You need to wake up and realize that we have more non-believers committing more crimes
than any religion in America and if you think that having people like you take over America, we will all be lost indeed.
I agree that «spiritual but not religious» is even more fuzzy - minded
than religion in general, but it's all a cop out on reality.
@peick — well, «bad» could mean that Atheists have murdered, tortured and persecuted more people in the last 100 years
than ALL the religions in history.
Not exact matches
Millennials,
in particular — who are less likely to be married, less likely to belong to organized
religion, and less likely to join outside organizations
than previous generations — increasingly look to employers to give their lives purpose, meaning, and a moral anchor.
As she explained at the Summit Conference
in Los Angeles last weekend, a soulmate used to be something you found
in religion — up until the 18th or 19th century, depending on how you mark it — rather
than romance.
Citizens acknowledge they haven't rediscovered savings
religion:
in October, an Ipsos Reid poll for RBC found that more
than one - third of Canadians were saving less
than they had
in the past, versus 19 % who claimed to be saving more.
In over a decade of coaching people in nutrition, exercise, and body image, I learned that talking about what we eat is often more intimate than talking about sex, religion, or politic
In over a decade of coaching people
in nutrition, exercise, and body image, I learned that talking about what we eat is often more intimate than talking about sex, religion, or politic
in nutrition, exercise, and body image, I learned that talking about what we eat is often more intimate
than talking about sex,
religion, or politics.
Horse racing is something like a
religion in Hong Kong, whose citizens bet more
than anyone else on Earth.
It's certainly a more extreme statement
than Obama's 2008 claim that people
in rural areas weren't voting for him because they «cling» to guns and
religion.
In fact, paper currencies and instruments (or electronic ink on paper) probably have more «believers» than all of the religions in the world combine
In fact, paper currencies and instruments (or electronic ink on paper) probably have more «believers»
than all of the
religions in the world combine
in the world combined.
That would be attracting people
in the whole community with no agenda other
than talking about
religion and eating and meeting new people, etc..
Rather
than simplistic cause and effect, there could be a cycle / spiral where men affect
religion, and
religion affects men
in a spiral that rages out of control.
Even if you don't believe
in a
religion or God more
than likely the morals you identify do come from a
religion at some point that then became the norm for society.
At any rate, you people that are using this as an opportunity to insult whatever
religion annoys / frightens you, and worse
than that, engaging
in a fight on this board, should really think about getting the sticks you have stuck up your rear ends removed.
The offense against
religion is that it promotes a God that has poorly designed humans to have too small a birth canal, too large a cranium (pushing wisdom teeth into often painful positions), and since roughly 20 percent of pregnancies end
in miscarriage, is responsible for more abortions
than anyone.
I don't see Christians as more honest, more faithful
in marriage, less violent, more giving, more polite, or more anything
than the millions of people who are indifferent to
religion and who only go to a church if there is a wedding or a funeral.
In religion, someone greater
than us makes that decision so that we don't have to.
But yea,
religion does make people hate for no other reason
than it says it somewhere
in their holy book.
Then why do I, a man that has been inside a few churches
in his lifetimes solely for the purpose of absorbing the lovely architecture of lovely buildings across the globe
in different societies, know more about world
religion than you do and the rest of your flock?
The fact that you put your trust
in man is feared more
than the
religion you try and promote.
I'm a very secular person and I don't really subscribe to any
religion, but I think
in doing this, she reveals herself as the stuck - up, conceited, and holier -
than - thou person she truly is.
I think you're letting your contempt for
religion to get
in the way of even entertaining a complete hypothetical which hurts your postion rather
than aids it.
No greater rivers of blood & misery have been spilled
than in the name of
religion & «God».
My christian
religions have successfully killed more people
in history
than any other single group.
As Miller observes, it is easier to believe
in God
than to practice
religion.
I think a more relevant question is do aethists do anymore harm
than those have done
in the name of
religion.
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.
it is sad that so many people are indoctrinated into
religion in the world, but thankfully
in westernized countries,
religion has evolved into little more
than a social club for all but a few extremists.
Steven Miller's «Confessions of a Rootless Cosmopolitan Jew» would be more appropriate on a psychiatrist's couch
than in a serious journal of
religion in public life.
But rather
than incentivize teaching innovation that would allow science educators to discuss
religion and ethics --- for example, creationism
in light of evolution and vice versa, or the scientific and ethical implications of stem cells and
in vitro fertilization — many teachers are afraid to even mention these issues, despite their importance, for fear of losing their jobs.
Atheism is a
religion, since atheism requires more faith
than average organized
religions to take
in.
In less
than 500 years,
religions will be a thing of the past, like witchcraft.
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».
I know this will draw criticism, but I say if it weren't for all the faithful people of all good
religions doing good acts, helping the poor, clothing drives, and on and on, this world would be
in a lot worse shape
than if just your average aetheist were
in charge of helping those who suffer.
I'm all for peaceful co-existence, and consider myself a transcendentalist
in the Emerson / Thoreau line of thought; I've studied more
than the major 6 - 8
religions and see the values and the drawbacks for this century
in their teachings.
There are worse things
in this world
than religion ladies and gentlemen..
In my experience, natural law is the second most ridiculed philosophical system and is well known to be nothing more
than an attempt to inject
religion into philosophical conversation.
There are other
religions than yours
in the world.
So... if my
religion allowed blacks into full membership
in the late 60's and early 70 «s versus 1978
than my
religion is ok?
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 nationally representative survey I commissioned
in 2010 revealed that more
than half of interfaith couples didn't discuss what
religion they wanted to raise their children
in before they got married.
I find comfort
in anyone who realizes that there is something bigger
than them regaurdless of there
religion so long as they are not an extremist from any back ground.
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.
Stalin killed far more people
in the name of atheism
than anyone everyone else combined who killed
in the name of a
religion during the 20th century.
All
religions were created by men - not women - to control the masses.They have discriminated against women from the beginning and
in «the name of God» have created more wars, deaths and destruction
than anything else
in the world.
Religions are nothing more that dictatorships
in the «name of God»... pure bull!!!
There are those who think that the Christian
religion is what we should smile at rather
than hold fast, for this reason, that,
in it, not what may be seen, is shown, but men are commanded faith of things which are not seen.
So when someone says «I believe
in God,» they are really saying «I think God exists» and «I believe
in religion,» but churches need to get people thinking and saying a phrase much strong
than those
in order to get them to do stuff like give the church money, so they snagged «believe
in.»
For example, François's new right - wing colleague, Godefroy Lempereur, introduces him to a nativist literature heavy on demographic studies purporting to show that «belief
in a transcendent being conveys a genetic advantage: that couples who follow one of the three
religions of the Book and maintain patriarchal values have more children
than atheists or agnostics.
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.