The willingness of His followers to
die for their beliefs was a contributing factor.
Real faith may even require you to
die for your belief (as did early Christians).
However, would you say that, each one of the 11 martyred men, who really had stolen the body of Jesus in the first place, would be willing to
die for a belief they themselves knew to be false?
The chrsitan asked the atheist if he was prepared to
die for his beliefs (meaning he believes in no god).
Yeah, I wouldn't say that would be a good example of «
dying for his beliefs».
If I am willing to
die for my beliefs, it is only logical that I would follow through and put my life on the line to show how serious I am about it.
Unless, you can show me no other group of humans have ever
died for a belief, that is false.
I contend,
dying for a belief, is not evidence.
Name one person who has
died for their belief in Santa Claus.
I will fight and
die for those beliefs, but i will first pursue a peaceful means before any physical action is taken!
Dumbazx believers might not
die for beliefs they know to be lies but they certainly die for false beliefs.
And, the post could not ask for a better coda, than Dave W's remark, «And speaking of dying, why do so many
die for this belief?»
Why did
they die for their beliefs?
Those who believed in Jesus when he walked the Earth often
died for their beliefs.
The ones who allegedly
died for their beliefs could well have believed that the stories were true.
This man may
die for a belief that he feels he can not recant, and instead of respecting him, you ridicule him for what he believes.
If this man is willing to
die for his belief in the Lord doesn't that say something.
First I would like to pray for a man that may
die for his beliefs.
Why would you care if someone does or does not
die for their beliefs?
Cause so many different people of faith swear they have the truth and will
die for their beliefs.
Many have held that encounter more precious than life itself.Most of the authors of the New Testament reportedly
died for their beliefs.
Invent a religion, then benefit from the power, wealth, tax breaks, and needy sycophants willing to
die for your beliefs.
I have to agree, let them be free to choose to
die for his beliefs.
Non-Muslims know it's best to let the sons - of - bitches who want to
die for their beliefs do all the dying.
Tell that to the martyrs who
died for their beliefs in Christ.
Peter, Paul, Steven and a slew of others went on to
die for their beliefs after Jesus» death.
You begin at number 1 where the purpose is self - protection at all cost and at number 4 you have with religion where a lot of people are willing to die and have
died for their belief.
Nobody should
die for their beliefs.
Some say that is the last place from which to expect any resolution of the terror wars, for it is the true believers, fundamentalists and hard - liners who are unable to compromise, preferring to
die for their beliefs.
lol Your sincerity might be real, but what you are sincere about does not need to be real for you to be sincere or even to
die for your beliefs.
Dying for a belief, doesn't make it true.
Having faced psycho killers and been willing to fight and
die for my beliefs I can honestly say I have been more than willing to die and kill for them If I stand before a crowd of people and they wish to kill me (and they did) for my religius beliefs and I give them the choice to move or die is it wrong to have a weapon?
Enriched by flashbacks to the alluringly sad tale of Anyusha's mother, a famous Russian refusenik who
died for her beliefs, The Wanting is a poignant study of the costs of extremism, but it is most satisfying as a story of characters enmeshed in their imperfect love for one another and for the heartbreakingly complex world in which that love is wrought.
Rate the intensity of this one belief on a scale of one to 10 (one being «I have no opinion» and 10 being «I would
die for this belief»).
Not exact matches
As
for me, I want to know and commune with a being that, in my
belief system, created me and
died for me.
It is an offense to their memories and their
beliefs to change their religion after
dying for being Jewish.
Millions of Jewish people
died in the Holocaust
for their
beliefs.
At least one place Lewis explains this problem was in the Screwtape letters, where a demon exclaims, «How much better
for us if all humans
died in costly nursing homes amid doctors who lie, nurses who lie, friends who lie, as we have trained them, promising life to the
dying, encouraging the
belief that sickness excuses every indulgence, and even, if our workers know their job, withholding all suggestion of a priest lest it should betray to the sick man his true condition!»
As
for the
dying, let them have peace in whatever
belief they have chosen.
I think that is the view you have because of the weight you give the early martyrs in validating your
beliefs, e.g. «people would not
die for what they don't believe».
Kevin, they need new adherents so thier religion doesn» y
die outThey would hate being the last of a cult that uses myth as a
belief syste
for their salvation, whatever that is.
But it is a completely appropriate question
for a CHAPLAIN to ask a
dying person whether or not they have peace about their
beliefs about death, God and the afterlife.
Louisa So, a pastor visits a non-believer and you would criticize them
for not reminding the
dying person of the
belief that they're going straight to hell?
All you have is your own baseless
belief and a desire to torment
dying people with it by stealing the final moments of their life
for YOUR purpose.
The two are based on the
belief of «Jesus» and a single god then two religions start to divide in their little rules
for being a «good little Catholic» vs a «good little Christian», people have
died because of this, example the Crusades.
Isaac Newton kept his true religious
beliefs secret,
for fear of persecution, until literally his
dying day.
The Bible states pretty clearly that you can be a good person all your life, but if you
die without professing
belief in the Lord, you will burn in Hell
for all eternity.
Well, the last time Americans had a president who was psychologically «programmed» to ignore facts that didn't agree with his
beliefs, the USA ended up wasting $ 1T in an illegal war to «liberate» 100's of billions of barrels of Iraqi oil (as many as 1.2 M people
died in the process due to violence, disease & starvation resulting from the conflict), nearly $ 5T was added to the U.S. federal debt, a man with experience as the Judges and Stewards Commissioner
for the International Arabian Horse Association was put in charge of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), the U.S. subprime credit «bubble» expanded hugely & then imploded, wiping out some $ 14T in global wealth & destroying millions of jobs, etc..
Faith (or
belief without evidence) is more motivated by two basic human emotions: FEAR of
dying and punishment and HOPE
for an eternal afterlife.
Besides, you consider my
beliefs inherently negative because I am telling you, «You are wrong, you pray to nothing, you fast
for nothing, you are organic matter that will
die and then rot.»