Sentences with phrase «thinking than any other religion»

Native American beliefs are more in line with ecological thinking than any other religion the world over.

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Michael «As a gay man I appreciate there efforts and support, but I think putting up this sign isn't really the best way to get through to people, all it does is create more hate, intolerance, and separation, I am not a christian but I am very spiritual, and putting up this sign implies that all gay people are atheists which is the furthest thing from the truth, I have no problem with religion, I have a problem with those who use there religions to control and hate others, same applies with atheism, if you don't want to believe in anything than fine, just don't push your non beliefs on me.»

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....

And Mormonism is wacky... even wackier than all the other religions, which are all pretty stupid and ridiculous when you think about it.

As a gay man I appreciate there efforts and support, but I think putting up this sign isn't really the best way to get through to people, all it does is create more hate, intolerance, and separation, I am not a christian but I am very spiritual, and putting up this sign implies that all gay people are atheists which is the furthest thing from the truth, I have no problem with religion, I have a problem with those who use there religions to control and hate others, same applies with atheism, if you don't want to believe in anything than fine, just don't push your non beliefs on me.

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.

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).

Why they think their religion works better than others, is beyond me!!!

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.

I think one thing that has been overlooked by most of the other comments is why the hell does a cleric of a religion that is supposed to not even have a hierarchy have $ 6000, which as the article pointed out is more than 6 times what the average Pakistani makes in a year, to throw around...

Besides, think about all the religions other than yours..

«think about all the religions other than yours..

too true; you're right, we are holistic people in a holistic world living holistic lives and political theory, religion, ethics, behavior, psychology, these and many others are all so inextricably intertwined with each other that it may be better to think of them as different views of the same object rather than distinct objects that are inter-related (using «object» here, of course, metaphorically)

I think it is not just that Gopher is not interested in religions other than his own, but views other than his own.

Don't be so damn conceited, there are thousands of denominations of christianity alone, then there's all the other religions out there, and there's no reason to think that you're any more correct than they are.

This does not make them more intelligent than others, it just means they think differently on the topic of spiritual faith and religion.

Other than the fact that religion and government shouldn't mix, who actually thinks a religous leader has a clue about economics anyway?

Off the cuff, I do think that religion has a lot to do with encouraging an elitist, critical, condemning attitude in some people, especially the type of religion that causes one group to speak and act as if they were closer to God than every other group.

ok i've decided — after soul searching and observing my and other's reactions to these religious blog news on CNN learning more about religion from this alone and about the mideast than from anywhere else in my USA educated life i need to be more tolerant of others having religious based governments THAT is what is confusing me — that religion are governments are not seperated that is hard for much of USA population to understand perhaps it is for me i think you would have to actually live in a society like the mideast to truly understand it i mean — actually be part of the society the religious part is truly offputting — since most in USA seperate church and state like — church is for faith and imagination and celebration and family and community involvement and state is for protection and education and health and infrastructure, etc., for all it is hard to be serious about religion — when the serious side of society is state it is hard to see religion being the serious side of enforcement — and the state enforcing the faith based side of society egad — doesn't god get lost in all that?

Think they might do well better than most as seen they are strict with religion practice and more belief than others... who knows they even might be the along waited Christ to return?

Before you say another word, think for a minute about how members of your faith continuously push for legislation to force others to your way of life, force your morality, spark witch hunts for radicalized members of other religions even though it's more often than not white guys gunning down crowds in schools, theatres, grocery store parking lots, etc..

At the end of the day, those people who can accept and respect that others think differently than them, and can realize that making generalizations about a race / religion / philosophy truly makes you ignorant, those are the people who are truly intelligent.

Because the discipline has not yet congealed, there is far more authentic thinking still going on in departments of religion than in most other parts of the university.

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...

most do and they give everyone else a bad rep but every «religion» does as well, i don't have any religion i just try to do what is right and help others i think these simple practices would help the world out more than anything else.

Therefore, I don't think my God would appreciate me joining a religion which dooms the majority of the world for no other reason than because they don't follow a certain religion.

Until religions acknkowledge that they have NO MORE insight into what «God» is, does, wants or thinks than ANYONE one else on the planet, we need to keep their thoughts along side other fantasies where they belong!

NOT sorry to disapoint you but MY religion or spirituality is NONE of your business and suits me just fine, makes me a better person, more accepting of others, more kind to my fellow earthbound souls, more respectful to mankind and morther earth than all religions combined who unfortunately have over 2ooo years of evidence of horrors committed against each other ALL in the name of the religous organizations you want me to join??? I think I will stick with my smorgasborg of this and that spirituality.

I do not practice any religion and I think what he is doing is a beautiful gesture and I am sure is appreciated more than words can express by the victims of these and any other tragedies.

Considering his condition is likely what allowed him to spend most of his time thinking and doing physics, thus making him one of the world's most well respected physicists and living far longer with ALS than any other individual before him, and is still able to communicate, I would imagine Maire is correct and he is an atheist not because he is all that bitter, but because the further people tend to go in science, the less they tend to believe in religion.

It is no good our going on about Scripture if our audience thinks it has been shown to be no truer than the myths of other religions.

Do you actually think I'm going to help the US or christians more than I would help any other religion?

Does he really think those who call themselves Catholics have done better on average than other religions?

I think you have two fundamental misconceptions in your comment: (1) That Christianity is more threatened than the minority of other religions and non-religious people out there, (2) That only religious people can hope for a better future.

This observation may prove offensive to many who think that science deals more concretely with the world than does any other approach, especially religion.

The Universe, known and unknown, is possibly not the most used definition of God, at least in the western world... but it is the Pantheistic version that jives so much more with science and is not a misappropriation of the smaller definitions of God, merely an unfamiliar definition to those with less knowledge of various more advanced religious and philosophic thought, within and outside those religions... The idea of Pantheism also thoughtfully considers why there is, rather than ridiculing, such a wide range of philosophical and ritual beliefs from a scientific perspective... without having to classify large groups of people, as senseless idiots from one end or destined for hell from the other.

All human religion, other than the Judeo - Christian faith was thought to consist of various forms of natural religion which could all be traced back to Noah.

Priests may... appear more likely to molest children because cases of abuse come to light in huge waves... Allen suggests a final reason we hear so much more about Catholic abuse than transgressions in other religions: [the Church's] sheer size... «When you consider the per capita data,» says Allen, «I don't think they have a larger incidence than other faiths.»

I think most religions require people to «really» believe — not just play pretent in order to hedge against potential hellfire... but other than that, nice plan.

If yes, I don't think moving away from that for religion indicates any special intelligence, other than pandering to his christian supporters and trying to deflect attention away from the repubs massive government shutdown blunder.

When Christians break down these barriers between their religion and all the others (as well as non-religions), they will finally begin to see God in everything and everyone, not just people who think they are holier than others.

The «that than which nothing greater...» formula is Anselm's attempt to express the perfection, majesty, and transcendence associated with the thought of God throughout the fabric of biblical religion — «Thou shalt have no other gods before me.»

«I would never want anyone to think I was making some sort of spiritual claim other than the pure joy of being human that belongs to everyone free of religion.»

It asks us to take another look at what we think we know about politics, religion and other things we like to argue about, and asks nothing more than our quiet attention.

Interestingly, even the average Christian schooler is not much less likely than other churchgoers to think that a top priority in education is teaching children about diverse races, religions, and cultures (67 percent versus 73 percent).

Because education is an enterprise, more perhaps than any other save religion, that is shaped by how we choose to think about it.

We can see these drawings as a return to «the root» of the practice of an artist who strives never to lose sight of the essential humility of creation which is, probably more than any other philosophy, political thought, or religion, the true guarantor of society and evolution.

So I think a number of Quebeckers came at the discussion from the other side: how do we attack the knife problem, rather than how do we accommodate someone whose religion requires the wearing of a knife.