Sentences with phrase «justify your beliefs about»

If you require evidence as strong as the extraordinary claims merit, then you will be in the best position to arrive at a justified belief about God.

Not exact matches

Most of us are agnostic about many things, including our beliefs about gods — classically, knowledge is justified true belief.

If you know anything about the history of the bible you know it was created by many writers, compiled and edited by Roman emperors, added to, translated, interpreted and actually pretty much ignored — except for a few sentences that sound old fashioned that people use to justify their beliefs and actions.

It's silly) And since the belief and the book can be used to justify evil actions, then it's really about how YOU interpret the belief, because others can interpret it in a completely different way and act «immoral» by their exegesis.

I think people who claim they know about god genuinely believe they have a justified true belief.

If the article above was written by a grown adult about the existence of Santa Claus, and if that argument was essentially based on asserting Santa Claus» existence based on faith and the popularity of the Santa Claus myth, then anyone would be justified in scorning those beliefs, especially when that argument extends to declaring that recent findings confirm the existence of Santa (after all, children are still receiving Christmas gifts).

(This belief is often made to justify the intensity of our rhetoric about pedophilia: The stakes are supposed to be so high.)

«you are sure dancing around to justify your silly beliefs» -------- Interesting... Now prove to me that consciousness exists... What about love?

One sees variations of it in many fields of study (for example, in trendy new movements like postmodernism) and everywhere it produces doubts among reflective people about the possibility of justifying belief in objective intellectual, cultural and moral standards.

Romans 9 - 11 has been used to justify anti-Semitic belief and behavior and has led to all manner of speculation about election and predestination and faith versus works and true religion and who is chosen by God and who is not.

Making that generalization can only be justified if you have read every single comment, and since you made it about the «belief blog», that would go for every article.

If that opportunity never presents itself (and I hope it doesn't) you could always go visit some female burn victims in the Middle East and talk about the violence suffered at the hands of their husbands, all justified by their religious beliefs.

To know something is just to hold beliefs about it that are justified.

We make Jesus fit our lifestyle... justifying actions or belief with scripture that leave others scratching their heads... but it fascinates me how we are all so different yet passionate about our walk of following Jesus.

True, one of the flaws in the analogy might be that that wasn't about science, but it's also true that a junk - science tradition already existed for justifying odious racial beliefs.

I suggest you look at the comments about the asumption that the MWP is cooler than today which justifies their modelled belief that in 90 years levels will be higher, then look at the authors - Mann and Jones.

I don't know if a relevant case has arisen in Sweden, but analogous reasoning would say that a person should not be prosecuted for giving a lecture that included reports of hate speech, again, because the lecturer would be reporting a fact about beliefs, and not encouraging or justifying hatred.