostilities toward people of faith.

When a patient's problems are related to religious or moral conflict, the staff clergyman would be the most likely person for the patient to see because of his authority in this area and because he may be perceived by the patient to be the most appropriate person to deal with these problems.

As Christians, our most «deeply held religious belief» is that Jesus Christ died on the cross for sinful people, and that in imitation of that, we are called to love God, to love our neighbors, and to love even our enemies to the point of death.

Although Egypt is entirely Sunni and most of the people are followers of the Hanafi school, Azhar teaches the four schools without distinction, and the religious courts pass judgment according to the religious school of the defendant.

The common people accepted as a matter of course the control of these political and religious groups, save for chronic grumblings against those who touched their pocketbooks most directly, the hated publicans or tax - collectors.

«Today's proposal continues to involve needless government intrusion in the internal governance of religious institutions, and to threaten government coercion of religious people and groups to violate their most deeply held convictions,» the statement said.

Most of the people I communicate with on a daily basis steer far away from any intentional religious or spiritual or Christian gathering.

Except, of course, for the very most religious people (Jesus, John the Baptist, most of the disciples, the pope, priests, nuns, monks, etc.) and then they are praised for «not multiplying».

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.