Sentences with phrase «average believer»
I'd probably reject any effort by the state to dictate what I can think more than the average believer use to being told what to think by authority.
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chris, i bet i know more then you and it is a fact mind you that the average atheist knows more then the average believer... sad but true.
He responds to these «childish caricatures» by assuring his readers that even the «average believer» knows that «God is spirit, incorporeal, not an object located in space.»
They are silent for a reason, they are DUMB, ask your average BELIEVER a serious question and they fall apart.
When your average believer is looking for answers, they don't want a exhaustive doctrinal thesis, they want something that is approachable and easily digested.
The doctrines and dogmas and traditions that have built over time need to be questions and changed for a system that makes the average believer want to be there (and to be involved).
Kinda like your average believer, who will just ignore anything that invalidates their god - myth.
From the table of contents and the chapter subheadings the book appears like another dull commentary not meant to disturb the Christian cognoscenti or the average believer from their faith.
I think (and it seems you agree) that the average believer (in any religion), consciously or not, hopes for a safer, better life because of being religious.
But, that was at a time where the average believer was an uneducated serf.
Your knowledge of basic science and history is much stronger than that of your average believer.
Your average believer is a conformist and wants not to be outcast from his hers social network.
In reply, perhaps atheist know the Bible somewhat better than the average believer, but when you hear and feel God, one doesn't need to be a scholar on the Bible.
WOFers are highly delusional believers, even more so than your average believer.
In the many interviews I had with priests, each expressed a sophisticated theology that seemed far more abstract than what you might find occupying the mind of an average believer.