Sentences with phrase «died for their beliefs in»

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.&raquIn 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.&raquin holy living and holy dying, in sanctity, chastity, humility, austerity.&raquin 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 sinlesFor 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 sinlesfor 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 sinlesfor 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 abusivIn 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 abusivin 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 abusivin 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.