Sentences with phrase «humanists believe»

Humanists believe that morality is based on human nature, human society and human experience; it has not come from a god or any supernatural entity.

Includes: - What do Humanists believe?

Humanists believe that moral values stem from the human need for happiness and the fact that we must live co-operatively together.

Now apart from the nonsense of the supposed «competition in goodness» both Christians and humanists believe that it is important to lead a good life.

Agnostics / secular humanists believe their is no evidence that proves the existance of God therefore at this time the most rational and logical belief system would not incorporate a God.

Humanism is opposed to this ideology, not only because it's always based on unprovable religious superstition but because humanists believe strongly that the fate of humanity is not subject to divine whims but rests with humanity itself.

You attempted to claim that Humanists believe everyone is born good and yet that is not the case... your one quote proves nothing and certainly doesn't cover all humanists, that is painting with a broad brush - something Christians scream and whine about having done to them.

As a Christian believes true meaning is found in Christ, so a humanist believes that humans makes their own meaning, and don't need to look for answers beyond themselves.

These humanists believed that God's enemies deserve to be ridiculed, and that humor offers an effective way of pointing out error and showing the truth by contrast.

Not exact matches

Either we believe in that which all Christians (Catholic, Orthodox, Reformed) have always believed or we, in good faith leave and become Unitarian or secular humanists.

Also if I do not follow the canon believed by most Christians (give or take some duterocannonical books) I might as well be Baha'i, Muslim, or Secular Humanist.

The secular humanist public schools are always on about persecution, hoping to entice kids into believing that if they leave their faith they will be part of the «majority» and therefore safer.

So, while I will say again that I am not an authority on either, I do know enough to be able to tell when a person belongs in the Christian camp or the Humanist camp, I believe.

If you are not a Humanist, then may I ask what you do believe?

Once you've adopted the humanist we - can - do - it - alone conception, you may start believing that the church did indeed come together as a therapeutic social contract.

Gordon Kaufman (1925 — 2011) has called attention to an overemphasis on «God's tyrannical omnipotence» that offended many sensitive and thoughtful humanists who found it impossible to worship or believe in such a deity.

That's why Nick Spencer and I wrote a report called The Case for Christian Humanism: Why Christians should believe in humanism, and humanists in Christianity.

He believes that religionists prefer humanist to social - scientific explanations because they find them more compatible with their personal theological convictions.

Not all atheists believe in evolution, nor are they all naturalists, humanists, materialists, nihilists, communists etc..

If you're Christian and call him Jesus or Jewish and call him Jehovah (and I'm aware that they aren't allowed to speak his name but that's what they know him as) or Muslim and call him Allah or Pagan and believe in many gods or atheist and follow Humanist principles what should matter is what you do with your life and how well you treat others.

Humanists would have us believe the former.

«Humanists who do not believe in God or a future life have been in a stronger position to insist on the urgency of making things better at once, in this [life]... If this is the only life that anybody has, then the fact that many people must spend it in such misery becomes more obviously and inexcusably scandalous.

He had trouble believing that his favorite secular humanist Cicero might not be found in paradise.

The humanists eagerly sought the rebirth of the free and creative human spirit which they believed to have flowered in the ancient world and to have been lost in the Middle Ages.

I can't prove God's existence just as much as scientist can't prove the big bang... there is evidence of both but to reach a conclusion takes faith... one side leaves hope and the other does not... maybe I'm agnostic too because I don't claim to know everything about why I'm here, I have to have faith... Honestly, I'm sick of the extremes on both sides... the conservative judgmental Christian, who never thought through things as to why the believe what they do (ie Dinosaurs, cavemen, evolution, etc.) and the intellectually arrogant atheist and humanists.

But, of course, we can not say that Christian values (or virtues) are better than, for example, Kurtz's «democratic secular humanist values» unless we believe ethical statements are factual statements and are either true or false.

For example, if you believe in human rights, you are a religious humanist, because a pure atheist would realize it makes no sense for blobs of protein molecules to have «rights.»

I am no opponent of academic freedom; but I believe Christians should not let civil libertarians and secular humanists decide for us what it means to be free.

April 14, 2012 at 10:30 am God has a long held tradition for all us humanists who do and whomever doesn't believe in Godly reconciliations!

I don't know about you, but by the time I graduated from my conservative Christian college, I was pretty confident that I knew exactly what atheists and humanists and Buddhist believed... without ever having met any atheists or humanists or Buddhists in person.

One of its leading exponents, Sir Julian Huxley, defines a humanist as «someone who believes that Man is just as much a natural phenomenon as an animal or a plant; that his body, mind and soul were not supernaturally created, but are all products of evolution, and that he is not under the control or guidance of any supernatural being or beings, but has to rely on himself and his own powers.»

There are also the humanists who believe that man can love but needs no God to fulfil his love.

Humanism denies men any religion, any suprahuman standard, any timeless point of reference; and without any of these things I do not believe humanists have a leg to stand on, and it is high time the absurdity of their position were realized.

The British Humanist Association (BHA), which responded to the consultation on the codes, believes that they «represent a backwards step that could lead to «faith» schools acting in even narrower ways.»

The British Humanist Association (BHA) believes that the action of the police in this case was totally unnecessary, and demonstrates the ineffectiveness of the current law.

The British Humanist Association believes that all young people should be free to explore the full range of beliefs and values in Britain, including Humanism, and that school should be a place for them to explore these issues for themselves.

Nancy Collins of Hodge Jones & Allen LLP, who acted on behalf of Humanists UK, commented, «This is a disappointing decision for those who believe that terminally ill people should have the right to choose the timing of their death.

Humanists and other secularists — including religious people who believe in a secular state — have long campaigned for an end to «religious privilege» and «religious discrimination»; at the same time, many Muslims have claimed that there is a prevalent «Islamophobia» in society; recently, representatives of some Christian churches are claiming that Christians are being «marginalised» as a consequence of «aggressive secularism» excluding them from public life.

We believe that this will go a long way in preventing the illegitimate shutting down of debate and activities on campus which has affected many universities in recent years, including several Humanist Students societies.

The Christian Democratic (CDU) leader, 73 - year - old Konrad Adenauer, former mayor of Cologne and party chairman in the British Zone since March 1946, believed in moderate, non-denominational and humanist Christian democracy, [5][6] social market economy and integration with the West.

We were seeing a new Haneke, the raves declared, a more mature, tender Haneke, still as rigorously unsentimental as ever, but perhaps more of a humanist at heart than he had led us to believe.

They believe that there is no evidence for life after death, and so humanists place a special value on this life and on making the best of it.

Humanists do not believe that the universe or earth was created by God.

Card sort and accompanying powerpoint on Immortality which includes the views of those who believe in Humanist, Spiritualist, Bodily resurrection and spiritual resurrection.

In this world in which every day it becomes more difficult to maintain social cohesion, we believe it is suitable to guide the training of future teachers to humanist education, that comes close to the needs and the reality of life of the inhabitants of the planet and educate the citizens aware of the context in which we live.

As a Humanist, I believe in the infinite potential of all children.

For the Lunaticks were not only scientists, but also pragmatists and humanists who believed in and spoke out for concepts like equality and justice.

Believing that design and architecture are humanist activities, Szenasy is committed to education.

Maybe he is, though I would tend to believe he is more of a humanist than a climate absolutist or an environmental absolutist.

The fact that Canada's leftist secular humanist feminists still think that their risk comes from a decaying and docile Christianity instead of a confident and growing radical Islam is liberalism's Maginot Line, built to defend against a make - believe threat from a generation ago, not the real threat of today.