Sentences with phrase «need religions»

We are sometimes told that we need religions to help us to behave morally.
Do we need religions that gets energy from scares?
We do not need religions for seeking the truth.
The world didn't need religions.
Intelligent and strong - minded people do not need religion to be good
For instance, while Star Wars has very evident religious Buddhist and Taoist overtones, Star Trek shows religion from a cold perspective (e.g., science is supreme and only cultures and worlds without an in - depth knowledge of science need religion).
They somehow see us as having no morals, instead of people that do not need religion to be moral.
X-mas does not need religion.
People who may need God don't automatically need religion.
Since there are people that stupid means we still need religion..
You don't need religion for ethics.
Bill, we don't need religion to tell us what is right and what is wrong.
Do self - obsessed hedonistic Americans need a religion?
We did not need religion to ever question our being.
You don't need religion to be a «moral» person.
You can believe in God, you don't need religion for that.
A better strategy would be to point out how one doesn't need religion to be a moral person, and then demonstrate how some of the people that claim to be a beacon for religious zealots (the GOP) practice an existence devoid of morality.
funny, you don't need religion or fairy tales to do that.
if there was no evil, us as mankind would not need religion, we have religion, cause we try to say to god we are not tempted by evil, and the more that evil tempt us, we prey, i have decided to try and understand to two main peoples whys good and bad, god and the devil, god loves mankind, but he loves the devil more, blood is blood,
I just don't get the concept that one needs religion to learn morality.
free advice: live a good life, help your brothers and sisters when you can, think for yourself don't need religion for any of that - in fact, religion hinders those goals.
Needing religion to define your morality is pitiful.
They can claim all they want that they made in their purpose in life and don't need religion, but they have deluded themselves, because they believe we just die off (which by they way, they can't prove LOL!)
Point is that, it's a shallow life when one needs religion to make them be good.
You do not need religion to be a good person or to have good morals.
The imperial state needs religion to provide moral legitimacy for its rule.
I do not need religion to make me feel better about my relationship with God.
I know the difference between right and wrong and do not need religion to tell me.
They need a religion that helps them respect differences (like the Hindu philosophy that we all find a path to the truth, independent of what god we worship), or the Buddhist philosophy of improving ourselves and working with our community (independent of gods and dogma), or the native religions that respect nature and it's boundaries.
Many need religion because sometimes life stinks.
The real question to ask is not so much «why do we need religion», but «why do we need Jesus Christ?»
Only bad people need religion, they need that fear of hell to keep them inline.
We do not need religion, yet some of us think they need religion to tell them they are good people.
We don't even need religion, it's all fake anyway.
We don't need religion to act humane.
«You don't need religion to have morals.
Niether here nor there, I do not think any one needs religion to have morality, nor did my comments imply that in any way.
We need religion to be eradicated so that we can all act rational as well as humane towards each other.
One does not need religion to be a good person.
In «The God Delusion», he wrote a chapter on morality that he introduced with the words: «This chapter is about evil, and its opposite, good; about morality: where it comes from, why we should embrace it, and whether we need religion to do so.»
If either of my children decided they needed religion, I would not get in their way.
and are the reason we need religion to quickly take it's rightful place among fables, folklore and the books of Grimm.
You do not need religion.
He believed that mankind had become of age and no longer needed religion, which was only a deceptive garment of true faith; he suggested the need for a «religionless Christianity.»
First, as the title of a key chapter puts it, the American example shows that religion can «Make Use of Democratic Instincts» in a manner mutually beneficial to itself and democracy; second, sustainable democracy needs religion, which means we can expect democratic peoples to remain attached to its continuance or at least potentially receptive to its revival (cf. II, 2.17, # s 17 - 20); third, democratic times, because they are enlightened times, tend to be ones of increasing doubts about religion; fourth, the relevant religion for America and Europe, Christianity, will be tugged against and perhaps eroded by powerful and ongoing democratic currents toward liberationist and materialist mores; and fifth, religion's authority in democratic society will always rest upon common opinion.
«Many peasants and slum inhabitants need religion as a refuge in a society in permanent and progressive disintegration in order to deal with fear, threats, repression, hunger and death,» explained a report on the subject by Pro Mundi Vita, a Belgian - based Catholic think tank.
You don't need a religion to do this.
Science needs religion.
Happy atheists can have that; I don't feel like I particularly need religion.
Weak people need religion.
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