Sentences with phrase «reasons for religious people»

Among the many compelling reasons for religious people to engage science is the human tendency to base our worldviews on the prevailing physics of the day.

Not exact matches

Religious people and atheists drive me nuts for the same reason: they're certain about the unknowable.

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.)

Stalin didn't kill tens of millions of his own people for religious reasons.

While taking advatage of people's faith for personal reasons is terrible, please do not assume that being religious means someone is uneducated.

The reason you find supposedly «religious» people against healthcare for everyone goes back to this country's Calvinist roots.

The death penalty should be abolished not for religious reasons (also religious people seem to approve of the dath penalty — which to me makes no sense) but because every person who is killed is one less set of DNA to be passed on to succeeding generations, and who knows what those wasted genes could mean for the future of the species?

Finally, to make it perfectly clear, what he was getting at is that he (as well as I) believe people don't always turn to religion for the right... or maybe not for the traditionally intended reasons, or if they were already «kind of» religious, they strengthen that religion for the wrong reasons.

For this reason we probably ought to distinguish between anti-Semitism and anti-Jewish thought — the former being that modern phenomenon all democratic persons are eager to combat; the latter the expressions of hostility or dislike found in earlier periods as a result of the specific religious and historical role the Jews and their antagonists have played.

That there have «only» been 75 - 100 million people killed for religious reasons is hardly compelling evidence of God's power to produce moral followers.

But one thing I don't think will ever change, but again, I absolutely believe that at least one person at sometime over another, chose to either be religious, or go from typical belief status to fanatical for the wrong reason (s).

There is no way to estimate the number of people killed for religious reasons over the course of history, but the total is signficant.

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.

The only reason that the teaching of a «devil» exists in my opinion is because it is a useful tool for religious leaders to use to frighten people into obedience to their edicts.

Many of them have a poor understanding of why a person may be religious and their reasons for choosing to do so.

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.

For this reason I gladly stand for religious liberty alongside people who do not believe the same gospel that I For this reason I gladly stand for religious liberty alongside people who do not believe the same gospel that I for religious liberty alongside people who do not believe the same gospel that I do.

Except for some reason you want to get «all up in my face» over my experiences, which is ironically kind of like what some atheists say all the religious people do.

After cleaning the puke off of my shoes I realized the religious people vote for the same reasons they go to church:

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.

Another day of religion marring the world for no other reason than that religious people believe in something that just is not there.

For reasons utilitarians might wish to explain, many of the people who create the most utility are deeply religious.

But the word «religion» didn't become a bad word until religious people gave reason for it to be a bad word.

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

For this reason, some persons who might make good religious leaders are lost to the profession simply because they made early decisions to take other paths.

Contemporary warfare has in fact taken the form of local conflicts, more often than not civil wars, in which no great alliances of nations are involved; these have been wars fought for reasons based in local rivalries, typically inflamed by historical animosities, ethnic disparity, or religious difference, rather than for reasons of global Realpolitik; they have been fought not with nuclear weapons (or, indeed, other types of weapons of mass - destructive capability) or the latest in military technology, but instead with conventional weaponry, often of old design, and often limited to rifles, knives, grenades, and light, crew - served weapons which individual soldiers can carry on their persons.

But think for a moment of the sort of «civil society» we would have if religious people were exempt from any law they deemed «unjust» for religious reasons.

Those who allowed them self to spill blood of a Muslim for any reason religious or non religious, will not mind spilling bloods of any people Muslims or non for any reason they will invent because they became as addicted as those playing it video games on play stations... What is happening to the world?

The bill, called the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA), would protect the right of every person to practice his religion, without exception, unless the government can show that it bas a «compelling» reason to interfere (meaning that the reasons for the interference are extraordinarily important and can not reasonably be attained in any other way).

If they can fool Americans into executing or imprisoning their own people for religious reasons, then that is the camel's nose into the tent.

The war on terrorism is a war against al - Qaeda, not Islam, he says, and the reason for the war is our foes» clear aggression against innocent people, not their religious convictions.

Before you know it people will be allowed to kill people for religious reason and all terrorists attacks and cold blooded murders will be justified.

Self - education, especially in terms of religious education, was the biggest reason for the erosion of the type of priesthood power that lead to the Crusades and the Inquisition, as people no longer had to take the priests at their word... they could read the Bible for themselves and discern truth from lies.

Western society, while still giving lip - service to religion, has evolved past the point where (for most people anyways) a satire or insult about jebus, the pope, or any other religious or political figure is reason enough to drawn down and start shooting.

the governments of Mao, Stalin and Pol Pot killed millions of people for religious reasons only — AND THEY RULED ONLY BECAUSE AND ONLY AS LONG AS GOD WILLED IT.

Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot all killed people for the being religious, they also killed others for other reasons, but they did kill many people specifically because they believed in God and for that reason only.

That being said, not many people are aware of these anomalies on our planet since there is no formal teaching which questions religions and / or deductions of our archaeologists; for this reason, we can not blame anyone who has been raised with strict religious doctrine wishing to display their religious symbol.

@Chad «the governments of Mao, Stalin and Pol Pot killed millions of people for religious reasons only:

«Today, Christianity has become the most persecuted religion, where out of five people killed [for] religious reasons, four of them are Christians,» Catholic News Agency (CNA) quoted Hungary's Minister for Human Resources, Zoltan Balog, as saying.

The content of religious education is too feeble to sustain faith and lacks the power to convince young people that there are reasonsfor believing and reasons for living their lives for God.

I think that most of the people who are self - identified as «spiritual but not religious» have come to the realization deep inside that they don't really believe in God, but they are unwilling to let go, for two reasons:

On the contrary, I feel that there must be a void in the lives of religious people to feel that they need to force themselves to keep believing in these silly myths in order to have a reason to do good things and be good people... that it's not enough for them to be «good» for the sake of goodness, for the sake of our society and our world... that they must believe that there is to be some great reward for themselves or some great punishment after death in order to motivate them to be good.

The reason that Atheists are putting up signs is because we really do feel sorry for the religious people... Only my fellow Atheists would understand where I am coming from with that statement..

The number of people killed for religious reasons would have been tiny — the deaths were political.

Hardly anyone seriously doubts any more that there was a Galilean Jew named Jesus, who for a short time attracted local attention as a teacher who took an unusual interest in people and uttered some startling things, and who for this reason fell foul of the religious authorities, the result of it all being that the Roman governor had him crucified.

And Religious people have NEVER been condescending, they have NEVER persecuted others for their beliefs, They have NEVER killed in the name of their God or even worse used the name of their God to justify killings for political, territorial, and economic reasons or even just because they hate someone.

The rules of the condo do not single out any group or person for any reason, religious or otherwise.

For some reason, otherwise smart, articulate people accept the most bizzare supernatural nonsense under the guise of «religious beliefs».

They're taking that fight into the marketplace and it is a marketplace reality that many people celebrate Christmas for other than religious reasons or they celebrate around the Christmas season but celebrate some other holiday.