Sentences with phrase «none of the reasons for»

None of the reasons for theism work unless simple, or as I see it simpleminded determinism, is entirely false.

The Hartford Federation of Teachers, a union, had distributed a factsheet at the meeting, yet none of the reasons for opposing the charter school were specifically related to union issues.

Note that none of the reasons for a claim will be «your fault», necessarily.

Not exact matches

If none of these reasons can convince you to trial a nap «zone» or policy for your organization, consider this: Today's pro-nap companies aren't solely the small, quirky startups.

Overall app numbers do matter for three reasons, none of which has to do with farting.

The result of the vote is important for a number of reasons, but none more than the fact that global economic growth has been fragile since the «Great Recession» of 2008.

None of the above reasoning means that longer loan terms are bad, and they may be the exact right option for you if you're already feeling financially stressed.

None of this is confirmed, but we'll explore possible reasons and scenarios for you to build your own picture.

None of the calm released by FinancialBuzz.com constitutes a recommendation for any financier to purchase, reason or sell any sold security, pursue a sold investment plan or that any confidence is suitable for any investor.

While none of the major oil companies have yet to report Q1 results, stocks of Chevron, ExxonMobil, Royal Dutch, BP plc, Total S.A. and a bevy of other energy stocks are in full - blown rally mode for two reasons.

This could be for a variety of reasons, none of which make religion look good.

To sort through the empirical evidence, as happened in the course of my writing the book, is to find many reasons for concern over secularization — including, for starters, the unhappy fact that the rise of «nones» will reduce charitable donations to good causes.

Thats Right... The orthodox jews have been wearing Tefilin for over 3000 yrs daily (apart from the sabbath)... and none of them has ever used it as a reason to murder women and children... Why cant you all admit... some of us out there are really losing it...

I'm not sure what I said to lead you to believe that I am «throwing out the most proven and fundamental laws of science» since I'm pretty sure that none of the laws that you mention describe a need for the past to be gone and the future to not exist yet, and I was only forwarding a theoretical possibility with apparently good evidence as far as I can tell to address the question «Why would matter come into existence all by itself for no good reason?»

«That this House expresses profound concern that, despite voting 279 in favour and none against the motion calling on the Government to refer genocidal atrocities of Daesh to the United Nations Security Council on 14 April 2016, still, no such referral has been made; recalls the words of the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs in an article in the Telegraph on 27 March 2016, Daesh are engaged in what can only be called genocide of the poor Yazidis, though for some baffling reason the Foreign Office still hesitates to use the term genocide; and calls on the Government to ensure that the unanimous will of Parliament is implemented with urgency.»

The New York Times asks whether the obviously non-evangelical Republican frontrunners should lead us to conclude that evangelicals have lost their sway in the G.O.P.. For a variety of reasons, none of the panelists endorses that conclusion.

Back in the old days, people were encouraged to have as many children as possible for a variety of reasons, none of which have any relevance in the modern world....

I am going to go with the latter because having a creator - parent like that is just too much to bear... there is no reason for all of this if there is a god, none.

Most eventually go back to believing, so I suppose it's not a surprise that none of them would have been available for the study, but in any given group of atheists there are always a good number who say they don't believe while secretly looking for a reason to go back.

I Never disclosed any of the reasons for leaving RV, none of the above remarks reflect why I & my children left.

Faithful to it, Vatican I recognised that faith involves a free act which can not «be produced necessarily by arguments of human reason» (DS 3035, 3010); hence the Council added to those external signs the «internal helps of the Holy Spirit» so that the former might be «most certain signs of divine revelation adapted to every intelligence» (DS 3009f, 3033f); as a result faith relies on «a most firm foundation» and «none can ever have a justreason for changing or doubting that same faith» (DS 3014, 3036; 2119 - 2121).

Faithful to it, Vatican I recognised that faith involves a free act which can not «be produced necessarily by arguments of human reason» (DS 3035, 3010); hence the Council added to those external signs the «internal helps of the Holy Spirit» so that the former might be «most certain signs of divine revelation adapted to every intelligence» (DS 3009f, 3033f); as a result faith relies on «a most firm foundation» and «none can ever have a just reason for changing or doubting that same faith» (DS 3014, 3036; 2119 - 2121).

i became atheist for, any number of reasons, none of which include bagels, all of which include open - mindedness and an eye for detail.

Modernity's emphasis on secularism involves three elements - a) the desacralisation of nature which produced a nature devoid of spirits preparing the way for its scientific analysis and technological control and use; b) desacralisation of society and state by liberating them from the control of established authority and laws of religion which often gave spiritual sanction to social inequality and stifled freedom of reason and conscience of persons; it was necessary to affirm freedom and equality as fundamental rights of all persons and to enable common action in politics and society by adherents of all religions and none in a religiously pluralistic society; and c) an abandonment of an eternally fixed sacred order of human society enabling ordering of secular social affairs on the basis of rational discussion.

For this reason, Paul understands man with all his strengths, weaknesses and temptations: «Human nature, the common nature of the whole race of Adam, spoke in him, acted in him, with an energetical presence, with a sort of bodily fullness, always under the sovereign command of divine grace, but losing none of its real freedom and power because of its subordination.

There are numerous cultural and sociological reasons for this, none of which I intend to delve into (see this book for some help).

Nations on both sides possessed imperialistic reasons for entering the conflict, the editors explained, and none of them were worth defending.

But whatever the law is, or whatever the original reasons for these laws, we can be certain that none of them are still laws today, or if they are still laws, they are no longer enforced.

But none of this excuses us as followers of Jesus from loving any individual or any group or groups of people, no matter what we may think of what they do and the reasons they give for doing it.

He finds none of them to be adequate, and all inadequate for varieties of the same reason: they do not take seriously the kind of knowledge of Jesus the Lord which the Resurrection record assumes.

The evidence for God is all around me, to believe that none of it is there for a reason would require a great deal of faith.

And if one of the women had complained, she would have gotten the same earful — but for some odd reason, none of them ever did.

The lesser kinds of reverence have been noted only in order that we may be quite clear that even in Catholic circles the term worship is applied normally to God and none other, although it is important that we understand that by association with God and His presence and work, creatures are seen in the Christian tradition as worthy of something even more remarkable than the respect for personality of which democracy has spoken — they are worthy of reverence which is religious in quality, reverence about which there is a mystery, just as in human personality itself there is a deep mystery by reason of its being grounded in the mystery of God.

As the American founder and Deist Thomas Paine made clear in his book on God, religion, Deism, etc., The Age of Reason, The Complete Edition, «The Calvinist, who damns children of a span long to hell to burn forever for the glory of God (and this is called Christianity), and the Universalist who preaches that all shall be saved and none shall be damned (and this also is called Christianity), boasts alike of their holy [revealed] religion and their Christian faith.»

For this reason the Evangelists, who none the less intended to present Jesus as the Son of God, have not tried to soften the terribleness of His thoroughly human death.

A few mates and I have been thinking around and trying a few things on this one for the last 6 months or so (I did my leaving back in September, various reasons, none of the ones on the rumour list).

The coherence of the argument (not a closed one, like a system of logic, but open, like a method or key to progressive research) is such that I believe only solid, positive reasons can lead to its rejection; and for my part I can see none that is adequate.

Gil you have asked some very good questions why does bad things happen in the world i personally do nt know God did nt explain to Job either why he had to suffer.What i do know is that God desires that none of us should perish but that all would have eternal life in him through Jesus Christ.This world will one day pass away and the real world will be reborn so our focus as christians is on whats to come and being a witness in the here and now.Both good and bad happens to either the righteous or the sinner so what are we to make of that.What we do know is that God will set all things right at the appointed time the wicked will be judged and the righteous will be rewarded for there faith isnt that enough reason for us to believe.Free will is only a reality if we can choose between good and bad but our hearts are deceitfully wicked we naturally are inclined toward sin that is another reason whyt we need to be saved from ourselves so what are we to do.For me Christ died and rose again that is a fact witnessed by over 500 people that were alive at the time and was recorded by historians how many other religious leaders do you know that did that or did the miracles that Jesus did.As far as the bible is concerned much of the archelogical evidence has proven to be correct and many of prophetic words spoken many hundreds of years ago have come to pass including both the birth and the death of Jesus.Interested in what philosophy you are believing in if other than a faith in Jesus Christ so how does that philosophy give you the assurance that you are saved.Its really simple with christianity we just have to believe in Jesus Christ.brentnz

For this reason I have realized this: a chimpanzee does not understand math (regardless of how many hours I spent trying to teach them this) because of it's anatomy, yet I do understand math because of my anatomy (and education of course), I as a mere mortal (unlike yourself) know that my faculties must be somehow limited and that there are concepts that no matter how much I try to use my retarded brain I will never understand them because I don't have the god lobe in the ole brain like you do, none the less I keep on thinkin» in a finite fashion hoping that my future children might have a little more range than I since they too will be a «tarded snapshot in a timeline of cognitive evolution.

Many feel that Jesus is delaying His coming for various reasons, none of which make much sense.

He went on: «I think, if I'm right, that seven out of 10 complainants left St Benedict's before they completed their education for various reasons and none of them seem to have had, understandably, any love for the school.

Yet, for some reason, God wants none of us today to see any of those miracles because he «needs to remain hidden» so that he will not «taint our free wills.»

As I have now given you my reasons for believing that the Bible is not the Word of God, that it is a falsehood, I have a right to ask you your reasons for believing the contrary; but I know you can give me none, except that you were educated to believe the Bible; and as the Turks give the same reason for believing the Koran, it is evident that education makes all the difference, and that reason and truth have nothing to do in the case.

PDX — It doesn't take a Genius to realize from my statements that i have read things other than the Bible you moron i have spent many hours reading and listening to scientists about their theories on the big bang, i have listened to ideas from the most revered scientists including Hawking and others, and they all admit that there are holes in their theories, that nothing fully explains their big bang theory, the physics doesn't add up let alone the concept, there are plenty of scientists hard at work trying to make the numbers fit and the theory hold weight but if you ask any of them they can not give you the answers and the reason being... there are none, the theory doesn't work, If by the observable laws of Physics, Matter in this Universe can not be created or destroyed, you can only change its state, i.e. solid to liquid, to gas... to energy... There is no explanation for how an entire reality full of Matter can be created out of nothing... Scientists know this... idiots that are atheists and simply would rather NOT believe that their lives and actions they take within their lifespan are being witnessed by an Omnipotent God do not WANT to believe... but Your belief in God does not change whether or not he exists you will be judged.

None of this means that religious believers, and particularly religious parents, don't have understandable reasons for trying to wall their families off from the worst of what American pop culture has to offer, whether by canceling their cable subscription or packing up and moving to Ave Maria Town.

Although none of the ingredients on this list are gluten - containing, for safety reasons it is best to avoid this product if you have celiac disease.

No matter what the reason is for trying to eat more healthy, none preclude the enjoyment of a little sweet treat from time to time.

Another year where the negatives outweigh the positives, where Billy Hamilton just can't get his offensive game together, and where that doesn't actually matter because none of the Reds pitchers can stymie the opposition enough for what Hamilton does or doesn't do to be the reason why games turned out the way they did.

None of that is important now, though, because I have seven new reasons for you to love the NBA this week.

I've also read that a lot of the new / renegotiated contracts have utterly insane bonuses in them to get around FFP... Probs a reason why none of the fringe players are pushing for a move