Sentences with phrase «cherished belief»

Our most cherished beliefs about women and men and how they should relate to each other are being challenged and are crumbling around us.

Many of our most cherished beliefs have gone by the board.

A companion book, 50 Myths & Lies That Threaten America's Public Schools: The Real Crisis in Education, by David C. Berliner and Gene V. Glass is an academic cannon aimed directly at the most cherished beliefs of private sector forces and right - wing intellectuals.

Of course, it's easy for me to say that having already taken that step — for others it may be very hard since it requires giving up a lot of deeply cherished beliefs.

«A country indifferent to such a question would probably be a country that no longer cherished any beliefs deeply enough to care whether they were transgressed.

Which means we're going to be pushed and poked on our most cherished beliefs about the Doctor, I imagine.

These three religions cherish belief in ecclesiastical institutions and laws, but the legal system in all three has been softened or entirely overcome by a profound and pure mysticism in which the highest goal is the unity of the soul with the eternal God.

His loyalty to Israel's cherished beliefs therefore took the form of critique and renovation from within; of challenge to traditions and institutions whose true purpose he believed... had been grievously corrupted and distorted.»

Some valuable insights came out of this study, but almost everyone missed them because they were too busy believing what the news said or defending their own cherished belief systems...

It takes a while for empiricism to discredit cherished beliefs, but No Child Left Behind may prove to have done us a favor by putting so much emphasis on test scores and thereby focusing attention on how hard it is to budge those scores.

All break throughs in science involve going off road, non linear, yet academia tries so hard to keep that from happening because it turns «facts» upside down, rather throwing cherished beliefs into the wind and all directions and so becomes personally threatening to those in whatever chosen field.

From Carl Sagan's magnificent Cosmos episode, «Harmony of the Worlds», about Johannes Kepler, he says of Kepler: «When he found that his long cherished beliefs did not agree with the most precise observations, he accepted the uncomfortable facts.

Stifling the true progress of mankind, through our selfish desires to preserve the self created and cherished beliefs of our ancestors.

Their predictions â $ «based on an analysis of natural cycles in water temperatures in the Pacific and Atlantic oceans â $ «challenge some of the global warming orthodoxyâ $ ™ s most deeply cherished beliefs, such as the claim that the North Pole will be free of ice in summer by 2013.

''... or someone who pioneered runaway CO2 greenhouse effects (Venus) and human catastrophes (Nuclear winter), AGW would have become one of his long cherished beliefs.»

More than the assessment, what influenced me the most is this systematic approach to thinking where you decimate your cherished beliefs.

«I do find it a puzzling quality of liberal Christians that they tend to get excited when something that had been a cherished belief or practice of the Church is shown to have been false,» says Rod Dreher, commenting on a new book by a Notre Dame historian who says that the early Church's stories of martyrdom were false.

Even my very conservative Roman Catholic brother gave me kudos when I said that if nothing else, as a Baptist, my two cherished beliefs were in soul liberty and seperation of church and state... so, if god was there and I was completly wrong not to believe in him, then at least he knew every step of my journey, and in the end my salvation, or lack of it, was between me and god.

All this is to be carried on in the spirit of irony whereby we also face up to the realization that all of our most cherished beliefs and desires are themselves mere products of time and chance.

Something: You took Reality's challenge, and Reality helped and David jumped in and I'm fairly sure all your budies could do the same; yet all of you avoid the challenge as usual, because you know to scientifically evaluate religions, and acknowledge the pros as well as the cons, your BS one - sided non-scientific propaganda would vanish in the air along with your cherished beliefs that all religious followers are idiots and trouble makers.

There is no underlying core to human beings, no ultimate basis for our most cherished beliefs, not even any final goal on which all our yearnings and searchings will eventually converge.

Bishop Donald added: «It's absolutely right that we should talk about the rights of minorities being respected and the rights of people not to have their cherished beliefs trashed for the sake of commerce»

Yet to the Enlightenment we owe many features of modern culture which most of us now take for granted and would not dream of surrendering — the freedom to think for ourselves, the freedom to ask questions and to hold up cherished beliefs to critical examination, the freedom to express our opinions and doubts, the assertion of human rights, the acknowledgement of human equality, to name but some.

Whereas we ordinarily seek the transcendent to ratify our cherished beliefs, the God of Jesus Christ is opposed to the idols we make of self, nation, race or economic production.

Issue after issue, Charlie Hebdo mocks, not vice and folly (which are fair game), but many people's most deeply held and cherished beliefs, including their religious convictions.

«People don't have a right not to be offended, and they certainly should not go destroying property because someone offended their cherished beliefs.»

Perhaps scientists presume that laymen distrust science because they feel that their cherished beliefs will be disproven.

He knows how to play on the people's most cherished beliefs.

That means that he listens and observes with respect for what he sees and hears, with compassion and tolerance, with humility for lessons that he can learn, with a readiness to change and even to die in the sense of relinquishing some cherished belief or practice without assurance that he will soon find anything better.

The loss of a cherished belief (religious or otherwise) may be painful.

But it does take courage to attack (in order to test) a cherished belief.

Fundamentalism is what many people turn to when they are frightened of challenges to existing values and cherished beliefs, and when alternative leadership falters.

Could he or she fail to find this a hostile intrusion into his or her most cherished beliefs?

It's because most interactions that reveal this label inevitably end in an attack on people's cherished beliefs and are often accompanied by narcissism and an air of superiority.

Accept that others have a right to disagree with even your most cherished beliefs, and that you do not have the right not to be offended.

Sometimes you may feel — and your child may loudly protest — that you're the only parent making a certain decision, but you need to true to your cherished beliefs.

Others are starker, including increased physical aggression towards anyone critical of one's cherished beliefs.

«Bombarding people with information that challenges their cherished beliefs — the usual strategy that people employ in attempts at persuasion — is more likely to engender defensive avoidance than receptive processing.

Science reserves the highest reward for those of you who disprove our most cherished beliefs.

Evolutionists can undoubtedly resolve these time contradictions — but at the cost of rejecting some cherished belief.

Because among my most cherished beliefs is that, while I disagree with everything you have to say, I will defend to the death your right to say it.