Sentences with phrase «religion out of a need»

People turn to religion out of a need when something is missing.

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I feel the need to point out that the absence of religion does not insure a free mind, nor does it's presence preclude a free mind

But until we come to the end of ourselves then we are going to do and say what we want, even as it was with me: It's one thing to be a heathen, even as I was, but a whole other ball game to set our hearts on God and His truth; yet, that can only come when we are sick and tired of being sick and tired of our own lives and we just give up, we know then who has given up by the one they advocate for, even has given place to: Paul said; with my heart I want to do what is right, but my flesh does what I hate: This is when God's grace is sufficient, because our hearts are right with God, but our flesh is not: There is a war going on within these temples, therefore; even as our flesh wins out to do what we hate, our hearts are set on God and His ways which has been established in the Word of Truth, which then causes us to stand and speak forth what we believe, even as this causes a rending to happen within us, for Christ to be formed in us this needs to be, as we come up in His glories even for a better resurrection for them who believe: The heart wars against our flesh, even as Christ wars against the man of sin within: For out of the abundance of our hearts our mouth doth speak, therefore; if we speak not the Wholesome Words of our Lord, Then our hearts are still wicked: But to advocate for wickedness instead of Christ, one has become a teacher of lawlessness, he then advocates for the man of sin: Many who have come out of religion has done this, as they went from one mountain top «from the extreme right» of self exaltation (Religion) to the other mountain top «to the extreme left» of the (Heathen) and missed the valley in - between that is takes to humble us: One extreme to the other, and missed Jesus: Jesus is taking ones through the valley's to strip us down of all who we are before exalting us to be just as He, even as the Christ in us overcomes that man of sin (Adam) through theses valleys of contrast that cause a rending to happen within; and when we are rent in two, we stand on His word of truth, so we too can become one with Him, even as Jesus is with our Father: This is how Christ is formed in us: Thank - you Father; in Jesus Name Alexandria

A better strategy would be to point out how one doesn't need religion to be a moral person, and then demonstrate how some of the people that claim to be a beacon for religious zealots (the GOP) practice an existence devoid of morality.

However, interpretations of this clause need to be grounded in the realization that America is historically a part of Christendom, and that American government has never successfully carried out a policy of acting neutrally among religions, or between religion and non-religion.

if the inner of of us started with that we will find out that we were not the only ones needing to change but no Change if we do not started within our own inner selves first «souls» because it is only our souls ride us like untrained wild horses and only with faith and religion we are to train it for total control of the wild horse that lives within us all male or female!?

Maybe the idea of trying to keep the secular outside the doors of religion and church needs to get turned around, that division between religious and secular torn down, stop worrying about the secular creeping into the sacred, the religion, but rather, taking the sacred, the religion, out into the secular.

Thank you GFreas for proving conclusively why we need to keep religion out of American democracy!

Here we go again... religion... need to keep it out of politics.

Listen to James Madison speak about the need for the need to keep religion out of government (Jefferson wasn't the only one to explicitly speak of the separation of church and state):

Those who make a point of hurling invectives against others» religions need to chill out.

CNN needs to stay out of religion as do every other news station out there.

Organized religion needs to go away and people need to feel free to search out their own form of faith.

society needs to stop protecting the rights of gays and lesbians and should focus on our mere extinction if we do nt repent, and hed to the words of CHRIST, we should not be spending even a minute talking about gays, bc the main story is how ignorant and stupid society has become, KNOW THIS, IF YOU REMOVE THE WORDS CHRIST FROM CHRISTMAS AND DECIDE THAT IS NO LONGER A STORY ABOUT A BABY FROM BETHLEHEN AND NOW ITS ABOUT SANTA CLAUS, AND PEOPLE ARE LEARNING TO ACCEPT OTHER RELIGIONS MOVING TO NY THEN YOU CAN EXPECT EVIL AND DISOBIENCE TO PROVAIL how can any group of people who blantenly marry in a church before GOD ALMIGHTY and demand that society accept them, have any place NEXT TO A HOLY GOD IN HEAVEN, WHO IS WITH OUT SIN, ACCEPT THEIR SIN.

When you have a government trying to impose a specific form of government where they need absolute control they either use a specific religion (a.k.a. Islam in Iran) or try to stamp out religion in order in order to have supreme power (Stalin in the USSR).

I agree with my friend that Muslims of good will need to be ever vigilant in speaking out against those who would hijack their religion for the purposes of terror.

If we could trust our elected officials to keep religion out of their public service, then we wouldn't need the 1st Amendment.

Sadly in the end religion one of the biggest crutches we need to grow out of so we can move forward as a society.

I really hope that the GOP catches up on domestic issues and realizes that religion needs to stay out of politics, because I and many others believe that Small government where the majority of power is left to the states is the superior form of government, and there is nothing wrong with that.

It's not a bad idea to help people out who are beginning to shake off religion (the topic of this article)-- that is useful, but we really need to find ways to turn people away from using prayer witchdoctors and offer them real and effective help when they need it.

As with all religions followed by all manner of people, their needs to be understanding brought about thru civilized conjectures found out to be as an educational sermon toward all and everyone's faith subjective rationalisms.

He has churches all over the U S collecting and assembling SHOE BOXES to send all over the world... yes there are useful items in the boxes and there are pamphlets about how the children will go to HELL if they don't CONFESS JESUS as savior... that is OPERATION CHRISTMAS CHILD... many boxes go to children of other religions... The Graham Empire needs to be OUTED!!

You fool, you need to get out more and at minimum, learn before you spew, Any finger pointing does not not deflct the attrocities performed in the name of religion.

A priest should definitely follow all the rules I agree, just as any other religion, but we need to address the fact thAt many more males are opting out of the turban than in.

The government needs to get out of religion.

They need to learn to be REAL christians and only go to churches that suck the joy out of religion and replace with judgment while focusing their sermons on gays and commies.

And religion certainly needs to stay out of government — our founders saw the unfortunate results of official religious bigotry in Europe and wisely saw the need to steer way clear of official religion in America.

You need to pull your blind Christian heads out of your big Christian Azzes and realize that this Nation was built by and made up of people of ALL religions as well as people with NO religion!

You say government needs to stay out of religion — I agree, but that should include eliminating unique benefits like tax breaks, etc..

An «explanation» of religion need not be ruled out just because it does not take religion at face value or keep to the first - order utterances of the believer.

mormons being sent out in droves to do damage control... you guys don't need to come knock on my door, I shall tell you as the day is long YOUR «RELIGION» WAS MADE UP BY A CHARISMATIC CHARLATAN 170 YEARS AGO... YOU FOLLOW NOTHING OTHER THAN THE LAW OF THIS LAND.

We need to get religion out of politics.

i am undergoing such a change in the way i think about God and religion and reading some of your articles has been very refreshing — right now i am part of a very fundamental church and i need to get out - i am tired of the judgement and looking at people as «saved» and «unsaved» (we recently had a church event where if you brought an «unsaved» friend they got to rollerskate for free - i wanted to vomit)- i just want to follow Jesus - do nt know where to go but i do want to stay part of a church (for the sake of my children)- i saw somewhere on your blog that you too are in the hudson valley — are there any churches you can recommend that fall in line with your way of thinking?

I think that most of those grieving are not even paying attention the religion the cross adheres to where as those victims families just need to fine peace and comfort somewhere and somehow out there.

This is why all religion needs to be kept out of politics.

But to find religion is only one out of many ways of reaching unity; and the process of remedying inner incompleteness and reducing inner discord is a general psychological process, which may take place with any sort of mental material, and need not necessarily assume the religious form.

It truly saddens me to know that it was my father's generation that was great and understood you needed to keep religion out of politics and government but my own generation that is weak and has backslid to ignorance.

If you ask me, I bet 9 times out of 10 the people who judge others for their religion or beliefs are the ones who need to go to church more.

«We all need to get behind #RedWednesday - we need to stand together against violence carried out in the name of religion - we need to speak up about regimes which persecute people of faith.»

Those who profess to be followers of Christ and who frequently invoke their religion as justification for their stands on certain issues need to be called out when their actions run directly contrary to the values and teaching of Jesus.

In its desire for openness of mind and for adjustment to the trends and needs of the day, Modernism, both in its theological and practical forms, has intentionally or unconsciously adopted a philosophy and a world - view which are dramatically out of accord with the character of religion and of Christianity in particular.

In our thinking, in our prejudices, and in our church communities we need to examine ourselves and ask, «How do we use our faith to bring the love of Christ into the world, and in what ways do we use our religion to keep the world out?»

In conformity with Whitehead's view that science and religion should jointly contribute to the overarching vision that is needed, his understanding of God grows out of both.

The problem isn't that the government is restricting religions, but that religion needs to stay out of the government.

You can't argue that religion needs to stay out of marriage and these unions, but then claim that one of Jesus» disciplines would have agreed with allowing it — which obviously this guy can't say with any certainty.

This billboard is more a statement to attract other «not out of the closet» atheists, to show that the group is large enough that you no longer need to feel oppressed by religion and no longer need to feel guilty celebrating a holiday that is blanketed by believers.

If this is a religion of mild mannered peace loving people, then they need to start cleaning out the cesspool that is spreading in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

They would need some robust prediction for an experiment or a possible observation that could be carried out which would confirm some prediction made by religion that can not be made in lieu of it.

These religions were born out of poverty, displaced Egyptian workers no longer needed to build pyramids were sent away with memories of Egyptian man - gods that were molded into their new modified Egyptian religions.

Most of us have given religion a try, we just found out that the universe doesn't need a god to exist, and in fact, it may have been better off if he never showed up in someones head thousands of years ago.