Sentences with phrase «human beliefs like»

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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».

hawaiiguest We do not know what the world would look like without the continuing influence of a core belief held by the vast majority of humans that existence is more than physical needs and desires.

Do you mean like the belief that workers are due a just wage, or that wealthy nations have an obligation to the poor, or that the sick and unborn have human dignity, or that the death penalty is inhumane, or that seexual propriety is healthy?

We can assume that all the Justices sitting on the Court today, like other humans, have their own preferences and biases about religion, but the judicial opinions of one of them, Justice John Paul Stevens, raise more than a slight suspicion that some of his actions on the bench stem from animosity, if not to animal sacrifice, at least to certain less exotic religious beliefs and practices.

Even if we abhor the beliefs of others, we are exhorted to see them as complex human beings like ourselves.

Amazing, such rationality presented by you... oh wait, not really rational to poke fun at your human being unless your own self esteem is so low that the only means to feel superior to your fellow human being is to belittle them for their beliefs... kinda like what the religious do to you.

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.

but if anyone truley had God in thier heart and had faith in the Lord... simply by folding your hands and asking God to enter your heart... (try it he will be there for you, and you will feel the joy of His love), then they would never do things like this... he obviously was not a person who loved God because No one with God in thier heart would want to do thing s like that... you HATE sin when you truely love God, No ones perfect though, even those who belive in God we all stray from our beliefs, its human nature and the devil takes advantage of this.

It just seems that people like Hawking ignore religion completely when a HUGE part of science is questioning all beliefs including your own which I don't think human beings do as much as they should, or respect other people's opinions.

But the Virgin Birth, like the Cross itself, confounds what we think we know; it confounds our belief that power, whether human power or the brute force of nature, prevails in the world.

In short, the central theme of faith in Romans is removed from its powerful role as the essential human response to God, one with profound anthropological implications, and reduced to something far more formal (like commitment to Christian belief).

we're human... we're irrational to the core... nothing you can do about it unless you want to become inhuman... don't like irrational beliefs?

Moreover, both sides, much like the Repubs and Demos in our political system, can not view anything passed the length of our own noses if it is in contrast to the «beliefs» we hold dear to us as humans.

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?

And, if we know anything about human nature, we know we have a desire for certainty, a fear of being wrong, a tendency to difine ourselves by our beliefs and to identify those like - minded, the «us» of the them / us divide.

the belief on the existence of the devil was concieved by theologians of the past thousands of years, there was no other way of explaining the bad experiences of people in the past because we were not educated yet to the kind of what we have now, Why this happened because that was part of the learning process that God wants us to know, in pathrotheism, we are part of God, and He himself is evolving because He is the universe, We are now the conscious part of Him, our destiny in accordance to his will also be His destiny because it is His will.Although He prepared first all the material reality of the universe ahead of us, The experiences for us humans including the supernatural is just part of nirmal process for learning because its natural process, today we reach a point of not believing the practices of the past, but it does not mean its wrong, Just like a child, adults loved to tell mythical stories to them, because we knew children enjoys it as part of their learning process.

Historic Christian teaching — especially on contested issues like sexuality, exclusivity, the sacredness of all human life, generosity or beliefs about the afterlife — is, admittedly, not always popular.

At least when you have no knowledge you should speak in respectful manner in respect of the feelings of others... you said you liked me as human I say ok fine and I will do the same but to insult my belief and whom I as Muslim hold in high respect... well then you are not a worthy human being to treat as one... Hope you feel for me as I would have felt for you.

This article is an excellent example and the the very reason that I claim that «I'm spiritual, but not religious»: bigots like the author pushing their beliefs unto me, under threats of eternal damnation; arguing that if I do not follow them, I am a rotten human being destroying society.

So far, all you've shown is that religious belief or lack thereof is no indicator of morality since atheists and believers both do really human stuff like killing and such..

My problem is with people like you superimposing your beliefs on people like me who believe that until the brain is distinguished from the other cells making up the embyo, it does not possess enough human quality to warrant protection under the law.

Belief in god is rather like the vestigial tails humans still possess: Something that continues to linger despite the fact we no longer need it.

This anecdote communicates a simple but dynamic truth about growth that is often overlooked — that a major dreamsquelcher which causes us to postpone our potentializing indefinitely is the belief that «I can't do what I'd really like to do because...» If you feel some serious inner or outer obstacles to making creative changes in your life, welcome to the human race!

It is easy to stand and prophecy that in the future there will be strange new religions, that people will do things foreign to our understanding, and swear that our gods will not be pleased... and be correct... because it is the nature of human beings to change, to modify our beliefs to fit our experience, to seek out new understanding, change the way we dress and do our hair, and unfortunately, it is in our nature to fight over stupid crap like land and religion.

Their philosophical guides are persons like John Dewey and Horace Rallen and the Judeo - Christian belief in the kinship of the human race.

In their quest for righteousness, they often become self righteous, using their belief system as a weapon, to bash over the heads of others, rather than as a tool to improve their own lives and to become a living example of what true christians should be like or what truly compassionate humans should be like, it's very sad, that so many christians don't have a clue how to act like decent people, and that they are hypocrites and full of hate.

The Catholic believers are human beings like me, which I love, despite their questionable belief.

In all these respects the values, attitudes and beliefs of the oriental religious groups, the human potential movement and even a group like the Christian World Liberation Front, as well as the more flexible of the radical political groups, would be consonant with the new regime and its needs.

True Friend, I as an atheist and human being like you, would not want (and do not want to see) a system of government, culture, society, religion, or authority where if I were to wave a careless hand with unthinking anger, the deaths of anyone would be encompassed, much less the deaths of billions of human beings of any belief?

It is like large chunks of the human race engage in mass denial in exchange for some comforting false belief.

(i know there are a lot of hardcore fans in the world, and let me tell you i love football and love arsenal even more but lets be honest, its just a game) than the rights of human called human rights if you havent heard of it and the freedom of people, then there is something fundamentally wrong with you and your belief, like with the most people on this world who go on babbling about conservative sh $ %

Well, that's because the Supreme Court doesn't much like it, determining more than 100 years ago that polygamy was «an offence against society» (Reynolds v. U.S.) and compared it to «murders sanctified by religious belief, such as human sacrifice or the burning of women on their husbands» funeral pyres,» or so writes lawyer and social critic Wendy Kaminer.

Bloody reprisals in response to perceived blasphemy have become an endemic problem, and states like Bangladesh must affirm the human right to express one's own beliefs without fear of attack, and do more to prevent such attacks from happening in future.»

Elisa Bandini explained, «The commonly held belief is that chimpanzee behaviour is cultural, much like how human culture has been passed between groups.

It was a controversial interpretation for many, as it contradicted religious beliefs about human origins; the short, stocky limb bones and the skull's oversized brow suggested an ape - like ancestor that did not fit in with the biblical idea of God's creation.

In between there were other great topics, including his contention that oxygen is not the primary limiting factor in human performance, like most physiologists believe, but that it's the brain — which he discusses in «Challenging Beliefs.»

Beliefs like this are the reason african - american sugar babies have a hard time, maybe they'll get so tired of dealing with this BS that they'll ignore the idiots that think and talk like that and stick to SDs like me that are decent human beings.

The second guiding belief is that there is something fundamental in the right to choose and in the ability of the right school to actualize human potential, in particular for low - income kids of color who grow up in places like Sandtown - Winchester.

The system is predicated on the belief that, like humans, all dogs are smart, except that they do it in different ways.

I knew I'd seen something fantastic unfolding, an artist who was probing painting's ancient uses via abstraction, Twombly's ideas of paint that looks like it's been applied straight from the human body, Sigmar Polke's belief in painting's transformative powers, and Robert Ryman's desire to reduce painting to its bare bones to see how far these bones can go.

Artists like Papo Colo, Rodolfo Peraza, and Betye Saar approach the subject in terms of larger human conditions like political struggles, religious beliefs, and racial stereotypes.

His numerous «Reclining Figures» rose and fell like the contours of his Yorkshire hills and dales, illustrating his belief that landscape could be reflected through the human figure.

Bigots like you, that use outdated pagan beliefs are giving oxygen to Mann, Hansen, For every change, there is a real reason and there is the outdated pagan crap — apart from me, nobody takes in consideration what human invention of artificial fire did to» LOCALIZED climates» instead, is used as phony GLOBAL warmings / coolings, shame shame Richard & Co:: http://globalwarmingdenier.wordpress.com/midi-ice-age-can-be-avoided/

Why would we trust climatologists when a more mature science like meteorology when there is a lot less of a belief that climate change is human caused in the meteorology world?»

Much like the need for 8 - glasses of water a day, waiting an hour after eating to swim, or humans using 10 % of their brains, I think these beliefs about local jury consultants are mostly stubborn old wives» tales.

You are a human being with feelings and beliefs; it's okay to act like it.

The IBI scale is based on implicit beliefs about human attributes, specifically intelligence, and assesses whether one believes that intelligence is a trait - like fixed attribute that can not be changed (i.e., entity theory), or is malleable and can be improved (i.e., incremental theory).

Not only is this bad for a parent's mental health, the popular rationale for this lifestyle appears to be rooted in fairy tale beliefs about what's «natural,» like the idea that human mothers evolved to be intensive, exclusive providers of parental care.