Sentences with phrase «than about religious»

The women's reunion rapidly rekindles a passion that — with stolen kisses and progressively steamier intimacy — disturbs this world's scrupulous order, a disruption that is more about hidebound tradition than about religious belief.

So you are more concerned about a group of people trying to keep baby Jesus off the off the capitol lawn than about some religious fanaticals trying to fly an airplane into the capitol?

Not exact matches

Will Bunch's CNN.com tirade earlier this week against television host Glenn Beck and David Barton - the founder and president of WallBuilders, a national pro-family organization that emphasizes history's «moral, religious and constitutional heritage» - for allegedly creating «pseudo history» reveals more about Mr. Bunch than it does about what Mr. Beck and Mr. Barton are presenting.

Why are you listening to black clerics over this issue, Blacks are having more kids out of wed lock than whites, they are also like white, living in sin, but the church's say nothing about having babies without a husband or sitting in church and living in sin, talk about glass houses, and besides the marriages are Cival marriage not religious marriage, what a bunch of hipocrites..

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.

Keeping in mind that believing a dead man came back to life and ascended bodily into heaven is no more plausible than anything Mormons believe, you have to wonder what Barnum would say about all religious people.

But it's nice to see religious people are bigotted about things other than religion too, like other nationalities.

How about we throw out Constantine and his pals excluding books from the Bible that teach how to develop a direct personal relationship with God, rather than submitting to religious authority?

Stevens offered not a word of concern about whether religious students might feel themselves to be less than full members of the political community if, by order of the nation's highest court, their messages and only their messages are categorically excluded from the school's public arena.

We can assume that all the Justices sitting on the Court today, like other humans, have their own preferences and biases about religion, but the judicial opinions of one of them, Justice John Paul Stevens, raise more than a slight suspicion that some of his actions on the bench stem from animosity, if not to animal sacrifice, at least to certain less exotic religious beliefs and practices.

This is more about the free money they were getting than anything to do with religious freedom.

Yet as someone who cares about religious liberty, I remain nervous, for there appears to be more than one Mitt Romney.

Later, when interviewed in a 2006 article in the New York Times Sunday magazine about current religious thinking on artificial contraception, Mohler elaborated: «I can not imagine any development in human history, after the Fall, that has had a greater impact on human beings than the Pill....

The Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, D.C., with which I am pleased to be affiliated, was founded in the 1970s in large measure to combat the perception that an intellectually and morally impoverished understanding of the dominant American religious traditions had rendered those traditions useless, or (as in the lamentable presidency of Jimmy Carter) worse than useless in guiding Americans» thinking about a sensible and responsible foreign policy.

I've posted more than once about the Obama Administration's often rather weak and sometimes contradictory attitude toward religious freedom.

He cared about people more than His own reputation with the religious establishment.

At least that way, the wedge of divisiveness between politicians can remain about politics rather than include their religious views as well.

I have far more confidence in the ability of this system to find the truth about the universe than I do the religious one.

Atheism is simply a lack of belief in god and says nothing about how we raise our children (other than implying that we don't brain - wash them with religious indoctrination).

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?

It found that very successful scientists are about 5 times as likely to have no current religious affiliation (it's arguable if that equates more to atheism or agnosticism) than the general population.

Catholics attended religious services an average of 18 days per year more than mainline Protestants in 1972, but by the first few years of the 21st century, the difference had dropped to about six days per year.

You guys are hilarious, not only do the religious argue about which religion is better than their own but they even argue about practices within a specific religion.

(CNN)- Muslim Americans are more optimistic about their future than members of any other religious group in the United States, according to a Gallup report released Tuesday.

About 40 % of evangelicals between the ages of 18 and 29 are likely to say homosexuality should be accepted by society, compared to 24 % of evangelicals who are older than 30, according to the 2007 religious landscape survey by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life.

Almost 80 percent of Americans identify themselves as Christians, with, despite all the talk about growing religious pluralism, no more than 5 per cent claiming other religions.

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

It is therefore quite significant that a recent article by Bultmann seems to be by implication a defence of Ksemarm's position against an initial criticism by the Barthian Hermann Diem: Diem had maintained that when all is said and done Käsemann has presented Jesus as only proclaiming «general religious and moral truths» about «the freedom of the children of God», rather than a message in continuity with the Church's kerygma.

I'm no more inclined to accept what Jesus said about his religious faith than I am to accept yours.

Diana has covered renewal in Mainline churches as both a religious historian and journalist for more than a decade and is optimistic about the future of Mainline Protestantism.

The Austrian mystic, Baron von Hügel, understood spiritual dryness better than most religious writers have, and he gives some graphic illustrations as to what to do about it.

As debate continues over President Obama's assertion about the religious nature (or lack thereof) of the Islamic State (ISIS) terrorist group, a new Pew Research Center study finds that more Americans across the board believe that Islam encourages violence more than other religions.

To the extent that they are careless about their instruction in the faith, or present its teaching falsely, or even fail in their religious, moral, or social life, they must be said to conceal rather than to reveal the true nature of God and of religion.»

who are they going to talk to other religious people about and tell each other that they are better than THOSE people?

Huckabee's 2008 Iowa victory and Santorum's surge suggest that, in spite of the dominant stereotypes about evangelicals, they value religious authenticity more than rhetoric and care about more issues than gay - marriage and abortion.

Psalm 10: 3 - 4 — This talks about the wicked men, how they do nt have God in their hearts or in their minds, which is a fine piece of scripture but it can hardly be used for either myself or the maker of the video since we both seem to advocate a deep and personal relationship with the Lord rather than letting a group of «religious» people ruin it for you.

But religious leaders spend almost as much time making you feel guilty about actually thinking, than they do raising money from the non-thinkers.

In more than 30 years of pastoring and dealing with pastors, I have observed that often when a public figure, secular or religious, shouts out in anger about or against a particular subject, it's usually a sign of the inner turmoil of the person crying out around that very issue.

They were in fact more explicit and assertive about the religious and moral aims of their work than were any of its theological traducers — including Eliade and his disciples.

How about a study, that religious Americans are more likely to support a war or blame all troubles on God, rather than themselves... You believe or don't all you want, but please stop misleading people, with worthless studies and instead put more energy and resources to help those in need...

It just seems to me that as a writer / researcher who clearly knows better, it is really your job to attack, debunk and tear these assinine arguments about Obama's religious convictions to pieces rather than giving them some kind of legitimacy.

Furthermore, White Mainline Protestants and Black Protestants were considerably less likely than other denominations to hear about either religious liberty, abortion, or homosexuality.

Built around 9600 B.C., the site predates Stonehenge by about 6600 years and places the origins of human religious experience much farther back in the historical progress of our civilization than scholars previously believed possible.

They call them peddlers of religion, and they do not mean that in a positive way, but rather are referring to people they believe are trying to push their own agenda of a psuedo - religious toxic mix of some sort of religious something, politics, power, control, personal profit (think $ $ $) and efforts to feel good about ones self while at the same time looking down on neighbors (condescension) rather than loving neighbors.

It's widely acknowledged and understood that athiests / agnostics know more about the world's religions than the religious.

I think the average atheist knows more about religious doctrine than he does about scientific matters.

I'm not getting the part about Wheaton being more religious than the southern schools

WW1 and WW2 have come and gone with little more than a whimper from the religious clods still stammering about the «anti» next time!

Whatever their exact number, Christians are leaven in deeply troubled Pakistan whose Muslim majority disallows increasingly the Prophet's teachings about restraint from violence and his injunctions to honor the Ummah (religious community) Internecine Muslim murders are a daily occurrence in Pakistan, and, whatever the discrimination against Christians, it is more social and economic in nature and far less violent than what Muslims do to one another.

The more accurate description of these results is to say that «religious people are more ignorant about other religions than non-religious people».