Sentences with phrase «facts than your belief»

That isn't what Jesus said or wanted, and your theory is no more representative of the Facts than your belief in an imaginary friend!

Not exact matches

, and in the piece they discuss why stories are much more influential than facts (again, a conclusion backed by numerous studies) through their ability to change emotional beliefs in a way that «logical» arguments just can't touch.

The Oxford English Dictionary declared «post-truth» the word of the year — the notion that «objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief.»

An era of post-truth, where appeals to emotion and personal belief have become more influential than objective facts.

When beliefs are strong, contrary facts tend to strengthen rather than weaken those beliefs.

While these persons and entities may labor under the belief that their actions are entrepreneurial rather than criminal, the fact remains that they are in willful possession of stolen property.

It's Not Russia: Rich Lowry argues that «the Russian bot hysteria» obscures the fact that Americans hold fundamentally divergent beliefs — ones that run far deeper than Facebook posts.

Forward - looking statements are any statements other than statements of historical fact, including statements regarding ILG's and MVW's expectations, beliefs, hopes, intentions or strategies regarding the future.

Say, for example, rather than having a committed belief in the right to bear arms, you have identified yourself as a raging bull on some US tech stock, the fact such a bias could lead you to make mistakes when analysing fresh data on that business does not bode well for the success of your portfolio.

That has made belief systems and arguments about facts far more important than they were in Jesus» day.

It is based on belief, rather than on neutral, objective fact.

the abundance of purely uneducated Muslim believers, their oppressive existence in their self created repressive regimes, lifestyles, and governments, their radical inturpitations of their fairy tale book, the fact that their culture and people have contributed less to man kind than any other culture and people of all the earth, their self ritious belief system that empowers them to commit atrocious crimes against humanity, the muslim men prance around in flip flops and linen moo moo's while they lock their woman in their household prisons to be abused slave - wife's, are entirely too ignorant to even build sewer systems and even after thousands of years that other cultures have developed running water toilets, toilet paper, and effective sewerage systems, they still whipe their pood - cracks with one hand (no paper) and eat with the other, and yiddle to the sky just before detonation of their suicide bombs that murder innocent men, woman, children, and babies.

There's more to being a Skeptic than saying «I don't believe...» One needs to qualify their beliefs with facts and logical interpretations, and you have failed miserably.

When you learn to treat others equally regardless of belief or disbelief, you can pull Holier than Thou card, until then I stand by the fact that is hell exists, it is you who would be there for not following the Golden Rule!!

So the trick that prejudice plays in the mind is: rather than knowledge leading to the attitude or belief, the attitude or belief pre-exists and forms the so - called «facts» that shape the prejudice and fuel it into action.

They brainwash you to believing faith is better than knowledge, that somehow unsupported belief is better than reason, facts, and evidence, and they do it because belief is all they have.

They can't come to terms with the idea that there may actually be nothing after we die so they latch on to a belief that gives them comfort... belief in an afterlife, eternity or any version of «god» is nothing more than a coping mechanism for those who can't accept that we are in fact finite creatures that are born, live, and die and are not meant or destined to exist for eternity.

-- both to life and thought is in fact a very proper plea, if for no other reason than that it claims for itself such relevance; but to establish some concept of «relevance» as the criterion of Christian belief is a sad mistake.

That some people may be biologically vulnerable to alcohol addiction has not been proven; in fact, there is no evidence that heredity places a person at greater risk of becoming a heavy drinker than family environment, character, beliefs and conduct.

That's why this is called the «Belief Blog» rather than, say, the «Proven Facts Blog.»

The bible is not a universally recognized fact, it is is collection of beliefs held by less than a third of the world that can't be agreed upon by all of them

Personally, I don't want my engineers believing that facts must conform to their beliefs, rather than beliefs conforming to facts.

There is some basis for this charge, it appears, given the fact that Berger seems to treat plausibility structures as somehow prior to or more basic than the religious beliefs they make plausible.

But the fact that Santa is based on a real person makes belief in him more rational than a belief in gods.

Facts like the snows that have covered Mount Kilimanjaro for thousands of years are melting Scientific proof may not be as «warm and fuzzy» feeling as political rhetoric is, but it's better to base our beliefs and actions on objective reality than on self - serving political dogma.

A good argument can be made, in fact, that the person who is solidly grounded in a religious identity is more free to be tolerant than another for whom differing beliefs are a threat.

I.E. the big bang theory which would require belief in the fact that some kinds of Matter ALWAYS existed and that at some point it all exploded and created a universe, a belief i might add, that in my view takes more faith to believe in than most modern religions.

(2) Stop acting like a belief is a fact and don't shy away from discussing interpretations of scripture that are different than yours.

Here we may pause to reflect on the fact that in human experience it is much easier to believe in human survival than it is in the finiteness of human existence.18 The almost universal belief in an «after - life» which developed from primitive man onwards was only to be expected.

As a matter of fact some sectarian groups make, practically, much greater use of non-sruti literature, as the basis for present belief and practice than they do of the recognized sruti writings.

Basically, believe what you like, just don't pretend it's fact rather than belief.

And, they'll ignore the fact that the Democratic philosophy is far more in touch with christian beliefs than the GOP.

(Again am not saying anything about Luther * an * beliefs, of which I know very little, other than the fact that they don't believe in predestination in the way that Luther did.

The evangelicals are screaming louder than ever, but more and more youth are waking up to the fact that your belief system is twisted and ultimately immoral.

It is so sad that so many atheists will spend most of their lives fighting and arguing against the very thing that can save them, only to die and go to hell and then to spend eternity regretting the fact that they wasted all of their time arguing about it rather than just accepting it, rather than just believing, and a belief that could have saved them.

George, you ignore the fact that many atheistic belief systems have as strict or stricter ethical codes than Christianity.

If God leaves it largely up to the individual to be moral or not, there is, nevertheless, some, lingering belief that God may in fact ordain some people to be poorer than others.

There is no way to prove or disprove a higher being, and there is no way to prove or disprove the big bang theory (contrasting beliefs in most people's opinions), but what we do know is the Earth is way older than 6,000 - 10,000 years old, and that is FACT.

Atheism = the belief in facts, science, and logic rather than the fallibility of the human emotion and desire

They described the phrase as «relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief».

This belief is based in more than the fact that Jews and Christians acknowledge, worship, and obey the same God.

Also, I did not discuss the merits or ideas of any religious belief system other than the fact that an atheist doesn't believe in God, and I did not lable anybody anything.

I do agree that religious belief is doing more harm than good to humanity in todays world, I am not sure that enough people have the intellectual ability to embrace the fact that their belief system is not based in reality.

It certainly takes more faith to NOT believe in God than it does to accept the fact that «In The Beginning God created...» (Genesis 1:1) As far as Jesus being a Jew, praise the Lord... it isn't a problem for me to accept Him being Jewish, my joy comes from Jesus Christ, a Jew, accepting my repentance and belief in what He did for me, an undeserving sinner.

They are meaningless because participants lack the objectivity to admit that our beliefs have less to do with facts than with our personal needs and cultural backgrounds.

In fact the point has been made more than once that the great age of science was prepared by a belief in a god who was himself a scientist and technician, and who would therefore approve of a civilization committed to such an enterprise.

In fact the only common ground between Christianity and Islam is the belief that God is infinitely greater than man and is a God to be worshipped and served.

People may generally be unaware of the historical lack of agreement among the fathers of the Church on when the fetus possesses a soul, but they likely sense at some level of their mind that their pro — life stance is personally based more on passionate belief than on demonstrable fact.

he has more courage & belief than ox; i cant wrap my head around the fact how he can do that but ox can not.

I think you might find it has a lot less to do with science and facts than it does about a person's core beliefs that evolved from the thousands of tiny steps that led them through life up to this moment in time.