Sentences with phrase «most secular people»

Ancient peoples were smarter and wiser than most secular people give them credit for.

Not exact matches

I do believe that most contemporary secular people are not asking if there is life after death, but if there is life before death.

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

Far from surrendering to the self - obsessed therapeutic culture Hitchens decries, AA regularly brings thoroughly secular people into an authentic personal relationship with the living God, and most of our meetings even close with a recitation of the Lord's Prayer.

There are two things about sexuality that most people in today's modern Western secular society don't get: 1.

In most states, people can still be fired from their (secular) jobs just for being gay, or thrown out of their homes if their landlord doesn't like LGBT people.

The course itself is in secular mindfulness, though most people on the course are active churchgoers.

They are just as good and bad as most people when they are doing secular activities, unless the activity and their actions are based on religious bias.

This doctrine, even in its most orthodox forms, can become nothing more than a mask which conceals the real operating principles in a person's life which may be worldly and secular.

I argued that the humanity of the Crucified Jesus as the foretaste and criterion of being truly human, would be a much better and more understandable and acceptable Christian contribution to common inter-religious-ideological search for world community because the movements of renaissance in most religions and rethinking in most secular ideologies were the results of the impact of what we know of the life and death of the historical person of Jesus or of human values from it.

But there are also altruistic reasons (which some people from differing theological and secular traditions share) for promoting concern for the common good and focusing on the welfare of the most vulnerable.

No matter that even in our own complex and secular day, when the old notion of «parish» as a particular area where people sleep and work has almost expired, the majority of people can still be ministered to by local churches for most of their lives if they are interested in the services of ministry.

«Most of my time I'm speaking to secular people and I'm saying, «You know, you may think religion is for idiots, but...» «I've switched 180 degrees from where I thought religion was for children essentially — people who had no education, people who had this infantile relationship to the world and needed some sort of fi gurehead to help them,» he continues.

What would this look like for this minority view to also become known, by religious and secular people alike, as the most life - giving view?

(Most of the people I associate with in these secular groups are themselves religious, but the group is secular).

If Jews are more successful than most people, it's because a secular person has an advantage over a mystic, which would be true of any secular person, of any ethnic background.

I believe most gay people on this site believe God created them with sex organs and a mind that is contrary to their physical sexual identity... The argument comes when Christian or secular people define normal differently, namely that males can only be males and females can only be females.»

And a great many people have attacked atheists about them celebrating Christmas, in our secular way, with the pagan traditions that make up most of the Christmas holiday.

By now the consensus was largely secular and most often defined by persons who were themselves secularists.

As I once mentioned before, most biblical scholars (secular and non-secular) agree that several of the books in the bible (new and old testament) are forgeries and several others are attributed to people who did not write them.

Though I often blog about those who wish for theocracy over secular democracy ruling the political will of all people — my own life's experience tells me this isn't representative of most Christians.

It is a shame, but true, that people who are well - educated in secular subjects and have an adult understanding of many areas have a very limited education about Judaism, as most Jews who are not Orthodox stop going to any form of Hebrew school sometime in the elementary years.

Oh, for goodness sake people, this is a largely secular holiday for most educated Indians, grow up and enjoy the fact we all have myths and stories in our past.

This doesn't mean they're bad / invalid arguments, or that there aren't more secular people who use these arguments as a primary reason, just that in general the religious argument is the most common / important in discourse about this topic.

We're one of the few authentically Christian dating service websites, as most of our competitors are secular people masquerading as Christians to get the business of single Christians like you.

For the most part, reputable adult dating sites are fun and secular and can take the stress at a meeting people.

«In the UK there is a longer tradition of using online dating and people are willing to spend more,» said Metaflake's chief executive, Henning Wiechers, who said the trend towards meeting partners online was most successful in secular, well - to - do countries.

Since all people of the world, including the most Classical music is art music produced or rooted in the traditions of Western culture, including both liturgical (religious) and secular music.

The most activist privatizers are those who seek to recapture the schools from the clutches of the «secular humanists» who have supposedly been corrupting young people since...

Most of those indulging in suicide bombing and actual fighting against non-Muslims are young, radical and angry people belonging to secular institutions of learning, who are majorly anti-West due to neo-colonial and exploitative policies (Rahman, 2008).

The choice not to act, I realized after a college class on postmodern thought, is itself an act, and like most people I came to recognize the secular version of the sin of omission and to understand that, sometimes, failing to act is just as blameworthy as acting badly.

At the same time, he is genuinely interested in rituals, not just as historical ceremonies, but as ways of bringing people and thoughts together, just as he is sincere in his approach to incantation and religious music, testing even the most secular members of his audience to reconsider their ambivalence about the «spiritual» in art.

The belief in the irreducible value of personhood has been credited separately to both our Judaeo - Christian heritage and the more secular philosophy of Immanuel Kant, although it most probably a product of both and best expressed through Kant's categorical imperative to: «treat people as an end in themselves and never as a means to an end.»