- God
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Rodney Stark Quotes
Most Famous Rodney Stark Quotes of All Time!
We have created a collection of some of the best rodney-stark quotes so you can read and share anytime with your friends and family. Share our Top 10 Rodney Stark Quotes on Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Distribution
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
It can be demonstrated that in any society there is a distribution of religious tastes and concerns.
- Go
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
The more members of the clergy that are out there working to expand their congregations, the more people will go to church.
- Men
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
It seems that not being religious is a form of risk-taking, consistent with other patterns of short-sighted behaviour in men.
- Nov 07, 2020
Every minister knows it's harder to get the guys to church than the women. We ought to be asking why this is.
- High
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
High testosterone levels have been proven to make men more likely to commit crimes. The tendency in men toward risky behaviour keeps turning up even where socialization is different, and so does crime and delinquency.
- Met
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
A whole lot of Americans have never met a Mormon.
- Nonsense
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
The great myth that many social scientists want to encourage is that there is an incompatibility between modern technology and traditional religion. This is absolute nonsense. If anything, it's the reverse.
- Never
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Most churches are run by preachers who went to seminaries, who decided to be preachers when they were 18, 19, 20 years old. These preachers never met a payroll. They don't know how the world works.
- Like
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
There was only one decline in church attendance, and that was in the late 1960s when the Vatican said it was not a sin to miss Mass. They said Catholics could act like Protestants, and so they did.
- People
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
There are many critics who think the megachurches thrive on people who enjoy dramatic Sunday services with fine music but don't wish to become very 'religious' on a day-to-day basis - that the megachurch appeal is a mile wide and an inch deep.
- High
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Those who belong to megachurches display as high a level of personal commitment as do those who attend small congregations.
- Nation
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
America is an unusually religious nation.
- More
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Regular church-goers are substantially more likely than non-attenders to read, to take newspapers and magazines, to listen to classical music, to attend symphony concerts, operas, and stage plays.
- One Thing
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
For one, thing, the media are dominated by the irreligious. So are universities.
- Mean
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Theology is in disrepute among most Western intellectuals. The word is taken to mean a passe form of religious thinking that embraces irrationality and dogmatism. So too, Scholasticism.
- Commandment
- |
- Nov 07, 2020