Sentences with phrase «person than believers»

My atheism doesn't make me feel I am a better person than believers; it does, however, make me feel I'm a little less stupid or deluded.

Why not realise that atheists killed more people than believers?

Not exact matches

Of all the people who think McConnell can pull off a win, though, no one is more of a true believer than McConnell himself.

It's arrogance to consider yourself a better person than, say, a believer, and that you have the right to ridicule them.

I think the percentage of atheists versus believers is higher than the number you provide, and I also think the important point (perhaps implied by tallulah) is that per person, there is more anger on the side of the theists than the nonbelievers.

I know many atheists who, in my opinion of course, are better persons than many, if not most, believers.

But I try not to be a snooty holier than thou Christian and I have a lot of close people surrounding me daily that I would call among my best friends that are non believers, Someday I hope I can help change their minds, but I'm not going to be pushy about it.

the abundance of purely uneducated Muslim believers, their oppressive existence in their self created repressive regimes, lifestyles, and governments, their radical inturpitations of their fairy tale book, the fact that their culture and people have contributed less to man kind than any other culture and people of all the earth, their self ritious belief system that empowers them to commit atrocious crimes against humanity, the muslim men prance around in flip flops and linen moo moo's while they lock their woman in their household prisons to be abused slave - wife's, are entirely too ignorant to even build sewer systems and even after thousands of years that other cultures have developed running water toilets, toilet paper, and effective sewerage systems, they still whipe their pood - cracks with one hand (no paper) and eat with the other, and yiddle to the sky just before detonation of their suicide bombs that murder innocent men, woman, children, and babies.

Thus, it is no surprise when empirical research shows that Justin Bieber Blog people who are believers give more of their time and resources to the needy than do unbelievers, and people who cherish limited government (conservatives) give more than welfare - state liberals.

I am VERY tired of people preaching to me and others about how «a Christian would and should act» when the hypocrisy of the matter is that I, a «none believer» practice «The Golden Rule» more than most!

If the person can do the job better than the «true believers» what's the problem?.

«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).

It is these aspects of the church: control of the finances of members, control over all aspects of interpersonal relationships, segregation of believers into levels of worthiness, not to mention the dubious credibility of the sole person who made up the entire religion... That make Mormonism look a whole lot more like a cult than a religion.

What right does that give us to denigrate believers, to treat them as lesser people, and to act smug and «holier than thou».

I am one who went from a young person with faith to one who did nt believe in God and discovered a finally life with God was far richer than anything I could have imagined as a non believer.

A lot of believers do that, I suspect because it's easier to paint atheists with the same brush than it is to realize that so many people from so many walks of life have found reason to reject the faith you cling to with such desperation.

Fifteen years of parish ministry have made this parson no less Pauline, no less Augustinian, no less a believer in the common prayer of every person for a Savior, than he has ever been.

More than 1,000 people are expected to enjoy a mixture of accessible practical theology for new believers and deeper Bible study this year.

The 70 % of believers that atheists have been yammering all this time is equivalent only to less than two person per capita.

It has been incredibly freeing and I'm doing more ministry than I ever did as a full - time vocational pastor — that is, I'm ministering «with» others to those who are not - yet believers rather than ministering «to» and «for» people in the church.

We are top of the food chain and our actions have identifiable consequences on the environment around us, but both atheists and believers can agree on that much (well most of us any way), but that's not good enough for most people, they have to have MEANING, there has to be something more than meets the eye with them.

In a sense one might say that the corporate faith of the fellowship is more important than that of any individual in it, yet that is not quite true, for each of those individuals — or, better, persons — makes his or her own contribution to the total community of faith, while the community's faith deepens, enriches, develops, and corrects the faith of the believer.

I think that your idea of teaching, with interaction between the one teaching and the people being taught is better suited towards emphasizing that fact than preaching, because the teacher can then work with the listeners regarding how God can use the truths being taught in each individual believers life.

Going to a building with lots of people inside, and calling it church is no different than going to a Safeway store full of people... UNLESS... Everyone there is a true believer, and the unbeliever is afraid to be in their midst.

Religious believers certainly cause their share of trouble, and can be obnoxiously close - minded to new insights and outsiders, but there're also not universally a den of vipers; religious people are more likely to donate to charities (including secular ones) and volunteer for civic groups than secular people, for instance.

In my book Jewish Renewal: A Path to Healing and Transformation, I point out that in the original Hebrew version the word for «the Lord» that calls Abraham to sacrifice his son is very different than the word for the angel of God (YHVH) who tells Abraham to NOT GO THROUGH WITH IT, and that the reason we Jews celebrate Abraham as the father of our people is NOT because of his faith in being willing to carry out this violent and bloody act, but rather because he was able to hear the voice of God as a voice that allowed him (and through him all subsequent Jewish and Muslim believers) to NOT FOLLOW THE VOICE OF CRUETLY AS SOMEHOW THE VOICE OF GOD.

... History is replete with examples of Believers and the violent harm they do to, not only non-believers, but to people who simply believe differently than they.

I am always amazed how readily, and with great relish, all these godly, holier - than - thou, know - it - all christians are ready to consign people to eternal flames.In Mark 16:18 where it talks about snake handling, it also says about baptized believers «and when they drink deadly poison it will not hurt them at all.»

The atheists, who do not have any more answers than the believers, do not set the manner in which people pay respects.

More people are atheists than believers, but that does not answer the question.

People sneer at the former communist true believers who have now become capitalist managers, and they make snide comments about foreigners who migrate from Eastern Europe and are willing to work for less money than Germans are.

I've been warned by more people than I can count that if I don't say just the right thing, if I don't toe the party line when it comes to sexuality, I could lose speaking engagements, book deals, readers, even fellowship with other believers.

In a recent interview with the Washington Post (part of their ominously titled «Voices of Power» series), Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius discussed Archbishop Joseph Naumann's request that she not present herself for communion because of her public support for legalised abortion: «Well, it was one of the most painful things I have ever experienced in my life, and I am a firm believer in the separation of church and state, and I feel that my actions as a parishioner are different than my actions as a public official and that the people who elected me in Kansas had a right to expect me to uphold their rights and their beliefs even if they did not have the same religious beliefs that I had.

«In other words, what the president believes may be less important to the American people than whether the president is a believer.»

For some reason that freaks people (believers) out more than a guy like Hitler.

I love how people think that they can play God, if your a true believer than you would leave judgement day to him.

This same rationalistic approach to the gospel was applied to the believer's knowledge of Jesus: «If the person of Jesus Christ stands at the centre of the gospel, how can the basis for a reliable and communal knowledge of this person be gained other than through critical historical study, if one is not to trade a dreamed - up Christ for the real one?

I don't have a precise count, but it seems to me that the über - believers «Run and Hide Herbie» and G - D are much more successful at opening people's eyes to the stupidity of religion than I've been.

Admittedly, we do not know the intellectual and spiritual profile of TNR readers, but in a nation where 95 percent of the people say they believe in God and almost as many identify themselves religiously, it seems improbable that only 8 percent of the more than eighty respondents were «religious believers.»

In incarnational mission the gatherings exist to support the believers as they move out in mission rather than being seen as the place to bring people to.

i remember reading writings about a believer speaking of how some people have more disguised the christ (the spirit of christ lives in all because thru him all was created) in them than others, now i more clearly understand.

Although personally think that all human race are equal and no race better than the other... but the only thing is that the faithful believers (GOD fearing people) are the best of the whole human race to GOD only... Love to your brother man what you would love for your self (Sharing & Caring)... In the end my love to you all..

I guess we rational people just hold ourselves to a higher standard than the sky - fairy believers.

It is far easier for a rational person to pretend to be a believer than the other way around.

With all due respect, as an Atheist, I am far more level headed, rational and have more morals than many people who are believers.

My wife and I are born again believers and I'll bet we have had more fun with sex than any ten other people put togather.

The Holocaust, in which some eleven million people, more than half of them Jews, were killed by the Nazis, destroyed many people's faith in God and has led other believers to question traditional pictures of God.

Whenever I debate a believer, in a calm rational debate it usually devolves into the person defending religion getting angry because he or she can not simply answer any question other than by saying stuff along the lines of, «well our brains are too small to understand» or «god works in mysterious ways» or my personal favorite «God will judge you for you unbelieving ways».

«A person or ministry who has all their «eggs in the basket,» and seems very orthodox, but is not in Christ, is infinitely worse off than someone who is a believer but is doing most everything wrong.

But it is difficult to understand how saying the government has a special focus on religious believers and describing our diverse and increasingly non-religious society as «Christian» would help to bring people together rather than divide.»