The problem
with most religious people is that they feel theirs is the «ONE, true religion»... Catholics, Muslims, Jewish, Protestant, etc..
Not really surprised, that's true
with most religious people.
You're just not grounded in reality but thats the problem
with most religious people.
Not exact matches
(For debated reasons, high fertility correlates
with stronger
religious commitment, and recent immigrants in America are among the
most likely
people to be devout.)
Most Islamic
religious leaders are the main instigators of these violent actions, they seduce young
people with their satanic teachings to commit all kinds of atrocities and justify these actions under their own Islamic dogmas.
Most people in this country are ashamed to express their faith because it is only a
religious duty to them and not a real spiritual relationship
with the only true and living God!!!
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...
In other words
with all the things going on in the world this long winded ambiguous rant about the
religious beliefs of a horror writer whose name I've barely heard mentioned in the last decade is being presented as the
most important information
people need to know at this particular time.
I agree
with your logic, however, I think in reality,
most religious people are pretending to believe in god / their religion.
I have actually been banned from a few «religion is always bad» atheist blogs as I try to show them that
most people's religions have very little to do
with right belief — even though their
religious professionals may wish otherwise.
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 of the
people I communicate
with on a daily basis steer far away from any intentional
religious or spiritual or Christian gathering.
People with out those Religious things of beliefs which most atheists do not believe in and would like to eliminate in total will only drive people to become like Machines, (Ro
People with out those
Religious things of beliefs which
most atheists do not believe in and would like to eliminate in total will only drive
people to become like Machines, (Ro
people to become like Machines, (Robots).
If he is detectable and evident then he can be tested and that is what pretty much any
religious person will tell you not to do
with their God,
most likely because they have a sliver of doubt in them and really don't want to be proven wrong.
Personally, I believe that discoveries in Quantum Physics point to a reality that is traditionally labeled «God», but
most scientists and
religious people don't seem to agree
with this idea.
The type of atheists, like
most on this post, that continue
with the ridiculous assertion that there can be nothing greater than us that exists above or outside of our little physical realm, are simply either intellectually stunted individuals, or more likely, bitter
people who have gotten their panties in a bunch because some
religious text contains some apparent condemnation of their lifestyle.
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.
Most religious people agree
with this sentiment and hence, call it «faith».
I consider myself a christian,
with religious knowledge and general knowlege, however I do not hold to a set of views dictated by an organized religion, I believe the organized religions are where we have gone wrong, as someone pointed out earlier to
most «
religious people» to question ones faith or organization is wrong but that is exactly what the bible tells us to do... test ALL things to see what is true.
Stark does not deny that the world limits choices, but he insists that options almost always exist: «Even in a society
with only one religion,
most people choose not to be very
religious.
did anyone take the quiz... there is a question about what is the religion of
most people in indonesia... the answer is muslim, yet... the picture that goes along
with the question and answer is confused... i think i saw an elephant trunk on the idols face... maybe the folks who put together the quiz and slide show should brush up on thier
religious and cultural studies as well...
I'm not convinced that it's much of a «choice» for
most people in the world because the only
religious options many
people grow up
with are dependant on where you are born.
The analysis also shows that
most people who agree
with the
religious right also support the Tea Party.
America is a Christian nation — and while the First Amendment affords all
people the right to believe as they will, efforts to change the
religious fiber of our nation to conform to the rantings of a bloodthirsty pedophile (specifically: Mohammed) should be met
with the
most ferocious resistance.
I'm open to discussing that point, but didn't realize anyone (including you) disputed the idea that
most religious people were raised
with that particular religion.
(
Most of the
people I associate
with in these secular groups are themselves
religious, but the group is secular).
Hundreds of thousands of
people,
most of them from what used to be known as the Third World (relatively few from Europe), stream into the country every year, bringing their
religious identities
with them.
What I came to realize is that no
religious ideology holds up to close intellectual scrutiny and the
people with the deepest faith are usually the
most flawed or damaged and trying to compensate for it.
People are doing this to not stand out, its a way of making one feel imporetant, as
with most if not all so called
religious leaderrs they know very little or anything at all about the doctrines of the religion their in and this is a Fact.
It would be disastrous if every scientist
with religious concern deserted his field to enter the ministry; for these may be precisely the
persons who can be
most influential in redirecting a technological civilization to serve human values.
The Reformation may have familiarized the world
with the concept of
religious choice, but that choice became a reality for
most people only
with the advent of cheap and easy means of private transportation.
So wait you aren't going to blame what was obviously Politics on
Religious Wars lets not forget that there were a few things involved in these «Wars of Religion» and I am sure most historians will agree with me, firstly the Crusades weren't thought up as some ideological crusade to protect Christians from some horde of Muslims coming from the east, they were in - fact land grabbing and trying to stave off the eventual fall of what is now known as Istanbul, secondly I highly doubt that most of the average religious person had any idea just how politicized the church became during this time period or up until probably John Paul the II took over, I mean the Thirty Years War could have been called a Religious war under this Videos silly ass
Religious Wars lets not forget that there were a few things involved in these «Wars of Religion» and I am sure
most historians will agree
with me, firstly the Crusades weren't thought up as some ideological crusade to protect Christians from some horde of Muslims coming from the east, they were in - fact land grabbing and trying to stave off the eventual fall of what is now known as Istanbul, secondly I highly doubt that
most of the average
religious person had any idea just how politicized the church became during this time period or up until probably John Paul the II took over, I mean the Thirty Years War could have been called a Religious war under this Videos silly ass
religious person had any idea just how politicized the church became during this time period or up until probably John Paul the II took over, I mean the Thirty Years War could have been called a
Religious war under this Videos silly ass
Religious war under this Videos silly assumptions.
In a recent interview
with the Washington Post (part of their ominously titled «Voices of Power» series), Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius discussed Archbishop Joseph Naumann's request that she not present herself for communion because of her public support for legalised abortion: «Well, it was one of the
most painful things I have ever experienced in my life, and I am a firm believer in the separation of church and state, and I feel that my actions as a parishioner are different than my actions as a public official and that the
people who elected me in Kansas had a right to expect me to uphold their rights and their beliefs even if they did not have the same
religious beliefs that I had.
@TBT The more you post the more I see you are insane, I have dealt
with people of your mind set before;
most religious fanatics of one stripe or another, but you remind me of a member of the KKK, you will never see through your indocrination and your hatred.
Perhaps the rigors of medieval life made it necessary to have a division of labor:
most people just struggled to survive, while the «
religious,» freed from the duties connected
with the day - to - day life of parish churches, held the contemplative fort.
All of these approaches are valid and rational and reasonable, and based on the fact that this man's actions are inconsistent both
with the non-
religious person's experiences, and what the non-
religious person sees the vast majority of
religious people doing, we can say that this man was
most likely delusional.
It's a neoliberal premise: if you work
with people, talk
with them, and,
most importantly, do commerce
with them, their adversarial
religious scruples will diminish.
We live in a world where
most share this mass delusion and wonder why
people with psychiatirc disease latch on to
religious mythologies.
I'm not the
most religious person, but it is evident to me that the minority in this country have an issue
with the majority having such beliefs.
We know that television entertains us, a companion ever ready
with the escape and fantasy we sometimes need, but also that it cultivates a mean world full of violence, that its values and stories demean and dehumanize us, and that its
religious impact is the very antithesis of the Christian faith in which
most people in our society profess to believe.
The Universe, known and unknown, is possibly not the
most used definition of God, at least in the western world... but it is the Pantheistic version that jives so much more
with science and is not a misappropriation of the smaller definitions of God, merely an unfamiliar definition to those
with less knowledge of various more advanced
religious and philosophic thought, within and outside those religions... The idea of Pantheism also thoughtfully considers why there is, rather than ridiculing, such a wide range of philosophical and ritual beliefs from a scientific perspective... without having to classify large groups of
people, as senseless idiots from one end or destined for hell from the other.
It's interesting that Jesus was
most harsh
with the
religious people who isolated themselves from the world.
The finding tracks
with other studies on
religious nones, many of which have found the growth among the religiously unaffiliated has been
most notable among
people who are 18 to 29 years old.
So what if he was raised in a church, maybe he does go every Sunday and every other day they have service,
Most people are raised not to fight (or wrestle)
with girls / women and maybe he was ACTUALLY taught to respect them, you don't know that he's not
religious.
It might have seemed of small account that in their processions the boys of Catholic Action walked in threes, in imitation of the Fascist militia, and not in fours, as they had done up to 1922; that they carried their flags
with the staffs resting on their stomachs, again in imitation of the Fascists, and not on their shoulders, as had been the custom before the March on Rome; that even the
most obscure parish magazines and journals of
religious associations showed the year of the regime along - side that of the Christian era; and that Catholics habitually observed all the outward forms of Fascism, beginning
with the Roman salute and the conversational use of voi, abandoning, because the Duce so willed it, the age - old use of the third
person as the polite form of address.
However, for
people who are dissatisfied
with their local church, who have little established connection
with a local church, or whose
religious consciousness may be awakened by a viewed
religious program, the research indicates that paid - time
religious programs, by presenting themselves as competent alternatives to the local church, offering a range of services similar to the local church, and not referring respondents or enquirers to a local church, may be acting as a barrier to
people's developing their faith
most fully within this interpersonal context.
To be sure, the world I inhabited for decades led me to develop
most of my closest personal and professional relationships
with secularized
persons and
with faithful adherents of other
religious traditions.
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.
Many of the
people I know who
most closely follow Christ's «teachings» are not
religious in the least, yet many of the
most «
religious»
people I've known have been the ones to mock, condemn, vilify and abuse those
with whom they disagree.
Most religious people are creepy... they obsess about what other
people are doing
with their genitals.