It's interesting that Jesus was most harsh
with the religious people who isolated themselves from the world.
However as a human being I would relate much better
with a religious person who has an open mind than with an atheist who only wants to argue why there right.
Not exact matches
These are «immoral» thoughts or urges that contradict the deeply held beliefs of
people who live
with them, like a
religious Jew constantly imagining eating a pig.
The platform us Parkland Students have established is to be shared
with every
person, black or white, gay or straight,
religious or not,
who has experienced gun violence, and hand in hand, side by side, We Will Make This Change Together.
«The platform us Parkland Students have established is to be shared
with every
person, black or white, gay or straight,
religious or not,
who has experienced gun violence, and hand in hand, side by side, We Will Make This Change Together,» she also wrote on Twitter.
Such a new ecclesiastical body is designed to allow these pathetic human beings,
who are so deeply locked into a world that no longer exists, to form a community in which they can continue to hate gay
people, distort gay
people with their hopeless rhetoric and to be part of a
religious fellowship in which they can continue to feel justified in their homophobic prejudices for the rest of their tortured lives.
When atheists begin a debate
with a
religious person, it's because the atheists are bullies
who have no respect for the beliefs of others.
I know
people who are not affiliated
with any religion (agnostic, not atheist) that are far more humane in action than any number of «
religious»
people.
How do you argue
with people who are so insane that they think your very existence somehow infringes on «their
religious freedom»?
Some athiests are just as bad as the fundimentalists... because they «know» I being and agnostic, however, take issue
with anyone
who says that
people who are not
religious do not think... in fact, it has been found that statistically, athiests and agnostics know the bible better than christians.
Jesus himself could come down and proclaim that marriage is for everyone, and all
people are equal no matter
who they are... and the
religious right would disagree
with what he has to say.
This is why the scientists
who are GENUINELY HEALING
people with amazing new medical advances are usually not
religious.
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...
Some may still call the U.S. a Christian nation, but the fastest growing
religious group in America is
people who are not affiliated
with any organized religion, according to a recent Pew survey.
Ever notice that the
people who want to share their
religious views
with you almost never want you to share your
religious views
with them?
It was a
religious community and a bunch of loving
people who helped Lucas deal
with his CP and find meaning and joy in his life, and also helped a man
who lost his son get through life in this cold and uncaring universe.
I have never met someone raised without religion
who became
religious, but
with 7 billion
people on the planet, I'm sure it's happened.
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.
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.
I know that I see elements of divine around me in things and in ways that others don't, including other
religious people... And as long as different religions and even sects constantly argue about what god truly is, and as long as they come up
with different asnwers, then I have to say that the spiritual elements of our universe simply manifest differently for different folks, including not at all for some... as
with those
who label themselves as athiest...
What you are reading is
people who disagree
with your
religious beliefs.
Certainly it would be filled
with people who hold various views, but isn't secularism itself just another form of
religious expression?
Everytime
religious people post something about God or something out of their belief, there comes the Atheists storming it
with their typical (hateful, profane, disrespectful but in - fairness articulate, itellect, scientific and logical) replies and name callings such as; «2000 years
religious numbnuts», «oxymorons
who keep asking of sky daddy's help», «idiots
who was fooled by a magical being in the sky» and so on and so forth.
WE all know that ideas and truth mean more to Atheists than to
religious people (
who are happy
with fairytales).
Washington (CNN)- Half of the
people who identify
with the tea party in a new poll reject the science of global warming (50 %) and evolution (51 %), sentiments that some observers believe portray an increasingly
religious electorate that mimics some GOP presidential hopefuls.
America has so many
people who identify themselves as
religious because A) some of our initial settlers came to the colonies because their beliefs were out of line
with the government ordained religion in their country.
It was the self - righteous
religious people who condemned Jesus for hanging out
with tax - collectors, sinners, and prostitutes.
Confession time here: although I don't usually end up at places such as drunken parties, stripper bars and porn shops while hanging out
with friends, since those activities and places hold little appeal for me, I know I need to stay away from certain «
religious»
people, those
who seem to love only themselves and
who seem hell - bent on being nasty to
people they describe as «sinners», supposedly in the name of truth - telling.
This is probably common
with people who try to present a certain image to the public, such as public figures like politicians, certain
religious figures, swindlers and con men.
@Shadrach I was being extremely generous by saying that there are many smart
people who consider themselves
religious, thus I was not saying
with absolution that only the uneducated believe in Christ.
It will «need
religious people who live
with moral integrity and show the power of their ideas in practice.»
Yes, you are correct that the
religious leaders of Christendom gave their blessing to its members to kill others «in the name of Christ», such as Catholic Dominican inquisitor Tomas de Torquemada (1420 - 98) of Spain,
who ruled tyrannically for 15 years (1483 - 98,
with the blessings of Pope Sixtus IV [
who praise him for «directing his zeal to those matters that contribute to the praise of God»] and Innocent VIII) and saw that over 114,000 (of which 10, 220 were burned at the stake)
people were put to death.
When it comes to discussing
who Jesus hung out
with, the choice is not between the righteous
people and the unrighteous
people (for all are unrighteous), but rather between the
religious and the non-
religious.
For example, there are
people in all religions
who use it to convince themselves they have evidence their
religious beliefs are correct, even when their beliefs conflict
with those of other religions, whose followers also claim they have evidence their beliefs are correct.
Actually, many
people seem to think that a lot of
people who attend church do not follow Jesus, but merely attend church for their own reasons, such as needing some sort of
religious system to identify
with.
I know
people who for personal reasons are for or against certain
religious / social / political issues
who migrated to
religious groups which identify as Christian (and agree
with these
peoples» personal opinions) so they presumably might have an ultimate authority to support their opinions.
It wasn't the summer that brought an end to my doubt, but it was the summer I encountered a different Jesus, a Jesus
who requires more from me than intellectual assent and emotional allegiance; a Jesus
who associated
with sinners and infuriated the
religious; a Jesus
who broke the rules and refused to cast the first stone; a Jesus
who gravitated toward sick
people and crazy
people, homeless
people and hopeless
people; a Jesus
who preferred story to exposition and metaphor to syllogism; a Jesus
who answered questions
with more questions, and demands for proof
with demands for faith... a Jesus
who healed each
person differently and saved each
person differently; a Jesus
who had no list of beliefs to check off, no doctrinal statements to sign, no surefire way to tell
who was «in» and
who was «out»; a Jesus
who loved after being betrayed, healed after being hurt, and forgave while being nailed to a tree; a Jesus
who asked his disciples to do the same...
Similarly,
people born into any given
religious faith — Christian, Muslim, Hindu, etc, etc, etc — and
who are immersed in that faith, and surrounded by
people of that faith, all of their lives — and especially their childhood — can't be expected to suddenly cast off such total indoctrination when an atheist such as myself presents them
with certain facts which conflict
with their world view.
To paraphrase Jesus» comment,
people who are concerned only
with the affairs of this world often show more ingenuity in seeking their ends than
religious people do in trying to accomplish God's will.
Or could these be informed
people who actually see what Obama is trying to do to this country what
with SOPA and his wanting to enforce martial law in America... Surely it isn't just
religious people who see this... In fact, if you read news outside of CNN and Fox, you see just how bad Obama really is
«The challenge», wrote Father Alexander Lucie - Smith in his Catholic Herald blog shortly after the Holy Father had announced his resignation, «will be in having to watch the airwaves fill
with a whole load of
people who are very marginal to Church life, and yet
who will be invited to pontificate on all matters papal and
religious, giving it their own particular slant, which they will advance as a mainstream view.»
I certainly have not done any sort of scientific research into this segment of the population, but I work in an environment where I get to interact
with a lot of
religious and non-
religious people, and I have had countless conversations
with people who probably count as one of the 35 million
people who used to attend church and identify as Christian, but no longer do.
For years I struggled
with doubts about my faith, and through the emerging church movement, I found
people who were asking the very same questions - about
religious pluralism, the Problem of Evil, inerrancy, the notion of absolute truth, etc..
You ignorant
person, don't you know the bible and other
religious works are written by men from a long time ago
who hated women except to procreate
with them and have them serve them as their slaves?
I believe in God, and I identify as a Christian, and this identity as a Christian has provided me
with the insight to know that
people who oppose gay marriage based on «
religious reasons» are just making excuses for their homophobia.
When it comes to
people who claim a connection
with God, there are
religious people and relational
people.
So why do
people with religious experiences assert that their feelings of God's presence are valid and believable, but when another
person who has never experienced God admits this, they are told that they...
I think it is okay to be spiritual but not
religious, and that
people shouldn't have a problem
with people who are like this.
«We support an executive order making clear that
people of
religious conviction will not be pushed aside by the federal government as we seek to serve our neighbors, including those
who disagree
with us.»
In contrast
with the priest from the temple, and the scribe from the synagogue, Jesus was listened to gladly by the common
people, and finally it was not the irreligious, but the
religious authorities
who had Jesus put to death, for He constituted too severe a threat to the vested interests of religion.