Sentences with word «agnosticism»

The combination of agnosticism about their benchmark, fundamental security selection that often identifies out - of - index names and their calls typically results in a high active share.
Because we dare not speak for God presumptively (as you've seen some TV preachers do in pronouncing certain public events as unmistakably God's judgment for specific sins), we should pursue a reverent agnosticism about why individual bad things happen.
He goes on to give an example of Agnosticism in action citing «an eminent critic and writer defending homosexual practices» in terms of a claim that there are `'» many normalcies of love»».
Confucianism stresses ethics, human relations, and the competence of reason, but its dominant attitude has made for agnosticism.
I am taking a position of agnosticism on that point, and I feel it is unwise to declare things of this sort with absolute certainty.
Since when is being spiritual but not religious not agnosticism?
Perhaps we must locate him somewhere among those waverers who have found a viable position between agnosticism and downright disbelief from which no visionary is likely to move them.
Peter Gomes says agnosticism is healthier than certainty in some cases.
While maintaining a reverent agnosticism about what happened physically, can we not look on the Resurrection as the birth of the Church and the continuation of its life through the ages?
Anything less is agnosticism which is not atheism.
But secular agnosticism also ends up turning the State into a totalitarian Big Brother as humanism is elevated into to a godless religion.
I think you're trying to guide everyone toward agnosticism.
For those who are unfamiliar with the Fluent Design System, Microsoft has designed it with platform agnosticism in mind.
Something they share in common is a certain agnosticism when it comes to Italy's relationship with, and place in Europe and the euro zone, in particular.
Christians redefine God, and move toward mysticism or drop into Agnosticism or Atheism.
Regarding comments comparing atheism vs. agnosticism vs. theism I say this: EVERYBODY is agnostic (the existance of a deity is unknown, being neither provable nor unprovable).
As we acknowledge the inevitable failure of any attempt to nail down God's thinking, we must recognize that there is more to the matter of our widespread agnosticism regarding the atonement than theological modesty before the mystery of the divine.
Agnosticism leaves us empty of them just as truly as atheism does.
personally, the catholic church ruined me and contributed to my reformation to agnosticism so i no longer participate in any sort of lenten fasting / sacrifice.
@ John, what you are describing is called Agnosticism, not Atheism.
understand the momentum of modern agnosticism, and re-synthesise the concepts of physical formality and spiritual mind.
Pious remembrance is better than nothing, but it easily slides into a certain agnosticism.
You said, «Seems that atheism is rooted in rebellion and pride, but at least it is a stand, unlike agnosticism, which is rooted in ignorance and laziness.»
Lack of a belief one way or the other is actually Agnosticism, which is much more rational.
(Atheism is a claim to know that God does not exist, whereas agnosticism says that we don't or can't know whether there is a God.)
I get your point John, I was saying is» Within agnosticism there are agnostic atheists (who do not believe any deity exists, but do not deny it as a possibility)»
Within agnosticism there are agnostic atheists (who do not believe any deity exists, but do not deny it as a possibility) and agnostic theists (who believe a deity exists but do not claim it as personal knowledge).
Having overcome so much in her life — including agnosticism, depression, broken relationships, and even child abuse (revealed in her moving book, My Peace I Give You)-- Eden has decided to make yet another courageous decision, recounted in her last chapter: to make a promise of consecrated celibacy to Christ.
Richard Dawkins recently attracted attention for his admission that his atheism was more properly a scientific agnosticism.
He advises his followers to cultivate a fundamental reverence for God, but a reverence that maintains a respectful agnosticism about the world God created and God's plans for it.
While German philosophers tended toward various forms of nihilism after Kant, «it was Husserl's great merit,» wrote Hilda Graef, Stein's biographer, «to have dispelled these mists of relativistic agnosticism by reaffirming the two old truths: the existence of objective truth and the existence of a knowable world in which we live.»
So I had one of those weeks where agnosticism crossed my mind more than once.
Here at «A Dash» we urge political agnosticism — you should seek to profit in your investments no matter who is in power.
However, as subsequent research produced new evidence that exit exams do not in fact increase dropout rates, the CEP moderated its stance to one of reasonable agnosticism.
Atheism or agnosticism replaced theism or deism as the dominant religion of the cultured.
In its unceasing tension with the varied and eminently rational claims of positivism, causality, and aggressive agnosticism.

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