Many people who are spiritual but not religious reject the organisation but hang on to the supernatural bit.
How could the highest Christian religious vocation reject something so obviously natural?
Most religious organisations reject dying patients' requests to end their lives as they see fit.
He didn't draw much attention to it, but President Bush surprised some listeners by endorsing condoms, which some of his religious supporters reject, in a speech about AIDS to a Philadelphia church.
One can anticipate the response from within various groups of society: conservative religious groups rejected Darwin and his Origin of the Species outright, while others stated that Darwin was a great naturalist and made important observations, but they could not accept his notions about the origin of man; some came on board immediately, while others quibbled about some of the details.
"Countering violent extremism begins with political, civic and religious leaders rejecting sectarian strife," said President Obama.
He respected Catholicism and Judaism as the most elevated religious cultures, rejected Orthodoxy, atheism and communism as ideologies for the mediocre, and depicted himself as a Catholic anarchist.
To begin with, religious environmentalists reject Santorum's (culturally male?) assumption that either we have to rule the earth or it has to rule us.
However, shortly after he made the announcement, both civil and religious authorities rejected any sort of ceremonial funeral for Priebke, with the Italian capital's mayor declaring that "Rome is an anti-fascist city".
Examples include the civil war in Syria and clashes between Sunnis and Shiites across the Middle East: "Countering violent extremism begins with political, civic and religious leaders rejecting sectarian strife," Obama said.
Many religious people reject naturalistic evolution because they believe it denies God, and particularly his role in the creation of life and providence (and namely direction over development).
