Sentences with word «nontheist»

Does it accurately represent the sentiments of nontheists in this country?

IF i may be allowed, i would also like to suggest a book for nontheists that offers advice for pluralism.

There are ~ 6 - 12x more nontheists in USA than atheists (the former include agnostics, and arguably, undecideds).

Unless we agree with those Whiteheadian nontheists that God's activity with the world is conceptually incoherent, we are left with only one alternative.

But as to whether his own nonreligious stance is compatible with SR, he says, «They try their best to make me feel welcome, but the ground rules aren't really designed to bring nontheists like me into the discussion.

When Dr. Irwin Edman was professor of philosophy at Columbia University he wrote about nontheists: «They find that this God whom they have read out or presumed to be read out of the universe has carried with him into oblivion any discernible direction of things, any significance of life or any logic of destiny.»

But Cupp goes beyond arguing that conservatives broadly welcome nontheists — she also argues that liberals are less accepting of atheists.

«But atheist, agnostic and humanist students suffer the same problems as religious students — deaths or illnesses in the family, questions about the meaning of life, etc. — and would like a sympathetic nontheist to talk to.»

Unlike Cox, who concludes that the theist and nontheist encounter the same reality but name it differently, I perceive a fundamental difference in the primordial experience of ultimate reality.

Plantinga plays «defense» because he is an adherent of a popular epistemic perspective — affirmed by many theists and nontheists alike — that maintains that defense is all that is required with respect to beliefs formed the way Plantinga contends that belief in God is formed for most «intellectually sophisticated adult theists» (FP 3: 312).

The disproof of these models and the ongoing appeal by nontheists to more and more bizarre unknowns and unknowables seem to reflect the growing strength of the case for theism.

Surveys find that most Americans refuse or are reluctant to marry or vote for nontheists; in other words, nonbelievers are one minority still commonly denied in practical terms the right to assume office despite the constitutional ban on religious tests.

Chris Stedman, if you don't believe in a deity but still feel a moral compass and wish to share it with others, become a Buddhist (nontheist) or start your own religion which would be by necessity a very close copy.

As Plantinga himself acknowledges, both theists — e.g., Leibniz — and nontheists — e.g., Mackie — maintain that

In 1975 then - president Robert Nelson West could say: «Some are theists, some nontheists; some consider themselves Christians, others non-Christians.»

You are stating something very close to what I'd say as a nontheist.

In a recent article two nontheists, Peter H. Hare and Edward H. Madden, chide process theists for failing to understand that «a certain amount of coercive power is morally required» (PS 2:45).

The Secular Coalition for America said Stark responded in 2007 to an inquiry from that group by saying he was a «nontheist.»

A godless congregation is likely to draw crowds if it appeals to what Herb Silverman, founder of the Secular Coalition for America, calls «big - tent» atheism, which includes «agnostics, humanists, secular humanists, freethinkers, nontheists, anti-theists, skeptics, rationalists, naturalists, materialists, ignostics, apatheists, and more.»

As a nontheist, Sen can not take that route.

I find it funny that people call this sign hateful towards religion but yet they can tell us nontheist how we are going to hell for not believing the way they do.

Although Perls was a nontheist who rejected his Jewish heritage, there are significant affinities between the best in the Judeo - Christian tradition and gestalt therapy.

I'm a nontheist (borderline atheist) who is embracing Reform Judaism theologically and Conservative Judaism on a ritual level.

From LazarusL's answer, Charles T. Beaird used some convoluted arguments to declare himself «nontheist» rather than the more usual «atheist».

From his obituary, Charles T. Beaird «was a «nontheist,» meaning in simplistic terms that the concept of God was not among the ideas on which he based his beliefs — but that if you did, it was fine with him.»