Sentences with phrase «than they trust religious»

Polling shows that Americans trust members of the medical sciences to act in the public interest more than they trust religious leaders, elected officials, or business leaders.

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It has multiple meanings 1) complete trust or confidence 2) strong belief in a religion based on spiritual apprehension rather than proof 3) a system of religious belief

'' «Overall, this research suggests that although less religious people tend to be less trusted in the U.S., when feeling compassionate, they may actually be more inclined to help their fellow citizens than more religious people»

His is the early - nineteenth - century's liberalism of Friedrich Schleiermacher, an «enormously courageous move» that, «focusing on religious experience rather than religious ideation as the object of theological reflection,... combined faith in one's own experience with faith in the God who will not abandon those who trust in Him.»

Evidence points to theories and they're reputable and so I trust those more than a religious person using the bible as the only source of proof for history, science, philosophy, ect...

I believe that I am going to fumble this election, because I need the Republican lunatic fringe — the religious right — to get the nomination, but they just won't trust someone who believes in a slightly different version of Jesus than the one they believe in.

Such faith and trust, Jesus» parable suggests, are found more often among the «tax collectors and prostitutes» who hear the good news and believe than among the self - righteous guardians of religious order.

And He taught me how to always trust in Him more than in human beings, leaders, books, institutions and religious systems, and to understand others as He did and does understand me.

I'm not religious, but the Mormons I know and work with I would trust more than any so - called «Christian».

I can also better understand that in times of uncertainty It may be easier for people to trust a learned religious leader than a democratically elected elite put in place by dubiously motivated political constituencies.

Going back even farther than Christianity and even Judaism, one discovers that many religious customs thought of the divine as feminine, as female like, but than came along the pastoral times and men began to rule the nest and place themselves up as divine, demoting anything feminine as weak and not to be trusted.

After meeting with Muslim scholars the author has a better understanding that in times of uncertainty it may be easier for people to trust a learned religious leader than a democratically elected elite put in place by dubiously motivated political constituencies.

«We can not validly commit ourselves without reservation to God's loving providence unless all things are completely subject to his power».25 In reply, one might cite an article in which Peter Appleby concludes that the religious attitudes of trust, love, awe, gratitude and repentance presuppose a personal deity, but not a necessary or omnipotent being.26 Process theologians have held that it is God's goodness, not his power, which justifies reverence and worship, though presumably a totally impotent deity would evoke pity more than respect.

Again, coming from a religious studies department at a secular university; if the Bible is not inspired by God, I can't trust it more than any other religious text (even if it has truth in it).

Maryland, Article 37: That no religious test ought ever to be required as a qualification for any office of profit or trust in this State, other than a declaration of belief in the existence of God; nor shall the Legislature prescribe any other oath of office than the oath prescribed by this Const itution.

But its evident both from the thrust of Lord Ashcroft's report and from polling commissioned by the Runnymede Trust that Indian - origin voters - especially Hindus - are more receptive to the Conservatives than other ethnic and religious minorities.

Evangelicals have lower science education and participation rates than the general population, suffer from a strain of anti-intellectualism within their ranks, are not always well served by a commitment to revelation over discovery, and possess undue trust in religious leaders — particularly in areas about which those leaders generally have little expertise, he said.

Article 37 similarly stated that that «no religious test ought ever to be required as a qualification for any office of profit or trust in this State, other than a declaration of belief in the existence of God.»

Madoff is alleged to have preyed primarily on his fellow Jews; such «affinity» frauds are common, because people are likely to be more trusting of members of their own ethnic or religious group than of outsiders and because a con man may be abler to identify and exploit the weaknesses of members of his own group than of others.