Sentences with phrase «human belief in»

The second is a 5 1/2 x 7 foot multi-panel work on paper representing the tenacious human belief in progress — our desire to make life happier and the world a better place.

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It also solidified my belief in how important Human Capital is to the success of an organization.

Belief in the hot hand is just a delusion that occurs because we as humans have a predisposition to see patterns in randomness; we see streakiness even though shooting data are essentially random.

Wealthfront is banking on the belief that smart, math - savvy millennials — whose net worth, according to the company, is projected to reach $ 7 trillion in the next five years — will trust the company's algorithms to manage their money better than a more expensive, human advisor.

The net result of this built - in human mental trait is that rather than letting our beliefs about the world tell us how to feel, we tend to let our emotions tell us what to believe.

Zakaria wasn't suggesting ceding Western values and beliefs — but rather recognizing that prevailing attitudes on such issues as the environment, human rights, and social affairs are different in many parts of Asia than those that hold sway in the West.

Anytime one religion interferes with another religion, or the life of humans, I tend to take it a little more seriously, not because I believe in their beliefs, but because their beliefs can cause me death.

We live in exciting times, when the things that humans are capable of creating almost defy belief.

It will mean letting go of long held beliefs in rigid B2B product marketing and embracing a brave new world where human connection is not seen as fanciful but essential to helping businesses succeed.

The utilitarian belief that «human goods can be measured against each other by means of some quantitative scale is the belief that human goods can be assessed in a way analogous to that by which commodities have a monetary value.

Sally Jansen, Actually not ALL people inherently believe in a creator, though t is a common human belief that the world around them came from something outside of its own understanding.

So how do you go from that reasoning to «Since it wasn't accidental then it must have been this ancient male diety named (fill in blank depending on religion) who loves me and knows me and cares for me and wants me to perform rituals that have nothing to do with morality like prayer, not eating certain things, sabaath and many more just because he said so, even though we have no record of him saying anything, just records of humans who wrote things down that they claim he said, but I want to believe it all so badly I will base my beliefs on no other evidence than «it just can't be accident».

Death obsession is corroding our society's belief in the intrinsic value and inherent dignity of human life.

But to claim that God would bless you by making life harder on another human being, in this case your own son, is beyond belief.

Not for the communist atrocities those were caused by attempts to engineer society, based on a flawed understanding of innate human nature and a fallacious belief in humans beings as blank slates.

When a human is stuck in their belief system, that is pretty much it.

The disposal of unsound religious beliefs and practices through the resolute application of knowledge leading to common acceptance of their fatal flaws is a well - established and time - honored tradition whose constructive value is populated with hundreds of noteworthy precedents that serve as benchmarks in the continuing enlightenment of the human race.

Unfortunately in my case, I've probably gone to excess the other way... after 43 years of being (in my view) threatened with hellfire for every cotton - picking thing (including the «sinfulness» of being born in the first place because it's a well - known scriptural fact that every human is born sinful and separated from G - d, with a heart that does nothing but desire evil and no way to please G - d even when righteous), threatened with being «left behind» in the rapture (should I fail on some doctrinal (belief) point at the crucial moment)... I refuse to consider ANY possibility of hell at all.

At least one place Lewis explains this problem was in the Screwtape letters, where a demon exclaims, «How much better for us if all humans died in costly nursing homes amid doctors who lie, nurses who lie, friends who lie, as we have trained them, promising life to the dying, encouraging the belief that sickness excuses every indulgence, and even, if our workers know their job, withholding all suggestion of a priest lest it should betray to the sick man his true condition!»

Might the reason be that belief in human perfectibility has taken so many hard knocks over the last several thousand years?

It is singularly brilliant, it reveals him not as your stereotypical «pointy - headed» philosophy professors but rather as a human being, willing and eager to stand for his beliefs in the concrete world... hear, hear!

Were a person to have violated a court order directing the return of a runaway slave when Dred Scott was the law, would a genuinely held belief that a slave was a human person and not an article of property be a matter the Court could not consider in deciding whether that person was guilty of a criminal contempt charge?

The belief in a personal god is no more and no less than human egoism, fuelled by a fear od death!

This belief, that human activity ought to be directed towards promoting what John Locke called «the advantages and conveniences of life,» and that the human mind ought to concern itself exclusively with gathering together and putting in order the sort of knowledge this enterprise demanded — useful knowledge — is a moral belief, that is, it is a belief about how we ought to spend our lives.

Not only are we constantly being bombarded by the religious beliefs of the faithful (Christians mostly in America) we can see how religious beliefs are stifling human progress and perpetuating hatred and segregation.

The arguments here are, for the most part, human beings who want to be right, right in their own belief of God, Church, Religion, or Non-Believers of any or all of the above.

Why you all don't understand that Chrisianity gave humans dignity in the belief of free will and our obligation as Christians to forgive then you avoid reality.

To describe a work as an autobiography merely because of the first - person pronoun effaces what distinguishes autobiography: the belief in the existence of a stable self and the meaningfulness of human action.

That's an indoctrinated belief placed upon a natural human reaction, just as much as the Hindu idea that good deeds only make sense in the context of people trying to improve themselves through reincarnation, isn't it?

Theological Ethics and Technological Society» (May), is mistaken in his belief that technology will «liberate the human spirit» and achieve the «purposes of God.»

Do you think our lack of belief in a higher power negates all of the very valid, real and human emotions you described?

You purposefully lumped the belief in religion into a category reserved for the ever fearful and mentally infirm human beings.

The human brain is NOT hardwired to believe in god, it is hard wired of supernatural beliefs in general though.

It asks respondents about a wide variety of human - interest topics, from their participation in religious services and religious beliefs, to questions about their attitudes regarding marriage, divorce, cohabitation, and other family forms, to specifics about sexual behavior and experience of abuse and domestic violence.

And to say that Biblical teachings are invalid because there are other similar beliefs that have older known written sources invalidates the Biblical teachings also should take into consideration that for certain Biblical believers that all those truths whether they are known to have been placed in the Bible first or known thus far to have been placed elsewhere that they believe that they all come via deity who at the beginning of human history on this world dispensed those truths to humanity and that to those who believe in the biblical teachings believe that through time they are more complete than those of other ancient beliefs due to God restoring those truths through revelations given to later prophets like say Moses and other later Old and New Testament prophets and apostles.

Barbara and Randy: I think that all human beings — regardless of their acceptance of an existent God or any religious belief — are capable of kindness, generousity, and unselfish love because all human beings are created in God's image.

Where are the professors... who will stand up and declare that the presumption of innocence rightly gives expression to both the belief in the dignity of the individual and the awareness of human fallibility?»

Its an issue in human rights and separation of church and state and that all people have rights despite the wish of a few relgions to push their personal beliefs on others.

«Through the UK - Sudan Strategic Dialogue, and our policy of phased engagement, we continue to raise human rights issues with the government of Sudan and make regular representations on freedom of religion or belief, including in relation to reported church demolitions, most recently during the Archbishop of Canterbury's visit to Sudan in July.»

I have no respect for any human who would do that regardless of their belief, sadly he uses his in justifying what he did.

Scalia, the most conservative of the activist Roberts court once wrote in Department of Human Resources of Oregon v. Smith: «We have never held that an individual's religious beliefs excuse him from compliance with an otherwise valid law prohibiting conduct that the State is free to regulate.»

My soon to be 2 years of being a «dry drunk», an alcoholic is yes, due my belief in a higher power, perhaps GOD or God or even another human being who has lived thier life alikened my path in life.

Metaphysical realism, understood in a processive way, requires this triple sense of objectivity: novel human doings in need of guidance, long - enduring systems of belief that provide the schemata of interpretation by which that guiding can be done, and opportunistic skill in sculpting act and theory, fact and canon, into a coherent, fruitful basis for intelligent action.

Schweitzer's disenchantment with theological conceptions of God and his passionate belief in the reality of human spirituality involved him in a quest that inevitably forced his intellectual and moral concerns to move beyond traditional theism.

Second, strong claims in some of my earlier statements concerning the universal intelligibility of God's revelation in Jesus Christ have been replaced by more restrained formulas that take more account of the intricacies of human language and belief.

Worse, as Chesterton well understood, without belief in a Creator, our democracy has no compelling reason for defending human rights:

The above disagreement should not and does not preclude human beings from getting along with each other in the spirit of camaraderie and should never attempt to hurt another for their belief.

In his typical humanistic, ethicomystical way of thinking, he points to a belief in the «evolution of human spirituality» where «the higher this development in the individual is, the greater his awareness» of God» (Dr. Schweitzer of Lambarene, by Norman Cousins [Harper & Brothers, 1960], pp. 190 - 191In his typical humanistic, ethicomystical way of thinking, he points to a belief in the «evolution of human spirituality» where «the higher this development in the individual is, the greater his awareness» of God» (Dr. Schweitzer of Lambarene, by Norman Cousins [Harper & Brothers, 1960], pp. 190 - 191in the «evolution of human spirituality» where «the higher this development in the individual is, the greater his awareness» of God» (Dr. Schweitzer of Lambarene, by Norman Cousins [Harper & Brothers, 1960], pp. 190 - 191in the individual is, the greater his awareness» of God» (Dr. Schweitzer of Lambarene, by Norman Cousins [Harper & Brothers, 1960], pp. 190 - 191).

Belief in gods is rampant, not because the case for their existence has any merit, it doesn't, but because humans have an uncanny ability to delude themselves, and be deluded.

One of my deepest core beliefs is that we find God most often in the raw and human moments of our lives, that God doesn't differentiate between sacred - and - secular for us.