Sentences with phrase «from fact it»

They same can be said about saying the Christianity is a protection racket that builds dogmatic closed minded followers who will willfully turn from fact in favor of faith.

Christians benefited from the fact that Christianity was the faith of Kublai Khan's mother.

Presumably nothing at all follows from this fact in isolation.

But that this obedience and this fellowship always have the character of a «Thou» relation, and can never be reduced to an «It» relation, may be seen from the fact that the tension inherent in the «Thou» relation can not be happily resolved except by submission or fellowship.

Anyone else think that these issues are brought to the surface solely to distract us all from the fact that none of our elected officials knows what to do about the economy.

Aside from the fact that the book makes you think about these topics, one nice feature of the book is that the authors give you permission to disagree with them.

Much of the new mystique of the racial minorities comes from the fact that they are alleged to have retained a sense of community missing among whites.

We can take no comfort from the fact that the pseudo paganism, which we have described under the category of power culture, is perverse and fundamentally decadent.

The strength of the educational idealism of Comenius came from the fact that it had roots.

Part of the complexity in charting the theological world comes from the fact that Lindbeck's influential account of liberal theology as «experiential - expressivist» describes only a small part of actually existing theological liberalism.

The impotence of contemporary moralism arises from the fact that «we are trying to maintain a political valuation of man which had roots in a religious understanding of him, when that religious understanding has been forgotten.»

I do not think that we can get away from the fact that modernity has come to stay and that the task is to humanize it.

The fear of contamination, interpreted along the lines made familiar by Freud and Durkheim, derives from the fact that the behavior of the sinners is experienced unconsciously as seductive.

From the fact that this section knows nothing about conceptual reproduction, I had earlier concluded that it must belong to the Gifford's draft (EWM 185).

This is the very best demonstration of our god - almighty - ness which simply comes from the fact we think we have invented everything psychological; that nothing would be done if we did not do it.

This follows from the fact that the Bible as a whole corpus of literature is narrative in its framework, although some of its fragments are not.

But as a mere mortal who can only understand time from a mere mortals perspective, does not take away from the fact that I know that God's time frame is not the same as mine, though I don't understand it.

Aside from the fact that an 18 year old is considered an adult, maybe the point here is that if a man is having a nervous breakdown, he shouldn't be working around youngsters?

Whether he did it in the name of God; Allah or whatever deity he may believe in does not take away from the fact that he committed a horrific crime.

We agree that the extensiveness which the future must have derives from the fact that it must have extensive relations to an extensive past and present, that is, that like all potentiality, the potentiality that is the extensive continuum derives from actuality.

The contrast between Santayana and Whitehead here springs partly from the fact that for Santayana moments of spirit, being non-efficacious, are less intimately related to other events than are physical events.

When you get right down to it, the Universe isn't a very comforting place, but many choose to hide from that fact rather than deal with it.

The further back an event is said to have taken place, the more evidence is required in order to separate myth and folklore from fact.

Part of the confusion of Cobb's position stems from the fact that the extensive continuum, conceived of as a set of relations underlying past, present, and future, is part actual and part potential — actual in as far as it is constituted by actual entities enjoying actual relationships legislating what are real potentialities governing the relationships of future occasions; and merely potential in so far as these relationships are viewed as factors determining what forms of definiteness are, and are not, possible as factors in future fact.

«While noting that the burial tradition may be simply a postulate «derived from the fact of Jesus» death or knowledge of Jewish purity concerns» rather than the memory of an historical event, Luedemann's own preference, influenced in part by John 19:31 - 37 and Acts 13:20, is that Jesus was buried by Jews who were not his followers.

Granted not everyone has done this, but that doesn't take away from the fact that all humans have the ability to be awestruck or sublimed by something, a triat unique to humans.

He who thinks that the world, without any such unity of significance as constitutes an experience, would still have been or might be a real world, and who deduces this from the fact — which spiritualism accepts — that the world without a particular human personality, Mr. X is perfectly possible, must also be one who thinks that if from «himself» those qualities which make him Mr. X were to be subtracted, nothing of the nature of mind would remain — in short, he is one who does not believe that other minds are members of himself.

These differences stem mainly from the fact that Jesus apparently accepted, though with some modifications, the apocalyptic ideas current in his time.

Quite apart from the fact that these attitudes were not as objectionable in his own day as they are to us today — and that does not excuse them — there are a couple of things that we should not forget.

From the fact that a person has a given shade of skin pigmentation no other fact of any consequence can bee inferred, except that he will be accorded a certain kind of treatment by people in a race - conscious society.

One theory is that it stems from the fact that in childhood almost all boys are raised by women.

Why the abortion issue won't go away: One side (pro-choice) argues from fact, reason, and an understanding of the natural world; and the other (pro-life) argues from ignorance and blind belief in a fairy tale.

The main conclusion that is commonly drawn from the fact of historicity is epistemic relativism.

Aside from the fact that the principle of relativity entails no such conclusions, it should also be observed that Kraus's position here entails a strange conflation of divine and human subjectivities.

I did become a scientist, but I should never have had to learn to discern lies from fact in the way that I did: on my own, learning not to trust anyone's «facts».

That doesn't take away from the fact that it seemed like a lot of the CNN articles at the time were turning conservative in their view.

You leap from the fact that we «are arguing that human beings sit in judgement of the scripture and God» so that «God can not sit in judgement of us.

Neglect does not usually spring from the fact that we are too smug, too complacent, or too engrossed in our own riches to bother with the bereft.

Any fighting you see today is stemming from the fact that there is a desire for dominance and power grap.

I have no reason to believe any quote attributed to Socrates, apart from the fact that we have written historical texts indicating he did so.

The widely held position that the spirit of the human died when Adam sinned is obviously an assumption derived from the fact that he continued to live to the age of 930 years after his original sin.

On the traditional assumption that knowledge is justified true belief, we may interpret Whitehead as asserting that from the fact that we have a strongly held, possibly even unshakable, belief we may conclude — apparently only on that basis — that the belief is true and adequately justified.

A second challenge arises from the fact that increasing numbers of people are transient and infrequent participants in religious communities.

The final stage of satisfaction, in life as well as in learning, stems from the fact that we bring value into the world, that each of us has a unique contribution to make to the overall scheme of things.

The necessity for new definitions arises from the fact of ambiguity.

Apply the following to your arguments and your beliefs and you will get much farther: Separate your BELIEF from FACT.

The need of Christian unity stems from the fact that followers of Jesus bear a divided witness before a watching world.

But there is an inherent danger in this approach which derives from the fact that human nature makes it difficult for a group of people to share money and meals and chores and living space equitably and harmoniously, particularly if they try to do this in a democratic way.

He said: «Several times local Pakistani people in Derby have taken offence from the fact that I am Christian, when they first find out many stop talking to me.

From this fact arose all sorts of legal provisions — prohibitions against removing one's neighbor's landmark (there were no surveyors with compasses in those days or recorded deeds of landholdings), injunctions to bring the first fruits of the land as a gift to God, provisions for observing the harvest festivals, ordinances as to slaves and «the stranger within the gates.»