Sentences with phrase «life of an agnostic»

After summarizing the excruciatingly weird life of the agnostic novelist, Walther observes that the novel is remarkably affirmative of the metaphysical claims of medieval Catholicism.

I love the cherry fabric, wonder if I could find something like it... Sarabeth Life of an Agnostic Sunday School Teacher

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High - profile, successful, and gold - agnostic investment - world luminaries assess the macroeconomic risks of radical monetary policies and reach a similar conclusion: This will end badly: — Seth Klarman: «All the Trumans (reference: a 1998 movie [The Truman Show] in which the main character's entire life takes place on a TV set which he perceives as reality)-- the economists, fund managers, traders, market pundits — know at some level that the environment in which they operate is not what it seems on the surface....

You might not choose to live by that story, but if more people did and did it better (including Christians, non-Christians, athiests, agnostics, and myself), the world would be the heaven or the Heaven that all of us long for.

There are some agnostic theists, who are not sure about a god, but lean toward accepting one or another of them, but I think that the majority of agnostics live without belief and conduct their daily lives atheistically.

Myself included: I was agnostic not atheist, though the evidence of my early life experiences pointed me more towards atheism.

Historian Will Durant, who was an atheist or at least an agnostic, wrote that for the life of Jesus to have been invented if He didn't exist would be a bigger miracle than any attributed to him.

Religious Differences on the Question of Evolution (United States) Percentage who agree that evolution is the best explanation for the origin of human life on earth Atheist / Agnostic 87 % Buddhist 81 % Hindu 80 % Secular unaffiliated 77 % Jewish 77 % Catholic 58 % Religious unaffiliated 55 % Orthodox 54 % Mainline Protestant 51 % Muslim 45 % Hist.

I think a lot of agnostic / atheist people would be perfectly content to live their lives without making their personal convictions a crusade if the other side didn't make a crusade out of their religious beliefs.

Nothing we do is crazier than talking donkeys, boats full of animals surviving floods covering the entire planet, people living for 900 + years, etc etc etc that you believe and read in your bible (assuming your not agnostic).

For example, I'm agnostic about the existence of life on other planets.

Thus in dealing with the real human problems, such as the relief of suffering, the adjustment of personality, the release from fear and ignorance, the care of the physically or mentally defective or of the aged and infirm, there is nearly always a desperate shortage of living agents, and among their small number the cozily non-committed agnostic is very rarely to be found.

I am a Christian... but an astounding number of agnostics and pagans and atheists keep coming into my life, and I love them to bits.

In the stormy sea of modern life, the Humanist (he used to be called the Rationalist) and the generalised agnostic is as much tossed on the waves as we are.

And because Christ has plainly declared that the way in which we treat people is a mirror - image of the way in which we treat God, the most ardent atheist or thoroughgoing agnostic can no more escape from Christianity than he can escape from life itself.

And if we add to that, the millions of living atheists, agnostics, and former Christians who have had similar experiences to mine and would agree with my conclusions, and add to that the millions of non believers and former believers in the past, some of which have left in writing a sampling of their conclusions, it would seem to me that our personal experience and perspectives cancel each other out, and all you are left with is your belief in the words written in your bible.

Go back to your cave, cave man and leave it to atheists and agnostics whom are representing a larger and larger percentage of young people with the ability to analyze, reason, and critically critique life through science.

I mean, I know many people of different faiths, and even agnostics and atheists who live by these «character traits.»

There is famous quote by the agnostic Dr. Jastrow «For the scientist who has lived by his faith in the power of reason, the story ends like a bad dream.

I am an agnostic yet I support Christianity (the teachings of Christ) and try to live my life accordingly.

These are just two seasons of my life: I also had my anti-instutitional church season, my I'm - not - a-Christian-season, my agnostic season, my angry feminist season, my new - wanna - be-theologian season, my screw - it - let's - knit - things - season, my I'm - a-new-mother-and-I-know-everything-now season.

Our description of the alcoholic, the chapter to the agnostic, and our personal adventures before and after make clear three pertinent ideas: (a) That we were alcoholic and could not manage our own lives.

Scientific laws and constants that govern our earth appear fine - tuned to exactly what's needed for life to exist — even atheist and agnostic scientists have written books that question whether this fine - tuning points to the existence of God.

«But atheist, agnostic and humanist students suffer the same problems as religious students — deaths or illnesses in the family, questions about the meaning of life, etc. — and would like a sympathetic nontheist to talk to.»

Many people who are atheist or agnostic have gotten sober and stayed sober by replacing the bottle they worshiped with a philosophy (AA is a philosophy, by the by, a way of looking at Life and Being), with the wisdom of the group or even of humanity in general, with whatever works for them.

Often, atheists and agnostics feel like we're alone because many of us choose not to advertise our presence to make our lives easier.

Africans, Hispanics, Asians, women, homosexuals, homeless, religious minorities, agnostics, doubters, uneducated, intellectuals, poor, and almost any other category of social life can, under certain conditions, be regarded as failing the appropriate tests of true membership in a society.

Knowing what our encounter with the New Testament picture of Christ has done in our own lives, we can be agnostic about the degree to which that image corresponds to historical reality.

Theist, deist, agnostic, atheist, believer in a god figure, yes a god but not one that interferes with the lives of humans, don't really know if there is a god, there is no evidence of god therefore there is no god.

Learning to live a sober life, in a dignified and gracious way, was a gift I learned from the folks in AA (regardless of their spiritual or religious or agnostic / atheist bent).

According to the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life, a quarter of people under age 30 consider themselves atheist, agnostic, or nothing in particular.

We can hardly wonder, in the circumstances, that agnostics such as Sir James Jeans and Marcel Boll, and even convinced believers like Guardini, have uttered expressions of amazement (tinged with heroic pessimism or triumphant detachment) at the apparent insignificance of the phenomenon of Life in terms of the cosmos — a little mould on a grain of dust.

Whether you are Christian or Jew, atheist or agnostic, you have got to fit acceptance of this into your philosophy of life.

He contends that everyone, including atheists and agnostics, acknowledges the importance of «considering whether there is some ultimate, more - than - human source of meaning and value» and then of living one's life according to one's conclusion.

Agnostics or atheists are free to express their confidence that the line will eventually shift to encompass within science all phenomena, including the origin of life, consciousness, and the universe and the physical laws governing it.

Most atheists / agnostics / humanists try to define God's moral code in their terms, in essence, to re-write the book of life to suit their agenda, when in fact, only one agenda counts - GOD»S.

I am basically an atheist / agnostic, but I have lived among Mormons and although I think their theology is even weirder than traditional Christianity, I think their sense of community is closer to the communal life of early Christians than any other traditional Christian group.

As an agnostic scientist I feel more spiritual, a better understanding of life, nature and even death.

Robert Jastrow (self - proclaimed agnostic): «For the scientist who has lived by his faith in the power of reason, the story ends like a bad dream.

The modern agnostic, who is by no means unaware of the mystery of life, is not nearly so arrogant as he appears.

In sharp contrast with this view of life is that of the intelligent agnostic.

A 2014 survey conducted by the Austin Institute for the Study of Family and Culture on 15,738 Americans, for example, found that of the 13.2 percent who called themselves atheist or agnostic, 32 percent answered in the affirmative to the question «Do you think there is life, or some sort of conscious existence, after death?»

This is not the only approach to agnostic life detection, as the nascent field is called, most of which require trading definitiveness for inclusivity.

An emphatic 2008 report by economist Ross Garnaut, a former global warming agnostic who became, in his own words, «a late - life convert» to the green cause, did much to dispel any lingering questions among most Australians about whether the threat of climate change was real.

Perhaps the best thing about an agnostic chat online is the very fact that people from all walks of life can use it.

Her mother (an excellent Julianne Nicholson) is a foul - mouthed, chain - smoking agnostic who embraced the responsibility of raising Cathleen, even after the father stormed out of their lives.

He had lived in an apartment with books touching the ceilings, and rugs thick enough to hide dice; then in a room and a half with dirt floors; on forest floors, under unconcerned stars; under the floorboards of a Christian who, half a world and three - quarters of a century away, would have a tree planted to commemorate his righteousness; in a hole for so many days his knees would never wholly unbend; among Gypsies and partisans and half - decent Poles; in transit, refugee, and displaced persons camps; on a boat with a bottle with a boat that an insomniac agnostic had miraculously constructed inside it; on the other side of an ocean he would never wholly cross; above half a dozen grocery stores he killed himself fixing up and selling for small profits; beside a woman who rechecked the locks until she broke them, and died of old age at forty - two...

Look at things from a platform agnostic kind of way, it creates this wonderful world I live in where the platform Game A comes out on matters very little.

As at various points in my life I've been a «born again Baptist», a strong Atheist, and a simpering Agnostic; I'm comfortable with all sides of the argument... So I'm more «like the French»... I don't care what you believe as long as you say it properly; --RRB-

I was in a rather agnostic period of my life, but when it was my turn I prayed in thankfulness to my own (rather more traditional) God.