Sentences with phrase «in himself the supernatural»

«Émile Durkheim understood religion not as belief in the supernatural (as the popular conception would have it), but as a system of beliefs and practices relating to sacred things.

Science is all about discovering, not «knowing» in a supernatural sense.

There are huge swaths of areas where people do not believe in supernatural beings in China and much of Asia, Russia, much of Europe.

Faith in a supernatural process that we can not directly observe occurs on both sides of the isle.

The common thread for religion is belief in a supernatural actor.

Not everyone is a believer in the supernatural - deal with it.

We do not have rituals, we do not believe in supernatural beings, no magic, no miracles.

I believe in the supernatural realm.

Those questions are not part of the process that most people have in becoming a believer in the supernatural.

It is by virtue of examining all the evidence in detail that most Atheists come to the conclusion that belief in the supernatural is unwarranted and just plain silly.

You are running away because you can not prove your basic underlying belief — a childish belief in supernatural deities — and you can not explain how your deity is powerless to control its cult members, never mind all of humanity.

I am an atheist and I don't «love» the Pope, but seems to be a good person who has a belief in the supernatural.

We do not believe in the supernatural... that is it.

Concerned parents might do more research if they really cared and would know that Satanists don't believe in the supernatural or in Satan or God at all.

a deist does not believe in supernatural events such as miracles, the inerrancy of scriptures, or the Trinity.

Religion is mostly about belief in the supernatural, and evidence of the natural can not be used to support the accuracy / existence of the supernatural.

atheist do not have a god we do not believe in the supernatural, magic, or fairy tales.

Theo and Vic What you are saying is we don't know what the first cause could possibly be, but because we believe in a supernatural god we will give him the distinction of creating the first cause.

And to say that some land is yours because a supernatural being says so, well, you can hardly expect anyone who doesn't believe in your supernatural being to agree with that reasoning.

Choosing to be believe in the supernatural or to have multiple wives or husbands is not the same thing as being gay.

Faith in the supernatural is «blind faith» as the supernatural is unprovable by definition.

There are also some atheists who take their beliefs to the extreme of judging anyone and everyone who hints at believing in a supernatural world.

The question of a belief in God is secondary - the broader question is whether or not one believes in the supernatural.

If a politician expressed a belief in a supernatural force other than God would Christians respectfully decline from commenting?

It is not an opinion that believing in the supernatural has frequently led people to believe things later demonstrated to be false.

What you say does nothing to invalidate my point, which is that when people believe in the supernatural they'll attribute phenomenon in the real world to with even though they have no rational reason to do so.

If it makes any claim that involves spirits, demons, or other supernatural forces it's an example of someone who believes in supernatural forces wrongly claiming with no evidence that they are responsible for something they aren't.

Unfortunately for your side, there are countless examples throughout history where believers in supernatural beings such as god and evil spirits attributed various phenomenon to them, only to have science later debunk those explanations.

All religions are cults to those who do not believe in the supernatural.

Atheism is about being free to see the world as it really is, without the rose - colored glasses of faith, without believing in a supernatural grandpa in the sky.

It contains ceremonies and incantations which it's adherents believe will result in supernatural intervention in their mundane problems.

colin: «One DOES NOT have to believe in the supernatural in order to be moral and a belief in one or more of the many gods in vogue today DOES NOT make one moral.»

An ordinary reader might think that Martin's argument for openness to supernaturalism is intended to give aid to conservative Christians who reject secular scholarship because, they argue, the believing historian is just as justified in bringing her faith in supernatural intervention to life - of - Jesus research as the secular historian is in rejecting it.

That's all children need, no belief in the supernatural.

Deists of that time generally did not believe in the divinity of Christ nor did they believe in the supernatural aspects of the Bible.

The strident rhetoric of scientism has made belief in the supernatural look ridiculous.

The tribesman's idea of mana or of inherent «wonderful power» in things and the various taboos which apply to their use are an expression of such a belief in the supernatural.

Is belief in the supernatural necessary to live a life of peace, compassion, charity and humility?

Atheism is simply non-belief in the supernatural, but so many have hijacked it to make it seem to be so much more.

With theology through the ages, his theology - therapy seeks the healing of persons but locates the source of that healing not in the distant but the proximate, not in the supernatural but the natural.

Instead of making use of reason, they accepted the four schools of law as complete and unchanging and turned to mysticism and belief in the supernatural powers of saints, dead and alive.

Atheism is a lack of belief in supernatural deities.

Some equate it to «trust», some with a «leap of faith» necessary to believe in the supernatural, etc..

Should we believe another religious nutjob who thinks myths and legends (Satan, Jesus, God, Moses, Virgin Mary) are real and can hear and help them, or should we listen to rational individuals who tell us that there is NO supernatural dimension and that ALL gods, Gods, Goddesses (Mary) are human inventions designed to enslave humanity in the supernatural?

Colloquially it usually refers to a belief in a supernatural ent.ity

and lastly, would you accept God's love if it was delivered in supernatural form in a personal way?

I think we would all agree that most forms of belief in the supernatural are superstitious.

The spiritual order finds its fulfillment in the supernatural order of God's self - giving to his creatures, which culminates in the Incarnation.

But that doesn't really negate the general view that none of us have ever witnessed a supernatural phenomenon, hence, belief in a supernatural phenomenon is a leap of faith.

This has nothing to do with a lack of belief in supernatural deities.