Sentences with phrase «argument against the faith»

Faith isn't half as cartoonish or clearly defined as those who diminish it: If you only base your arguments against faith from academic texts, magazine articles or «arguments» you've had online, well, then who's actually poorly educated on the subject?

Some atheists make moral arguments against faith (how can God allow so much suffering?)

You are trying to build up the believers and tear them down to bring an argument against the faith.

Not exact matches

Out of all the postings on this site today, I found «Derp's «post the most fascinating and informative, as well as deeply revealing.Even after boasting of what seems to be a practically perfect live by any measure, he informs us that he takes pleasure in mocking and ridiculing those of faith who are presumably his opposite; I can only wonder if, given all his supposed accomplishments, he is smart enough to realize how deeply revealing of his true character his remarks are.As a believer, I rarely engage in arguments with my atheist friends, and like to think I wouldn't lower myself to the level of juvenile name - calling and personal attacks against whatever my atheist friends hold dear.Most of the time we simply agree to disagree; when they hold forth with misinformation or ignorance on their assumed «knowledge «of my faith, I try to gently correct them; I certainly don't allow any disagreements we have to devolve into hateful insults and name - calling.

«I was attacking the argument that gay people must be discriminated against — and anti-bullying programs that address anti-gay bullying should be blocked (or exceptions should be made for bullying «motivated by faith»)-- because it says right there in the Bible that being gay is wrong.»

On this topic, the negative pull on the believing boyfriend or girlfriend down slippery slopes is typically what gets highlighted in the argument against dating outside the faith.

There are indeed many intelligent, sincere, well - meaning people who say such things as: «Whatever the controversy, and however strong the scholarly arguments against it, I choose to believe in the supernatural aspects of my faith, simply because it is very important for me in the life of my faith to be radically aware of sacred mysteries.»

Often he gives us a polemic against everlasting life for mortals, and the polemic sounds very much like Luther's argument for salvation by faith alone.

But this is no argument against the genuine church which is good, and a testimony for the good, Christian faith.

From the earliest days of Christianity, the Gospels» resemblance to certain myths has been used as an argument against Christian faith.

Jesus could have been blaspheming, his exorcisms could be collusion with evil forces, and what his opponents, no doubt, regarded as the indiscriminate nature of both the forgiveness (including tax collectors and sinners) and the healings (Samaritan leper) could be an argument against these aspects of his ministry, but for faith both are a manifestation of the kingly activity of God.

lol, yes clay i am an atheist... i created the sun whorshipping thing to have argument against religion from a religious stand point... however, the sun makes more sense then something you can't see or feel — the sun also gives free energy... your god once did that for the jews, my gives it to the human race as well as everything else on the planet, fuk even the planet is nothing without the sun... but back to your point — yes it is very hypocritical of me, AND thats the point, every religious person i have ever met has and on a constant basis broken the tenets of there faith without regard for there souls — it seems to only be the person's conscience that dictates what is right and wrong... the belief in a god figure is just because its tradition to and plus every else believes so its always to be part of the group instead of an outsider — that is sadly human nature to be part of the group.

Because of them, I have a clearer understanding of why Atheists have such strong arguments against «faith» in God's existence.

I'm just trying to point out that basing an argument against someone based on the bible is not very convincing, due to the fact that they are quoting it to someone who has no faith in what they believer believes.

I'm not sure if it's just that so many are taught that faith (or the argument against it) MUST be so extreme.

An absence of this virtue of faith would seem to be illustrated by another recent Tablet editorial (14 April, «Listen to the People») which affirms: «Disobedience, in theory, includes a rejection of the arguments... against the ordination of women.

ausphor, Once again, I gave a purely logical argument against abortion, and instead of giving a sensible argument against it (which can not be done) you are choosing to let your bigotry shine, and attack my faith, which did not even enter into my discussion above.

And in his argument for faith as against the Roman Catholic law, Luther used Jesus» figure of the tree and its fruit.

At Erfurt the Occamists gave Martin a confidence in logical processes and the use of argument and dialectic which never left him, however much he thundered against it as a way to religious faith.

You can present no reasonable argument against, you're simply going on blind faith.

Moral arguments against abortion often stem from religious faith, but not always (there are pro-life atheists out there).

Silence is an argument for faith, against faith, for religion, against religion, for plurality, against fascism, without becoming either didactic or conciliatory.

Clearly, there should be enough good school places in the local system to ensure that parents who don't want to send their children to a faith school should not be forced to do so, but that is not an argument against the existence of faith schools.

When asked by a Christian radio station, Bennett said that their science curriculum presents evolution, creationism, and intelligent design as equally tenable explanations for the existence of life,» adding «We're centered in the Judeo - Christian tradition, we do not ignore faith and religion, we do not ignore the arguments against evolution, because there are some...»

You have in your packet a blue sheet that gives you the order of the day, so I won't belabor that too much, but I will just remind you that we're going to start out with a session on history this morning; then go to a lunchtime segment that will focus on some of the relevant federal constitutional issues, including evaluations of the federal attacks on and defenses of the Blaine amendments; then we will finish off the day with a session that will focus on litigation strategy related to these amendments and some of the arguments being made for and against them in that litigation, as well as a focus on how debates over faith - based initiatives and school vouchers are affected by these particular state constitutional restrictions.

I find it interesting that Monbiot has utter faith in research financed by Big Oil, though of course no sane human being would believe that the source of funding for research is a valid argument for or against the truth of the findings, would they?

If the issue is a breach of the policy, admitting that the plaintiff is an insured may be a useful argument against a claim for bad faith (i.e. not taking an unreasonable position, not adding costs to the insured's claim, etc.).

In the decision, The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court held that a fee award entered against a party for making frivolous arguments and conducting an arbitration in bad faith must be vacated.