People who believe are weak minded and can not
accept the fact there is not reason for anything, no loving omnipotent being who cares or anything after death.
Not exact matches
«What it has to do with is the
fact that the person is not humble enough to
accept responsibility when things go wrong,
accept that
there might be better ways to do things, and they just have a closed mind,» says Jocko Willink, coauthor of Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win.
Whilst
accepting that
there is two sides to every argument / position describing climate change as a big hoax and the depiction of a bleak medieval style future is not responsible analysis of the
facts.
Just as jujitsu teaches practitioners to channel an opponent's energy to achieve their goals, running a business during the holidays requires
accepting the
fact that
there will be a certain amount of shifted focus and figuring out how to use it for the good of the company.
If you
accept this premise that
there can be a meaningful difference based on method of origination of a token based on work vs. based on payment of money, then it raises more questions such as how would the above examples all be treated by the SEC on a
facts and circumstances basis, and on down the rap sheet.
No such proof can ever be absolute (e.g.,
there is no 100 % proof that we exist, the world is flat, or the solar system is helio - centric... but
there is such tremendous weight of evidence as perceived by our 5 senses and logic these are
accepted as
fact and truth).
It's the 0.001 % of them who hold rallies, blow themselves up, and go on television / radio (in the case of Fox News, start their own network) who HATE the
fact that
there are those of us out
there who do not
accept the idea of God or Jesus or Allah and think it is unacceptable.
I already had to
accept the
facts that
there is no Santa and no tooth fairy.
To demonstrate that
there is a God to individuals that discard the Bible and the notion of a God, it has to be approached from a different prospective, from their viewpoint, what they will
accept and not what you believe as
fact, based on the Bible.
If you were a real Christian you would know Christs words speak for themselves and the
fact that he didn't take the sword away and turn it into a pruning shear right then and
there does not mean he was saying «I mean all this stuff is for later after I come back and kill all the evil people and those who haven't
accepted me as their savior so you won't have to fear anyone so you can finally give up your guns and weapons of war...» You disgust me chad.
The assumption behind the Ostpolitik was that the Eastern bloc would always be
there and so had to be
accepted as apermanent
fact of life: the future Pope John Paul II already knew that it must not be
accepted as a
fact of life, and that it was itself vulnerable, especially to the Catholic Church.
They do not have to believe or agree but they do have to
accept the
fact that
there are others out
there with different beliefs and respect the
fact that, that is what they believe.
All we say is that given that
there is no physical evidence for your god (no fossil records, no records outside of the buybull), we refuse to
accept it as
fact.
There have been plenty of wars fought over a wide range of reasons, not all wars are over religion, when are you athiests going to get off of your high horse and
accept the
fact that everyone, religious and non religious cause violence at some time.
Finally, the Maryknoll religious says, while the church perhaps did not approve the Crusades, the two world wars, the Korean war, or today's Vietnam war, the
fact that it did not condemn them «shows that it
accepts the idea that
there can be a just war, and that men might sometimes be right in taking up arms to defend themselves.»
Can we not
accept the suggestion that
there are
facts, even «scientific»
facts, which we can never know because we are incapable of understanding them?
There is a certain inconsistency in the fact that persons who accept without question the presence of God in the physical universe so often wonder if there is any reality in it when the processes of prayer are exam
There is a certain inconsistency in the
fact that persons who
accept without question the presence of God in the physical universe so often wonder if
there is any reality in it when the processes of prayer are exam
there is any reality in it when the processes of prayer are examined.
There can be little question that Whitehead himself
accepted this; he believed that the tenderness, sympathy, and love which were shown in Jesus» life and death are in
fact the disclosure of the nature of the Divine Reality who is the chief — although not the only — principle of explanation for all that has been, is, and will be.
The
fact is according to the Bible,
there are people in Heaven who did not
accept Jesus as thier savior, because He had not died yet.
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.
The world of man in which his action is placed, being man - made, can not simply be
accepted as nature was in former times, even where it was mysterious, for even
there its incomprehensibility appeared as something divinely matter of
fact.
The
fact that so many believe does not make the story true, it merely means that those believing the story seriously don't care if
there is evidence to support it, they merely
accept it on faith (belief without evidence).
There are various strategies that can be adopted regarding the use of money, but first you must be willing to accept the fact that all that you have is ultimately God's, that there are alternative uses for your money, that your decision on how to spend $ 100 can literally be a life or death decision for a starving child half a world
There are various strategies that can be adopted regarding the use of money, but first you must be willing to
accept the
fact that all that you have is ultimately God's, that
there are alternative uses for your money, that your decision on how to spend $ 100 can literally be a life or death decision for a starving child half a world
there are alternative uses for your money, that your decision on how to spend $ 100 can literally be a life or death decision for a starving child half a world away.
We found out they are
there through science and now it's
fact and
accepted.
Contra the
accepted view,
there has in
fact been no worsening of income distribution.
I believe
there is very real persecution (sometimes) in the USA but most of us haven't seen it... In
fact, sometimes I think we tend to be the persecutors when we try to force our beliefs on others or shun others who will not
accept our beliefs.
There has been nothing new ever since and deists need to join civilization and
accept facts as
facts.
In
accepting our limits, we
accept the
fact that
there may be suffering which could be relieved but ought not.
Philosophy (which means love of wisdom) I thought it wise to
accept the
fact that
there is someone greater than I that could have made all that has happened in the natural course of events.
We base what we
accept as
fact off of the evidence and we do not claim to have an answer when
there isn't one to be had.
In past ages some have talked as if
there were a gulf between these two; and in reaction from that utter separation, some have talked as if
there were no distinction between them, The
fact is that throughout Christian history, whatever may have been the theory
accepted as valid,
there has been precisely such a distinction.
All knowledge about death does not alter the
fact that death is not a meaningful part of life and that
there is nothing for us to do but to
accept the
fact of death; hence as far as our life is concerned, defeat.5
In
fact, since
there can never be true uniformity in all things, the only way to achieve unity is to recognize,
accept, and celebrate our diversity.
The easy dismissal of death, or the assertion that «for those who believe,
there is no death», is taken to be, what it often is, an easy evasion of the dread reality itself — escapism, childish refusal to face
facts, and above all (in our special interest) unwillingness to
accept our human mortality.
, for many atheists too, I'd say «
Accept the
fact that
there are areas of belief in your life.»
There is every reason to
accept them as authentic; their very vividness, the
fact that the tradition has misunderstood the first two (v. 33 makes them examples of self - denial) and the extreme unlikelihood of anyone but Jesus using a Zealot assassin as an example (cf. the Labour Racketeer!)
So as you said «
Accept the
fact that
there are areas of unbelief in your life.»
There are, in
fact, many Christian churches who fully
accept gay couples for who they are, some of them performing marriages of gays.
I find it both interesting and entertaining that
there are so many theories about the creation of the universe that people just
accept as a
fact without substanitive proof.
Because of this he is better able to
accept the
fact that
there are many people he can not help or whom he can help only in very limited ways, no matter how hard he tries.
Finally,
there is cognitive surrender, in which, in Berger's terms, «one simply
accepts the
fact that the majority is right, then adapts oneself to that point of view.»
This is no slight problem in view of the
fact that
there is bad theology in many of the hymns, and the Apostle's Creed, along with great eternally true affirmations, declares belief in such matters as the resurrection of the body, which few people who say it now
accept.
So thrive in your ego or just
accept the simple
facts that
there are other powers than yourself and that you can use their leverage for your own «salvation» be it as influential role - models or food for thought.
The second you
accept the
fact that others feel about YOUR god - idea the way you feel about Allah / Zeus / Poseidon / etc, then the efficacy of Pascal's Wager goes out the window, because
there are SO MANY god - ideas to try to believe, and many of them contradict one another... short of George Orwell's «1984» concept of «DoubleThink».
All this being granted, Father Vagaggini said, it would appear that one can
accept a further hypothesis:
There is nothing to deny the fact that in the non-Christian religions even after Jesus Christ there have been elements, in greater or lesser number — whether of a ritualistic, institutional or doctrinal nature — with a positive value for salvation, in the sense that God makes use of them to effect the salvation of those persons of sincere faith who belong to these relig
There is nothing to deny the
fact that in the non-Christian religions even after Jesus Christ
there have been elements, in greater or lesser number — whether of a ritualistic, institutional or doctrinal nature — with a positive value for salvation, in the sense that God makes use of them to effect the salvation of those persons of sincere faith who belong to these relig
there have been elements, in greater or lesser number — whether of a ritualistic, institutional or doctrinal nature — with a positive value for salvation, in the sense that God makes use of them to effect the salvation of those persons of sincere faith who belong to these religions.
There is none, so
accept that and don't try to dishonestly frame everything you say as if it were
fact.
If indeed
there were significant new findings, broadly
accepted by leading New Testament scholars, concerning the historical
facts about what Jesus taught, such findings would indeed be newsworthy.
I know
there are many scientists, Christian and non-Christian, who do not
accept evolution as
fact.
Of course
there are many Religious Right advocates that do not
accept historic or scientific
facts and believe in Creationism over proven Evolution, believe the earth is 5000 years old instead of Billions reguardless of the fossil and rock record.
The
fact you profess with such gusto that you are a christian and a creationist says that no matter how much evidence to the contrary of your beliefs is made available (and
there is already volumes of information) you will never
accept truth b / c you have been engrained and programmed to believe one set of precepts and only that set.