You are assuming that if God revealed itself, it would automatically force all of humanity to adopt
belief under no force or coercion.
Not exact matches
1500 years of emperors and priest
forcing belief under penalty of death, and there'd be a billion faithful worshipers of Mullet Man lol just lol.
He wastes huge amounts of time on pointless activities, suffers emotional harm
under a bizarre worldview that accuses him of being inherently evil, and feels
forced to throw away significant amounts of money to fund the perpetuation of the
belief system his is enslaved by.
Christians have voted to put their God's name on everyones money, add «
Under God» to the flag salute,
force schools to teach intelligent design with absolutely no scientific basis along side the sciences, voted to write their moral laws on the fronts of public courthouses and tax funded buildings, voted to ban certain people from living together, being intimate or raising children because their orientation didn't fit with their bible
beliefs.
Employees also pay as well, of course, but what we have here is a company,
under the policies approved not just be the CEO but by the board, that is being
forced to pay for something that goes against their
beliefs.
This is in no way
under their
belief system some kind of «
forced» conversion.
The religious world view of the Hellenistic mind was centered in the notion of Fate, the
belief that life was
under the heel of blind and unfeeling
forces over which one had no control.
Christian undergraduates at elite universities often feel
forced into a troubling dichotomy: They may go «all - in» for a secular education, by examining their opinions
under the tutelage of an irreligious faculty; or else they must withhold something of themselves from rational inquiry, erecting a barrier between the performative requirements of their research discipline and their
beliefs about the way the world actually is.
You do not have the right to
force others to believe the same, nor do you have the right to deny them civil rights
under the law based on your unproven
beliefs.
Each found evidence that staff had come
under pressure from parents and governors with strongly held religious
beliefs, and in some cases had
forced changes to the curriculum which made them resemble faith schools, when in fact they were state - funded secular ones.
If you have a reasonable
belief you or someone else is in imminent danger you have the right,
under California law, to defend yourself with «no more
force than was necessary to stop the threat.»