Sentences with phrase «than religions because»

Isn't atheism supposed to be better than religions because they've grown up beyond such things, and they don't hurt people over their beliefs.

Not exact matches

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.

Please, are the gods so stupid that just because an alive person claims a dead one is now a different religion said god would have to throw them out of their old religion heaven and send them to the other heaven??? Really, some of you are more obsessed with dead people than the ones living.

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».

Better to be a none than being part of such corrupt, perverted and idolatrous religion, because you all know that guy the Pope?

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.

I am a Born Again Christian who believes in freedom of religion because I trust a Muslim, Buddhist, or Hindu ruler more than I trust an Atheist who have no moral compass.

Because of the sinfulness of the world at that time, and because the pagan religions did much more harm than good, it was necessary for some tribes of peoples to be destroyed by the Israelites at the command Because of the sinfulness of the world at that time, and because the pagan religions did much more harm than good, it was necessary for some tribes of peoples to be destroyed by the Israelites at the command because the pagan religions did much more harm than good, it was necessary for some tribes of peoples to be destroyed by the Israelites at the command of God.

Christians have to corrupt the clear meanings in the bible because they are more moral today than the fundamental basis of the religion.

period end of all discussions, in addition to being the first monotheistic religion 1000 years earlier than Christianity and 1500 years earlier than islam hence the word new testimit because it came after the old testimit by 1000 years.

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.

I'm no atheist, I'm more anti-religion, because religion causes more harm than good.

Bill, people choose to embrace a religion because it offers them a narrative they find more appealing than the alternatives of which they're aware, not because there is any evidence it's true.

I was both an Eagle Scout and a Scout Master and no one in my community had a problem because I was able to make scouting more about values and training than about simply religion.

Better to stay out of organized religion completely than to just join it because it feels cool to wrap yourself in a prayer shawl and smell incense burning

Evolutions makes sense for a little bit but than you are going to need some faith to fill in the gaps of that religion because it breaks down real fast as soon as you start poking around.

Atheists, like me, are fed up with the concept that religion MUST be respected, no matter what, simply because it is typically falsely perceived as being wholly benevolent, when in truth it divides people more than unites them.

«Christianity, just like every other religion is nothing more than a fictional narrative its adherents choose to believe because they find it more appealing than the other alternatives.»

some people almost praise thier religion more than God Himself... I persanally do nt know how people BELIVE that gas just created itself and then exploded even though they did nt see it, but cant belive in an all powerful being because they do nt see Him in a human form.

(Religions act on their principles regardless of how the opposition responds) This implies that ISIS is nothing more than a business run by egocentric tyrants that happen to identify with a particular religion... thus tainting that religion with their insecurity as they attempt to use it as a platform to try and convince their selves of control and eliminate any challenge to their personal views... All because their figurative pee pees can't handle it.

In doing so, we will be no more guilty of indoctrination than the parents who let their kids «make up» their own minds about religion, because all reason is tradition - based.

Then in my senior year I took a course in religion — more because of when it was offered than because of any special interest.

This is not quite the same as answer number 2, because it suggests that for a given person, one religion might be better than the others; but for different people with different histories and different needs, different religions might be more appropriate.

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.

He often suggested that the communists of the late»30s and»40s, because they had this commitment to communism as a kind of religion, were even more dangerous than the fascists.

I fail to see how going to catholicism suddenly makes his fairy tale book based on no facts suddenly true... oh wait more hypocrisy on the playground because religions cant stand the fact that none of them could be right, or that theirs might not be better than their neighbors.

And with more than 200 million Christians currently facing persecution because of their beliefs, Christians remain the most persecuted religion in the world.

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.

I hate to tell you but more schedules are adjusted per week because of sports activities than ever by religion.

For that reason only we find now the ruling powers are in the hands of secular non religious ones... The conference above stated that the secular regimes in the West had used the indifference between religions, branches, doctrines by creating «Fitnah» said to be harder than killing... because you get all those with Fitnah to fight among them selves... beside establishing and supporting terrorist groups to get the area unstable far from investment and development environment that has caused the mass immigration of the capital heads, professions and skilled labour hands from their countries to the west and be treated as garbage at countries that they do not belong to whether as culture, race or religion....

Because children also can't give informed consent, indoctrinating them into religion is far more like bestiality than homosexuality ever will be.

Democracy and the mainstream religions are fundamentally incompatible, because these religions dictate that a god, rather than the will of the electorate and the laws of the land, are the ultimate authority.

But the coexistence never demanded anything other than tangential interaction between them because there was no demand on them for unity and unification under a common scheme of technology or of values or of religion.

Or perhaps because atheist find this religion to be particularly easier to ridicule than others.

You merely don't want non-believers to know more about your religion than you do, many of them used to be priests and left because they knew more about religion.

Atheists are smarter than you — at least about religion — because they KNOW you will never be able to come up with the proof.

There's nothing you can defend because religion is the greatest divider there is and has caused more death and destruction than any cause known.

I'm just saying that your definition of religion, as I'm reading it, is a bit too personal and value - laden (that is, prescriptive rather than descriptive), and misses a lot of the actual data of religion because of this.

Because the Pew Forum couldn't find any indication that such a survey has ever been done before, it can't say if Americans today know more or less about religion now than they did in the past.

Actually in the last 150 years ATHEISTS have murdered more people because of faith than Religions have done in the whole past.

If people want to skip work or skip school because their religion is more important to them than learning or their job, then they should bear the consequence of that choice.

Men make jokes about old scientific professors, even more than they make them about bishops — not because science is lighter than religion, but because science is always by its nature more solemn and austere than religion.

«anerican muslim», however common your nasty tone is on this board, it doesn't help your case for your religion (nor any other religion, because there is no case to be made for any religion other than Pastafarianism).

American Muslims understand this because we bothered to LEARN our religion rather than let some Mullah with no education dictate what we should believe.

Here's why religion needs to bend — because science is actually based on evidence rather than myths.

Because the discipline has not yet congealed, there is far more authentic thinking still going on in departments of religion than in most other parts of the university.

The main tenet of religion and belief in god is faith, which is nothing more than believing in something because you «want» it to be true.

The fundamental question that Bonhoeffer poses before us is «If religion is no more than a «garment of Christianity» which must now be cast aside because it has lost its meaning in a «world come of age», if the real problem facing Christianity today is not so much that of religionlessness, but precisely that of religion, then what does all this mean for the church?»

It can be quite challenging to decide whether one religion is sillier than another, but Mormonism certainly seems to have an edge, if only because they made up such amazing stuff in relatively modern times.