Sentences with phrase «reason with religious»

As has been said — if one could reason with religious people there would be no religious people.

Nice try, Bill, but if you could reason with religious people, there wouldn't be any religious people.

Mitt's problem is that you can't reason with religious zealots.

IDK why ppl constantly try to logically argue and reason with a religious person... as a wise man once said, «If you could reason with a religious person, there would be no religious people.»

To quote Dr House, if you could reason with religious people, there would be no religious people.

Not exact matches

Unlike Hobby Lobby, where the High Court ruled narrowly to allow for - profit companies to exempt themselves from aspects of the health - care law for religious reasons, the latest cases deal with broader elements that underpin the ACA.

For personal religious reasons, I stayed away from most of it, but because our social circle was so small, everyone basically ended up hooking up with everyone else.

As a God - fearing soul - filled person, I see no reason to bargain with atheists or their idiotic vestiges of palpable dogma they spew forth by their desicrating religious faiths of abundant measures Teach your children well you parents of Atheistic dissention.

It is very like, as with 99.9 % of religious people, believe what's in the bible for a single reason — you were taught to.

(For debated reasons, high fertility correlates with stronger religious commitment, and recent immigrants in America are among the most likely people to be devout.)

«One of the reasons I was perhaps asked to be president of the British Humanist Association is that it was felt that I wouldn't call someone with religious faith «stupid» as that's naive and simplistic,» he says.

It's a lot harder, nearly impossible, to infect people with religious stories AFTER they have reached the age of reason.

He includes references to the Bible for the same reason nearly all authors do, religious or not — because it's a reference the public is familiar with.

Since that time, a variety of thoughts and biases have come toward an association with the label, such as libertarians, the southern agrarians, and the religious, as well as reconstructions of traditionalism (Kirk), calls for experience and history in the place of abstract reason (Oakeshott and Scruton), and a defense of moral and intellectual virtue outside organized religion (Strauss).

I am often so turned off to their religious convictions for that reason alone, because they are POSITIVE that they are correct with total disregard not only to those who might not believe in a higher being, but more oddly, to ALLLLL of the other religious that span the globe.

Is scientific reason compatible with religious faith?

In fact, the oppression of some Christian governments against rival sects of Christians is the entire reason our founding fathers built our government to be secular, with no authority on religious matters, with no voice over the religion of its citizens, and guaranteed to all the freedom to worship, or not, as their conscious dictates.

Like with every religious war, there were secular reasons behind the facade of religion.

if you listened to evolution and school and disagreed with it on purely religious reasons, that's not good enough to then try and get it out of the classroom.

That is one of the reasons why west decided to take in to becoming religious rather than secular since only with that the tension might be reduced and not be considered as infidels attacking Islamic lands but as people of the scriptures!

Yes: Wilson shows this with abundant argument and convincing clarity, and there is no reason why religious and nonreligious people can't agree about this claim.

The only reason I agreed to work with him and his charity in the first place was that there was no religious affiliation.

One reason, I suspect, is a reflexive hostility to fundamentalists and socially conservative Catholics whose religious way of life is most likely to come into conflict with the dominant strains of our liberal secular culture.

Reasoning with people of faith is more tricky than the happiness one finds by abandoning their own faith in religious delusion.

Something believers refuse to address when you point it out to them is the fact that much of the reasoning they use to support their religious beliefs can be applied equally well to almost any other set of religious beliefs, including some that are inconsistent with their beliefs.

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.

Actually, many people seem to think that a lot of people who attend church do not follow Jesus, but merely attend church for their own reasons, such as needing some sort of religious system to identify with.

• Karim Aga Khan IV, a descendant of the prophet Muhammad and spiritual leader of 20 million Ismaili Muslims told a German news website that he would welcome a debate with Pope Benedict XVI and other religious leaders on faith, reason and violence.

If we look at Scripture and history, we see that the reason God's messengers get condemned and criticized and killed is because they never go with the religious status quo, but instead, call on the religious people to repent and change their ways, and abandon the foolish and empty chase after religious rituals and regulations.

I see nothing wrong with a public square informed by religious reasons.

I know people who for personal reasons are for or against certain religious / social / political issues who migrated to religious groups which identify as Christian (and agree with these peoples» personal opinions) so they presumably might have an ultimate authority to support their opinions.

And just as reflection opens up for instinct a new and vaster dimension, a new world with its own logic, its own objects, so the act of religious belief opens up for reason a new world with its own logic and laws.

This is one of the reasons why years ago I joined prominent religious leaders, including some I strongly disagree with, in signing a document expressing convictions concerning religious liberty.

I can reason with you, that God, infinitely wise, wouldn't be so foolish as to sanction religious slaughter.

The religious act of belief offers a total structure of meaning; it is holistic, for within it everything occupies its proper place and is duly accounted for; it is the horizon of meaning within which rational or reflective thought operates; it provides us a reason to live and a reason to die; hence, the religious belief is a revealing structure.30 Or again, as Joachim Wach noted, religious belief serves as undergirding for the rational world of experience, conditioning it, endowing it with consistency.

The real reason for concern is the fact that White's brand of Christianity is a manifestation of the psyche of modern America in a religious idiom, and thoroughly continuous with the last eight years.

The religious groups» reasons — that only they can identify a substantial burden on their exercise of religion and that the government needs to exempt the insurers of conscientious objectors along with churches and their auxiliaries — actually harm religious liberty, he argued.

And of course there are tons of women and a lot of men who quietly just go about being celibate, or just decide against sex for a period of time for a wide range of reasons... health, a loss of a partner, not found someone they want to engage with yet, religious preferences.

Although the American Catholic community has been confronted with yet more difficulties — ranging from the redefinition of marriage to assaults on religious liberty — one of the reasons for hope, moving forward, is that John Paul II left behind a rich spiritual and intellectual infrastructure for Americans to draw upon, to deal with these ongoing challenges.

«In CV, however, you will never find a statement of religious origin without an accompanying human and rational justification, upon the condition, quite naturally, that reason complies in full with its duty and that the sciences do not let themselves be guided by ideologies.

The church and xstians are guilty of causing fatality (ie murder) and then whine about «freedom of religion» I think it's time to fight «beam stuffling with beam stuffling» Call it jihad of logic, science, and reason, against these dangerous lethal religious believers.

On the other hand, there is no God of a religious tradition cut off from critical reflection so that «it is wrong for religion's advocate to confound the object of this affirmation with the modalities of the affirmation; it is wrong for him to believe that the transcendence of the divine mystery is extended to the materiality of the expressions that it takes on in human consciousness; with greater reason it is wrong for him to consider that his problematic is canonized by this transcendence.

I believe in God, and I identify as a Christian, and this identity as a Christian has provided me with the insight to know that people who oppose gay marriage based on «religious reasons» are just making excuses for their homophobia.

The religious insight is the grasp of truth: that the order of the world, the value of the world in its whole and in its parts, the beauty of the world, the zest of life, and the mastery of evil, are all bound up together — not accidentally, but by reason of this truth: that the universe exhibits a creativity with infinite freedom, and a realm of forms with infinite possibilities; but that this creativity and these forms together are impotent to achieve actuality apart from the complete ideal harmony, which is God.61

For this reason we can not use the gospel and our theology as defensive weapons in the fight between the religious and the non-religious; rather they are to be used, without prejudice, to discuss with the non-religious the phenomenon and problems of religion and the everlasting love of God.

Secondly; for religious reasons many wish to believe that God empathizes with creation and that people are not alone in the crush of experience.

With the simplest of methods for gathering the simplest of nourishment and with a few acts of healing, we have sufficient justification for abandoning: one of the ten commandments, a substantial body of religious law, a defining cultural activity and for setting aside all the spiritual and secular reasoning for honoring and holding sacred a day of rest and reflection — and replace it with professional sports, athletic competitions for children, travel and recreation, cultural activities and being open for business 2With the simplest of methods for gathering the simplest of nourishment and with a few acts of healing, we have sufficient justification for abandoning: one of the ten commandments, a substantial body of religious law, a defining cultural activity and for setting aside all the spiritual and secular reasoning for honoring and holding sacred a day of rest and reflection — and replace it with professional sports, athletic competitions for children, travel and recreation, cultural activities and being open for business 2with a few acts of healing, we have sufficient justification for abandoning: one of the ten commandments, a substantial body of religious law, a defining cultural activity and for setting aside all the spiritual and secular reasoning for honoring and holding sacred a day of rest and reflection — and replace it with professional sports, athletic competitions for children, travel and recreation, cultural activities and being open for business 2with professional sports, athletic competitions for children, travel and recreation, cultural activities and being open for business 24/7.

with gay behavior when there really is no reason to do so absent your religious bias.

For that reason only we find now the ruling powers are in the hands of secular non religious ones... The conference above stated that the secular regimes in the West had used the indifference between religions, branches, doctrines by creating «Fitnah» said to be harder than killing... because you get all those with Fitnah to fight among them selves... beside establishing and supporting terrorist groups to get the area unstable far from investment and development environment that has caused the mass immigration of the capital heads, professions and skilled labour hands from their countries to the west and be treated as garbage at countries that they do not belong to whether as culture, race or religion....

The biggest problem with religion, as I see it, is that it relieves the religious from the responsibility of reasoning and negotiating rational solutions with the others who truly count, our «neighbors» (broadly defined).