Sentences with phrase «than a religious one»

I myself believe that the Christian church shall «focus» on the Message of Salvation, hence the Lord Jesus Christ, rather than religious legalism.

The young minority of young people that survive to become an atheist (or something other than religious) now have access to the internet and all that implies.

These examples are far more simple than religious beliefs, but I have never chosen whether I believed or didn't, I just examined what was available to me.

I personally hear the atheists I know complain more than the religious people about others talking about their beliefs, could just be the people I know though.

Because «Christmas» has evolved into something much more than a religious celebration.

You are doing more damage to education than a religious zealot ever could.

All available studies show atheists to commit significantly less crime than religious people.

You atheists are no better at logic than the religious who post here.

Indeed, they do not, any more than religious folks, experience emptiness, lack of purpose, lack of pleasure or such negativity generally stereotyped to religion - free people.

Jake, how can you think you are a million times better than any religious person on the planet?

Theoretically, a Christian organization would have to elect an atheist if he really was the best man for the job in all ways other than his religious views.

Personally I'd much rather have an Atheist president than a religious one (any religion).

The focus is on secular rather than religious goals: freedom, opportunity, democracy.

Probably a slightly more likely scenario with a political campus group than a religious one (as we can see by Democrats who voted for Santorum in open primary states, because they thought he would be more likely to lose to Obama), but who knows?

You are no better than the religious zealots you so obviously think you are better than.

Most religious laws are based off of laws that are much older than the religious texts they appear in.

I assume that when you wrote that Jesus was more SBNR than religious you meant it.

@TC Now you see why many of the atheists who post here can be far worse than the religious fundamentalists that they so disdain.

Yes, my life is a million times better than any religious person.

I prefer to say I am a Christian rather than religious.

First, in the US «evangelical» has become a political identity more than a religious one.

I believe that is that is the truth Theo is trying to speak of but he is also trying to tie in some spiritual truths or universal constants that we have no evidence other than religious persons word for it.

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?

Atheists simply have their natural instincts of empathy less - adjusted than religious people and so, generally are more moral.

Atheist have stronger faith than the religious.

According to the Hindu gentleman I sparred with at the White House, caste is social rather than religious.

The Miracle Detective by Randall Sullivan Atlantic Monthly, 448 pages, $ 25 Few things rankle the modern mind more than religious apparitions.

«There's no issue in the world I care more about than religious liberty.

This means we need to see that we are defending more than religious liberty: We are defending the very idea that our government exists to protect the space in which various institutions of civil society do the work that enables Americans to thrive, and we are defending the proposition that this work involves moral formation and not just liberation from constraint.

To paraphrase Jesus» comment, people who are concerned only with the affairs of this world often show more ingenuity in seeking their ends than religious people do in trying to accomplish God's will.

Yep, no less annoying than the religious who have to interject their views everywhere that I'm sure he is ready to condemn... Two sides of the same coin.

The only people stupider than religious fundamentalists are secular fundamentalists who can't conceive that some scriptures were meant as metaphors.

Can you back up your implication that atheists are more attached to money than religious people with any kind of facts?

In most cases it is people's mentality rather than religious beliefs that causes their insanity.

I can't see how it's any more egocentric than the religious person's belief that he is special and hand - picked by God to go to a special place for special people.

No different than religious nutcases saying what they say.

In September, a federal judge granted March for Life an exemption from the ACA's contraception mandate on moral — rather than religious — grounds.

Another day of religion marring the world for no other reason than that religious people believe in something that just is not there.

I don't live in NYC, but even so I'd rather they use the property for anything other than a religious building.

Atheists on this blog have repeatedly shown they are more aware of scripture than the religious.

Interesting how the non religious trend to be more decent human beings than the religious.

Smarter than you jack @ss to notice that atheist fanatics are no better than religious fanatics when they shove their ideas down everyone's throats.

Nothing gets the libs panties in a bunch more than a religious Scientist.

But, yes, some pretty much are prostelyzing and defending their belief system (or their non-belief systems) as much and in some cases even more than religious people do.

The series, in effect, is an argument in favor of these stories, albeit on different grounds — scientific rather than religious or philosophical — though Bingham appears not to know this.

Mary Ann Hinsdale, a theologian at Boston College, wondered what Francis» himself a member of a religious order» understood «of religious in North America» where, apparently, the consecrated life is exceptional and lived differently than the religious life in the rest of the world.

Nothing has stifled and stymied our progress more than religious indoctrination passed on in perpetuity.

I don't know or care if it's a religion or not, but I do know that bitter atheist evangelists have become more annoying than religious evangelists.

This upheaval can at first find no other expression than the religious, for before man creates new life forms, he creates a new relation to life itself, a new meaning of life.

studies show that atheists / agnostics are generally less prejudice than their religious counterparts.