Sentences with phrase «for agnosticism»

In this provocative, brilliant book, she gives voice to the case for agnosticism, breaks it free of its stereotypes as watered - down atheism or amorphous «seeking,» and celebrates it as a reasoned, revealing, and sustaining stance toward life.

One of Charles Darwin's reasons for his agnosticism - bordering - on - atheism was the problem of suffering.

What passes for suspended judgment is often in effect a decision for agnosticism or naturalism.

We are now lost in mists of philosophical and cultural «pluralism», which really stands for agnosticism and moral chaos.

I can assure you that I have gone on every philosophical / theological journey in my mind that is known to man, and as I've stated previously, I have no doubt that I could excel as an apologist for agnosticism.

That's why there is a very good case for agnosticism.

Not exact matches

He sounds agnostic already, I claimed agnosticism for a long time, not understanding I was really an atheist.

Richard Dawkins recently attracted attention for his admission that his atheism was more properly a scientific agnosticism.

If the thought leaving your imaginary friends behind is just too much, or makes you want to go p00py, then try Atheism Lite ™ (agnosticism) for a period of time to ease your way into a much more rewarding, peaceful life.

They gave up so much, they suffered so much, they endured the searing agnosticism and cynicism of the Greek mind, always looking for just that sort of thing to say... they also endured the searching, probing minds of the Jewish Pharisees, seeking with desperation to stop this «new heresy» form spreading.

I'm glad to see you are honest about it ROCKWOOD, but I think this comment — «The Muslim influx is a bit more difficult for me to accept, but I often pray that I have the ability to accept them as much as I accept other religions, or concpets of relgions such as Atheism, and Agnosticism..»

The Muslim influx is a bit more difficult for me to accept, but I often pray that I have the ability to accept them as much as I accept other religions, or concpets of relgions such as Atheism, and Agnosticism..

He advises his followers to cultivate a fundamental reverence for God, but a reverence that maintains a respectful agnosticism about the world God created and God's plans for it.

A respectful agnosticism is called for when often there is offered in its place a self - interested certainty.

That's why Agnosticism is the best approach for that part.

Atheism is as dumb as religion, agnosticism is a much more intelligent route for the time being.

For many, this might mean embracing a kind of agnosticism and leaving the church.

Agnosticism is a valid and I believe intelligent way to find meaning in one's search for moral and intellectual guidance.

In China, USSR and North Korea, openly displaying a religion other than the state run atheism or agnosticism was met by brutality (for the most part with limited exception).

Personally, I think the only truly honest position is «I don't know for sure, and I say so» - agnosticism.

Again, it is John Paul II who so powerfully argued, especially in Centesimus Annus, that it is not agnosticism that secures a free and just society but a religiously informed respect for the person and the person in community.

You said, «This is actually a very important verse for me, because it is what converted me from agnosticism to Christ.»

It is irrational for a strong atheist to make that claim The difference between weak atheism and agnosticism is -0 -, symantics.

Because we dare not speak for God presumptively (as you've seen some TV preachers do in pronouncing certain public events as unmistakably God's judgment for specific sins), we should pursue a reverent agnosticism about why individual bad things happen.

A number of Christian theologians and ethicists have mistaken the Bible's understandable agnosticism about modern economics for some sort of countercultural radicalism.

Of all the world's major faiths, Hinduism has least to lose by lumping everyone's convictions together in one vast amalgam, since it has already made room for every conceivable viewpoint, from the cool agnosticism of a Nehru to the fervid polytheism of a Nepalese villager.

Nothing that he published while he was living in England suggests an abandonment of agnosticism, though I think that if, in his post-war years there, a suitable occasion had been provided for giving utterance to his meditations, he would have struck a religious note.

This state of affairs not only fails to engage with the core issue at the heart of the culture of death, it also tacitly encourages agnosticism about life after death, human freedom, the ultimate nature of evil and the human need for prayer and religious practice.

I am sure there's no god, but lacking physical proof, I'll settle for easily - defensible agnosticism.

The advice that he ignores is to keep his religious doubts secret from his wife - to - be; Darwin, however, believes in totally honesty, and although his agnosticism pains Emma, she sublimates her concern for his spiritual welfare to her love for him.

As for myself, my own religious orientation has drifted from Christianity to more of a nebulous agnosticism over time.