Sentences with phrase «attempt by believers»

But the defensiveness springs from the attempt by believers to defend their belief against a «progressive» philosophy that is already rejected intellectually by nearly all cultural commentators, and, I suspect, despised intuitively by nearly all young people in America.

Just another attempt by a believer to be superior and exclusionary.

Not exact matches

Personally I don't care how a person spends their time or worships... they can worship goats, spirits, god, buddha, nothingness or football... As long as they don't criticize others or attempt to propagate to non believers, and by that definition, these atheist are as bad a evangelicals.

No... it is a belief that there is no deity or «God»... it's not a «non-belief» That's a poor attempt by your ego simply wanting to keep itself from being labeled in the same group as you label believers.

It serves as an indication of the breakdown of civil discourse, and the attempt by some culture warriors on the left to denigrate traditional religious believers as a darkened sect, unworthy of consideration.

I am impressed by the passion that atheists show in attempting to persuade believers in God not to believe.

When I say «I see no evidence for any God / gods and the evidence we do have proves a global flood did not occur as the bible claims» when asked by a believer why I don't believe, it might look very similiar to an anti-theist who is attempting to convince you to quit believing in God.

As opposed to the thousands and thousands of billboards & church message boards every 50 ft with their snarky comments pushing their beliefs and quite often attacking non -(Jesus) believers and / or science directly or indirectly, all the millions of people that like to go around constantly «sharing their beliefs» about how everyone who believes differently is gonna be tortured and burned for eternity, or the countless attempts by local, state, and federal government officials to push laws based on those beliefs and to favor those beliefs all over the country.

You can attempt to use the comments by anyone you like, strong or weak atheist or believer, but without real evidence, all you have is an opinion and faith.

I keep hearing believers complaining that the billboard in question is somehow an attempt by atheists to «force» people to abandon their faith, or that it is «pushing atheism» on society.

CNN's «belief» blog is a series of articles that either bash religion or highlight the extreme fundamentalists in an attempt to make all believers guilty by association.

Any attempt at applying «logic» to explain the bible by people who are believers and still think of themselves as rather intelligent (self - delusion is a symptom / cause of religious belief) always ends up in ridiculous arguments...

We are fortunate to live in a nation that protects us from the «red martyrdoms» that Christians in many parts of the world risk by becoming a Christian believer, but that doesn't mean that, although faithfulness will not make God love us any more or faithlessness will make God love us any less, there are not «white martyrdoms» that will result from attempting to confess our faith with our lives and not merely profess our faith with our mouths.

An ongoing attempt by creationists and believers to try to get the content of their beliefs on the same footing as science - based beliefs.

Thus they stood against any attempted control of religious life and experience by a minority of Christian believers.

Having been grasped by the promise, the community of believers must attempt in their worldly vocations to live by the values implied in their Christian vision.

This reads as another attempt by «true believers» to define «true skepticism» (true skeptics, etc) as true belief pretending at doubt.

As Karl says, this is typical of the drivel spouted by the AGW believers when anyone tries to question their religious beliefs: — Don't attempt to discuss the science with them, but make false associations with Exxon and the right wing press.

The thing is that despite many attempts I have never found an independent scientific authority to support the Realclimate assertion that extra IR at the surface does actually reduce the rate of energy loss from oceans to air, yet it is parroted automatically as gospel truth by AGW believers.

«As someone who personally experienced central planning and attempts to organise the whole of society by directives from above, I feel obliged to warn against the arguments and ambitions of the believers in the global warming doctrine.

Several attempts will be made by climate change conformists and True Believers to smear the work of BEST, and to prevent them from publishing their data.

* According to the Berkeley group, the Earth's surface temperature will have risen (on average) slightly less than what indicated by NASA, NOAA and the Met Office * Differences will be on the edge of statistical significance, leaving a lot open to subjective interpretation * Several attempts will be made by climate change conformists and True Believers to smear the work of BEST, and to prevent them from publishing their data * After publication, organised groups of people will try to cloud the issue to the point of leaving the public unsure about what exactly was found by BEST * New questions will be raised regarding UHI, however the next IPCC assessment's first draft will be singularly forgetful of any peer - reviewed paper on the topic * We will all be left with a slightly - warming world, the only other certitude being that all mitigation efforts will be among the stupidest ideas that ever sprung to human mind.

You uber marketing believers hang your hats on a superfluous scenario at best, and, on an attempt to create business by short - cut methods of a misleading nature at worst.