Sentences with phrase «over religion years»
HG, We might have went to war over religion years ago but I doubt this is the case today.
http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/ Not exact matches
This comes just nine months after the Labor Department sued Google for not handing over 19 years of pay data on 21,000 Google employees for a routine audit into the company's pay methods, as part of that department's attempt to show whether Google's hiring discriminates on the basis of race, religion, gender, or other factors.
I find it amazing that almost every organized religion during that time was at least partially, if not fully involved in bigotry toward blacks, including outright banning them from their membership and congretations altogether (which Mormans have never done), but only Mormons are still chided constantly about their history with blacks, despite the fact that black members have had full benefits for almost four decades, and despite the fact that Mormons have been actively proselyting and doing charitable missionary work in Africa for over 160 years.
I got education at a university, astronomy, biology, physical anthropology, started studying religions and people and over a couple years and painful process I am now atheist.
Right, Yeshua was a deluded individual that inspired billions of people from various religions and of no religion, transforming lives that were very destructive and turning people into decent human beings — for over 2000 years.
No matter what religion you have to remember the people who wrote the stories of any holy book were doing it with a way of thinking that is over 1000 years old.
Unfortunately, some of our leaders have turned it into a «religion» over the years.
I think politics has gotten intermixed with religion over the past 20 years.
Meanwhile the number of people to declare no religion, including atheists / agnostics, increased by more than 70 % over the same five year period.
Many bad things have happened in the name of religion, over the years.
What is FAR, FAR more remarkable (and perplexing) is that the world population is 20 % Muslim... and yet with 18,453 people killed by ISLAMIC Terror merely since 9/11, virtually the whole Islamic world goes nuts over a political cartoon by an older Danish cartoonist (Westergaard), or a novel by a World Class MUSLIM AUTHOR (Salman Rushdie), and that years and years later, this so - called «religion» incites the murder of these people.
You remind me why I abandoned religion over 40 years ago and why I have not had a moment's regret since.
«Over the past year, the Egyptian transitional government continued to engage in and tolerate systematic, ongoing, and egregious violations of freedom of thought, conscience and religion or belief,» reads the report.
Most of the North American Indian tribes and their spirituality / religions are well over 5000 years old, with understanding of God just as solid as that of the Roman Catholic Church.
The major religions we see in the world today have evolved over hundreds or thousands of years, but they most follow the pattern I described, so for the most part they all involve some form of worship, the concepts of rewards, punishments, and obedience, and so on.
I've become skeptical of organized religion over the years.
On the political side of the strange entanglement of religion and politics, there are also stereotypes that have been reinforced over the years.
I personally think religion should not be a factor.No one should ask the candidates what their religious views are and they should never mention them.Their religious preferences have absolutely no effect on what type of leader they will be.Unless they are some kind of a religious fanatic.I think it's time for an atheist.There was not a Christian president for over the first 50 years of our nations existence.And, I do not think there has been one since.If you look it up you will find not one of our founding fathers were Christian.Not even Jefferson.I know he wrote the Jefferson bible, but, that's just because he, like the other founding fathers, did not believe Jesus to be of divine decent.So, he kept his philosophy while removing all the mystical and dogmatic concepts.
Yeah... in the name of evolving mankind past religion, the atheists killed over 100 million in the past 100 years.
Over a little more than 2000 years man has developed his own idea of a religion that he claims pleases the God represented by the Bible.
theo I have studied religions and the psychology of religious and other beliefs for over forty years.
I would be curious when the year is over and if he were to go back to religion, would the atheist community be as kind and supportive?
Over at First Things a transcript has appeared of the 2017 Erasmus Lecture given at the end of last year by Bishop Robert Barron on the subject of «reaching the nones», that is those who self - declare as being of «no religion».
In fact, over two thousand years of biblical interpretation, the Christian religion has proved to be ridiculously flexible, able to tolerate significant theological and practical differences without, you know, us having to say «farewell» to people who land on a different interpretation.»
From the reign of Domitian onward for over 200 years, Christians were killed for refusing to offer a pinch of incense to the religion of the empire.
I'm agnostic / atheist but I'd just like to say that the ignorance of other atheists is embarrassing — just to clear something up the cause of most wars is not religion, certainly not over the past 100 years.
With over 1000 religions they will have a different prayer every day for over three years.
The religion of India is love of Krishna as was revealed and propounded by the Krishna Avatar Chaitanya Mahaprabhu over 500 years ago in Bengal.
Over the years, the priests of religion have done a good job of selling «belief» as «faith».
I'd like to point out that the writer is not unique, and as member of AA for over 20 years, I have known people to get sober in AA from every religion, denomination as well as other atheists, agnostics or non-believers.
Unfortunately, through his many slanted political comments over the years presented in the guise of religion, Franklin Graham demonstrates that he truly does not understand the messages of Jesus Christ.
Harold has investigated all religions over the years and has found them all to be wanting.
NONE of you have proof of «God's» existance... a made up fairy tale created by people who lived over 2,000 years ago as a way to explain the universe and apply a general set of laws... yeah, it was great for the time... i guess... but there is no place for religion in today's societies.
Your religion has become much more organized over the past few years.
And who can count the volumes written over the past 2000 years by those claiming that, although somewhat hidden, Jesus fits perfectly into their denomination, religion, cult, ideology, philosophy, politics, or demographic.
= > nonsense as atheism has resulted in the deaths of over 50 million in the last century alone, and it has been shown that «religion» (that's all religions) have only been responsible for 7 % of ALL wars to date (which would mean approximately 25 million in the past 2000 years)
todd i will leave you with your rationalls... the church and religion has killed many over the years and the KKK is a christian group, check it if you think i'm wrong!
Upon reflection, I can not claim that any major changes on the issues of religion, God or Christ have occurred for me over the past ten years.
Along the way I will describe some events that are virtually unknown about the televangelists gained power over the Federal Communication Commission — a power that has provided a unique opportunity for fundamentalist religion to effect cultural change during the past forty years.
Actually they say all the three Abrahamic faiths are not Religions of Peace and all three of them had their Bloody History but the difference here is that we are as Muslims had the shortest history of bloodshed since we are only 1400 years old and like yours people of the bible one over 5000 years and the other over 2500 years in bloodshed history...!!
Over the years, the Supreme Court has had trouble deciding between two competing theories on how the courts should interpret the religion clause of the First Amendment.
Of course, as any historian can see, religions change to meet the needs of their followers over the years and Mormonism is a fairly young religion.
What can you expect of religions who tout as a holy prophet and the patriarch of their religious faith a man who made a fortune pimping his wife all over the Middle East for years until his god raised hell and threatened a prince who was shacked up with her at the time.
Tell us all the objective Reality of what good has been provided by religion for thousands of years that make people hold on to it in spite of already knowing these wonderous truths you keep reminding us about over and over about like a broken record.
Read carefully what the church has been putting out over the last 50 years and it boils down to world peace will come through a one world religion and we The Vatican will be there to administer it for the one world government headed by the United Nations.
Living with a different religion each month over a year.
And it's been great to recently hear my husband talk about the lack of fear he feels since giving up religion over the past few years.
For thousands of years young men have fought and died in conflicts over religion!
Its first recipient was Mother Teresa of Calcutta, in 1973, and has been granted over the years to scientists, religious leaders, philanthropists, political figures or philosophers, of many religions.
It is characteristic of the difficulties prevailing that though the number of manuals of the history of religions is legion, the main American standardwork, G. F. Moore's treatise, is over 25 years old and has been reprinted only recently.