Sentences with phrase «sense than religion»

Sorry, the Tooth Fairy story makes more sense than your religion.

More sense than any religion.

Young white male who thinks that bigotry of all sorts (including racism) are intentional ignorance, detrimental to our future as a species, adn relaly about the only thing a person can engage in that makes even less sense than religion.

Black Protestants are more likely (47 %) to rely on religion than in 2007 (43 %), and less likely to look to common sense than religion (41 %, compared to 47 %) when looking for similar guidance.

Not exact matches

All those religion books that were written thousand years ago by people who had no idea about other cultures or how could they make sense one thousand years later are no better than cartoons.

I just believe that as someone who wasn't raised with religion, my instinctual sense of morals is a lot more pure than those influenced by religion.

I hope for your sake you have enough sense to realize the 1st Amendment is applied more broadly than just the establishment of a religion.

You cant debate God... you cant use logic to explain God... You cant use your small finite mind to try and explain away an infinite God... Man is flesh and blood but man has a spirit and some things can only be received and revealed thru spirit... And what you do nt see is actually more real than what you can observe with your five senses... And BTW I did nt say religion i said God... Religion is man made tradition... God is real... develop a personal relationship with the one who created you and gave you life... God has a purpose for your life...

Evolutions makes sense for a little bit but than you are going to need some faith to fill in the gaps of that religion because it breaks down real fast as soon as you start poking around.

For Christianity, although it is a religion in the sense that it links the life of man with the Life of God, is far more than one of the world's great faiths: it is the revelation of the way of true living.

This is different from numbers 2 and 3 because it suggests that there is one religion, the one that converges the fastest, that really is «better» than the others, at least in a functional sense, if not necessarily «truer» in the long run.

Considering atheists are being effected by religion a lot more than the average person (whether self inflicted or not) it makes sense you'd find atheists commenters on religious artcles.

a set of values, beliefs, and structure in a person's life in order to give them direction and a sense of right and wrong is fine, but organized religions are no more than large corporations, and like any large corporation are only focused on their bottom line... trying to control the public and extract as much money as they can from them by any means necessary... promoting fear, uncertainty, hate and a sense that they alone can offer salvation... for a price (although they are very cleaver about getting to this hidden and unspoken cost... after all these hundreds of years they have perfected their craft well!)

Jill goddessly forsooths the wax tadpole, wonderwomanish, Burroughs cut - up wordfling still sense more does make than religion.

The bible would have taken roughly a century to get into proper circulation, and only two and a bit centuries later, it's quite possible that maybe it grew on some of the Romans and out of remorse, re-considered that they actually were responsible for killing the son of God (in the sense they started to believe him to be), thus Constantine coming around and establishing it as a Rome's primary religion, and how closely apart the dates are, makes me think its considerable evidence than Jesus couldn't have just been a made up figure.

Modern politics was born, in a more than chronological sense, in the aftermath of the wars of religion.

All religious texts have such incidents described or alluded to — take them all strictly in a literal sense and you end up being a fanatic and likely manipulated rather than being a truly spiritual being who imbibes the best that the religion is trying to teach.

A small amount of logic and common sense proves athiest belief to be nothing more than a belief which is a religion that does not believe in a god, nothing more, nothing less.

Few things are more important in our civilization than churches which worthily and intelligently will fulfill this inner function of religion, which will beget and develop in men a controlling sense of life's sanctities.

Today, rather than being the true sense of following Christ, it is more widely known as a religion.

-- doesn't make any more sense for religion than for marriage or career.

True religion must first come from an inner sense that we are part of something greater than us but can not be reduced by us to any simple description or word or concept.

Interestingly enough, that exists in almost every religion and since God's people encompass the planet, that makes far more sense than relying on a 2,000 year old book written by uneducated men and a corrupt machine that is organized religion to rule my life:

The use of and appeal to religious communalism is effective (at least in the short run) precisely because increasingly more people are finding a greater sense of common purpose in traditional religions than in political parties or secular ideologies.

David «True religion must first come from an inner sense that we are part of something greater than us but can not be reduced by us to any simple description or word or concept»

In one sense at least the personal religion will prove itself more fundamental than either theology or ecclesiasticism.

With the sense of the special responsibility which religion imposes upon man, they devote themselves more than any other group of past or present Christian history to the cause of a holy society.

However, revelation is present in preliterate religion in an even more fundamental sense than just ecstatic eruptions.

Even before the axial period, archaic or primal religions already had an at least embryonic sense of a sacral dimension that could interrupt life and bestow on it a wider significance than that given in ordinary existence.

If a popular and influential televangelist publicly questions the beliefs of 143,332,282 of Americans using nothing more than common sense and reason this could threaten the all important revenue generating engine behind religion.

As long as mankind is what they are, there will NEVER be peace among us, certainly not global peace in any meaningful sense, and anyone who thinks otherwise is either dangerously naïve or pathetically stupid, frankly.Knock the dust off your Bible, Benedict!The great Apostle Paul predicted today's situatio perfectly over 2,000 years ago, and I quote: «But know this: difficult times will come in the last days.For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, unloving, irreconcilable, slanderers, without self - control, brutal, without love for what is good, traitors, reckless, conceited, loversof pleasures rather than lovers of God, holding to the form of religion but denying its power»... (2nd Timothy 3:1 - 5)- Hello!

Religion is not the source of ideas of good and evil, but one way to respond to them; it makes more sense to say that the fact of evil gave rise to religion than that religion gave rise to the idea of evil.

But as Novak points out, at least one reason for this quasi «religious subscription to the norms of modernity is precisely the sense that, in contrast to Christianity, Judaism» as primarily a behavioral rather than a doctrinal religion» is ideally suited to worship at the Kantian altar.

Their religion was like a dried flower pressed in a Bible, and often seemed to consist of nothing more than a desire for peaceful feelings, a vague longing to be connected with something that transcends the self and a sense of obligation to be decent to their fellows — all positive stirrings, but hardly the vigorous plant that could flourish in a nurturing religious community.

It states «As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion...» This was signed less than 20 years after the founding of the Country by people who were original founders.

For people with this point of view the idea of finding more than one religion valid, even in a deeply personal sense, is not only possible but normal.

And as for the Syllabus of Errors, not one article of it mentions democracy, workers» unions or newspapers, and if it rejects «pluralism» (not a concept anyone at the time was familiar with) it is mostly in the sense that any religion which claims to be true, rather than a matter of opinion, rejects it.

In that sense at least, the desire for union with God is no less passionately mystical in biblically based religions than it is in the Asian traditions.

I certainly do not believe in any deity that looks over my shoulder every minute of every day and intervenes in the affairs of man; none of the religions make sense to me other than being a blight and scam on the supporters of the faith.

Most of them don't really take religion as anything more than a social club, and they lie, cheat, and steal with no sense of a higher power overlooking them, but they say they are Christians and that's good enough.

Obviously we use the term religion in a different sense than you do in your post.

Pentecostalism is authoritarian in the sense that it strongly emphasizes obedience, but it is a different kind of authoritarianism than is practiced by the Afro - Brazilian religions, the carnival clubs, and other popular Brazilian associations, which depend on a single leader.

«These relationships were particularly strong in patients who experienced greater emotional aspects of religion and spirituality, including a sense of meaning and purpose in life as well as a connection to a source larger than oneself,» said lead author Heather Jim, PhD, of the Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa.

Especially since the Altmans seem to have less than a peripheral sense of the religion (Wendy points out that Hilary's shiva chair is where they usually put the Christmas tree...).

It is a nontrivial problem in other cultures with other religions, each claiming that an antique document is a better guide for moral behavior than mere common sense and the application of simple principle of personal freedom as long as it doesn't materially hurt others.