It does though astound me as how many atheist
come on the belief blog to belittle and put down their fellow nighbor, friends, aquaintences so forth who have wrong them only by having faith in GOD.
Come on belief blog, is not the first rule of journalism is to «report» the story not to create or be the story?
First, it's more than passing silly to
come on Belief Blog and rant about your lack of belief.
Just about what you would call an atheist who
comes on belief blog to rant about how stooooooopid those people of faith are.
Now, you can keep on
coming on Belief Blog to spout your hatred of all things religious.
Not exact matches
I
came to that conversation with a perspective
on the market and, quite frankly, a
belief that there was an opportunity there.
I offer alternative views, but changing your perspective usually
comes from trying new behavior based
on new
beliefs.
This all
comes from a misguided
belief that gifted students will achieve
on their own — even in spite of a strict educational system that doesn't serve them well.
At the beginning of the year, there was without a doubt the famous Trump trade that
came on, which was a
belief in tax cuts, infrastructure, and deregulation as a package driving growth.
An organizational culture is either decisively created and nurtured from the very beginning, or more typically, it
comes about haphazardly through the experiences,
beliefs, behaviors and actions of those
on the team.
Our reasoning here applies what's known as the principle of restricted choice, which
comes up in the card game bridge, and is the intuition behind the formal mathematical procedure for updating
beliefs based
on new information, Bayesian inference.
These forward - looking statements include statements about our expectations regarding our high conviction that our «Winning Together» plan unveiled this morning will improve guest experience and drive sales and profitability for our Tim Hortons restaurant owners; our expectations regarding the growth potential for each of our three brands; and our expectations and
belief that through our focus
on enhancing guest satisfaction and franchisee profitability, we will create value for all of our stakeholders for many years to
come.
Or, more typically, it
comes about a bit haphazardly through the experiences,
beliefs and behaviors of those
on the team.
Much of the resistance to putting hard numbers
on diversity
comes from the
belief that «goals equal quotas, and quotas will lower the talent bar,» says Emerson.
The
belief is that your audience over time will
come to trust and rely
on your guidance, recognize your company's unique value proposition, and ultimately reward you with business and loyalty.
Forward - looking statements may include, among others, statements concerning our projected adjusted income (loss) from operations outlook for 2018,
on both a consolidated and segment basis; projected total revenue growth and global medical customer growth, each over year end 2017; projected growth beyond 2018; projected medical care and operating expense ratios and medical cost trends; our projected consolidated adjusted tax rate; future financial or operating performance, including our ability to deliver personalized and innovative solutions for our customers and clients; future growth, business strategy, strategic or operational initiatives; economic, regulatory or competitive environments, particularly with respect to the pace and extent of change in these areas; financing or capital deployment plans and amounts available for future deployment; our prospects for growth in the
coming years; the proposed merger (the «Merger») with Express Scripts Holding Company («Express Scripts») and other statements regarding Cigna's future
beliefs, expectations, plans, intentions, financial condition or performance.
We opened this short position
on the junior mining sector
on March 18th with the
belief that gold stocks, and especially junior miners, would fall continually over the
coming months as gold prices dropped.
Just understand that not all of us atheists intend to
come off as condescending and mean; - We just don't see why you rely
on beliefs that are probably just another set of man - made
beliefs.
Notice how they are not
coming out of the woodwork to support other religious
beliefs when they get «the man»
on them.
Then when Alice and Tiggy
come to my defense you state: «Tiggy and preacherlady, you consistently hold fishon up as a great defender of what he believes, but you are blind to the fact that I generally ignore his
beliefs and comment only
on his attitude.»
@grist how many times has the world pushed their stuff
on christians saying we cant pray in school saying we cant you persecute us all the time you take GOD's name in vein right in our faces all the time and we
come out and stand up for our
beliefs and we are the bad guy i'm sorry sir but you are extrtemly wrong funny everything us christians do is wrong telling us what to preach and what not to preach and you say we are pushing our
beliefs on people
In the end each person as the Bible states will be judged
on whether he or she believes in Jesus as God's Son and Savior — if a person refuses to believe, he or she will spend eternity in Hell, while the person who does believe, even if their
belief comes in the final moment of their life, will be saved.
If «
coming to my senses» means committing to
belief in talking snakes, pregnant virgins and a vengeful, violent god, leave me
on the dark side.
We should be happy about how far we have
come as a species via the hard work and dedication of man kind... we should be stopping and looking at the big picture and think about how far we have
come in 2000 years... we have made tremendous progress in so many ways and it is really sad that instead of doing the right thing and giving mankind credit where credit is due, you fall back
on 2000 year old
beliefs and you thank a god who has never been proven to exist.
If our
beliefs don't make us want to be a better person, something in them need to be cracked open in order to let light and life
come on.
It's sad that people who hate the idea of God have to
come on to a
belief blog and tease and put down people who love God.
I've seen a lot of silliness
on the
belief blog, but
on the Joel Osteen topic, I was gobsmacked by the number of apologists for Biblical slavery
coming out of the woodwork.
In the end all you are doing is just relying
on your own
belief because even though there is no proof that that there actually is no deity who does not want to be made known but would rather have us develop our faith in said deity, since there is thus far no irrefutable proof that there is such a deity, that you then
come to a conclusion that there is no such deity, all you are doing is just relying
on belief just like I'm relying
on belief and that what it really boils down to is just that it is all a matter of
belief.
Everytime religious people post something about God or something out of their
belief, there
comes the Atheists storming it with their typical (hateful, profane, disrespectful but in - fairness articulate, itellect, scientific and logical) replies and name callings such as; «2000 years religious numbnuts», «oxymorons who keep asking of sky daddy's help», «idiots who was fooled by a magical being in the sky» and so
on and so forth.
So many people who advocate or speak publicly for political or personal reasons aren't acknowledged as much when it
comes to religion when someone is wanting to speak out about there faith a light bulb goes off and says we don't want to hear, or talk, or, air any thing that has to do with the mentioning of God but because of the high profile story and because this is the President of the United States it's ok hats off to them for not being ashamed to speak about there faith I agree with Richard some people just because they profess there faith doesn't mean there trying to push there
beliefs on anyone people of faith have a right to free speech also.
The BioLogos position
on origins sits partway between two fundamentalisms:
on the «left» end of the spectrum is the fundamentalism of people like Richard Dawkins and Daniel Dennett who are committed to the
belief that the only reliable form of knowledge
comes from science, and that alternate ways of knowing must be either rejected entirely or completely subordinated to science.
You didn't have to
come down to the site and yet you did — to speak
on behalf of your Jewish heritage and faith — and I have to say «kudo's» to you — it isn't easy to be Jewish in our Christian communities (even
on - line)-- when some of this language can be so offensive in nature to your
beliefs.
I believe this is an opportunity, no matter what your
beliefs or thoughts are
on this matter, it is an opportunity for us all to
come together to COEXIST.
And to say that Biblical teachings are invalid because there are other similar
beliefs that have older known written sources invalidates the Biblical teachings also should take into consideration that for certain Biblical believers that all those truths whether they are known to have been placed in the Bible first or known thus far to have been placed elsewhere that they believe that they all
come via deity who at the beginning of human history
on this world dispensed those truths to humanity and that to those who believe in the biblical teachings believe that through time they are more complete than those of other ancient
beliefs due to God restoring those truths through revelations given to later prophets like say Moses and other later Old and New Testament prophets and apostles.
I don't have a
belief on the situation one way or the other, my grounding in the question of any God or gods
comes from the lack of evidence for or against.
You are correct
on both accounts and that is the reason for much of the anxiety when it
comes to
belief systems like Calvinism.
If one is not prejudiced either by social
beliefs or by scientific training into the conviction that life originated spontaneously
on the Earth, this simple calculation (of the 2,000 proteins
coming about chance) wipes the idea entirely out of court.»
Your hatred for religion drives you to get up in the morning, turn
on your computer,
come to CNN
belief blog and attempt to lambaste those of faith.
I withdraw from speculating
on whether there is such a being until sensible proof for one has been provided, and the religiously inclined have never been able to
come up with any even as many of their number insist that their
beliefs are factual.
So, as Cbarriel points out, for the religious,
belief (repent / faith) in the religion
comes first, and explanations (or «inspirations»)
on the validity of that
belief will inevitably follow.
For the non-religious,
belief in science (for example)
comes first, and explanations
on the validity of that
belief will inevitably follow.
CNN: Catholics clergymen
come out swinging against HHS regulation Catholics around the country got an earful
on Sunday from the pulpit over a new health insurance policy by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services that forces employers to cover contraception and abortion as part of preventative care regardless of religious
beliefs.
People like you really have to
come to grips with the fact that a majority in this country oppose your attempt to impose your religious
beliefs on us through the force of law.
It must be the anonymous nature of these blogs that allow two hate filled racial bigots to
come on a blog dedicated to a great man of prayer and belittle that mans
belief system.
From the novelist as well as from the stories in Scripture the theologian should take courage to concentrate
on the experience of
coming to
belief, not
on the «
beliefs» themselves (the sedimentation of experiences of
coming to
belief).
You said, «Considering the consistent treatment of this topic
on this blog» The topic of abortion
comes up
on occasion when some religious lunatic tries to force his or her moronic
beliefs on the sane part of society.
While there was a certain security to having this infallible roadmap
on my nightstand, there was also a deep fear that
came along with my
belief that if just one thing was out of place in Scripture, if just one thing didn't resolve, the whole thing would fall apart.
Your spot
on when you keep
coming back to Jesus and exactly that is what other
belief systems are missing.
On the basis of this belief there came to be a group of Wahhabis known as Compellers who considered it their religious duty to see that people performed the prayers at the prescribed times, basing their action on the injunction «to command the good and prohibit the bad.&raqu
On the basis of this
belief there
came to be a group of Wahhabis known as Compellers who considered it their religious duty to see that people performed the prayers at the prescribed times, basing their action
on the injunction «to command the good and prohibit the bad.&raqu
on the injunction «to command the good and prohibit the bad.»
Then look up some websites, Topher, and get educated in their
belief system instead of letting rumor tell you what they believe, and instead of
coming on here acting like a religious bigot.