Since religion is a worldview, the minority group probably wants to read further and make sure they are
sound in their belief system, my guess only.
Bernard Koontz of Highline Public Schools asked, «What leadership moves can best support needed
shifts in belief systems to fully value the potential of bilingualism, and understand it as a right for students?»
No, I was not inquiring about anything I was commenting about how some Atheists do not have any place
in their belief system for mysteries.
If you're in a cult, consider how much more likely it is that you will think and act erratically compared to someone who has not been heavily
indoctrinated in a belief system that requires no scientific facts or logic.
It is correct that they believe the holy trinity are three different people,
which in their belief system makes Jesus Christ our brother, and God is actually the Father, who does have a holy partner, his wife.
How is it that people claiming to be Christians are not sure about something as basic and entrenched
in our belief system as the doctrine of hell?
What I can tell about our shared experience with Mormon doctrine is this: Yes, there was a big emphasis on Jesus» ours being a more conventional, fairly trinitarian concept of our Lord» but, as strong as that emphasis was, it never managed to trump the implied and de facto role of Joseph
Smith in our belief system.
But the Problem of Human Suffering is a huge thing to come to terms
with in any belief system — and it is certainly a point everyone has to address in thinking about their own beliefs.
Sometimes it gets me down to see so many inflammatory comments saying that
everyone in my belief system is «hateful» «weak minded» «believes in fairy tales» «is a joke» etc..
Then look up some websites, Topher, and get
educated in their belief system instead of letting rumor tell you what they believe, and instead of coming on here acting like a religious bigot.
I only hope none of them decide to end there lives because of this but that is one of the many problems that one can face when you put your
trust in a belief system.
I am a wiccan... I believe we all have the right to believe what we will... there is
radicals in every belief system from christians who blow up abortion clinics to stop murder, to Muslims who kill people for being christian... you all argue over words in a book that you make irrelevant by acting the way you do... at the end of the day we are all human weather we are witches, christians, Muslims, or what ever else is out there.
Socrates framed this as a cooperative type of inquiry — now known as the Socratic method — in which an inquirer asks questions of his or her critics in order to pinpoint weaknesses or hidden
assumptions in a belief system.
They must be
rooted in a belief system through which, as Saul Bellow says in his foreword to Bloom's book, we have «access to the deepest part of ourselves — to that part of us which is conscious of a higher consciousness, by means of which we make final judgments, and put everything together.»
My alternative thinking, my rebellious questions, my sinister doubts, were like malicious
viruses in my belief system, and they really messed up my programming.
I come from a Religious denomination that does infant / child dedications... which means we «hand over» our children to God so a) I rely on God to help my choices in parenting and b) it's a reminder that
really in my belief system my child is not selfishly my own....