Sentences with phrase «argues against the beliefs»

The Republican Caucus strongly opposes this request which clearly argues against the beliefs of 83 percent of the public, as expressed in last year's referendum (see attached chart showing overwhelming support for downsizing).

Not exact matches

Your «default» beliefs and worldview are not always reasonable; it's healthy to «argue against yourself» and see how your views hold up.

They kept arguing against non-Calvinistic beliefs which I, as a non-Calvinist, did not believe!

Most significantly, Duddington argues against the charge that permitting an increasing role for religion in the legal and political (i.e., public) spheres would necessitate the imposition of one system of belief upon another, by re-emphasising the argument that Christianity does not serve to generate a moral code, but rather provides a vehicle through which it may be discovered.

The only thing we argue against is your right to encode into secular law your religious beliefs.

I can, however, argue against what is done with those beliefs.

But even without religious beliefs, we'd still not all agree on things like that, so here's a more practical reason to argue against religion:

According to the atheist belief they are arguing against... nothing.

My guess is that it will be a difficult case to argue against the impact of the contraceptive coverage rule as anything but an «incidental effect» given it targets a market and there's no evidence that the rule is over or under inclusively fashioned as a pretext to target the religious beliefs of those opposed to contraception.

It is so sad that so many atheists will spend most of their lives fighting and arguing against the very thing that can save them, only to die and go to hell and then to spend eternity regretting the fact that they wasted all of their time arguing about it rather than just accepting it, rather than just believing, and a belief that could have saved them.

This inferiority of the rationalistic level in founding belief is just as manifest when rationalism argues for religion as when it argues against it.

Paul wanted to show that the physical world, and our physical bodies, were not inferior to the spiritual, but were partnered with the spiritual to accomplish God's will in this world (John argues against similar beliefs in 1 John).

Also, they argued against any prayer or Bible - reading in the public schools unless it was according to their beliefs.

Though no decisive falsification is possible in religion, I have argued that the cumulative weight of evidence does count for or against religious beliefs.

I find it ironic that those who claim to base their beliefs off of clear logic and data are arguing against a poll — a form of data.

If they are content in their beliefs, than why can't you be in yours, and stop trying to argue against others» beliefs?

Edward Shils has argued that the Enlightenment ethos surrounding the French Revolution pitted scientific procedures (and their accompanying rationality) against traditional knowledge and beliefs.

But Mandelson's views have been changed in part by the banking crisis; he has argued that the crisis represented a «warning against an ideological belief in markets» efficiency, and a reminder that they can be distorted by perverse incentives».

Attorney General Eric Schneiderman on Monday backed an amicus brief with 20 attorneys general that argued against a business owner rebuffing a customer because of personal beliefs.

And THAT is the sad fact of what we are up against... our arguing facts is not going to overcome warmista belief.

Mrs Pendleton brought proceedings in the employment tribunal arguing that she had been indirectly discriminated against on the basis of her religion or belief.

Mike Fox describes a 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decision upholding Costco's dress code: The court upheld «Costco's dress policy against a challenge by an employee who argued her right to wear her eyebrow piercing was required by her religious beliefs as a member of the Church of Body Modification.»

It could be argued that in this role, defence lawyers are the most ethical lawyers because they uphold the administration of justice even when societal beliefs are against them.