Sentences with phrase «than religious in»

Personally, except for horrible behavior on the internet by both religious and atheists, I have seen more negative behavior towards atheists than religious in actual life.

Even if we consider the three major religious groups as ethnic traditions rather than religious in the narrow sense, their brightest and most creative intellectuals and artists have been absorbed into the general American intellectual and artistic community so as to deprive the communal groups of their natural cultural leaders.

Not exact matches

In Turkey, more than 32,000 people were put in jail and 100,000 have been dismissed from jobs in the security and civil services for their alleged links to a religious network the government says staged the July 15 military couIn Turkey, more than 32,000 people were put in jail and 100,000 have been dismissed from jobs in the security and civil services for their alleged links to a religious network the government says staged the July 15 military couin jail and 100,000 have been dismissed from jobs in the security and civil services for their alleged links to a religious network the government says staged the July 15 military couin the security and civil services for their alleged links to a religious network the government says staged the July 15 military coup.

More than 100 businesses and religious organizations have sued the federal government to be exempt from the ACA's contraceptive requirements since Obamacare became law in 2010.

Loyola keeping a Catholic identity helps promote real intellectual diversity in American public life (and, again, I'd say the same as to other religious universities; I can imagine some religious belief systems that are so pernicious that, while they must be constitutionally protected, we can still say they hurt American life more than they help it, but I think that most of the traditions that found universities do have a good deal to contribute).

2 The report states that in the 20th century, «atheistic totalitarian states (Stalin's Russia and Mao's China) have perpetrated more mass murder than any state dominated by a religious faith».

This is what I find so distasteful in religious belief — the answers to many of our common needs is simply to care for others rather than delegate that role to a divine source.

A million times more people have been kiIIed by religious zealots in the name of their relgion than an atheist in the name of atheism.

Why are you listening to black clerics over this issue, Blacks are having more kids out of wed lock than whites, they are also like white, living in sin, but the church's say nothing about having babies without a husband or sitting in church and living in sin, talk about glass houses, and besides the marriages are Cival marriage not religious marriage, what a bunch of hipocrites..

In a study that comes as a surprise to approximately no Christian under the age of 40, the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project says technology use among religious people is no different than among anybody else.

In reality, the religious person has far more freedom of thought than an athiest.

And later: «The language of Latin Mass was only understood by the top - heavy minority of clergy, and those steeped in religious education, rather than the lay majority.»

Anatoly Koval, the head of a government commission charged with easing the frictions among the more than seventy religious sects that have sprouted in Ukraine since the collapse of communism, sees the sarcophagus as an ideal compromise.

Should those trends persist, in the long term America's religious culture may become more like Denmark's than like that of the Bible Belt of Billy Graham's youth.

@Kearns = > Anti-semetic hate crimes far outweigh those against Muslim Americans, even after 9/11 Jewish Americans suffered a larger increase in religious hate crimes against them than the small increase Muslim / Muslim - appearing Americans

Just as ridiculous as being an extreme religious person or being an atheist which both have more in common with each other than they let on.

Actions speak a lot louder than words, and the fact that you feel that adding in the religious baggage to the help given to those who are starving speaks volumes.

I will no longer be respectful of the leadership of the Archbishop of Canterbury, who seems to believe that rude behavior, intolerance and even killing prejudice is somehow acceptable, so long as it comes from third - world religious leaders, who more than anything else reveal in themselves the price that colonial oppression has required of the minds and hearts of so many of our world's population.

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.

Also, they're not saying the religious students had lower motivation IN GENERAL than the non-religious students.

Others choose to do so without the assistance of ignorant religious dogma and I'd say it works even better than the misplaced focus encouraged by fear of not «believing» (in religious dogma).

Jesus had more of a problem with those religious figures in his day than the homosexual Greek.

In fact religious laws and rules are no different than kid's tree house ones.

However, I think that Republicans are afraid that the Tea Party would actually become more powerful than the Republican party due to all the religious zealots in America today.

Keeping in mind that believing a dead man came back to life and ascended bodily into heaven is no more plausible than anything Mormons believe, you have to wonder what Barnum would say about all religious people.

Thank goodness that the supreme court has not been influenced to the same extent or we would be living in a country that would make you toe a religious line rather than a secular one, scary.

«Religious people think Atheists are people who have been subtly convinced by the devil to believe in themselves more than believing in God...»

The key question for theology is whether Kant can make any sense out of who the scriptures say Jesus is rather than abjuring the task and simply correcting the apostolic witness in light of some higher «religious» principle.

Theoretically, a Christian organization would have to elect an atheist if he really was the best man for the job in all ways other than his religious views.

Family is in your heart and can be more than flesh and blood... all religious beliefs aside, go out and get some friends and be a part of something... and you wont need to ask this question.

Some athiests are just as bad as the fundimentalists... because they «know» I being and agnostic, however, take issue with anyone who says that people who are not religious do not think... in fact, it has been found that statistically, athiests and agnostics know the bible better than christians.

Ironically, the Court's interpretations of the establishment clause have probably contributed more to religious divisiveness in America than the practices that were the subjects of the Court's cases.

Probably a slightly more likely scenario with a political campus group than a religious one (as we can see by Democrats who voted for Santorum in open primary states, because they thought he would be more likely to lose to Obama), but who knows?

Tariq Aziz, one of the best - known faces of the Iraqi government for more than two decades, was sentenced to death Tuesday by the Iraqi High Tribunal for his role in eliminating religious parties during Saddam Hussein's regime, court officials told CNN.

In fact, religious confusion and division are more rampant than ever, and unanimity seems farther away than ever.

Forty years later, there are more than enough ironies, both secular and religious, to make one swear there's a humorist in heaven.

«A study in the United States, published in the Social Forces journal and conducted by Sociology researcher Lisa A. Keister while she was at the Ohio State University, found that adherents of Judaism attained the most wealth, believers of Catholicism and mainline Protestants were in the middle, while conservative Protestants accu - mulated the least wealth, while in general people who attend religious services achieved more wealth than those who do not (taking into account variations of education and other factors).

Not all military coflticns are religious coflticns, but I'd be much more comfortable with a chain of command that realizes that than I would be with one that thinks that this war or that war will usher in the end times.

Most religious laws are based off of laws that are much older than the religious texts they appear in.

This moron is your typical attention whre just like every other religious speaker who thinks he can comprehend what happened in some fairy tale better than the other full of dog sht preacher.

- Native American religious beliefs are taught way more in schools than Christian beliefs.

Later, when interviewed in a 2006 article in the New York Times Sunday magazine about current religious thinking on artificial contraception, Mohler elaborated: «I can not imagine any development in human history, after the Fall, that has had a greater impact on human beings than the Pill....

The religious experience in the movement is more experiential, rather than based in intellectual expression.

The Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, D.C., with which I am pleased to be affiliated, was founded in the 1970s in large measure to combat the perception that an intellectually and morally impoverished understanding of the dominant American religious traditions had rendered those traditions useless, or (as in the lamentable presidency of Jimmy Carter) worse than useless in guiding Americans» thinking about a sensible and responsible foreign policy.

-- The difference between an aesthetic experience and a «religious» experience IS one of the questions raised in this movie, and you haven't even begun to address that question, other than to restate it.

Given that only 18 percent of American adults say they're more active in organized religion today than they were ten years ago, while 32 percent said they're less active, perhaps religious leaders should take some comfort in the data here.

Oh, and righteous - in - Crisco, keep the religious login / persona going for a little while longer as it is much more entertaining than your atheist one.

Jones is saying that the assessment of Rome's contribution to the world is more complicated than current critical theory (or it's popular religious manifestation in progressive Christianity) allows for.

Yet it was once believed — certainly when Mill wrote his Autobiography — that, whatever our familial, religious, racial, or physical limitations, our actions have meaning because they are embedded in a scheme of things larger than just our immediate bodies.

that's one more time than i have... current issues need to be discussed, God can be found everywhere, not necessarily in organized religious services....