Sentences with phrase «irreligious beliefs»

This means that there are some seven million Canadians out there who share atheist or irreligious beliefs.1 Given the sheer numbers involved, this figure likely includes thousands (if not millions) of atheist singles — so why is it so hard to meet them?

I started to notice that they lacked the whisper of self - doubt that is more or less necessary to both sound religious and irreligious belief.

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Without grace, belief in immortality is irreligious because it reflects central concern with the selfish preservation of the self.

This misunderstanding doesn't come about simply because commentators such as Beinart are themselves irreligious people, and so don't recognize the religious dimensions of political and other kinds of belief.

Christian undergraduates at elite universities often feel forced into a troubling dichotomy: They may go «all - in» for a secular education, by examining their opinions under the tutelage of an irreligious faculty; or else they must withhold something of themselves from rational inquiry, erecting a barrier between the performative requirements of their research discipline and their beliefs about the way the world actually is.

The need for belief in God say in the US, where it is almost impossible to become a political leader and be irreligious.