Sentences with phrase «more deity»

Atheists just have one more deity on their list of «I don't believe in that» than you do.

Do you lack a belief in a deity or do you have a belief in one or more deities?

She may have referred to «light» and «dark» because those are images that most people can relate to, regardless of belief in one or more deities, or non belief as well.

Let lib, # 1 Belief in one or more deities = theist.

I agree with you Mike, you either believe in one or more deities or not.

Like Stargate, only with more deities and less Kurt Russell, Gods Of Egypt sees the Dark City man imagining a world in which the Egyptian god of darkness Set (Butler) takes over the throne and brings misery and other nastinesses to all and sundry.

Richard, I give you this quote from your comment on the Christmas thread at December 29, 2012 at 10:50 am, talking about rgbatduke: «And, as do most atheists, he fails to recognise that his religion is as faith - based as any other: agnosticism rejects faith but belief that no deity exists (i.e.atheism) is a religious faith of identical kind to belief in the existence of one or more deities (i.e. theism).»

Not exact matches

Nevermind the fact that the same problems you posed for an uncreated universe apply to your uncreated deity — and an uncreated universe is a helluva lot more probable and logical than an uncreated sentience capable of supernatural feats.

The voices in your head, the loving feeling you get from believing in your deity is created by your brain, nothing more.

I do not know what is more arrogant, ignorant and selfish than constructing and then worshiping a deity modeled in our own image.

More and more are unreligious and / or don't believe in a deMore and more are unreligious and / or don't believe in a demore are unreligious and / or don't believe in a deity.

Jesus is nothing more than a myth, built from the stories of multiple deities.

you're right the church probably will be there long after any of us cease to exist but it stands to reason that it is going down... as more people come to the realization that the belief in a deity is not necessary to live, the less need there will be for a church to exist.

your deities don't scare me any more than anyone else's.

Frankly, the original unofficial motto «E Pluribus Unum» is way more eloquent and inclusive as a motto for this country than anything referring to some deity.

Nothing is more liberating than realizing that your life is in your hands, and the impetus for being a good person comes from you and your own values, not from a deity in the sky who will punish you.

One stops to think of actual countries of sand, which include more than a few particularly violent locales, places where people are not as willing as Mary Oliver to concede the comfy and common received idea of liberal Christianity that we all worship the same deity by «whatever name.»

You stopped believing in Santa Claus when you were 6, time to stop believing in gods too (and there's even more evidence for Santa Claus than a deity lol)

And to say that Biblical teachings are invalid because there are other similar beliefs that have older known written sources invalidates the Biblical teachings also should take into consideration that for certain Biblical believers that all those truths whether they are known to have been placed in the Bible first or known thus far to have been placed elsewhere that they believe that they all come via deity who at the beginning of human history on this world dispensed those truths to humanity and that to those who believe in the biblical teachings believe that through time they are more complete than those of other ancient beliefs due to God restoring those truths through revelations given to later prophets like say Moses and other later Old and New Testament prophets and apostles.

In the modern period the classical Western deity more and more took on the garb of the One who ultimately validates scientific and industrial progress, including not only much that was truly progressive, but also the industrial rape of nature and, ultimately, through a variety of corporate structures, the oppression of the poor, and the dispossessed.

With the arrival of the cult of the emperor other public cults of divinized (historical) men were curtailed, and even more established deities could suffer from its intolerance.

Their words would have more impact if they were deities.

So let me get this straight, it's far fetched for us to NOT have been created by a God and that's illogical but you believe there's a heaven and hell, a mystical deity who watches over us yet fails to intervene in bloodshed that occurs daily in his name, this deity is all powerful but for some reason can't do anything more than a coin toss could and for some reason everything he can do is limited to exactly the same domain as nature (EX: God can never regenerate a missing limb)?

Now you are hearing more from the people who don't believe in deities, and rightly so since they have been some of the most oppressed and attacked group in history.

Well, it's not difficult to believe that the universe has more pockets of life out there, and that some of that life is more advanced than we are, but this lends itself more to believing in UFO aliens than supernatural deities who have always been.

Please come up with a more compelling reason to believe in a deity other than «he's gonna kill you if you don't».

Seth One more time... Atheism... NOT belief in deities (note it does not address any belief, only NOT belief)

No more than you find any problem with an infinite immaterial deity who at some point within an infinite past, initiates the expansion of the universe.

Some Pagans make devotion to a certain goddess or pantheon their focal point; others are more involved with seeing the Earth as a manifestation of deity.

Wouldn't it make more sense for deity to be both male and female?

But, on the other hand, it is quite unjustified for theists to hold that we must tolerate or swallow the paradoxes or explain them away (by feats of ingenuity so subtle, and verbal methods so remote from intuitive insight or definite logical structures, that only deity could know with any assurance what was taking place), giving as justification the claim that the alternative position of atheism is even more paradoxical (lacking, it may be urged, any principle of cosmic explanation at all).

It is true that on various occasions he mentions other doctrines as essential, including more objective ones such as the deity of Christ and the Trinity.

(Matthew 6:8) Prayer was not begging a reluctant deity for his best gifts, as though he were an unjust judge or a surly neighbor in bed with his children unwilling to arise and answer a call for help — although if patience in prayer could accomplish its end even in such cases, how much more with the righteous and merciful God!

In more recent times, neo-classical theism (Whiteheadian process philosophy and theology) has reacted against the remote, transcendent, immutable and uninvolved God of classicism by making God totally immanent as evolving Deity.

We talk about The Goddess as being real even if there are those around us who have a more pantheistic view of deity.

actually you do nt have to prove the many deities or Gods that they really exist, because they really had existed in their times, They are part of the evolutionary process for us humans to transcend to higher consciousness.To simplify the analogy, when we were young and we are in the lower grade school, we were taught simple subjects not advance literatures but simple stories even mythicals, The same with religion, thousands of years ago when there was no science yet, primitive people had a religion, of course man made faiths to conform with their state of mind or intellect.But later atfter thousands of years we evolve into a more educated people and so new concept of God again was presented to them, another man made concept, and this go on and on, until a few thiousand years ago.monotheism, Judaism, christianity, islam, buddhism, etc also evolved, But with the accelerated evolution, these faith again is threatend with obsolesencs because of of scientific developments and education.In panthroteistic faith, the future religion needs to conform to evolutionary process, This proves that God is always there guiding the change.And it his will that made this a reality in history since the begining of the universe 13 billion years ago, and this will continue to exist until He will completely fulfill His will to infinity, Thats PANTHROTHEISM, the futue, man made religion under His guidance through scientifiic evoluition after the Bi Bang

We seem to have little more than a neutered figurehead Deity, who doesn't seem to be able to handle much at all anymore.

Professor Hartshorne, who has much more to say on this matter, believes that «the Christian idea of a suffering deity» «symbolized by the Cross, together with the doctrine of the Incarnation» (C. Hartshorne: Philosophers Speak of God, p. 15 [University of Chicago Press, 1953]-RRB- may legitimately be taken as a symbolic indication of the «saving» quality in the process of things which despite the evil that appears yet makes genuine advance a possibility.

This would not only show their deity that they loved and cared for him, but it also made it more convenient for people to go worship their god.

A more serious result of this shift to an agricultural society was the tendency to adopt the Canaanite (and before that, Babylonian) fertility cults of Baal and Ashtoreth, and to forsake the worship of Yahweh for a deity they thought might be more economically useful to them by increasing their herds and crops.

As for the use of god vs. God - if it is any deity then God works, if it is referring to the god of the Bible then God is just a shorter way to reference one or more of the versions of that god.

The first is that you portray your deity, the one you voted for as the thing you'd like most to spend eternity, as nothing more than a murderer.

Along the way there have been some pretty horrific issues with theology (war, crusades, more war, etc) Anyway, the answer is no, I do not believe in any kind of omniscient deity or theological system but I don't push it out on people either.

This expanding revelation of Deity went on for more than three hundred thousand years until it was suddenly terminated by the planetary secession and the disruption of the teaching regime.

I can name at least 10 people who were tenfold more intelligent than you are and they believed in a deity

Yes, a wrathful deity, but really more a bumbling mass murderer with too much power!

Viktor Frankl's work on the problem of suffering is far more valuable to me because it is based in reality and doesn't require an imaginary deity to resent for not acting.

«Seventy - five years ago evangelical leader J. Gresham Machen observed that Bible - believing Protestants and faithful Roman Catholics shared more in common with one another than they did with others who denied the deity of Christ, the miracles of Jesus, the Holy Trinity, or the second coming of Christ.

An atonement theology directed towards the assuaging of guilt before God is a powerful gospel — in contexts where God is immediately and almightily real; or where (as we may note more skeptically) a religion is still powerful enough to hold up before its host culture the image of a holy and righteous deity before whom none is worthy except through the appropriate cultic observations.

A personal god was nothing more than an exalted father - figure: desire for such a deity sprang from infantile yearnings for a powerful, protective father, for justice and fairness and for life to go on forever.