22:13 - 29), and yet demands the stoning to death for violating 7 of the 10 commandments including the one that says thou shall not have another God before you (kind of the same thing as what the Koran says
about nonbelievers — although beheading is the preferred method of execution).
Believers talk a lot
about nonbelievers and unrepentant sinners going to hell when they die.
The truth is that most Christians care
about nonbelievers.
CNN: My take: «Atheist» isn't a dirty word, congresswoman Chris Stedman, author of «Faitheist: How an Atheist Found Common Ground with the Religious,» writes that when Rep. Kyrsten Sinema's campaign said «the terms non-theist, atheist or non-believer are not befitting of her life's work or personal character» it implied that there is something unfavorable
about nonbelievers.
Not exact matches
Tony Dgee I think that the argument boils down to
nonbelievers not believing in God, but in chance which they know they can't depend on to act favorably, so they do all that they can to bring
about positive change for themselves.
«The reason for our campaign is to let people who are
nonbelievers know
about the Dallas - Fort Worth Coalition of Reason and that has succeeded very, very well,» McDonald said.
Before all you
nonbelievers write your nonsense
about His truth.
Yup, if they left out the hell bit for
nonbelievers and just went around talking
about how their god will reward them for their believing in him, I doubt that many atheists would care enough to try correcting them.
It's interesting to discuss and learn
about other religions / beliefs, but that doesn't mean one believer (or
nonbeliever) needs to brow beat others to prove they are right.
They should pick some lead from western nation
about secularism, freedom of speech and liberty and manage their affairs in those terms with believers and
nonbelievers equally.
As anyone familiar with my own work will expect, I have many serious reservations
about this book, the most inclusive being that I do not think the author helps either the
nonbeliever or the believer to understand the problem of faith and New Testament criticism.
Nonbelievers will ask
about it endlessly, and try to understand what could possibly be better than relationships and sex.
Perhaps
nonbeliever can walk you through the process since he's always lippin off
about the original Hebrew / Greek / Aramaic texts.
This applies not only to rude
nonbelievers but to those who gloat
about others going to hell.
They outnumber
nonbelievers by
about 3 to 2.
Yet despite minor structural differences at Vanderbilt and elsewhere there was an inflexible understanding at work: that a rigorous academy would not harbor learned discourse
about religion in its central precincts unless conducted with the systematic detachment of
nonbelievers.
Nonbelievers need to quote scriptures to show believers how little they know
about the Bible or else choose to ignore.
But let us assume for a moment that the pope cited Emperor Old Word because he meant to initiate — however inartfully — a candid conversation with believers and
nonbelievers about faith and reason and
about religion and violence in the modern world.
Maybe knowing what these terms actually mean will be helpful in future discussions
about this topic, because using them imprecisely is similar to a
nonbeliever saying «Well have fun at Sunday school in your mosque with the rabbi.»
all
nonbelievers are weak minded, speaking of men, how
about what George Washington said (view link)
Maybe all the believers knew
about the leak so sat elsewhere, increasing the chances a
nonbeliever would sit there.
At some level, integralism surely raises questions
about the ability of Jews and
nonbelievers to participate fully in civic life.
Recovering from Religion, which has
about 40 support groups in the U.S. and Britain, plans to launch a hotline that will offer doubters an anonymous place to ask difficult questions and find communities of like - minded
nonbelievers.
Those
nonbelievers already know it's a myth, but they can't be open
about their nonbelief because of how their bigoted community will treat them.
In this connection, I have been particularly struck by Gustavo Gutiérrez's observation that, whereas much contemporary theology seeks to respond to the challenge of the «
nonbeliever» who questions our «religious world» as Christians, in a continent like Latin America the primary challenge comes to us rather from the «nonperson» who questions us
about our «economic, social, political and cultural world.»
But it would also, he suggests, give us some sense of what any reasonable person would say
about the historical Jesus and thus might provide «a starting point for dialogue between Christians and Jews, between various Christian confessions, and between believers and
nonbelievers.»
I learn more
about my love for God and his ways from
nonbelievers than i ever have from the bible or church, that is how God speaks to me.
the greatest thing
about «church» is the coming together of
nonbelievers and new believers that never would draw near to God if it wasn't for the sad gathering we call Church.
Examine the way people who describe themselves as
nonbelievers talk
about values, and you may discover an operational, everyday trust in a transcendent source of values beyond self, culture, and biology.
Tricked by Brady into testifying
about private discussions that tend to incriminate Cates as a
nonbeliever, she eventually sees her mistake and finds the strength to stand beside him.
For those Christians that are laughing at Harold Camping, saying that his claims are unsound and unhealthy, saying that he should not be allowed to influence those around him... For those Christians who I have actually heard say, «This guy is crazy», and mock the concept as something you can't believe people actually bought into... Now you know how we, the
nonbelievers, feel
about you.
And as always there was a hearty amount of feedback from atheists and
nonbelievers about how all religions were cults by definition.
And although the
nonbelievers rejected
about half of the statements the believers accepted, the brain scans of both groups were indistinguishable, providing further proof that evaluating truth or falsity is independent of the content of the statement in question.
«The fact that we found the same brain processing between believers and
nonbelievers, despite the two groups» completely different answers to the questions [
about religion], is pretty surprising,» says Jonas Kaplan, a research psychologist at U.C.L.A. and co-author of the study.
If
nonbelievers are wrong
about global warmism, the results will be «catastrophic.»