Sentences with phrase «characterized as a belief»

Effectively, if we can not detect an anthropogenic signal in deep ocean heat data, anthropogenic global warming would necessarily be characterized as a belief, not a scientifically confirmed hypothesis.

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These ideas are echoed in the «prosperity gospel» — characterized by the belief that God wants to bless His people, that He wants to give us tangible rewards such as riches and success and that we claim these rewards by exercising our faith in obedience.

Shuckin» and Jivin» your religious beliefs to win re-election shouldn't be characterized as «evolution».

I would not characterize the atheist / agnostic perspective on the whole as angry about the beliefs of others, I think the word you're looking for is incredulity.

Neo-fundamentalists believe they alone are remaining true to the fullness of the gospel and orthodox faith while the rest of the evangelical church is in grave, near - apocalyptic danger of theological drift, moral laxity, and compromise with a postmodern culture — a culture which they see as being characterized by a skepticism towards Enlightenment conceptions of «absolute truth,» a pluralistic blending of diverse beliefs, values, and cultures, and a suspicion of hierarchies and traditional sources of authority.

In an opening theoretical discussion, he characterizes conspiracy belief as an attempt «to delineate and explain evil,» guided by three basic principles: Nothing happens by accident; nothing is as it seems; and everything is connected.

Groups like the Family Research Council continue to characterize religious liberty and equality for LGBT Americans as an either / or proposition, willfully misrepresenting our nation's historical experience and ignoring the realities of a nation of many faiths and beliefs that has dealt with such questions for centuries.

Moreover, since we really do have these beliefs, we have no justification for describing them as though they were a form of play - acting, as some idealists do, but should insist that the world really is, as Santayana is quite sure that it is, as they characterize it (see SAP chapters XVIII, XIX).

It is my belief, as Whitehead's, that intrinsic value occurs only in experience and characterizes all experience.

One might therefore be tempted to explain both the humility as to one's self and the charity towards others which characterize spiritual excitement, as results of the all - leveling character of theistic belief.

Fundamentalism has been characterized by (1) vigorous resistance to developments in the world of science that appeared to contradict the Biblical text; (2) Biblical literalism; (3) individualism; (4) moralism; and (5) insistence on belief in certain «fundamentals» such as the inerrancy of the Scriptures, the virgin birth of Jesus Christ, and his second coming.

With all due respect, my studies have shown that Christianity is more than just a «belief» or a fictional story, as it is often characterized.

It characterizes those who believe in God as being as intellectually irresponsible as someone who would believe in the tooth fairy, and structure their moral fabric around such a belief.

Definition of CULT 1: formal religious veneration: worship 2: a system of religious beliefs and ritual; also: its body of adherents 3: a religion regarded as unorthodox or spurious; also: its body of adherents 4: a system for the cure of disease based on dogma set forth by its promulgator 5a: great devotion to a person, idea, object, movement, or work (as a film or book); especially: such devotion regarded as a literary or intellectual fad b: the object of such devotion c: a usually small group of people characterized by such devotion

Heastie characterized some member's opposition as a «core principle» for some Democrats, and he says he won't ask them to go against their core beliefs to vote for any measure.

The QPP project takes that a step further, looking beyond basic practices to more foundational conditions, such as the beliefs, approaches, and organizational structures that characterize strong charter authorizers.»

The two men share vastly different backgrounds and overall educational beliefs, leading the LA Weekly to characterize the election as a reform vs. union battle for the heart of the Democratic Party and the Los Angeles Times to call it «a prime example of the strange rift in education, in which liberal Democrats are sharply divided on such issues as charter schools, job protections for teachers, the authority of the federal government in schools and the value of standardized test scores.»

Russell meanwhile argued that a mutual basis in fear intimately links cruelty and religion, characterizing Christianity's belief «that hell - fire is a punishment for sin» as «a doctrine of cruelty» responsible for centuries of violence: «the more intense has been the religion of any period,» Russell wrote, «the greater has been the cruelty.»

These materials bear testament to the themes and discussions that the New Museum has consistently pursued, from issues of gender and sexuality to the relationship between art and technology, as well as the mandates that have characterized its institutional practice: responsiveness to cultural crises, championing new forms of art making, and the belief in art as a social force.

The liberal beliefs, social tolerance, and general promiscuity that characterize popular images of the city likewise distinguish the Los Angeles — based artist's own permissive practice, which swings from abstract paintings to collages and from haunted - house sculptures to a series of narrative paintings depicting sexually ambiguous men whom Hawkins refers to as «hallucinations from a Viagra overdose.»

What characterized his work generally was a deep belief in the power of intuition as expressed in the parallel between the artist and the shaman: both invest simple materials with intense and potentially healing power (Show your wound, 1976).

Thirdly, to characterize the members of environmental movements as having a monolithic belief in any specific fact or theory is wildly inaccurate.

(See above paragraph, combine with economic alarmism, a great sense of solidarity, an easy issue — complex and futuristic — to do it on, and a huge tea party and right wing conservative movement predicated on the idea that markets «solve» everything even though by definition they can't solve externalities — hence along with justice and national defense why we even need just limited government in the first place, and an implicit inherent belief in the right to pollute (here it's really better characterized as just radical alteration against our interests, not pollution), since common area is «fair game,» and there we go.)

Yet notwithstanding the above difficulties, and also that the role of cultural support as well as resistance needs consideration (hence: what characterizes the public response to scientific theories or discoveries that are «convenient», or encouraging to one's lifestyle, livelihood, or deeply - held beliefs?)

The rush to identify El Niño, characterized by the periodic warming of surface water temperatures off the northwestern coast of South America, as California's savior was based in part on the belief that a strong El Niño would bring as much rain as it did in the winters of 1997 - 1998 and 1982 - 1983.

The attitude is characterized by a mistaken belief that maintaining a client's confidentiality, as is the professional duty of every lawyer, is equivalent to complying with the laws surrounding privacy and protection of information.

These negative attitudes are reinforced by actions, attitudes and beliefs, which often characterize disabled persons as being less than human.

In Loyola High School v Quebec (Attorney General), Justice Abella held that «an essential ingredient of the vitality of a religious community is the ability of its members to pass on their beliefs to their children...» She characterized measures that disrupt the vitality of religious communities as profound interferences with religious freedom.

Egalitarianism may be defined as «affirming or promoting, or characterized by belief in equal political, economic, social, and civil rights for all people» (Merriam - Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 1993).

This second person is affected by the projection and begins to behave as though he or she were actually characterized by those projected thoughts or beliefs.

On the other hand, individuals with an anxious / ambivalent attachment style can be characterized by negative beliefs about themselves but positive views of the partner or others as well as an obsessive preoccupation with their partner.