But the values
of religious people do affect their approach to money, says Luc Renneboog, a professor of finance at Tilburg University in the Netherlands.
I know lots of religious people don't know what that means, you don't do it because it hurts the other person.
All of you religious people do that.
Yes you do what the minority
of religious people do.
My (admitedly wild) guess is at least 50 % of religious people don't actually believe in god.
Funny, you don't seem to have a problem with
all of the religious people doing the very same thing all over this country.
We get reports daily
of religious people doing horrible things to others.
All of these approaches are valid and rational and reasonable, and based on the fact that this man's actions are inconsistent both with the non-religious person's experiences, and what the non-religious person sees the vast majority
of religious people doing, we can say that this man was most likely delusional.
Not exact matches
Majority
of Atheists don't understand the purpose
of religion, while on the other side most
religious people don't understand their religion.
Lots
of colleges have
religious people at them and
religious people do attend church.
As social scientist Arthur Brooks has documented,
religious people give far more to all manner
of do - gooding than
do secular
people.
Dawkins argues that while there appear to be plenty
of individuals that would place themselves as «1» due to the strictness
of religious doctrine against doubt, most atheists
do not consider themselves «7» because atheism arises from a lack
of evidence and evidence can always change a thinking
person's mind.
First,
people often kill other human beings because they believe that the creator
of the universe wants them to
do it... Second, far greater numbers
of people fall into conflict with one another because they define their moral com.munity on the basis
of their
religious affiliation...»
I just don't like it when
people cherry pick their
religious sources or, in the case
of this article, outright go against what their
religious texts teach to try and appear more politically correct.
But I
do think that black
religious leaders have a responsibility, if they can not support gay marriage, to at least support and fight for the secular rights
of gay
people.
These types
of ra nts lead down the path
of religious per secution and have been the same kinds
of words during horrible religiously motivated at roci ties — ki ll ing
of people because their flavor
of Christian faith didn't meet the standard
of some other self - right eous mob.
Of course some religious groups and persons like that will also mock, but they speak from places of personal interest, and so what they think doesn't matter, we all know where those opinions originat
Of course some
religious groups and
persons like that will also mock, but they speak from places
of personal interest, and so what they think doesn't matter, we all know where those opinions originat
of personal interest, and so what they think doesn't matter, we all know where those opinions originate.
Some
of you
people who want to turn the Hajj into a crater, or eliminate «a lot
of problems» by wiping it out don't realize that there will be Americans there too, in addition to millions
of Muslims who are just carrying out their
religious beliefs.
Did you know that
religious people killed Jesus, the son
of God?
Isn't this what so many
of us don't like about
people who use
religious tradition as a means for explaining their behavior... they're not CONSISTENT?
You
religious people, all you have to
do is correspond, deliberate and post some semblance
of reality and we may find some common ground.
Remember your
religious rules
do not apply to
people who
do not follow your particular brand
of religion.
I think if this is going to happen, they should
do it in one area
of the plane and other
people should be notified ahead
of time that a
religious ritual is going to take place.
Since atheists and agnostics are just as prone to human frailties as the
religious, I don't doubt that there * are * evil
people who are athiests... but facts and numbers show that these «evil atheists» are a bunch
of pikers compared to the violence and viciousness
of those who promote hatred and violence in the name
of their God.
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.
It
does take a certain amount
of intelligence to be an athiest, and obviously many
religious people aren't quite smart enough.
And when they ask questions you can not answer because you
do not know, just revert to the
religious person's favorite default, «It is part
of god's plan.
Indeed, they
do not, any more than
religious folks, experience emptiness, lack
of purpose, lack
of pleasure or such negativity generally stereotyped to religion - free
people.
And then, most crucially: «But rescuers
did differ from others in their interpretation
of religious teaching and
religious commitment, which emphasized the common humanity
of all
people and therefore supported efforts to help Jews» (emphasis added).
Stalin didn't kill tens
of millions
of his own
people for
religious reasons.
You can't «believe in» God because you don't know for sure whether God exist (by most
religious people's own admission, I think, though I coud be wrong, but either way its a fact that the existence
of God has not been proven).
Does it not occur to you that chaplains care for
people of ALL
religious backgrounds and beliefs?
G, if my words came out that way I apologize, I don't think that all
religious people are the same, like all groups
of people some are bu ttheads some aren't (that goes for the non believing community as well).
That is why some
people of religious faith
do not accept the theory
of evolution.
People don't want
religious messages on the side
of buses because then they might be reminded while their walking down the street that there's a God, there's a Creator out there.
I have to tell you though, some
of religious folks would be a very bad
people if it wasn't for the «fear
of god» as they already don't know anything about logic.
While taking advatage
of people's faith for personal reasons is terrible, please
do not assume that being
religious means someone is uneducated.
Yes, awful things have been
done by «
religious»
people, and in the name
of religion, but a great deal
of good, too.
«god» doesn't exist and is make believe, your
religious texts were written by human beings without any kind
of «divine inspiration» regardless
of what you read in them... written by
people who thought the Earth was flat... it isn't.
I don't know all that much about God, but I know this is the root
of the problem with
religious people.
«A study in the United States, published in the Social Forces journal and conducted by Sociology researcher Lisa A. Keister while she was at the Ohio State University, found that adherents
of Judaism attained the most wealth, believers
of Catholicism and mainline Protestants were in the middle, while conservative Protestants accu - mulated the least wealth, while in general
people who attend
religious services achieved more wealth than those who
do not (taking into account variations
of education and other factors).
Some
people observe the
religious reasons why the holidays exist but there's a lot
of people that don't.
You sound like a wonderful
person (if you were
religious or not)... the professor you had obviously thought more
of himself than he
did of anyone else.
It's more like the
religious world
did a poor job
of reining in
people's natural desires.
What you actually
do is help to convince thinking
people of the silliness
of your entire outlook
of personal and
religious myth.
we are animals... some
people are stupid and pray to imaginary beings... there is no natural code
of conduct requiring us to think you are somehow better than just another moron... you want respect, EARN it... one way to
do that is to keep your
religious beliefs to yourself instead
of inflicting that crap on everyone around you...
Many
religious people are incapable
of comprehending the idea that other
people really don't believe their god exists.
I am not the most
religious of people, but I
do believe in God, and Jesus... but many
people seem to forget that God's SON sacrificied himself for our sins... in my book, a SON is part
of a FAMILY... God put us on this earth to be
of free will and to make our own way... Love being the biggest part
of that way... we love God and we love Jesus... but we are also all part
of his FAMILY... He made us all to be part
of a unit that has hope and faith and love... we were meant to procreate... so what
does it matter if a
person who is dying
does not automatically think
of God, but
of their loved ones?
My great question
of the day is why
does the God
of the
religious right and his followers seem ubiquitously obsessed with other
people's sex lives?
I don't feel the need to cater to the religiously naive and uneducated by acting like there's a difference especially when these same
religious folk would surely deem a
person of an opposing religion / view that heard voices crazy.