Name one person who has
died for their belief in Santa Claus.
If this man is willing to
die for his belief in the Lord doesn't that say something.
Tell that to the martyrs who
died for their beliefs in Christ.
Not exact matches
As
for me, I want to know and commune with a being that,
in my
belief system, created me and
died for me.
Millions of Jewish people
died in the Holocaust
for their
beliefs.
At least one place Lewis explains this problem was
in the Screwtape letters, where a demon exclaims, «How much better
for us if all humans
died in costly nursing homes amid doctors who lie, nurses who lie, friends who lie, as we have trained them, promising life to the
dying, encouraging the
belief that sickness excuses every indulgence, and even, if our workers know their job, withholding all suggestion of a priest lest it should betray to the sick man his true condition!»
As
for the
dying, let them have peace
in whatever
belief they have chosen.
I think that is the view you have because of the weight you give the early martyrs
in validating your
beliefs, e.g. «people would not
die for what they don't believe».
The two are based on the
belief of «Jesus» and a single god then two religions start to divide
in their little rules
for being a «good little Catholic» vs a «good little Christian», people have
died because of this, example the Crusades.
However, would you say that, each one of the 11 martyred men, who really had stolen the body of Jesus
in the first place, would be willing to
die for a
belief they themselves knew to be false?
The Bible states pretty clearly that you can be a good person all your life, but if you
die without professing
belief in the Lord, you will burn
in Hell
for all eternity.
The chrsitan asked the atheist if he was prepared to
die for his
beliefs (meaning he believes
in no god).
Well, the last time Americans had a president who was psychologically «programmed» to ignore facts that didn't agree with his
beliefs, the USA ended up wasting $ 1T
in an illegal war to «liberate» 100's of billions of barrels of Iraqi oil (as many as 1.2 M people
died in the process due to violence, disease & starvation resulting from the conflict), nearly $ 5T was added to the U.S. federal debt, a man with experience as the Judges and Stewards Commissioner
for the International Arabian Horse Association was put
in charge of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), the U.S. subprime credit «bubble» expanded hugely & then imploded, wiping out some $ 14T
in global wealth & destroying millions of jobs, etc..
I've always disagreed, and think that even if there is a heaven, I'll be there when I
die, because any actual god worth having doesn't need or want your
belief, and wouldn't keep a good person to their core out of heaven... let alone burn and suffer
for eternity
in hell.
Would atheists
die in the same manner
for their
beliefs in science?
The events of a fairy tale are not proof of anything, and the fact that people are willing to
die for their silly
beliefs only demonstrates how easily some people are fooled
in to believing nonsense.
============ @Bryant Lister» The events of a fairy tale are not proof of anything, and the fact that people are willing to
die for their silly
beliefs only demonstrates how easily some people are fooled
in to believing nonsense.
As Christians, our most «deeply held religious
belief» is that Jesus Christ
died on the cross
for sinful people, and that
in imitation of that, we are called to love God, to love our neighbors, and to love even our enemies to the point of death.
They can't come to terms with the idea that there may actually be nothing after we
die so they latch on to a
belief that gives them comfort...
belief in an afterlife, eternity or any version of «god» is nothing more than a coping mechanism
for those who can't accept that we are
in fact finite creatures that are born, live, and
die and are not meant or destined to exist
for eternity.
Jesus came to rid the world of ritual so
belief in Jesus
dying for your sins as a way to salvation is anti Christian doctrine.
In a 1932 essay «Christianity and Communism» (The Listener), Eliot argued that only the Christian scheme made a place for those values «which I maintain or perish, the belief, for instance, in holy living and holy dying, in sanctity, chastity, humility, austerity.&raqu
In a 1932 essay «Christianity and Communism» (The Listener), Eliot argued that only the Christian scheme made a place
for those values «which I maintain or perish, the
belief,
for instance,
in holy living and holy dying, in sanctity, chastity, humility, austerity.&raqu
in holy living and holy
dying,
in sanctity, chastity, humility, austerity.&raqu
in sanctity, chastity, humility, austerity.»
David Koresh's followers were willing to
die for him and their
belief in his teaching.
Those who believed
in Jesus when he walked the Earth often
died for their
beliefs.
i wonder whih god will be more pleased with its slave — the one who murdered a man
for his
beliefs or the one who allowed his follower to
die for his faith either way — god is a man made
belief system that is only a few thousand years old — and
in that time, no one single thing has killed more humans, than a man claiming to know the will of some kind of god Faith is good thing, faith
in one's self.
The underlying premise behind the idea that adultery is unforgivable is based on the
belief that
in order
for a person to go to heaven when they
die, they must not have any unconfessed sin
in their life.
Just know thos «sheep herders,» as you call them, were willing to
die for what they believed, so their
belief in what they saw must have been very strong.
1) We're highly evolved primates 2) We have overactive imaginations 3) Our greatest evolutionary asset, our large and highly-folded brains, are also responsible
for an insatiable curiosity 4) As a species, and a survival tactic, we make things up to comfort ourselves
in difficult times 5) As a complex societal species, we create commonalities and «traditions» with others
in our clan / tribe / community 6) These «traditions» result
in security, trust, and strong relationships that make the collective more able to survive than the individual 7) These common
beliefs also act as a means of numbing the brain to questions and concerns without legitimate or tangible answers 8) Religion is simply a survival mechanism 9) When we
die, we simple «are not alive» anymore.
The eyewitnesses of the Resurrection of Jesus — those who ate, drank, spoke with, and listened to the Lord Jesus Christ after His Resurrection — were so convinced of the Good News of God's Love, Forgiveness, Peace, and Healing Power
for all humanity revealed by the Risen Jesus Christ that these eyewitnesses were willing to
die as martyrs
for their
belief in the Risen Christ as fully God and fully man when it was illegal to do so under Roman authority (where Cesar was considered a deity
in the state cult religion).
I do
in a sense have faith but my faith lies
in believing
in things such as personal responsibility, values such as hard work, respect, and ethics such as charity and helping others (which I developed on my own out of my own choosing and I recieve my own satisfaction from doing not a
belief in sucking up to an invisible man
in the sky
for «great reward» after I
die).
From the moment Levin saw his beloved brother
dying and
for the first time looked at the problems of life and death
in the light of what he called the new convictions that between the ages of twenty and thirty - four had imperceptibly taken the place of the
beliefs of his childhood and youth, he was horrified not so much by death as by a life without the slightest knowledge of where it came from, what it was
for, and why, and what it was.
It is my understanding (and
belief) that God the Father always stays true to his own Word and plans, so it seems that He would fully carry out his plan
for His Son to be born, live, and
die in fully Jewish tradition and by Jewish laws, before arising from the dead to eternal life.
but i didn't state anything example — i stated that the theory of evolution is yet to be proved and so with that i agree that due to that lacking it is equal to the theory of god... the only thing i said which is cemented truth
for anything is that we don't know what the real answer is... and by stating ideas as facts serves no real purpose but a selfish one... lets call it an ease - ment on the inner self, the mind can now be at peace with the hope that when i
die i get to live yet again... full
belief in this is insane without evidence.
As the demographic cotinues to change and these people
die off, the conservative far right will be either irrelevant or forced to embrace those true Christian ideals of loving and accepting their neighbors
in a country not founded upon Christian
beliefs but tolerance
for all faiths.
is this not what these soldiers have been fighting and
dying for «freedom» that's why we live
in this country to have the freedom to live and have our own
beliefs without the government telling us how we should live and act im proud of this soldier
for standing up
for his
beliefs that's what he is fighting
for if you holly rollers want forced religion then move to another country
The most important message you'll ever read:
For us to get to go to heaven (and be made right with God), we must simply place our faith (belief / trust) in that Jesus Christ died for our sins (wrongs against God), was buried, and came back to life the third day after His crucifixion, thus making Jesus our Savior (the One Who paid for our sins) and Lord (equal to God because He was sinles
For us to get to go to heaven (and be made right with God), we must simply place our faith (
belief / trust)
in that Jesus Christ
died for our sins (wrongs against God), was buried, and came back to life the third day after His crucifixion, thus making Jesus our Savior (the One Who paid for our sins) and Lord (equal to God because He was sinles
for our sins (wrongs against God), was buried, and came back to life the third day after His crucifixion, thus making Jesus our Savior (the One Who paid
for our sins) and Lord (equal to God because He was sinles
for our sins) and Lord (equal to God because He was sinless).
The only real thing that separates «Christianity» from any other religion or spiritual
belief, is not whether we incorporate Easter Bunnies, goblins, ghouls, monsters, Santa, or tiny elves into our celebrations, but rather, that our faith is not found
in our ability to «save» ourselves but
in Christ who
died for all, so that all could enter into unbroken friendship with Him.
The issue i have is that christians stay at the cross and never go any further
in there
belief that is tragic and if the songs and teachings only lead them to the cross then that is a crime.The cross represents our death as we were crucified with him and after that death we rose with Christ.Sadly many christians are still at the cross still struggling with there demons and flesh life and asking
for forgiveness continually pleading the blood.They do nt understand because they are babes
in Christ The reality is that Christ
died and rose again our life is not
in the Cross but is
in the risen Christ and
in him we are more than conqueres.Lets celebrate our new life
in Christ not the death of our old life
in Christ.brentnz
But
for the moment I wish only to insist that one of the consequences of the «immortality» position,
for so long presented as essential to Christian
belief, has been precisely the tendency to minimize the reality of death and to make it appear blasphemous
for anyone to say, as I did
in an earlier paragraph, that not only do we all
die but that all of us also
dies.
It goes something like this: since some people do believe Jesus is God, that He
died for sins, and that He rose again, and yet remain unsaved, it must follow that
belief in these truths is not essential
for salvation.
Decisions had to be made from time to time as to where or when services of the church would be held; the church needed to be told of the impending visit of an apostle, or of some prophet or teacher from abroad; a question has been raised as to the good faith of one of these visitors, and there must be some discussion of the point and a decision on it; a fellow Christian from another church is on a journey and needs hospitality; a member of the local congregation planning to visit a church abroad needs a letter of introduction to that church, which someone must be authorized to provide; a serious dispute about property rights or some other legal matter has arisen between two of the brothers and the church must name someone to help them settle the issue or must
in some other way deal with it; a new local magistrate has begun to prosecute Christians
for violating the law against unlicensed assembly, and consideration must be given to ways and means of meeting this crisis; charges have been brought against one of the members by another member, and these must be investigated and perhaps some disciplinary action taken; one of the members has
died, and the church is called on
for some special action
in behalf of his family
in the emergency; differences of opinion exist
in the church on certain questions of morals or
belief (such as marriage and divorce, or the resurrection), differences which local prophets and teachers are apparently unable to compose, and a letter must be written to the apostle — who will write this letter and what exactly will it say?
Subsequently, by virtue of defining that an adult and infant are unable to safely sleep on the same surface together, such as what occurs during bedsharing, even when all known adverse bedsharing risk factors are absent and safe bedsharing practices involving breastfeeding mothers are followed, an infant that
dies while sharing a sleeping surface with his / her mother is labeled a SUID, and not SIDS.26
In this way the infant death statistics increasingly supplement the idea that bedsharing is inherently and always hazardous and lend credence, artificially, to the belief that under no circumstance can a mother, breastfeeding or not, safely care for, or protect her infant if asleep together in a bed.27 The legitimacy of such a sweeping inference is highly problematic, we argue, in light of the fact that when careful and complete examination of death scenes, the results revealed that 99 % of bedsharing deaths could be explained by the presence of at least one and usually multiple independent risk factors for SIDS such as maternal smoking, prone infant sleep, use of alcohol and / or drugs by the bedsharing adults.28 Moreover, this new ideology is especially troubling because it leads to condemnations of bedsharing parents that border on charges of being neglectful and / or abusiv
In this way the infant death statistics increasingly supplement the idea that bedsharing is inherently and always hazardous and lend credence, artificially, to the
belief that under no circumstance can a mother, breastfeeding or not, safely care
for, or protect her infant if asleep together
in a bed.27 The legitimacy of such a sweeping inference is highly problematic, we argue, in light of the fact that when careful and complete examination of death scenes, the results revealed that 99 % of bedsharing deaths could be explained by the presence of at least one and usually multiple independent risk factors for SIDS such as maternal smoking, prone infant sleep, use of alcohol and / or drugs by the bedsharing adults.28 Moreover, this new ideology is especially troubling because it leads to condemnations of bedsharing parents that border on charges of being neglectful and / or abusiv
in a bed.27 The legitimacy of such a sweeping inference is highly problematic, we argue,
in light of the fact that when careful and complete examination of death scenes, the results revealed that 99 % of bedsharing deaths could be explained by the presence of at least one and usually multiple independent risk factors for SIDS such as maternal smoking, prone infant sleep, use of alcohol and / or drugs by the bedsharing adults.28 Moreover, this new ideology is especially troubling because it leads to condemnations of bedsharing parents that border on charges of being neglectful and / or abusiv
in light of the fact that when careful and complete examination of death scenes, the results revealed that 99 % of bedsharing deaths could be explained by the presence of at least one and usually multiple independent risk factors
for SIDS such as maternal smoking, prone infant sleep, use of alcohol and / or drugs by the bedsharing adults.28 Moreover, this new ideology is especially troubling because it leads to condemnations of bedsharing parents that border on charges of being neglectful and / or abusive.
We also discuss how the same underlying cultural
beliefs that supported the idea that infants sleep best alone serve presently to permit the acceptance of an inappropriate set of assumptions related to explaining why some babies
die unexpectedly while sleeping
in their parents beds.9 These assumptions are that regardless of circumstances, including maternal motivations and / or the absence of all known bedsharing risk factors, even nonsmoking, sober, breastfeeding mothers place their infants at significantly increased risk
for SUID by bedsharing.
Some think a man will
die sooner if he eats continually of fat - free meat than if he eats nothing, but this is a
belief on which sufficient evidence
for a decision has not been gathered
in the North.
A picture like this lives and
dies by its cast, and while it's easy to target Black as the odd man out
in this ensemble, better to forgive the Malcolm character as an example of the frustrated intellectual, straitjacketed by potential and the
belief that he was bound
for something better promised him by people (parents?)
Locked
in a rectangular room barely larger than the table around which they sit, it appears that a quick verdict will be met — until one man stands up
for justice and the
belief that sentencing someone to
die should never be a quick decision.
In the end, there were four scenes: A serf's house where the men discussed the tragedy while a mother nursed a
dying child; an apothecary's store, where members of the medical profession debated cures
for the plague; a church, where monks considered causes of the illness while they worked on illuminated manuscripts and where a priest was indifferent to a parishioner's pleas
for help; and finally, a central market square where traveling Franciscan monks declared their
beliefs about the plague, flagellants whipped themselves and blamed the Jews, and an old woman went crazy as she ranted about «the end of the world.»
Enriched by flashbacks to the alluringly sad tale of Anyusha's mother, a famous Russian refusenik who
died for her
beliefs, The Wanting is a poignant study of the costs of extremism, but it is most satisfying as a story of characters enmeshed
in their imperfect love
for one another and
for the heartbreakingly complex world
in which that love is wrought.
Indigenous people's access to better health care was considered less important because most Australian doctors repeatedly read and believed that Indigenous people were an inferior and primitive race whose demise was inevitable.7 Palliation was all that was required, or «smoothing the pillow of the
dying race».7, 16 Some took this palliation more seriously, while many used it to excuse their guilt
for suffering caused by colonialism.16 This
belief in the doom of the Indigenous population did create a sense of urgency
for researchers to collect information about Indigenous people
for science before it was too late.