Sentences with phrase «part of religious people»

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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 more educated one becomes the less religious one is... when you see educated politicians and professional people of all kinds talking religiousness it's lip service for the ignorant... it's part of their job... other wise there's trouble from the little people.

And when they ask questions you can not answer because you do not know, just revert to the religious person's favorite default, «It is part of god's plan.

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.

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.

A very large part of most religious beliefs involves free will and people are free to work towards affording healthcare, people and people can adopt healthy lifestyles which minimize the need for healthcare and of course, people can choose to help others through donations.

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?

So many religious people whine about «context, context», yet either never give what the context is in their mind, or the «context» is contradictory to other parts of the bible, and it merely turns into excuses and assertions.

They are a part of the history of human attempts to control other people — and they are badly written and a truly pathetic example of religious writing as well.

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».

Religious people should recognize that (if there is a god), part of his plan is for us to test our boundaries, learn what we can, etc..

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.

I used to believe that our epidemic of religious illiteracy was rooted in large part in a system of public education unwilling and unprepared to teach our young people about the Bible and the world's religions.

«People who go to church are more likely to volunteer and give to charity — not just because they're religious, but because they're part of a community.»

The Italian Bishops» Conference said that the crucifix is «not only a religious symbol but also a cultural sign» and noted that its display in public buildings is «part of the historic heritage of the Italian people.»

If this quality of relationships is experienced, to some degree, part of the time, then a deep - level religious attitude toward persons and life will be caught by the children and reaffirmed in the adults.

In a country of 162 million people tensions often lead to violent uprisings between Christians and Muslims and being part of the religious minority can be an issue.

Each person saw and felt the spirit of God working through the religious community and knew himself to be a part of the priesthood of all believers.

I guess the main part of my question however is, if a person is brought back to life from being braindead, what are the religious implications to that?

There is no where in any part of Quran or Sunnah where it says people or youth are to be chained... and kept in dungeons... Thisnis ignorance, arrogance and conspiracy done by ill hearted people in the name of religion when it is by no mean a part of religion... I have seen such cases only at remote poor areas when they have mentally sick youth or people who could be dangerous for others and can not afford to hospitalize are being kept chained like that but not in religious establishments, rather at places where fraud witch doctors who claim that those are possessed...!!!

Participants in this practice, known as scriptural reasoning, are part of a movement that wants to protect religiously plural societies while simultaneously encouraging religious people to enter more deeply into public discourse.

While reference to a target people group's religious writings can be made as a part of bridge building, care should be exercised not to imply a wholesale acceptance of such.

Remember — the primary religions of the day were the fertility cults that believed, as part of their religious rites, that sexual relations with another somehow conveyed a portion of that person's strength and power to you.

Some of the reasons mentioned are: competitive missionary activities in several parts of the world; the re-emergence of tensions between the Orthodox and Roman Catholic Church concerning the Eastern Rite Catholic churches; the use of humanitarian help to influence people to change their denomination; the growth of religious fundamentalism and the impact of sects and religious movements.

If you believe that your particular «brand» of Christianity is superior to others and that people need to be converted to your particular religious views then it is time to take a long hard look at you are part of.

What's even more sad and pathetic is that people continue to believe that the actions of these heathens is actually part of the religious faith that they falsely claim.

The only people willing to shake my hand, show me around, and invite me to things were part of a religious group (and no, they never tried to convert me, nor get me to attend their church).

I also take quite to heart the ways in which the religious tradition lam part of has fomented, exacerbated, and then walked past much of the suffering caused by people and institutions that have claimed to be the very messengers of God.

Although there have been some clever moves in political philosophy to explain why the religious voice should not be a part of our public debates, such theories wind up describing debates from which deeply religious people are simply absent.

Tyagi Bill supported by the Prime Minister Desai restricting religious conversion and also the discrimination of scheduled caste converts to Christianity in the special benefits to people of the scheduled caste background, may be mentioned as violations of the covenant on the part of the State; and the Christian people have been unhappy at giving up minority communal safeguards and many efforts to organize Christian political parties off and on have been made in several states especially in the South by Christians.

«Freedom of speech falls alongside other freedoms to live and be free from bombs falling on people's heads and to be free from occupations,» says Omid Safi, religious studies professor at the University of North Carolina, referring to American military and intelligence operations in parts of the Muslim world.

80 % of the argument is that tax payers dollars is being spent on this cross and that its shoving religion down peoples throats, making the root of the problem the funding for the memorial, and using the religious part as a cover up.

Now we KNOW there are no gods and that all the terrorism put into people's heads by religious frauds is just a pile of lies so high and so deep that part of the game is to get you to get lost in the complexity of it.

The religious ways of peoples indigenous to this part of the world were themselves varied and alive, and the European newcomers brought with them the religious traditions [1] of Europe.

However, this is another dilemma people face: many want to be a part of a community, especially their religious community.

The hard part is seeing that Jesus is against not only the people I'm not very fond of in the religious establishment, but me as well.

Another part of why many people are spiritual but not religious is that although they believe in a power greater than themselves, they are actually comfortable not knowing exactly what that power is.

As long as people base decisions that impact others on their religious beliefs, there is a good reason to make this part of the social dialogue.

Keener says this part of the Christmas story, «would have challenged the values of many religious people who despised shepherds, [whose] work kept them from participating in the religious activities of their communities.»

The religious significance of Zionism becomes indisputable when one realizes that «to raise the Jews from a disintegrated and fragmented mass of individuals into an organic unity, whether it be the unity of the Jewish people as whole, or any part of it, is to create the conditions that make the Jewish religion possible» (JC 329).

To be ignorant of the Bible is to have a blind spot to much that any educated, as well as any religious, person ought to have acquaintance with as part of his very being.

In this case, an insult against a religious order who are literally causing God's people to stumble, on the part of God incarnate, is utterly justified.

However, on the other hand, this is another dilemma people face: many want to be a part of a community, especially their religious community.

«It's more palatable to a wider demographic of people by pulling that religious part or separating that religious part from it.»

Yet such religious «music» is at the core of our society; it is part of who we are as a people.

(Although there can be no doubt, as we have seen, that Jesus was put to death by the Roman authorities, I can not agree with those who virtually deny any hostility toward him on the part of the authorized religious leaders of the people, especially the Pharisees.

In the last of his three «part series,» Proposing Democracy Anew,» Richard John Neuhaus confusedly presents his position on the separation of church and state, pluralism, religious indifferentism, and the proper content of the public square such that one is unsure whether he is proposing a societal ideal, for which Catholics and all people should perpetually strive, or a merely provisional goal, for which we may now work temporarily, but only in lieu of pursuing directly a greater ideal.

People and governments sometimes scapegoat religion or use it as additional motivation for the massive, but that is not religion's fault and generally not an accepted part of many religious doctrines.

Your detesting the «divisive nature of religious mind control that makes good people do horrible things» is again, part of what the whole issue is about, in the opinions of people like myself, @BG and others.

lol, yes clay i am an atheist... i created the sun whorshipping thing to have argument against religion from a religious stand point... however, the sun makes more sense then something you can't see or feel — the sun also gives free energy... your god once did that for the jews, my gives it to the human race as well as everything else on the planet, fuk even the planet is nothing without the sun... but back to your point — yes it is very hypocritical of me, AND thats the point, every religious person i have ever met has and on a constant basis broken the tenets of there faith without regard for there souls — it seems to only be the person's conscience that dictates what is right and wrong... the belief in a god figure is just because its tradition to and plus every else believes so its always to be part of the group instead of an outsider — that is sadly human nature to be part of the group.