Sentences with phrase «secular people do»

In my experience, moderately religious or secular people don't get themselves addicted to drugs or behaviors.

«I know secular people don't get it,» he says.

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Those who would stop them need first to understand that the absence of the word «God» does not mark a person, a discourse, or a policy as «secular.»

But don't you dare go making sweeping generalizations of secular people who are kind, peace loving and law abiding... unlike some people of faith who harbor child abusers within their own confines.

As social scientist Arthur Brooks has documented, religious people give far more to all manner of do - gooding than do secular people.

I think something secular where people just want to do some good things in the world, apart from religion, is what I need.

I'm a very secular person and I don't really subscribe to any religion, but I think in doing this, she reveals herself as the stuck - up, conceited, and holier - than - thou person she truly is.

But I do think that black religious leaders have a responsibility, if they can not support gay marriage, to at least support and fight for the secular rights of gay people.

People who believe in fairies, leprechauns, Egyptian gods, blue moons, yellow stars and purple horseshoes don't form influential political lobbies to try and legislate their beliefs into secular law.

«He was simply asking the question «how do we express ourselves in the 20th century in ways that communicate with people living in the modern world, and a very secular world?»»

Thank God we do not have a Christian country but a Secular one that recognizes each persons right to their own personal religion.

They don't help us secular people, all they do is give ammunition to the Sarah Palins of the country.

The reason we have secular laws keeps people from doing anything «incorrect».

What I fail to understand from your posts is this: Why do you choose a secular form like this to confuse people with your theology?

Hence, part of the reason of the concept of the «separation of church and the government... or church and the secular,» so, no religion including Christianity can stomp on the rights of people to express themselves fully and in their own way... whether you agree, disagree or don't have an opinion one way or another on others view and comments... yes...?

By the way, the Secular West gave you that computer you are typing on: if it had been up to people in Asia, you would still be doing foot - binding, adding with an abacus, all with at least as much cultural and religious arrogance as in the West.

I do believe that most contemporary secular people are not asking if there is life after death, but if there is life before death.

The first person to do so at length was Augustine, whose Confessions, written in the late fourth century, is regarded as the founding document of autobiography, spiritual and secular.

By the way, the Secular West gave you that computer you are typing on: if it ahd been up to people in Asia, you would still be doing foot - binding and adding with an abacus.

There are two things about sexuality that most people in today's modern Western secular society don't get: 1.

Why doesn't he get a non secular job and develop relationships with non secular people?

Secular laws intending to protect persons and property should always take precedence over religious rules that do not (e.g. stoning, smoking, bigamy, etc.).

In other words, they intended the U.S. to be a safe haven for people to practice their faith or lack thereof without government interference — as long as the religious didn't interfere with the secular.

In most states, people can still be fired from their (secular) jobs just for being gay, or thrown out of their homes if their landlord doesn't like LGBT people.

True, I had in mind people even more secular than he, who show compassion and do good deeds and work with hope.

religious people such as the owner of this business are permitted to have their opinion on almost any topic; however doesn't make what they say true or acceptible in modern secular society.

«Don't worry, cool, liberated secular people.

I don't know how many times I heard,» their just going to spend it on beer», «that's the governments job»,» it's their own fault and God is judging them,» I have seen so many people healed by secular organizations, physically and Spiritually.

But it is easier than watching people slink away ashamed of their ignorance because they don't know what a «secular humanist» is and what they «stand for».

(There are some people who really do practice secular humanism as a religion which does complicate definitions.)

It was done with the best of motives, a desire to make the gospel meaningful to the modem person but it resulted in a systematic revision of an Christian categories and, ironically, an almost total failure to reach the secular person for Christ.

They are just as good and bad as most people when they are doing secular activities, unless the activity and their actions are based on religious bias.

Try following this again, it's not about education level it's about belief, the secular argument is that people of that age were not skeptical and that is just not true to think otherwise is «chronological snobbery» > Just cause it's written doesn't mean it's true.

As for secular scientists, Stark surmises that they «now take as a given and very frequently don't know the origin of the kinds of principles that people like Newton and Copernicus and others took from Christian theology.

To name a couple only a fool would think that god does not want his people educated about secular as well as spiritual things.

There are now persons in the pews who were born in the city, who are secular in their outlook, who are keenly aware of the ways in which their lives are shaped by structures which they do not control and who are concerned that their religious institutions should be active agents of social change.

All these were faithful, non-compromising people of faith in deeply secular pluralistic environments who 1) had integrity in their convictions; 2) genuinely loved, listened to and served those who did not share their convictions; and 3) consistently did both at the same time.

Atheists don't take rights away from people — they believe you can live any way you choose as consenting adults within the confines of our civil SECULAR laws.

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They evidently believe that religious people in the marketplace don't deserve protections, and that non-religious people and secular institutions who believe the truth about marriage as the union of husband and wife somehow aren't deserving of protections.

I was talking to these churchmen about apocalyptic and I did this liberal arts, comparative, secular review of the Book of Daniel, the Book of the Apocalypse, and he was wrong and these people and Montanus, they were wrong, on and on and on and on; four days of listening to these wrong prophecies that described the history of Christian apocalypticism.

Cardinal Pell did not specify who those people are or their alternative suggestions, but my mind turned to those theologians known as «correlationists» who for several decades have been trying to «correlate» and «accommodate» the Catholic faith to trends within secular culture.

Generally these are local people already fully employed as pastors or in the secular world who can arrange «to free up» some time to respond to calls from churches in their home areas to do evangelism training or carry out preaching missions.

But visit England he did - not in worldly or political triumph (the Spanish Armada tried that approach and failed), not in direct antagonism or opposition (Pope St. Pius V's excommunication of Queen Elizabeth I in 1570 was not exactly the happiest moment in the history of either England or the Catholic Church)- but rather in solidarity with Queen Elizabeth II, the Archbishop of Canterbury, secular leaders, and all English people of good will.

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Some years ago Horst Symanowski made this same point (against a more secular and more hopeful background) when he declared that people do not lie awake anymore worrying about Luther's question, How can I find a gracious God?

Of course, you can always use something secular if you do not KNOW the person's religion.

Liturgy and laundry are the work of the people, according to Kathleen Norris, and now I can bear witness: the line between sacred work and secular work doesn't exist anymore when the Spirit lives and moves within us.

I do care, however, when religious people try to interfere with secular laws and education.

In contrast to those who would build the community of faith as a heaven in the midst of secular society, Thomas spoke of the church consisting primarily of lay persons doing their secular jobs and witnessing to the true life of the secular.