Sentences with phrase «false beliefs as»

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These arguments derive from the false belief that a recession is defined as two quarters of negative GDP growth.

I'll write about the bogus «China gold demand» theory again in the future as it's one of the most persistent false beliefs within the bullish camp, but in this post I'm going to quickly deal with another China - related false belief that periodically shifts to the centre of the bullish stage: the idea that China's government is preparing to back the Yuan with gold.

Other than that, do as you wish, you want to serve a false god, do it, you want to believe in no god, believe it, just everybody shut up about your stupid beliefs, neither side can prove crap.

Rev.Rick Your thought only holds as to those in power in the U.S. that at are non believers or those that hold a false Christian belief.

It's more like, I revel in knowledge, and I want to make sure that I have as many true beliefs as possible, and as few false beliefs..

Assumptions along these lines are what atheists hang their hats on, but assumptions lead to false reasoning, and in any case, they base their view on beliefs, even though they don't recognize it as a belief.

So in a sense I said, «I reject God» — not that I rejected Him as a person, but rather jettisoned the false belief that I had a relationship with Him.

The flaw with your belief isn't that I can not prove your god false, it's that you accept him as true without the ability to prove him false.

«Well aware that the opinions and belief of men depend not on their own will, but follow involuntarily the evidence proposed to their minds; that Almighty God hath created the mind free, and manifested his supreme will that free it shall remain by making it altogether insusceptible of restraint; that all attempts to influence it by temporal punishments, or burthens, or by civil incapacitations, tend only to beget habits of hypocrisy and meanness, and are a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion, who being lord both of body and mind, yet chose not to propagate it by coercions on either, as was in his Almighty power to do, but to extend it by its influence on reason alone; that the impious presumption of legislators and rulers, civil as well as ecclesiastical, who, being themselves but fallible and uninspired men, have assumed dominion over the faith of others, setting up their own opinions and modes of thinking as the only true and infallible, and as such endeavoring to impose them on others, hath established and maintained false religions over the greatest part of the world and through all time.»

There are way too many people out there that have their own beliefs, but consider all other belief systems as false.

Merriam - Webster's online dictionary defines «delusion» as follows: «Something that is falsely or delusively believed or propagated; a persistent false psychotic belief regarding the self or persons or objects outside the self that is maintained despite indisputable evidence to the contrary; also, the abnormal state marked by such beliefs.»

Perhaps, but what I have shown is that the underlying basis for your beliefs is fundamentally flawed, as it has on many occasions in the past been the basis for beliefs that turned out to be false.

I've never met anyone in any religion more convinced of their personal experiences and testimonies than Mormons, yet the entire Christian community outside the Mormon churches dismisses their beliefs as false and their experiences as either delusions or deceptions perpetrated by Satan.

But what resulted from this state of affairs was a false view of reason as being totally opposed to belief, and of the natural world as being outside the realm of belief.

Conceding to believers that they can redefine the term «religion» to encompass «atheism», or whatever other ideas they wish to encompass within the word, if that suits their purposes in trying to put anyone who doesn't believe in their god or any god into the same category as themselves, grants to them the opportunity to dismiss anyone who doesn't believe in their god as holding a religious belief no more valid then their own and to classify you as just another follower of a «false religion» unlike their own, which is the «true» religion.

Has the false notion of an adversarial relationship between science and religion caused such division in subscribed beliefs that one can no longer view science and the belief in a superior intellect as a harmonious precept?

Indeed, Rorty believes that the (false) belief that our institutions are only as good as their philosophical foundations is itself a serious impediment to our affirmation of them.

I am sure that there are blogs and websites that give comfort to your disbelief, but as I said before, no belief or disbelief of a fact makes it true or false.

At a time of unprecedented transition in the Christian Movement, when (as George Orwell once put it) «the little orthodoxies of the right and the left vie with one another for possession of our souls,» it is necessary to assert both the modesty and the complex, nuanced character of Christian faith and theology against the false certainties of true belief, ideology and religious simplism.

And it's a weak argument at best, twisting words to fit an agenda but not addressing a false prophecy that disproves your belief and quantifies it as myth alongside other religions.

But we can make life very miserable for said speakers by sit - ins / walk - arounds by their misguided church, hosing them down as firemen conduct fire drills in areas where these «speakers» spout their «stupidities», insti - tute a tax on all «houses of worthless worship» and sue them for false advertising of beliefs that are simply con games.

so i want to put it on a definination of delision «A false belief strongly held in spite of invalidating evidence, especially as a symptom of mental illness.

A false belief strongly held in spite of invalidating evidence, especially as a symptom of mental illness, as in schizophrenia.

Projecting one's own beliefs to society at large, even going so far as to make up false resons that can not be backed up by fact, «women are seen as objects», as to why others should do the same, is just plain odd.

Still less do they mean that men could be «cured» of their religious beliefs by proving them false, as men might possibly be cured of drug addiction by lectures about the injury it does to them.

Participation could be seen as endorsing «false teaching» because some among the diverse group of religious leaders at the vigil hold beliefs different from those of synod.

Thus Christian faith in God as the Creator has usually been understood to require assent to a whole series of beliefs that are now widely regarded as false — e.g., that the creation of the world took place as recently as 4004 B.C. and that man and the various animals were all created as fixed species, in no way related to one another by any pattern of evolutionary development.

Thus it is a wholly false supposition that Jesus» belief concerning God marks an especially high level in humanity's developing consciousness of God, that to him — as some one has expressed it — God became the «representation of the ought - to - be as the power of love.»

It stands to reason that an all knowing eternal God could predict what you and I would believe no before He made and thus have already know whether we would except him or not And I'm not sure what you trying to say by that And because we want to tell others about Him and be used by Him to reach others And that commit does not make any sense, but clearly God is not a punk, as I have already demonstrated And your main point, as I already explained is false No, but my belief is true, none the less, it is by definition virtually impossible to prove anything And no, I don't need knee pads.

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But that crude caricature of religious belief and moral conviction is false; it's adolescent, if not downright childish; it inevitably lends itself to the kind of vulgarity that intends to wound, not amuse; and over the long haul, it's as corrosive of the foundations of a decent society as the demented rage of the jihadists who murdered members of Charlie Hebdo's staff.

As the illness continues, psychotic symptoms develop: • False beliefs or thoughts that are not based in reality (delusions) • Hearing, seeing, or feeling things that are not there (hallucinations)

Once my wife said that I was claiming her beliefs to be false by tossing my similar ones out as false.

Virginia Burrus, in her article «The Heretical Woman as Symbol in Alexander, Athanasius, Epiphanius, and Jerome,» Harvard Theological Review, 84:3 (1991) 229 - 248, points out how her analysis has indicated that the sources examined «speak loudly and clearly of the preoccupations of the men who articulated their orthodox identity through the use of woman as a symbol of the threatening forces of sexuality, social chaos, and false belief.»

To embrace false beliefs within one's being and to believe falsely are, I say, no more the same than to embrace smallness as property of a part and to be small as a whole.

Heavily influenced by the Enlightenment and the philosophical tradition of Logical Positivism (the idea that if something is not able to be judged true or false, then we are rationally compelled to ignore it as irrelevant), much of the modern Church has bought into the belief that the truth of Christianity should be treated like any other set of factual claims, and that people of faith can somehow rationally observe ultimate truth with a level of personal detachment and objectivity.

For the religiously orthodox, religious belief systems were felt to represent «objective» reality as it really is, and thus if one of them is true the others must be false, either absolutely or in some degree.

And of course an option may be accepted or rejected or found «as obviously false as any belief I know,» or «incomparably more credible to me than the..

Your belief, however, is in serious need of examination, as it is you who carry the doctrines of a false system.

One's emotions, such as unwillingness to be wrong, the comfort of old beliefs, the fear of stepping out from the familiar into the unknown, keep Christians and Athiests alike from seeing what might be true in the other side's beliefs, or what might be false in their own.

Beliefs or statements that are claimed to be true or false are subject to principles of logical laws, such as identity, contradiction and excluded middle.

In Christianity, it keeps people from questioning or changing cherished but flawed beliefs, from listening to and finding out what is true and what is false in everything, from discovering what underlying assumptions are taken for granted as true, when they might not be.

At most there might remain, when the direct experiences of prayer were ruled out as false witnesses, some inferential belief that the whole order of existence must have a divine cause.

I agree about the Agave, just as bad as any other fructose sweetener, perhaps worse due to the false belief that it is somehow «better» for you.

This has nothing to do with loyalty as fans» loyalty are not in disrepute, it's their trust and belief in the enterprise, the same enterprise who have let them down with false promises and excuses.

Some of these include older mothers relishing in telling horror stories about cracked nipples, thrush, clogged ducts, etc; pediatricians who use weight charts based on formula fed infants and scaring new mothers into thinking their babies aren't gaining enough weight; and the pervasive, but false, belief that formula is just as good as breastmilk for babies.

«Having the ability to represent false beliefs means recognizing that others can have different thoughts from us,» said Peipei Setoh, who, as a graduate student, conducted the study with University of Illinois psychology professor Renée Baillargeon and fellow graduate student Rose Scott.

A delusion is commonly defined as a fixed false belief and is used in everyday language to describe a belief that is either false, fanciful or derived from deception.

Consider your current beliefs; for even just a moment, detach from an obligation to believe or not to believe anything as true or false.

But ladies, I ask you to please fear not, and read on... I have explained many times before (and had to re-explain to a few friends time and time again, as unfortunately this is a genuine fear that has been imbedded into minds from false beliefs) that resistance training will not lead to a muscular female who looks like a man Women are designed differently to men and as such we have a diffeent genetic makeup and our bodies contain different hormones which in turn, affect our ability to gain muscle.