i dare you to
justify your beliefs as well as this man did here b / c i bet you can't.
Not exact matches
It is my personal
belief that we should invest more than we do in emerging markets
as well — though that is harder to
justify.
Circular religious logic will still never fully
justify the fact that religion asks for special rights and protections, which it gets, and then turns those rights and protections on other groups
as a defense mechanism for when they are accused of discriminating... i.e. «We can choose who we accept and who we don't because of our
beliefs... wait, what... how can you say you will not accept our religious organization, that's religious discrimination!»
Do you truly believe that being
as dishonest
as possible to
justify your immoral
beliefs is a good thing?
Instead in order to get noticed we Americans
as you call us who are fat and dumb only value what we believe
as truth even if we contradict it and say someone's
beliefs are
justified as long
as they practice toleration of others.
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.
Secondly,
as a priest ordained in Rome where he knows that the Basilica would be totally against his assertion, he uses euphemisms to cloud the mind of a reader thinking quoting wrong scriptures with the intent to seduce would suffice — his own roots denounce his deeds and / or
beliefs but he axiomatically wants to hold both the roots and wings to no avail, read the book and the truth shall set you free... This is exactly what happens when a gay priest turned professor what to
justify his perverted lifestyle... I rest my case
Justified belief is based on reason,
as is science.
On the traditional assumption that knowledge is
justified true
belief, we may interpret Whitehead
as asserting that from the fact that we have a strongly held, possibly even unshakable,
belief we may conclude — apparently only on that basis — that the
belief is true and adequately
justified.
I find that Whitehead's exposition is question - begging and seriously misleading.4 The exposition is misleading insofar
as it suggests that
belief in either a specific or generic causal nexus is adequately
justified by a subject's experience of CE alone and not ultimately by systematic considerations, particularly those related to prehension.5 If Whitehead's theory of perception was intended to stand alone without support from the rest of his system,
as Ford suggests (EWM 181 - 182), then I claim that it is insufficiently
justified insofar
as a part of it, the theory of CE, is inadequately
justified.
And for them experiences such
as «cat - on - mat sighting» have a double aspect, able at once to engender and (in view of imprinted practical policies) to
justify suitable
beliefs.
As I've said before, believers love to twist accepted word definitions to
justify their
belief that mythology is reality.
This is not to say, however, that a vision of reality is like a «basic
belief»
as defined by Alvin Plantinga and others, meaning that it need not be
justified.
You can play with semantics to
justify your position
as much
as you want, but the truth is that any
belief can be tarnished by fanaticism.
The
justifying ground of Christian
belief is the trinitarian and incarnational logic of biblical narrative
as expressed in Christian liturgical practices.
Doctrine and Covenants 134:7 7 We believe that rulers, states, and governments have a right, and are bound to enact laws for the protection of all citizens in the free exercise of their religious
belief; but we do not believe that they have a right in justice to deprive citizens of this privilege, or proscribe them in their opinions, so long
as a regard and reverence are shown to the laws and such religious opinions do not
justify sedition nor conspiracy.
If a religionist had to stand on their own with only their own mind to
justify what they have been accepting
as common
belief they would be terrified if they thought all around them rejected what they thought was believed by all.
In such a situation one can not remain epistemically
justified in having the
beliefs one has without engaging the alien claims
as potential defeators and seeing, to the best of one's ability, whether they do in fact defeat.
Christian Relig - ism — is the
belief that there are inherent differences in people's traits and capacities that are entirely due to their religion, however defined, and that,
as a consequence, relig - ism discrimination (i.e. different treatment of those people, both socially and legally) is
justified.
The general Christian
belief is that God snuffed out most people in the so - called Great Flood and any pregnant women's unborn children would have already been determined
as sinners by God and therefore
justified in His eyes, right?
But I can think of no context — and Griffin offers us no examples of contexts — in which FWTs don't apply exactly the same criteria for determining
justified belief to the positions of their opponents
as they apply to their own.
It is certainly true —
as I will soon point out — that many FWTs do utilize a set of criteria different from Griffin's when determining
justified theistic
belief.
If you want to consider every time someone points out «your
beliefs need to be
justified before you go promoting them»
as «hate», then yeah, you're really just pandering to a martyr complex.
To consider people of different
beliefs as «evil» you dehumanize them and consequently
justify all types of horrible retaliations.
Trusting people or websites that are deliberately against a church to
justify your
beliefs is like using Hezbollah propoganda
as evidence that Israel is evil.
Because of this
belief, he will vote for Romney: «If you claim Christ
as your king, how on earth can you
justify the murder of God given life through abortion or any other means?»
It is not true that
as adults we try (very hard) to
justify our
beliefs?
It would be an interesting exercise to look through the position characters and see how many of them can be used to describe me, and then see if I have used the bible in the past to
justify / buffer my
beliefs as «correct».
And I'm certain every one of them felt just
as justified in their
beliefs as you do.
The mind will use whatever presents itself
as a cloaking device to secure, validate and
justify itself, its thoughts, its
beliefs, and its actions.
The bible appears to promote violence in selected passages, but the very fact that Christians analyze scripture with the underlying
belief that there is such a thing
as an objective truth and morality we don't have the freedom in our doctrine to falsely interpret passages from Leviticus to
justify killing while ignoring Christ and the ten commandments.
This is common for any judgmental society or person,
as long
as they use their religious background and
beliefs to
justify taking away rights, implementing rules to defame groups of other people they feel are not of their group's «norm.»
The interpretation given of Jesus
as the Logos in the Prologue is confessedly interpretation, and interpretation influenced by the intellectual thought of Hellenistic Judaism, but at the same time one
justified by the
belief of the Church in Jesus» Sonship.
Here friendship, or more accurately the hatred of bourgeois
beliefs and attitudes which bound together these gifted Cambridge men, and which was
as close
as they could come to friendship («the enemy of my enemy is my friend»), serves to
justify the profoundest evil.
Stop comparing us to other teams to try to
justify Wenger
as though it's not his fault.Of course it's down to him and what's more he KNOWS this yet continues to trust his archaic
beliefs when all around the club it is known who is responsible.
As a result, online shaming gives them an outlet for
justifying their own
beliefs.
I think my point is that people try to
justify their
beliefs and mix them with their religious background
as a justification.
European Council Directive 2000 / 78 / EC, which established «a general framework for equal treatment in employment and occupation», sets out in Article 4.2 that organisations with an ethos based on religion or
belief, such
as «faith» schools, can treat persons differently in recruitment and employment on the grounds of religion or
belief where there is «a genuine, legitimate and
justified occupational requirement».
Bearing this in mind, section 60 (5)(a) could and would, if necessary, be construed and applied by a court or tribunal
as permitting preferential decisions on grounds of religious
belief, only to the extent that such decisions were consistent with genuine, legitimate and
justified occupational requirements.»
As evidence to support their
belief system continues to crumble in all directions, acolytes of the warming cult fall back ever more desperately on the summer melting of Arctic ice to
justify their wishful thinking that the world is still warming, and to explain why we are enjoying such cold winters and wet summers.
It's quite common to hear people
justify their
belief in global warming
as «Well, a whole bunch of people say it's true».
Often
justified largely on the basis of junk science they have come up with such wonderful policy prescriptions
as using only unreliable sources of energy because they are «sustainable,» keeping natural resources in the ground rather than using them to meet human needs, having government tell manufacturers what requirements their products must meet to use less energy rather than encouraging manufacturers to meet the needs of their customers, all in the name of «energy efficiency,» substituting government dictates for market solutions on any issue related to energy use, and teaching school children junk science that happens to meet «environmentalists» ideological
beliefs in hopes of perpetuating these
beliefs to future generations even though they do not conform to the scientific method, the basis of science.
Faced with this infinity of prior PDFs, a member of the «subjective Bayesian» school selects one of them and
justifies this selection
as being an expression of his / her subjective
belief.
But their core
beliefs are: 1) rule by a «meritocratic» elite (of which they themselves always seem to coincidentally be members); central planning of the economy (and society — though they try to hide this one
as long
as possible) by the state; and 3) the ends
justify almost any means.
With no basis in fact, Mr Turnbull's claim that Australia is a world leader should be seen
as an epic lie of the kind that becomes possible only for those who hold a fervent
belief in a greater cause that
justifies a falsehood of this magnitude.
In order to successfully claim indirect discrimination, the claimant must demonstrate that the respondent has applied a provision, criterion or practice («PCP»); that PCP puts or would put someone with the claimant's religion or
belief at a particular disadvantage when compared to other persons; the PCP puts or would put the claimant at that disadvantage and the PCP can not be
justified as a proportionate means of achieving a legitimate aim.
As far as the conclusions and recommendations from child custody evaluations, they just make up whatever they want based on their own personal beliefs and inherent personal biases, they then apply some psychological constructs in entirely haphazard and idiosyncratic ways to justify whatever biased and idiosyncratic conclusion was reached, and they usually take a middle - of - the road risk - management response of recommending the status quo with the addition of «reunification therapy» and an admonishment to both parents that the degree of parental conflict is harming the child and that the parents need to co-parent bette
As far
as the conclusions and recommendations from child custody evaluations, they just make up whatever they want based on their own personal beliefs and inherent personal biases, they then apply some psychological constructs in entirely haphazard and idiosyncratic ways to justify whatever biased and idiosyncratic conclusion was reached, and they usually take a middle - of - the road risk - management response of recommending the status quo with the addition of «reunification therapy» and an admonishment to both parents that the degree of parental conflict is harming the child and that the parents need to co-parent bette
as the conclusions and recommendations from child custody evaluations, they just make up whatever they want based on their own personal
beliefs and inherent personal biases, they then apply some psychological constructs in entirely haphazard and idiosyncratic ways to
justify whatever biased and idiosyncratic conclusion was reached, and they usually take a middle - of - the road risk - management response of recommending the status quo with the addition of «reunification therapy» and an admonishment to both parents that the degree of parental conflict is harming the child and that the parents need to co-parent better.