Here in the UK we do nt call our selfes Atheists but humanist, humanist belive their is no GOD but beleive we should help and
be kind to other human beings
Not exact matches
They do not have independent goals or rights or feelings that warrant our extension
to them the same
kind of courtesies that we would
to other human beings.»
more than 02 billions of christians
are belive in Jesus the
human god, more than 900 millions of Hidus
are believe in Krishna the
human god more than 300 millions of Buddahs
are belive in Buda the
human god, and many
others are belive in the
human god who will come in the end of days
to save the
human kind.
Humans killing each
other would
be no more right or wrong than
being kind to each
other.
What makes
human -
kind special
is the ability
to accept
others for who they
are and not judge.
We need not pause
to be precise about the terms «authoritative» and «society,» since these serve in Easton's definition
to distinguish political from
other kinds of
human interaction.
If it
is said that an instrumental view of politics still permits
other kinds of
human interaction
to be constitutive of self - interest, the reply
is that the considerations just reviewed also apply
to a theory or definition of
human interaction generally.
We look
to the Bible for insights about the nature of God, the nature of
humans, the nature of our relationship
to God and the world and each
other, and the
kind of life that
is appropriate
to these.
can find us where we
are and push us
to find each
other,
to show someone in our periphery that they
are a loved, seen
human being of inherent worth, no matter what anyone tells them — this
is the
kind of small revolution that steadily changes the world and keeps the prospect of a real Gilead at bay.
For the saving love of God
to be present
to human beings it would have
to be so in a way different from how it
is present
to other aspects of the body of the world — in a way in keeping with the peculiar
kind of creatures we
are, namely, creatures with a special
kind of freedom, able
to participate self - consciously (as well as
be influenced unconsciously) in an evolutionary process.
If you need a government contract, sanctioned by the government and granted by the government
to make sure you
are not discriminated against — for rights
to make decisions in a hospital or
to pass on your SS benefits or for
other human rights — work towards that
kind of thing.
On the
other hand, those who believe that there
are questions of greatest importance for
human existence that
are not amenable
to the
kind of inquiry we associate with the natural sciences, will
be more sympathetic toward theology.
human beings, «born free and equal in dignity and rights,»
are entitled
to human rights «without distinction of any
kind, such as race, color, sex, language, religion, political or
other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or
other status.
Orthodoxy
is being able not only
to repeat the same teachings but also
to show their relevance
to the new context.2
Other individuals, on the other hand, interpret religious beliefs as merely expressions of the human community's search for some kind of meaning, an accumulated source of information built up over the years as the community reflected on its life and activi
Other individuals, on the
other hand, interpret religious beliefs as merely expressions of the human community's search for some kind of meaning, an accumulated source of information built up over the years as the community reflected on its life and activi
other hand, interpret religious beliefs as merely expressions of the
human community's search for some
kind of meaning, an accumulated source of information built up over the years as the community reflected on its life and activities.
Because
humans are flawed, some more than
others, depending on what has
been learned and experienced though out life; also the
kinds of sin and wounds we have
been exposed
to, which determine gateways that give access for evil
to dwell in us.
I consider this an ambiguous gift: on the one hand, postmodern tendencies open up spaces for the new perspectives and voices mentioned above; on the
other hand, as the social critic Jane Flax notes, a hard - core
kind of postmodernity which would postulate the death of history, of the
human being and of metaphysics undermines the
kind of critical reason that
is necessary
to counter the «master narrative» constituted by capitalist globalization.
I mean the burning passion of lived awareness that we occupy a precarious existence on this planet together with the soil and its flowers, the water and its fishes, the air and its birds, the fire and energy sources; that our fellow
human beings are truly brothers and sisters with whom it
is better always
to make love - justice than war; and that gentleness lasts longer and touches more deeply than
other kinds of power.
His conviction that this can
be accomplished rests upon his faith in God on the one side and logical rigor on the
other — his belief that his tools
are indeed adequate (for
humans to have the
kind of knowledge
humans can have); that our knowledge of God, although partial,
is really knowledge of God as God
is.
There never
was a time in History that atheists exist, only in this present stage of our intellectual developement that they deny His exisrence, but it can
be easily explained that they
are just part of the dialectical process of having
to have two opposing arguments or forces
to arrive
to the truth, The opposing forces today
are the theists or religious believers of all religions and the
other are the atheists who denies religion, The reslultant truth in the future will
be Panthrotheism, the belief that we
are all one with the whole universe with God, and that we Had all
to unite
to prepare for
human survival that will subject us
humans in the future.Aided by the the enlightend consevationist, environmentalists, humanists and all of the concerned activists, we will develop a
kind of universal harmony and awareness that we
are all guided towards love and concern for all of our specie.The great concern of the whole conscious and caring world
to the natural disaster in the Phillipines,, the most theist country now
is a positive sign towards this religious direction.Panthrotheism means we will
be One with God.
I tried
to make this clear both in the reference
to being in the expression «ontic power» and by using the expression «fundamental entity» in the latter part of the book
to refer
to human beings and
other kinds of entities as well.
the belief on the existence of the devil
was concieved by theologians of the past thousands of years, there
was no
other way of explaining the bad experiences of people in the past because we
were not educated yet
to the
kind of what we have now, Why this happened because that
was part of the learning process that God wants us
to know, in pathrotheism, we
are part of God, and He himself
is evolving because He
is the universe, We
are now the conscious part of Him, our destiny in accordance
to his will also
be His destiny because it
is His will.Although He prepared first all the material reality of the universe ahead of us, The experiences for us
humans including the supernatural
is just part of nirmal process for learning because its natural process, today we reach a point of not believing the practices of the past, but it does not mean its wrong, Just like a child, adults loved
to tell mythical stories
to them, because we knew children enjoys it as part of their learning process.
We have reason
to extend
to such creatures some of the
kind of concern that we extend
to other human beings.
Honesty compels us
to recognize that we seek our own will and way, we try
to stop the creative advance when it seems
to go against our fond desires, we
are content
to remain in backwaters and deviate into side - channels, we love either imperfectly or in the wrong ways, we wish
to over-ride and control
others of our
kind, we spoil the environment and refuse our proper
human stewardship of the natural order.
But on the
other hand, when in talking about sin one talks only of such sins, it
is so easily forgotten that in a way it may
be all right, humanly speaking, with respect
to all such things up
to a certain point, and yet the whole life may
be sin, the well - known
kind of sin: glittering vices, willfulness, which either spiritlessly or impudently continues
to be or wills
to be unaware in what an infinitely deeper sense a
human self
is morally under obligation
to God with respect
to every most secret wish and thought, with respect
to quickness in comprehending and readiness
to follow every hint of God as
to what His will
is for this self.
Precisely that
kind of man, «transported by his passion» — in this case his
being caught up into a relationship with God in Christ, although it may very well
be true in
other ways as well, since
to be «transported» by passion
is to enter upon the most profound experience possible
to human beings — precisely such a man does feel and know what
is nothing
other than «the secret of the universe».
Among
other topics, Volf discusses faith in the public square, and asks what
kind of religious conviction will
be able
to give meaning
to human lives and help people seek the common good.
One hates
to make old arguments, but if this education teaches (as
other sections of the report make clear that
is must) the familiar doctrines about how very wrong it
is to impose any
kind of normative standard on the many forms that peoples» desires can take, on what basis does it exclude pornography or the sexualization of young girls as legitimate forms of the varied
human sexual appetite?
Whenever this same
kind of communion that
is revealed in the fellowship of Jesus Christ rises
to dominance over all
other processes in
human life, we have recurring the eschatological event,
to use the language of Rudolf Bultmann.
Spirituality can
be about the advancement of the
human spirit and that in itself can mean personal growth, becoming more in touch with our surroundings, with the energy around us, with
other people,
being kind to others... etc etc..
There
is a sense in which the divisions themselves already constitute some
kind of judgment after death, but a final judgment
was still awaited, presumably at the end of time when all the
human race have
been assigned
to their places in one or
other of the four hollow places.
It
is a «social event» founded on the basic need for
human beings to interrelate with
others of their
kind within the context of a nourishing social environment; it
is a «living - togetherness» constituted of individual
human beings sharing a common and,
to some extent, mutually satisfying form of social experience.
Considering his use elsewhere of the phrase, «thinking animal,» one can only suppose that here, too, it refers
to man, or a
human being, in contrast
to other kinds of animals who feel but can not think, or, at any rate, can not think that they think (1970a, 94; 1971, 208).
To exist as human is to exist as an instance of «becoming» or developing (for better or worse) and also to belong with others of our kind in a great enterprise to which each one of us makes her or his contribution, for good or for il
To exist as
human is to exist as an instance of «becoming» or developing (for better or worse) and also to belong with others of our kind in a great enterprise to which each one of us makes her or his contribution, for good or for il
to exist as an instance of «becoming» or developing (for better or worse) and also
to belong with others of our kind in a great enterprise to which each one of us makes her or his contribution, for good or for il
to belong with
others of our
kind in a great enterprise
to which each one of us makes her or his contribution, for good or for il
to which each one of us makes her or his contribution, for good or for ill.
Traditions of every
kind, hoarded and manifested in gesture and language, in schools, libraries, museums, bodies of law and religion, philosophy and science — everything that accumulates, arranges itself, recurs and adds
to itself, becoming the collective memory of the
human race — all this we may see as no more than an outer garment, an epiphenomenon precariously superimposed upon all the
other edifices of Nature (the only truly organic ones, as it may appear): but it
is precisely this optical illusion which we have
to overcome if our realism
is to reach
to the heart of the matter.
Is this
kind of comparison with
other species which
are closest
to mankind helpful for understanding
human behaviour and commitments?
If
human beings could communicate among themselves by direct sympathy, then they would
be as mutually dependent upon each
other as the body and mind
are; and this condition would deny individual persons freedom and distinct individuality over against one another.26 Although the relationship between one's body and mind seems
to be immediately social, Hartshorne holds that interchange between
human minds
is almost never by direct contact and generally through mediation of vibrating particles of air and
other kinds of «matter.»
The lesser
kinds of reverence have
been noted only in order that we may
be quite clear that even in Catholic circles the term worship
is applied normally
to God and none
other, although it
is important that we understand that by association with God and His presence and work, creatures
are seen in the Christian tradition as worthy of something even more remarkable than the respect for personality of which democracy has spoken — they
are worthy of reverence which
is religious in quality, reverence about which there
is a mystery, just as in
human personality itself there
is a deep mystery by reason of its
being grounded in the mystery of God.
Here, the idea
is not that the person in authority knows better than
other people, but that certain
kinds of
human activity require the coordinated action of many
human beings, and the easiest way (often the only practical way)
to get such coordination
is to set up one person
to give directions
to others.
Human psychology differs greatly,
to be sure, not only because we have much less access
to the psyches of
other animals, but also because their mentality
is so much less developed, so that they — at least most of them — seem incapable of entertaining norms as such, The difference
is, nevertheless, one of degree, not of
kind.
Perhaps tongue speech (or any of the
other gifts of the Spirit)
is a
kind of sacrament through which the transcendence of God
is both pointed
to and mediated (albeit in this case, through the
human body).
Now what I want
to know
is, What
other sort of nature
is there beside
human nature, and how does this connect with the age - old Christian belief that there
is a personal destiny, a continuity of some
kind between this life and the life hereafter?
Now there
is no cure whatever for this
kind of limitation, and it seems
to me but one instance of the intrinsic limit of the
human situation, and this might reasonably
be expected
to recur in
other fields in man's search for truth.
7 In discussing an earlier version of this paper, Hall responded that while there might
be some aesthetic quality associated with technology, the «difference of degree» between this and the aesthetic character of
other modes of
human activity
is so great as
to constitute a «difference in
kind.»
In any
kind of hard work (especially work that takes place in public and often under considerable pressure), it
is our natural
human tendency
to attend primarily
to our own performance,
to our own action,
to what we ourselves
are doing,
to how well we
are performing — and, perhaps especially,
to how
other people think we
are doing.
God
is free
to be kinder to humans than ever they
were or will
be to each
other, even in the nuclear age.
According
to the Christian witness, faith
is the
kind of basic
human attitude or disposition that can
be formally characterized as an existential self - understanding, or understanding of our own existence, in relation
to others and
to the encompassing whole of ultimate reality.
The point of
being human is to be kind and
to help
others — no matter if you believe in science or religion.
One corollary of this view
is that creativity in
human relationship can never
be the sheer imposition of one will upon another, It must
be the
kind of action, with whatever coercion
is involved, which so far as possible leaves the
other more free
to respond.
Augustine never quite brings his view of sexual love within the range of his deepest insight as
to what loving another in God means: turning the whole current of love for self and neighbour into the channel of the love of God «which suffers no stream to be drawn off from itself by whose diversion its own volume would be diminished».19 To turn the human loves into the stream of devotion to God is one thing, to set devotion to God apart as one kind of love which makes others inferior is anothe
to what loving another in God means: turning the whole current of love for self and neighbour into the channel of the love of God «which suffers no stream
to be drawn off from itself by whose diversion its own volume would be diminished».19 To turn the human loves into the stream of devotion to God is one thing, to set devotion to God apart as one kind of love which makes others inferior is anothe
to be drawn off from itself by whose diversion its own volume would
be diminished».19
To turn the human loves into the stream of devotion to God is one thing, to set devotion to God apart as one kind of love which makes others inferior is anothe
To turn the
human loves into the stream of devotion
to God is one thing, to set devotion to God apart as one kind of love which makes others inferior is anothe
to God
is one thing,
to set devotion to God apart as one kind of love which makes others inferior is anothe
to set devotion
to God apart as one kind of love which makes others inferior is anothe
to God apart as one
kind of love which makes
others inferior
is another.
The increased awareness and control made possible by symbolic thought enriches
human experience
to such an extent that it can
be said
to represent a difference not merely in degree, but rather in
kind, from the experience of
other animals (BSI 212 - 13).