Sentences with phrase «caused by a belief»

The ghost is typically caused by a belief that a person or group thinks to be true.

Finally, imagine that you noticed many abuses caused by the belief in witches, such as people giving 10 % of their crops to highly suspect priests to ward off witches, belief in witches and elves being used to deny the pollution you noticed building up in your village and laws being passed controlling how a woman must act while pregnant based on witchcraft.

No sensible atheist would suggest that child abuse is caused by a belief in God.

A blog devoted to people voicing opinions about events caused by belief in books of fiction.

Fear: An unpleasant emotion caused by the belief that someone or something is dangerous, likely to cause pain, or a threat.

Not exact matches

Added to this was a strong belief that wars were caused, not by sneaky politicians and generally reinforced by politically motivated mass hysteria, but rather by so - called capitalists, the manufacturers of guns and munitions.

Good agency - client teams face this hurdle armed with data, but they are bonded by shared beliefs and passion for the cause.

Contrary to some people's popular beliefs, poverty is not caused by an individual's bad decisions.

Such regress has happened before: In the nineteenth century, the (correct) vitamin C deficiency theory of scurvy was replaced by the false belief that scurvy was caused by proximity to spoiled foods.

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.

Religion (as defined by Merriam - Webster): a cause, principle, or system of beliefs held to with ardor and faith (presumably referring to the fact that it can not be scientifically proven)

But to my point that Atheism is a religion by definition Religion: a cause, principle, or system of beliefs held to with ardor and faith Faith: belief or trust: belief in, devotion to, or trust in somebody or something, especially without proof Atheism: unbelief in God or deities: disbelief in the existence of God or deities

State sanctioned rights must not be influenced by religious beliefs and a company which uses consumer money to donate to causes that continue to oppress and discriminate against those we «love» should be exposed.

Atheist reject the idea of a god and believe their view to be true or they would be agnostic unless they choose no stance at all of a god that of which would require unknowing of what the term «god» means so it would fall under a belief and since they can't prove that a god doesn't exist then by definition it requires faith for their view, meaning it would effect their view of the cause, nature, and purpose of the universe if a god was proven to be true.

religion: 1: a set of beliefs concerning the cause, nature, and purpose of the universe 2: a specific fundamental set of beliefs and practices generally agreed upon by a number of persons or sects 3: a cause, principle, or system of beliefs held to with ardor and faith

Why aren't atheists ever swayed into belief by WLC's meanderings about his hypothetical «uncaused caused» (named god) which is made of nothing but poofed everything into existence from its nothingness?

The incredibly far - fetched postings here by the self - proclaimed religious folks are likely causing far more Americans to question their «faith» and beliefs» than anything we atheists could do on our own.

A belief that you can lose eternal life causes you to be motivated by fear.

History is full of examples of people causing harm to other people justified by their religious beliefs and their «personal knowledge» of what God wanted them to do.

But while belief recognizes the openness of the future, it is hope that keeps the future recognized by belief open.6 Despair causes the cessation of belief, while hope gives life to it.

People need to focus less on being offended by what someone else believes (especially when it really does no harm except causing some offense) and be more secure in their own beliefs.

Compartmentalization is an unconscious psychological defense mechanism used to avoid cognitive dissonance, or the mental discomfort and anxiety caused by a person's having conflicting values, cognitions, emotions, beliefs, etc. within themselves.

He explained his belief in God by using the basic argument from contingency which postulates an Efficient Cause.

Lying to them or just keeping my real beliefs to myself seems wrong, but so does causing continual stress for our relationship by being honest.

It doesn't apply to a belief in God, either - there's still the question of where God came from, unless you cut the Gordian knot by saying God is an effect without a cause, as believers have done for thousands of years.

Today you look at craters on the earth with no hesitation in the belief they are in fact, craters caused by meteors.

With that kind of drug and their belief structure, we will have faster - than - light travel, cold fusion, a way to reverse global warming (caused by an overabundance of CO2 in our atmosphere, not god), and a real recipe for amrita, ambrosia, and a panacea by New Year's!

This very sophisticated approach of detecting «light polarizations — B - Modes» caused by the Gravitational Waves of the Big Bang was invented in the USA that led to detecting those Gravitational Waves for the first time in history, which also has great implications for the Christian belief.

It causes people to make irrational decisions and hold illogical opions that deny facts then those same people try to use their silly beliefs to pass laws that they want the rest of us to abide by.

How many noble causes are frustrated by quarrels that express the narrow interests of the parties more than genuine differences in belief about how to move forward!

It would appear that the crisis in authority we now face has been caused by the dissolution of a common standard of belief (what used to be called the rule of faith) and a common form of life (what used to be called «the way»).

Muslims in general if left alone with out your intervention might end up fighting each other due differences of views in their faith, but if west keep on applying pressure causing starvation, harassment and confrontation against Muslims and against their faith, this will only lead them to leave behind their differences and jointly or individually confront their enemies, those who wants to deprive them from their rights of faith and belief and the more they are pressed the more they would complain by reacting and not by words and cries since words and cries seem does not reach, heard or work out now a days since being their judges and executors are all of non religious such as atheists, infidels, polytheists who consider their vast interests above all humanity and faith issues such as mercy, leniency, compassion, pity, sympathy, kindness all that of human mutual heavenly code of conduct.!?

But those who see the results in the actual lives of people everywhere are painfully aware of the enormous suffering caused by acting on these beliefs.

It is a fairly general South Indian belief that harm and misfortune is caused by the envious and covetous gaze of the beholder.

Brian, Well I suppose I do have a fear about what these fantasy beliefs can do to cause trouble all over the world, as if we don't have enough with real problems of political ills, poverty, diseases and natural disasters; but mostly I am repelled by so many, like eaglemt and the huge number of others like him / her, who preach hell - fire and eternal torment for those who don't regard their unproven beliefs as reality.

Theism, or belief in a personal God, was replaced by deism, or belief in an impersonal First Cause.

What if the deaths were caused by people's fundamentalist religious beliefs?

Why don't you delusional automatons just practice your silly religious beliefs privately and quietly and stop subjecting us atheists to the collateral damage caused by the violence and destruction that is bred from the conflicts between all of your various different «faiths».

They recognised further that this theological crisis had been caused by the gradual breakdown of what is known as «the neo-scholastic synthesis» which until the middle part of this century had formed the intellectual basis of Catholic belief and of a unified Catholic view of reality.

At the recent synod, the most grotesque contradictions to beliefs held since apostolic times were put forward by bishops and cardinals, causing great scandal to the laity.

Many of my beliefs have changed over the years by simply learning more, observing more, listening more... nothing traumatic caused these changes.

Look at your own words and you'll see the anger and hatred caused by your very deep belief — in mythology.

No matter what I said, Mark was going to keep going to groups like this one and telling thousands upon thousands of Christians that being gay was caused by faulty parenting, that it only led to misery, and that anyone who wanted to become straight could... And they would pass those beliefs on to their children and other Christians, who would act upon that misinformation whenever they encountered gay people.»

@good: ok here is the truth you all need... the catholic faith was a power play by constintine to rally the whole of the roman empire to his cause, seeing the plebs were converting to jewish based belief system to begin with.

If a man must say that he can not find God in the reality of his own present life, and if he would compensate for this by the thought that God is nevertheless the final cause of all that happens, then his belief in God will be a theoretical speculation or a dogma; and however great the force with which he clings to this belief, it will not be true faith, for faith can be only the recognition of the activity of God in his own life.

For if this belief is a preconceived, rigid assumption, on the basis of which, against all experience, it is asserted that God is the final cause of all that happens, then it would clearly be true that the conception of God was not fully developed by Jesus.

it is for everyone's ultimate good that religion is outed for what it is — a delusional belief caused by and nurtured by thousands of years of brainwashing.

Yeah atheists are causing trouble by making their beliefs known.

This fact also makes it possible for psychotherapy to facilitate growth by enabling people to change the causes of their life - constricting feelings, thoughts, beliefs, and behavior.

Any attempt at applying «logic» to explain the bible by people who are believers and still think of themselves as rather intelligent (self - delusion is a symptom / cause of religious belief) always ends up in ridiculous arguments...