Here's the confusion: Arkes proposes and defends the notion that natural law best accounts for our intuitions of equality and justice; Prof. Smolin responds by pointing out that people have
believed evil things in the name of natural law.
Not exact matches
I realize that they're a necessary
evil, but you need to be very careful that you're not saying
things or doing
things (even worse) to «prove» something to these people because (a) it's never enough to satisfy them in any case and they won't
believe you anyway; and (b) it's a fool's errand to waste your time trying to impress people whose livelihood is much more about finding the warts and shortcomings in your story than in celebrating your successes.
I
believe it is a one
thing bubble, the counterfeit currency, the fake debt note dollar, that is the
evil vampire squid.
He
believes life on other planets could exist and even has supported the most
evil thing ever: BIRTH CONTROL!!!!! OMG What's next?
> I know this may hit a nerve but i will pray for you whether you
believe in God or not and just know there are
things that go bump in the night and there is a force of
evil just as there is a force of good out there.
It's only by convincing his followers that his immoral acts are moral that you come to
believe that we are somehow misunderstanding gods
evil acts and that if we only read the bible again we'd somehow see that when he killed all the first born of egypt, or impregnated a married woman and left her with a kid or that he's fine with slavery under certain conditions as good
things.
@fimeilleur actually i can back up the claims i make both personally and historically, one example Abraham, Machpelah (actual location of his tomb and remains along with 5 others in Israel right where they are supposed to be) Kedorlaomer king of Elam, (defeated by Abraham and recently discovered) it is said Abraham
believed God and it was credited to him as righteousness.More than that Abraham saw God and spoke with Him, not the god you are on about that men use to justify their
evil intent, but the God who has created all
things, the God that no one especially you can not contain.Ignorance is your choice but that will not negate the existence of God in any way.No one that i am aware of has all the answers at this point regarding spiritual
things, evolution or evilution there are areas God has not yet revealed to mankind but every day more is discovered.I find it amazing that God is big enough to share discovery even with those who would reject Him.
All this doesn't mean I think believers are
evil, just that they
believe things without evidence and that that can be dangerous.
I don't
believe it's
evil, a scam, designed to control people, or any such
thing.
I suggest you read you Bible, while there are
evil people doing
evil things, often at the behest of God, but more importantly, if you
believe the Bible much of the
evil comes from God himself.
I don't
believe there are such a
things as
Evil, Satan, Divine, God.
I don't
believe that an
evil supernatural ent.ity causes people to do bad
things..
4 dLove suffers long and is ekind; love fdoes not envy; love does not parade itself, is not 2puffed up; 5 does not behave rudely, gdoes not seek its own, is not provoked, 3thinks no
evil; 6 hdoes not rejoice in iniquity, but irejoices in the truth; 7 jbears all
things,
believes all
things, hopes all
things, endures all
things.
Hitler
believed in god... atheism is NOT a religion... only a religion can get good people to do
evil things.
Professor Hartshorne, who has much more to say on this matter,
believes that «the Christian idea of a suffering deity» «symbolized by the Cross, together with the doctrine of the Incarnation» (C. Hartshorne: Philosophers Speak of God, p. 15 [University of Chicago Press, 1953]-RRB- may legitimately be taken as a symbolic indication of the «saving» quality in the process of
things which despite the
evil that appears yet makes genuine advance a possibility.
I do hear your points that you think I have not seen the need for warning of danger, that you
believe I think of it as «unChristian» to talk about such
things, and that you may even
believe that my comments are akin to protecting
evil deeds and harming the innocent, using the bible as a proof texting weapon to that end and contributing to a problem of church becoming fake and shallow while claiming to be deep and pious.
She was raised to
believe that it was morally
evil to even think such
things.
He isn't sure that he
believes in God, but he
believes in original sin because of the existence of child torture, abuse of animals, and all the absurdly
evil things that happen.
It is dangerous to
believe in «
evil spirtis, demons» etc. since belief in that which there is no evidence for sometimes causes people to do stupid
things, like try to remove whatever spirits someone thinks are there.
Cyprian
believed in a real literal and vivid hell and in the de Idoloum, he mentioned that Christ and Christian power over the forces of
evil is the proof that the true God is the Lord of all
things.
There are
evil people who do
evil things and can sometimes justify their actions through religion but that doesn't make either the religion or its followers particularly
evil because one man can twist it so he
believes he can kill people.
So, I'm to
believe that all the
things that completely debunk the world's largest control scheme were fake and added by
evil men, but all the other stuff is totally true?
4 Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; 5 does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no
evil; 6 does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; 7 bears all
things,
believes all
things, hopes all
things, endures all
things.
If men are brought up, as today's boys are,
believing that girls always want the same
thing they do from sexual encounters, and that it's
evil and sexist to assume otherwise, then they are that much more likely to be impatient and uncomprehending of a woman's «no.»
If you
believe God did not do the
evil things in the Hebrew Testament then you have no faith in the Bible.
If he is truly so mentally incapacitated that he said
evil things that he doesn't
believe, he needs to be ushered off the public stage NOW.
its 1
thing 2 b gay and hide it its another 2 speak
evil about being gay and its another 2 conceal the fact u r gay own up u crook eddie long is a closet gay man that goes against his beliefs its a money grab from people who
believe in god and religion
It is not required of Christian love to bear all
things when
evil ought to be resisted, or to
believe all
things when false ideas, beliefs, or rumors are circulated.
To Ken Margo: I am totally agree with you about this
evil thing going around the earth... this
evil minded people is there everywhere regardless of faith... that was not what i was trying to say... my point was to be able to recognize the One True God who is Unseen and who has no partners as He is not in need of any partners but we the creation is in need of Him... thats all... I wish I could do something to stop all these taking place around the earth... I think we human fear the fed laws more than we fear the laws of our Creator, for example not to associate any partner with Him, taking the life of others, drug dealing, human trafficking,
believing in hereafter and so on... I remember a story that I was talking with one of my friends... I was telling him look we all obey the law of the land so much like for example when we drive and no one moves even an inch when there is a school bus stop to pick / drop kids as it is a fed laws but when it comes to the laws of our Creator, we don't care... like having physical relationship outside of marriage and many more... then he said something nice... he said that its because we see the consequence of breaking the law of the land but we do not see the punishment of hereafter even though it is mentioned very details in Quran, it even gives pictures of hereafter....
«I think it is very sad that you
believe it is acceptable to pretend to know
things that you can not know — to think that is how you live your life is messed up to say the least — I hope you realize that to presume knowledge where one has only pious hope is a species of
evil.»
«Are you willing to
believe that love is the strongest
thing in the world — stronger than hate, stronger than
evil, stronger than death — and that the blessed life which began in Bethlehem nineteen hundred years ago is the image of the brightness of the Eternal Love?
Oh, and one other
thing, some who become pastors just don't
believe what Jesus said: «Blessed are you when people insult you, persecute you and falsely say all kinds of
evil against you because of me.»
Jeff: This is what causes division as we go about doing even good
things, out of the tree of the knowledge of good and
evil to set up another sect out of our carnal nature; above is the outcome; Jesus came to cause division among men that tries to become their own god and sets up camp, even for them that call themselves Christian, for them that have went from Him and His Words, even that are not of His Spirit: Jesus said; the Words that I speak are Spirit and Life, That means the Words of man can only bring forth death: Therefore; if we do not have His Spirit in us, then we too can only speak forth death: This is what it is to be a believer, we truly
believe our Lord: I can see what the Catholic church and her daughters are doing to form a religious Babylonian city: Even as God caused a division in Babylon in the past because the peoples became great, so to is it now with all of the man made sects of religion: But when we are filled with the Spirit of God then we can not help but to live for God: It is written; those who are led by His spirit are His children: Thank - you Jeff: Those who are of His Spirit will know these truths, those who are not of His Spirit truly
believe a believer is as they and can not know what we speak, because they live in unbelief: Thank - you again Jeff; In Jesus Name Alexandria: P.S..
The fact that good people and bad people
believe all sorts of
things, and some of those
things are true, or false, or good, or
evil, and that people do both good and bad
things, has nothing to do with a belief being «real».
The Cross, in itself an «
evil»
thing, was used by God; and Christians
believe it was used by him to bring about greater good than would have been possible without it.
They are knowingly attempting to inject their religious world view on everyone and anyone because they
believe they know how best to live and don't give a rat's ass about anyone elses freedoms or rights, but if you want to call that «doing their best» then you can take your message back to it's authors, the vile disgusting
things, the wh.o.re of Babylon, the putrid decaying
evil of Joseph Smith and shove it down his dead and crumbling corpse.
He
believes, with the Testament, that God created the universe and called it good, that God gave man dominion over the
things of nature and expected man to enjoy them, Christianity has fought off these religions and heresies which called creation
evil.
He is not one of the many religious teachers who
believe that matter is inherently
evil, that the spiritual life should avoid material
things so far as possible.
The Devil succeeded in making democrats
believe that they did not like
evil at all, that they in no way desired it, that they were good and others wicked, and that the whole
thing was that simple!
They can not
believe in a God that saves yet will put their trust in
things that bring them into bondage to the
evil one.
I could make a film about any person or organization and only interview the people that hate you or it with no inclusion of the good
things a person or organization does and present it as a documentary and you know what people would
believe you're entirely
evil and you know why?
One
thing I love about this film is that not only is it a tale of good versus
evil, it is a story about an adult hunting down two children, who make it quickly apparent that they tougher than their looks would have you
believe.
And she says if it was that person that he's not supposed to be alive, that he's an
evil spirt, perhaps, and he's invited into their home — and the wife tends to
believe one
thing, and the husband
believes another, and then she does something that somewhat alters the scene and complicates the situation tremendously, and that's sort of what we're left with.
That means that nobody
believes him about the
evil wizard Voldemort's return, Dumbledore gets replaced at Hogwarts by a beastly cheerful pink
thing of a woman, and Cho gets an unfortunate haircut that makes her look younger than she did in Goblet of Fire.
But instead of taking the easy approach of labeling Leuchter as being an
evil person and exploring just how bad he is, Morris is more interested in showing how a normal person can fall into the trap of doing and
believing in such morally questionable
things.
It's nice to see Capcom showing so much love to Resident
Evil, one of my personal favorite franchises, and the continued stream of content the series has been getting has been great (Let's just forget that Umbrella Corps exists because I still can't
believe that was an actual
thing).
What is the only important
thing is that the person invading your house does not
believe in these
things, just as you do not
believe in these
things, and because of that, you have no argument about why the invader should not do any
evil he desires.