Sentences with phrase «not believing in a deity»

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

As someone who does not believe in a deity, I spent a lot of time thinking about what it means to «pray».

I find it weird that many of the atheists I encountered until recently were of the thought that you can't possibly have spiritual or religious practices (or superstitions) AND not believe in deities.

The reason for not believing in a deity or a creator is that there is NO scientific, verifiable - through - experiment evidence that one exists.

Many of the finest intellectuals today and throughout history have not believed in any deities.

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.

Comparing not believing in deities and not believing in Gravity... one of the most silly strawman arguments I have heard in a long time.

Secondly, one either believes or doesn't believe in deities.

The ONE and ONLY thing that is «common» between ALL atheists is the simple fact that they DO NOT believe in a deity!

I don not believe in a deity.

You are certainly making some rather HUGE and completely unfounded presumptions about what a person who DOES NOT believe in a deity thinks and feels!

For example, the fact that Christian Scientists do not believe in the deity of Jesus precludes their church from membership in the World Council of Churches.

Time for believers, especially of the Christian sort, to get off this notion that not believing in their deity is a mandate to rob, steal, maim and kill.

However, based on statements like «Christ did not rise from the dead and was most likely eaten by dogs,» you kind of get the idea that this guy doesn't believe in the deity of Christ.

Atheism makes no claims, it just is a statement that the individual does not believe in any deity.

A religious person may or may not believe in a deity.

I'm not keen on the cartoon, as I don't think there's something about not believing in deities that magically leads to more rational thinking in general.

Well, FAITH, there's the problem... that gibberish in the bible was just made up by «some guy» to keep the peasants behaving in a manner that whomever wrote it thought was a good way to behave... some of those guys were wise, yes, and there are benefits to following some of the «guidelines» set forth in the Bible... but it's a circular argument to use the Bible as a reason to have faith, because you have to first BELIEVE in the deity, THEN believe that the deity inspired the writings, THEN you can take the writings as «truth»... I'm two steps back, not believing in the deity at all (Yay, Atheists!

Actually there is a lot of evidence for the historical Jesus, even if you don't believe in His deity.

There is nothing unified between them except that they don't believe in deity.

The only unified thing about atheists is that they don't believe in any deity.

All an atheist is is someone who doesn't believe in a deity... and I do not see anything wrong with that Why would one have to believe in something without proper justification anyway?

Lawyer and scholar Thomas More said that religious tolerance should be extended to all except those who did not believe in a deity or the immortality of the soul.

You know, there is nothing about not believing in deities that requires you to study 19th century social philosophers.

For example, why are you and I, who do not believe in a deity, so driven to explore the questions like «What is the energy we call life?»

yes you can be an agnostic atheist or theist, but when one declares themselves atheist then you would assume they do not believe in a deity, not just they do nt think one exists.

So not believing in a deity means someone can't objectively critique the work done by a charitable organization because it is religious?

Other than personally believing accommodations for the disabled is a good idea, I don't know that atheists have any particular view on that subject as it has nothing to do with not believing in a deity.

I certainly do not believe in any deity that looks over my shoulder every minute of every day and intervenes in the affairs of man; none of the religions make sense to me other than being a blight and scam on the supporters of the faith.

Apparently, according to some folks, not believing in a deity is worse than forcing yourself on someone sexually.

-- Reinhold Niebuhr (incidentally, «God» can be removed from this and replaced with the deity of your choosing, or with yourself, if you don't believe in a deity).

Not exact matches

They do not believe in a personal deity that physically delivers human beings.

Not everyone believes in a deity, and not everyone who does even believe in the same oNot everyone believes in a deity, and not everyone who does even believe in the same onot everyone who does even believe in the same one.

I don't believe anyone is threatened by any particular deity or the corporeal form thereof, particularly if they don't believe in them.

Just so you know, deism refers to a certain set of beliefs and not just anyone who believes in a deity of some sort.

So true, JohnQuest, but believing in a moral deity that allows you to oppress for gain while you measure others by a stricter standard seems elitist and vain, doesn't it?

Some use religious terminology to describe personal experience and belief but do not believe in any of it literally and reject all traditional notions of deity, relying upon cohesive natural law as «god.»

The Romans didn't believe that all the virtues could be instantiated in one god, but had to be spread among numerous deities.

Ya, that's why we need to start running candidates who do not believe in the Christian deity or any other mythological deity.

Furthermore, there is certainly enough evidence in the discrepant personalities of the OT v. NT deity to indicate a «changing nature,» i.e., one who sees no other option but to destroy humanity and then later destroy entire civilizations as opposed to one who prefers the option of alleged self - sacrifice coupled to a merciful «grace» for those who are willing to just believe in the sacrifice.

@J3sus Sandals, Bennington is the school NOT populated by students who believe in a deity in the sky, turning water into wine, healing the dead etc..

Calling the mystery «God» is not the same as believing in a deity.

Primarily because no real deity could hold someone accountable for not believing if they never heard of the deity in the first place.

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, as a scientist, I do not believe in such deities at all, neither Satan nor God.

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».

Now, if God is a mass murderer, and the Bible claims murder is a product of Satan, then wouldn't it only be logical that, if you believe in a higher deity, that it would have to logically be Lucifer?

I believe there might be a deity who created the universe and set everything including evolution in motion, but I fear that deity doesn't have anything to do with what happens on earth, nor does he care, and that we are just like a bunch of ants to him.

I don't care if someone believes in a deity, that in itself is not a moral or immoral act, but if someone uses their belief in a deity to justify actions that negatively impact someone else's life, then that is immoral.