Some atheists will spend all of their time, day and night, on forums like this,
arguing against the truth.
Quite apart from the absurdity of
arguing against truth in favour of being inside the teetering structure — it is a preeminent brittle structure — whether arguing high or low sensitivity — because that's what the punters want to hear — on a blog where science is meant to mean something and the policy nexus is in another room anyway.
Not exact matches
«President Macron can't
argue against hard
truths.
there have been many throughout history who have
argued against Christianity their entire life and shifted later once they realize
truth.
I tell you the
truth, no servant is greater than his master... no christian can
argue against this, as far as «turning over all logic, your mind, and your powers of thinking, your power to love»..
Over
against all attempts to prove
truth by a literal quotation from Scripture or by an appeal to an infallible leader, Bushnell
argued that the difficulty arises from language itself.
But a just appreciation of God's general revelation of Himself should preserve the
truth that Christianity has meaning for man precisely because it represents a fulfillment of the knowledge of God which is made possible through all the things which He has made, Nygren claims, of course, simply to be setting forth scientifically the fundamental Christian motif without
arguing its
truth or value
against any other motif.
The final three chapters summarily consider the evidence
against and for the virgin birth,
arguing that it is neither myth nor indemonstrable
truth; instead the evidence for the existence of an historical tradition anteceding the Gospels, ultimately from Mary herself, is more credible than any alternative explanation; hence, for anyone open to the possibility of miracles, there is good evidence to affirm Jesus» virgin birth on the basis of the New Testament's testimony.
@Patrick Pretty self absorbed there, to
argue against absolute
truth with your own absolute
truth, aren't you?
I mean in the face of all that
truth, how could anyone
argue against you?
Against a purely pragmatic approach, he
argued that anyone who tries to deny «the reality of this whole of
truth» is caught in a self - contradiction.
But I won't
argue scripture with someone who doesn't even have a sensible definition of
truth and keeps
arguing against something with nothing.
In all honesty, the «religious people» that don't legislate
against things based solely on their religious convictions and thereby hurt the rights of individuals, and who don't condemn science and medicine and societal progression and other religions and other denominations and people who are not religious, and who don't claim to know that something is true beyond all other
truths, are probably a very slim minority, and I'd have to
argue that they aren't really religious, they are just doing whatever makes them feel good, which could be accomplished through secular means as well.
Catholic citizens have every reason — including the
truth of the matter — to
argue that our Constitution is much more democratic that our Court now says it is, just as they have every reason to
argue that our Framers never meant «liberty» to be used as a wrecking ball deployed
against our indispensable relational «intermediary» institutions — beginning with the family and the church.
Elsewhere, we have strongly
argued against «the bullet» option but, if
truth be told, circumstances are giving us no choice but a one - way choice to reconsider our earlier position and then following that, to shift the goalposts accordingly.
«SERAP also
argues that Nigerians are entitled to the right to
truth derived from the obligations of the government to carry out an investigation of violations of human rights and crime of corruption committed within its jurisdiction; to identify, prosecute and punish those responsible; and to ensure that victims have the simple and prompt recourse for protection
against violation of fundamental rights, as well as to ensure transparency in public administration.»
They are the
truth, those that
argue against them are proposing myths.
And yet as self - evident as this
truth is to me today, there was a time when I, too, believed in pet overpopulation and would have been both stunned and confused to learn that I would someday
argue against its existence.
I'm not going to
argue against it as there is plenty of
truth to the statement, as there is with most arguments
against games.
You
argue that this «slowdown» is evidence
against the
truth that an increased greenhouse gas effect slows down the rate of heat flowing out of the planetary system and thus increases the total heat in the system.
While personally, I've no reason to doubt the
truth of that statement, as a member of the legal profession for the past 20 (+) years, I sometimes have questioned whether others in the profession would
argue against it.
The
truth is, you're
arguing against reality.