Sentences with phrase «problem of religious people»

So what is the problem of religious people with that?

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Rabbi Jonah Pesner, director of the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism, discussed how people of all faiths need to unify to help others overcome social problems in the United States at an interfaith discussion of clergy leaders in Palm Beach County...

Mr. Hawking wins easy battles against uneducated (in science) religious persons, but taking his statement on perspective, He is based on assumptions with serious underlying problems, basically everything from mathematics, to the incompatibility of quantum mechanics and relativity, and the lack of proof and evidence for string theories, he is launching a very aggressive statement, probably his last effort on life to counter the anthropomorphic ideas of God, and this is very common in all scientists.

Some of you people who want to turn the Hajj into a crater, or eliminate «a lot of problems» by wiping it out don't realize that there will be Americans there too, in addition to millions of Muslims who are just carrying out their religious beliefs.

Funny, you don't seem to have a problem with all of the religious people doing the very same thing all over this country.

I don't know all that much about God, but I know this is the root of the problem with religious people.

The problem is that the religious powers in places like Saudi Arabia and the United States are well aware of the power of being the providors of welfare (charity) and fight tooth and nail to monopolize that right and to keep people dependent on their own services.

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.

The Imams and religious preachers do not discuss the problems which are agitating the minds of the educated people; they are even ignorant of the very existence of such problems.

«People assume that problems among religious groups arise out of religious differences.

When a patient's problems are related to religious or moral conflict, the staff clergyman would be the most likely person for the patient to see because of his authority in this area and because he may be perceived by the patient to be the most appropriate person to deal with these problems.

He represents a professional group which is very close to the problems of people, and he also represents a community of people who are interested in the implications of their religious point of view for their daily lives.

For years I struggled with doubts about my faith, and through the emerging church movement, I found people who were asking the very same questions - about religious pluralism, the Problem of Evil, inerrancy, the notion of absolute truth, etc..

The main problem I've seen with people accepting evolution (aside from plain old religious grounds) is a lack of concept of the vast amounts of time over which these things happened.

Religious people speak of God when human knowledge (perhaps simply because they are too lazy to think) come to an end, or when human resources fall — in fact it is always the deus ex machina that they bring on to the scene, either for the apparent solution of insoluble problems, or as strength in human failure — always, that is to say, exploiting human weakness or human boundaries.11

People who have problems rationalizing something like that are often people that live in the world of the unattainable «moral» dissonance that comes with the psychology of the modern religious pPeople who have problems rationalizing something like that are often people that live in the world of the unattainable «moral» dissonance that comes with the psychology of the modern religious ppeople that live in the world of the unattainable «moral» dissonance that comes with the psychology of the modern religious person.

That is one of the biggest problems with religious people... the inability to separate belief from knowledge.

To fill the gap left by a weakened church, people are not only experimenting with both new and ancient forms of the spiritual and psychic life; they are searching for religious books that deal with the complex problems of society in personal, direct and simple ways.

Religion is and should be a very personal thing, the problem I have with religious people is that many seek to impose their system of belief on everyone around them.

3 In the only passage from The Problem of Christianity where the doctrine of the Trinity is discussed at length, Royce does not make clear whether he affirms an ontological triunity of persons within the Godhead or simply a distinction of divine persons within the religious experience of the believer (PC 135 - 39).

Thats the problem with plenty of religious ppl, they go to a building on Sundays with well dressed ppl and think they are magically moral for the rest of the week.

To me, his gift in life is helping to save Catholicism, which is having many problems retaining members throughout the world, especially in Europe, maybe he should become a religious leader and leave politics to people who actually understand the focus of the nation and the world aside from Lucifer.

Second, while many people may desire a religious option that offers concrete answers to life's problems, there will be a minority of well - educated people who will find new - paradigm Christianity to be simplistic in its affirmation of Jesus as the exclusive path to truth.

For instance, we can ask: How did the social / philosophical / religious environment in which a person was raised affect the way in which that individual thinks about tyranny in general, and the problem of abortion in particular?

But I suppose it has to be dealt with in this consultation from the point of view of its relevance and relation to the problems raised by the threat of Religious Communalism to the Secular Democratic character of Indian polity and the democratic struggle of the people for an egalitarian community.

And might it finally be best to remove the problem at the root simply by avoiding the hiring of people who bear these religious and moral sentiments, which the Supreme Court has now declared to be prejudicial?

but fortunately there are psychologists, mental health practitioners and others who do and I have benefitted greatly from their work, personal testimonies and the various articles / publications which they have produced --(for example, The Journal of Transpersonal Psychology; The Religious & Spiritual Problems category in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 4th Edition (DSM - IV) published by the American Psychiatric Association; The US National Library of Medicine National Institutes of Health PubMed.gov database of healthcare and scientific literature)-- about the adverse psychological effects which can arise when persons engage in intense / deep spiritual practices such as intense / deep prayer, fasting and meditation which alter their state of consciousness.

Is it a problem, a defeat for our religion or do we discover that the interrelationship of people of different religious traditions is of benefit for our life as human beings in this global village?

The problem with this formulation is that it conflates, or anyhow fails to distinguish between, the religious character of a person and that of a society.

I do not have a problem with atheists, there are many good atheists and many bad just as there are religious people - some of which I do not like.

They don't understand that many religious people, including the Pope, have no problem whatsoever with a 14 billion year old universe full of life evolved on a million planets.

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.

They recognize and fault religious extremism in Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan and throughout the middle - east as being irrational and as blindly leading those people to support actions and positions causing severe problems... yet they don't question their own blind extremism and the obvious aggressive exploitation of their own beliefs.

Of course, one of the main problems is that there are many people who don't want to understand each other, or they feel they already understand the religious other because some book told them what others believed or some member of their religious community did all the research for them so they wouldn't have to do it themselves and told them what others believeOf course, one of the main problems is that there are many people who don't want to understand each other, or they feel they already understand the religious other because some book told them what others believed or some member of their religious community did all the research for them so they wouldn't have to do it themselves and told them what others believeof the main problems is that there are many people who don't want to understand each other, or they feel they already understand the religious other because some book told them what others believed or some member of their religious community did all the research for them so they wouldn't have to do it themselves and told them what others believeof their religious community did all the research for them so they wouldn't have to do it themselves and told them what others believed.

Now I answer with: «Not religious, just spiritual...» Religion is a way for people to dump their sad feelings and fosters a form of belief that our problems are greater than ourselves and that we are incapable of fixing them.

The use of your religious criteria is the central problem with all organized religions, ESPECIALLY evangelical fundamentalist — either Christian, Muslim, or Scientology (all banes to any society)-- where some allegedly «religiously educated and therefore holy» person gets to command the suggestible faithful, usually to the direct benefit of the alleged «religiously educated» person.

So to those people that have a problem with the politics of the «religious right», I'm with you, but don't confuse things and make that out to be a problem with Christ, because they're not the same thing...

The problem that exists that I agree with in the columnist is not the «Spiritual, not religious» mentality, it is the FACT THAT PEOPLE SCREAM AND THROW OUT HISTORICAL AND POLITICAL OPINIONS but yet have never read anything and do not have an accurate understanding of the topic they are discussing.

That characteristic of your god is simply a reflection of the fear that the bronze age goat herders had 2000 years ago: they understood that if people were encouraged to use their brains, they would quickly identify the many, many problems with religious doctrine.

Dewey noted that any adequate understanding of one's history must refer to more than one's particular historical problems and include «a sense of the whole» of history, and he called that sense of the whole the specific contribution of «the religious» to a person's functioning.

As language leads one into theology, either through a moment of disclosure or through the adoption of a new on - look, the religious person has the problem of fitting what he comes to believe about God into a world view.

Now, personally, I think the solution to this problem is that people keep their religious «beliefs» out of any political discussion.

When a recovering alcoholic comes to him for help with his religious problems or with the «spiritual angle» in AA, he has an opportunity to contribute to the creativity of that person's new way of life.

The problem for the young ministers, first of all, was to establish some kind of communication with East Harlem, to overcome the cultural barriers and get to know people at the level of our common humanity where the genuine religious issues arise.

(ENTIRE BOOK) This book is written for the person, professional or lay, who wishes to apply religious resources more effectively to the problem of alcoholism.

One of the serious problems in the world today is religious communalism, that is, people's preoccupation with the interests of their own religious or ethnic group.

That is the problem with religious freaks, as they go looking for conformation of their religion from people who DON «T believe.

It is a thoughtful book in which Smith reflects on the problems raised by the study of the religious thought and practices of the people of Asia, problems of historical method, of literary criticism, of language, of social organization, and of the values and standards by which men guide their lives.

How callous he is about these matters I do not know, but he gives much religious aid and comfort to those who are callous, and he provides political support for those who seek to solve our national problems at the expense of our most vulnerable people.

I also have a problem when religious people disregard science and fact for blind faith and the so - called «inspired word of god.»