Sentences with phrase «secular people think»

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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.

As a secular - living and thinking person, I found this article a worthwhile alternate perspective of the end - of - life process.

I somehow think that «God's righetous and perfect judgement» for crimes would have a few people upset and wanting to move over to the secular side.

Secular humanism is my ideology and I make of it what I will according to my ideals of how I think people should act towards each other.

Young people whose pattern of thinking is historical and secular no longer find the traditional explanations of belief as formulated in the context of a static universe significant and meaningful.

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.

> 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»

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

More positively, as fundamentalists have seen the nation become more secular they have felt a responsibility to be «an exemplary, called - out people,» pure in word, deed, thought and appearance.

I believe we are our brothers and sisters keepers and one could make the argument that it falls under the category of rational self interest; however, the minute people think they can enforce that philosophy at the end of a barrel of a gun (gov «t) the whole thing falls apart and religion becomes secular humanism where the state replaces God.

«Most of my time I'm speaking to secular people and I'm saying, «You know, you may think religion is for idiots, but...» «I've switched 180 degrees from where I thought religion was for children essentially — people who had no education, people who had this infantile relationship to the world and needed some sort of fi gurehead to help them,» he continues.

If America has gotten as secular as people claim it to be, not too many students go off to Spring and Winter breaks thinking, EASTER!

It has severed the U.S. well with people of different religions and secular thoughts up until now.

For years I adopted, without bothering to think, the attitude common among secular, affluent, university - educated people who took the propriety of abortion for granted, even when it was illegal.

According to Summit, a person who thinks evolution is a legitimate scientific theory, supports regulation of the free market, identifies with left - wing politics, and «seeks to empower the powerless, that is, women, minorities and homosexuals» is a postmodern secular humanist with some Marxist tendencies.

Or people who were raised in religions or secular environments without god, or who find the concept illogical or who think that «god» among the thousands of stories out there isn't even an interesting idea...

It is often thought that change would open the door to control by crude and godless people, perhaps by «secular humanists,» perhaps by individuals influenced by some revolution abroad.

Yeah, right... he «unintentionally hurt» people... he accidentally said parents should hit their kids if they THINK they might be gay... sure, it was a typo... he couldn't actually have MEANT it... and it was secular liberal media's fault... because all real «fair - minded» people know what he meant... and that he didn't mean it... and someone else was to blame if he did... not that he did... but still he was the REAL victim...

I'd LOVE to know what the true numbers really look like... I think it would shock a lot of people... and maybe get a little more respect for secular humanists...

While we do not think the solutions to the three points raised in the ad are as simple as those proposed, we are encouraged that prominent evangelicals are joining the discussion, acknowledging that religious people have something to say to secular decision - makers.

The influence of Western technological culture has infiltrated the thinking of educated people throughout the world and the categories of secular concepts are used to explain everything from repairing a bicycle to interpreting the scriptures.

The Marxist philosopher Ernst Bloch thinks that the relative neglect of the problem of death in modern secular thought is due to the unconscious influence of inherited Christian views: «Thus in its ability to suppress the anxiety of all earlier times, apparently this quite shallow courage [of modern secular people] feasts on a borrowed credit card.

«I think that language like «sky daddy» or «imaginary friend Sam» immediately and unnecessarily pits people against each other... I don't want the secular community to risk failing to engage with the faith community».

«I never thought, as a first - generation American, whose parents and grandparents loved freedom and came here because they didn't want the government telling them what to believe and how to believe... that we'd have a president of the United States who would roll over that and impose his secular values on the people of this country.»

Actually, it was the leaders of the 19th century Indian Renaissance and the political thinkers in the ideological leadership of the 20th centary Indian Nationalism who grappled with the person and teachings of Jesus Christ and assimilated the essence of Christian humanism into the religious and secular thought of modern India.

In this way, conventionally religious and secular persons alike may learn to think less in terms of static states of interior, privatized subjectivity, and more in terms of processive - relational modes of doing.

The person who wrote this article is obviously a «secular humanist» sent by Satan to somehow confuse American Christians into thinking it's okay to enjoy sex, or anything else for that matter.

People who truly know God have little use for secular thought and political correctness.

We opted for a secular education, where every person is free to think whatever they want and to choose what they see fit for their future.

The choice not to act, I realized after a college class on postmodern thought, is itself an act, and like most people I came to recognize the secular version of the sin of omission and to understand that, sometimes, failing to act is just as blameworthy as acting badly.

Secular bear markets feature sudden, violent rallies and mini — bull markets that fool people into thinking they're the genuine article.

At the same time, he is genuinely interested in rituals, not just as historical ceremonies, but as ways of bringing people and thoughts together, just as he is sincere in his approach to incantation and religious music, testing even the most secular members of his audience to reconsider their ambivalence about the «spiritual» in art.

There is no doubt some anti-Muslim animus in the Quebec bill, but I think it's mainly a combination of a strong cultural preference to see people's faces, along with a strong (if recently acquired) preference for secular over religious statements.

But I think that secular people need to understand that it is perfectly possible to love a person while at the same time recognizing that their behaviour is sinful.