Sentences with phrase «of religious people do»

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 originatOf 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 originatof 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.
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