Sentences with phrase «religious adherents»

«The biggest consumers are politicians, their cronies, family and coteries,» says Omoyele Sowore, publisher of Sahara Reporters, an online news network that covers Nigeria and sub-Saharan Africa, adding there is a growing number of «movie stars, musical artists, con artists and a sizable population of religious adherents of the prosperity - preaching get - rich - quick Pentecostal stock» who are revelling in the bubbly.

For instance, several seminal organizations began tabulating the number of religious adherents in the middle of the century, including the United States Census Bureau, something that widely attests to the importance of religious identities.

I think most religious adherents do not believe in all of this stuff, deep down.

The commission cited the rampant imprisonment of prisoners of conscience, the startling increase in refugees, and the ongoing bigotry toward Jews and Muslims in Europe, as examples of attacks on religious adherents.

The French prohibition on religious symbols extends beyond the school edifice, but violates the freedom to worship of individual Christians, Jews, Muslims and other religious adherents because it bans jewelry, headwear, etc. on their person.

That is just as true for atheists as for religious adherents.

How much you enjoy «Star Wars: The Last Jedi» may hinge on how seriously you take this franchise, and that's good news for those of us who are casual users and not religious adherents.

Other five step programs are available for saving religious adherents of any stripe to include summaries like the following:

Religious differences need not fracture political peace if religious adherents are concerned above all with the truth and, therefore, are willing to advocate their political convictions in full and free public debate.

Secularists, about 14 percent of the population, are likely to describe themselves as «irreligious,» rather than «antireligious,» and they frequently view religious adherents as dogmatists.

Read the majority of the posts on every single article mentioning anything about religion, then tell me most of the people are theists or religious adherents Nice try on that one.

This is why true religious adherents are so singularly closed minded, and why the bad ideas fostered by religious thinking — like creationism — repeat themselves over the course of centuries.

Specifically, a large percentage of former religious adherents disagree with official church positions on issues pertaining to the LGBT community.

Social scientists who count religious adherents, however, place the number of American Muslims much lower, somewhere between 1.8 million and 2.8 million.

Never underestimate the highly narcissistic tendencies among conservative religious adherents to see oneself as the martyr.

Which will have a catastrophic effects on the age long peaceful coexistence the major religious adherents have enjoyed in the Southwest in the past.

Divine law is any law that is believed by religious adherents to come directly from a divine source, such as the will of God or Gods, in contrast to man

Only 21 % of religious adherents in northern Europe have significant personal contact with Christians, according to Christianity in its Global Context 1970 ‐ 2020,...

Atheists and agnostics scored dramatically higher than Christians / other religious adherents.

Just for fun, I found a quick map that gives a generalized picture of religious adherents in the US from 2000:

The magazine is off to a snappy start, but the question remains: How many of its readers — Wilson identifies them as «techies,» survivalists and religious adherents, among others — will stick with it into the new millennium?

Where did I suggest annihilation of religious adherents?

Typically though, there are plenty of religious adherents / nut jobs who would disagree, to the extent of telling us we really should blame a particular religion in its entirety, including everyone practicing it, so long as its not their own version being blamed.

The only thing required to harmonize religious diversity and civil stability is the commitment of religious adherents to the way of persuasion.

Yeah, I just cherry picked some cultures that, combined, happen to have about 4 billion religious adherents — and the three religions that comprise this group all have the same creation story.

What Elizabeth I recognised, and what Elizabeth II has learned, is that the Church has a role in social and political cohesion in the nation that reaches well beyond its religious adherents.

The map of religious adherents is a little misleading, since many of the places that seem to have the most religious adherents might actually be the places of greatest need.

Anybody who can use the internet today will see the ridiculous nature of the religious adherents.

The curious surplus of religious adherents had resulted from individuals registering as members of both Shinto and Buddhist temple communities.

Religion has enjoyed commanding «respect» for a long time now, and this expectation becomes even more vocal once people actually question ideas and practices of religious adherents.

Grafman says that Cubs worshippers are similar to religious adherents in their staunch belief that every «next year» will be the year.

The information he uncovers unwittingly attacks a sacred institution and soon he's the target of threats and abuse from the sport's near - religious adherents.

My friend Allen Repashy has been perfecting his line of Superfoods powdered diets for several years now, and while the full line has near - religious adherents, I find that the greatest fervor is directed toward his Crested Gecko Diet.