Sentences with phrase «when most religious people»

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Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi championed this notion when he realized that this experience was felt and described in a similar manner no matter the person — religious mystics, scientists, artists, and ordinary working people describing their most rewarding work experiences.

When we see religious communities spending most of their time trying to convince people not to sin, we are seeing a community that has missed the point.

Well it is true that some people seek sorcerers to implement Jinn that are satanic demons into mankind or his house or his business to finish him or make his life miserable or to stop flow of his business income... In such case it is either you are religious enough and say your prayers often then it becomes hard for this to harm you or otherwise you need to find some one who practice exorcism to remove this evil... But many are just pretending to be good at it and help you not but squeeze money out of you with tales and stories... There is another type of possessions and that is not through a sorcerer but directly by coincidence what man is at his weakest moments and those weakest moments for a possessions are when you come through a great fear or when cry or laugh loudly in hysteria, or during a certain moment of mating... or even when sneezing loudly... That's why there are prayers to be said on daily basis to guard you from such things and specially if passing haunted places such as deserted houses but most evil ones are residents of public toilets and market places... Some of them even would claim that you have made a wrong action by which you have killed a dear one to them and for that they have possessed you and that is mostly night time such as throwing a cigaret butt to a dark place or stepping killing an insect or even an animal at night which could have been one of them or possessed by one of them... So this is true thing happening to many who suffer unexplainable illnesses or sufferings which could look like mental illness that comes and goes as pleased...

Now in Africa, most people are rural, religious, and fairly conservative when it comes to sexual behavior, despite lurid stereotypes of oversexed African men forcing themselves on women and girls without a thought.

When comments treating religious people as morons are posted, that makes atheists look just as asinine as the far right religious nut jobs that most here rail against.

The Pastor was trying to get someone to join the church and this person wouldn't join because he said The most so called religious or Christian people will abandon you when you are at lowest.

But I do have a question for all the religious people here: Q) why is it that all these «prophets» had visions of God, or God's messengers, most times in the middle of the night, and when no one else is around?

When a patient's problems are related to religious or moral conflict, the staff clergyman would be the most likely person for the patient to see because of his authority in this area and because he may be perceived by the patient to be the most appropriate person to deal with these problems.

Most religious people simply believe whatever their parents picked for them when they were 8.

They are just as good and bad as most people when they are doing secular activities, unless the activity and their actions are based on religious bias.

@@@@@ WIMPY WASP explained it when earthquakes and floods and famine hit really hard then most crazy broke really religious people who don't have a job go crazy like you.you religious people don't give back in my last three years I given back too helping the poor more then $ 20,000 dallors of my own money how much you so called chicken heads crazy religious people given out of your own income wait you crazy religious people got ta pay your light bill.by the way I own my own commercial health base buisness in Arizona.you still working for a pay check I write employees paychecks.

When «asked if their religious beliefs had influenced their choice of a career, most of the people I have interviewed in recent years — Christians and non-Christians alike — said no.

Even if the human person is most himself and freest when least encumbered with social, traditional, religious or familial ties, society is a necessary evil which protects as much as possible the freedom of the individual without being much of a threat to it.

If all we can say of Jesus and of God is that Jesus is God — all the God of God there is — then we have effectively ruled out all other attempts of the human spirit to glimpse the mystery of the ultimate; and this is all the more conspicuously the case when our understanding of «Jesus,» in the first place, is really a dogmatic reduction of his person, his «thou - ness,» to the «it - ness» of christological propositions that, most of them, enshrine little more than our own religious bid for authority.

Plenty of evidence is in on this point: when a ruling elite decides to destroy a group of people in a society, most of the people who are not targeted will not resist, whatever their religious affiliation.

Propaganda is most effective when it is able to separate a person from outside points of reference, such as a transcendent religious reference, in order to encourage a tunnel vision which unquestioningly accepts this society «s worldview as «the way it is.

The most baffling thing is how religious people could be completely rational about every other thing in their everyday lives; and then take leave of their faculties when it comes to these silly stories.

So who cares about religious people, you can't convince someone of reality when they fabricate their own, they fabricate their proof, their facts, best thing is just do your thing and stay way from them as much possible, most of the times they turn more people into atheists than atheists themselves by the things they say and do anyway, lol so no need for us to do it.

Anyway, since most people think of the first kind when talking about religion, it is easier to say «I'm not religious» than to say, «I am religious, but here is what I mean by that...»

When we talk about «spirituality» and being «spiritual», one of theings I remember is most people would say they are more spiritual than religious, which is something that's actually, innately intuitive inside of us, in my opinion.

Even as a public token of religious identity it is problematic when most people are unable to explain it properly even to themselves, let alone to others.

Even so, the printing press was not a «mass» medium in the sense of reaching everyone; most people were spectators of the religious drama that was unfolding in the new medium — as in the early years of the Internet, when most people did not have access.

Most religious people were not given a chence to utilize there thinking capability when they were growing up.

When persons watching television are motivated to change their attitude toward religious faith, even to make a religious commitment of some sort, most frequently they integrate that decision within their existing environment rather than changing their environment.

I also would like to point out that most people who do not have faith express very angry postings when it comes to any religious story often targeting the church or religious people.

After adolescence, when one might pray for clearer skin and curlier hair, most religious people do not expect their lives will be longer or freer of physical vicissitudes because they meditate on the teachings of the prophets or follow the way of the cross.

I am (a) A victim of child molestation (b) A r.ape victim trying to recover (c) A mental patient with paranoid delusions (d) A Christian The only discipline known to often cause people to kill others they have never met and / or to commit suicide in its furtherance is: (a) Architecture; (b) Philosophy; (c) Archeology; or (d) Religion What is it that most differentiates science and all other intellectual disciplines from religion: (a) Religion tells people not only what they should believe, but what they are morally obliged to believe on pain of divine retribution, whereas science, economics, medicine etc. has no «sacred cows» in terms of doctrine and go where the evidence leads them; (b) Religion can make a statement, such as «there is a composite god comprised of God the Father, Jesus and the Holy Spirit», and be totally immune from experimentation and challenge, whereas science can only make factual assertions when supported by considerable evidence; (c) Science and the scientific method is universal and consistent all over the World whereas religion is regional and a person's religious conviction, no matter how deeply held, is clearly nothing more than an accident of birth; or (d) All of the above.

«When in fact, those we might most expect to be against religious people are sitting alongside them.»

In the comics, Gamora's home planet Zen - Whoberi was ravaged when a dystopian religious empire known as the Universal Church of Truth attacked, and Thanos picked up the future Guardian in the wake of most of her people being wiped out.