Sentences with phrase «worse than the religious»

@TC Now you see why many of the atheists who post here can be far worse than the religious fundamentalists that they so disdain.

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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.

They arranged a boycott, moaned and complained and so the board voted to ban all religious messages, hence Tatum then moaning again when he said «The compromise was worse than what we had before,» Tatum said, «because the compromise says Christians can no longer advertise and we don't like that.»

The Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, D.C., with which I am pleased to be affiliated, was founded in the 1970s in large measure to combat the perception that an intellectually and morally impoverished understanding of the dominant American religious traditions had rendered those traditions useless, or (as in the lamentable presidency of Jimmy Carter) worse than useless in guiding Americans» thinking about a sensible and responsible foreign policy.

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.

And considering how very wrong the religious have been previously with «diagnosing» demonic possession, it seems altogether a bad idea to encourage this practice rather than recommending the 20 % to further medical study.

In China, Tibetan Buddhists and Uyghur Muslims face worse conditions than at any time over the past decade, according to a report from the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom.

Beliefs that hinge on a guess can't be taken lightly, but we have a lot of people making their own bad decisions that are based on their treating their religious path as fashion or a trend rather than something to be lived.

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.

Actually, the world used to be much worse than it is now, there were much more murders and violence and torture and corruption and famine and disease and natural disasters and ethnic cleansings and religious persecutions and wars and, on and on and on.

by definition belief in any single God or religious systems excludes belief in others... In that sense, Christians are no better / worse than Buddhists, Muslims, Hindi's, Sikh's, ATHEISTS, etc, etc..

by definition belief in any single God or religious systems excludes belief in others... In that sense, Christians are no better / worse than Buddhists, Muslims, Hindi's, Sikh's, etc, etc...

And hence it is that worse passions, or a worse degree of them are to be found in persons of great religious zeal than in others that made no pretenses to it.

Since such suggestions obviously relativize or water down the absolute rightness of any single position, the religious debunker will be accused of a lack of faith, a lack of commitment (even worse than a lack of faith), a lack of team spirit, a rebelliousness against divinely established authority and, naturally, an irreverence toward holy and sacred things.

Bostontola — I don't know if you are new to CNN, buddy, but ATHEISTS Paint all people of a religious group with a broad brush is worse than lack of forgiveness, it aims to convict people with no evidence much like racism.

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.

Sometimes I wish atheists would just shut up, they think they are so much smarter than everyone else, you are just as bad as religious nuts and sometimes worse because you are so arrogant and full of crap.

Peace and Ramadan Kareem to all Muslim Brothers and Sisters... Inshallah fasting from Monday Dawn to SunSet... Just wonder in Christians or non Religious have tried fasting as Muslims do... am sure with time they will adopt it as a system for the health benefits it holds health and body... it is told it helps the body to discharge and burn out the poisonous chemicals from our bodies other than controlling weights... Some say they can not because of smoking other for water or food... but other than that is controlling anger or bad mood of the empty stomach, controlling one's tongue from hurting any one, to control eyes from staring at desire... Above all those to a Muslim he is to Maintain Prayers and Quran Reciting which of course beside it being a spiritual matter it is meant the body exercise by the up's and down's of prayers... as well as training of tongue & lungs by the Quran Recitation... these beside Tasbih «Praise of Glorify» helps to control one's breathing..

Sorry, but I don't see how the horde of «spiritual but not religious» people are any worse than the (far larger) group of «people who call themselves Christian but don't actually follow the things Jesus told them to do».

When I realized I have no personal eveidence for the beliefs I had AND my claims were no better or worse than other contradictory religious claims, I knew the pathway to determining what is actually true needs to start by discarding the useless baggage (believing claims without proper foundation).

I think that a good person who lives an ethical life and is a credit to society but is not religious will get more in the world to come than a religious person who is unethical and does bad things.

Gil you have asked some very good questions why does bad things happen in the world i personally do nt know God did nt explain to Job either why he had to suffer.What i do know is that God desires that none of us should perish but that all would have eternal life in him through Jesus Christ.This world will one day pass away and the real world will be reborn so our focus as christians is on whats to come and being a witness in the here and now.Both good and bad happens to either the righteous or the sinner so what are we to make of that.What we do know is that God will set all things right at the appointed time the wicked will be judged and the righteous will be rewarded for there faith isnt that enough reason for us to believe.Free will is only a reality if we can choose between good and bad but our hearts are deceitfully wicked we naturally are inclined toward sin that is another reason whyt we need to be saved from ourselves so what are we to do.For me Christ died and rose again that is a fact witnessed by over 500 people that were alive at the time and was recorded by historians how many other religious leaders do you know that did that or did the miracles that Jesus did.As far as the bible is concerned much of the archelogical evidence has proven to be correct and many of prophetic words spoken many hundreds of years ago have come to pass including both the birth and the death of Jesus.Interested in what philosophy you are believing in if other than a faith in Jesus Christ so how does that philosophy give you the assurance that you are saved.Its really simple with christianity we just have to believe in Jesus Christ.brentnz

Atheists are the worst variety of religious fanatics singly responsible for more deaths than all of the world's religious wars combined - pretty much all in the 20th and 21st centuries.

No telling how many suffered and died (just in this instance) from religious people jumping to ridiculous conclusions, and making things far worse than they should be.

There are very few thing sin life that bother me other than bad drivers abnd religious believeres who though some fault of their own think I should be bound by their beliefs.

Sure, we may gain «victory» over some type of sin, but all we really end up doing is trading one sin for another, and usually the other sin is some sort of religious self - righteousness, which is worse than the sin we started with.

More locally, this bill would mean Nepal would revert to a worse state of affairs than the previous Panchayat System (1960 - 1990), which resulted in minority religious groups being persecuted by the state.

Mike D — Your self - righeousness and closed - mindedness are worse than most religious people I know.

How is it any worse than FOX News reporting stories from the religious right's point of view?

I'm fourteen years old starting my road to recovery and it's very fearing and to know that I have to live with it scares the living daylight a out of me I can't speak much about my cognitive behavior therapy because I've only really doing assements but I'm writing this for myself and yourself I haven't always been religious but in times of fear and need know that you aren't alone God is always there and even wen your in your worse state I usally just lay down meditate a bit and speak to my father God and he always gives me a sense of relief this past week I feel like I have been a constant circle of fear but I would always freak out and be scared for no reason but just know that more than 44 million people have this you are br alone and one day you will meet your savior Jesus christ he put you in a test of life and he's going to congratulate you, you must wait for him and on another note if any one knows how to deal with the fear of the future or staying in a constant state please email me at [email protected] thank you so much everyone and there is a recovery maybe but today or Tommie but you will overcome

Many (though certainly not all) moms of my acquaintance who practice AP have this self - righteous «crunchier - than - thou» attitude that rivals the worst ultrafundamentalist religious zealot «holier - than - thou» attitude.

Worse than the GOP platform in 1980, when the religious right was ascendent; worse than the GOP platform in 1984, when AIDS hysteria was at its peak; worse than the GOP platform in 1992, when delegates to the RNC were waving «Family Values ForWorse than the GOP platform in 1980, when the religious right was ascendent; worse than the GOP platform in 1984, when AIDS hysteria was at its peak; worse than the GOP platform in 1992, when delegates to the RNC were waving «Family Values Forworse than the GOP platform in 1984, when AIDS hysteria was at its peak; worse than the GOP platform in 1992, when delegates to the RNC were waving «Family Values Forworse than the GOP platform in 1992, when delegates to the RNC were waving «Family Values Forever!

Has shown its true colors as less a serious religious - themed film than a moth - eaten tapestry of foreign intrigue and badly miscast international stars.

More than 40 percent strongly favored vouchers for use at private or religious schools (an equal number said vouchers were a bad idea).

In many cases, students using vouchers to attend private schools and religious academies are doing worse than their counterparts in public schools.

So, «socialism» is often merely useless, while dogmatic literal interpretation of religious text is a real impediment and thus worse than socialism.

In that sense, religious people can have a better chance at sniffing out bad science, than do supposedly rational scientism people, who have an unshakable faith in science saving the planet.