Sentences with phrase «devout believers in»

But the two remain an extremely rare breed: devout believers in science whose teleological claims flout the rigors of scientific verification.

As others have stated, you don't just wake up one day and say, «I'm now an atheist» when you've been a devout believer in the supernatural for so long.

As Galileo, a devout believer in God who once ended up in hot water with the Catholic church for «heretical» ideas about heliocentrism, said, «I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.»

I am a devout believer in evolution.

Salvino, a devout believer in the application of body English, leaped high in the air as he rammed a strike.

Or, are his AGW - biased findings more in line with his being such a devout believer in human - caused global warming that he will say and predict anything, the science be damned.

Not exact matches

We hope ardent atheists, devout believers and every array of religion in between will join us on a pilgrimage to the new sanctuary... er, site.

Alas, many of those who would style themselves devout Christians are in fact believers in the Manichean rejection of the world as not only temporal and in the obvious sense ephemeral but also as evil and without spiritual worth.

Whatever one may think of this, certainly it can not be doubted that it is possible for devout people, firm believers in the reality of God and in God's care for those who are his children, to put little, if any, stress upon an «after - life».

... you can claim free will and by so cover all of the human actions done to the world but how can say that god is real and controls nature when nature has killed more purely innocent lives then anything in history ever... if god was just and comp@ssinate why send the wave that killed 300 thousand, why create the plague that killed nearly 75 million in the middle ages when nearly everyone was a VERY devout believer....

Whatever political compromise is negotiated, Yerushalayim / Al - Quds has to be a heterogeneous community witnessing to a pluralistic monotheism — the greatest challenge to any devout believer of any faith, but the only healing path for Jews, Christians and Muslims in the Holy Land.

i was a devout believer once... i have read the bible many times from an unbiased point of view — the issues came when i asked questions and people kept sayin you HAVE TO TAKE IT ON FAITH... if faith is all thats needed, why the book, why the 10 commanments????? i have seen horrors in life, and in my lifetime — stuff that if god existed then i find him no more worth worshiping then the pipe that helps me sleep at night.

... you can claim free will and by so cover all of the human actions done to the world but how can say that god is real and controls nature when nature has killed more purely innocent lives then anything in history ever... if god was just and comp@ssinate why send the tsunami that killed 300 thousand, why create the plague that killed nearly 75 million in the middle ages when nearly everyone was a VERY devout believer....

For example, the bible offers no hint about needing to read either of the two contradictory creation accounts as metaphor and this fact is evidenced by the number of devout believers who, in the past or present, believe it to be «literal.»

In fact, there was something before: a community of several thousand «old believers,» devout Orthodox Christians whose homes had sat for generations on the land now transformed into the Olympic Park.

The premise is that the Rapture occurs, in which devout believers are immediately transformed to unseen spirit form and called up to Heaven, leaving all of the sinners and non-believers on Earth to suffer the Devil's reign.

The show is a particularly haunting and subtle meditation on American ignorance and superstition during our time of zealotry, demagoguery, and spectacle, where democracy is in question, and «flat earthers» have a substantial and growing following of devout believers.

People's beliefs and practices often exist on a spectrum: some devout believers seek no accommodation, while others, whose belief may not appear as deep, believe sincerely in observing rites and rituals.