Sentences with phrase «justify their reasoning in»

Not exact matches

The reason I was offered was that there isn't enough margin in selling fuel to justify the RAC entering this field.

Back in the day, companies would justify paying women less than men because, among other reasons, men were seen as breadwinner providers responsible for an entire household.

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One reason the Federal Reserve Chair has used to justify keeping interest rates barely above zero is the fact that the labor force participation rate — or the share of Americans over 16 who are in the labor force — has risen over the past year.

There is no reason to take this type of concentrated risk in a portfolio; the investment opportunity set is just too big and readily available to justify being anything but well - diversified.

Baltimore put together a very strong and competitive package that included an unparalleled location in Port Covington and many compelling reasons that justified the city being a serious contender.»

I think all this is pretty poisonous to having any chance of beating the market (in fact, I think this sort of thinking is one reason why so many active funds have become index huggers, with no chance of justifying their fees) so personally I don't go too far down that road myself, especially as I don't really respect the academic underpinnings of risk and the EMH to the very nth degree.

Pruitt has drawn fire for costly foreign and domestic travel with staffers, including a multiday journey to Morocco and France in December, for reasons Democratic lawmakers say don't justify the expense.

Even in a dictatorship when the ruling party loses an election, and then ignores its outcome, it attempts to provide a plausible reason to justify their actions,» Icahn said.

So, by your reasoning, if «People put so much importance on words» (implying that they don't matter and we shouldn't take thought of how we use them) then I ought to be able to sing along with the lyrics from pac's «hit»em up» with my black friends, curse in a kindergarten class as well as a corporate meeting for my boss... what impression would a client have of my boss if I were cussing in a professional meeting or at a charity event... it doesn't add up, it's a cop - out rebuttal... trying to find loopholes or applying «human reasoning» like» ll take a swearing guy who's helpful» doesn't change Jesus or scripture it's just setting up a what - if scenario and trying to allow that to in some way justify your stance when again, that doesn't change The Holy Spirit or His heart in those who have been born again... the verses (inspired by His own Spirit) speak for themselves.

Instead, they find little stupid convoluted reasons to justify their actual views on the matter that reality - based science is actually a real cure to things we know about (thanks to the scientific method) when in fact religion offers nothing but wishful thinking.

Therefore, you can not justify him being in heaven for any reason.

«We form our beliefs for a variety of subjective, personal, emotional, and psychological reasons in the context of environments created by family, friends, colleagues, culture, and society at large; after forming our beliefs we then defend, justify, and rationalize them with a host of intellectual reasons, cogent arguments, and rational explanations.

The narrator of The Fall thus explains the death of Jesus in light of an inherent human guilt: it was just as impossible for Jesus to justify his existence as it is for any one, so that the real reason why he went to his death is that he knew he was not altogether innocent.

Its methods may in future be improved, its presuppositions revised, but it stands firm as a self - justifying part of the reasonable search for knowledge, and its abandonment would be a «flight from reason».

I've been mulling this over for a while, and while I may have missed something in my research, I can not find any reason to justify the Christian belief in heresy.

He points out that «we don't have faith in reason; we use reason... and if you're not using it, whether you're justifying religious or scientific beliefs, you deserve no one's attention» (p.210 - 11).

For this reason, one usually is not justified in taking the risk, except in emergencies or in cases in which the pastor has a sturdy relationship with the person.

This is in fact a resurgence in other terms and with other objectives in view — of the error always committed by Christians who intervene in the sphere of human actions to justify them and to testify that in the end man has good reason for doing what he does.

«You have to tell yourself this crap to justify your reason for believing in an imaginary friend «= > No my love for God is based on what God personally has done in my life.

The other reason are the so - called Muslims who justify violence in the name of Islam.

In this regard, these traditions have more in common with each other than with secular humanists who seek to justify human rights on the basis of reason alonIn this regard, these traditions have more in common with each other than with secular humanists who seek to justify human rights on the basis of reason alonin common with each other than with secular humanists who seek to justify human rights on the basis of reason alone.

A Democrat being a Christian is nothing new... and a Democrat justifying policies with moral obligations is nothing new either, as well as Republicans questioning their policies for other reasons... Obama is not at all unique in this manner.

The reason i say the person has religion is that most people who commit this type of act try to justify the evil they do by saying it for the greater good that religion has taught them, but you never know and we wont till all the facts are in.

All the mass murderers of history have used lengthy reasoning to justify their killing, David Johnson is in good company and has risen to the highest ideals of atheism, total disregard for human life.

They then must use prudential reasoning to decide whether even a justified use of force would produce more good than harm, would have a reasonable hope of success, and would be the only course likely to be effective in achieving the justified ends.

My point is simply that some justifying arguments for such practices today are very much like the arguments employed in the Holocaust, and that is reason for deepest concern.

John Rawls justified his particular constraints on public discourse in part by claiming that natural - law theorists («rationalist believers») deny «the fact of reasonable pluralism» when giving public reasons.

Reason, in other words, was not employed to transform the structures of society in the direction of a more humane and just social order, but was instead coopted to justify various power interests profiting by the status quo.

For this as well as for other reasons C. F. Evans is justified in saying that John's version «would seem to represent an end - product of the development of the story of the empty tomb».32

«18 Hick has characterized this as an Irenaean type of theodicy which «accepts God's ultimate omni - responsibility and seeks to show for what good and justifying reason He has created a universe in which evil was inevitable.

And Religious people have NEVER been condescending, they have NEVER persecuted others for their beliefs, They have NEVER killed in the name of their God or even worse used the name of their God to justify killings for political, territorial, and economic reasons or even just because they hate someone.

And it would fail to establish that point for the same reason that the law would not be justified in receding from the protection of the children even if those feelings changed overnight and 95 percent of the public now «despised their children.»

Either an argument is cogent enough in itself to bring about this decision, or else it is not cogent at all, and if this is the case, no number of good additional reasons can ever justify such a decision.

To establish plausibility or implausibility in the objective sense in question, what would have to be demonstrated is that the reasons why the majority have found certain self - consistent, comprehensive theodicies to be illuminating or unilluminating are so logically compelling that other thoughtful men and women who considered these reasons objectively would not be justified in disagreeing.

Even anti-experiential theologians rely on the faith that God is revealed through scripture, creed, tradition, reason, story, history, or language — a faith which (after the empiricists have left the room) will be justified only in that it is trusted, where «trusted» usually means experienced in a way that is convincing.

From his point of view the rejection of the nineteenth - century biographies as modernizations need in no sense involve a rejection of the quest itself, for the simple reason that an initial prejudice once detected does not justify the permanent end of a scholarly project.

Perhaps some of them are justified in their reasons.

The nastiness in it, and the atrocities justified by it, is sufficient reason to reject the entire thing.

However, if one is delusional in the first place, it stands to reason that their religious beliefs may be skewed, misunderstood, and used by that person to try to justify their delusion.

It's always best to be able to justify your reasons for believing in something.

I also attacked Roe v. Wade for «finding a highly controversial moral theory» this time of radical individual autonomy» in the «due process» provision,... with little effort to justify the decision by the traditional standards of constitutional reasoning.»

Several of these attempts were summarized in the previous posts when we looked at several of the views of how people seek to explain the violence of God in Scripture, but the tragic fact is that violence of Israel can not easily be explained away, and often the same reasoning that is used to get Israel if the hook in her violence toward neighboring nations is then used to justify (and even encourage) violence today from our own country toward those we view as enemies of God.

The response of one who truly believed in reason would have been to explore more carefully what the word «cause» really can mean and how it can be justified, and then to adjust its use in science accordingly.

The righteous today don't need to know it either, unless they are Christian, in which case they will say that what they are doing is not only service, work, justified for this and that structural reason; it is also an act of unmasking, a looking for, a finding and a staying with Jesus.

For this reason they felt justified in supporting both.

Section 207 (e),) from which Moore quoted, defines consultation as a discussion of «the reasons for believing that the proposed admission of refugees is justified by humanitarian concerns or grave humanitarian concerns or is otherwise in the national interest.»

It remains laissez - faire in its approach to social welfare and justice, and justifies this stance by claiming the state has no ability (rather than no right or no reason) to intervene in such matters.

Whitehead takes the rather different view that while we are conditionally justified, for metaphysical reasons, in making these inferences (when confined to a particular space - time region where there is traceable continuity), we are not justified in construing the empirical generalization unrestrictedly.

You can claim to be the «voice of reason», and explain why you feel justified in attacking those that are religious, but it merely proves my point.