Sentences with phrase «than conservative christians»

Please try to keep in mind that the vast majority of atheists you're likely to come across believe in democracy, perhaps even more than conservative Christians who believe that simple majorities ought to dictate over minorities.

Especially when the data shows that atheists tend to have happier and healthier marriages than conservative Christians.

That's why there's a new study out that shows atheists live happier and healthier lives than conservative Christians.

Not exact matches

His leadership summits and crusades in more than 185 countries and territories forged powerful global links among conservative Christians, and threw a lifeline to believers in the communist - controlled Eastern bloc.

After two elections backing social - conservative candidates who could afford little more than gas money, Christian leaders have long been eager to back a horse with the money to win.

Opinion: Various forces have made Canada's Christian conservatives a weaker political group than America's.

Wilcox reports that Christian conservative fathers, at least the ones who attend church frequently, are actually far more affectionate with and emotionally invested in their wives and children than are their counterparts among either mainline Protestants or the unchurched.

If it weren't for the Christian conservatives, our country would be further down the drain than you atheists made it.

And Family Research Council President Tony Perkins says the last time his conservative Christian movement saw so many victories at the state level — where many legislatures are busy passing new abortion restrictions - was in 2004, when more than a dozen states adopted same - sex marriage bans.

Look at the conservative Christian group who have decided that their bigotry for Obama is stronger than their believe in the Trinity, that they are willing to support a man that does not believe in the trinity to satisfy their hatred.

In Harris» narrative, it's hard to see exactly how she comes to the conclusion that concerns for «the poor's rights» demand aligning with liberal politics rather than those of Christian conservatives, but by the end, Harris finds herself on the opposite side of the political spectrum, voting with those she had envisioned as the manifestation of evil while growing up.

The ties between Christianity and corporal punishment are so strong that a large number of conservative Christians parents simple deny studies that suggest spanking does more harm than good.

It matters not whether we be conservative or liberal, traditionalist or modernist; in whatever category we may be placed, or place ourselves, the fact remains that insofar as we are Christian ministers, ordained by Christ in his Church to be his ministering agents, our preaching can be nothing other than the proclamation of God's Word for the wholeness of men.

If conservative Christians continue to treat LGBT people as second - class citizens and cry persecution every time they don't get their way, they will lose far more than the culture wars.

The discomfort of conservative Christians whose views on gender and sexuality are being challenged more than they once were is nothing compared to the suffering faced by LGBT people and religious and ethnic minorities in this country.

Both conservatives and progressives ought to understand that the reality which is lived in the Church in love and humility is better than a possibility for which both parties rightly fight, so that one thing may become reality which will then be the truly Christian thing for both.

Momentum shifted toward non-Republicans like Ron Paul and Barack Obama — somewhat surprising for a Christian generation that is, by every statistical measure, more morally conservative than its parents».

When the opinion of the conservative Christian becomes more important than the need of the person in their community, then they can feel justified in their actions and never have to confront their fears.

From Karl: Who do you feel you have more in common with, religiously - Christians who take a progressive / liberal theological approach to their faith similar to the way you approach Judaism, or Jews (conservative or Orthodox) who take a significantly more literal / conservative approach to the Jewish faith than you do?

What the christian conservatives don't understand is, the people they're putting into office, that call themselves christian conservatives, are nothing more than liars, and hypocrites.

In fact, how many Muslims believe in any Woman's Right, Actually the Conservative White Christian Republican Tea Party is TEN TIMES MORE MUSLIM THAN OBAMA BECAUSE THEY BELIEVE THE SAME THING ABOUT WOMEN»S RIGHT TO CHOSE OR LEAD!

Reno's argument strikes me as an argument more for resurrecting a conservative society, or a generically «religious» society, rather than a distinctly Christian society.

Additionally, he displays a more Christian view of the world and humanity than any Conservative / Republican in government these days, as he fights for the poor and not corporations, who some politicians believe are people.

I consider myself a devout Christian, but I and my wife are far more concerned with social justice involving the needs of the poor, underprivileged and «least of these», to quote Jesus again, than we are with following the conservative Christian agenda.

Well, by the look of middle America, conservative Christians might want to worry more about exercising than exorcising...

The Barna Research Group, an evangelical Christian organization that does surveys and research to better understand what Christians believe and how they behave, studied divorce rates in America in 1999 and found surprising evidence that divorce is far lower among atheists than among conservative Christians — exactly the opposite of what they were probably expecting.

And Matt, though he comes from a different perspective than I do, confirmed what I have always suspected: people who are not conservative or Christian think we're crazy.

Two years ago, then Secretary of State for Wales Stephen Crabb delivered the Conservative Christian Fellowship's Wilberforce Address and claimed that «it is easier for a politician to admit to smoking weed or watching porn, than it is to admit that they might take prayer seriously in their daily life».

As he writes, «I am far harder on conservative Protestant Christians who share this heritage than I am on anyone else.»

It just so happens that no subgroups of humanity are more ingrained with the doctrine of hell than conservative Muslims and conservative Christians.

And nowhere on earth have conservative Christians been closer to controlling foreign policy than here in the United States.

«Barack Obama will unite conservatives and people of faith more so than any single Republican candidate can hope to do,» said Mat Staver, an evangelical Christian who leads the conservative legal group Liberty Counsel.

There can be no laws respecting the establishment of a particular religion, which means that it's not a matter of conservative Christian beliefs carrying more weight than anyone else's, except on matters about which we can work for general agreement.

I am a frequent poster at a Christian forum where it's considered to be more liberal than conservative.

I knew he was a Christian, but he didn't seem to have heard of being a stay - at - home daughter; while I knew our church was more conservative than most, I assumed that a concept as plain as «keeper at home» would be obvious no matter what church you went to.

One day soon Christian conservatives are going to realize that America likes gays more than them.

In short, many conservative Christians are unwitting Augustinians: they are very ready to admit the sins in America's history, and (in fact) unsparing in acknowledging the stain that has darkened our own soil more than any other.

One key group is Christians United for Israel, which has more than a million members and politically conservative leaders who have expressed disappointment over Obama's sometimes tense relationship with Israel.

MP David Burrowes, chair of the Conservative Christian Fellowship, led the parliamentary opposition to the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill, and more than 600,000 people signed a petition led by the Coalition for Marriage against the Bill when it was first proposed in 2012.

Orthodox jews are just as conservative (if not more) than the most conservative Christians, yet once again, they get a free pass.

This much is now clear: a majority of Americans who identify with the Tea Party are old - style Christian conservatives in new clothing: they now quote the Declaration of Independence more than the Bible (although some do both), and attend rallies led by Glenn Beck instead of Pat Robertson.

The fact is that Jesus as portrayed in the bible was more of a socialist than a conservative and that gets more Christians p!ssed than when Dawin proved them all wrong.

I personally, & I concede that my viewpoint is to an extent learned from my conservative Christian upbringing & influenced by my own sexuality, can not think other than gay sex between men is unnatural, that is, not as nature & therefore as God intended.

Fox commentators pretend they are better Americans than anyone else because they are conservative and Christian.

The return of conservative Christians to political activism in the «70s and «80s informs Harding's work, but the author is less concerned with history as such than with the language comprising and creating that history.

The hosts are smug, elitist socialists (except for Ed Schultz, who is merely stupid) who would like nothing more than for conservatives and Christians to be permanently silenced.

Let us imagine a (probable) near - future world in which Christian numbers are strongly concentrated in the global South, where the clergy and scholars of the world's most populous churches accept interpretations of the Bible more conservative than those normally prevailing in American mainline denominations.

Biblical ethics do not sort neatly into «conservative» and «progressive» circles, even less so among Canadian Christians than our American counterparts.

Nevertheless, it seems to me as a Protestant outsider that, when one sets Newman in the context of his brothers, the conservative interpretation is surely strengthened: John, Charles, and Frank were all responding to the same challenges to authority; in juxtaposing them, it is clear that it was the paths of the other two brothers which represented that of private conscience and there seems no reasonable way to interpret Newman's move to Rome as anything other than a decisive rejection of such a move in all of its forms, even the moderately Christian.

I would even go so far as to say that any conservative evangelical who approves waterboarding or similar measures does so because he / she is more conservative than Christian.