Sentences with phrase «than those religious groups»

They need to set a more positive example of atheists otherwise we are no better than those religious groups putting up abortion ads.

To push your beliefs (or non / anti beliefs as it were), is no different than a religious group pushing their beliefs about the existence of a god.

In their study, the Baylor researchers hypothesized that those who are spiritual but not religious would be less conventional than the religious group — but could be either more or less conventional than the «neither» group.

Not exact matches

And polling shows that white mainline and evangelical Protestants continue to support Trump even with the Stormy Daniels news, and do so at higher levels than other religious groups.

The problem I have is that these «churches» using these schools are not paying enough to even cover the cost of the overhead of opening the building for them, and that if any group other than a Christian church tried to use the facilities for religious services, they would more than likely be denied.

So one group of radicals whom I doubt represent more than 1 / 10th of 1 % of the world's religious folks, and all religious people are radical nuts.

Numerous studies have shown that religious people donate more time, more money, and donate more blood than any other group of people.

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?

The Romney of last night's debate, on the other hand, would rather assure women of their continuing access to contraception than assure religious groups that they will not be forced to betray their consciences.

Muslims cry more than any group of religious nutjobs.

According to the work produced by David B. Barrett's religious statistics organisation (FYI, the man was a Christian no less) atheists number more than Jews, Sikh's, Shintos, Baha'is, Jains, combined, and if you want to consider all «non - religious / secular / agnostic / atheist» together, since the whole «non-religion» movement is kinda riddled with people who find conontations of words like «atheist» to be bad enough to not want to declare themselves atheist, you'll find the number of that non-religious group also amounts more than those religions plus buddhism, and taoism or even Confucianism.

Muslims are far better off than any other religious groups... because according to their Sharia they (men and women) have to shave their arm pits and private parts.

To follow Aristotle is one thing; but to be religious is tantamount to being countercultural, and never has there been a less rebellious group than today's undergraduates.

Also, if your religious community is more racially isolated than your local area, encourage it to form faith partnerships with racially different faith groups.

Indeed, moderates, the only white Protestant group to lose more members to other religious families than they gain, appear to be drained from both sides, supplying recruits to both the left and the right.

Underscoring this point, they note that religious switchers adhere even more closely to the dominant moral ethos of their new groups than do people raised in those groups.

If people are making up religious belief systems entirely out of their imaginations it only stands to reason that what one group of people in one part of the world come up with will be different than what a different group in some other part of the world come up with independently.

More than half of European countries increased governmental harassment of religious groups between 2014 and 2015.

(CNN)- Muslim Americans are more optimistic about their future than members of any other religious group in the United States, according to a Gallup report released Tuesday.

The survey «shows that religious progressives are a more significant group than is usually assumed, and there is a strong social justice constituency among religious Americans that cuts across labels,» according to E.J. Dionne, a Brookings Senior Fellow.

On February 1, a group of 51 faith - based, human rights and civil rights organizations, led by Muslim Advocates, called on House Speaker John Boehner and Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi to urge King and his committee to address all forms of religious extremism rather than focusing on Islam.

Update (April 18): The Salt Lake Tribune reports that Snow College has settled its lawsuit with Solid Rock Christian Club, which sued the school last winter claiming «that the school's policy unconstitutionally treated student groups affiliated with religious institutions differently than other student groups.»

The uneasy peace among the diverse American religious groups must be attributed to something other than special natural virtues possessed by people who live here.

As debate continues over President Obama's assertion about the religious nature (or lack thereof) of the Islamic State (ISIS) terrorist group, a new Pew Research Center study finds that more Americans across the board believe that Islam encourages violence more than other religions.

This overall agenda would not differ from those of most liberal Protestant or Jewish groups — except in the high level of consensus, and in the fact that the most important religious goal for UUs is «a community for shared values» (rather than theology or personal growth or social change or experiences of transcendence).

Psalm 10: 3 - 4 — This talks about the wicked men, how they do nt have God in their hearts or in their minds, which is a fine piece of scripture but it can hardly be used for either myself or the maker of the video since we both seem to advocate a deep and personal relationship with the Lord rather than letting a group of «religious» people ruin it for you.

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....

Jim, atheists, as a group, have higher IQs and greater levels of scholastic achievement than do religious people.

No less than other stories in the Jacob cycle, it reflects the background of the patriarchal age — frictions between groups (Hamor and Jacob); a level of sexual morality beyond the reach of our judgment and in any judgment ennobled by the integrity of Hamor and the love of his son for Dinah; the effort on the part of both families to effect a peaceful settlement honoring the religious sensibilities of the abused; the despicable violation of the terms of agreement by two of Jacob's sons; and finally, in perfect consonance with the general character of Jacob, his sharp rebuke of his sons not on moral but on utilitarian grounds:

The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life: The Global Religious Landscape Worldwide, more than eight - in - ten people identify with a religioReligious Landscape Worldwide, more than eight - in - ten people identify with a religiousreligious group.

It seems to me that we can do this more easily based on our own sound reasoning than based on instructions by religious leaders who always seem to end up compromising one group or another on our planet.

Both mainline Protestant and Catholic churches have been addressing the degradation of human sexuality and especially of women that pornography entails rather than emphasizing as the religious right groups do the inherent objectionableness of sexually explicit and sexually stimulating material.

Religious believers certainly cause their share of trouble, and can be obnoxiously close - minded to new insights and outsiders, but there're also not universally a den of vipers; religious people are more likely to donate to charities (including secular ones) and volunteer for civic groups than secular people, for Religious believers certainly cause their share of trouble, and can be obnoxiously close - minded to new insights and outsiders, but there're also not universally a den of vipers; religious people are more likely to donate to charities (including secular ones) and volunteer for civic groups than secular people, for religious people are more likely to donate to charities (including secular ones) and volunteer for civic groups than secular people, for instance.

Christmas is more than a religious holiday — it is a time for everyone, not just Christians, and I am happy that atheist group had the balls to put that up.

Bostontola — I don't know if you are new to CNN, buddy, but ATHEISTS Paint all people of a religious group with a broad brush is worse than lack of forgiveness, it aims to convict people with no evidence much like racism.

But compassion seems to drive religious people's charitable feelings less than other groups.

One frequently cited bar graph has been used to suggest, for the decade 1965 - 75, a severe diminution of seven mainline Protestant bodies by contrast both with their gains in the preceding ten years and with the continuing growth of selected conservative churches (see Jackson W. Carroll et al., Religion in America, 1950 to the Present [Harper & Row, 19791, p. 15) The gap in growth rates for 1965 - 75, as shown on that graph, is more than 29 percentage points (an average loss in the oldline denominations of 8.9 per cent against average gains among the conservatives of 20.5 per cent) This is indeed a substantial difference, but it does not approach the difference in growth rates recorded for the same religious groups in the 1930s, when the discrepancy amounted to 62 percentage points.

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.

Seems that Christians need protecting more than other religious groups these days.

More than other types of association, a religious group presents itself as a microcosm with its own law, outlook on life, attitude and atmosphere.

Religious leaders that attended the meeting said the president spent more than an hour with them, and after making a few remarks at the top of the meeting he let each group discuss their priorities and problems with comprehensive immigration reform.

More than 100 different student gatherings occur weekly under the auspices of more than 20 diverse religious groups (Hindu, Jewish, Muslim and Unitarian, to name a few).

i personally have no religious preference or belief and i fear Christians more than muslims because they are the most hate filled group in america especially in the bible belt.

«Executive,» «laborer,» «Catholic,» «Southern Baptist,» «Jew,» «Democrat,» «Republican,» «Socialist,» for example, are proper designations of occupational, religious, or political affiliation, but may under undemocratic pressures become class symbols which divide people into comprehensive separate groups for other than occupational, religious, or political purposes.

The sociology of the religious group of the second power, to use de Grasserie's terminology (collegia, associations, brotherhoods, oratories and the like), offers a wide open field and should be developed much more than it has been hitherto.

If we value cultural pluralism in America we may have to look elsewhere than to the continuation of existing ethnic groups to find a basis for such pluralism, though the persistence of ethnic and particularly religious identities can not be entirely counted out.

So you are more concerned about a group of people trying to keep baby Jesus off the off the capitol lawn than about some religious fanaticals trying to fly an airplane into the capitol?

Since «none» is the fastest growing religious group, it looks like more are turning away from Christianity than towards it.

«The article, «Race, Diversity, and Membership Duration in Religious Congregations,» said that nine out of ten congregations in the U.S. are segregated — a single racial groups accounts for more than 80 percent of their membership.»

Pew found that Russia and France were «the only two European countries with more than 200 cases of government force against religious groups» in both 2014 and 2015.