Sentences with phrase «than religion in»

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.

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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 politicIn 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 politicin 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 combineIn fact, paper currencies and instruments (or electronic ink on paper) probably have more «believers» than all of the religions in the world combinein 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.
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