Sentences with phrase «religious people tend»

Sadly religious people tend to give as a sort of payment for what the church does for them rather than to pass on the message to someone else.

Example: religious people tend to be happier than most atheist.

Religious people tend to mock what they don't understand... which is strange since they don't mock their own beliefs.

No one is saying the president, or any politician, needs to be an atheist, just that they need to keep and open and secular mind... that means accepting other religions as valid... which is something that devout religious people tend to be unable to do.

It's things like this that religious people tend to overlook in the name of «faith».

Simply put, he believes that religious people tend to be more imaginative, and are able to craft their own sense of play around simple games, while non-religious people tend to prefer the concrete rules afforded by video games.

Religious people tend to lie more than non-religious people do... and not just about their religion, they bring it into their work lives as well.

'' «Overall, this research suggests that although less religious people tend to be less trusted in the U.S., when feeling compassionate, they may actually be more inclined to help their fellow citizens than more religious people»

Religious people tend to love this stuff.

Yesterday's study (comparing religious to SBNR and atheists) showed that religious people tend to be more stable socially.

Religious people tend to believe humans are a separate form of life created a few thousand years ago totally apart from all other life.

This is why religious people tend to «shove things down your throat».

Religious people tend to be dumber... they just don't get it do they?

And she found that religious people tended to walk around her as they would a piece of carrion.

Not exact matches

And they have also tended to allow religious excuses to free people from certain legal claims, such as might arise in jurisdictions with broad protections against discrimination, including minorities such as LGBT people.

Greed for power, control, influence, adulation, etc. tend to define the failings of every religious person as they sublimate their primate instincts behind a mask of delusion.

In an interview with Mashable, Jim Jansen, a senior fellow at the Pew Internet Project, said: «There is a view that the more tech - savvy a person is, the less religious they tend to be.

It's, unfortunately, not too rare to find intolerant religious people of any denomination... but people like you tend to take the cake.

The distinction the Oliners made between the appropriation of religious traditions by non-rescuers and rescuers comes to mind here: The rescuers tended to understand the inclusiveness and extensiveness of injunctions to love to extend to all persons and groups.

I think religious people aren't necessarily less intelligent or less educated than atheists — although a disproportionate number of highly educated people tend to reject religion.

It would be really helpful if people on here could avoid religious cliches and try to write things in their own words — otherwise the glibness tends to just slide over people and what's being said is lost.

When the mass insecurities fostered by a society in rapid transition reinforce the feeling of vulnerability derived from personal autonomy, people tend to «escape from freedom»; they lose their anxiety but also their freedom by overidentifying with some authoritarian ideology, leader, or system, political or religious.

My enemies are people who would deny me my religious freedom, not Christians as a whole, and the best remedies tend to involve civil conversation, the courts, and the occasional school board meeting... When doing inter-faith work the goal is not to convert anyone or get them to agree with you, but to help them see you (and our community) as a positive.

Studies show that religious people generally have lower IQ's and tend to believe in conspiracy theories more often.

In choosing friends, teens tend to surround themselves with people who reinforce the shaping influence (religious or nonreligious) of their parents.

Then there is the sad and, to my mind, unmistakable fact that people who have adopted the so - called «presumption against war» tend to get things wrong, time and again: as the U.S. bishops got the dynamics of the Cold War wrong in their 1983 pastoral letter, «The Challenge of Peace»; as most religious leaders and intellectuals got it wrong in predicting a Middle East Armageddon in the first Gulf War and the recent Iraq War.

Reform Judaism tends to look on Judaism as religious creed, Orthodox Judaism tends to look on it as religious laws, both without the real existence of a people as a people.

Sociological theories of the 1940s and 1950s tended to portray culture as a hierarchy of values that was integrated by higher - order religious values and was internalized by the person, thereby giving unity and direction to the person's behavior.

Many tend to simply want to keep it to themselves, which is perfectly fine — I wish more religious people actually felt this way.

«People tend to think that Stephen King is anti-religious because he is a horror writer, but that's completely mistaken,» says Zahl, a retired Episcopal priest who has written about King's religious sensibility for Christianity Today magazine.

Generalizing is difficult here, but the main difference I see is that the «spiritual - but - not - religious» people tend to believe that God is love and can be understood and approached in multiple valid ways.

10) Does digital communication tend to strengthen or weaken people's religious commitments?

It is also the well - established case that natural scientists and people working at the edge of technological advances tend to be more religious than those in the humanities and social sciences.

The barrier consists in the fact that each person tends to articulate his religious experience in terms of his own cultural background.

Pluralist societies tend to view persons as individuated selves with rights and duties, who may form or leave independent political, social, business or religious associations; but socialist societies incorporate the self into an organic whole that guides each self and controls independent groups and associations.

Out of religious and moral conviction we tend to praise people for their high intentions, and to sympathize with their sense of inability to live up to the ideals they hold.

My # 1 criticism with religious people, is thus: Those of us who reject religion in favor of science tend to speak about our beliefs in the way the universe works with an assumed sense of «we think.»

I too am tired of selective appeals to «biblical marriage» that tend to glorify the modern nuclear family as the only ideal and render real people with real lives into a mere political / religious «issue,» and I too am reluctant to support an establishment that sends part of its profits to the Family Research Council, an organization that has fed blatant misinformation about homosexuality to Christians for years.

I don't even talk to religious people anymore... they tend to have lost all grip on reality and I SURLY would never let them babysit my children!

In other words, the persons who have passed through conversion, having once taken a stand for the religious life, tend to feel themselves identified with it, no matter how much their religious enthusiasm declines.»

There was a reason why our founding father's choose a seperation of church and state, interprited, religious, beliefs can and do lead to emotional reactions that tend to be intolerant of other people's (group's) point's of view.

People who attend religious services more than once a week tend to be Republican — in both cases by about a two - to - one margin.

Young people tend to think out religious and moral questions for themselves, with less reliance on churchly authority.

My third observation is that entities founded by zealous Catholics — whether lay people, religious, or clerics — to spread the faith and support it tend to lose focus and become secularized.

This tend - ency provides an insight into the function which religious programs fulfill in the lives of many people.

People of lesser intelligence levels will tend to be more religious.

Those who are not religious tend to be more concerned with their own personal satisfaction and while that may not lead to committing abominable acts against humnanity, these people say and do nothing which allows it to propagate and worsen.

As television distances people from each other and tends toward the privatization of experience, its most appropriate uses in religious communication should be in preparing the way for this subsequent interpersonal interaction.

The following quote, taken directly from the article, shows that people tend to see this artifact as a religious symbol, and that Christians interpret 9/11 as being an attack on their religion.

As Religious Freedom and the Constitution illustrates, we tend to assume that the independence and autonomy of churches derive from, and exist for, the privacy and liberty interests of individual persons.