Sentences with phrase «power over the people religions»

It is funny, when it comes to power over the people religions and there difference suddenly come together.

Not exact matches

Communist (extreme left wing) and fascist (extreme right wing) governments are totalitarian in nature and, as such, they opposed organized religion the same way that they opposed unions; because they held rival power over people.

It is incredible how a mitology (an invisible Good) or religion can have so much power over some people.

Another is the power of religion over people in general where religion becomes embedded in our lives in such a way as to perpetuate its power.

But you should also note that much of the history you study is about major religions that rose to positions of power over the people.

The reality is that ALL organized religion was created by men to maintain power and control over the people.

(Using the lowercase «c» with reference to «christianity» is a spiritual discipline for me as a member of a religious tradition so arrogant and abusive in its exercise of power over women, lesbians and gays, indigenous people, Jews, Muslims and members of nonchristian religions and cultures.)

I've heard these very things said by those who are on the other end of the people who use religion and politics to enrich themselves, give them power and authority over their fellow human beings and draw attention to themselves rather than to God.

They hate religion because it has power over the people that should be reserved for the supreme leader.

Regardless of the faith, I feel that religion for many people is about personal power over others, and this corrupts the whole reason people go at all.

Through the mysterious resources of language, that is, religion, and art acquire a special power to cast enchanting spells over disenchanted persons.

As long as mankind is what they are, there will NEVER be peace among us, certainly not global peace in any meaningful sense, and anyone who thinks otherwise is either dangerously naïve or pathetically stupid, frankly.Knock the dust off your Bible, Benedict!The great Apostle Paul predicted today's situatio perfectly over 2,000 years ago, and I quote: «But know this: difficult times will come in the last days.For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, unloving, irreconcilable, slanderers, without self - control, brutal, without love for what is good, traitors, reckless, conceited, loversof pleasures rather than lovers of God, holding to the form of religion but denying its power»... (2nd Timothy 3:1 - 5)- Hello!

Since the start of man, people have also killed over land, power and so on, so it's not just religion; though people typically have an easier time believing some crazy person's claim that they represent their faith in their violent acts... somehow?

In the mean time try not to rush to judge too harshly the over 3 billion people in this world who believe in some kind of religion or a higher power above themselves.

Similarly, they did not merely say there should be separation of church and state; rather, they actually separated them by (1) establishing a secular government on the power of «We the people» (not a deity), (2) saying nothing to connect that government to god (s) or religion, (3) saying nothing to give that government power over matters of god (s) or religion, and (4), indeed, saying nothing substantive about god (s) or religion at all except in a provision precluding any religious test for public office.

OH, but don't forget WW1 and WW2 were because of religiou... oh NO WAIT no they weren't over religion... they were over a power hungry people.