Sentences with phrase «beliefs on a society»

He's not the one trying to force irrational beliefs on society.

He maintains that «all of the invective and hyperbole about anti-semitism is really a smokescreen for imposing an officially sanctioned religious belief on society as a whole which is not the function of Courts or Human Rights Tribunals in a free society».

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Thiel planned to address the Property and Freedom Society, according to its program, on one of his characteristically brutal beliefs: the virtue of corporate monopoly.

I will leave a fuller defense of Edmund Burke to Yuval Levin, who is an expert on the subject, but Marr badly mischaracterizes Burke as a kind of Deweyan pragmatist and experimentalist, when in fact Burke believed in the authority of tradition and precedent, in a predisposition toward reverence for the past, in the notion of God - given rights, and in the necessity of transcendental beliefs and institutions as a grounding for political society.

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.

«Dear Society, If you think a woman in a tan vinyl bra and underwear, grabbing her crotch and grinding up on a dance partner is raunchy, trashy, and offensive but you don't think her dance partner is raunchy, trashy, or offensive as he sings a song about «blurred» lines of consent and propagating rape culture, then you may want to reevaluate your acceptance of double standards and your belief in stereotypes about how men vs. women «should» and are «allowed» to behave.

*********************************** One would hope that voters were casting their ballots on the basis of what they conclude is best for a civil society and a pluralistic population, not on the more egocentric opinions they may have about right or wrong that are derived from their religious beliefs.

And, you relentlessly campaign to foist your beliefs on the rest of society, when the rest of society isn't interested, doesn't want it, and can see the silliness of it.

What many do a poor job of stating is that they blame people's excessively fervent beliefs and devotions for causing the various atrocities they have caused throughout history, and the effect that the fundamentalist contingent has on the narrowing of modern societies view.

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?

Dalahäst So, like I said, you are actually a product of our modern, more liberal, egalitarian society, but you are insisting on giving credit for this to «Christianity», as if Christianity has always lined up with your beliefs.

The narrative an individual chooses to embrace is largely dependent on the culture and society in which he was born and in which he lives, and the beliefs of people in his life he's respected.

Your lack of trust in society is based on your belief that with out god you can not be good,, which is nonsense.

Now, realize that in today's society you are still just as hated, shunned and looked down upon for declaring that same differing belief... or even non-belief — just because people are still too hung up on their precious religious dogma to realize that, though the outcome is obviously less drastic than in the past, they are still doing the same thing that religious people did in the past?

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.»

Today the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life released what it claims to be the first quantitative worldwide study on how governments and societies infringe on the religious beliefs and practices of individuals.

We've had blue laws imposing Christian beliefs on businesses, Prohibition, laws criminalizing sodomy, laws banning birth control, abortions, gay marriages, interracial marriages and more simply because arrogant Christians thought they needed to impose their «personal knowledge» of what God wants on our entire society.

You said, «Considering the consistent treatment of this topic on this blog» The topic of abortion comes up on occasion when some religious lunatic tries to force his or her moronic beliefs on the sane part of society.

In a press release, organizers said the event was focused on promoting Pancasila, Indonesia's state philosophy, which encompasses five basic principles that include belief in one God, just and civilized society, unity and democracy.

The second argument must be taken very seriously, for (as so often happens nowadays) it casts doubt on certain Christian beliefs, namely, that we must preach the gospel so that men may be converted; that the purpose of preaching the gospel is neither to reform society nor to increase justice, but simply to convert men to their Lord Jesus Christ.

We now face religious jingoism, the imposition of personal beliefs on the whole pluralistic society.

The Journal of Religion & Society published a study on religious belief and social well - being, comparing 18 prosperous democracies from the U.S. to New Zealand.

The bible is a known manmade fraud whose only hold left on society is in the realm of «belief.»

«The right to practise one's religious beliefs must accommodate civil society's obligation to provide for the safety of all and, in particular, children's safety from sexual abuse,» the commission wrote in a report released on Monday.

So you feel that you should have the right to impose your infantile beliefs on the rest of society?

Think of how you would view witchcraft as a retarding influence on society and how you would long for the day when the shining light of science and reason would illuminate your village and the majority of the population would abandon their belief in witches, pixies and elves.

Now, realize that in today's society you are still just as hated, shunned and looked down upon for declaring that same differing belief... or even non-belief — just because people are still too hung up on their precious religious dogma to realize that they are still doing the same thing that religious people did in the past.

One is a lack of belief in gods, the other is an economic and social ideology that promotes a classless society based on public ownership of the means of production.

We aim to rediscover and reconstruct a society based on «belief in the ability of human experience to generate the aims and methods by which further experience will grow in ordered richness» (PCM 227).

Matters of belief should be discussed with care and an open view for the thoughts of others on all sides or someday we will live in a society like Pakistan where Ministers get shot for their belief and scharia is forced upon the people.

I believe it is determined by society, and that societies tend to develop similar beliefs on what is right and wrong because humans are social creatures, pretty much incapable of surviving on their own in the wilderness (we are useless predators when unarmed).

Some how it's felt that values, morals, virtues are not there in a secular world only faceless solid lifeless laws of men rather than what has been relayed by Holy books that calls for good deeds and reject bad deeds and to build a faithful societies, communities, nations since communications among nations or even among the nations of mixed cultures and beliefs... Laws or God and universe are to be prepared by some thing that is equivalent to UN but built on nations beliefs to achieve the code of understanding among nations but as can see now it is build on groundless bases if not of words of God to faiths... in addition to those non spiritual secular beliefs to make decisions of faith but at the moment the secular world make and take the decisions while the beliefs and faiths has to pay for it when it becomes a war between all faiths or religions outside your world, it would become back into your inside among the mixed culture and beliefs of the nation or nations under one country flag...!

Name * Lynesh: It's not okay for anyone to use their belief to impede on basic human rights and that includes gays who are doing no harm in society.

You said «The reality is that Atheists post on a Belief Blog because it is a place to challenge the conceptions of Religion which we feel are a detriment to human society by proporting magical thinking»

Washington (CNN)-- Speaking at the 60th annual National Prayer Breakfast inWashington on Thursday, the president said, «We know that part of living in a pluralistic society means that our personal religious beliefs alone can't dictate our response to every challenge we face.

Churches or Religious Groups are simply gatherings of individuals in the society who hold similar beliefs on morality, law, etc..

I might be ecelectic, but what makes me consistent is my belief is something that combines the belief of Scripture with that of Englightenment philosophy: nurturing life is goodness, simply, and helping others to see a model that thinking for ourselves can help heal the world of all past injustices - so that we all learn to WANT to be good... within reason and by our own choice...: you have a society like that, you'll have less injustices, less violence, less money - grubbing by people who hold themselves as representatives of «authority» -(which side are you on, by the way, if you see the world as so divided in such a bipolar reality...?)

So let us move on from bashing one person's beliefs and move forward for the betterment of our society — do what is right and do not do what is not.

Our cultural beliefs have created a misshapen society that keeps telling itself that there's something wrong when everything would be fine if we could just accept ourselves and get on with it.

He was indeed begrudging your propensity to declare what you believe to be eternal, definitional truths to society, but on the grounds that have claimed that you don't hold such firm beliefs.

The American Bible Society has partnered with The Barna Group to identify America's most «Bible - minded» cities, based on «highest combined levels of regular Bible reading and belief in the Bible's accuracy.»

CNN: Politics and Prayers Speaking at the 60th annual National Prayer Breakfast inWashington on Thursday, the president said, «We know that part of living in a pluralistic society means that our personal religious beliefs alone can't dictate our response to every challenge we face.

Of course they are, but they're essential to society, actually exist and, most importantly, are changeable... People who adhere to the notions of god and religion tend to be completely inflexible and also tend to force those beliefs on others... Want to believe in talking snakes??

Forcing the beliefs of some on the remaining electorate makes us no better than what some call theocratic societies.

The historian of non-violence, William Robert Miller, says that the first explicit reference to non-violence in the Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott came from a white librarian, Juliette Morgan, who compared the boycott to Gandhi's salt march in a letter to the Montgomery Advertiser on December 12, 1955.35 The development of non-violent strategies in the civil rights movement of the 1950's and 60's arose partly from belief in pacifism as an expression of love in the Fellowship of Reconciliation and Society of Friends from whom many leaders of the movement for racial justice came.

On this usage, if undifferentiated societies fight wars, religion is in fact involved in those wars precisely as a marker of societal identity, whether specific references to beliefs are invoked or not.

It offends me when religious people try to «save» me based on their determination of why they think I need to be «saved», but I think I find it even more offensive that any myth, fairy tale, delusion, or what - have - you can be completely accepted in this society, but the ones who are considered «off» are the ones like me who find religious beliefs absurd.

There would be no external standards of what is right and wrong, just and unjust, moral and immoral, by which its results could be judged; there would be no guarantee that, even in the absence of outside intervention, globalization would be a benign process; and there would be no assurance that in a free society, left to itself, we could count on an evolution of moral beliefs to generate values which would continue to underpin the market order.19

Culture has many complicated meanings, but I use it here simply to describe a system of beliefs (about God or reality or ultimate meaning), of values (about what is true, good and beautiful), of customs (about how to behave and relate to others), and of the institutions which express the culture (government, church, law courts, family, school and so on)-- all of which bind the society together and give it meaning.

There is more emphasis on community service than on classroom instruction» an emphasis entirely consistent with the belief widely accepted in our society that values, while they may be created and clarified, can be neither true nor false.