Sentences with phrase «than the other religions of»

Not exact matches

One study done by Wells Fargo earlier this year found that nearly half of Americans find it harder to discuss money than other touchy topics such as politics or 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».

If it's the matter of god, then you're dealing with something other than atheism considering atheism focuses on religion, not the matter of whether god exists or not.

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.

The treatment of other religions by Islam must be judged by a simple test: How did the Muslim rulers behave for more than a thousand years, when they had the power to «spread the faith by the sword»?

Professionals or secularists within the UK or Western world will accept these religious tenets more sympathetically if they came from a faith they recognise, or indeed may once have been part of, more so than other newer religions.

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.

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.

Guiding Principles Religious and theological studies depend on and reinforce each other; A principled approach to religious values and faith demands the intellectual rigor and openness of quality academic work; A well - educated student of religion must have a deep and broad understanding of more than a single religious tradition; Studying religion requires that one understand one's own historical context as well as that of those whom one studies; An exemplary scholarly and teaching community requires respect for and critical engagement with difference and diversity of all kinds.

We can assume that all the Justices sitting on the Court today, like other humans, have their own preferences and biases about religion, but the judicial opinions of one of them, Justice John Paul Stevens, raise more than a slight suspicion that some of his actions on the bench stem from animosity, if not to animal sacrifice, at least to certain less exotic religious beliefs and practices.

Is satanism less of a religion than all the other similarly made up and ridiculous religions??

The dirt in our minds, like someone hurling insults at other religions and strangers, that bothers God more than the frequency of our baths.

But it's it's a heck of a lot more likely that people raised with religion will leave it than the other way around.

The entire concept of God is distasteful and I see no reason to believe religion is anything other than a man made control system.

As to whether the television guide is a good guide to the Times, the ten pounds of newsprint that Sunday had no other reference to religion other than a business story about selling palms to churches and an article in the Sunday magazine about a Catholic who has decided to become a Jew.

I am for the elimination of hate, fear and control, religion is just the catalyst that people use to hate, fear and control, getting rid of religion won't solve the problem, its like putting a band aid on a severe cut, its temporary, and it just hits the surface, instead we need to go deeper than that to the root cause, I know lots of religious people who don't hate, fear or control, there are also many beliefs such as paganism, Buddism, Taoism, which doesn't use hate fear, and self righteousness to condemn others, I think if maybe more of the most major religions followed there teachings then we wouldn't have as much problems as we do.

Wow... there is a ton of hatred towards the Mormons... I thought that we were much more tolerant... and besides Mitt Romney doesn't represent his religion any more than any other candidate....

While this is a vile act — An act that spits on the beliefs of Anne Frank and the entire Jewish religion — one must ask, is this really worst than the thousands upon thousands of other Baptisms for the dead that the mormons perform?

People should practice their religion at home or at their church and leave it out of the workplace other than setting a good example of honest behaviour.

And By the way... 1 in 50 would be only 2 %... the number of gay priests and higher is quite a bit higher than the world average, and higher than in any other religion... which is explained (at least in theory of why that is the case) in the frontline I saw... they estimated it is closer to one in 5

Here you are putting the blame on al Islamic branches for one Islamic branch although the as branches contradict each other and they are always in disputes among them and that's was the reason they became branches rather than one Islam so really it is not fear to hold all at guilt for one misbehave or abuse... nor it is fair to address the whole Islam belief, Quran and Prophet of God for the fault of ones or few that are not in the right track of Islam being the religion of peace and justice to mankind..

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.

It would be my opinion that the LDS have stood for bigotry no less than any of the other major religions.

On other subjects — his true feelings toward his own father in particular, virtually the entirety of his youth in general as well as his genuine feelings regarding religion — he could be, and was, tighter than a clam.

Mormonism isn't any more of a cult than any other religion.

Perhaps Sabio can speak to the amount of trickery present in other world religions as he has studied them more than I.

In my opinion, and the opinion of many others, religion is nothing more than a tool, created by mankind (not suggested by god) thousands of years ago to do nothing more than control people through force and fear.

That is the radical nature (why it is so different than every other form of religion on the planet) of Christianity.

I p1ss on your «anointed one» and I p1ss on your stinking nasty religion that is doing more to turn this world into an overflowing sewage dump than any of the other religions.

At some point they met reason and figured out it was all a bunch of hokum with no more reason to believe in it than any other god or religion.

A religion that restricts lifestyle in a variety of other ways is less likely to be a over for drug use than a religion that teaches only the duty to take drugs.

Christendom: I think that Christianity as a religion, which purports to call people to follow Jesus, but uses money, power, and political prestige to force «Christianity» on others, is nothing other than the adoption of all the things which Satan promised Jesus in Luke 4, but which Jesus turned down.

I just think a lot of us scientists have a different understanding of religion than others.

Your religion is based on many myths that preceded it, yours is no different than ALL of the other religions... man made stories, man made myths, man made gods.

If that is NOT what you are suggesting, please explain in what ways — how and where — you would accept the «free practice of religion» anywhere other than in a religious building or at home.

It's a way to justify what you don't yet understand, rather than acknowledging that it's just understandable at the moment, and it's acceptance amongst those who think like they do, it's the creation of a definable «evil» to fight against (satan, atheists, other religions, basically everyone except their small group of like minders... even other denominations that are nearly identical quibble).

I do not know who these rather shell - shocked former practitioners of identity politics might be or what makes them into people who could be receptive to the lessons embedded in Moses Mendelssohn's philosophy of religion and who could apply them to religions other than Judaism.

We hope to expand our sections of religions other than Christianity.

That fight was resolved in favor of the modernists who maintained that God's revelation is ongoing, that religion and science are not inherently irreconcilable, and that the tension between the two ought to elicit discussion and reflection rather than the abandonment of one subject or the other.

Your religion takes more faith than any other I know and I am not capable of that much faith.

also, PS: not that I'm a «Satanist», nor that I defend it more than any other religion, but I will say that a lot of Christians don't know much about them other than H0llyw00d myths.

Almost 80 percent of Americans identify themselves as Christians, with, despite all the talk about growing religious pluralism, no more than 5 per cent claiming other religions.

Show me the evidence — and it should be hard, verifiable evidence of the type that would persuade you if it were any other religion other than your own.

Nobody thought much of religions other than Christianity; as was obvious by our public school pledge — which admonished us all to be good Christian citizens... Sure, I had questions too, but our church was pretty low - key so I was safe from some of the more radically - minded (read: brainwashed) of my peers.

True religion for Amos is a matter of high ethical seriousness, of dealing scrupulously with oneself and others, rather than disinheriting the poor of the land.

And that is a purely faith based ideology, no more or less so than Christianity or any other of the world's religions.

He conveniently overlooks certain other considerations favorable to socialism; when these considerations are given their due, even some practical people unafflicted by the need for a secular religion will find the alleged superiority of capitalism something less than obvious.

Unless we learn to challenge our own beliefs the way we challenge others», whatever they may be can be no more than a blind faith at best or a delusion at worst, be that for or against religion (especially the puerile version of Christianity).

You can't take them to mean anything other than they probably knew of the growing religion.