Sentences with phrase «with religious»

One astronomer responded to our survey by saying that, though he does not believe in a personal God, «I try frequently to open my mind to an influence of what is good, and the subjective and psychological effects of this can be quite profound, such that I am happy to make contact with the religious tradition by saying that I am praying to God.»

Seems you may more in common with the religious then you realize

On the other hand, he threw over his hereditary Protestantism, leaving morality to stand by itself with no religious base on which to rest.

History is littered with religious wars religious kings and one would think as history repeats itself humans would finally become less religious...

And again if you think my views make me seem to be «more in common with the religious than I realize» that's you making one of those apparently illegal assumptions.

In a number of states, these agencies are dominated by teacher unions and public school advocates who have made it virtually impossible for some religions to operate schools in accordance with their religious principles.

If there is a religious debate as arguement / it always ends with the religious groupings / in taking hands / praising the name of Jesus / or whomever having as an religious idol then as one turning their anger upon the poor atheist.

To seek ways of informing all those spheres more effectively with our religious convictions is certainly not to become totalitarian fundamentalists.

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.

Stop threatening the world's sanity with religious nutballs.

We do know that the Antitheist category has much in common with religious fundamentalism.

While western theologians tried to cope with religious pluralism and struggled to introduce theology of religions seriously only since the late 1980s, theologians in multi-religious situations like India had been working on the issue for decades under several other nomenclatures.

The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life: The Global Religious Landscape Worldwide, more than eight - in - ten people identify with a religious group.

Many of us identified with religious conservatism have never been in close alliance with Robertson or Falwell or with the organizations, the Christian Coalition and the Moral Majority, they respectively created.

Personally, I did not have a struggle to become an atheist, but rather a struggle with my religious beliefs, and the immense effort it took trying to justify them.

If not, perhaps better to begin with a religious tradition whose particularities our situation of religious pluralism will make it impossible to ignore than to start with an unexamined set of values somehow supposedly prior to any set of religious symbols.

I have proposed one: the government must treat religious people and institutions the same way it treats comparable nonreligious people and institutions, unless special accommodation is needed to protect religious liberty from a facially neutral law that conflicts with religious obligations or forms of organization.

Religion is and should be a very personal thing, the problem I have with religious people is that many seek to impose their system of belief on everyone around them.

His whole being seized with religious fervour he looks towards a Christ already risen but still unimaginably great, invoking, in the supreme homage of faith and adoration, «Deo Ignoto».

The next best thing is to try and find a way to square it with their religious ideas so they can keep on believing and not be «afraid.»

I was contemplating ordering satellite television (Dish) but upon perusing the basic or lower tier I found that it is loaded with religious channels.

are you really that unfamiliar with the religious?

I am more concerned with the religious right, Pat Robertson and his cohort telling they know what «God» thinking, and telling me that I have to believe a certain way.

From that perspective, we may even discover that we are daily inundated with religious images.

Contrast this with religious dogma, which is the polar opposite of this method.

The distinguishing mark of religious experience as opposed to descriptive generalization or conceptual insight is the inclusive generality of relationships embedded in the particular physical feelings associated with religious experience.

What he means by that, bucky, is that unless everyone agrees with his religious beliefs, he and those who «think» like him perfectly prepared to use violence again those who disagree...

Ok we cant deny it anymore the church said, so lets say GOD created evolution but we will not calll it evolution because thats just is admitting that science was right, lets call it Smart design, and so creationism was born, its no surprise that any great discovery gets hijacked and twisted and changed to fit with the religious when so long before proven it gets denied by the same people.

It is wise to avoid affiliation with any religious community that emphasizes the Decalogue rather than the Beatitudes and if you are pressured for sex or money, run as if escaping hell, because you are!

However, it will refrain from the arrogance, the bad manners, and the assault on human personality sometimes found in connection with religious zeal.

IDK why ppl constantly try to logically argue and reason with a religious person... as a wise man once said, «If you could reason with a religious person, there would be no religious people.»

Although this is only a footnote to the main line of this address, we may properly note in passing that some of Protestantism's subsequent difficulties with prayer and the devotional life, and with religious symbolism, come from neglect of those aspects of the medieval image of ministry that ought not to have been set aside.

It said in 1996, 85 percent of those with no religious affiliation still had a favorable opinion of Christians.

Rational reflection on the world could lead intelligent people with no religious commitments to the conclusion that there is a First Cause or Unmoved Mover responsible for the existence of this world and its progress toward its own natural ends.

His book Quality and Soul: How Six Premier Colleges and Universities Keep Faith with Their Religious Traditions was published by Eerdmans.

even bloggers, like reddit, with no religious affiliation know the Bible verse were Jesus said that «no man knows the day or the hour» in speaking of His return.

In a July 1945 interview with Religious News Service, Visser t» Hooft characterized Bonhoeffer as «the one man who played an outstanding part in keeping up ecumenical contacts» between the German resistance and its supporters abroad.

That is a very fitting response to those of you here who were foolish enough to think you could hold anything resembling rational debate with a religious loony.

To me, the biggest problem with the religious isn't that they believe in something I happen to not, it's that they are brought up to believe that believing in god is obligatory and that they are never given a choice as children... it's «believe, or you're a bad person».

The Gospels flow with accounts of Jesus — already furious with religious people for making God seem unapproachable — building his message with everyday pictures.

To quote Dr House, if you could reason with religious people, there would be no religious people.

i would have no problems with any religious person if they didn't believe in a religion or magical beings

Thus, the department of homeland security — or at least whatever parts deal with religious extremism — would be a religious body.

The average person not involved with a religious organization participated in 2.11 groups.

Chris Stedman is the assistant humanist chaplain at Harvard University, coordinator of humanist life for the Yale Humanist Community and author of Faitheist: How an Atheist Found Common Ground with the Religious.

When schools are bombarded with religious idiots demanding Intelligent Design be taught, it isn't the failure of the school.

Thus Vatican II stated: «In matters of faith and morals, the bishops speak in the name of Christ and the faithful are to accept their teaching and adhere to it with a religious assent of soul.»

In short, the steady state theory was put forward by physicists to be consistent with religious beliefs that the universe was unchanging and immutable.

The mechanism by with religious beliefs spread also explains why it is so strongly regional, and why geographical isolation tends to lead to diverging beliefs.

My problem with atheism is the same problem I have with any religious fundamentalist...self - righteousness.