Sentences with phrase «i happen to believe»

I happen to believe that life happens for me (not too me), so all those people who «wronged me» in the past were merely just motivation steps along the journey.

I don't know whether god does or does not exist, but I don't happen to believe in a god.

The fear with a President who happens to believe in a cult — is whether or not we are electing the Organization or the individual.

Scientists have long been aware of something euphemistically called the «experimenter effect»: the curious fact that when a phenomenon is investigated by a researcher who happens to believe in the phenomenon, it is far more likely to be detected.

I happen to believe we are.

Whatever happened to believing witnesses who wrote down what they saw for the benefit of others?

I happen to believe that there are valuable lessons that can be learned from the bible; I just don't believe that the supernatural claims actually happened.

Church attendance would drop off severely if only parents would allow their children to think on their own instead of attending the church that they happen to attend, and believe what they happen to believe.

Just because they also happen to believe in the good lessons of the Bible doesn't render them automatically incapable of critical thought.

you happen to believe in god — and don't insist on having other people believe in what you do then well and fine.

There are way too many great scientific minds that happen to believe in God for you to take sides on this issue.

I happen to believe the best writing comes out of people who live their lives, keeping one foot in the real world.

I happen to believe in God and Jesus.

Now, I happen to believe there is a lot of conditioning going on that sets us up to make the choices we've made.

2) The Bible informs you and your relationship with that particular god if you so happen to believe in that particular god; it does NOT inform our secular legal system.

There are people that could teach you how to use reason more efficiently, and they might happen to believe in Jesus.

I don't happen to believe that we are by nature evil.

The people who believe that the rapture is going to happen — that one day god will «beam up» all those who happen to believe the right flavor of Christianity, and they'll float up into the sky to be with God while the world is destroyed — are only marginally less kooky than the likes of Harold Camping, who set a date on the whole circus.

I happen to believe in a higher being (I'll call him God for ease of communication).

One does NOT need to be at the resurrection the MOMENT it happened to believe it happened!

I know plenty of religious liberals, they just don't happen to believe in Machine Gun Jesus like you do, you sarcastic twit

I suspect the only reasoning you can offer is that you happen to believe it's true, and that the others are false.

A weak atheist is someone who lacks theism and who does not happen to believe in the existence of any gods — no more, no less.

Its not actually evil per say but other enhancers of human nature, which I happen to believe is a negative force.

We just don't happen to believe in your god.

I also happen to believe that a significant portion of the modern institutional church has completely forsaken following Christ's teaching for a life of in your face activism and confrontation of perceived «sin» rather than sharing the good news in love, or even simply living the good news.

I happened to believe he did exist, but he was not God nor a God.

I do happen to believe in free speech.

i happen to believe, because i am a Christian (among other things), that this whole z - theory IS Jesus.

If you continue to mock Christians because they happen to believe this, and waste time trying to say they are deluded and quote those now dead, like Carl Sagan, as experts on the non = reality of the hereafter, you will end up like Carl Sagan.

If there was one thing I could get religious people to understand about Atheism that they currently don't, it's that we aren't offended simply because you happen to believe something we don't...

I happen to believe the Bible to be inspired by God, but were men that wrote it, were men that put it together and I also happen to believe that there were precious parts taking out of it.

And if you happen to believe it but are not one of the proselytizers then you are simply collateral damage.

Here's the Lutheran «party line»... and I happen to believe it because it seems to fit with Holy Scripture:

Note that NEITHER term says diddly about whether what you happen to believe is true.

I happen to believe that beauty is the highest ethic because morality seems to dwell in hypocrisy and judgement which steal away beauty.

And I happen to believe that the church is the perfect culture for these poisons, like any other institution.»

But I happen to believe life (shit) happens and God rarely intervenes in the natural order of things.

I happen to believe in one less god than you.

No... we are not talking about me, and I've never said a thing about whether or not God exists, I happen to believe he does.

I'm not evil, I just don't happen to believe in a supreme being.

-LSB-...] I'm sure — just happen to believe something differently from them.And David Hayward responds so eloquently with his drawings: And this older one: Right now, the only thing you can say is that we don't -LSB-...]

But I also happen to believe in a God who is gracious enough to respond to his people in spite of those things, and in spite of my scepticism too.

So even if one scientist happens to believe something dumb (like god, for instance) unless he can show conclusive evidence to support his hypothesis... ** no one will take him seriously in the scientific community ** Compare that with religion, where every dirtbag and fraud is speaking for a god who can never be wrong.

Actually, the Women's Bible Commentary is most definitively not for the «larger community» of Bible - readers, for they are women and men who happen to believe in what the Bible says.

I happen to believe that every little thing we think, say and do reveals something about our deepest selves.

I happen to believe that the majority, if not every single human being, has cognitive problems due to our brains not having evolved in a very helpful direction.

You all have the capacity to be reasonable thinking human beings when it fits your own narrative, we atheists just happen to believe in one fewer god than you do.

I happen to believe they are wrong in who they follow, but I would not be offended by a muslim who follows their faith.

I don't happen to believe like some do that they're gonna be in this little torture chamber with little people poking them with knives and things forever and putting hot coals on.