Sentences with phrase «experience as an atheist»

The transcendent feelings you experience through your religion are no different than the transcendent feelings I experience as an atheist.

Not exact matches

An atheist then can justly describe an encounter with a pod of whales, for example, as a spiritual experience while still understanding that he doesn't have an immortal soul.

Atheists deserve their reputation as they are often condescending towards those who have supernatural experiences.

What she really should have told Oprah: As an atheist I have far more appreciation and awe of the world and beauty around us, because I can understand the immeasurable number of years to bring us to this moment and the rare privilege of being a conscious being at this moment to experience it.

actually there are approximately 36.3 million people — including 13 million children — that live in households that experience hunger or the risk of hunger... that is far too many people please do not use your blasphemy of the atheists / non-believers as an excuse for this especially given the number of innocent children involved

And while it probably never works to overconfidently inform atheist friends that the serenity they feel in nature or the rapture they experience listening to music is the specific product of a specific God, we can at least embrace such experiences as points of connection.

I'm not necessarily claiming that Christianity is wonderful (I'm an atheist), but that Christianity as it is known and experienced today is much, much more mellow an ideology both in theory and practice than Islam.

And I can tell you from over a decade of counseling experience that I have found FAR more «self - loathing» (as I believe you are using that term) among atheists and agnostics than among believers of any faith.

To an atheist wanting to experience Christian belief, I would always want to emphasise the importance of knowing God as a personal being.

Mehta said he knows many atheists who fear that «coming out of the closet» will jeopardize their jobs and relationships, just as in Bell's experience.

As an atheist I would love nothing more than for moderates to stand up to these bullies, but my experience has been that they leave that up to us because they're just too nice to criticize, and they can't stand being told that they're not following Jesus by other believers.

Upon careful analysis, at least ten such points become apparent: (1) Blake alone among Christian artists has created a whole mythology; (2) he was the first to discover the final loss of paradise, the first to acknowledge that innocence has been wholly swallowed up by experience; (3) no other Christian artist or seer has so fully directed his vision to history and experience; (4) to this day his is the only Christian vision that has openly or consistently accepted a totally fallen time and space as the paradoxical presence of eternity; (5) he stands alone among Christian artists in identifying the actual passion of sex as the most immediate epiphany of either a demonic or a redemptive «Energy,» just as he is the only Christian visionary who has envisioned the universal role of the female as both a redemptive and a destructive power; (6) his is the only Christian vision of the total kenotic movement of God or the Godhead; (7) he was the first Christian «atheist,» the first to unveil God as Satan; (8) he is the most Christocentric of Christian seers and artists; (9) only Blake has created a Christian vision of the full identity of Jesus with the individual human being (the «minute particular»); and (10) as the sole creator of a post-biblical Christian apocalypse, he has given Christendom its only vision of a total cosmic reversal of history.

In my own experience, atheists and theists alike show the capacity for empathy and forgiveness (perhaps the atheists a bit more, as they are generally more inclusive).

As a family (not hubby as he is an atheist) we have all had trauma from church experiences and no longer belong; with the exception of our son who thankfully has found a CofE church where he feels comfortable and affirmeAs a family (not hubby as he is an atheist) we have all had trauma from church experiences and no longer belong; with the exception of our son who thankfully has found a CofE church where he feels comfortable and affirmeas he is an atheist) we have all had trauma from church experiences and no longer belong; with the exception of our son who thankfully has found a CofE church where he feels comfortable and affirmed.

In my experience, most atheists do consider religious people to be religious primarily as a result of their upbringing.

Even without acknowledging God, the atheist in this article feels and knows that it is good to work for charitable efforts like helping the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society fight cancer... for by doing so we live out «love your neighbor as yourself» and by following this commandment from God — Jesus Christ's summary of the Law — we experience «God is Love.»

As the experiences piled up, the atheists I had joined no longer sounded so disinterested and broad - minded.

Maybe I do nt understand atheists, but also I do nt care to understand anyone who is not open to my ideas and from past experiences atheists were as arrogant and closed minded as the majority of Christians I have talked to.

2) In my experience, a great number of atheists know the bible as well, or better, than many Christians do.

Can you be a saint if God feels as distant from you as He does from an atheist — if your experience of God is an experience of lonely «darkness»?

The atheist leader discussed an incident he personally experienced in 2003 or 2004 when, as CNS News reports, he claims a commander gathered his team together to pray before a mission.

In «The Mystery I'm Thankful For» (22 November) he describes himself as «an atheist with sympathies for the sacred character of human experience».

As a result, we witnessed and experienced a rich tapestry of diversity among us... anywhere from believer to atheist... all gathered around the value of love and mutual respect.

Joshua Aren't we experiencing our own «dark ages» with the war against science and series of persecutions against gays, Muslims, atheists, and basically everyone who isn't conservative Christian here in the USA, all due to protestants serving as their own scriptural authority?

Dan Barker's Godless is a great roadmap of the transition most atheists and agnostics experience as he himself was a youth pastor, later minister and influential Christian musician.

From my own experience as a Christian trying to be more Christ - like, I've found it can be tempting to socialize with Atheists, Agnostics, people who use rough language, homosexuals, prostitutes, strippers, drunks, and murderers * because * they're Atheists, Agnostics, people who use rough language, homosexuals, prostitutes, strippers, drunks, and murderers.

Every experience is a chance to learn... so not listening to atheists could be quite detrimental to your growth as a human, much less as a Christian...

One thing I can say from experience is that my believe in God and what's been tolled about him has had many hits from other people surrounding me from church to good willed friends and atheists who perfectly can point out why there is no such thing as a god.

Every Person Every person, whether they are religious or non-religious, Christian or non-Christian, Atheist or whatever you want to put in there as a name - WILL experience the Afterlife.