Sentences with phrase «religious moral people»

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They managed to deliver tax breaks for the rich and oil companies, that's indisputable, but not on any of the «moral» issues they've used since the early 70s to get votes from religious people.

The only people destroying the moral fiber of this country are all the religious people who judge others without knowing them.

First, people often kill other human beings because they believe that the creator of the universe wants them to do it... Second, far greater numbers of people fall into conflict with one another because they define their moral com.munity on the basis of their religious affiliation...»

An idiotic misconception from religious tards is that they are the only people with morals, that morals originated with them.

@Ralph N, For the record, though no one forces belief in god (except parents), religious folk are endlessly trying to impose their moral beliefs on people who don't share them.

If you want to keep people focused on your religion as a unifying set of moral and practical codes to live by, make attendence to religious services and taking the day off work to attend mandatory or else it is a sin punishable by death.

This is one of the biggest lies religious people spew is the false connection between religion and «morals».

They would be on much better intellectual and moral ground if they just allowed for the fact that yes, the religious Jews had Jesus killed so that they could protect their authority, but that as much to do with modern Jewish people as the Romans killing the Maccabees has to do with modern Italians — it's utterly irrelevant.

Seems to be all a bit weird that this is what it takes to make a religious person be a moral one.

Professor Grafman was more interested in how people coped with everyday moral and religious questions.

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.

I am the mother of 3 children and am an atheist (and a moral, law abiding, kind, charitable person like most other of my fellow humans regardless of religious affiliation).

If the righteous «religious» folks spend half as much time worry about their own lives and morals instead of butting into other people's, we'd all be better off.

Atheists can be exceptionally moral people and religious fanatics can be some the the most self - serving amoral people on earth.

Religious co-opted morality as it's dominion, but there was morality before religion and there are millions of perfectly moral, non-religious people walking around right now.

It is NOT possible to be a politician of the sort we have today AND actually be a moral or religious person.

Atheists simply have their natural instincts of empathy less - adjusted than religious people and so, generally are more moral.

That there have «only» been 75 - 100 million people killed for religious reasons is hardly compelling evidence of God's power to produce moral followers.

One of the most insulting assumptions of many religious persons is that agnostics / atheists are incapable of having morals.

Underscoring this point, they note that religious switchers adhere even more closely to the dominant moral ethos of their new groups than do people raised in those groups.

It will «need religious people who live with moral integrity and show the power of their ideas in practice.»

The Church has authority from Jesus to «bind and loose» disciplines which govern the public religious practice of the God's people on earth — this is not the same as the Divine Law of God's Word and natural moral law.

Unexpectedly and uncomfortably accepting outcasts by breaking social mores, he created a sense of belonging for them, which frequently conflicted with the moral sensibilities of religious people of his day, angering them.

The fact is — when we have strong viewpoints, whether religious, political, ethical, moral or otherwise — «change» is brutal road to navigate when it forces others to re-evaluate the value of the people involved.

It must further be stipulated that there are moral people — at least in terms of the virtues appropriate to the temporal realm — who do not draw their morality from sources ostensibly religious in nature.

Secular schools can never be tolerated because such schools have no religious instruction, and a general moral instruction without a religious foundation is built on air; consequently, all character training and religion must be derived from faith... we need believing people.

When a patient's problems are related to religious or moral conflict, the staff clergyman would be the most likely person for the patient to see because of his authority in this area and because he may be perceived by the patient to be the most appropriate person to deal with these problems.

So, I sincerely and respectfully ask of individuals who back anti-choice campaigns by citing personal moral or religious reasons this question, which I ask out honest curiosity: how can you recognize the consequences, historically, of legally banning a certain choice a person makes, and maintain that your moral code has not been violated, or even argue that your moral or religious code has been upheld, or elevated?

While reading the English writer and theologian Samuel T. Coleridge, one of the most influential Christians in England and America, Bushnell was persuaded that religious truth was not grasped primarily by the mind but by the response of the whole person centering in the heart and moral nature.

People who have problems rationalizing something like that are often people that live in the world of the unattainable «moral» dissonance that comes with the psychology of the modern religious pPeople who have problems rationalizing something like that are often people that live in the world of the unattainable «moral» dissonance that comes with the psychology of the modern religious ppeople that live in the world of the unattainable «moral» dissonance that comes with the psychology of the modern religious person.

Companies like Hobby Lobby and the Catholic - run hospitals and such that are screaming about their religious rights are forgetting the fact that providing employment to people doesn't equate to some moral mandate to play God and give or deny those employees their right to a legal drug or procedure.

, I was concerned about the rise of the religious right, the moral majority — not because of the politics, but because a lot of people think that's the way to make America a Christian country again, whatever that means.

For Labour, shadow health spokeswoman Baroness Thornton said the current provisions to allow people to refuse certain activities on moral and religious grounds are balanced and work.

«Religious people can appreciate this by considering Plato's question: Do actions become moral simply because they're dictated by God, or are they dictated by God because they are moral?

In that sense the novel sees the new conditions of exile as a fresh hegira, «emigration,» a new moral condition demanding a response somewhat analogous to the response of religious people to a revelation.

Smalling and Schuklenk exhibit contempt for religious people, whom they regard as dimwitted literalists nursing «arbitrary and random» moral beliefs.

With all the evidence, religious people ought to be intelligent design (I mean god - guided evolution by this) supporters at worst, though I would hope that after some serious thoughts on the moral paradoxes induced by belief in the «divine» people would come to their senses.

Thats the problem with plenty of religious ppl, they go to a building on Sundays with well dressed ppl and think they are magically moral for the rest of the week.

Regardless of their age, race, physical condition, economic situation, gender, apparent moral or religious position, we choose to love that person.

Atheists are just as moral as religious people.

If people lived their lives in a simple moral way as indicated by the stories of most religious publications we would all live in a better world!

To expect God to pump prefabricated plastic moral people out of a religious factory is to neuter grace and chain it inside a gated community.

And might it finally be best to remove the problem at the root simply by avoiding the hiring of people who bear these religious and moral sentiments, which the Supreme Court has now declared to be prejudicial?

The linchpin of Professor Rawls» criticism of the «rationalist believers» was his claim that they deny what he called «the fact of reasonable pluralism,» namely, in circumstances of political and religious freedom it is to be expected that there will emerge serious differences of opinion among reasonable people on important moral and theological questions.

Nowhere was the resulting «republican religion» more apparent than in the «Yale theology» of the early nineteenth century, the goal of which was «the moral renovation of the American people through revivalism, reform societies, the religious press, and sumptuary legislation.

Later I did stop going to Church but also never joined a gang — moved on from that neighborhood FYI — If this all puzles u, even as an Atheist my morals are as strong and probably stronger than those of most religious people.

Although in popular usage the word «myth» is taken as a falsehood or a fairy story, writers on religion use it to mean a traditional narrative involving supernatural or imaginary persons but which teaches significant moral or religious lessons.

This is precisely why religious people fail because they are inherently irrational and they use a logical fallacy (appeal to authority) as their basis for moral decisions.

«People may use religious agents as a moral compass, forming impressions and making decisions based on what they presume God as the ultimate moral authority would believe or want,» the team write.

Doctrine and religious belief may serve to produce a kind and moral person, but the motivation is based on fear.