Sentences with phrase «other than the religious people»

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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

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.

If people are making up religious belief systems entirely out of their imaginations it only stands to reason that what one group of people in one part of the world come up with will be different than what a different group in some other part of the world come up with independently.

Since religious freedom is based on the inherent dignity of the human person there is no question of it permitting the treatment of individuals to be based on the view that some are of a lesser dignity than others.

The uneasy peace among the diverse American religious groups must be attributed to something other than special natural virtues possessed by people who live here.

All you people with religious beliefs had better sit down and consider how the real world works and how your belief system fits in, rather than the other way around, like you've been doing.

Another day of religion marring the world for no other reason than that religious people believe in something that just is not there.

who are they going to talk to other religious people about and tell each other that they are better than THOSE people?

And hence it is that worse passions, or a worse degree of them are to be found in persons of great religious zeal than in others that made no pretenses to it.

And that means you are someone who is easily swayed to believe something... way more than any other religious person who at least require a basis for their faith.

Contemporary warfare has in fact taken the form of local conflicts, more often than not civil wars, in which no great alliances of nations are involved; these have been wars fought for reasons based in local rivalries, typically inflamed by historical animosities, ethnic disparity, or religious difference, rather than for reasons of global Realpolitik; they have been fought not with nuclear weapons (or, indeed, other types of weapons of mass - destructive capability) or the latest in military technology, but instead with conventional weaponry, often of old design, and often limited to rifles, knives, grenades, and light, crew - served weapons which individual soldiers can carry on their persons.

It did not occur to many people in the 19th century that there might be truth, integrity or value in a religious tradition other than Christianity.

If all we can say of Jesus and of God is that Jesus is God — all the God of God there is — then we have effectively ruled out all other attempts of the human spirit to glimpse the mystery of the ultimate; and this is all the more conspicuously the case when our understanding of «Jesus,» in the first place, is really a dogmatic reduction of his person, his «thou - ness,» to the «it - ness» of christological propositions that, most of them, enshrine little more than our own religious bid for authority.

Atheists and agnostics are more driven by compassion to help others than are highly religious people, a new study finds.

But compassion seems to drive religious people's charitable feelings less than other groups.

The more accurate description of these results is to say that «religious people are more ignorant about other religions than non-religious people».

«Executive,» «laborer,» «Catholic,» «Southern Baptist,» «Jew,» «Democrat,» «Republican,» «Socialist,» for example, are proper designations of occupational, religious, or political affiliation, but may under undemocratic pressures become class symbols which divide people into comprehensive separate groups for other than occupational, religious, or political purposes.

«More so than for any other religious tradition, a person can become UU because of what he already believes rather than believing what he does because of becoming a UU,» said James Casebolt, coauthor of two papers on the regional survey read at the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion annual meeting in October.

LDS people serve in the military at a higher rate than any other religious group (feel free to look it up).

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 would never give money to a religious organization that doesn't pay taxes — that is like giving money to my kids — and they need it more than the church... I think faith is a wonderful thing for a lot of people — including myself (I have faith in myself)-- I just wish others would keep their «faith» personal, and out of politics and government.

People do not need the God of Abraham to live a moral life, no more than the millions of religious zealots who use their interpretation of religious dogma to dominate, subjugate and kill other human beings.

-- religious books try to make people look better than they really are — koran, and all the other texts, that's what they do.

Atheists are more stupid than religious people because at least religious people have a purpose for their belief other than being contrarian.

Raised a Roman Catholic, Walsch was strongly interested in spiritual questions, though he had deep reservations about «religious» people, who seemed to him to be less joyful and more judgmental and angry than others.

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.

That was predictable, since I had sought out people who seemed to be doing little more than going through the motions, who had settled down to a routine of occasional worship attendance, no religious reading or Bible study, only cursory prayer, and no discussion with other Christians.

Many people think catechesis is only about knowledge, others think it is only about a religious experience: the Church is always richer in her thinking than any one of us, and asks us to participate in this integral, objective and personal handing on.

The question that Christians (or other religious people) should ask themselves here is philosophical rather than sociological: Granting (as I think we must) that modern science has given us new and often penetrating insights into reality and that modern technology has enormously increased our control over our lives, is it not possible that in the process some very precious things have been lost?

It is like in the days of Jesus when certain religious people would pray out loud on the street corners and in the marketplace and have their prayer tassles longer than others just so they could be seen to be righteous.

Rather than sitting here trying to calculate the end of our planet based on religious ideals, I think people really need to stop trying to influence others to think and do what they think and do.

Gil you have asked some very good questions why does bad things happen in the world i personally do nt know God did nt explain to Job either why he had to suffer.What i do know is that God desires that none of us should perish but that all would have eternal life in him through Jesus Christ.This world will one day pass away and the real world will be reborn so our focus as christians is on whats to come and being a witness in the here and now.Both good and bad happens to either the righteous or the sinner so what are we to make of that.What we do know is that God will set all things right at the appointed time the wicked will be judged and the righteous will be rewarded for there faith isnt that enough reason for us to believe.Free will is only a reality if we can choose between good and bad but our hearts are deceitfully wicked we naturally are inclined toward sin that is another reason whyt we need to be saved from ourselves so what are we to do.For me Christ died and rose again that is a fact witnessed by over 500 people that were alive at the time and was recorded by historians how many other religious leaders do you know that did that or did the miracles that Jesus did.As far as the bible is concerned much of the archelogical evidence has proven to be correct and many of prophetic words spoken many hundreds of years ago have come to pass including both the birth and the death of Jesus.Interested in what philosophy you are believing in if other than a faith in Jesus Christ so how does that philosophy give you the assurance that you are saved.Its really simple with christianity we just have to believe in Jesus Christ.brentnz

When a person begins to make accommodations in their religious world view for salvation by means other than Jesus and the teachings of the Bible, they have effectively denied one of the primary tenets of their faith.

I think you have two fundamental misconceptions in your comment: (1) That Christianity is more threatened than the minority of other religions and non-religious people out there, (2) That only religious people can hope for a better future.

The Universe, known and unknown, is possibly not the most used definition of God, at least in the western world... but it is the Pantheistic version that jives so much more with science and is not a misappropriation of the smaller definitions of God, merely an unfamiliar definition to those with less knowledge of various more advanced religious and philosophic thought, within and outside those religions... The idea of Pantheism also thoughtfully considers why there is, rather than ridiculing, such a wide range of philosophical and ritual beliefs from a scientific perspective... without having to classify large groups of people, as senseless idiots from one end or destined for hell from the other.

The word religion has the root meaning of binding together, which may be a deeper experience for the religious person than for others.

Mr. Errazuriz's popsicles, rather than being something to «make people think», are simply a publicity device of frozen wine over a tacky depiction of Christ that he would not dare render of any other religious figure.

Personally I'd rather they spent their time working w / charities and helping people rather than milling about, preaching that the world is going to end but I guess that in general they are pretty harmless and at least they're not the kind of religious nut that harms other people.