Sentences with phrase «nonbelievers at»

With her long - suffering mother and rebellious (and secretly pregnant) sister, Jess hands out tracts to nonbelievers at every rest stop, waffle house, and gas station along the way.

So no, people with religion are much less adept than nonbelievers at coming up with creative solutions to problems.

Not exact matches

David Silverman, chairman of the event committee and president of the American Atheists, said the rally is aimed at uniting atheist organizations and letting the religious know that there are nonbelievers among them.

I got pointed the finger several times and people honked the horn at me and yelled from the window It's hard to be a nonbeliever in America... I live in New Jersey BTW.

The long list of «grievances» (I guess that's a fair enough word) against religion should not lead you to believe that I am «mad at God» or any of the other common stereotypes people hold of nonbelievers.

You are probably the same guys who want that mosque down the street from the center just because You like to upset people.here's news for ya - you do nt have to look at any religious symbols and you do nt have to believe BUT you do have to respect the majority and we will not be nonbelievers because of you

I'm sick of defending my faith after the fact to nonbelievers that means I'm not pro-active in my faith.It really irritates me how Christians get so offended at these groups and decide, through their pious thinking, that the best thing to do is create an alternative to these days and other ideas.

Do you think that God is going to have bleachers where all you so called Christians can laugh at the poor nonbelievers as he casts them into the lake of fire?

Evans concludes his fine book by recognizing that the «encouragement» of nonbelievers to «take a fresh look at the issues» will involve more than his arguments.

Sometimes they are lifted on behalf of believers at home, and at other times nonbelievers are prayed for (can it be that many nonbelievers are watching?).

So, the justice suggests, as long prayers at public meetings don't fall into a pattern of proselytizing, denigrating nonbelievers or threatening damnation, what's the problem?

Life isn't different for believers and nonbelievers except the way we look at things.

However, we do know that Bart Campolo is now serving as a Humanist chaplain and speaking at Secular Student Alliance conferences designed to gather a «community of atheists, agnostics, and nonbelievers.»

So it is not at all clear what «a nonbeliever» means to a Quaker.

Two researchers at University of Tennessee at Chattanooga found that atheists and agnostics run the range from vocally anti-religious activists to nonbelievers who still observe some religious traditions.

Yes, to the believer; and it is fully open to the nonbeliever who is willing to accept the idea that a resurrection is at least possible.

Evangelizing tended to be defined in theory as dealing with nonbelievers, but in actual practice to be associated with a special kind of worship context to which the nonbeliever must conform if he was present at all.

If the article is religious, especially Christian, all of the atheists jump at the chance to denounce Christianity and the Christians defend their beliefs (some of them condemning the nonbelievers to hell and some genuinely trying to explain their beliefs out of love).

Yet despite minor structural differences at Vanderbilt and elsewhere there was an inflexible understanding at work: that a rigorous academy would not harbor learned discourse about religion in its central precincts unless conducted with the systematic detachment of nonbelievers.

Definitely not the most important, but additional and recent, evidence is this issue of Spectrum, a YDS publication, in which we are told: «One of the most dynamic new student groups at YDS draws from a long unrepresented constituency at the divinity school: nonbelievers.

Maybe knowing what these terms actually mean will be helpful in future discussions about this topic, because using them imprecisely is similar to a nonbeliever saying «Well have fun at Sunday school in your mosque with the rabbi.»

Your quran contains at least 109 verses that call on «good» Muslims to wage war with nonbelievers and yes, those «not - muslim - enough».

At some level, integralism surely raises questions about the ability of Jews and nonbelievers to participate fully in civic life.

A closer look at the data, however, reveals that nonbelievers might not have the religious literacy bragging rights after all.

Teresa MacBain, one of the most high - profile nonbelievers in the country after profiles by NPR, The New York Times and Religion News Service, was fired from her newly created position with the Humanist Community at Harvard.

Following this train of thought, Cobb attempts to construct a Christology which will be both realistic in intent as it addresses the public world of believers and nonbelievers, and at the same time will be a faithful restatement of Christian tradition.

At a time when Americans have grown accustomed to hearing public officials invoke a kind of generic national religion that's sensitive to diverse faith traditions and nonbelievers alike, Perry has often gone a big step further, telegraphing a distinctly Christian message.

Why would god say anything at all to nonbelievers except, «Isn't it a good thing I forgave you»?

Many Christians believe that at the moment they die, they get to go to heaven, and nonbelievers spend eternity being punished in hell.

We do not share Warren's exasperation at bringing a nonbeliever to church on one occasion and finding out that it was a communion Sunday.

The real myth, in other words, may be that there can be religious freedom at all in the modern state without a strong religious tradition acting both as a curb to the state's power on behalf of believers and nonbelievers alike and also as an alternative narrative within which people can work out their individual visions of the good life.

Other than the Protestants and the Muslims, Nonbelievers or at least non affiliated make up more than all other religions.

For those Christians that are laughing at Harold Camping, saying that his claims are unsound and unhealthy, saying that he should not be allowed to influence those around him... For those Christians who I have actually heard say, «This guy is crazy», and mock the concept as something you can't believe people actually bought into... Now you know how we, the nonbelievers, feel about you.

«The fact that we found the same brain processing between believers and nonbelievers, despite the two groups» completely different answers to the questions [about religion], is pretty surprising,» says Jonas Kaplan, a research psychologist at U.C.L.A. and co-author of the study.

Researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles, used functional MRI to evaluate brain activity in 15 devout Christians and 15 nonbelievers as the volunteers assessed the truth or falsity of a series of statements, some of which were religious («angels exist») and others nonreligious («Alexander the Great was a very famous military ruler»).

Tamblyn, who will be present for discussion at the 7 p.m. Tuesday screening of «The Haunting» in Westwood, plays smart - alecky nonbeliever Luke Sanderson.

Researchers at Karl Marx Treatment Center are hopeful that this discovery will finally convert the nonbelievers who rejected previous theological arguments.

(B) s «belief» should lead them to put climate mitigation at the top of their list of concerns, and the presence of these «hollow» believers proves that the doctrine of CAGW is Culturally Determined, since there is no similarly contradictory group of nonbelievers in CAGW (presumably they would be nonbelievers in CAGW who demand that trillions should be spent to mitigate global warming).