Sentences with phrase «religion than religious»

Studies have repeatedly shown that atheists usually know more about religion than religious people.

Atheists, as a general rule, know more about religion than their religious counterparts.

It's widely acknowledged and understood that athiests / agnostics know more about the world's religions than the religious.

Not exact matches

I know people who are not affiliated with any religion (agnostic, not atheist) that are far more humane in action than any number of «religious» people.

Professionals or secularists within the UK or Western world will accept these religious tenets more sympathetically if they came from a faith they recognise, or indeed may once have been part of, more so than other newer religions.

Anyway, back to the PEW quiz on religion: Congratulations to agnostics, etc. out there who scored higher than most «religious» Americans.

Indeed, they do not, any more than religious folks, experience emptiness, lack of purpose, lack of pleasure or such negativity generally stereotyped to religion - free people.

But it's nice to see religious people are bigotted about things other than religion too, like other nationalities.

Personally I'd much rather have an Atheist president than a religious one (any religion).

Guiding Principles Religious and theological studies depend on and reinforce each other; A principled approach to religious values and faith demands the intellectual rigor and openness of quality academic work; A well - educated student of religion must have a deep and broad understanding of more than a single religious tradition; Studying religion requires that one understand one's own historical context as well as that of those whom one studies; An exemplary scholarly and teaching community requires respect for and critical engagement with difference and diversity of aReligious and theological studies depend on and reinforce each other; A principled approach to religious values and faith demands the intellectual rigor and openness of quality academic work; A well - educated student of religion must have a deep and broad understanding of more than a single religious tradition; Studying religion requires that one understand one's own historical context as well as that of those whom one studies; An exemplary scholarly and teaching community requires respect for and critical engagement with difference and diversity of areligious values and faith demands the intellectual rigor and openness of quality academic work; A well - educated student of religion must have a deep and broad understanding of more than a single religious tradition; Studying religion requires that one understand one's own historical context as well as that of those whom one studies; An exemplary scholarly and teaching community requires respect for and critical engagement with difference and diversity of areligious tradition; Studying religion requires that one understand one's own historical context as well as that of those whom one studies; An exemplary scholarly and teaching community requires respect for and critical engagement with difference and diversity of all kinds.

We can assume that all the Justices sitting on the Court today, like other humans, have their own preferences and biases about religion, but the judicial opinions of one of them, Justice John Paul Stevens, raise more than a slight suspicion that some of his actions on the bench stem from animosity, if not to animal sacrifice, at least to certain less exotic religious beliefs and practices.

Non - religious / atheist is 12 %, and growing far far faster than any other position on religion.

Science and the scientific method is universal and consistent all over the World whereas religion is regional and a person's religious conviction, no matter how deeply held, is clearly nothing more than an accident of birth

According to the work produced by David B. Barrett's religious statistics organisation (FYI, the man was a Christian no less) atheists number more than Jews, Sikh's, Shintos, Baha'is, Jains, combined, and if you want to consider all «non - religious / secular / agnostic / atheist» together, since the whole «non-religion» movement is kinda riddled with people who find conontations of words like «atheist» to be bad enough to not want to declare themselves atheist, you'll find the number of that non-religious group also amounts more than those religions plus buddhism, and taoism or even Confucianism.

Given that only 18 percent of American adults say they're more active in organized religion today than they were ten years ago, while 32 percent said they're less active, perhaps religious leaders should take some comfort in the data here.

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.

And these people have been taught for so long to take their religious leaders at their word and that their religion means more than anything that they don't care whether the person is lying or not.

its not really atheism or religion that I have a problem with, its the hate, control, and fear that goes along with it that I have a problem with, you say that those who are spiritual are into new agey, crystal ball, stuff, see that's what I'm talking about, you assume to know what something is about when you don't understand something you naturally fear it, your self righteous clouds you, don't you get that by being narrow minded in your view towards things, you really act no better than religious fundamentalists, being spiritual is a lot more than just the new agey, think positive all the time that you think it is, its about being aware of who you are?

And especially after the Noachian Flood, did false religion take a leap, with false religious doctrines and practices such as the trinity, immortality of the soul, that God torments people in a «hellfire», the establishment of a clergy class, the teaching of «personal salvation» as more important than the sanctification of God's name of Jehovah (Matt 6:9), the sitting in a church while a religious leader preaches a sermon, but the «flock» is not required to do anything more, except put money when the basket is passed.

I notice that some say that we can, without religion live a moral life, grant that is a part of a religious life, but I wish to explain: there is more than living a moral life to be saved, it is putting faith in God: it is: «If you love me, keep my commandments.»

You guys are hilarious, not only do the religious argue about which religion is better than their own but they even argue about practices within a specific religion.

It has multiple meanings 1) complete trust or confidence 2) strong belief in a religion based on spiritual apprehension rather than proof 3) a system of religious belief

It is religion, more than anything else, which colors their understanding of the universe and their empirical participation in that universe, making life a profoundly religious phenomenon.

If that is NOT what you are suggesting, please explain in what ways — how and where — you would accept the «free practice of religion» anywhere other than in a religious building or at home.

Blessed: «You have done nothing to demonstrate your religious morality actually comes from a god and is not actually anything more than the subjective arbitrary morality of your religion's forefathers attributed to your (their) «god».»

You have done nothing to demonstrate your religious morality actually comes from a god and is not actually anything more than the subjective arbitrary morality of your religion's forefathers attributed to your (their) «god».

Almost 80 percent of Americans identify themselves as Christians, with, despite all the talk about growing religious pluralism, no more than 5 per cent claiming other religions.

The abnormalities of atheistic beliefs are in today's timelines littering profusely many cherished religious societies whose fundamentalisms have been a social consistency for many good years... Even though I am distasteful of today's religions in that they are usurping the least wealthy, I see their mismanaging of financial dexterities due each religion's hierarchies needing more money for themselves than for their communal poor folks...

They are more like religious believers under compulsion in a society with an established church than like believers simply denied the freedom to exercise their religion.

Then again, Jesus would probably be hanging out with the sinners, prostitutes and all the others who don't quite fit the mold of what a good Christian should be, rather than sitting in a booth at the mall debating religion and theology with the religious types.

I think religious people aren't necessarily less intelligent or less educated than atheists — although a disproportionate number of highly educated people tend to reject religion.

Some anthropologists do respect distinctly religious ideas such as holiness and life - after - death, but many still try to explain religion away as no more than a shared «language» for expressing social patterns, calming irrational fears or marking men as somehow different from animals.

In the 1500s, King Sigismund of Transylvania, who was converted to Unitarianism by his court minister, issued the world's first Edict of Religious Toleration, allowing his subjects to choose to observe religions other than the King's.

I've seen both very good and very bad fruit come from organized religion — including Christianity — and prefer to think of each individual as spiritually unique rather than the sum of his or her religious culture.

In the HIndu religious book, the Mahabharata, it says that there is NO religion higher than TRUTH, and I believe that wholeheartedly... much more than your hate filled interpretations.

As debate continues over President Obama's assertion about the religious nature (or lack thereof) of the Islamic State (ISIS) terrorist group, a new Pew Research Center study finds that more Americans across the board believe that Islam encourages violence more than other religions.

of religion: relating to religious or sacred things rather than worldly things.»

Islam is a religion of ease and simplicity which charges the Muslim with no more than proclaiming his profession of faith and performing its easy religious rites.

A majority of Americans say that President Barack Obama's religious beliefs are either somewhat different or very different than their own, a poll on religion and the recent elections found.

Far from being lazy, I find that being «spiritual but not religious» (SBNR) forces me to stand on my own two feet, be self - accountable, and to think for myself, and to boldly question everything, rather than hiding behind a religion and it's dogma.

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

Considering atheists are being effected by religion a lot more than the average person (whether self inflicted or not) it makes sense you'd find atheists commenters on religious artcles.

To the extent that they are careless about their instruction in the faith, or present its teaching falsely, or even fail in their religious, moral, or social life, they must be said to conceal rather than to reveal the true nature of God and of religion.»

This stuff works to a degree: as Smith and Denton show «religion actually does influence positive outcomes» and religious teens tend to do better than nonreligious teens.

Trump wants to give «priority» to non-Muslims, despite the fact that more Christians than Muslims have been resettled since 9/11: The executive order says it will «prioritize refugee claims made by individuals on the basis of religious - based persecution, provided that the religion of the individual is a minority religion in the individual's country of nationality.»

In After Strange Gods he hinted darkly at the kind of oppression his society might lead to: «What is still more important [than homogeneity of culture] is unity of religious background; and reasons of race and religion combine to make any large number of freethinking Jews undesirable.»

Of course, one of the reasons religion disappears as we approach the present is that contemporary societies are much less religious than previous civilizations.

Could it not also be looked on in another way, that religion has caused Sophia to hate herself through the indoctrination and be encouraging women to escape and find freedom from such religion to a place of healing from self hatred and community that is more healthy than the opressive religious forces that are depicted in the picture.

Or do you seriously think you are doing anything more than just poking fun at religion and religious people?

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....