Sentences with phrase «other than the religious»

The young minority of young people that survive to become an atheist (or something other than religious) now have access to the internet and all that implies.

Theoretically, a Christian organization would have to elect an atheist if he really was the best man for the job in all ways other than his religious views.

I believe that is that is the truth Theo is trying to speak of but he is also trying to tie in some spiritual truths or universal constants that we have no evidence other than religious persons word for it.

I don't live in NYC, but even so I'd rather they use the property for anything other than a religious building.

So one might ask of late antiquity whether it was other than religious forces that gathered some communities together while driving others apart.

Please read something other than a religious text if you want to try to sound intelligent.

It does seem that they learn how words function largely by relating them to experiences other than religious.

We must also note that the large majority of those who migrated from the Old World to the Thirteen Colonies did so from other than religious motives and that as late as A.D. i8oo less than one - tenth of the population of what by then had become the United States held membership in any of the churches.

Is it EVER anybody other than the religious followers of competing beliefs?

They're taking that fight into the marketplace and it is a marketplace reality that many people celebrate Christmas for other than religious reasons or they celebrate around the Christmas season but celebrate some other holiday.

The «definitive» ruling of the Talmud is that «conversions, once performed, are valid even if entered into for reasons other than religious conviction.»

In 1962 Dennis found that people viewed religious programs for other than religious reasons.

The variety could arise because some people establish a primary religious relationship to something other than the religious ultimate, because there are distinctly different ways to relate to that ultimate, or for both reasons.

In fact, many were shocked when I brought it up... they had no idea that anyone circumcised routinely and for other than religious reasons.

Violent content is minimal (other than a religious fanatic blowing himself up) leaving an otherwise thought provoking film that promotes the idea of intelligent life on other planets, and maybe even in Hollywood.

Less than 20 per cent of our rural households have any printed material at home, other than religious books (let's say).

Instead, the lower courts erroneously focused on the rights of those other than the religious freedom claimant.

Have your children educated by real teachers, not folks who have no other qualifications other than religious clap trap.

Not exact matches

Loyola keeping a Catholic identity helps promote real intellectual diversity in American public life (and, again, I'd say the same as to other religious universities; I can imagine some religious belief systems that are so pernicious that, while they must be constitutionally protected, we can still say they hurt American life more than they help it, but I think that most of the traditions that found universities do have a good deal to contribute).

And polling shows that white mainline and evangelical Protestants continue to support Trump even with the Stormy Daniels news, and do so at higher levels than other religious groups.

That implies that religious people are somehow more caring or generous than others.

This is what I find so distasteful in religious belief — the answers to many of our common needs is simply to care for others rather than delegate that role to a divine source.

That's what this concert is, and it has no more military support than all those other religious practices being performed on the base every day.

The problem I have is that these «churches» using these schools are not paying enough to even cover the cost of the overhead of opening the building for them, and that if any group other than a Christian church tried to use the facilities for religious services, they would more than likely be denied.

I personally hear the atheists I know complain more than the religious people about others talking about their beliefs, could just be the people I know though.

And even non-religious scholars agree that his teachings are more morally sound than any other religious figure.

Just as ridiculous as being an extreme religious person or being an atheist which both have more in common with each other than they let on.

Science requires evidence, ID has nothing other than made - up religious bulls ** t. Try again next time bozo.

I just don't know what to say, other than Akin is a religious zealot.

Professionals or secularists within the UK or Western world will accept these religious tenets more sympathetically if they came from a faith they recognise, or indeed may once have been part of, more so than other newer religions.

Why is it that if someone hears voices other than» from god» he or she is a candidate for psychoanalysis or psychotropic drugs, but religious people are given a pass?

But the religious have become so domineering that no one should be allowed to comment on it other than to parrot their own particular set of beliefs.

Others choose to do so without the assistance of ignorant religious dogma and I'd say it works even better than the misplaced focus encouraged by fear of not «believing» (in religious dogma).

LinCA «That implies that religious people are somehow more caring or generous than others.

They've got courage more than other religious people I know and apparently see on here.

Numerous studies have shown that religious people donate more time, more money, and donate more blood than any other group of people.

But it's nice to see religious people are bigotted about things other than religion too, like other nationalities.

Christianity did triumph because it was «true» or better than the other religious options out there.

Community of the kind Christ desires can only occur with another when He is shared as more necessary than breath amidst all persons present, whether they be the person «giving» or the one receiving — Christ must not be fore - fitted to some other monstrous conceit that is paraded as «communion» and «fellowship» — the common bane of our religious activity.

The Romney of last night's debate, on the other hand, would rather assure women of their continuing access to contraception than assure religious groups that they will not be forced to betray their consciences.

Guiding Principles Religious and theological studies depend on and reinforce each other; A principled approach to religious values and faith demands the intellectual rigor and openness of quality academic work; A well - educated student of religion must have a deep and broad understanding of more than a single religious tradition; Studying religion requires that one understand one's own historical context as well as that of those whom one studies; An exemplary scholarly and teaching community requires respect for and critical engagement with difference and diversity of aReligious and theological studies depend on and reinforce each other; A principled approach to religious values and faith demands the intellectual rigor and openness of quality academic work; A well - educated student of religion must have a deep and broad understanding of more than a single religious tradition; Studying religion requires that one understand one's own historical context as well as that of those whom one studies; An exemplary scholarly and teaching community requires respect for and critical engagement with difference and diversity of areligious values and faith demands the intellectual rigor and openness of quality academic work; A well - educated student of religion must have a deep and broad understanding of more than a single religious tradition; Studying religion requires that one understand one's own historical context as well as that of those whom one studies; An exemplary scholarly and teaching community requires respect for and critical engagement with difference and diversity of areligious tradition; Studying religion requires that one understand one's own historical context as well as that of those whom one studies; An exemplary scholarly and teaching community requires respect for and critical engagement with difference and diversity of all kinds.

«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).

We can assume that all the Justices sitting on the Court today, like other humans, have their own preferences and biases about religion, but the judicial opinions of one of them, Justice John Paul Stevens, raise more than a slight suspicion that some of his actions on the bench stem from animosity, if not to animal sacrifice, at least to certain less exotic religious beliefs and practices.

Some people are more religious than others... and most hospitals ask if you want religious services to stop by.

CNN has sensitivity for every religious culture other than Christianity.

Non - religious / atheist is 12 %, and growing far far faster than any other position on religion.

This moron is your typical attention whre just like every other religious speaker who thinks he can comprehend what happened in some fairy tale better than the other full of dog sht preacher.

Consequently, it is possible to have more informed interpretations of texts than others, whether or not you believe some religious text is divinely inspired or not.

-- The difference between an aesthetic experience and a «religious» experience IS one of the questions raised in this movie, and you haven't even begun to address that question, other than to restate it.

Muslims are far better off than any other religious groups... because according to their Sharia they (men and women) have to shave their arm pits and private parts.