Faith also means «Without Question», I have questions religion and by extension the
belief in a deity does not provide answers to.
The existence and value of ethics is not dependent on the existence of god since ethics is a moral philosophy grounded in logic and not blind
faith in a deity.
Even if believing
in a deity made a person never sick, for example, it wouldn't prove that such a belief is true.
If I was a
believer in a deity that I say created everything I would have to praise both the good and the evil that it does.
Why rally against the belief
in a deity if atheism is true then we are all just dust in the wind anyways.
Please come up with a more compelling reason to believe
in a deity other than «he's gonna kill you if you don't».
Does faith have to be
placed in a deity or higher power, or can other things provide support?
What happened to you could have been done by a believer or non believer, belief
in a deity does not automatically make one amoral.
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.
It's «Obvious» — an agnostic might do it, but an atheist has an unshakable
disbelief in a deity, so why WOULD they even try?
@J3sus Sandals, Bennington is the school NOT populated by students who believe
in a deity in the sky, turning water into wine, healing the dead etc..
There's plenty of flashy abilities to use, but by far the biggest and flashiest are the summons that
bring in the deities and gigantic creatures of the many Final Fantasy universes to back you up in battle.
Or consider Immanuel Kant's cavalier declaration in The Conflict of Faculties that «whether we are to worship three or ten
persons in the Deity makes no difference.»
A further shackle is to declare it could absolutely anything but... «
fill in a deity».
You are certainly making some rather HUGE and completely unfounded presumptions about what a person who DOES NOT believe
in a deity thinks and feels!
The paramaatma exists in 5 forms to control the universe, and the deity form is the 5th one, he exists with same supremeness as in para as
in deity form.
I question that an atheist who has such bias is really an atheist (their beating around the bush answers to the last question are disingenuous too), because they clearly still have a
preference in deities and fear it enough to capitalize a non-proper noun.
Though there is one way he could be be an actual atheist, he would just have had to lost his belief
in any deities before the experiment.
Another reason why it is important to demonstrate that we have souls is that the Council of Chalcedon explicitly said that «the same (Jesus Christ) is perfect in his humanity, truly God and truly man, the same of a rational soul and body, consubstantial with the
Father in his deity and consubstantial with us in his humanity, «like us in all things but sin».
The most common theological answer is that while Jesus could have sinned in His humanity, He could not have
sinned in His deity.
You have ensconced your
standards in a deity to try and make them somehow higher or better than others, but they are still your standards.
A simple and straight forward PowerPoint following the OCR syllabus on Belief
in Deity through Sikhism
«I've always thought that belief
in the deity of Jesus is the heart of what it means to be a Christian, but she dismisses that as an obstacle to faith.
@toad Atheism benig a
non-belief in any deity does not have any worship, but if it did have ant hymns they would be Imagine by John Lennon and One Tin Soldier by Dennis Lambert and Brian Lambert.
The fact that atheists might be right and all the excuses you made for the «imperfect» priests and pastors, the money you gave, the countless Sunday mornings you sacraficed, the stress you accepted by trying to meet a deities excpectation but always falling short and the people you discriminated against due to their lack of
faith in your deity is what scares the crepe out of Christians.
It is simply not believing that there is convincing evidence for any deity; whereas believers do not believe
in deities other than their own.
Phrases with «in a deity»