Sentences with phrase «than a religion with»

In the US most Catholics treat Catholicism as a cultural club more than a religion with over 80 % having no issue with «artificial» birth control.

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'' [SodaStream's] issues involve politics, ideological differences, religion, and management that appears to have been less than truthful and fair with internal and external audiences,» Smith says.

A company made up of employees from diverse ethnic backgrounds, generations, genders, races and religions (just to name a few) has more creative energy to harness than one with a more homogenized workforce.

Many atheists will check the box «no Organized religion» or agnostic rather than describe themselves as atheist, as they are used to the discrimination that comes with the word.

That would be attracting people in the whole community with no agenda other than talking about religion and eating and meeting new people, etc..

Please, are the gods so stupid that just because an alive person claims a dead one is now a different religion said god would have to throw them out of their old religion heaven and send them to the other heaven??? Really, some of you are more obsessed with dead people than the ones living.

Scientists, for their part, especially those in the scientific community with burdens against religion, need to understand that the nature of scientific evidence, method and hypotheses and the nature of theological evidence, method, and hypothesis have more in common than they might imagine.

So how do you go from that reasoning to «Since it wasn't accidental then it must have been this ancient male diety named (fill in blank depending on religion) who loves me and knows me and cares for me and wants me to perform rituals that have nothing to do with morality like prayer, not eating certain things, sabaath and many more just because he said so, even though we have no record of him saying anything, just records of humans who wrote things down that they claim he said, but I want to believe it all so badly I will base my beliefs on no other evidence than «it just can't be accident».

If it's the matter of god, then you're dealing with something other than atheism considering atheism focuses on religion, not the matter of whether god exists or not.

many times i find myself having more in common with atheists and agnostics and those of other religions than i do with the more conservative brethren in my own faith.

I know people who are not affiliated with any religion (agnostic, not atheist) that are far more humane in action than any number of «religious» people.

A government which systematically and publicly seeks to buttress its political legitimacy from Christian Bibles, oaths, clergy, and prayer, in continuum with more than a millennium of political leaders within Christendom, is not acting «neutrally» among religions, or between religion and non-religion.

And to all the people who think that science is cold and heartless with no soul or hope as opposed to religion which is warm and fuzzy and gives people hope: how many lives does science save every single day as opposed to religion; clothe people; keep them warm; let them communicate better; let them eat better and live in better safety than what religion could ever, or has ever, provided?

it's comical how religion can take a person with little more than a grade school education — and elevate their mind to the level where they literally believe they can argue subjects for which they are so completely ill - equipped — that virtually everything they posit seems as if it's coming from an 8 year old child.

Guiding Principles Religious and theological studies depend on and reinforce each other; A principled approach to religious values and faith demands the intellectual rigor and openness of quality academic work; A well - educated student of religion must have a deep and broad understanding of more than a single religious tradition; Studying religion requires that one understand one's own historical context as well as that of those whom one studies; An exemplary scholarly and teaching community requires respect for and critical engagement with difference and diversity of all kinds.

And this guy comes in with the one religion which actually might be more insane than christianity:) muslims and christians, christians and muslims... you're all exactly the same.

Many may not agree with me, but religion has played a crucial role in keeping order in the society historically that is a lot more in magnitude than historical violence in the name of religion.

This video has less to do with religion than with acceptance.

(A similar set of questions could be asked, mutatis mutandis, about Jewish involvement with Islam, a religion that also claims, although to a much lesser extent than Christianity, descent from Judaism.)

But it's it's a heck of a lot more likely that people raised with religion will leave it than the other way around.

The government's display of the creche in this particular physical setting [is] no more an endorsement of religion than such governmental «acknowledgments» of religion as legislative prayers,... government declaration of Thanksgiving as a public holiday, printing of «In God We Trust» on coins, and opening court sessions with «God save the United States and this honorable court.»

According to the work produced by David B. Barrett's religious statistics organisation (FYI, the man was a Christian no less) atheists number more than Jews, Sikh's, Shintos, Baha'is, Jains, combined, and if you want to consider all «non - religious / secular / agnostic / atheist» together, since the whole «non-religion» movement is kinda riddled with people who find conontations of words like «atheist» to be bad enough to not want to declare themselves atheist, you'll find the number of that non-religious group also amounts more than those religions plus buddhism, and taoism or even Confucianism.

Adhering to Muslim Law by burying bin Laden at sea had nothing to do with showing a dead terrorist mercy for his body or fulfilling bin Laden's wishes; it had to do with showing the world we are respectful of religion and cultures that may be different than our own; our war on terror has nothing to do with culture or religion.

Michael «As a gay man I appreciate there efforts and support, but I think putting up this sign isn't really the best way to get through to people, all it does is create more hate, intolerance, and separation, I am not a christian but I am very spiritual, and putting up this sign implies that all gay people are atheists which is the furthest thing from the truth, I have no problem with religion, I have a problem with those who use there religions to control and hate others, same applies with atheism, if you don't want to believe in anything than fine, just don't push your non beliefs on me.»

I have less of a problem with romneys religion than I have with his absolute spinelessness.

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.

They have nothing to do with religion, which should seek to bring people together, rather than rend them apart.

As far as the case for religion being the evil that athiest think it is, history is proof that religion has little to do with evil and more than anything else.

Don't mean to sound rude but there's nothing scarier than someone who holds onto there religion with a death grip; christian, islam its all the same to me.

His concern is at a level deeper than the American anthropological concern with «religion» and «race» and «local history,» the usual limits of his interlocutor's interest.

Only the Holocaust and the Sudan War have anything to do with religion, even the Sudan war is more about black African tribalism more than religion.

As a gay man I appreciate there efforts and support, but I think putting up this sign isn't really the best way to get through to people, all it does is create more hate, intolerance, and separation, I am not a christian but I am very spiritual, and putting up this sign implies that all gay people are atheists which is the furthest thing from the truth, I have no problem with religion, I have a problem with those who use there religions to control and hate others, same applies with atheism, if you don't want to believe in anything than fine, just don't push your non beliefs on me.

You only have what religions have said that this alleged «God» and «Jesus» said and want and demand, beginning with the Hebrew religion and then onto the Christian religion... or does your Jesus have a different story and attributes and characteristics than they have presented?

its not really atheism or religion that I have a problem with, its the hate, control, and fear that goes along with it that I have a problem with, you say that those who are spiritual are into new agey, crystal ball, stuff, see that's what I'm talking about, you assume to know what something is about when you don't understand something you naturally fear it, your self righteous clouds you, don't you get that by being narrow minded in your view towards things, you really act no better than religious fundamentalists, being spiritual is a lot more than just the new agey, think positive all the time that you think it is, its about being aware of who you are?

If burying Osama binLaden at sea with a brief ceremony that pays respects to his religion is the most peaceful solution for all of society, than I am all for him being buried at sea.

I also think many well meaning Christians are often distracted by a few social issues (things that I believe are personal and have more to do with our precious American freedoms than religion) and lose site of the larger picture.

No different than my rambling post agreeing with him and providing even more real life human scenarios that can evoke strong emotions, that can easily cause someone to either A: Seek out religion, even if it's only for some semblance of accepttion and / or explanation of the unknown, or B: If they already have a religion, re-embracing it with new enthusiasm.

And especially after the Noachian Flood, did false religion take a leap, with false religious doctrines and practices such as the trinity, immortality of the soul, that God torments people in a «hellfire», the establishment of a clergy class, the teaching of «personal salvation» as more important than the sanctification of God's name of Jehovah (Matt 6:9), the sitting in a church while a religious leader preaches a sermon, but the «flock» is not required to do anything more, except put money when the basket is passed.

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...

After all, It's about relationship with Him more than religion.

«If you can imagine a world at peace, with no denominations of religion not without religion but without this my - God - is - bigger - than - your - God thing then it can be true» John Lennon

We will keep repeating it until you realize that there really is no evidence, that your religion has no more validity than any other religion, and that the only reason you believe is that you grew up with it and conformed, or your life bottomed out and you got desperate enough to believe anything, and conformed.

In one study of a fundamentalist Protestant academy (Bethany Bible Academy), a Jewish intellectual found the Bethany students more tolerant on issues of race, religion and freedom of speech and less concerned with making a lot of money than their public school peers.

At some point they met reason and figured out it was all a bunch of hokum with no more reason to believe in it than any other god or religion.

I agree with many of you that «religion» does more harm than good.

Its sad that religion is the gospel of many churchs today rather than a real relationship with Christ based on his grace rather than works.Just as cains offering wasnt acceptable to the Lord its the same for churchs today the Lord is not pleased by our efforts he does nt need our efforts they do not build Gods kingdom nor do mans programmes..

Atheists, like me, are fed up with the concept that religion MUST be respected, no matter what, simply because it is typically falsely perceived as being wholly benevolent, when in truth it divides people more than unites them.

It's a diagnosis of our sickness - unto death that's older than Amos — the confusion of religion with riches, of doing good with doing well: «In their eagerness to be rich some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many pains.»

Few bytes of humor have logged more miles on the Internet than certain bloopers and gaffes collected by Richard Lederer (in Anguished English and More Anguished English), and those excerpts having to do with religion seem to circulate most widely.

Barry Sheerman, chairman of the parliamentary cross-party has reacted to all this with admirable frankness: no weasel words here, simply an open suspicion of all religion when it is actually believed rather than just talked about.