Sentences with phrase «believe in deities other»

Please come up with a more compelling reason to believe in a deity other than «he's gonna kill you if you don't».

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So true, JohnQuest, but believing in a moral deity that allows you to oppress for gain while you measure others by a stricter standard seems elitist and vain, doesn't it?

Ya, that's why we need to start running candidates who do not believe in the Christian deity or any other mythological deity.

Furthermore, there is certainly enough evidence in the discrepant personalities of the OT v. NT deity to indicate a «changing nature,» i.e., one who sees no other option but to destroy humanity and then later destroy entire civilizations as opposed to one who prefers the option of alleged self - sacrifice coupled to a merciful «grace» for those who are willing to just believe in the sacrifice.

And to say that Biblical teachings are invalid because there are other similar beliefs that have older known written sources invalidates the Biblical teachings also should take into consideration that for certain Biblical believers that all those truths whether they are known to have been placed in the Bible first or known thus far to have been placed elsewhere that they believe that they all come via deity who at the beginning of human history on this world dispensed those truths to humanity and that to those who believe in the biblical teachings believe that through time they are more complete than those of other ancient beliefs due to God restoring those truths through revelations given to later prophets like say Moses and other later Old and New Testament prophets and apostles.

As an atheist who believes in «Choice» (I dislike the idea of abortion but see the need for people to be able to opt for it) and polygamy (marriage should be for any number of consenting adults regardless of gender) and believes that the idea of draconian anti-gun measures is anathema as it takes away an individual's right to live the way he wants to live, I think that if believing in a deity makes a person treat other people nicer then we should leave that person and his beliefs alone.

so therefore just as much a religion as one that believes in a deity and tries to get others to believe the same.

If they believe in some other deity, then you should respect their beliefs and leave them alone.

If your deity is into being decent to others, then maybe he's really a Buddhist, a religion that believes in decency instead of fear.

You know, it really makes no sense to (on the one hand) condemn the Bible as anhistoric, and (on the other hand) condemn the deity believed in as a brutal butcher.

This deity and two others associated with him in the opening section, says Dr. Holtom, furnish the basis of a claim by some nineteenth and twentieth century Shinto scholars that Shinto believes in a trinitarian monotheism.

Because they chose to believe in a Bronze Aged God, who was fashioned from no fewer than 12 other deities?

«Seventy - five years ago evangelical leader J. Gresham Machen observed that Bible - believing Protestants and faithful Roman Catholics shared more in common with one another than they did with others who denied the deity of Christ, the miracles of Jesus, the Holy Trinity, or the second coming of Christ.

What I don't get is, if they don't believe in a god, deity or nature spirits what does it matter to them if others do and why must they get so riled up about it like some sort of vendetta?

While you may not believe in God, the man named Jesus, or any other deity, there is in fact, historical evidence pointing at least to the possibility of the existence of the man named Jesus and that many, many people were willing to change their lives, risk their lives and even be persecuted and executed in the name of this man named Jesus.

All things are possible with atheism, though if you actually believe in a deity as you pray then you would no longer be considered an atheist, so you would follow the strictures of whatever other group you would then fall into.

If you believe otherwise, you are (by default), stating that your deity is, in fact in favor of a special and elevated group of individuals (such as yourself and your favorite authors) who can and should control others faith by virtue of their special understanding of this god and his «inspired» word.

On the other hand those of us that have no need to believe should not be berated or called names or have religion shoved down our throats because of our lack of faith in a personal deity.

I would also believe in the various spirits of Native Americans, the Dreamtime deities of the Australian Aboriginals, the gods of the Aztecs and Incas along with a couple of hundred others.

In a letter to Darwin, Kingsley acknowledges that he has discarded the idea that God created immutable species at the beginning of time and that he «has gradually learnt to see that it is just as noble a conception of the Deity to believe that he created a few original forms capable of self - development into other and needful forms.»

Atheists do not believe in me but that does not mean they harbor any hatred toward Christianity, Islam, or any other deity - based belief system.

Other than personally believing accommodations for the disabled is a good idea, I don't know that atheists have any particular view on that subject as it has nothing to do with not believing in a deity.

In other words, though we should tell the lost about Christ's death and resurrection and Deity, they do not need to believe these truths of the guarantees eternal life to believers.

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I certainly do not believe in any deity that looks over my shoulder every minute of every day and intervenes in the affairs of man; none of the religions make sense to me other than being a blight and scam on the supporters of the faith.

In other words, I don't believe in the God of the Bible, but even if He existed, I could never accept a deity who directly and indirectly kills childreIn other words, I don't believe in the God of the Bible, but even if He existed, I could never accept a deity who directly and indirectly kills childrein the God of the Bible, but even if He existed, I could never accept a deity who directly and indirectly kills children.

While there is provision for atheist and agnostic MPs to affirm rather than invoking a deity they don't believe in, there is no provision to swear allegiance to an entity other than the British monarch, which Sinn Fein MPs refuse to do.

Sorry Willlis, Anthony, Leif, Phil, Ira, Roy, George, and so many others I've learned so much from, but I believe you remain ranked at this time in the range of minor deities and demi - gods.