Sentences with phrase «worse than religion»
There is one thing that is worse than religion and that is knowledge without wisdom, People who try to enter the courts of God without entering on faith are stuck at the outer courts never really knowing God.
http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/ Not exact matches
At any rate, you people that are using this as an opportunity to insult whatever religion annoys / frightens you, and worse than that, engaging in a fight on this board, should really think about getting the sticks you have stuck up your rear ends removed.
So how do you go from that reasoning to «Since it wasn't accidental then it must have been this ancient male diety named (fill in blank depending on religion) who loves me and knows me and cares for me and wants me to perform rituals that have nothing to do with morality like prayer, not eating certain things, sabaath and many more just because he said so, even though we have no record of him saying anything, just records of humans who wrote things down that they claim he said, but I want to believe it all so badly I will base my beliefs on no other evidence than «it just can't be accident».
I know this will draw criticism, but I say if it weren't for all the faithful people of all good religions doing good acts, helping the poor, clothing drives, and on and on, this world would be in a lot worse shape than if just your average aetheist were in charge of helping those who suffer.
There are worse things in this world than religion ladies and gentlemen..
I am a person that has respect for another's religion, however, there is no worse plague on this earth than an atheist and thats the truth.
(Surah 3:118, 119) Slay them wherever you find them... Idolatry is worse than carnage... Fight against them until idolatry is no more and God's religion reigns supreme.»
I couldn't have a worse representative than you unless my intent was to scare people away from religion permanently.
the only thing worse than a candidate using religion to get votes are the retard followers voting for them.
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.
While this is a vile act — An act that spits on the beliefs of Anne Frank and the entire Jewish religion — one must ask, is this really worst than the thousands upon thousands of other Baptisms for the dead that the mormons perform?
If you depend on religion to make you happy or keep you from doing bad things then you have larger issues than beliving in fairy tales.
It is no better and no worse than any other organized religion.
Finally, religion often aids men in behaving worse than any other ape.
Unless we learn to challenge our own beliefs the way we challenge others», whatever they may be can be no more than a blind faith at best or a delusion at worst, be that for or against religion (especially the puerile version of Christianity).
I've seen both very good and very bad fruit come from organized religion — including Christianity — and prefer to think of each individual as spiritually unique rather than the sum of his or her religious culture.
In setting forth a view of religion in these pages it will be our task to describe a faith which is (1) important rather than trivial and (2) good rather than bad.
How can we believe at all against the fact that historically our religion has functioned as an opiate for the oppressed and that it is, as a cultural phenomenon, neither appreciably better nor essentially worse than any other religion?
However, the Beast - religion will have a worse God than Allah: A man (much worse than Hitler or Stalin and even more intelligent), following his basest instincts, an arch-malefactor, an arch-barbarian.
They're worst than wild animals, even when they disguise themselves with some cult / religion.
there's no concept of separation of religion and state in Islam, it's a worse foe than Communism, or the Nazi's IMHO..
If you have ever seen Shawshank Redemption you have the very «Religious» Warden of the Prison who lies, cheats, and has people murdered while he passes judgement on the Prisoners, they typical mindset of the Religious Right they use bully tactics to control people with religion while they live personal wicked lives worse than any Gay person they hate.
@peick — well, «bad» could mean that Atheists have murdered, tortured and persecuted more people in the last 100 years than ALL the religions in history.
Some how it's felt that values, morals, virtues are not there in a secular world only faceless solid lifeless laws of men rather than what has been relayed by Holy books that calls for good deeds and reject bad deeds and to build a faithful societies, communities, nations since communications among nations or even among the nations of mixed cultures and beliefs... Laws or God and universe are to be prepared by some thing that is equivalent to UN but built on nations beliefs to achieve the code of understanding among nations but as can see now it is build on groundless bases if not of words of God to faiths... in addition to those non spiritual secular beliefs to make decisions of faith but at the moment the secular world make and take the decisions while the beliefs and faiths has to pay for it when it becomes a war between all faiths or religions outside your world, it would become back into your inside among the mixed culture and beliefs of the nation or nations under one country flag...!
It is worse in other parts of the world where more Christians are currently being killed for their faith than members of any other religion.
If 5 % of everything is complete crap, wouldn't the largest religion in the world have a lot more individuals that are bad for the group's PR than our own nation?
Berger's answer is that religion has no monopoly on morality, as morality is grounded in human perception rather than norms (i.e., good and bad).
most do and they give everyone else a bad rep but every «religion» does as well, i don't have any religion i just try to do what is right and help others i think these simple practices would help the world out more than anything else.
Organized religion is worse than organized crime.
Some folks are confident that they are steering themselves from a more pure moral compass than that of those imposed by organized religions which have, unfortunately and due to a few bad apples at the margins, proven themselves to be corruptible.
For me, anyone that smacks of «Christian» fundamentalism is just as bad, if not worse than their counterparts in other religions.
Communist evil, Niebuhr said, resulted from its monopoly of power (absolute power over other men producing evils worse than injustice), its utopianism (attribution of the source of evil to something outside man — private property), its faith in revolution (a substitute religion), and its dogmatism (ideology masquerading as science).
Rather than being a subject for rational discussion in the classroom, Darwinism is now protected orthodoxy - and has acquired all the bad habits of an established religion.
What made me, for good or bad, what I am today was not staying in Texas — but getting out of it and even more than that developing deep friendships with people of different cultures, ideas, religions, nations, etc., It enriched my faith and my dramatically and continues to do so.
But religion would be less open to the charge that it is an opiate if children were taught that salvation and happiness are the rewards for doing good rather than for not doing bad — for obeying the «thou - shalts» of the Sermon on the Mount rather than the «thou - shalt - nots» of the 10 Commandments.
I can treat my fellow man with compassion without belonging to any religion and it doesn't make me any better or worse than Joe Blow who goes to church every Sunday yet screws his neighbor.
What is sad is that when any person or persons from any christian religion say these bad things all of us that are Jesus loving people are blamed along with them.Let Christ be the judge and just love your neighbor.There is mostly good Christians than bad ones!
I love religion, it is worse than politics.
Even in the religions familiar with the concept of tolerance, such as Hinduism, the converts to Christianity have been expelled from their families and castes and treated worse than pariahs!
Bad science will always anger me more than religion.
@Alias, Not that Islam is any worse than many other religions, but wasn't Aisha «six or seven years old when she was betrothed to Muhammad and nine when the marriage was consummated.»
The largest Nation in existence at its time Rome, the very same that put him to the cross later Bowed to him... Thousands witnessed his Miracles and converted on the spot... and this is all recorded historically... unlike many religions around the globe, this was witnessed and recorded... yet you refuse to believe it... But you are so quick to jump on the bandwagon and believe what a scientist postulated... a theory that requires as much if not more faith to believe in than Any religion... A theory that if you believe... you must throw out the natural laws of Physics...... But you call me stupid for believing in God... Wow... My bad i guess i should believe in Magical particles that always existed that randomly exploded and caused everything to exist....
I am not lessened by those that do not believe what i believe, i served this country and spent a year in Iraq, many of my fellow soldiers were Christian but i served beside Atheists, mormons, Catholics, wiccans, Jews, even a satanist, yes a satanist, and guess what, we were friends, I cared deeply for them and they for me, These were the guys that protected me so i could sleep, my life was in their hands and theirs in mine... I think you all have a very bad idea of what a Christian is, i think you have no idea what you're talking about when you judge us all as a religion... you need to get out of your house and off of your computer chair and learn what people are really about... Maybe then you will understand Humanity rather than just secularizing everybody and hating them... you are sad people, yet my beliefs teach me to pray for you, and hope that you come to reason...
Were Dostoevsky living at this hour, he might well ask whether the American reduction of nearly every aspect of human existence, including religion itself, to either entertainment or commodification constitutes a yet worse kind of herd - existence than the one Ivan describes — a subtler and therefore deadlier attempt to relieve humanity of its suffering and sin, and thus of its real character and interest.
The church knows this well enough, with its everlasting inner struggle of the acute religion of the few against the chronic religion of the many, indurated into an obstructiveness worse than that which irreligion opposes to the movings of the Spirit.
It's probably way too many days later for anyone to actually read this, but I just want to say that joking about addiction is certainly no worse than joking about any number of other things, like religion or death, which people do all the time.
Terence Davies on religion, being gay and his life in film: «Despair is awful because it's worse than any pain»
It's worse than debating religion at times.
At best it is a pragmatic and necessary assumption: At worst it is a complete act of faith more damaging than any religion.
By thee, religion, liberty and laws Exert their influence and advance their cause; By thee worse plagues than Pharaoh's land befell, Diffused, make Earth the vestibule of Hell: Thou fountain, at which drink the good and wise; Thou ever - bubbling spring of endless lies; Like Eden's dead probationary tree, Knowledge of good and evil is from thee!