Sentences with phrase «religious only reason»

Now according to Dolt you are wrong... he has his wagon hitched to a religious only reason... then again there was his «undeniable» while at the same time being «difficult to break down».

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But you do continue to prove my point, that the only reason your religion of Atheism exist is to because my religious belief in God.

Your wantings for to appease is self - centered based upon your emotionalized hardness in religious circular reasoning capabilities that only the emotionally foolish would dare take the proverbial bite upon.

I am often so turned off to their religious convictions for that reason alone, because they are POSITIVE that they are correct with total disregard not only to those who might not believe in a higher being, but more oddly, to ALLLLL of the other religious that span the globe.

«The only difference between atheists and people of faith is that the religious apply reason to everything except their belief.»

It really p!sses me off, and it's probably the only reason I participate in the religious v. atheist articles.

I like the position that if there is a god, it is a god based on reason and logic, and therefore god allowed all religions to evolve requiring a religious faith and will only reward those who have rejected dogma.

That is one of the reasons why west decided to take in to becoming religious rather than secular since only with that the tension might be reduced and not be considered as infidels attacking Islamic lands but as people of the scriptures!

That prayer challenge includes not only to those who were brought up religiously, to which many may claim that only reason why they chose that belief was due to the influence of their upbringing, but also to those who never were brought up in any religious setting.

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.

The only reason I agreed to work with him and his charity in the first place was that there was no religious affiliation.

If people are making up religious belief systems entirely out of their imaginations it only stands to reason that what one group of people in one part of the world come up with will be different than what a different group in some other part of the world come up with independently.

The only reason that the teaching of a «devil» exists in my opinion is because it is a useful tool for religious leaders to use to frighten people into obedience to their edicts.

Contrary to the opinion of many, evolution did not tend toward reason primarily but toward religious belief, for only through belief can the final term of evolution be recognized.

The religious groups» reasons — that only they can identify a substantial burden on their exercise of religion and that the government needs to exempt the insurers of conscientious objectors along with churches and their auxiliaries — actually harm religious liberty, he argued.

«The first iteration of the mandate in 2011 created an onerous burden for institutions that conscientiously object to providing contraceptives and / or abortifacients for religious reasons, as it contained only a very narrow exemption that applied to a small number of churches,» stated the council.

Believe it or not, there are some gay men that never engage in anal sex for one reason or another (sometimes religious, it being the only gay sex act actually mentioned in the bible as offensive).

Much more interesting and sad is that the first settlers escaped Europe because of financial or religious reasons only to create a country which today is like Europe was.

The only states that are progressive enough to not permit the killing of innocent children for religious «reasons» are Hawaii, Maryland, Massachusetts and South Dakota.

It must have been like this: The journey to the strange country was not long; in a moment he was there, there in that strange country, where the sufferers were gathered, only not those that had stopped grieving; not those whose tears eternity can not wipe away, for the reason that as an old religious writing so simply and so touchingly says, «how shall God be able in heaven to dry up your tears when you have not wept?»

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....

I believed that the only reason anyone would choose to become or remain a religious conservative is lack of the psychological strength to confront the ambiguity and uncertainty of the world.

He assumes the modernist position that only secular reasoning can be completely rational, because he thinks that «a critical nonrational element» is always present in religious belief.

The only reason people are attached to the pagan junk is sentimentality and a religious spirit which has nothing to do with godliness.

Research studies have shown that many scientists are now trending towards believing in at least some form of divinity however; I think it's largely that we're only now letting science get the oppression it experienced over some of the religious wars fought over political reasons with little to do with actual beliefs or study.

Hegel and the Right Hegelians had conceived and attempted such a project — to learn the ultimate, divinely sanctioned reasons why one religious stage passes over into another — but that movement, plagued from the start by bad anthropological data, died out in the mid-nineteenth century, and only recently has been revived.

«A 1999 follow - up by William S Harris et al. attempted to replicate Byrd's findings under stricter experimental conditions, noting that the original research was not completely blinded and was limited to only «prayer - receptive» individuals (57 of the 450 patients invited to participate in the study refused to give consent «for personal reasons or religious convictions»).

It's like the only answer that can satisfy everyone is no closing for religious reasons, (except the kids).

the governments of Mao, Stalin and Pol Pot killed millions of people for religious reasons only — AND THEY RULED ONLY BECAUSE AND ONLY AS LONG AS GOD WILLEDonly — AND THEY RULED ONLY BECAUSE AND ONLY AS LONG AS GOD WILLEDONLY BECAUSE AND ONLY AS LONG AS GOD WILLEDONLY AS LONG AS GOD WILLED IT.

Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot all killed people for the being religious, they also killed others for other reasons, but they did kill many people specifically because they believed in God and for that reason only.

@Chad «the governments of Mao, Stalin and Pol Pot killed millions of people for religious reasons only:

We are not organized for «religious» purposes, often we only get together for political reasons for the most part.

In this sense, and only this sense, I am a deeply religious man... I am satisfied with the mystery of life's eternity and with a knowledge, a sense, of the marvelous structure of existence — as well as the humble attempt to understand even a tiny portion of the Reason that manifests itself in nature.»

That religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging it, can be directed only by reason and conviction, not by force or violence, and therefore all men have an equal, natural and unalienable right to the free exercise of religion according to the dictates of conscience, and that no particular religious sect or society ought to be favored or established by law in preferrence [sic] to others.

Are religious people trying to tell us that the only reason they don't run around killing and raping people is because they are being watch from above and fear punishment?

The reason that Atheists are putting up signs is because we really do feel sorry for the religious people... Only my fellow Atheists would understand where I am coming from with that statement..

One important reason has to do with the prominence in such settings of the judgment that the term «interreligious dialogue» labels the only proper mode for intercourse among religious communities.

By working out a neoclassical theory of nonliteral religious discourse consistent with his neoclassical theism generally, he has not only overcome the notorious contradictions involved in classical theism's use of analogy and other modes of nonliteral language, he has also given good reasons for thinking that our distinctively modern reflection about God results from two movements of thought, not simply from one.

The lesser kinds of reverence have been noted only in order that we may be quite clear that even in Catholic circles the term worship is applied normally to God and none other, although it is important that we understand that by association with God and His presence and work, creatures are seen in the Christian tradition as worthy of something even more remarkable than the respect for personality of which democracy has spoken — they are worthy of reverence which is religious in quality, reverence about which there is a mystery, just as in human personality itself there is a deep mystery by reason of its being grounded in the mystery of God.

At the end of the day humanity needs both, scientists who ask if what they are doing is right, and religious leaders who use reason, and that only happens when the two sides meet in the middle.

I think the only reason why a majority of people believe the religious nonsense if because they have been brainwashed since birth to believe this crap.

Christians will try to keep atheists out of political office — exclusively for religious reasons only — even though the Const itution explicitly forbids a religious test.

A knowledge of the existence of something we can not penetrate, our perceptions of the profoundest reason and the most radiant beauty, which our minds seem to reach only in their most elementary forms; — it is this knowledge and this emotion that constitute the truly religious attitude.

If same - gender couples wish to be Christian and have only a legal marriage (and not a religious one), then there is no reason why I should stand in the way.

The truth is that in the metaphysical and religious sphere, articulate reasons are cogent for us only when our inarticulate feelings of reality have already been impressed in favor of the same conclusion.

Gil you have asked some very good questions why does bad things happen in the world i personally do nt know God did nt explain to Job either why he had to suffer.What i do know is that God desires that none of us should perish but that all would have eternal life in him through Jesus Christ.This world will one day pass away and the real world will be reborn so our focus as christians is on whats to come and being a witness in the here and now.Both good and bad happens to either the righteous or the sinner so what are we to make of that.What we do know is that God will set all things right at the appointed time the wicked will be judged and the righteous will be rewarded for there faith isnt that enough reason for us to believe.Free will is only a reality if we can choose between good and bad but our hearts are deceitfully wicked we naturally are inclined toward sin that is another reason whyt we need to be saved from ourselves so what are we to do.For me Christ died and rose again that is a fact witnessed by over 500 people that were alive at the time and was recorded by historians how many other religious leaders do you know that did that or did the miracles that Jesus did.As far as the bible is concerned much of the archelogical evidence has proven to be correct and many of prophetic words spoken many hundreds of years ago have come to pass including both the birth and the death of Jesus.Interested in what philosophy you are believing in if other than a faith in Jesus Christ so how does that philosophy give you the assurance that you are saved.Its really simple with christianity we just have to believe in Jesus Christ.brentnz

Its obvious that the only reason you are upset is because the Bible and the religious make you feel uneasy.

The right of religious propagation given by medieval theocratic religious states was only for truth recognized as true by the established religion and state, It was different from the present democratic freedom of persons to pursue truth as dictated by one's reason and conscience and to propagate the truth to which he decides to commit him / her - self.

As the divine right monarchy came increasingly in the eighteenth century to defend its positions on the grounds of administrative reason and enlightened reform, the discourse of those resisting its rule also relied less on traditional religious appeals and more on secular ones, but the religious roots of all sides of the political and social debate were only obscured, never severed.

Some other news about young people: 57 percent said that the primary reason they helped others was that it «makes them feel good personally»; 19 percent would not fight for their country under any circumstances, 24 percent were uncertain and 60 percent would not be willing to volunteer one year to serve their country; 17 percent could think of no famous person or celebrity they admired (only 1 percent admired Mother Teresa, and Donald Trump received a similar vote — indicating that religious and business leaders are among the least admired adults); 65 percent would cheat on a major exam in school, while 36 percent would lie to protect a friend who vandalized; 53 percent claimed that growing up for them is harder than it was for their parents (minority young people were more likely to say it was easier).