Sentences with phrase «blind faith which»

At least I am realistic and lets be real here without the blind faith which is cute sometimes but endlessly frustrating.

If you think... really think, you can't possibly be religious, because religion relies in blind faith which is the opposite of thinking.

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As further exposition of how blind compliance to authority and the «It Won't Happen to Me» belief pattern work together to prevent us from taking the protective measures we need to take right now, consider a November 2014 article in which a financial analyst stated, «it's time to ditch your golden faith, embrace the truth — and make gold a barbaric relic of your portfolio's past.»

No living person can tell you what happens after death; only the Easter Bunny, which is why you must have blind faith.

He has overcome his blind fear and has put in its place the faith which is born out of the relation with the Thou.

I think this notion that b / c some religious people are jerks and shove their religion down your face that its acceptable to be an atheist (which is in fact blind faith as well, do not confuse agnostic with atheism) jerk that wants to shove their opinion down your throat.

Which followed by fits of laughter and a big sure he did... It's the blind faith that keeps people ignorant and in the shadows.

The naive concept of faith as blind assent arose from an equally naive and philosophically disreputable theory of knowledge, according to which one knows a thing best by detaching oneself from its use and setting aside personal biases in order to form an idea that corresponds to the thing.

well just thinking about these wars in the muslim / mid-east world over religious differences (which may reflect mental states in many ways) in a world where most realize that living in the present moment is best way to happiness and being in the moment in non-strife and awareness through the teachings of masters such as found in the buddhist, taoist, zen, etc., etc., etc. spriritually based practices of religious like thought and teachings, etc. that to ask these scientifically educated populace whom have access to vast amounts of knowledges and understandings on the internet, etc. to believe in past beliefs that perhaps gave basis and inspiration to that which followed — but is not the end all of all times or knowledges — and is thus — non self - sustaining in a belief that does not encompass growth of knowledge and understanding of all truths and being as it is or could be — is to not respect the intelligence and minds and personage of even themselves — not to be disrespected nor disrespectful in any way — only to point out that perhaps too much is asked to put others into the cloak of blind faith and adherance to the past that disregards the realities of the present and the potential of the future... so you try to live in the past — and destroy your present and your future — where is the intelligence in that — and why do people continually fear monger or allow to be fear — mongered into this destructive vision of the future based upon the past?

The second error is to suppose that there is no right (or rationally superior) answer to important moral questions on which people disagree, or that the right answer can only be known by blind faith, not by reason.

For like Whitehead and Dewey, Kadushin understood that the concept of organic thinking offered an approach to logic and the foundations of knowledge that was an alternative to the perversions of the sort of blind faith in natural science that had come to dominate the intellectual cultures of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; an alternative that did not attempt to devalue science or replace it with a nonrational mysticism, but which did attempt to place scientific thought into a broader cultural context in which other forms of cultural expression such as religious and legal reasoning could play important and non-subservient roles.

It would not be a blind faith, but a faith / belief for which there is considerable evidence, just not absolute proof.

Don't you find it the least bit absurd that the only tool to figure out which god is the right one is blind faith?

Being complete with historically accurate facts, a fundamentalist friendly framework, tongue - in - cheek humor, and many twists of irony, this small set of condensed Biblically faith - based narratives is sure to warm your heart and give you the eternal security for which you have always longed but did not know it yet because you are blinded by Satan.

All it takes is to repeat your own words back to you, just with the word «God» replaced with «other minds and evidence», which are simply 2 examples of things you believe with blind faith.

The statistics are merely sets of data measured in a specific context and at least the person who posted them had the respect to allow us to make our own interpretation rather than inserting his own opinion which is what Buddha actually wanted people to do... not just accept things on blind faith but interpret for themselves and experience for themselves.

The problem is that organized religions claim that they can explain it, but their explanations are without merit and rely on blind faith, which leads to a host of problems like suicide bombers believing in 40 virgins after death, or bigotry against gays, to name just a couple examples.

During the recent controversy over whether Muslim women in Britain should wear the veil, Dr. Taj Hargey, chairman of the Muslim Educational Centre in Oxford, wrote «In contrast to a blind acceptance of specific 7th - century tribal Arabian dress and cultural norms, which have no eternal scriptural endorsement (as believers are required only to be modest), modern Muslims should revive the Islamic principle of ijtihadto interpret the faith for themselves.»

My blind faith allows me to reject your arguments based on logic which come from the devil.

To which the unbelieving babe answers with scorn: «That is blind faith.»

It was an experience which I know some Christians say one ought not to rely on (blind faith being what they claim we have to go by) but I think they are jealous that I had a personal glimpse of him, Ha Ha!

we would have to drop most of our stupid beliefs, blind faith, philosophies and habits which have been weighing us down in order to forge ahead

Blind faith, virgin birth, crucifixion — nothing is sacred in this epic send - up of ancient times, which draws on the cornball biblical blockbusters of the 1950s to lampoon celebrity culture in any era.

And in this film (which he has apparently wanted to make for nearly 30 years, since he first read Shusaku Endo's novel), Judas is again key - this time a 17th century Japanese version called Kichijiro (Yosuke Kubozuka), who haunts Portuguese missionary Rodrigues's (Andrew Garfield) journey from profound blind faith through agonies of uncertainty.

The only negative is that we had tthe suffer through Mighty No. 9 first, which is probably the game we deserved after so many people trashed Capcom and put blind faith into the guy who created the artwork of Mega Man.

Recognition of expertise is not a form of blind faith, nor does it prevent you from understanding a given field as best you can, but it requires a recognition of one's own limitations which is itself an expression of rationality.

Lastly, the idea that all «religious» people, by which I assume you mean people who believe there is a God, go to church, that sort of thing, think only with a certain mindset, that is, a non scientific mindset, believing or disbelieving based entirely on blind faith, and never facts, is shown wrong by people like G K Chesterton and especially C S Lewis.

Blind faith is our current system which has protected itself in the bubble of using uncertainty as a crutch rather than exploring the areas that have generated this uncertainty.

Their blind faith in their flawed gospel has set a logical trap from which they can not escape.

Only fanatics do that, which his blind faith in the IPCC scripture confirms.

As an aside, on granting permission to appeal (as an application for permission to appeal had to be issued as the Judge had rejected the oral application for permission to appeal at the original hearing), the Court of Appeal had recognised that it was unusual for an exercise of judicial discretion to be appealed but stated that the decision of His Honour Judge Purle QC was highly speculative as to «border on the Micawberism» (which those of you versed in classic literature will recognise as a reference to a character in the Charles Dickens novel, David Copperfield, who continually holds blind faith that «something will turn up»).