Sentences with phrase «number of religions in»

This persisted even when the researchers controlled for other variables that could impact the number of religions in a country: land area, population, religious freedom, and economic inequality.

More often than not, however, what is nominally known as teamwork in teaching a number of religions in a single course degenerates into a «cafeteria» system.

With the number of religions in the world its difficult to really know which is the right one.

- There are umpty - ump numbers of religions in the world, all of whom say that they have the «true» word of «God» (35,000 + denominations of Christianity alone)- they do not agree with each other.

Not exact matches

It appears that for increasing numbers of young adults, religion, and Christianity in particular, might no longer be a live option.

A number of the major religions have even accepted this as you're not actually worshiping Buddha, just following his examples and teachings as to how to be a better person in life.

I know people who are not affiliated with any religion (agnostic, not atheist) that are far more humane in action than any number of «religious» people.

A similar number (52 %), say they no longer believed in the teachings of their childhood religion.

and there has yet to be definitive proof of ape evolving into human if you have it please by all means post it the world would like to see it, oh and you forgot to put in how evolution has as many gaps as any religion like Genesis Park describes a number of images drawn by Neanderthals and by humans in the Middle East which resemble dinosaurs.

Specifically, the Commission on Religion and Public Life called for the number of bishops to be cut from 26 to 16, to allow clerics from other major religions in Britain to be represented, as well as other strands of the Church currently which are excluded, such as the Roman Catholic Church and Black - majority churches.

Jimmyc, While you make a point, let me reply that mainstream muslims such as me, my family and just about everybody i knew growing up are in the majority in numbers, there are a couple of (sad) factors that let the extremists hijack our religion 1.

In the Christian religion ou are blessed by the number of people you have converted, so these people are trying to get blessed.

No one has power over truth absolute, constant GOD, but always under truth absolute, Ellah, Ellohim, Allah, constant GOD, proven by quantum physics, hindu ignorant posters spew their hinduism, absurdities in following of their hindu filthy desire's with changing winds to run their business of hinduism, denial of truth absolute GOD to attract humanity to hinduism, illegality without any truth, religion's are nothing but a business for hindu, criminal pastors seeking numbers and dollars by use of holy name of GOD like a hindu Pundit, criminal crook with his Pandora box, deserving not to have an audience, but to be in jail's for hinduism, criminality under cover of hinduism, corruption of truth absolute religions.

I wonder if these results from the recent Pew poll of attitudes toward religion in public life don't foretell a real change, however partial, however qualified by any number of other factors.

And By the way... 1 in 50 would be only 2 %... the number of gay priests and higher is quite a bit higher than the world average, and higher than in any other religion... which is explained (at least in theory of why that is the case) in the frontline I saw... they estimated it is closer to one in 5

Can't CNN find something else meaningful to report: the number of children in the US that go to sleep hungry; can we ever have a country that is not run by corporations; why has journalism gone down the toilet; why can't we tolerate each other; the real truth — organized religion divides people in this world instead of unitng them.

Athiesm doesn't come close to the numbers killed historically and in the current day in the name of religion.

«As a conservative Catholic, Ryan is likely to appeal to a number of Catholics in the Midwest,» said John Green, a professor of religion and politics at the University of Akron in Ohio.

In addition to the basic assumption that the god or gods on which a religion is based exist, every system of religious beliefs raises a number of questions.

A number of Christians in academia share McGrath's confidence that only yokels think science can discredit religion.

Garlow is one of a growing number of Americans who say that religion should play a greater role in politics, according to the findings of a recent study by the Pew Research Forum's Religion & Public Life Project.

A growing number of people have by now found inspiration in the sacred scriptures of the world and have been willing to join together in prayer with members of different religions.

He could have used it in any number of ways to easily rustle up some fear, which is the basis for all religion.

The past decade has seen a rapid transformation in public opinion and legal norms around sexuality, same - sex marriage, transgender rights, and religion in the public square — changes that have caused anxiety for a great number of traditional religious believers, including Christians, Muslims, and Orthodox Jews.

Bellicose atheists like Richard Dawkins are still fairly few in number and may indeed become fewer, as that sort of stridency is a reaction to the many excesses of religion (which of course includes religions such as «following Christ») and as religion fades, so will the felt need for such stridency.

Others — a larger number — conclude that reason and religion occupy different «spheres» of human activity and hence may never be in conflict.

Interest in oriental religion goes back in America to the early 19th century, as we have seen, but never before have significant numbers of people gone beyond reading books to become adepts and engage in arduous practice.

Wolfe also makes a number of snafus in his description of that religion known as basketball — though he captures the way collegiate athletics are big business.

I'm NOT just talking about «bible believers» (yes, Christians and Jews believe in human evil, but so do a wide variety of religions, AND philosophical systems, AND political systems, AND individual thinkers), and you and I both know that we're not just talking about «millions», but BILLIONS — the number of those who believe in human evil FAR outnumber you.

The Huffington Post: American Confidence In Organized Religion At All Time Low According to a recent Gallup poll, the number of Americans who have faith in organized religion is at an all - time loIn Organized Religion At All Time Low According to a recent Gallup poll, the number of Americans who have faith in organized religion is at an all - time loin organized religion is at an all - time low.

Or, for that matter, might God be accepting and rejecting the worship of individuals scattered about in a number of religions despite what their organizations teach?

In After Strange Gods he hinted darkly at the kind of oppression his society might lead to: «What is still more important [than homogeneity of culture] is unity of religious background; and reasons of race and religion combine to make any large number of freethinking Jews undesirable.»

That number of questions is rapidly shrinking and art, philosophy, music and a number of other disciplines are replacing religion in being able to address the «spiritual» questions that lie beyond science.

Doctoral programs in theology and religion contain more than enough students to fill the number of available jobs.

In May, the results of the British Social Attitudes survey showed that the number of people with no religion now outweighs the number of people who identify as Christians (See news, p11).

At the same time, a major new study by Daniel Yankelovich shows that only 28 per cent of American college youth consider religion important, compared with 38 per cent in 1969; and that among working youth, the number considering religion an important value dropped from 64 to 42 per cent.

In a series of tweets on Sunday, News Corp. boss Rupert Murdoch called the religion «a very weird cult» and said that Cruise is the «number two or three» man in the church's hierarchIn a series of tweets on Sunday, News Corp. boss Rupert Murdoch called the religion «a very weird cult» and said that Cruise is the «number two or three» man in the church's hierarchin the church's hierarchy.

In suggesting the theology of religions as the essential integrating principle of missiology, I am influenced by a number of missiologists who made similar pleas for different purposes.

One of these dubious deterministic friends of religion is a former student of mine named Huston Smith, a pleasant, likeable person, who enjoys his complex view, in which he finds places for a number of recent writers, though he knows how little some of us agree with it.

In a number of states, these agencies are dominated by teacher unions and public school advocates who have made it virtually impossible for some religions to operate schools in accordance with their religious principleIn a number of states, these agencies are dominated by teacher unions and public school advocates who have made it virtually impossible for some religions to operate schools in accordance with their religious principlein accordance with their religious principles.

A major difference is that in America there were scores of television evangelists and hundreds of radio preachers on the air, day and night, preaching a bogus religion whose story is a wild tale of the end of the world, and whose values closely resemble the values and worldview of secular America — the values of winning, of wealth, of power, and of being Number One.

There is a lot of belief in many parts of the world, based on religion, to increase numbers of your own group.

The misuse and abuse of religion to consolidate and maintain power is not new to history, but this new threat, in new guises and involving such huge numbers of people, is sufficiently ominous to merit major reexamination and modifications of what we mean by the terms «God» and «Christianity.»

But both parties saw sharp increases in the number of voters who want to hear less about religion from politicians.

I remember in college, many moons ago, thinking that since I was so very opinionated about religion, I really should make sure I was familiar with the Bible... So I read it... cover to cover... I can tell you, I honestly didn't enjoy it... it's NOT a great read... bits are interesting, and of course very familiar... I took me almost the whole year, but I got through it... So imagine my surprise some time later when I found myself at an after conference gathering, that just so happened to have an inexplicably number of overtly religious attendants (inexplicable because it was a hi - tech network security conference) and after listening quietly for a while, jumped in with the statement «well, you've all read the bible cover to cover, as have I»....

Edward L. Cleary, a Catholic priest, says that «for every Catholic actively practicing his or her religion, in many countries an equal or larger number of Latin Americans participate in some other form of religion, «5 and Brazilian archbishop Lucas Moreira Neves, Secretary of the National Conference of Brazilian Bishops in 1985, taking into account all these events, has roundly affirmed that «The springtime of the sects could also be the winter of the Catholic Church.

As the number of lies from the pulpit grew, so did my disbelief in 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.

American students of religion in society, including growing numbers of «good society» researchers, are discovering that they have international colleagues who bring fresh historical experiences and philosophical assumptions...

Twenty - three hundred (+ +) religions / cults / sects in the world, each with varying number of deities.