Sentences with phrase «of religious people still»

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I still say that it is very common to meet religious «believers» who are not people of faith and people of faith who do not have Christian beliefs.

The people there, Hooper maintains, will remain provoked by «the mind - boggling actions of people who've been in the country a decade and still don't understand the cultural and religious sensitivities.»

He would definitely be disappointed that people are still being put to death just like he was because of their political and religious beliefs.

But I suppose that, to a religious person who's been indoctrinated to believe their ideology is the only true one and has been brainwashed into thinking that it's their obligation to «save» others by bringing them into their way of thinking, somebody standing up to that might seem like that person is pushing their beliefs on them, but they'd still be wrong.

The official publication of the Christian Booksellers» Association recently carried an article on trends in religious publishing which predicted more books on homosexuality «down the road (maybe five years or so)» and noted that just as there has been evidence of more compassion toward divorced persons, «Christians in the future will be saying homosexuality is still wrong but God loves homosexuals and values them as persons» (Bookstore Journal, January 1976).

First, its premisses concerning society and modern man are pseudoscientific: for example, the affirmation that man has become adult, that he no longer needs a Father, that the Father - God was invented when the human race was in its infancy, etc.; the affirmation that man has become rational and thinks scientifically, and that therefore he must get rid of the religious and mythological notions that were appropriate when his thought processes were primitive; the affirmation that the modern world has been secularized, laicized, and can no longer countenance religious people, but if they still want to preach the kerygma they must do it in laicized terms; the affirmation that the Bible is of value only as a cultural document, not as the channel of Revelation, etc. (I say «affirmation» because these are indeed simply affirmations, unrelated either to fact or to any scientific knowledge about modern man or present - day society.)

There are people all around the world dying because of their faith, whether Jewish, Muslim, Christian, Buddhist, or etc. «Martyrdom» may remind you of Christianity's history of «violence, intolerance, and fanaticism»... but why be reminded of something that ocurred in the past when religious persecution is still happening today among people of all kinds of faiths, including Christians?

Granted that, as in modern hymnals, expressions of religious need and aspiration originally born out of individual experience were often used in public application and became the voice of the whole people, still that very poignancy that made them thus generally applicable came from the intensely intimate experience in which they started.

It's just an age - old attempt to have it both ways; people who are Christian and perceive that others will reject them for being «religious» or «conservative» love this kind of talk because it allows them to distance themselves from the Christian community while still claiming to follow Christ.

@@@@@ WIMPY WASP explained it when earthquakes and floods and famine hit really hard then most crazy broke really religious people who don't have a job go crazy like you.you religious people don't give back in my last three years I given back too helping the poor more then $ 20,000 dallors of my own money how much you so called chicken heads crazy religious people given out of your own income wait you crazy religious people got ta pay your light bill.by the way I own my own commercial health base buisness in Arizona.you still working for a pay check I write employees paychecks.

«The religious habits of the race are still very strong, in all places, at all times, and for all people.

While the peoples of all three continents have endured bitter confrontations with European and North American colonialism and are still suffering from the consequences, the religious situation in Asia is unique, with several major living religions augmenting the differences among the indigenous peoples.

religious people are some of the smartest people in the world but they still believe in a magical sky fairy and in the wors of a bronze age story book written by goat herders with no concept of science.

It is a living religion which has received and is still receiving its vitality from the people who confess it; it is a great movement which has passed through various stages of development over its long and complicated history, influencing and being influenced by the religious and cultural forces in its environment.

A lot of people who are raised in religious families and communities need to know you can think and believe differently and still be normal.

Seriously, after all this you still can't even see how stalin killed religious people because of communism?

There is the likelihood, moreover, as Ahlstrom concludes in his massive religious history of the American people, that by the 1970s «Americans, whether conservative, liberal, or radical, found it increasingly difficult to believe that the United States was still a beacon and blessing to the world.

many of the people who claim «spiritual but not religious» still believe in a deity — maybe not your Abrahamic one but a deity nonetheless.

If the point of religion is to bring peace and guide a culture toward certain specific behaviors, primarily for order and the preservation of the good qualities of society, then how can one say that one religion is better than another or that a «religion-less» person who STILL acts the SAME way (i.e. does right unto their neighbors, lives according to the thing the bible suggests) but is more tolerant is not as high quality a citizen as another who is associated with a Major League Religious Team?

Despite arguing that Christians shouldn't expect others to follow their religious rules, phrases like loving people «in spite of everything» suggest that you are still judging people, doesn't it?

if humans had just fell in line with religious teachings and never asked questions other than «god did it»... then people would still be dying in child birth, the common cold, small poxs etc etc etc. i find that we survived a s a species to become the alpha predator of this planet and the achievements we have made since then to be amazing; attributing everything humans have achieved to a god just cheapens the value of our achievements as a species.

I of course would still get married and people would still be crying foul about terms since I have the support of my church and would still want the religious institution of marriage, even if the civil were something entirely separate.

It still remained a sect — or, if we prefer, a religious movement — but with no implications of nationality, race, people, or soil.

If you consider the fact that the Bible is still the most widely read book in the world, touching the lives of millions of people every day, and that it has served humanity as a guide for living for the past 3,000 years, it becomes clear that religious institutions could take a powerful leadership role in environmental repair.

God is not left without witnesses, however, and the urge to create religious statements and the evidence that the power of the gospel still gripped persons outside of systems led to the fact that a great body of religious art was produced in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries outside of official religious circles.

And even if atheists are wrong in their citation of the bible, that still doesn't account for why any religious person believes what they do.

Any attempt at applying «logic» to explain the bible by people who are believers and still think of themselves as rather intelligent (self - delusion is a symptom / cause of religious belief) always ends up in ridiculous arguments...

For those who still cling to their now fully discredited religious reservations Obama assures them that he offers this dismissal of their views as a «person of faith»; likewise, for those who still insist there is any moral uncertainty, he comforts them with the simplistic platitude that the only relevant moral imperative is our «work to ease human suffering».

Nope, in case you're still having trouble, its basically a video about the timeline of Jesus» supposed life, however the important part of this particular one in the series is that it contains a Monty Python sketch that makes fun of you, or rather, religious people's habit of continually mutating their argument for any absurd possibility.

Among Christians there are still differences of understanding as to how this salvation in Christ is available to people of diverse religious persuasions.

And people who are tired of being pushed, disrespected, manipulated and coerced, but still want to be a part of a religious community.

The great mass of people of western culture still play at least lip - service to past religious traditions, but the proportion of their daily life that it directly influences grows increasingly less.

There are religious leftovers, of course: church taxes may still be collected and — as in West Germany — most people may still dutifully pay them; state occasions, like the coronation of British monarchs, will still require religious pomp and sanction.

Still, while he does not appear to take part in Jewish religious practices, in no way does that alter his status as a member of the family of the Jewish people.

Thats how the Glen Becks of the world can preach hatred, division, segregation and yet still claim to be deeply religious, because they have convinced themselves that sins are «things other people do».

This decision — I'm still calling it 5 - 4 in favor of Hobby Lobby — is a direct result of Citizens United (the Corporations Are People case), and indeed allows anyone to use religious objections as a magic phrase to allow anyone to break any law they like...

In spite of this dominant use now being made of religious programs by church people, the paid - time broadcasters still maintain that the dominant intention of their programs is evangelism (i.e., reaching outsiders).

Even if the justices were able to see on the basis of the French achievement that the political divisions they fear from religious controversy are not inescapable in today's democratic society, their own need for consistency as they fashion the developing common law would still prevent them from reversing themselves soon enough to enable the American people to take effective official action to save nonpublic education.

Still love the video of his brother at his memorial going off on all the religious people that came there to look good by invoking their own beliefs rather than showing respect for the beliefs of the deceased!

Still love the video of his brother at his memorial going off on all the religious people giving their empty religious statements and speeches.

The evidence surrounding millennial trends clearly shows people still crave community, meaning, wonder, joy and peace, and are taking the elements of religious participation that enhance their lives.

It is an organization made up of people, almost exclusively men who have egos and personal agendas.Don't thick that just because they have a religious affiliation that they are without fault (see Bernard Law, former Cardinal who the Vatican still shelters in Rome).

That's why people whose religious beliefs proclude any celebration of Halloween still let their kids trick or treat, right?

People from our social and religious circles still have retroactive advice about the hospital birth of our daughter as well as the future birth of our son, who will absolutely be born in a hospital.

Of note is that the US government already favors secular rights over religious rights for certain things; for example, members of a religion that consider people with dark skin to be evil would still not be allowed to discriminate against such people under current US laOf note is that the US government already favors secular rights over religious rights for certain things; for example, members of a religion that consider people with dark skin to be evil would still not be allowed to discriminate against such people under current US laof a religion that consider people with dark skin to be evil would still not be allowed to discriminate against such people under current US law.

There are still a significant number of people, especially in more rural areas, who feel that funerals are traditionally conducted by the local vicar, regardless of religious beliefs.

And that is why you have people elected like Ed Day because people outside of Ramapo who have not seen the growth of the religious communities in their neighborhoods yet, they still understand what's happening in East Ramapo and they know that it's fundamentally wrong that people would take over a school district who don't send their children there and then deny minority students a fair education.

Yea i agree you don't know what your talking about.So people who fast for religious reasons are anorexics?Besides that it would be more along the lines of bingeing which it still isn't so... maybe its quiet time for you now.

You can meet at church or connect with singles in religious groups, but still there's a limited number of people there.

We still retain the religious flavor of the environment and make it comfortable for people, so we're very strict about, for example, uploaded photos.