Sentences with phrase «organized religion so»

It's because organized religion so often doesn't offer a good answer to those questions that people seek their own paths.

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So the only words King actually is quoted as saying is that he «hates organized religion» and in his stories you find religious leaders as the great villains (prison warden in Shawshank Redemption) and this article concludes he is a great proponent of religious faith?

I think if Jesus were alive today (literally... I know to Christians he is alive) he would have so much to say and clarify about the tragedies that have unfolded out of this organized religion.

And just so anyone doesn't have to wonder, I am neither a Muslim, Christian, Jew, Catholic, Agnostic, Buddhist, Jainist, Mormon, Wiccan, Episcopalian, Raelian, Scientologist, Atheist, Anti-Theist, or practioner of any religion or organized non-religion of any kind.

He is the face of everything that is so often wrong with organized religion.

wow thank you for sharing that!sadly stories like this are all to common and its ironic to hear church leaders acting all confused why so many young people are leaving organized religion in vast numbers.

Without the brainwashing effect organized religions have on it's followers, this would never have gotten so big.

So, if organized religion is BS, then isn't organizing nobelievers as well?

To those condemning the church and calling for shut down of organized religion... why are you so hateful?

I urge you, fellow atheists, remember, we are united in a belief, but we are NOT an organized religion, so let's stop acting like it.

Truth is many evangelical preachers are involved in priestcraft which actually turns people so off of organized religion that they stop going to church and then stop believing in a higher power.

Yes Vance, hard to characterize atheist, so many of my nephews / neices, and those folks I've met from communist East Europe are angry with the Power in which they do not believe, hostile to organized religion.

Been to a few weddings and survived so I guess church won't kill me, but I seriously have a problem with organized religion - all of it.

So before atheists throw out the baby with the bathwater, they might want to consider that there is a difference between lyrics that speak to an annoyance with organized religion, and what the writer of those lyrics actually meant.

The moral foundations of our culture, which organized religion has done so much to maintain, are often reasonably secure for one generation, even when actual sharing in the corporation is given up.

What is he allowed himself to be crucified (by not commanding or otherwise organizing a political kingdom or other form of resistance) because he knew from stories and other traditions (or even the Jewish tradition) that a prophet / king is only understood for so long and gradually the religion that spawns from that individual corrupts into something that the prophet never would have wanted.

I have a theory that SBNRs are so because one or more or a combination of the following: (1) they can't justify their spiritual texts - and so they try to remove themselves from gory genocidal tales, misogyny and anecdotal professions of a man / god, (2) can't defend and are turned off by organized religious history (which encompasses the overwhelming majority of spiritual experiences)- which is simply rife with cruelty, criminal behavior and even modern day cruel - ignorant ostracization, (3) are unable to separate ethics from their respective religious moral code - they, like many theists on this board, wouldn't know how to think ethically because they think the genesis of morality resides in their respective spiritual guides / traditions and (4) are unable to separate from the communal (social) benefits of their respective religion (many atheists aren't either).

So we can not entertain the idea that God orders public life through laws and directives coming from organized religion or the institutional church.

I have become so bored of the self - righteous attitudes found in a large majority of organized religions.

A seeker of truth can never subscribe to any religion, esp the organized kind... and the universe certainly was not created so that you and I could have a rollicking good time in it... as the author seems to suggest.

Because conscience is present in every individual and corresponds so nicely to the contents of civil religion (i.e., Deism), the role of organized religion (read, the Catholic Church) is thought to be not only unnecessary for but also the enemy of Democratic society.

Bill Nye never became irrelevant and has been working to increase kid's knowledge of science for decades unlike organized religion which is attempting to dumb down our children so they can be fooled into repeating the same mistakes as their parents, those of prejudice, exclusivity, hate, greed and ignorance.

But no one can tell because my hand is shoved sooooooo deep you can only see my elbow sticking out below organized religions skirts, but trust me it's in there so far they could almost bite my nails...

With so many people giving up on organized religion, is it just time to make that hospice call?

Tasawwuf is a spiritual path through which one seeks to rise above and evolve beyond the limited teachings, beliefs, rituals, practices, etc. of organized religion, whether Islam or any other religion, and establish a constant awareness of the One so as to receive all guidance from the One through one's heart.

So how do you think this blog would react if this guy had posted an Atheism Manifesto that claimed he was an «atheist warrior» attempting to wipe the smile off the face of organized religion?

I will never understand how level headed adults can believe something so ridiculous as the teachings of organized religion.

So what you're saying is organized religion changes reality to fit its needs.

And one of the great tasks of all true education, social reform, and religion combined, is so to present to men and make possible for men those aims in life which are worth serving, that men may choose them, love them, become patriots for them, organize their lives around them, and so harness all their fiery energies to the service of the light.

You wonder about why «so many young people who remain evangelical» and «want intimacy with God» are «dropping out of organized religion.»

For example, it has led to organizing knowledge into separate disciplines such as economics, sociology, physics, biology, religion and so on.

So using what you put forth in this article it would be better to be violently religious as long as the violence you are conducting stems from an organized and «official» religion; than to be a peaceful free thinker that recognizes the power of inner belief?

It comes as quite a surprise as it seems to be why are so many people leaving organized religions when the obvious answer is that organized religions aren't speaking to people and are becoming polarized and intermixed with politics.

Legalism is exactly what turns people away from «organized» religion, and it is what generates so many comments on this article.

And what are these dangers the author keeps mentioning but not enumerating and how do they compared to the dangers posed by organized religion and other organized philosophies like fascism and communism, «manifest destiny» and other philosophies that those oh so nobly «organized» people have «blessed» us with over the centuries?

I think the teachings of Jesus have been so twisted by organized religion that I can not call myself a Christian in this day and age.

The writer seems to think that any religious belief is OK so long as it's tied to some organized religion.

This writer has the same mind - set that separates so many of us from the organized religions.

«2 Somehow we must continually revitalize the educational establishment, organized religion, and community agencies so that they respond to changing human needs — becoming (in John Gardner's words) «self - renewing institutions.»

There are plenty of organizations which rely on you continuing to not question them so that they become rich in spite of their own hypocrisy in the face of their own beliefs: as in most organized religion.

The name «religion» should be reserved for the fully organized system of feeling, thought, and institution, for the Church, in short, of which this personal religion, so called, is but a fractional element.»

I think so many Christians (organized religion today as a whole in fact) are walking on the wide path.

Okay so he figured out the corruption angle of organized religion but he's still talking to invisible man name Jesus in the sky.

In A Common Faith Dewey suggests that organized religion once provided a useful sense of the whole, but that now it has abandoned that task and, instead, attempts to fob off on newly emergent societies the basically irrelevant sense of the whole generated by an earlier society in a different history If this last judgment is harsh, it was harsh because «the religious» was so important to Dewey and because he still hoped for a religiousness capable of setting forth a functional sense of the whole.

But I was reminded of a cultural norm that so much of organized religion participates in that I no longer want to be a part of.

I have fallen away from the church though the older I get the more I realize that any organized religion freaks me out, but here is the thing there are lots of homeless shelters and hot food banks that run off churches so they do some good for the community.

Just as God loosed the mighty pagan Roman Empire on Jerusalem which along with the Jewish Temple was completely destroyed in the year 70 A.D., so will God loose today's powerful governments on organized religions led by men rayping our boys.

So you don't think that the removal of organized religion from the world would have a countless number of benefits?

I have a hard time buying any of the so called organized religions.

Like so many in modern secular society, I considered myself spiritual but shunned most of the practices and beliefs associated with organized religion.