Sentences with phrase «religious feelings about»

So should we take the tendency for certain people to get religious feelings about Apple as evidence for the legitimacy of claims that Steve Jobs is god?

I'm sorry, but someone having religious feelings about something that is not your god is in no way proof that your god exists.

That nostalgia is all intertwined with evangelical memory, so that the nostalgia has a vague religious feeling about it.

Not exact matches

Would all you religious zealots feel the same about expressing yourself if a devil worshiper got on the plane and started praying to the devil out loud.

Don't worry, I'm sure many atheists feel the same way about religious chaplains spewing fictional nonsense in their dying days.

Stevens offered not a word of concern about whether religious students might feel themselves to be less than full members of the political community if, by order of the nation's highest court, their messages and only their messages are categorically excluded from the school's public arena.

I think you're reading things in her article that aren't there, and using her article to expose your own feelings about «religious» types.

@BamaDaniel I feel the same about Religious Nut Jobs.

Ultimately, much of this is a result of the modern «competitive» paradigm of religious communities: being right, having the truth, drawing people into the light from the dark, etc. all becomes about feeling good about ones own membership and being part of those who are «right».

Feeling uneasy about a particular candidates religious background means that some Americans are still holding on to discriminative values.

Spiritual Gifts in the Workplace Many believers feel motivated to serve God wholeheartedly in church services and religious activities but lack passion about their daily work in the world.

The nice thing about completely crazy religious people is that they make slightly less crazy religious people like you and me feel better about ourselves.

The religious authorities in the Temple must have felt the same way about what Jesus was doing — interrupting, interfering, interposing.

Pastors and mentors will of course feel compelled to offer guidance and prayer as young adults navigate the tricky terrain of sexuality, but they should not be deceived into thinking that the all the questions about faith, science, technology, religious pluralism, politics, justice, equality, and ethics emerging from the Millennial generation are related to sex and can be solved by abstaining from it.

i do nt understand what religous people really believe is waiting for them in an afterlife when we know for a fact that the body doesn't go there and the fact that animals apparently cant go to heaven because they have no soul is well thats just good old conceited man made rubbish that is everywhere in the bible and before i get attacked i was raised religious and got very religious for a few years till i actually thought about it and applyed logic to it after that the whole concept of religion made me feel sick

When asked about his religious or spiritual views, Seeger replied: «I feel most spiritual when I'm out in the woods.

Someone should do something about religious nuts who can't control themselves and feel they need to burn stuff / shoot people.

Helping him look at his life from a religious perspective can change his basic feelings about his problems.

My friends at the invaluable Mirror of Justice blog have noted and commented on New York Times editor Bill Keller's snarky questions for and about the religious beliefs of various Republican candidates, but I feel compelled to add my two cents» worth.

Because he is a religious authority figure, people spontaneously project on him a rich variety of associations from their early life, including powerful feelings about such matters as God, heaven, hell, sex, parents, Sunday school, death, sin, and guilt.

But religious leaders spend almost as much time making you feel guilty about actually thinking, than they do raising money from the non-thinkers.

But it's so difficult to feel warm and fuzzy about people who would like to force everybody to submit to their dreary religious dictates.

The example you gave about your mother did you feel compassion for her or anger because what she did had nothing to do with organized religion organization is unity religion can be just religious until you began a journey with Christ.

They call them peddlers of religion, and they do not mean that in a positive way, but rather are referring to people they believe are trying to push their own agenda of a psuedo - religious toxic mix of some sort of religious something, politics, power, control, personal profit (think $ $ $) and efforts to feel good about ones self while at the same time looking down on neighbors (condescension) rather than loving neighbors.

Funny how we criticize and mock other countries that have governments based on religious fanaticism (i.e. Iran) while a large segment of our voters are also religious fanatics who seem to think their view is the only «morally correct» way to feel about an issue (i.e.abortion).

Let's let China put a millitary base on US soil and defile our religious sites and see how the US people feel about it.

I wonder how all the «small government» religious conservatives feel about using Big Government to round up undesirables?

How do you feel about the politicians who are blocking Chik from establishing businesses because of the religious beliefs of the president of the company?

CNN: Bill Maher takes on Tim Tebow and feels the wrath On Christmas Eve the Denver Broncos were getting destroyed by Detroit Lions on the football field and comedian, liberal commentator, and religious provocateur Bill Maher couldn't help but tweet about it.

The fact some atheists on here feel the need to take over a thread about a religious figure is sad really.

Their ideas about the relationship between Christianity and secularization express, in exaggerated form to be sure, some of the most deeply felt religious intuitions of our culture.

If you are a religious leader, like a pastor, and you feel you might be burning out, it is up to you to do something about it.

People refusing medical treatment because they think they can pray disease away, The demoralizing way religion makes you feel about yourself (I am a wretch, a sinner, a bad person by nature), the religious wars that have been fought for millenia, the self righteous passing laws based on THEIR beliefs (change to the pledge of allegience which now excludes anyone who does not believe in a fairy godfather, the change to the national motto that turned it into the lie «in god we trust», the bigotry that «my religion is the right one and you are wrong so I'll pray for you» kind of crap... don't you realize that it is insulting to me when someone says they will pray for me... its the same as saying I'm going to do something for you but there won't be any effect, so it is just a waste of time.

Actually Juan, I feel that way about ALL symbols, religious or otherwise.

You're right about imposing, but not all religious people are trying to impose their beliefs — many are just trying to share something they feel is important.

He spoke of the prestige of science in our culture and the corresponding lack of respect for religion («If it's a science programme it's a documentary, if the subject's politics there's a debate, but a religious programme, unless it's hymns for granny, will have people talking about their feelings»).

I feel like this author is confusing «spirituality not religious», with «I don't care about either».

«I think a lot of Christian educationalists are concerned about the direction of travel... they are day - in day - out helping to run schools... they don't feel they get much credit for it they feel that instead senior educational figures talk about Christian education and religious education and religious schools as if they are the problem.»

I recently attended a event where a Mormon and a Baptist engaged in this kind of civil and respectful dialogue about their respective faiths and similar to your feelings I came away with the stronger conviction that we need more real dialogue and less the perpetuations of stereotypes and religious polemic.

Moreover, the spiritual but not religious reflect the «me» generation of self - obsessed, truth - is - whatever - you - feel - it - to - be thinking, where big, historic, demanding institutions that have expectations about behavior, attitudes and observance and rules are jettisoned yet nothing positive is put in replacement.

The more I peeped into African religious insights about God, the more I felt utterly unable to use the word «only» in this case.

But if religious numbness is the result of nothing but molecules in motion, then what about feelings like envy, lust and rage?

Tragically, the only people in John 10 - 11 who want to kill are the religious people who feel threatened by what Jesus is teaching about God: that God is not a God of death and war, but is a God of life and peace.

People who are spiritual but religious are describing how they feel about life, they are not proclaiming they have the answers, and good for them.

People are doing this to not stand out, its a way of making one feel imporetant, as with most if not all so called religious leaderrs they know very little or anything at all about the doctrines of the religion their in and this is a Fact.

And, quite honestly, I think I'd feel the exact same way about those memorials whether I was religious or not.

They aren't even really human so you can't discriminate against them...» The fact that the religious feel this way about atheists is shameful and disgusting but it's true.

«Feeling good» for them has replaced «being good,» and relationships are based not so much on a religious conviction about the essential worth of every individual as they are based on contractual arrangements in which each person is considered of value to the extent that he or she is of value to me.

What is exciting about religion in art as expressed in painting is the endless evocation of profound human feelings and the interaction of those feelings with great religious symbols and themes.

What I love about Jesus is that when (the non self - righteous religious) people listened to him, they felt overwhelming love / mercy.