Sentences with phrase «kind of belief in»

Almost every court finds that some kind of belief in a deity is required — but no court finds that Buddhism is not a charity, though it has no god.

Does Olivier Giroud inspire that kind of belief in this Arsenal team?

I'm astonished and shocked how seldom Christians remind themselves that the people who first had the kind of belief in God that we more or less have did not believe in personal immortality.

So, what kind of belief in Jesus Christ's various attributes is called for?

If one is persuaded that Whitehead's account is indeed the most penetrating that now exists, that it does justice to the complexity of the phenomena of science and of history alike, then the fact that it too leads, almost in spite of the author's apparent intention, to a doctrine of God as the source and ground of order is an important further confirmation of the inescapability for speculative reason of some kind of belief in God.

The reasons the ancients put these kinds of beliefs in things no longer apply because most of it has been explained by science.

Not exact matches

«In our society, we have a strong belief that synthetic happiness is of an inferior kind.»

Yesterday, Kristen asked what you thought about the New York Times story on the backlash against gender equality in Silicon Valley — and specifically for your thoughts on how to tackle the discussion of these kinds of false and biased beliefs without lending them credibility.

And I can tell you that one of the key factors of their success was using the kind of visualization and meditation techniques that are featured in Awakening Power to move past their limiting beliefs and behaviors and develop the positive success habits they needed to achieve their incredibly ambitious goals.

His decision to sell out in May was based on a belief that oil prices had gone too far too fast, not that the bull market for oil - or for that matter, commodities of all kinds - has ended.

I got in touch with Tony because we share the interest in persona modeling and the belief of its importance for any kind of conversational marketing.

The president's deep belief in his own prowess as a dealmaker will make him inclined to come away from the negotiations with some kind of deal.

Investors are just too short - term practical to sustain their belief in those kind of incredibly lengthy revaluations.

I had in my heart and tongue the Name of Allah when ever I had fears, troubles or depression of any kind but from Jan 05 1995 when had lost my father and second brother in a car accident, it was the time I really felt am alone at age of 33 to face all the challenges my father has left upon me to run and manage among other partners therefore had been investigating the Quran as to understanding every word of it rather than to memorize it, have been did a lot of reciting verses of prayers begging God to look upon me and give me strength... am sure through such difficult times if I had no faith in God I would have perished and lost every thing long ago... Another thing my heart always gave me signs and my mind gave me logic of what to believe although have read many books abroad in my youth of many beliefs out of curiosity but could not belief in other than that God is one and Muhammed is his last prophet in all belief of the Quran he brought upon me / us in all that it says... Should mention at times had experienced dreams seeing signs and warnings long in advance of things going to happen A year or more before losing my father in a car accident I had seen him in my dream good bye wearing white cloth and going to board a tourist ship all crew dressed in white uniform rolling a red carpet on front of him and when was on the top of the stairs weaver smiling good bye... seen in another dream how or wealth will be stolen and what I will hold... so many things like that..

I will leave a fuller defense of Edmund Burke to Yuval Levin, who is an expert on the subject, but Marr badly mischaracterizes Burke as a kind of Deweyan pragmatist and experimentalist, when in fact Burke believed in the authority of tradition and precedent, in a predisposition toward reverence for the past, in the notion of God - given rights, and in the necessity of transcendental beliefs and institutions as a grounding for political society.

Still other believers elect to ignore rational questions and criticisms of their belief and continue to remain in the dark, unable to provide any kind of defense for their belief aside from «it just feels right» or «I know it in my heart».

The answer is that the Christian right in our country is constantly trying to force their religious beliefs into the public sphere (science education, school prayer at public schools, Decalogue displays at court houses, nativity scenes on city hall property, crosses in all kinds of public places, national days of prayer, etc.)-- if these things stopped, the outcry from us non-believers would be greatly diminished.

I do not attend any kind of church or social gatherings in regards to my non-religious beliefs.

the abundance of purely uneducated Muslim believers, their oppressive existence in their self created repressive regimes, lifestyles, and governments, their radical inturpitations of their fairy tale book, the fact that their culture and people have contributed less to man kind than any other culture and people of all the earth, their self ritious belief system that empowers them to commit atrocious crimes against humanity, the muslim men prance around in flip flops and linen moo moo's while they lock their woman in their household prisons to be abused slave - wife's, are entirely too ignorant to even build sewer systems and even after thousands of years that other cultures have developed running water toilets, toilet paper, and effective sewerage systems, they still whipe their pood - cracks with one hand (no paper) and eat with the other, and yiddle to the sky just before detonation of their suicide bombs that murder innocent men, woman, children, and babies.

It was not uncommon for people to believe in the cyclops, or the sirens until christianity took over, outlawed that belief and as.serted its own» = > the fact that people believed all kinds of things does nt imply anything about other beliefs.

We should be happy about how far we have come as a species via the hard work and dedication of man kind... we should be stopping and looking at the big picture and think about how far we have come in 2000 years... we have made tremendous progress in so many ways and it is really sad that instead of doing the right thing and giving mankind credit where credit is due, you fall back on 2000 year old beliefs and you thank a god who has never been proven to exist.

And with that said... I certainly agree with what - Frogist said, and I would just add that even in being «kind» and «respectful» discussing your «beliefs» would not necessarily cause you or other believers to feel «a whole lot of difference.»

«O'Connor is not only a fanatic, in the sense that any religious zealot unquestioningly committed to a rigid set of beliefs is a fanatic; he is the most effective and therefore the most dangerous kind of fanatic — warm, personable, humorous, eminently reasonable in conversation, and extremely skillful at manipulating the media.»

Spin it how you will, religion constantly gets a free pass in this country and when its ever called out for its discriminatory practices and beliefs it claims religion has the right to discriminate based on those beliefs... but everybody else doesn't have the right to even make the accusation that religion is getting all kinds of special rights allowing them to justify their own discrimination.

@Herbert What kind of empirical evidence do you have for your belief in god?

Kevin your right personal beliefs and or religion does not belong in law, and I am not saying that what this atheist organization is doing is wrong or anything, I think what there doing is a good thing, I just think this particular message could have been done from a different perspective, this message makes them appear like the self righteous ones, and it might give out the wrong kind of message, instead it should have said something like you believe in god fine, but don't put it in our laws.

Now, before you jump in with the standard BS rhetoric, i want you to know i'm only stating these things because i want you to see what it's like to have your beliefs criticized and so you know that all you're pushin, is another kind of religion.

Christian conservatives aren't against his politics but rather his beliefs regarding what are relatively minor details — such as exactly what kind of pie in the sky you'll get when you die.

and being aware of your environment, being respectful of those of all beliefs and none beliefs, and of our world, and its about personal responsibility, with that said why is is such a bad thing to believe in something greater than yourself, how can somebody live there life without believing in something, what kind of life is that, life is meant to be discovered, its one big mystery, and all the science in the world can still not prove how we exactly came to be?

Gary, Sabio claims that his beliefs are based on reason and objectivity and yet he totally ignores the objective historical evidence from the failure of atheistic Communism to usher in an earthly Utopia that the cause of man (kind)'s individual and social ills is theistic beliefs.

One of Hart's most striking dismissals of the conflation of God and the gods is where he defines belief in «a personal God» or «theistic personalism» as a kind of «monopolytheism,» which «differs from polytheism... solely in that it posits the existence of only one such being.»

Religion, of all kinds, is about belief in something that hasn't shown proof.

The idea of being kind to your fellow man as you would wish him to be to you is found all over the world, and does not require the additional belief in all the hootenanny of organized religion.

This view claims that since there can be no one true interpretation of anything, including an historical interpretation of Jesus, and since laypeople are in no position to argue with the experts, «they should suspend belief among all kinds of expert interpretations, including religiously inspired ones.»

In the wake of the Peasants» War, Luther set about creating an organized theology systematizing his belief that church and state must have some kind of separation.

Indeed, Gottlieb enthusiastically underscores how Mendelssohn's support for religious pluralism «is appropriate to life in a cosmopolitan, diverse society,» applauding his theologically based opposition to any kind of religious coercion and his emphasis on how religious beliefs promote «individual flourishing.»

Stripped of any belief in the kind of higher consolation that makes sense of life's inevitable injustices and humdrum frustrations, the demands that people place on the political system «become as infinite as the infinity they have lost.»

In about 2000/2001 I was in Austin to dialogue about emerging ministry, and facilitate a «culture clash» simulation game based on values and beliefs of people from the kinds of «postmodern cultures» that I'd been interacting with since the early 1990In about 2000/2001 I was in Austin to dialogue about emerging ministry, and facilitate a «culture clash» simulation game based on values and beliefs of people from the kinds of «postmodern cultures» that I'd been interacting with since the early 1990in Austin to dialogue about emerging ministry, and facilitate a «culture clash» simulation game based on values and beliefs of people from the kinds of «postmodern cultures» that I'd been interacting with since the early 1990s.

We do not just go to the world; rather, we bring with us beliefs which determine the kind of data we select.2 The traditional distinction between reason and faith in which the scientist uses only the cold light of reason while the theologian uses the light of faith is not strictly true.

Of course, with this belief, believers subject themselves to all kinds of atrocities at the hands of their religion and then exclaim «oh but I have suffered in this world, surely I will rejoice in the next!&raquOf course, with this belief, believers subject themselves to all kinds of atrocities at the hands of their religion and then exclaim «oh but I have suffered in this world, surely I will rejoice in the next!&raquof atrocities at the hands of their religion and then exclaim «oh but I have suffered in this world, surely I will rejoice in the next!&raquof their religion and then exclaim «oh but I have suffered in this world, surely I will rejoice in the next!»

But there's another kind of evil lurking around the halls of the depressed, and it's the belief that those who are stricken with depression (or any mental illness) are suffering because of their lack of faith in Jesus.

In my experience, that one belief was used as justification for all kinds of physical and spiritual abuse.

I want to know what facts could ever lead to a belief in something that has no facts or evidence of an kind.

A general belief in the goodness of human kind?

I think that kind of reaction is a defense mechanism... that people that hate on others beliefs only do so because they lack confidence in their own beliefs... and have to put others down to feel better about themselves.

Is he, then, here constructing an «ideal scene» in which the conditions for belief as based on «sight» are as favorable as they could possibly be, only to suggest that such belief is not, in the end, the most important or permanent kind of faith?

They can not distinguish the gospel from all kinds of beliefs widespread in the secular world.

Third, you might take the Way of Separation and insist that faith and reason are fundamentally different kinds of belief with different roles in our lives.

Protestantism accepted the idea that uniformity of belief is a necessary factor in a church, so that as new formulations of belief have arisen new churches have been founded to represent them, until in the United States we have over two hundred different kinds of Protestant Christians.

The belief that man possesses a soul, or some kind of spiritual entity that survives death, is itself an almost universal phenomenon in primitive human culture and it has led to different kinds of development in more mature human civilizations.