Sentences with phrase «religious talk from»

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From religious fervor to reasonable analysis is never the way you want the talk about your «gee - whiz» product to progress.

The more educated one becomes the less religious one is... when you see educated politicians and professional people of all kinds talking religiousness it's lip service for the ignorant... it's part of their job... other wise there's trouble from the little people.

Religious leaders free themselves from the obligation of talking about evil, by pretending that it's only a matter of free will and people can choose what they want and the consequences are only personal («between you and God»).

; geography and ethnicity («if he's from Galilee, it isn't valid); government authorities (the temple police don't know what to do with him); religious and spiritual authorities (the chief priests rule him out); legal authorities (Pharisees); and tradition or historical authority («No one's ever talked like this before»).

Once he starts answering one question, he has to spend his time explaining all the questions that follow; spending time answering religious questions takes away from talking about issues that matter to Americans.

These are the folks who like to talk about «common sense» and who, as we know from research is common among the religious, rely heavily on intuition aand believe all answers are intuitive.

Gyrovagues abound in religious groups: they talk high virtue and demand it from everybody but themselves.

Again, we may notice that the model used to picture God in much popular religious talk, and in some theological talk too, was borrowed, as Whitehead noted in his Modes of Thought (Free Press, 1968, p. 49), from «the characteristics of the touchy, vain, imperious tyrants who ruled the empires of the world.»

It's just an age - old attempt to have it both ways; people who are Christian and perceive that others will reject them for being «religious» or «conservative» love this kind of talk because it allows them to distance themselves from the Christian community while still claiming to follow Christ.

This kind of mysticism abounds in all ages, in churches and in sects, and outside of any formal religious body — from medieval mystics to modern Quakers to contemporary college sophomores who talk about their personal «spirituality.»

From the article, talking about the UK — «In fact, the country is one of the less religious ones in Europe, home to vociferous critics of religion like Richard Dawkins, and those who find belief in a higher power simply unnecessary, like Stephen Hawking.»

Agnostics (regardless of whether they lean towards being religious or irreligious) are the only ones HUMBLE enough to admit that there is NO WAY OF KNOWING ANYTHING about an invisible man in the sky whom no one has ever talked to, heard from or seen... EVER!

From his inauguration as chancellor on he always talked of Vanderbilt's «broad» or «liberal» religious identity.

To understand this attitude we must go back to the last of his «Talks on Judaism» in which he contrasts the false desire for security of the dogmatists of the law with the «holy insecurity» of the truly religious man who does not divorce his action from his intention.

I don't see any good coming from banning religious expressions, however I do believe we need to include ALL religions when we are talking about religious representation for this site.

Jeremy, I'm sure you've read Jonathan Edwards «Religious Affection» that talks principally about signs and whether we can conclude anything from them.

The first admendment talks about freedom of religion (it also protects freedom from religion and religious persacution)

We'll leave behind for a moment that the Christianity of our forefathers looked very different from the Christianity of today's Religious Right (unless you are ready to talk about slavery, separation of Church and state, the Jefferson Bible, and Benjamin Franklin).

Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon was also urged to hold talks with his counterparts from Nepal and Pakistan to discuss concerns raised by religious freedoms campaigners.

It's coming from a religious source and not from a bumch of people who have no idea what the heck they are talking about.

The similarity in style and content between the stories I knew from the Bible and the myths of other Mesopotamian cultures suddenly made those strange tales of talking snakes and forbidden fruit and boats packed with animals seem colloquial, routine — nothing more than myths operating from the religious and literary conventions of the day.

But anyway, religious folk are weak - minded and they don't realize their religion and those make - believe characters they always talking to are what is limiting their minds from being, you know 100 %.

I refrain from reading comments since most commentators, especially when talking about religious issues, trash talk or belittle anyone who does not agree with their opinions.

From a national population sample, the poll found that those who watch religious television programs compared to those who don't watch religious television programs are more likely to have had a conversion experience, to believe that the bible is free of mistakes, to believe in a personal devil, to read the bible more often, to talk to others about their faith more often, to attend church services more frequently, and to hold to or engage in beliefs and practices characteristic of evangelicals as a whole.

And his efforts to explore these issues always began with and never strayed far from the way religious people actually talk (cf. my forthcoming book Ian Ramsey: To Speak Responsibly of God).

Folks talk about the soul as a religious item — that it synonymous with religion — But religions don't really explain what a soul is — because they don't know — only a possible destination — Before you get all huffy, please consider where my concept comes from — I am no longer religious — I studied Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs for dozens of years, and determined a different design, for what the glyphs could portend — and found some interesting thought processes hidden within — including what the soul is — for instance: The Ankh symbol represents Life — the charcters for An and kh, I translate as an = thought and kh = soul — Thus Life = the thought of the soul — The soul as described by the AE, is a continuity between 2 or more enti - ties — including the enti - ty Environment — Our environment creates us — some name their environment as god — some believe there is a continuity with their environment — that is soul --

from the way you are talking I can tell you are not a christian but a religious person.

True story that will make you happy Wenger is in Rome attending a religious charity football match omg from talk sport

The driver went on and on, talking about death and spewing harsh religious practices at us from the front seat (I can not recall what religion this driver hailed from).

In them I talked about violence, for example, the abolition of barbaric customs such as torturing people to death for religious heresy, to reinforce the point that human nature comprises many components, some of which incline us toward violence, some of which pull us away from it.

\ n \ nFinally I'll add that whether we're talking about ESC, iPS, or adult stem cells it's worth repembering that the threat does not only come from religious conservatives, animal rights activists are also campaiging to stop much of the research that underpins the whole stem cell field.

There's an undeniable wealth of storytelling to be culled from the life of Madalyn Murray O'Hair, a talk show regular and fighter for religious freedom who was kidnapped in the «90s and held for ransom.

After all, in their old jobs, public - turned - Catholic - school administrators say, they felt prohibited from talking with students about personal religious faith.

Sandy White, an aide to a state lawmaker from Vancouver, Wash., maintains that area high school students should not have been allowed to attend a talk last week by the exiled Tibetan religious and political leader.

Richard, I give you this quote from your comment on the Christmas thread at December 29, 2012 at 10:50 am, talking about rgbatduke: «And, as do most atheists, he fails to recognise that his religion is as faith - based as any other: agnosticism rejects faith but belief that no deity exists (i.e.atheism) is a religious faith of identical kind to belief in the existence of one or more deities (i.e. theism).»

You'll find us talking to people from all places on the religious and political spectrum, with shared passions and rewarding friendships across lines of diversity.

Your first option is to talk to your trusted religious leaders from your house of worship.

Consider some students from a Mennonite community in Manitoba talking to a Muslim community in Vancouver, with each one making a presentation on religious prejudice that they endure.