Sentences with phrase «religious do evil»

The proposition would seem to be that, if good people who are not religious do evil, they are not good people.

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Other religious leaders regularly note that «the love of money is the root of all kinds of evil» and that «a man's life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions.»

Since atheists and agnostics are just as prone to human frailties as the religious, I don't doubt that there * are * evil people who are athiests... but facts and numbers show that these «evil atheists» are a bunch of pikers compared to the violence and viciousness of those who promote hatred and violence in the name of their God.

unless of course what satan wants to do is convince the religious to condemn atheists as evil, thus opening them up to hate, which is forbidden.

Religious fanatics are the source of most evil today, and to use your experiences as some kind of support for worshipping invisible and non-existent deities does a disservice to humanity.

Christianity doesn't cause «reigious wars», people taking land that other people think belongs to them and countries supporting equally evil terrorism against other terrorists cause «religious wars».

Your right there was a time that we did not know about germs and the religious claimed it was demons and evil spirits that made people sick.

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.»

We don't buy into the very conservative religious opinion that sees Halloween as an evil holiday.

The major «temptation» that religious people fall into is illusion — and the outright evils done in its name.

I do not want to even want to bring up the radical feminist who no matter Religious or Atheist... how they feel that the evils of men deserve that they find a way to rid the world of men.

many religious people are not Christians, and even Christians who are still only human get distracted by the flesh and do stupid or you could say evil things.

And any plausible critic of his position has to acknowledge all the evil that has been done in the name of religion, and the need for critical examination of religious symbols and their use.

But what makes the lack of love even more heretical, is that a lack of love often leads religious people to do horrendous and hurtful things «in the name of Jesus,» which makes these actions not just heretical, but satanic and evil.

i don't think religious people are evil.

It's this kind of over the top judgement, holding others to your personal religious beliefs, that are responsible for so many Americans today feeling that religion in general has nothing to offer besides bigotry, judgement, and a sad credo that everyone who doesn't think exactly as you do is wrong and evil.

The trick is fooling the world into thinking there is some invisible evil spirit that made you do bad things so you can shift the blame for the greed, the selfishness and the hubris with which most religious zealots conduct themselves.

The crucial religious experiences of man do not take place in a sphere in which creative energy operates without contradiction, but in a sphere in which evil and good, despair and hope, the power of destruction and the power of rebirth, dwell side by side.

One doesn't need to be religious to be good, but there are also evil people who hide behind their religion.

Most atheists have a superiority complex because they think only religious people do evil.

Despite their combined evil, they still didn't cause the same degree of human carnage and suffering as 20th century wars fought by world leaders who defined themselves as religious.

Atheists always speak of the evil done by the religious yet they ignore the evil done by atheists throughout history.

But anything a religious person does that is evil must have been done in the name of religion, which makes it really, really bad.

It's also proving atheists are totally stupid and ignorant when it comes to admitting atheists also can do evil and it doesn't take a religious person to cause it.

So let me try and get this straight, if religious doctrine does not define some practice as against the law or evil but yet the laity performs these unlawful acts, it keeps the church free from culpability?

leave it to a non religious person to judge churches and pastors as evil when they know NOTHING of the GOOD a church does for the people... it's kind of like saying ALL government is corrupt when that isn't true either!!

Yes, atheists will do evil, but not because their victims belong to the wrong religious cult.

The war was promoted as a «just war» — the argument that when a war meets certain philosophical or religious purposes, for the greater good or rescue of people from evil, that it is considered «just» in the eyes of God and his people, an inescapable path for doing good through evil means.

Ooooops, I hope I don't stir any of your religious readers to rant about the evil Masons after mentioning the eyeball on the pyramid.

Jeff: This is what causes division as we go about doing even good things, out of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil to set up another sect out of our carnal nature; above is the outcome; Jesus came to cause division among men that tries to become their own god and sets up camp, even for them that call themselves Christian, for them that have went from Him and His Words, even that are not of His Spirit: Jesus said; the Words that I speak are Spirit and Life, That means the Words of man can only bring forth death: Therefore; if we do not have His Spirit in us, then we too can only speak forth death: This is what it is to be a believer, we truly believe our Lord: I can see what the Catholic church and her daughters are doing to form a religious Babylonian city: Even as God caused a division in Babylon in the past because the peoples became great, so to is it now with all of the man made sects of religion: But when we are filled with the Spirit of God then we can not help but to live for God: It is written; those who are led by His spirit are His children: Thank - you Jeff: Those who are of His Spirit will know these truths, those who are not of His Spirit truly believe a believer is as they and can not know what we speak, because they live in unbelief: Thank - you again Jeff; In Jesus Name Alexandria: P.S..

It's used to rationalize religious violence, abuse, corruption, ignorance, bigotry, racism, injustice, inequality, sexism, hypocrisy and a litany of other evils — all under the guise of «God told me to do this» or «The Bible says this.»

The US Is not all «Christian» we have MANY religions here and so this isn't religious on the American side, i «ts about dismantling a theocratical government that was intent upon doing evil, and then acted upon it.

In part it is growing awareness of the evil done by religious competition and mutual opposition that has made us more interested in working together instead of against one another.

Atheists logic is very flawed considering how most think only religious people do evil.

Again, the crisis of the religious right does not stem from the differences between the reluctant «lesser of two evils» voters and the «do not do evil that good may result» conscientious objectors.

But to say that human society is not a proper object for religious worship does not, of course, mean that the tribe or the state or the nation or the world empire are evil in themselves.

I share Father Berrigan's repugnance toward those in high intellectual and religious places who apologize for or ignore gross historical evil, and I have insisted that Auschwitz bears a commandment to Jews also not to destroy their fellow human beings, that the necessity for Jewish survival, illuminated and commanded by the Holocaust, can not justify the principle that it is better to do than to suffer injustice — that this goes completely counter to the spirit and teaching of the Jewish religio - ethical tradition.

They are knowingly attempting to inject their religious world view on everyone and anyone because they believe they know how best to live and don't give a rat's ass about anyone elses freedoms or rights, but if you want to call that «doing their best» then you can take your message back to it's authors, the vile disgusting things, the wh.o.re of Babylon, the putrid decaying evil of Joseph Smith and shove it down his dead and crumbling corpse.

The DH formula in Judges repeatedly takes the form of what appears to be an almost crude religious superstition: When Israel did what was evil in the sight of Yahweh, he gave them into the hand of Aram or Moab or Sisera or Midian (Gideon: 6 - 8) or Ammon (Jephthah: 11 - 12), or the Philistines (Samson: 13 - 16).

I do not mean to imply that the evil are anything other than a small minority among the religious or that the religious motives of most people are in any way spurious.

While we were so busy with Prop 8, Chick Fil A, DOMA, and Rick Perry's strange idea of sniffing feces for gay conversion therapy we let the hate and ignorance spewed by politicans and some religious groups become our definition in the debate and therefore we are accountable for the evils which have been done to them.

I do not see Bush continuing to use the term, but his discourse was always pretty religious and starkly good vs. evil.

«An ancient evil has been awakened and there is nothing you can do to stop it... except pray» The Seventh Sign is a horrible and dumb religious based thriller.

Dr. Dawkins theses are that since there are some great scientists who are atheists and since religious people do bad things and can be evil, there must not be a God.

The installation as a totality is a meditation on the incalculable loss of unrealized potential and hopelessness in the face of unfathomable human cruelty and a stark reminder that gender - based violence and subjugation, which is often underpinned by interpretations of religious doctrine, are all too present evils that will continue to persist so long as good people do nothing.

While Leon was a fake, playing on the Applicant's belief in his authority as a spiritual leader who could bring him positive benefits, i.e. protection from evil spirits and from prosecution, Leon did nothing to interfere with this Applicant's ability or right to worship, nor did he coerce him to disbelieve or disavow his religious beliefs.