Sentences with phrase «of the religious people who»

They fail to distinguish two types of religious persons who may be part of this group: the first, who depend completely upon the literal interpretation of Scripture and tradition by an authoritarian pastor, and second, those who undertake rescue activity as the command of God, based upon a thoughtful and self - ratified interpretation of the ethical imperatives of the gospel.

I am for the elimination of hate, fear and control, religion is just the catalyst that people use to hate, fear and control, getting rid of religion won't solve the problem, its like putting a band aid on a severe cut, its temporary, and it just hits the surface, instead we need to go deeper than that to the root cause, I know lots of religious people who don't hate, fear or control, there are also many beliefs such as paganism, Buddism, Taoism, which doesn't use hate fear, and self righteousness to condemn others, I think if maybe more of the most major religions followed there teachings then we wouldn't have as much problems as we do.

I know a lot of religious people who are tolerant / supportive of gays or gays themselves.

Suppose you return in 1000 years to earth to find a group of religious people who call themselves «Christians.»

So your retort is «leave the current amount of religious people who are in charge of the government because I like it.»

Posting links of religious people who you agree with on this issue does nothing to refute points I made.

He instead filled the stage with a racially diverse mix of religious people who sympathize with his social conservatism.

More and more singles are finding their mates through the Internet and we've been part of a great wave of religious people who want to connect others from the same faith background.

They are more special than normal biker singles and friends, because they are Christian, a group of religious people who profess belief in Jesus Christ and pursue God's wisdom.

Baena uses one of the stories of The Decameron as the inspiration for a comedy of religious people who don't exactly have the expected moral code for a film set in a 14th century convent.

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These are «immoral» thoughts or urges that contradict the deeply held beliefs of people who live with them, like a religious Jew constantly imagining eating a pig.

There are rare creatures like highly religious congregants who tithe 10 or 20 percent of their incomes to charity regardless of income, but most people earning less than $ 100,000 give away less than 5 percent.

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.

The only people destroying the moral fiber of this country are all the religious people who judge others without knowing them.

Good point by Alex, many people who are deeply religious (and orthodox Jews very much are), see times of fear and stress as well as times of happiness and tranquility to be times to pray.

The people who resisted the Civil Rights movement in the south, many of whom used religious arguments, people who classified Blacks as animals, were degraded and debased by their own actions: turning fire hoses on children, setting dogs on peaceful marchers, lynching, firebombing churches...

When atheists begin a debate with a religious person, it's because the atheists are bullies who have no respect for the beliefs of others.

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.

For now there are many religious sects / denominations due to man - made doctrines and people who believe but are too lazy to read the word and seek God for themselves so they hook themselves to a sect / denomination and are taught the leaders belief system instead of the pure word.

«People who find themselves wanting to insert religious texts and religious authority into public life,» he said, «are in fact recognizing something correct: namely, the nonneutrality of secular reason.»

Many are the descendants of people who fled Europe because of religious persecution by state churches.

Let's not forget what and how America was suposedly started as a place of relgious freedom by the pilgrams (according to so called american history books) these religious people proceeded to rob & kill the Indians who saved their lives, take & kill Mexicans for land & gold & oil enslave a whole group of people as property for financial gain all under the guise of being good «Christians» (WHITE) and now perceive all «Muslims» (NON-WHITE) are evil unless proven otherwise.

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?

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.

Remember your religious rules do not apply to people who do not follow your particular brand of religion.

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.

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.

our fundamentalist wackos who believe this junk threaten the religious people of the Mideast.

How about the roughly 3 billion people who have died as a direct result of religious wars, sacrifices and persecutions over the last 10,000 years?

What we are calling atheistic nature today resembles a path of anarchic extremism, which is mainly made up of people who are part of a system of former religious extremists and Judeo - Christian zealots.

Colin is obviously a critical thinker who is far to intelligent to be judged by the likes of people who believe in a imaginary god and as $ backwards religious book that promotes hate and bigotry.

Well it is true that some people seek sorcerers to implement Jinn that are satanic demons into mankind or his house or his business to finish him or make his life miserable or to stop flow of his business income... In such case it is either you are religious enough and say your prayers often then it becomes hard for this to harm you or otherwise you need to find some one who practice exorcism to remove this evil... But many are just pretending to be good at it and help you not but squeeze money out of you with tales and stories... There is another type of possessions and that is not through a sorcerer but directly by coincidence what man is at his weakest moments and those weakest moments for a possessions are when you come through a great fear or when cry or laugh loudly in hysteria, or during a certain moment of mating... or even when sneezing loudly... That's why there are prayers to be said on daily basis to guard you from such things and specially if passing haunted places such as deserted houses but most evil ones are residents of public toilets and market places... Some of them even would claim that you have made a wrong action by which you have killed a dear one to them and for that they have possessed you and that is mostly night time such as throwing a cigaret butt to a dark place or stepping killing an insect or even an animal at night which could have been one of them or possessed by one of them... So this is true thing happening to many who suffer unexplainable illnesses or sufferings which could look like mental illness that comes and goes as pleased...

«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.

The Vatican is NOT talking about those people who are the majority of Catholic religious.

«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 of the people in religious groups who are so sure they are right actually committ actions so anti-religious it makes one wonder how they got there... and it was actually quite easy — they figured it all out.

(The only change is our ability to understand it even better) I consider myself a deeply religious person who fully participates in the organization and work of my faith.

Many of the ruined buildings that are visible today and which are visited by thousands of people every year, were constructed by Aelred, abbot from 1147 to 1167, who became the most prominent religious figure of his day in England.

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?

It was a religious community and a bunch of loving people who helped Lucas deal with his CP and find meaning and joy in his life, and also helped a man who lost his son get through life in this cold and uncaring universe.

the «logic» of a religious person: X: I think people who are dying should talk about god, because god is totally awesome!

Regardless of what you believe, you can not deny the fact forming religious groups only distances people from those who do not share the same beliefs.

The man who wrote the original work was a promising young scholar in his early thirties at All Soul's College at Oxford; the person who issues the new edition is Rollins Professor of History at Princeton, the most renowned student of Augustine in the world, and one of the most respected historians of the religious history of the later Roman Empire.

According to the work produced by David B. Barrett's religious statistics organisation (FYI, the man was a Christian no less) atheists number more than Jews, Sikh's, Shintos, Baha'is, Jains, combined, and if you want to consider all «non - religious / secular / agnostic / atheist» together, since the whole «non-religion» movement is kinda riddled with people who find conontations of words like «atheist» to be bad enough to not want to declare themselves atheist, you'll find the number of that non-religious group also amounts more than those religions plus buddhism, and taoism or even Confucianism.

Likewise, it would appear from the comments that both Christian and Moslem take offense at having their religious artifacts burned — in this particular situation by persons who are not of Moslem faith.

Why not display other religious symbols alongside this as a sign of respect for the people of other faiths who also died in the towers?

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.

>> Nothing scares us about a cross but if you're going to place a cross then you must also place a religious symbol to represent the belief's of all the people who lost their lives that day.

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».

I know that I see elements of divine around me in things and in ways that others don't, including other religious people... And as long as different religions and even sects constantly argue about what god truly is, and as long as they come up with different asnwers, then I have to say that the spiritual elements of our universe simply manifest differently for different folks, including not at all for some... as with those who label themselves as athiest...