Sentences with phrase «faith on a delusion»

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Dr. Peter Boghossian, professor of philosophy at Portland State University, in a great talk on faith - based epistemology: «I disagree with granting religious delusion as an exemption, and I want to mention there's a budding young scholar here at Portland State University, Renee Barnett [sp?]

Evan's father's faith was obviously not a «lazy man's» delusion as one poster said on this forum.

Decades before atheist scientist and author Richard Dawkins called God a «delusion,» one world - renowned physicist — Albert Einstein — was weighing in on faith matters with his own strong words.

Faith is a delusion and those operating under it are not immune to criticism any more than those who claim to have visited other planets and travel on alien space ships.

It is a suitable acclamation for a remarkably good book on faith and science, which comes to publication providentially ahead of Richard Dawkins's autumn offering, The God Delusion.

And should one run the risk of losing faith by examining its true foundations, he is certain to be chilled by the dictum, in Hebrews 6:4 - 6, that «It is impossible for those who were once enlightened... if they fall away, to renew them again...» Those who originated a religion based on deception and delusion clearly knew that if the conditioning broke down or wore off, it could not work again.

If, on the other hand, nothing actually happened at Easter and if, therefore, the Christian faith which rests upon the Resurrection is a delusion, then we might as well be dead.

«Faith is a device of self - delusion, a sleight of hand done with words and emotions founded on any irrational notion that can be dreamed up.

When I reflect on the infinite pains to which the human mind and heart will go in order to protect itself from the full impact of reality, when I recall the mordant analyses of religious belief which stem from the works of Karl Marx and Sigmund Freud and, furthermore, recognize the truth of so much of what these critics of religion have had to say, when I engage in a philosophical critique of the language of theology and am constrained to admit that it is a continual attempt to say what can not properly be said and am thereby led to wonder whether its claim to cognition can possibly be valid — when I ask these questions of myself and others like them (as I can not help asking and, what is more, feel obliged to ask), is not the conclusion forced upon me that my faith is a delusion?

Christianity, like all religious faith, is based on lies, delusions, and false promises.

For a better understanding of the christian faith, see the chapter on mass delusions in any psychology textbook.

you'd think if god was truly the god spoken of then faith would be unneeded and belief a thing of the past — yet — people will believe whatever they wish no matter the proof or lack there of and its truly sad to consider that this delusion type mass brainwashing is going on right now and has been for over 2000 years... please don't let the time in which this sm.ut has been around make you think its worth its wieght in salt — i bid Lot's wife its not — in ALL early man stories from around the globe people have created GRAND stories about the start and end of times — its that simple.

Obviously if he's doing that then it's on purpose not an accident not a delusion and certainly not faith.

But, when we turn around and apply the standards that we used to call this man's faith «delusion» on all other religious faiths, we run into problems.

Any thought, any faith, or belief can be called delusion if it differs from our knowledge of reality, from proven scientific principles, and so on.

Decades before atheist scientist and author Richard Dawkins called God a «delusion,» one world - renowned physicist - Albert Einstein - was weighing in on faith matters with his own strong words.

We experience moments of high drama and humor, sometimes on the same page; swordfights and court intrigues; plus a growing connection with and concern for the big hearted man inside the little body who has only his faith to hang on to as he is drawn further and further into Kempelen's deception and delusions of grandeur.

We experience moments of high drama and humor, sometimes on the same page; swordfights and court intrigues; plus a growing tension as we come to know and care for the big hearted man inside the little body who has only his faith to hang on to as he is drawn further and further into Kempelen's deception and delusions of grandeur.