Sentences with phrase «think organized religion»

I do think organized religion has caused a huge % of the worlds problems.

I don't think all organized religion is the cause of all curses and wars.

I think organized religion can be dangerous as well as anyone who says they speak for a God.

I think organized religion and organized science are incompatible.

Not exact matches

Left alone to think on their own as they grow up, most adults will find any organized religion just a bogus scheme.

I think if Jesus were alive today (literally... I know to Christians he is alive) he would have so much to say and clarify about the tragedies that have unfolded out of this organized religion.

I think a person who lives by the examples that Christ did, is far more important than organized religions demand that you «accept» him.

Since that time, a variety of thoughts and biases have come toward an association with the label, such as libertarians, the southern agrarians, and the religious, as well as reconstructions of traditionalism (Kirk), calls for experience and history in the place of abstract reason (Oakeshott and Scruton), and a defense of moral and intellectual virtue outside organized religion (Strauss).

I can understand a distrust with organized religion and being an atheists, but are you not doing the same thing as Christians by saying what you think is real or calling out those that you think are wrong.

I thought religion was an organized system of belief.

I just feel like he's cut his strings from organized religion, but I think he's going to learn a lot about God.

I've seen both very good and very bad fruit come from organized religion — including Christianity — and prefer to think of each individual as spiritually unique rather than the sum of his or her religious culture.

I have a theory that SBNRs are so because one or more or a combination of the following: (1) they can't justify their spiritual texts - and so they try to remove themselves from gory genocidal tales, misogyny and anecdotal professions of a man / god, (2) can't defend and are turned off by organized religious history (which encompasses the overwhelming majority of spiritual experiences)- which is simply rife with cruelty, criminal behavior and even modern day cruel - ignorant ostracization, (3) are unable to separate ethics from their respective religious moral code - they, like many theists on this board, wouldn't know how to think ethically because they think the genesis of morality resides in their respective spiritual guides / traditions and (4) are unable to separate from the communal (social) benefits of their respective religion (many atheists aren't either).

My rejection of religion is a thorough one, borne of my own disinterest in organized belief systems, my distrust of dogmatic thinking and those who prefer it, and my own unwillingness to put faith in ancient tribal myths.

«I think in people's lives who grew up in some sort of organized religion, there really comes a time when you start to question things more,» he said.

Since, as above mentioned already, I think that Christ was spiritual I wouldn't be surprised that he would shake his head about today's organized religion and how distorted the msg has become... and I think that he would also have plenty to say in regards about the bible and those who follow it to the t and think it's essential for being «faithful».

Nothing but Star Wars, Star Wars todaaaaaay... The more I think about Jedi as an organized religion, the more I can't stop thinking about it.

Because she was not baptized, she has been dubbed «a secular saint» by those who admire her life and are drawn to her thought, but who are not interested in organized religion.

Because conscience is present in every individual and corresponds so nicely to the contents of civil religion (i.e., Deism), the role of organized religion (read, the Catholic Church) is thought to be not only unnecessary for but also the enemy of Democratic society.

Think about this for a moment... What is the commonality between all the organized religions of the world?

The founding fathers were mostly theists who looked down on organized religion and thought it should have nothing to do with government.

So how do you think this blog would react if this guy had posted an Atheism Manifesto that claimed he was an «atheist warrior» attempting to wipe the smile off the face of organized religion?

But America is good, it seems, in part because it can find places for Southerners, especially Southern Stoics (think the novelist Tom Wolfe, Atticus Finch, Admiral Stockdale, Navy SEALS, and the proud men of Morehouse), Catholics (as, to begin with, the best organized in countercultural thought and action of our large institutional religions), and Heideggerians (who are right, after all, about the American propensity for inauthentically deferring to the «they» of public opinion and scientific expertise).

By religion in this context I mean that which organizes the whole of life and thought around a single vision or commitment.

Writing Searching for Sunday forced me to consider that perhaps real maturity is exhibited not in thinking myself above other Christians and organized religion, but in humbly recognizing the reality that I can't escape my own cultural situatedness and life experiences, nor do I want to escape the good gift of my (dysfunctional, beautiful, necessary) global faith community.

There is no real danger in being spiritual and honestly I think of it as another evolution or reformation in religions and organized religions should be afraid, very afraid.

I think a more interesting article might be: Why organized religion doesn't work anymore.

The problem is that organized religion is as much political animal as any other human convention involving more than 2 people, and spiritual, thinking individuals are intelligent enough to know that churches / mosques / community reprogramming centers actually have very little to do with what one actually believes...

They can think for themselves They have done as such and realize the organized religions are hate groups and hypocrites.

I think that's where we have to draw the line... younger people and much of the educated, get it... but I think «organized» religions will pay a price for their intolerance down the road... as people leave... in disgust.

I was thinking of what David was writing in light of his recent posts about organized religion mandating a «vision» or «agenda» on people.

If you're on the organized religion bandwagon, you don't EVER get to call someone else out for «avoid [ing] having to think too hard about having to decide».

I think the teachings of Jesus have been so twisted by organized religion that I can not call myself a Christian in this day and age.

The writer seems to think that any religious belief is OK so long as it's tied to some organized religion.

I abandoned organized religion a long time ago, in part because in my view it promotes hypocrisy and intolerance, at the same time believers seem to think they have a monopoly on morality.

While I don't think that Jesus is the answer to everything, he hits the nail on the head when it comes to organized religion.

The name «religion» should be reserved for the fully organized system of feeling, thought, and institution, for the Church, in short, of which this personal religion, so called, is but a fractional element.»

I think so many Christians (organized religion today as a whole in fact) are walking on the wide path.

Justin Bieber is emblematic of a larger culture of Americans who think that we don't need worship, organized religion, or church.

I don't go to Church, I think that organized religion is a joke, and I think Glenn Beck is a dangerous liar of a man with nothing but hate and contempt for those he doesn't agree with.

I think the Spirit directed me to your blog as I am having difficulty with organized religion.

I saw an anwer to my entry that «a bigot is a bigot, even if you are a «Christian», his comment basically was that it is ok to be a bigot even if you claim to be a «Christian», well I agree that most are bigots, I just don't think it fits the description of «Christian», I could never be part of any organized religion as their members ar 99.5 % hypocrits.

So you don't think that the removal of organized religion from the world would have a countless number of benefits?

With young Americans rejecting organized religion in large numbers, the future of these Bronze Age mythologies is in doubt; therefore, thinking people in any part of this country are going to start attending church more often, isn't likely.

Don't kid yourself into thinking that organized religion is not one of the most destructive and divisive and utterly terrible forces in the world.

Personally I think anybody that follows an organized religion ought to be preemptively placed in prison to protect the more rational people in this world.

«is worthy to be called a religion»; and accordingly he thinks that our Music, our Science, and our so - called «Civilization,» as these things are now organized and admiringly believed in, form the more genuine religions of our time.

I think there can be faith without an organized religion in the picture.

I'm not saying faith doesn't exist nor am I saying God doesn't exist, I just don't think he exists in the way that organized religion would have you think he / she / it / them does.

I like you hate the corruption of what should be believe systems that benefit mankind mostly by organized religion in this «fallen» world.I think that Islam could well bring about a very destructive third world war.