Sentences with phrase «if believing in a deity»

As an atheist who believes in «Choice» (I dislike the idea of abortion but see the need for people to be able to opt for it) and polygamy (marriage should be for any number of consenting adults regardless of gender) and believes that the idea of draconian anti-gun measures is anathema as it takes away an individual's right to live the way he wants to live, I think that if believing in a deity makes a person treat other people nicer then we should leave that person and his beliefs alone.

If you believe in a deity the just shut up — don't demand everyone else's approval of and conformance to your deviance.

I think what I have a problem with is this: it's fine if you believe in a deity, I have no bones about that, but there is no reason to elevate it to a posistion of «creator of everything».

Even if believing in a deity made a person never sick, for example, it wouldn't prove that such a belief is true.

If you believe in a deity (not diety, which has something to do with eating), he / she should have no problem existing beyond the constraints of time, and «Having 10 billion years to plan the reveal between the Big Bang and the earliest humans» would mean the same as an instant.

Not exact matches

I don't believe anyone is threatened by any particular deity or the corporeal form thereof, particularly if they don't believe in them.

Primarily because no real deity could hold someone accountable for not believing if they never heard of the deity in the first place.

Please come up with a more compelling reason to believe in a deity other than «he's gonna kill you if you don't».

Now, if God is a mass murderer, and the Bible claims murder is a product of Satan, then wouldn't it only be logical that, if you believe in a higher deity, that it would have to logically be Lucifer?

If they believe in some other deity, then you should respect their beliefs and leave them alone.

I don't care if someone believes in a deity, that in itself is not a moral or immoral act, but if someone uses their belief in a deity to justify actions that negatively impact someone else's life, then that is immoral.

I don't disagree (if I am understanding you correctly), but we must make sure we understand the difference between how to receive eternal life (believe in Jesus Christ alone for it), and the logical and theological foundations for that truth (deity of Jesus, death and resurrection of Jesus, sinfulness of humanity, etc., etc., etc.).

If your deity is into being decent to others, then maybe he's really a Buddhist, a religion that believes in decency instead of fear.

If people wish to go to church and believe in their particular deity, that is perfectly acceptable.

If you must chose a deity to believe in why would you chose such a mean one as the bible's god, there are many options and many are rather fun loving and do not require that you hate and kill your neighbor.

Imagine if all the billions of dollars in time, effort and hard cash that we spend worldwide each year worshipping and appeasing make - believe deities of one kind or another were instead funneled into something tangible and worthwhile, like reducing poverty, improving education or protecting the environment.

The atheist's perspective is that there is insufficient evidence to reasonably believe in a deity but reserve the right to change their opinion if such evience is provided.

What I don't get is, if they don't believe in a god, deity or nature spirits what does it matter to them if others do and why must they get so riled up about it like some sort of vendetta?

All things are possible with atheism, though if you actually believe in a deity as you pray then you would no longer be considered an atheist, so you would follow the strictures of whatever other group you would then fall into.

If you believe otherwise, you are (by default), stating that your deity is, in fact in favor of a special and elevated group of individuals (such as yourself and your favorite authors) who can and should control others faith by virtue of their special understanding of this god and his «inspired» word.

In the face of a poor and pathetic deity, I would concur — if I believed that Bell was right about God.

Actually there is a lot of evidence for the historical Jesus, even if you don't believe in His deity.

If you want to believe in a deity, a bunny, a blade of grass or a rock, I could care less.

So if we believe in an angry, vengeful deity, we are likely to behave in angry, vengeful ways.

Atheism is nothing more than a lack of belief in any particular deity (it technically doesn't even deny the existence of a deity, it just doesn't actively believe one exists, though I suppose we could get into the whole «weak atheism vs strong atheism» thing if we wanted to).

If I had done that, I would have called it the «2 × 4 gospel,» because not only did I share with him about his sin, the deity, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ, I also got a 2 × 4 in there... all in an effort to get him to believe in Jesus for everlasting life.

In other words, I don't believe in the God of the Bible, but even if He existed, I could never accept a deity who directly and indirectly kills childreIn other words, I don't believe in the God of the Bible, but even if He existed, I could never accept a deity who directly and indirectly kills childrein the God of the Bible, but even if He existed, I could never accept a deity who directly and indirectly kills children.

This man should not be put in charge of a whelk stall, so my friends, at this dawn of a New Year for us all and the club we love, please say a prayer to whatever you believe in for that deity - or just fate, if you prefer — for something, ANYTHING, to remove this screwball manager from our club.

Most Balinese believe that if negligence in holding religious ceremonies incites the wrath of the deities and God.

I've often thought that if such a Deity did participate in setting things up, the Deity did exactly what Spencer can not believe.

-- Reinhold Niebuhr (incidentally, «God» can be removed from this and replaced with the deity of your choosing, or with yourself, if you don't believe in a deity).