Most organized religion is more interested in worship of the dollar.
There are plenty of organizations which rely on you continuing to not question them so that they become rich in spite of their own hypocrisy in the face of their own beliefs: as in
most organized religion.
It's also a sign of weak faith and the hypocrisy that pervades
most organized religion that preachers fear alienating their source of income by preaching on economic injustice but are real warriors when it comes to bashing gays.
Look at history —
most organized religions have a pretty shameful moral records, particularly the catholic church.
But it is the evil reality of
most organized religions, that regardless of how many good intentions leaders start out with, they mean nothing under the pressure they come under in order to please the masses, their particular denominational mandates, and to be able to put food on the family table.
I do believe that
most organized religions are wrong but that is a personal belief.
That prompted Malloy to note that «
most organized religions in the United States are against the death penalty.»
Not exact matches
Left alone to think on their own as they grow up,
most adults will find any
organized religion just a bogus scheme.
I am skeptical about
most of the bureaucratic trappings of
organized religion, and I constantly pull and push to improve the church I attend.
The
most real, spirit - filled, loving and authentic people I know have nothing to do with
organized religion or church.
Actually Frank, I believe understanding what sin is, is one of the great difficulties present in
most of
organized religion.
For the
most part, Allen has avoided direct contact with the world of
organized religion.
While the demise of
organized religion, specifically Catholicism, is
most dramatic among young Latinos, the overall shifts are broad - based, according to Pew, affecting men and women; foreign - born and U.S. natives; college graduates and those with less formal education.
-- Atheists bash Christianity based on Jewish scriptures (Old Testament / Torah) and
organized religion, and tend to ignore or forget how amazing, loving, friendly, supportive, and excellent the
most influential person who has even walked on Earth, Jesus Christ, was.
I consider myself a christian, with religious knowledge and general knowlege, however I do not hold to a set of views dictated by an
organized religion, I believe the
organized religions are where we have gone wrong, as someone pointed out earlier to
most «religious people» to question ones faith or organization is wrong but that is exactly what the bible tells us to do... test ALL things to see what is true.
Most non-religious people do a great deal of research to come to the conclusion that they don't want to be part of an
organized religion.
According to the
most recent study done by the Pew Research Center on
religion in the United States, this decline coincides with a growth in the number of people who either reject
organized religion or faith and spirituality entirely.
Although I admire the unwavering faith of those that follow a deity, historically
most of the world's conflicts have been started in the name of one or more forms of
organized religion.
Most people are atheists because they don't believe in God or
organized religion.
If one has had a bad experience with
organized religion, with God - followers who lack a certain grace, then this cartoon just reinforces the opinion that
most folks are black and white, post-conversion.
I no longer believe in
organized religion and actually believe it's one of the
most divisive things humankind faces.
The real reason
most people in this country are turning away from
organized religion is that they see the damage it does everyday in the world.
The truth is,
most of us are not fence - sitters at all, but people who've tried
organized religion already and found it to be insincere, stifling, and hypocritical.
I don't believe in
organized religion or Jesus but I do believe in God and good and evil and the
most evil and dangerous people ever to walk the earth, are Democrats!
Go on making your choice, although I do nt agree with
organized religion I do believe a life without any sense of spiritual nature is a boring life at
most.
I can agree with
most of what you said, but still believe in the existence of God and an afterlife... because it makes sense to me, not because I was am «indoctrinated» by
organized religion.
I saw an anwer to my entry that «a bigot is a bigot, even if you are a «Christian», his comment basically was that it is ok to be a bigot even if you claim to be a «Christian», well I agree that
most are bigots, I just don't think it fits the description of «Christian», I could never be part of any
organized religion as their members ar 99.5 % hypocrits.
Don't kid yourself into thinking that
organized religion is not one of the
most destructive and divisive and utterly terrible forces in the world.
organized religion (for the
most part) is death.
Like so many in modern secular society, I considered myself spiritual but shunned
most of the practices and beliefs associated with
organized religion.
Thankfully, I had to be around a lot of arrogant religous fools (like you) when I was young and that provided all the evidence I need...
organized religion is the greatest scam ever perpetrated on mankind and is the root of
most evil.
Christian --(supposed) Follower of Christ Mormon — follower of the Christ depicted in the Book of Mormon and have differing traditions than
most other
organized Christian
religions.
Most people in this group continue to be «spiritual» but many have left
organized religion behind: http://www.pewforum.org/Unaffiliated/nones-on-the-rise.aspx Another study showed that Atheist perform the best on a quiz about religious knowledge: http://www.pewforum.org/U-S-Religious-Knowledge-Survey.aspx
My issue with major
organized religions is that
most of them tend to not be objective in their thinking.
Most of the people in the 20 % «nones» still believe in God or a universal spirit — they just don't belong to an
organized religion.
Seriously,
most of us who are «atheists» or agnostics or whatever, had to throw off the shackles of some oppressive
organized religion.
the thing I love the
most about
organized religions is the tolerance they preach.
In
most cases however, the utter distaste that many had for
organized religion makes us (looking back on their writings) incorrectly perceive them as deist when in actuality they acknowledged the divinity of Jesus Christ.
I was raised Mormon, but over the years my spiritual identity has shifted away from
organized religion and today,
most of my transcendent experiences come from nature.
A 90 - minute, years - in - the - making comic wind - up machine that begins by mocking its own audience for paying good money to see what it can watch at home for free and proceeds from there through the
most wickedly funny arsenal of assaults on big government,
organized religion and corporate America this side of «Borat.»