Sentences with phrase «less than a belief»

It seems more likely that Mr. Schaeffer gets the rationality of A but has weak conviction on it, something less than belief but short of disbelief.

Anniversaries, TV shows, movies, documentaries and even little old publishers with good intentions and limited funds can draw people's attention to the wealth of truly classic literature available in individual slices for less than a cup of coffee, but it takes a co-ordinated and sustained effort, based on nothing more or less than a belief in the inherent worth, to individuals, to society and, especially, to children and young people, of great books and of the power of reading.

His ability to explain what was wrong with a Color Field painting or a Neo-Dada sculpture interested me far less than his belief that such stuff could not possibly affect the work he was doing.

Not exact matches

Tech companies with no profits (or even much of a business plan) soared to extreme valuations that were justified, in part, by the belief that future profits would be made faster and that equities were less risky than in the past.

Millennials aren't rewarded for staying in one job Contrary to popular belief, millennials are switching jobs less than previous generations, even though employers have stopped offering pay hikes to millennials who stick around.

The Oxford English Dictionary declared «post-truth» the word of the year — the notion that «objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief.»

That puts us in the awkward position of making ourselves less able by our beliefs than a man whose body is disabled by cerebral palsy.

This belief effectively subsidizes the industry because it allows banks to borrow much more cheaply in the bond market than they otherwise could, making equity funding proportionately less attractive.

Then pretending that those who lack their belief also have a faith based position demand much less intellectual discipline is a much easier option than facing up to the burden of proof they give when insisting they believe what they do.

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.

Your belief in non existence has no more or less provability than does my belief in an eternal after life.

In find agnostics more open - minded and less bias than any other belief system in the world.

We can assume that all the Justices sitting on the Court today, like other humans, have their own preferences and biases about religion, but the judicial opinions of one of them, Justice John Paul Stevens, raise more than a slight suspicion that some of his actions on the bench stem from animosity, if not to animal sacrifice, at least to certain less exotic religious beliefs and practices.

But as previously mentioned, your belief in non existence is no more or less a verifiable reality than my belief in eternal life.

The belief in a personal god is no more and no less than human egoism, fuelled by a fear od death!

It was written by many people over the span of hundreds of years, it is tribal rules from the infancy of our development and arguably is not a good book at all but full of hatred, spite and unspeakable violence, and you arent allowed to use «faith» as your proof of existence... faith is nothing less than the throwing away of reason i.e. belief without evidence.

Now, realize that in today's society you are still just as hated, shunned and looked down upon for declaring that same differing belief... or even non-belief — just because people are still too hung up on their precious religious dogma to realize that, though the outcome is obviously less drastic than in the past, they are still doing the same thing that religious people did in the past?

My personal belief is that your views expressed are often of the type Jesus would challenge in less than «lovingly» terms.

Additionally, 19 % of voters identified they would be less likely to vote for a candidate who had strong religious beliefs other than their own.

Every time I interact with a Muslim I am aware that his religion considers me less than human for not sharing his beliefs.

The danger lies less in such beliefs themselves... than in the behavior they might stimulate or justify.

Yet 46 % of Americans still think the earth is less than 10,000 years old, because they think «bible tells them so» even though merely reinterpreting a chapter or two of the bible differently permits the two beliefs to co-exist.

Also, I like the idea that belief can be about not - seeing, and also about more, or less, than Jesus.

This morning CNN's expert panel appeared to be unanimous that an academic discussion of religion was less useful than belief in something that resulted in being kind to our fellow man.

how is my «context» any less important than «yours», by your own system of belief?

There are billions of Muslims, Jews and other non-Christians who would disagree with your beliefs, are their opinions worth less than yours?

The adherents of those religions are no less sincere or devout than you and they have exactly the same amount of evidence to support their beliefs.

The bible is not a universally recognized fact, it is is collection of beliefs held by less than a third of the world that can't be agreed upon by all of them

A small amount of logic and common sense proves athiest belief to be nothing more than a belief which is a religion that does not believe in a god, nothing more, nothing less.

With this experience of what we humans are capable of doing to one another, and with the decline of belief in a providential God, there is far less confidence about the human future among informed people today than there was at the beginning of the twentieth century.

Beliefs or practices that do not express devotion or that refer to objects of less than supreme worth are by this definition not religious.

As recent scholarship has demonstrated, «faith» in the Bible is often better rendered «faithfulness»; one has faith, therefore, less by belief than by piety.

After all, ranged against their beliefs is nothing less than the entire universe and every physical datum it comprises.

A belief about someone that hones in on one characteristic of a person and finds them unworthy and «less than», regardless if they were born with them or had them implanted.

Even though specific Christian beliefs were unknown in Athens, Christian thinkers used resources which were far less internally consistent than process thought to express religious meanings, defend practices, doctrines, and so forth.

If you choose magic, your belief system has less basis than mine, and even THAT belief implies a force guiding the «magic» — you simply refuse to call it «God».

I am interested to hear how a belief in a higher power makes you less self - centered than one who does not share your belief.

«In this crisis of belief and disbelief, the antagonism between faith and antifaith is less important than their common challenge: the construction of a. world in which man chooses between God or himself — and chooses freely,» he writes in The Accidental Century.

You also might realize that the vast majority of those of us with «deep psychiatric issues» (your words) have no problem at all with atheistic beliefs (and they are beliefs — you are choosing to believe the universe sprang from nothingness, which is no less absurd than a benevolent creator).

But if so, then it is also true that the soteriological beliefs of such process theists are much less similar to those of Whiteheadian process theists than most realize.

But we may admire their zeal and still believe them to be more wrong in their beliefs and less sinless in their living than they think themselves to be.

Per this study, there is less than a 4 % difference between HS to College grad in belief in God (97 % at HS or below, 94 % with College degree express faith in God or a higher being.

The teacher's approach to such problems might start from three assumptions: (a) the teacher should be concerned with how science fits into the larger framework of life, and the student should raise questions about the meaning of what he studies and its relation to other fields; (b) controversial questions can be treated, not in a spirit of indoctrination, but with an emphasis on asking questions and helping students think through assumptions and implications; an effort should be made to present viewpoints other than one's own as fairly as possible, respecting the integrity of the student by avoiding undue imposition of the lecturer's beliefs; (c) presuppositions inevitably enter the classroom presentation of many subjects, so that a viewpoint frankly and explicitly recognized may be less dangerous than one which is hidden and assumed not to exist.

I generally put this down to very religious people (who have been raised with the concept that God is personally invested in them and is a central force in their life) experiencing the thought of a person without a religious belief system as being close to someone soul-less: without morals and without any fear of punishment (hell), so obviously less trustworthy than religious people who have a spiritual Big Brother and religious community watching their every move.

These days, for me, belief in God is far less important than the experience of God.

Unfortunately Agnostics and Atheists are the most trusted less in this country than any other belief, lack of belief, group in the entire country, running for public office as a non believer is a sure way not to win, so I running as a christian is the only logical approach to public office if you want to actually win

I don't talk about it a lot because rather than exploring belief and how I came to believe it, I generally just get bombarded by both atheists and Christians (primarily, though other theists have bashed me too) for being irrational and stupid and other less interesting insulting things.

You have no more or less the corner market on truth than those who incorporate faith into their system of belief.

But he is not mistaken to see that, if belief in the Caller becomes less pervasive in our culture, the work ethic will lose «its deepest purposive dimensions» and devolve into little more than the search for a satisfying and fulfilling career.

YOU are attempting to tell an entire group of people that they are lesser beings than you because your religious beliefs say so.