Sentences with phrase «as little reason»

Philosopher AC Grayling has made it his mission to show why people have as little reason to believe in... More

Wow what an idiot, you have just as little reason to assume that there is nothing as they do to assume that there an afterlife, yet you act as though it were a fact.

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There's little reason to think that trend will change as long as the economy is weak and debt is high.

Soon there will be no reason for a government as we know now, as there will be little left in the way of infrastructure responsibilities.

And, the last was the reason we got together as a team in the first place, but there was very little execution.

Yet there's little public conviction that alcohol sales need to be as tightly controlled as they are for social reasons.

To hear many investment advisers tell it, there's little reason to shift gears — regardless of what's going on in the various financial markets — as long as your long - term strategy makes sense.

Many commentators warn against Chinese nationalism but the study concludes that even the most prideful Chinese might be open to American reassurance, and there is little reason to view Chinese patriotism per se as dangerous to American interests.

It was clear even before Kraft Heinz came right out and said as much Tuesday that liberal Madison Mayor Paul Soglin and conservative Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and their respective backers had little reason to bash each other for not doing enough to keep Oscar Mayer's Madison plant open with taxpayer - backed financial assistance.

As if there weren't already enough reasons to eliminate the egregious stock option tax loophole, a column by Eric Reguly in this month's Report on Business magazine highlights yet another. This reason helps to explain why we had such a booming stock market up to 2008, but little growth in real investment and productivity.

As the amounts of capital being raised increases, the process gets more efficient for the reasons described above, and the market rate for the financing fees go down a little.

And yet, if human happiness is even half as complicated as the stock market, there is little reason to assume that intuition provides a sufficient guide.

I always got a little chuckle when parishioners would share their reasons why they missed church as if I was keeping score.

Atheists: I know many there are many people that practice religion just by fanaticism, I've seen many people in my opinion stupid (excuse the word) praying to saints hopping to solve their problems by repeating pre-made sentences over and over, but there are others different, I don't think Religion and Science need to be opposites, I believe in God, I'm Catholic and I have many reasons to believe in him, I don't think however that we should pray instead of looking for the cause and applying a solution, Atheists think they are smart because they focus on Science and technology instead of putting their faith in a God, I don't think God will solve our problems, i think he gave us the means to solve them by ourselves that's were God is, also I think that God created everything but not as a Magical thing but stablishing certain rules like Physics and Quimics etc. he's not an idiot and he knew how to make it so everything was on balance, he's the Scientist of Scientist the Mathematic of Mathematics, the Physician of Physicians, from the tiny little fact that a mosquito, an insect species needs to feed from blood from a completely different species, who created the mosquitos that way?

Except for the absence of gleeful Assassination Arts and Crafts, the situations mirror each other to a remarkable degree, and the administration has little reason to fear anything from the right except for their boisterous opposition and the possibility that the more spiteful among them might sing «na, na, na, na, hey, hey, goodbye» as Marine One carries the former President Obama to Andrews Air Force Base.

When asked why he plays music, Keeley Davis, bass guitarist for the band, cited mood, feeling and inspiration as his reasons: «[My sister] Maura and I are both very visual, and I guess we kind of thrive on drama a little bit.

Those concerned with Luther thus have little reason for concern with tradition, which — as «scholasticism,» «mysticism,» or «traditional dogma» — serves mostly as a foil for Luther's «discovery.»

A Nice Little Place on the North Side: Wrigley Field at One Hundred, by George F. Will (Crown Archetype): America's premier political columnist begins his latest reflection on the National Pastime with some charming, autobiographically - derived advice for Catholicism: after recalling that he became a Chicago Cub fan at age seven, «when I was still not as discerning as one should be when making life - shaping decisions,» the elegant Dr. Will notes that «The Catholic Church thinks seven - year olds have reached an age of reasoning» and remarks, «The Church might want to rethink that.»

I also appreciate Richard Reinsch's introduction to Ralph Hancock's excellent book The Responsibility of Reason, which Peter links below, but it seemed a little odd to me to use Rawls's concept of «public reason» as the key example of the sort of reason - reliance that Ralph wants us to see the insufficienReason, which Peter links below, but it seemed a little odd to me to use Rawls's concept of «public reason» as the key example of the sort of reason - reliance that Ralph wants us to see the insufficienreason» as the key example of the sort of reason - reliance that Ralph wants us to see the insufficienreason - reliance that Ralph wants us to see the insufficiency of.

Reflect on this a little: Many of the inspirations of the threefold system of political economy derive from evangelical inspirations such as personal creativity, personal responsibility, freedom, the love for community through association and mutual cooperation, the aim of bettering the condition of every person on earth, the cultivation of the rule of law, respect for the natural rights of others, the preference for persuasion by reason rather than by coercion, and a powerful sense of sin.

Try a little research, James, into all the reasons a worldwide flood did not occur and animals and plants could not survive in any way possible as the bible describes --- if you've got an ounce of courage, that is.

In terms of structure, they are anti-sectarian — a further reason why the Left, insofar as it is not prepared to re-examine its traditions, has little idea what to do with them.

Looking at society from a modern perspective, there seems to be very little reason not to maximize human happiness, as long as it hurts no one.

Economists as economists give little thought to the reasons that production in Indiana is more expensive or to the consequences of the closure to the factory town.

Pell, for theological and political reasons, seems to have been as far out of Little's loop as any churchman in the archdiocese.

Indeed we may say, perhaps a little exaggeratedly but not without reason, the liturgy such as it is actually performed today — though, we hope, against its own ultimate principles — this liturgy itself increases this greater danger, because it often has a harmful influence on the private prayer of individuals and groups.

The reason this grim little tale so amuses me (quite apart from the magnificent pun, which one hopes was purely extemporaneous), is that the lives of philosophers are so often oppressively, obtundently dreary that any diverting story — even one as macabre as the ordeal of Schopenhauer's poor old Putzfrau — comes to the scholar as a cherished respite.

I'm not a fan of Maher even a little bit, BUT, we as Christians often do give folks legit reasons for not wanting much to do with «Christianity».

But the guilt I would later feel had little basis in logic: The heart has its reasons, for guilt as for love as for rage.

You will go to church and ask the priest who may or may not have abused little boys, whether you have committed a sin yourself, will ask for forgiveness, will give money to the church as for some inexplicable reason the house of god needs donations from the poor and desolate, and you will go home and feel good about yourself for being so committed to a statue.

I must confess that I was a little perplexed, as well, though perhaps for different reasons.

Yet there is little reason to believe that society is going to be more tolerant of truth as regards marriage, and less tolerant of truth as regards other issues, such as concern for the poor.

I find it telling that the President quotes the Bible as the reason he is so passionate to care for the poor, yet he personally gives little or nothing to charity year after year.

Moreover, as Eric Chevlen notes, self - interest often interferes with moral reasoning, and if one is already interested in the contraceptive way of life, one may not be open to Humanae Vitae for reasons that have little to do with the strength of its arguments.

Seriously, this is one of the many reasons I say the bible was written by many men — little to no care for women as human beings.

If you go to the book of revelations, read a couple documents and study a little in some documentary's you will find out that the translation is corrupt, infact they destroyed for other reasons, BUT in Tobias you will still learn that the old testomant does not approve of homosexuality, also in Leviticus, as well as Romans, and 2nd Corinthians, and a bit more passages, use google, it might help.

Comments such as muslims are a disease and we must erraticate them makes little sense when we as Americans are suppose to be on the side of reason and tolerence.

Whereas «human reason and knowledge» was called very important by 96 percent of UU congregational leaders who took part in the multi-denominational Faith Communities Today (FACT) survey released early this year, the Bible was termed only «somewhat important» by 50 percent and had little or no importance to 48 percent as a source for worship and teaching.

Though there be critical ones thinking among the topmost branches of civilizations trees of disparagement offerings: the rooted labyrinths of reasoned deducing ways offers little minded goodness to be availed unto the soulless seekers whose only wisdom is found within travesty's demonic exuberances laying ever wastefully towards all graven worded reconciliations that the demonic do behest against many a Holy Believer in and of God's most unrighteous beneficiaries as being an unholy divider in search of disenfranchised souls to devour and chew upon...

As for now, I really believe that God has placed me here for a reason, and yeah, some days are better than others, but as I get to know him and his wife a little more, I'm discovering that they are human and are also fraiAs for now, I really believe that God has placed me here for a reason, and yeah, some days are better than others, but as I get to know him and his wife a little more, I'm discovering that they are human and are also fraias I get to know him and his wife a little more, I'm discovering that they are human and are also frail.

If we define God out of this world, we have little reason to wonder that so few are aware of his presence, and so must be counted as irreligious.

They recovered the classical experience of reason as the potential infinity of human questions, showing how this dynamic «ratio» as a desire for understanding is healed and transformed by the paschal - metanoetic experience of faith in the Sophia - Cod of compassion and love.4 Aquinas, for example, understood God as «intimately present within everything that exists since God is existence» and that Cod's omnipotence — Aquinas wrote very little about it — regards not actualities but possibilities, and is best manifested in forgiveness and compassionate mercy.5

We find ourselves quite unconvinced by much of the ancient rabbinical reasoning, a little of which is reflected in the letters of Paul.7 Nevertheless the Jews spent much time trying to learn how the Scriptures they had inherited from a former period were to be seen as relevant to their own day.

In this sense, it matters little enough whether he is given any particular proper name, although there are other reasons for calling him «God» and certainly we are right in describing him as «Love».

But science would find little support in certain other philosophies, such as an extreme existentialism which deprecates man's reason and looks on the impersonal aspects of the universe as a meaningless stage for the drama of personal existence.

Arguably, perhaps, as little business as many churches have paying a pastor, they have less reason to take on a mortgage.

That there is such a thing as strength of will which is able to haul up so exceedingly close to the wind that it saves a man's reason, even though he remains a little queer, that too one sees.

Women who ground their identity in their roles as wives, mothers, and homemakers will have little solid ground on which to stand when those roles, for whatever reason, change.

The temptation for young, ambitious, and educated Christians to convert to Islam for social and economic reasons is powerful, as Christians have little prospect of obtaining coveted positions in government and education, regardless of their credentials.

Reason can be perverted by evil habit as when, little by little, I get into the habit of using pornography or cutting corners on my taxes.