after years of study I have concluded that more human beings have been killed and or oppressed by the followers of the «prince of peace»
than any other religion in the history of mankind....
You pointed out the Christian religion to a TEE, the Crusades killed more non believing HUMAN BEINGS
than ANY OTHER religions in human history.
Not exact matches
That would be attracting people
in the whole community with no agenda
other than talking about
religion and eating and meeting new people, etc..
But yea,
religion does make people hate for no
other reason
than it says it somewhere
in their holy book.
My christian
religions have successfully killed more people
in history
than any
other single group.
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».
There are
other religions than yours
in the world.
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.
That being that during the crusades the Islamic world was more advanced
than the Christian world
in every way including their acceptance of
other religions.
Because without their steadfast support of freedom of speech and
religion, you run the risk of ending up
in a theocracy that only accepts a
religion other than your own.
You, presumably, mostly agree, because you don't believe
in all the
other possible
religions and have narrowed it down to only one that you find believable — atheists have merely taken it one step further
than you.
The dirt
in our minds, like someone hurling insults at
other religions and strangers, that bothers God more
than the frequency of our baths.
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.»
Can you see how much more sensible it is to believe
in the Leprechaun King
than in Christianity or the
other religions?
As to whether the television guide is a good guide to the Times, the ten pounds of newsprint that Sunday had no
other reference to
religion other than a business story about selling palms to churches and an article
in the Sunday magazine about a Catholic who has decided to become a Jew.
The Gallup research indicates that American confidence
in all societal institutions
in general are at all - time lows, although confidence
in religion has declined more quickly
than others.
And By the way... 1
in 50 would be only 2 %... the number of gay priests and higher is quite a bit higher
than the world average, and higher
than in any
other religion... which is explained (at least
in theory of why that is the case)
in the frontline I saw... they estimated it is closer to one
in 5
Here you are putting the blame on al Islamic branches for one Islamic branch although the as branches contradict each
other and they are always
in disputes among them and that's was the reason they became branches rather
than one Islam so really it is not fear to hold all at guilt for one misbehave or abuse... nor it is fair to address the whole Islam belief, Quran and Prophet of God for the fault of ones or few that are not
in the right track of Islam being the
religion of peace and justice to mankind..
Just because there were (likely) more «Christians»
than followers of
other religions, doesn't give them the right to display any symbol
in a more prominent fashion
than those of the
religions of any
other person that died
in that event.
On
other subjects — his true feelings toward his own father
in particular, virtually the entirety of his youth
in general as well as his genuine feelings regarding
religion — he could be, and was, tighter
than a clam.
Perhaps Sabio can speak to the amount of trickery present
in other world
religions as he has studied them more
than I.
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.
In my opinion, and the opinion of many
others,
religion is nothing more
than a tool, created by mankind (not suggested by god) thousands of years ago to do nothing more
than control people through force and fear.
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.
A
religion that restricts lifestyle
in a variety of
other ways is less likely to be a over for drug use
than a
religion that teaches only the duty to take drugs.
Finally,
religion often aids men
in behaving worse
than any
other ape.
Christendom: I think that Christianity as a
religion, which purports to call people to follow Jesus, but uses money, power, and political prestige to force «Christianity» on
others, is nothing
other than the adoption of all the things which Satan promised Jesus
in Luke 4, but which Jesus turned down.
In a country where Christianity is and always has been the dominant
religion being a Christian requires less courage
than any
other option.
If that is NOT what you are suggesting, please explain
in what ways — how and where — you would accept the «free practice of
religion» anywhere
other than in a religious building or at home.
I do not know who these rather shell - shocked former practitioners of identity politics might be or what makes them into people who could be receptive to the lessons embedded
in Moses Mendelssohn's philosophy of
religion and who could apply them to
religions other than Judaism.
That fight was resolved
in favor of the modernists who maintained that God's revelation is ongoing, that
religion and science are not inherently irreconcilable, and that the tension between the two ought to elicit discussion and reflection rather
than the abandonment of one subject or the
other.
Anytime I hear an atheist with anything
other than disinterest
in religion, I hear a liar, who believes he may be wrong and is lashing out from insecurity.
It is difficult to avoid the implication that what is authentic
in Christianity is its «soul,» that is, the ways it agrees with
other revealed
religions, and that Christianity's «body»» all the ways it is distinct and particular» serve more to obscure
than reveal the truth.
She's a blogger who fell
in love with a Catholic guy and adopted his
religion while still denouncing half all based on the flimsy idea that she had a predetermination that «morality» is «external» to man based on essentially nothing
other than she believes it.
I think one thing that has been overlooked by most of the
other comments is why the hell does a cleric of a
religion that is supposed to not even have a hierarchy have $ 6000, which as the article pointed out is more
than 6 times what the average Pakistani makes
in a year, to throw around...
Then again, Jesus would probably be hanging out with the sinners, prostitutes and all the
others who don't quite fit the mold of what a good Christian should be, rather
than sitting
in a booth at the mall debating
religion and theology with the religious types.
The dog story is sweet — not really about
religion at all, but a good reminder of the love
in animals
other than humans.
18th April The Corriere della Sera assistant editor Magdi Allam, whose controversial Easter Vigil baptism by the Pope we reported upon
in the May edition of this column, has stated that «the person who influenced me more
than any
other in determining my conversion to Catholicism was certainly the Pope, Benedict XVI,
in indicating that the indissoluble union of faith and reason is fundamental to authentic
religion.»
It is common factual knowledge that christianity has done significantly more
than Islam or any
other world
religion (this is not a knock on
other religions)
in terms of humanitarian giving.
Nobody
other than Jesus hated
religion more
than Paul, once a conservative fundamentalist who became the most liberal author
in known history.
In the 1500s, King Sigismund of Transylvania, who was converted to Unitarianism by his court minister, issued the world's first Edict of Religious Toleration, allowing his subjects to choose to observe
religions other than the King's.
Apparently you are not that different
in spreading your God-less ideology
than any
other religion.
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.
The
religions have caused more death and destruction
in the world
than any
other source, except maybe the plague.
Topher isn't interested
in any
other religions other than his own.
Another day of
religion marring the world for no
other reason
than that religious people believe
in something that just is not there.
Besides that a doctor is
in no way a theologian or, presumably most physicians have little to no education
in religion other than what you get
in sunday school and mass.
too true; you're right, we are holistic people
in a holistic world living holistic lives and political theory,
religion, ethics, behavior, psychology, these and many
others are all so inextricably intertwined with each
other that it may be better to think of them as different views of the same object rather
than distinct objects that are inter-related (using «object» here, of course, metaphorically)
Conversion therapy is hatred and bigotry dressed up
in religiousity and made palpable because that
religion has made people desperate to become something
other than who they were born to be, stigmatizing them and calling them filth until they can no longer stand themselves so much that they beg to be made clean.
Where
in the
religions today can you say that these has happened
other than for false miracles?