Sentences with phrase «whole than any religious»

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According to the work produced by David B. Barrett's religious statistics organisation (FYI, the man was a Christian no less) atheists number more than Jews, Sikh's, Shintos, Baha'is, Jains, combined, and if you want to consider all «non - religious / secular / agnostic / atheist» together, since the whole «non-religion» movement is kinda riddled with people who find conontations of words like «atheist» to be bad enough to not want to declare themselves atheist, you'll find the number of that non-religious group also amounts more than those religions plus buddhism, and taoism or even Confucianism.

It is hard, very emotionally hard, when you've been told your whole religious life that miracles happen, and if you just have enough faith you can do even «greater things than these.»

Wow, you don't even make any real sense, so I can't respond other than saying look outside of yourself instead of basing your whole experience on your own religious experience.

So when encountering a religious person who is smarter than they are, the whole stereotype crumbles, and the whole «Being an atheist means I'm smart» schtick is called into question.

What this means for the minister as counselor, is the importance both of striving for inner wholeness for oneself and of looking at one's counselees and parishioners as whole persons, individuals who are free to grow into whatever their own potential dictates rather than according to some arbitrary cultural or religious standards of «femininity» and «masculinity.»

When White House press secretary Jody Powell was asked how well the media handled the religious dimension of Jimmy Carter, he replied: «The American people, as a whole, are probably better equipped to understand that aspect of Jimmy Carter's life than are the people who are trying to explain it to them.

So the point I want to make today is not that all who subscribe to patriarchy are abusive, but that patriarchy in a religious environment, just as in any environment, has a negative effect on the whole community and creates a cultural climate more susceptible to abuse than one characterized by mutuality and shared leadership between men and women.

Unfortunately the whole article does not describe people who are actually spiritual anymore than those that decry religion are talking about good religious followers.

In my little book As I Lay Dying — the title is more indebted to Donne than to Faulkner, who may also be indebted to Donne — I write of Donne's embrace of life as a whole, an embrace that precludes the religious / secular dichotomy of what Mr. Kirsch persists in believing is «our secular age.»

But this rather manipulative use of religious institutions scarcely applies to the Protestant churches since they are plainer and less exotic than other houses of worship and on the whole have minimal allure for the Western tourist.

There is no one religious symbol or concept from the past which it is essential to retain for the spirituality of the global society, any more than the language of the whole world ought to be English, Arabic, Chinese or Latin.

Dewey noted that any adequate understanding of one's history must refer to more than one's particular historical problems and include «a sense of the whole» of history, and he called that sense of the whole the specific contribution of «the religious» to a person's functioning.

On the whole, if poetry were to pay attention to the religious and to the inwardness of personalities, it would find themes of far greater importance than those with which it now busies itself.

Nevertheless, it also alters the nature of the book, which becomes a tribute to the Franciscan life rather than a balanced presentation of religious life as a whole.

The data doesn't break out along religious lines, but it's safe to infer that there isn't a categorically higher rate of interaction between American Christians and their Muslims neighbors than there is among the nation as a whole.

There is nothing essentially sinful in Hindu society any more than there is anything essentially pure in the Christian society - for that is what the church amounts to - so that one should hasten from the one to the other... So long as the believer's testimony for Christ is open and as long as his attitude towards Hindu society in general is critical, and towards social and religious practices inconsistent with the spirit of Christ is protestant and practically protestant, I would allow him to struggle his way to the light with failure here and failure there, but with progress and success on the whole.

It may be that the power of television will come to be seen as of greater importance than the individual influence of any particular religious program or even religious programs as a whole.

A legal system is generalized, Parsons says, to the degree it is «an integrated system of universalistic norms, applicable to the society as a whole rather than to a few functional or segmental sectors, highly generalized in terms of principles and standards, and relatively independent of both the religious agencies that legitimize the normative order of the society and vested interest groups in the operative sector, particularly in government.

At Southern the smaller schools of religious education and church music probably offer closer - knit community experience and potentially put a whole educational experience together better than the larger school of theology.

Then we will, finally, have to close this chapter by also admitting that it is high time Ghanaian leaders including their religious counterparts developed a practical sense of imaginative vision, rather than emotional corporeal vision, to advance the cause of scientific and technological advance in Ghana in particular and Africa as a whole.

And then, nodding toward Dawkins and Ann Druyan, he suggested that «atheists and agnostics are a whole lot more evangelical than religious people are.»