Sentences with phrase «humanists who»

On the other extreme you have the humanists who view human welfare as paramount and human ingenuity as boundless, so even if real global temperature effects are completely irrelevant.

For the Lunaticks were not only scientists, but also pragmatists and humanists who believed in and spoke out for concepts like equality and justice.

In this sense, excellent facilitation requires that we all become humanists who engage students with each other, followers with leaders, and teachers with students.

He knows the adventure film is ideologically suspect at its core but clearly loves it, which is an unresolved feeling that haunts many humanists who viscerally adore genre films.

Recent years have seen a large rise in the number of humanists who are on SACREs, as documents such as the 2013 national framework, programmes of study and RE guidance have referred to teaching about non-religious beliefs such as Humanism.

org.uk asking them to make representation to the Rt Hon Hugh Robertson MP, who has responsibility for ceremonies, to ask again for equal treatment for those humanists who are current members of the Armed Forces and those who served their country in the First and Second World Wars.

There are also the humanists who believe that man can love but needs no God to fulfil his love.

The same humanists who speak so abstractly about compassion have contempt for ordinary heterosexual love.

April 14, 2012 at 10:30 am God has a long held tradition for all us humanists who do and whomever doesn't believe in Godly reconciliations!

Be thankful for the secular humanists who have largely tamed the beast of Christendom.

I would rather call a supreme being as being a God of supremeness ond omnisciencies beyond compare of us mere mortal humanists who can't even keep fire - ants from engulfing all one's yards and their raisnung hell by biting the beegeezums out of people and their unwary pet animalisms!

«Humanists who do not believe in God or a future life have been in a stronger position to insist on the urgency of making things better at once, in this [life]... If this is the only life that anybody has, then the fact that many people must spend it in such misery becomes more obviously and inexcusably scandalous.

This stance puts me in opposition to those humanists who regard religion as an illusion, who seek to negate the divine reality as the necessary precondition for affirming the humanist gospel of human freedom, and who interpret the history of religion as only an instrument of oppression and dehumanization.

«8 Moreover, he says that those humanists who, like Bertrand Russell in «A Free Man's Worship,» respond with defiance of nature and man's fate, are only engaging in exercises in futility.

The term atheistic can be applied just as truly as to present - day humanists who refrain from denying the existence of God, but merely insist that nothing is known of him, hence a reasonable person will concern himself only with what is «this side of the clouds.»

Leeches all of them who swoon to and to be figurines of beauty while not giving alms to the atrosciousness figures of humanists who have beautiful souls and hearts and minds!

In this regard, these traditions have more in common with each other than with secular humanists who seek to justify human rights on the basis of reason alone.

What many folks seem to encourage jovially are rival bickering between young blooded humanists who banter about incessantly never judging their owned amorous infidelities and always trivializing the bitterness of others» written and even oral wordage... «I am what I am Sam» are the earmarks of standalone infidels who dare not seek the fidelities of devotional humanisms flavored austerities emanating with frugal discourse above the plainness of written and / or spoken dysenteries... «Bite the bullet» antagonists on both young sides might never find frugally endorsed concessions nor open their doors ever so gently...

Gordon Kaufman (1925 — 2011) has called attention to an overemphasis on «God's tyrannical omnipotence» that offended many sensitive and thoughtful humanists who found it impossible to worship or believe in such a deity.

Today it is not the vague humanist who is regarded as the enemy of Communism in, for example, Eastern Germany; it is the Christian, who has standards and loyalties which are rooted in God.

I have had atheists even call me a spineless humanist who goes soft of religion.

But what really puzzles me is the attitude of mind adopted by the humanist who denies the existence of God.

I'm completely convinced from the writing in his autobiography and his early campaigning that Obama is in fact a secular humanist who is smart enough to recognize that no one is going to get elected in this country of idiots unless he professes to be a Christian.

[Ken] Loach is British cinema's Charles Dickens - a humanist who deserves to be long remembered for holding up a mirror to society with compelling stories and indelible characters.

Demme also is a humanist who supports quite a few worthy causes and has a knack for bringing out the best in his leading ladies (Mary Steenburgen in 1980's «Melvin and Howard,» Melanie Griffith in 1986's «Something Wild,» Michelle Pfeiffer in 1988's «Married to the Mob»).

Not exact matches

A former serial entrepreneur who founded Aardvark and Perspecta among others, Horowitz gave up the Silicon Valley dream for a new life as a philosophy Ph.D., flipping the current wisdom on the relative value of technical and humanist knowledge on its head.

Most I know are humanists; people who care about the rest of humanity regardless of their faith and who adhere to a moral code just as noble as anyone, just without a deity as the center of their life.

Against those who hold humanity in contempt, I, too, want to declare myself a humanist and join in the most elevated and elevating tradition of a culture that celebrates man as «the crown of creation.»

Gregory Wolfe, editor of Image: A Journal of the Arts and Religion and author of Malcolm Muggeridge and The New Religious Humanists, has discovered in the relative obscurity of Loveland, Ohio, an artist of genuine spirituality who is showing the way towards such a primitive simplicity.

I truly am amused that the ones in the discussions that those who would characterize themselves as enlightened and tolerant humanists are the least tolerant of the group when it comes to ideas that are not in concert with theirs.

Those who are Buddhists will follow one set of laws, secular humanists on, Utilitarians on, Unitarian Universalists one (with a lot of variation), etc. «Atheism» in itself says nothing at all about one's ethical beliefs.

But you see these humanists or rationalists who seem to hate this distinctively human feature.

Fathers especially can take as their model the patron of statesmen, St Thomas More, Lord Chancellor of England in the 16th century, who was once described in The Sunday Times newspaper as «the most saintly of humanists, and the most human of saints».13

For such Communists, who have sometimes proved willing to sacrifice all to this most intensive and comprehensive valuation, Communism does function religiously and is therefore for them a living religion.33 Ignace Lepp, a Catholic convert from Communism, corroborates Ferré» s view when he writes that Marxist humanists «are convinced that they possess absolute truth, and the best of them are ready to give their life for the defense and triumph of this truth.

It is the man and the woman to whom the act remains, each time, as fresh and beautiful, as it was the first time, who are able to sustain and perpetuate their first sense of its glory in the midst of the sober or bleak or sordid realities of day to day life, and who can feel, afresh each time, a boundless gratitude for each other and for this blessed source of sweetness and strength — it is they who are the truly «virgin», the truly pure and chaste; and (on the Humanist hypothesis) it is they who are the remnant selected by grace to be the true and spiritual seed of the risen Christ.33

We who are middle - aged may have jogged along, content with those liberal humanist values left to us by preceding ages of faith.

The Humanists, or the militants among them, and the neo-modernists who run by their side, are the most active in calling for the abolition of «divisive» schools.

'» The unspoken assumption — a questionable one — is apparently that the Christian consumer should find such merchants to be more honest, reliable and ethical in their business dealings than other merchants, who may identify themselves as Jewish, as secular humanists, as Christians who reject the «born - again» tag, or whatever.

They must not join others in passionate condemnation (or support), in the name of fifty humanist motifs put forward by non-Christians, of such a politics conducted by a statesman who calls himself Christian.

It is what all are supposed to be opposed to, not only by Marxists, who spent more than a century vilifying (and misdefining) the term, but also by humanists, poets, playwrights, churchmen, journalists, and all sensitive spirits.

«I just think the whole war on Christmas story is bizarre» said Greg Epstein, the Humanist Chaplain at Harvard University, who has emerged as another spokesman for the burgeoning atheist movement.

Dr. Thomas More, the narrator who is also a lineal descendant of the Renaissance humanist - saint, envisions an America on the brink of a spiritual disaster whose reality few can doubt.

«Humanist Manifesto 2000» does not have a list of signatories anywhere near the status of those who signed the first manifesto in 1933, but Paul Kurtz and his International Academy of Humanism did manage to recruit nine Nobel laureates and comedian Steve Allen.

Seriousness of purpose; the need for measure, endurance, foresight, and self - control; life's irreducible complexity and the hard choices that entails are all things our universities, and those within them who call themselves humanists, should be trying to convey.

These new devotees of evangelism are imperialistic, attacking those who deviate as secular humanists (read pagans) and demanding conformity of its adherents under pain of excommunication (read being targeted for defeat in the next election).

The usual assertions are (1) that this kind of religion is today on the defensive; (2) that the defensive posture is occasioned by the flourishing of «conservative churches» (although the alleged liberal enervation is also seen in more autonomous terms); (3) that the growth in religious conservatism and conservative churches is itself the result of widespread reaction against «secular humanist» values and against those who hold such values; (4) that our society as a whole has been experiencing a breakdown in moral consensus, a loss of moral coherence somehow connected with a decline in oldline Protestant dominance; and (5) that some or all of these happenings have been quite sudden, so that the early 1960s can be taken as a kind of benchmark — as a time before the fall.

There never was a time in History that atheists exist, only in this present stage of our intellectual developement that they deny His exisrence, but it can be easily explained that they are just part of the dialectical process of having to have two opposing arguments or forces to arrive to the truth, The opposing forces today are the theists or religious believers of all religions and the other are the atheists who denies religion, The reslultant truth in the future will be Panthrotheism, the belief that we are all one with the whole universe with God, and that we Had all to unite to prepare for human survival that will subject us humans in the future.Aided by the the enlightend consevationist, environmentalists, humanists and all of the concerned activists, we will develop a kind of universal harmony and awareness that we are all guided towards love and concern for all of our specie.The great concern of the whole conscious and caring world to the natural disaster in the Phillipines,, the most theist country now is a positive sign towards this religious direction.Panthrotheism means we will be One with God.

As enrollments decline, programs are cut, and tenure diminishes, mainstream educational institutions are becoming uncomfortable places for teachers who want to pass on a zeal for humanist learning.

Who among us humanists can in all honesties say that matters of lessor sized particles within the innernesses of everything want to remain steadfast and unchanging?

There are plenty of atheists who are also humanists and live lives commited to charity and liberty.