The people felt that soccer was more
true than religion.
Not exact matches
True —
religion is nothing more
than some guy telling you what to do — if people worship that, they are stupid enough to have fallen for anything.
no other reason why atheists would reply on a
religion blog other
than they know its
true?
On other subjects — his
true feelings toward his own father in particular, virtually the entirety of his youth in general as well as his genuine feelings regarding
religion — he could be, and was, tighter
than a clam.
The holy book of your respective
religion is always
true, always right, and always accurate, being inspired of a higher source
than human knowledge.
Bill, people choose to embrace a
religion because it offers them a narrative they find more appealing
than the alternatives of which they're aware, not because there is any evidence it's
true.
«If you can imagine a world at peace, with no denominations of
religion not without
religion but without this my - God - is - bigger -
than - your - God thing then it can be
true» John Lennon
I can appreciate that
religion in general, and christianity as it is oft times practiced has damaged more
than a few people, but one might want to ask is that ALWAYS
true or sometimes?
The claim, «You don't believe the Bible is
true» is nothing more
than a smokescreen put up by manipulative
religion to discredit or ignore a challenging teaching or idea about the Bible which disagrees or contradicts what that
religion teaches.
Whether we place our faith in science,
religion, education, government, the justice system or nothing more
than the accuracy of the tube map in the front of our diary, each one of us lives by faith in whatever we trust to be reliable and
true.
True religion for Amos is a matter of high ethical seriousness, of dealing scrupulously with oneself and others, rather
than disinheriting the poor of the land.
In order to truly know that there is no God, or believe it as
true (as vehemently as some Atheists do, verily defining a
religion of its own), an Atheist has to know a lot more
than all of the rest of us on this world.
No
religion is
true, but some are more disturbing
than others.
While it might be
true that those who lived in the time of the Prophet could understand
religion better
than the people of today who must study Islam by means of documents only, we can not ignore the considerable change in the social situation and world conditions during the past fourteen centuries.
For Christianity, although it is a
religion in the sense that it links the life of man with the Life of God, is far more
than one of the world's great faiths: it is the revelation of the way of
true living.
This is different from numbers 2 and 3 because it suggests that there is one
religion, the one that converges the fastest, that really is «better»
than the others, at least in a functional sense, if not necessarily «
truer» in the long run.
I fail to see how going to catholicism suddenly makes his fairy tale book based on no facts suddenly
true... oh wait more hypocrisy on the playground because
religions cant stand the fact that none of them could be right, or that theirs might not be better
than their neighbors.
I find that atheists tend to know more about
religion than most believers — or at least that is
true of Christians in the US.
False
religion teaches everything else other
than what
true religion teaches.
i was raised as a catholic and the someone told me who Our Saviour really was and His Name and after 45 years i began praying to Our Saviour Using His Name and i always Believed in God but i knew that the christians had it wrong and now i know they did and now without even being in a
religion or a community i have found what is
True and its better
than what christians are saying.
But there is no method by which verifiable measurable results might demonstrate that one god belief /
religion is more likely to be
true than any other.
To the extent that they are careless about their instruction in the faith, or present its teaching falsely, or even fail in their religious, moral, or social life, they must be said to conceal rather
than to reveal the
true nature of God and of
religion.»
And, let us be frank: is it really so certain that formerly, when
religion and the Church played a greater part in public life, men really had more
true faith, hope and charity, which, after all, are more important
than anything else?
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)
Popularity in
religion always made Newman worried that something else was afoot in the Church
than the
true gospel.
His system, moreover, leaves
religion in a decidedly secondary status: useful rather
than true.
Why don't you simply admit that you have absolutely NO evidence of any gods, you have no idea if your
religion is
true, and that all
religions are nothing more
than what MEN made up as if to speak for «god» when they have no idea if there are any gods to begin with.
Is it this: Christianity is the only
true religion, even though there is no more evidence that it represents truth
than any other
religion!
a) you may mock
religion as «fairy tales», but logically you still must admit that IF
TRUE, the compassion offered there is radically different
than what you are talking about.
... I can not say it any better
than John Piper «
True Christianity — which is radically different from Western culture, and may not be found in many «Christian» churches — renounces the advance of
religion by means of violence.
If you deem your «one
true religion» to be better
than others, and that gives you cause to denigrate them, then you are no better
than the Taliban.
MarkinFL, if that were
true than we would not have «In God We Trust» (not separation of
religion).
Two possibilities determining two basic attitudes, more radical
than any difference of race, nationality or even formal
religion; and between them runs the
true line of the spiritual division of the Earth.
The main tenet of
religion and belief in god is faith, which is nothing more
than believing in something because you «want» it to be
true.
Today, rather
than being the
true sense of following Christ, it is more widely known as a
religion.
The problem is, when people embrace a
religion out of fear that it might be
true, this is nothing more
than Pascal's wager.
i expect that for the majority of the population
religion is little more
than a footnote and held to be
true simply because it is what they have been taught and their daily lives never bring a reason to challenge the belief.
True religion must first come from an inner sense that we are part of something greater
than us but can not be reduced by us to any simple description or word or concept.
David «
True religion must first come from an inner sense that we are part of something greater
than us but can not be reduced by us to any simple description or word or concept»
Versions of those
religions are still around today afterall, which actually makes them older
than Christianity, therefore more
true if we are judging based on the criteria of age.
It's far better to come to God through your own search and journey
than to just believe, this is
true for all
religions and even non religious things I will say this though, I believe that God will judge the world and his ruling will be final.
Free
True, and this applies to more
than religion.
Richard, saying that atheists are the main source of conflict is borne out by the fact that
religions that profess theirs is the only
true religion / God and thereby create conflict... is no different
than an atheist declaring none of them are
true.
Actually, while that may have been
true up until not so long ago, I'd say at this point capitalism is more of a hinderance to science
than religion is.
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.
We can pay our full respect to the tested structures of authority in our common life, but all conventional human authorities easily assume a finality beyond their competence, and this is nowhere more dangerously
true than in the high forms of spiritual authority which belong to
religion and its institutions.
I believe that those who would see in modern psychiatry something at once more efficient and more «scientific»
than true religion are doomed to disappointment.
Roman Catholicism or Christian Science, Eastern Orthodoxy or Mormonism, Anglicanism or The Society of Friends, and so on through more
than two hundred Protestant sects in the United States — which kind of Christianity is the one
true religion?
â $ œThe Marxists Farmer had read, and many of the intellectuals he knew, disdained
religion, and it was
true that some versions of Christianity, and more
than a few missionaries, invited impoverished Haitians into what Pere Lafontante called â $ ˜the cult of resignationâ $ ™, into accepting their lot patiently, anticipating the afterlifeâ $ ¦
Qualities which are purported to make
religions «unique» are usually talking points designed to convince the believers that their own faith is more objectively
true and real, more fulfilling,
than others» - this is essentially religious intolerance with a positive spin instead of a negative one.