Sentences with phrase «of religious people feel»

At the end of the day, what really matters is that a lot of religious people feel the necessity to impose their views on people who believe otherwise.

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Such a new ecclesiastical body is designed to allow these pathetic human beings, who are so deeply locked into a world that no longer exists, to form a community in which they can continue to hate gay people, distort gay people with their hopeless rhetoric and to be part of a religious fellowship in which they can continue to feel justified in their homophobic prejudices for the rest of their tortured lives.

Religious feelings maybe, but how many people have had «god experiences» that are credibly witnessed, authenticated and of public record?

Thanks for giving voice to so many of us, people like myself, who often feel as though we are slogging our way through the religious wilderness of fear and judgmentalism.

It's wrong for the public restaurant installation to assert its religious belief particularly much favorable toward Chriatian faith diners; the mood should be like acceptace of all racial, religious backgrounds, and particularly for gay people not to feel discriminated and hurt!

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.

Those of the religious agenda keep on telling themselves that whoever this person that wrote it should be more involved with religion and should keep on pushing the «topic of religion» onto dying people instead of just being a human being and focusing on the person's feelings at their last hours on earth.

Ultimately, much of this is a result of the modern «competitive» paradigm of religious communities: being right, having the truth, drawing people into the light from the dark, etc. all becomes about feeling good about ones own membership and being part of those who are «right».

Those people who were in the Klan or any other religious organization claimed to be closer to God and felt they had the right to proclaim others way of life as wrong.

As I'm writing this, I can see all the religious people saying all atheists should be fired because they bring the devil into the place of work... so I feel the need to provide the caveat: conflict with their objectives in a way that is sanely and reasonably shown.

The reason that it's hard to convince some people that there is an almighty is because we religious people have created the almighty in our own image — in images of forms that we can see, feel, taste, touch, imagine etc. and using properties of time, matter or space that do not actually exist!

Jura Nanuk, founder & President of Central - European Religious Freedom Inst.itute, wrote the minister an open letter in which she stated: «Did it ever occur to you that instead of pretending to be a victim due to your hurt feelings you might show some compassion for people who were taken to the brink of extinction by your ancestors?

I believe a lot of the anxiety religious people feel toward some secular ideas is that they will have to completely abandon all their current beliefs at once (like this pastor) before they can embrace new ideas.

i do nt understand what religous people really believe is waiting for them in an afterlife when we know for a fact that the body doesn't go there and the fact that animals apparently cant go to heaven because they have no soul is well thats just good old conceited man made rubbish that is everywhere in the bible and before i get attacked i was raised religious and got very religious for a few years till i actually thought about it and applyed logic to it after that the whole concept of religion made me feel sick

So should we take the tendency for certain people to get religious feelings about Apple as evidence for the legitimacy of claims that Steve Jobs is god?

Each person saw and felt the spirit of God working through the religious community and knew himself to be a part of the priesthood of all believers.

When the mass insecurities fostered by a society in rapid transition reinforce the feeling of vulnerability derived from personal autonomy, people tend to «escape from freedom»; they lose their anxiety but also their freedom by overidentifying with some authoritarian ideology, leader, or system, political or religious.

It was only after he found fame as an adult that his followers, like those of any religious or cult leader, felt the need to embellish his birth to supernatural status and fit it into to the expectations of the people they were trying to convince or influence.

So why do people with religious experiences assert that their feelings of God's presence are valid and believable, but when another person who has never experienced God admits this, they are told that they...

I feel that the religious excitement that is supposed to come to people who meditate on the flame of a single dark candle in an otherwise dark room was no greater than the pleasure I felt when I looked down a gun - sight and become very close to my own mind and consciousness.

In a new industrial district, for example, only a single church can be built for all, yet it has to be used by people of the most heterogeneous artistic taste, so that to one a crucifix may seem blasphemous which others find a most genuine expression of their religious feelings.

Because he is a religious authority figure, people spontaneously project on him a rich variety of associations from their early life, including powerful feelings about such matters as God, heaven, hell, sex, parents, Sunday school, death, sin, and guilt.

When patients are hospitalized they often feel estranged from their community life; thus, the provision of religious activities while they are hospitalized may serve to provide continuity, as well as the primary nurturance that persons may receive from their religious participation.

It's unfortunate but its left me with a tainted impression of Christians and religious people as a whole, that I just can't seem to shake I feel awful for it.

A report by the Woolf Institute - released to coincide with the anniversary of the 7/7 bombings - has found that religious people are more likely to feel connected to their community than their country.

Author John Charles Cooper, dean of academic affairs at Winebrenner Theological Seminary, sums up the situation: «People do feel that religion is losing its influence on society, and they may be right — but the majority of people do not wish this to be true, and so it is an important time to be publishing good religious People do feel that religion is losing its influence on society, and they may be right — but the majority of people do not wish this to be true, and so it is an important time to be publishing good religious people do not wish this to be true, and so it is an important time to be publishing good religious books.

... No, this has been the feeling of most people all along, that you do nt push your religious beliefs on others at the cost of taking away their right to the pursuit of happiness.

«We've been clear that people need to be able to feel strong in their religious identities and are making sure that the voices of people of faith are heard in Government.»

They call them peddlers of religion, and they do not mean that in a positive way, but rather are referring to people they believe are trying to push their own agenda of a psuedo - religious toxic mix of some sort of religious something, politics, power, control, personal profit (think $ $ $) and efforts to feel good about ones self while at the same time looking down on neighbors (condescension) rather than loving neighbors.

Yet it can not be denied that there are, even today, many who are sincere in their acknowledgment of feeling a deep need for mystery in their lives — and such people are generally members of some kind of religious group.

you, on the other hand, seem to want to shut down religious discussion because you are afraid of people getting their feelings hurt.

The success of cultural and religious movements inevitably reveals that many people already share the new ideals but do not feel empowered until there is a credible public call to action.

Why can't we all just mind our own business when it comes to peoples bedrooms and wedding albums, neither side get's to preach in schools, though I understand how you would think of it as the atheist getting his way by just not having you preach your God to his children in a publicly funded school, but he's not sending an atheist spokesman to influence your children, he just doesn't feel it's right to allow the religious spokesman into the schools to influence any children on his tax dollar.

The task for the morning was to identify the religious feelings of people we work with, especially among the excluded majority.

I've met a lot of people, both religious and non-religious, who feel like me that they were called here in some strange way.

As established, culturally supported religious practices and traditional communities have weakened, many people feel the need for some way of dealing with their inner stress and emptiness.

Now, having said all that, why does ANYONE feel so compelled to stamp their religious symbol on a site where people of many faiths (or non-faith) died, knowing full well that it's going to upset the families of these individuals?

People refusing medical treatment because they think they can pray disease away, The demoralizing way religion makes you feel about yourself (I am a wretch, a sinner, a bad person by nature), the religious wars that have been fought for millenia, the self righteous passing laws based on THEIR beliefs (change to the pledge of allegience which now excludes anyone who does not believe in a fairy godfather, the change to the national motto that turned it into the lie «in god we trust», the bigotry that «my religion is the right one and you are wrong so I'll pray for you» kind of crap... don't you realize that it is insulting to me when someone says they will pray for me... its the same as saying I'm going to do something for you but there won't be any effect, so it is just a waste of time.

Nor need I feel shame that I do not respect the «religious rights» of people whose god tells them that I deserve to be slaughtered.

And fourth was the freedom felt by persons outside of church to use religious symbols.

Get over yourselves and your smug feeling of superiority over people that have religious convictions.

But we now have gone to «winter break» and «spring break», because people felt that giving children time off from school for religious holidays was pretty darn close to violating the sacred seperation of church and state.

† Just because a Blind Christian has the need to feel as if they posses a traditional family lifestyle, religious holidays where the give their kids chocolate eggs, dvd gifts on christmas of movies full of women acting as the equals of men (Against the bible), a lack of understanding culture, and the feeling of belonging, does not mean all people need / want / or feel that way.

He spoke of the prestige of science in our culture and the corresponding lack of respect for religion («If it's a science programme it's a documentary, if the subject's politics there's a debate, but a religious programme, unless it's hymns for granny, will have people talking about their feelings»).

In Judaism, despite the rather far - reaching differences between the orthodox, conservative, and liberal wings, and the existence of national variants, including pro- and anti-Zionists, there is a definite, overall consciousness among practically all Jews everywhere of being one (a qahal, or people), and this feeling is predominantly a religious feeling.

«It is basically making fun of atheists who feel superior to religious people (or maybe anti-theists).

Thomas Jefferson felt this overwhelming sovereignty of God over all things, because he wrote (in his bill for religious liberty in Virginia) that no sooner did a person become aware of the proper relation between creature and Creator, to whom the creature's very existence is owed, than the creature becomes aware of a self - evident duty to worship and give thanks to so infinitely superior a Being.

To which almost every religious leader said that those types of discussions might make their church attendees feel «uncomfortable» and a few admitted because it would drive people away who they count on for larger donations.

On the contrary, I feel that there must be a void in the lives of religious people to feel that they need to force themselves to keep believing in these silly myths in order to have a reason to do good things and be good people... that it's not enough for them to be «good» for the sake of goodness, for the sake of our society and our world... that they must believe that there is to be some great reward for themselves or some great punishment after death in order to motivate them to be good.

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