Sentences with phrase «bases for belief in»

Some who acknowledge the inadequacy of both revelation and religious experience as bases for belief in God affirm that God's existence is self - evident.

(2) Provide a basis for the belief in evidence, fact, the 5 - senses, and logic.

In any case, no scientist, elite or otherwise, has found any scientific evidence for God's existence, so the basis for their belief in a god has no different than anyone else's.

A final pastoral function is the reconciling one — i.e., restoring the basis for belief in persons of faith despite their contradictory behavior; «turning the other cheek» in anomalous situations.

The Mormons use this passage as the basis for their belief in Baptism for the Dead.

Again, I am not saying that evidence of a historical Jesus is a basis for belief in the supernatural aspects of Jesus.

IF we begin to believe that, then we have no basis for belief in anything, because everything that we believe can be boiled down to wishful thinking and too much pizza before we went to sleep.

By careful «epistemic correlation,» he seeks to bring these two elements or realms of discourse together as a basis for belief in God.

Rabies would make an interesting addition to Paul Collins's excellent piece on the basis for belief in vampires (29 January,...

I've watched the conversations on Climate, Etc and other places — and what I've seen is that the basis for belief in CAGW is not generally data or fact, but a blind belief in a science that few understand, a misplaced faith in models and studies based on models and — fear.

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Helena Morrissey of the London - based Legal and General is making a big push for sustainable investing, saying at a conference Monday that individual investors are becoming increasingly wary of putting their money in the market as they fear companies will act in ways that run counter to the investor's own moral beliefs.

That could prove a perilous prospect for the ACA, based on the High Court's recent ruling in Hobby Lobby, which said that closely - held companies can exempt themselves from key parts of their coverage requirements, such as for birth control products and services, based on their religious beliefs.

Our reasoning here applies what's known as the principle of restricted choice, which comes up in the card game bridge, and is the intuition behind the formal mathematical procedure for updating beliefs based on new information, Bayesian inference.

For instance, at Allsteel, a designer and maker of office furniture based in Muscatine, Iowa, there's a general belief that every office should contain six types of workspaces:

Forward - looking statements may include, among others, statements concerning our projected adjusted income (loss) from operations outlook for 2018, on both a consolidated and segment basis; projected total revenue growth and global medical customer growth, each over year end 2017; projected growth beyond 2018; projected medical care and operating expense ratios and medical cost trends; our projected consolidated adjusted tax rate; future financial or operating performance, including our ability to deliver personalized and innovative solutions for our customers and clients; future growth, business strategy, strategic or operational initiatives; economic, regulatory or competitive environments, particularly with respect to the pace and extent of change in these areas; financing or capital deployment plans and amounts available for future deployment; our prospects for growth in the coming years; the proposed merger (the «Merger») with Express Scripts Holding Company («Express Scripts») and other statements regarding Cigna's future beliefs, expectations, plans, intentions, financial condition or performance.

The HRC maintained the prevailing compensation program for named executives primarily based on its belief that the major compensation - mix adjustments made in 2010 would continue to be successful in furthering the Compensation Principles in 2011 and information received from the Company's major stockholders, including stockholders» over 96 % approval of the Say - on - Pay resolution at our 2011 annual stockholders» meeting.

His decision to sell out in May was based on a belief that oil prices had gone too far too fast, not that the bull market for oil - or for that matter, commodities of all kinds - has ended.

Dividend growth in the double digits looks likely for the foreseeable future, and much of this belief is based on excellent fundamentals.

The founding principles embedded in AngelBlog are based on a passion for entrepreneurship and a belief that alignment, governance and fairness are critically important ingredients for angel investor and entrepreneurial success.

Oklahoma legislators have approved a measure to grant legal protections to faith - based adoption agencies that cite their religious beliefs for not placing children in LGBT homes and lawmakers in Kansas were close to passing a similar measure.

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Of course, doing that work is incredibly hard, but the difference is the occurrence of risk — in traditional startups, it occurs at the jump point — for service based folks, the «risk» is simply having the belief that the work you'll put in to create the equity while employed will pay off.

what you believe is not «biblically based», it's indoctrination about ideas that came from warping and exagerating ideas that existed in «pagan» (not actually the correct term but good for this purpose) mythologies, and the evil imaginations of men like Dante and those who desired to see those they considered inferior in doctrine, belief, religion or culture in torture.

For e.g., if I posited a god a billion times more vengeful and gruesome than yours, would you drop your belief in God and run over to my super-god based on your Pascal's Wager logic?

So how do you go from that reasoning to «Since it wasn't accidental then it must have been this ancient male diety named (fill in blank depending on religion) who loves me and knows me and cares for me and wants me to perform rituals that have nothing to do with morality like prayer, not eating certain things, sabaath and many more just because he said so, even though we have no record of him saying anything, just records of humans who wrote things down that they claim he said, but I want to believe it all so badly I will base my beliefs on no other evidence than «it just can't be accident».

Not for the communist atrocities those were caused by attempts to engineer society, based on a flawed understanding of innate human nature and a fallacious belief in humans beings as blank slates.

Its very similar to how Muslim beliefs override reason and practical thinking in the middle east where most of us in America call them crazy for things they do based on their religion.

That just would not make sense and if they turned me away for not believing in the same things they do, that is fine because the group is based on their beliefs and values.

@JW, Yeah, but that would be tantamount to using college to expose young minds to different world views and thought process and allow them to use that exposure to increase their understanding of the world and form a solid and well rounded basis for the views and beliefs that will drive their actions in life.

Scholasticism Theology moved from the monastery to the university Western theology is an intellectual discipline rather than a mystical pursuit Western theology is over-systematized Western Theology is systematized, based on a legal model rather than a philosophical model Western theologians debate like lawyers, not like rabbis Reformation Catholic reformers were excommunicated and formed Protestant churches Western churches become guarantors of theological schools of thought Western church membership is often contingent on fine points of doctrine Some western Christians believe that definite beliefs are incompatible with tolerance The atmosphere arose in which anyone could start a church The legal model for western theology intensifies despite the rediscovery of the East

Spin it how you will, religion constantly gets a free pass in this country and when its ever called out for its discriminatory practices and beliefs it claims religion has the right to discriminate based on those beliefs... but everybody else doesn't have the right to even make the accusation that religion is getting all kinds of special rights allowing them to justify their own discrimination.

It is unfortunate for you folks but this country has always been based in the Christian belief.

I am for them based on the [belief](can't bold) of what the bible teaches, regardless of what you may have been told in your sunday school.

The two are based on the belief of «Jesus» and a single god then two religions start to divide in their little rules for being a «good little Catholic» vs a «good little Christian», people have died because of this, example the Crusades.

You are of the opinion that it would have been a better in some way to simply deny this woman employment based on her religious beliefs than fire her for her religious beliefs?

She even wrote, in her official decision, that it is based on her religious beliefs, and for that alone it should be overturned.

That law would be form based upon the belief whether you believe that marriage is for growing families, in which case you make divorce difficult or marriage is based on personal happiness where a divorce law would be more relax.

Mormons and Mormonism provides a beautiful argument for atheism, in giving a great example showing the nature of religious belief: Based on unreal fabrications, sprinkled with bizarre claims.

But gee, so Dorothy Day, the SCLS and Martin Luther King and all those religiously oriented people who restrain their baser impulses, feed the hungry, clothe the naked, take in children no one else wants, seek justice for those society devalues in the name of money, power, or maintaining the hold of the class in power — all based on their beliefs — are dangerous to society and mentally ill?

The reality is that any absolute belief in any ism, without ability to challenge and change based on new evidence, is formula for disaster.

The Catholic Church, which is the basis for Santorum's wackjob beliefs, once condemned Copernicus for asserting that the Earth revolves around the sun in the same way that they condemn Obama for supporting birth control and abortion today.

Perhaps, but what I have shown is that the underlying basis for your beliefs is fundamentally flawed, as it has on many occasions in the past been the basis for beliefs that turned out to be false.

Metaphysical realism, understood in a processive way, requires this triple sense of objectivity: novel human doings in need of guidance, long - enduring systems of belief that provide the schemata of interpretation by which that guiding can be done, and opportunistic skill in sculpting act and theory, fact and canon, into a coherent, fruitful basis for intelligent action.

The problem is most believers believe in that type of God, which your school of thought can not set those parameters around.Now if that school of thought helps you come to a belief or an opinion that there is no God then fine, because I certainly could not bring any solid evidence to contradict that belief, but if your proclaiming that there is no God to be a fact, there really is no basis for that fact.

The fact that the new testament is in question over and over within these conversations cast any person's faith; whose beliefs are based in part on comments penned by or for Paul, into question.

Indeed, Gottlieb enthusiastically underscores how Mendelssohn's support for religious pluralism «is appropriate to life in a cosmopolitan, diverse society,» applauding his theologically based opposition to any kind of religious coercion and his emphasis on how religious beliefs promote «individual flourishing.»

What religion offers: — The opportunity to avoid eternal punishment for not worshiping / believing in my god (not worried enough to care)-- An explanation for the universe and why we are here (I'll take the knowledge gained from the application of the scientific method, but thanks)-- Living forever in heavenly bliss (I am content with this life)-- The opportunity to divide humanity based upon different belief systems (There is enough dividing us already)-- Purpose, a code of ethics, and fulfillment (I have that already, without religion)-- Develop a personal relationship with god (I've never seen or heard from any gods nor have I seen any independantly verified scientifically collected peer reviewed proof.

(ENTIRE BOOK) A helpful and understandable presentation of Whitehead's thought, for people interested in learning how careful, reflective thinking can provide a basis for religious beliefs.

It is not for everyone, and especially those that find joy and pleasure in demeaning the faith of others and express a perspective that no place on Earth can or should be be made exclusive onthe basis of belief or religious practice.

Christianity, for example, is essentially based on the twofold belief that man is in a special sense an object of pursuit to the divine power throughout creation, and that Christ is the terminal point at which, supernaturally but also physically, the consummation of humanity is destined to be achieved.