Sentences with phrase «religious superiors are»

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No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior.

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Proselytizing of any form should be illegal, even of it is someones religious belief, it is an invasion of privacy, it is bigotry, and it is a way to justify someone feeling superior to someone else who they do not really know.

Amazing, such rationality presented by you... oh wait, not really rational to poke fun at your human being unless your own self esteem is so low that the only means to feel superior to your fellow human being is to belittle them for their beliefs... kinda like what the religious do to you.

If God is our exemplar of a superior violence, violence itself becomes the object of faith, and religious people then engage in a perpetual holy war that is deemed a valid form of religious expression.

Kekes» account of the roots of evil may be superior to naive Enlightenment theories of man and society, but it leaves sophisticated religious theories of evil, which recognize man's fallen nature, untouched — indeed it unconsciously echoes them.

Offering a superior cosmology in a physical sense was not a matter of theological concern, nor would it have made any particular religious difference.

This meant for them that the religious spirit that informed it was superior to the religious spirit that informed other cultures.

On a different note, if a group of men go through all that religious training and all that exposure to superior morality and spiritual growth, and indeed become higher - ups in the spiritual plane, why is their rate the same as the rest of the population, as the Vatican claims?

Why you acting just like the religious people that you say you are superior to?

The Oblates declare their rejection of «the premise that European languages, traditions, and religious practices [are] superior to native languages, traditions, and religious practices.»

If you believe that your particular «brand» of Christianity is superior to others and that people need to be converted to your particular religious views then it is time to take a long hard look at you are part of.

The picture above the article is displaying a group of Catholic sisters (Dominican Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist) that never belonged to the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, but instead started the Council of Major Superiors of Women Religious because they disagreed with the values of the LCWR.

There is no reason to claim that the religion developed in the desert around Mount Sinai is superior to the religion developed on the banks of the river Ganga [Christ's Lordship and Religious Pluralism, edited by Gerald H. Anderson and Thomas Stransky (Orbis, 1981)-RSB-.

The claim is always made that religious people are morally superior.

Considering that, why do religious people presume they are morally superior?

When I have groups who think their religious beliefs are superior to others» religious beliefs, then I am against it.

The problem with many superiors in our corporate world (including the religious organization world), is their fear that a subordinate will replace them if allowed to think independently with the brain God gave them.

Stop believing that religious figures and selected groups of people are somehow superior to other humans.

«It is basically making fun of atheists who feel superior to religious people (or maybe anti-theists).

Thomas Jefferson felt this overwhelming sovereignty of God over all things, because he wrote (in his bill for religious liberty in Virginia) that no sooner did a person become aware of the proper relation between creature and Creator, to whom the creature's very existence is owed, than the creature becomes aware of a self - evident duty to worship and give thanks to so infinitely superior a Being.

Also, given the prominent place religion occupies in Africa, I was baffled by the apparent determination of my church superiors to keep religious subjects from all «decent» and «cultured» conversation.

I am one of the «spiritual but not religious» ones... I do not believe we have the capacity to understand any kind of «God» or superior presence, if there is one.

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The sad thing is that so many countries (and religious and political groups) want that cartoon's header to be a representation of how many non - heterosexual / non - heteroromantic / non-cisgender people there are in their «civilized and superior» society.

According to the Shi`as, they have had virtues and attributes which have been superior to those of anyone in their time; they were endowed with greatness and the ability to perform miracles; they were infallible and innocent; each one was introduced by the previous Imam as his immediate successor; the Prophet referred to them by name and designated them by number; they gave the best and clearest statements concerning the origin of man and the Day of Resurrection; and after the Prophet they were the best authority to speak about religious affairs and conduct in the affairs of this world.

The Council of Major Superiors of Women Religious is growing at a faster rate than the leadership conference, but Cummings said the numbers of new vocations there are «miniscule» as well.

It is the process by which a self divided and consciously wrong, inferior and unhappy, becomes unified and consciously right, superior and happy, in consequence of its firmer hold upon religious realities.

Yes, these are the type of people who represents Atheism who by the way, pride themselves on being intellectually superior and knowing more science than most religious folks.

To plead the organic causation of a religious state of mind, then, in refutation of its claim to possess superior spiritual value, is quite illogical and arbitrary, unless one have already worked out in advance some psycho - physical theory connecting spiritual values in general with determinate sorts of physiological change.

As an Atheist, I don't feel morally superior to anybody, that's for the self - righteous religious people — I simply don't think a belief in something as fantastical and unprovable as any version of god is necessary in order for a person to be a good person.

We don't need to spend our time and money poking holes in religious dogma, we need to use the facts and evidence to demonstrate that Atheism is and always has been morally and intellectually superior to religion.

One who is armed with historical knowledge may silently slip into the role of a superior modern man who condescendingly reads ancient religious texts.

As a passenger in a good vessel with a good pilot need give himself no farther concern, but may go to sleep in peace, because the pilot has charge over all, and «watches for him»; so a religious person who lives under the yoke of obedience goes to heaven as if while sleeping, that is, while leaning entirely on the conduct of his Superiors, who are the pilots of his vessel, and keep watch for him continually.

The same is true of almost all the bishops and religious superiors on whose watch these bad things happened.

If the societal view is at least as defensible, metaphysically, as its alternative, then the superior adequacy of the societal view for our religious experience should be counted as additional evidence in its favor.

it is the ego that the religious have that drives the feeling they have superior «morals»

In summation, I can say with confidence I am superior to you, I can also say with confidence I am not superior to all religious people.

Becket, an artistically superior film, was as close as the committee could come to «religious subject matter,» although it begged a great number of historical questions.

All of us, religious and non-religious people, are subject to the temptation to close ourselves off from superior resources and challenges.

When Christians try to tell others the good news that «God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto Himself,» they are not laying claim to any superior religious insight, Dr. Visser «t Hooft says.

But Luther's troubles were not such as to strike his superiors as markedly different from those of other dedicated young religious with their scruples, their enthusiasm for study, and their surfeit of energy.

Christianity is held to be worthy of adherence because of its superior illumination of the questions also treated by these movements, which do not think of themselves as religious or as having to do with the sacred.

The pontiff also said bishops and religious superiors who cover up for them will be held accountable.

It is fair to say that the canon lawyers, psychologists, bishops, and religious superiors who favored the psychological model were not acting in bad faith; they genuinely believed the psychological approach to be correct.

I hate the religious overtones sometimes associated with good health practices, causing some to feel superior while others are shamed.

As well as being a superhero, Black Panther, played by Chadwick Boseman, is a religious figurehead and a political leader whose strength comes from his intellect, the superior technology in his suit, a herb that only he can eat without being poisoned, and the knowledge of his ancestors.

Inherent in the incentive concept is the assumption that parochial schools are so superior to public schools that the opportunity to attend the former is irresistible, even to those parents who do not want their children educated in a religious environment.

In this case, with Japan, which believes its culture is superior to all other cultures, almost to the point of brainwashed mindcontrolled religious belief, Japan will never change its policy on «scientific» hunting of whales.

The trouble with so many atheists is that they think they are intellectually superior to someone who has a religious faith and that arrogance is distasteful in my opinion and it is pleasing to see that you are not amongst that set.