Sentences with phrase «very secular person»

I'm a very secular person and I don't really subscribe to any religion, but I think in doing this, she reveals herself as the stuck - up, conceited, and holier - than - thou person she truly is.

Sure, very secular people tend to be Democratic.

Not exact matches

and they say the so called secular liberals are tolerant.I see allot of secular Jews here are very intolerant of people wanting to practice their religion the way they practiced the last 3000 years

«He was simply asking the question «how do we express ourselves in the 20th century in ways that communicate with people living in the modern world, and a very secular world?»»

Although the people who say something nice are almost always religious and conservative, the people with the quickly furrowed brows are either religious or secular, and I've been surprised to find out how many seriously religious and politically very conservative people dislike homeschooling and jump to tell you so.

First, very many people in the world are not religious, and some entire cultures appear to be quite secular, without apparent damage to their happiness and functionality.

In more than 30 years of pastoring and dealing with pastors, I have observed that often when a public figure, secular or religious, shouts out in anger about or against a particular subject, it's usually a sign of the inner turmoil of the person crying out around that very issue.

The commonly assumed distinctions between the «religious» and the «secular» and between «religion» and «morality» are really very odd, says Smith, and make little sense to people who believe that the world has a story, as in upper case Story.

As for secular scientists, Stark surmises that they «now take as a given and very frequently don't know the origin of the kinds of principles that people like Newton and Copernicus and others took from Christian theology.

Their religious understanding is limited; they know about as much as any secular person, which is to say, very little.

We rational secular people should be scared, very scared of these fear mongerers.

Not all museum people are as emphatic as McGreevy, and even those who tend to share her views are quick to point out that determining whether a given item is sacred or secular can be very difficult.

It is a shame, but true, that people who are well - educated in secular subjects and have an adult understanding of many areas have a very limited education about Judaism, as most Jews who are not Orthodox stop going to any form of Hebrew school sometime in the elementary years.

Over time, these manifold and varied uses of the term — divine, secular and religious — all converged, and both God and man came to be signified by the very same term, person.

The point of the exercise is to attack the values of Catholics, to bully them into being obedient to the secular messiah; to do the very thing that you all claim religious people are doing.

Speaking from a purely secular perspective though, using hateful terms and calling people names doesn't advance your argument very well... or at all.

In all honesty, the «religious people» that don't legislate against things based solely on their religious convictions and thereby hurt the rights of individuals, and who don't condemn science and medicine and societal progression and other religions and other denominations and people who are not religious, and who don't claim to know that something is true beyond all other truths, are probably a very slim minority, and I'd have to argue that they aren't really religious, they are just doing whatever makes them feel good, which could be accomplished through secular means as well.

In Pakistan, in contrast, bombings are driven by religious differences between people who are ethnically much more similar within a multi-ethnic panorama of predominantly Muslim ethnicities - indeed, often the targets of bombings are secular people, or Christians, or less «fundamentalist» Muslims of the same ethnicity as the bombers, so simple ethnic profiling is not very useful in making a first order assessment of the risk that someone is a bomber and generates vastly more false positives.

«I've seen people, including Christian believers, getting caught up in very painful legal nightmares, damaging their relationships, making themselves miserable, all by following traditional secular legal advice and values,» Bloom says.