Sentences with phrase «criteria than belief»
Shouldn't being good be a much more important criteria than belief?
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It's just a shame that we haven't come to the point in society where it should be required that those who make decisions must meet certain, more highly regulated, fool proof, corruption resistant criteria proving their intellect and open mindedness as well as weeding out individuals with preconceived notions, racist, sexist or religiously or other discriminative views (even if they themselves don't believe they are discriminative in their beliefs... this happens more than many people realize) and overall ignorant minds.
The «truth» of a construal of the God - world relationship is a mixture of belief (Ricoeur calls it a «wager»), pragmatic criteria, and what Philip Wheelwright terms a «shy ontological claim,» or, as in Mary Hesse's striking remark, «God is more like gravitation than embarrassment» (Arbib and Hesse, 5).
-- both to life and thought is in fact a very proper plea, if for no other reason than that it claims for itself such relevance; but to establish some concept of «relevance» as the criterion of Christian belief is a sad mistake.
Applying a policy, criteria or provision equally to everyone but the effect to a person of a particular faith or belief is disproportionately worse than a person without faith or not holding a particular belief.