That's the funny
thing about religious people; unlike atheists, they conveniently forget about the existence of all other religions but their own
The most important
thing about the religious and ethical teachings of Jesus is not that he taught them but that he thought them.
funniest
thing about religious articles is the immediate comments from atheists and forever haters of religion.
And
the thing about religious value experiments, why they are different from others is, of course, that the payoff isn't even in this life.
You can say this same
thing about the religious.
One of the worst
things about the religious people is that they think that because science can't give you all the answers immediately that an ancient book is the obvious fill - in for anything missing.
Not exact matches
To put
things in context, Bell followed that quote up by expressing his disappointment when communities of faith discourage people from asking questions
about religious texts or beliefs.
But around 1980, central banks got
religious about inflation and started to do drastic
things, like raising interest rates.
Keep your
religious ideas to yourself and I won't say a
thing about it.
There is much that could be said
about this, but I will stick with one
thing, based on discussion at
about the 2 minute mark: When atheists insist that atheism does not drive behavior, and then then campaign on behalf of atheism, ridicule religion and
religious believers in the name of atheism, seek to change laws in favor of their atheistic positions, recommend the extermination of religion, and practice falsehoods like Dawkins's in support of atheism, they prove that their atheism drives their behavior and that their premise is false, disingenuous, and (as far as I can tell) useless for anything but giving atheism rhetorical cover from being implicated in atheists» atrocities.
Sure, all of us are ignorant
about some
things, whether it's because it holds no interest for us, or we haven't had the opportunity to learn
about it, or because reality conflicts with our
religious beliefs.
The state absolutely shouldn't be
about proclaiming
things that are ultimately
religious in nature.
This case is
about one
thing and one
thing only:
Religious money attacking a scientific organization that actively uncovers information that makes religion less and less relevant.
But it's nice to see
religious people are bigotted
about things other than religion too, like other nationalities.
Funny
thing about many
religious people is they are so busy focusing on getting the «Word» out that they aren't focusing on listening to any other words either — even if it's (heaven forbid) to make another's suffering more bearable.
The president did the right
thing, but your side is running around screaming
about religious rights being taken away, and THEY ARE NOT!!!!!!!!
I think you're reading
things in her article that aren't there, and using her article to expose your own feelings
about «
religious» types.
If they're
religious they're praying they won't die and the LAST
thing on their mind is wasting their last moments on earth discussing something they've never personally seen, only read books
about or heard lectures upon.
If the choice between fanaticisms, whether secular or
religious, is the only
thing on offer, the prospects for democracy are dim and talk
about civil war may not be alarmist.
Am sick and tired of this talk
about the
religious and the non
religious things being taken as an excuse to squeeze crashing down those nations or countries... innocent peaceful people are the first to pay the price in such conflicts and wars..
I do not see any of the
religious folks with much in the way of good
things to say
about gay people.
It seems that you have filled your mind to the max of
things to prove to
religious people that you know what you are talking
about.
Reading the account of how this professor expressed himself
about the author's experience with the dying begs the question in my mind, - How many
religious scholars and clergymen are as truly enlightened
about life, death and the nature of
things as they self - satisfyingly claim to be doctored in religion?
In other words with all the
things going on in the world this long winded ambiguous rant
about the
religious beliefs of a horror writer whose name I've barely heard mentioned in the last decade is being presented as the most important information people need to know at this particular time.
I know that I see elements of divine around me in
things and in ways that others don't, including other
religious people... And as long as different religions and even sects constantly argue
about what god truly is, and as long as they come up with different asnwers, then I have to say that the spiritual elements of our universe simply manifest differently for different folks, including not at all for some... as with those who label themselves as athiest...
The
thing that makes me uneasy
about having elected officails from certain
religious groups is that, being female, I'm not sure a person who suscribes to a set of beliefs that does not permit a woman to occupy the highest leadership posts in the organization is going to promote policies in my best interests.
An overly long article describing how the devout struggles over something no one cares
about, and a professional opinion from BU telling us that these
religious nutjobs are taking
things way too seriously.
But I'm pretty sure one doesn't need to force their
religious laws on other people to have their belief, which is the only
thing we're really concerned
about.
its not really atheism or religion that I have a problem with, its the hate, control, and fear that goes along with it that I have a problem with, you say that those who are spiritual are into new agey, crystal ball, stuff, see that's what I'm talking
about, you assume to know what something is
about when you don't understand something you naturally fear it, your self righteous clouds you, don't you get that by being narrow minded in your view towards
things, you really act no better than
religious fundamentalists, being spiritual is a lot more than just the new agey, think positive all the time that you think it is, its
about being aware of who you are?
We talk
about the same
things you
religious folks talk
about.
If i was an atheist I would not worry
about taking advantage of other people for my own benefit since I would have nothing to loose... Again I don't listen to what
religious books say they all have been twisted, but some
things are common sense.
In fact, I agree with some of the
things Atheists say
about religious folks.
(8) Evolutionary discussion often betrays a positivistic bias which sees scientific truth as the «real» truth
about things, with other forms of truth, including
religious truth, relegated to providing only an emotive, valuational and relativistic set of preferences
about things.
The nice
thing about completely crazy
religious people is that they make slightly less crazy
religious people like you and me feel better
about ourselves.
He became somewhat popular among the crowds as a result, and certain
religious leaders became nervous
about some of the
things he was saying, so they got the local government to arrest Josh.
Religious nuts have been saying the same
thing about how terrible
things are at the moment throughout history.
(continued from 6/1/09) As little inclined as is Charles Taylor to connect the pre-ontological with the metaphysical,
religious «experience» with cognitive assertions, he can not finally avoid making certain claims
about the way
things are, or at least the way human
things are: We all see....
If you believe all that happened randomly, that the bang was powered by nothingness, then you could teach us
religious folks a few
things about faith.
The
things I find most appalling
about religion reach a new zenith in Islam --(i) a dulling down of individual thought and a dogmatic requirement to conform to the views of the masses; (ii) a stultifying ignorant education system in which anything inconsistent with the Qur» an is not just discouraged, but censored; (iii) the subjugation of women to the point of educating them to be nothing but mindless f * king, breeding machines for their insecure husbands; (iv) a political class that feeds off the
religious - based ignorance it imposes on its populations; and (v) a general back - sliding against the rest of the planet because heads are buried in Dark Ages mythology.
In contrast, Caldecott states in the first line of his preface: «The book is
about Tolkien's spirituality, by which I mean his
religious awareness and experience, the
things he believed
about life and death and ultimate truth» (p xi).
One of the
things I'm standup
about is not making bigoted remarks
about others» beliefs (i.e. that the
religious are brainless).
As she continues to read, we hear
about Paul's incarceration and persecution,
about how Jesus is «the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation,»
about watching out for all those false teachings that circulated through the trade routes,
about how we ought to stop judging each other over differences of opinion regarding
religious festivals and food (I blush a little at this point and resolved to make peace with some rather opinionated friends before the next sacred meal),
about how we should clothe ourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience, and love,
about how we must forgive one another,
about how the
things that once separated Jew from Greek and slave from free are broken down at the foot of the cross,
about how we should sing more hymns.
The reasoning goes something like this; the truth is written in the bible and we know this because it is written in the bible, of course you could say the same
thing about any other
religious tome.
There are people that say the same kinds of
things you say
about «
religious people» like you that say the same kinds of
things about «atheist people.»
In the
things they do and say
about God,
religious people diverge quite sharply.
Every religion stands within the uniqueness of
religious intuition (whereby intuitions also can contradict or have a only volatile character, without losing thereby the character of intuitions: cf. FR 38, PR 13, MT 50) and general theory
about the nature of
thing» (1LM49).
When particular elements in the traditional teaching
about the nature of
things have been challenged by demonstrable scientific findings, the whole structure of
religious dogma has been called into question.
Christ would not have good
things to say
about todays «
religious leaders»
As to your
religious beliefs, you don't have a damn
thing to say
about what a person does in their private life, including their health - care decisions.
They got fooled into believing the same
things as the
religious loons do
about a God.