Sentences with phrase «not die for his beliefs»

Dumbazx believers might not die for beliefs they know to be lies but they certainly die for false beliefs.

Why would you care if someone does or does not die for their beliefs?

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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».

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?

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..

Yeah, I wouldn't say that would be a good example of «dying for his beliefs».

I've always disagreed, and think that even if there is a heaven, I'll be there when I die, because any actual god worth having doesn't need or want your belief, and wouldn't keep a good person to their core out of heaven... let alone burn and suffer for eternity in hell.

The events of a fairy tale are not proof of anything, and the fact that people are willing to die for their silly beliefs only demonstrates how easily some people are fooled in to believing nonsense.

============ @Bryant Lister» The events of a fairy tale are not proof of anything, and the fact that people are willing to die for their silly beliefs only demonstrates how easily some people are fooled in to believing nonsense.

I contend, dying for a belief, is not evidence.

They can't come to terms with the idea that there may actually be nothing after we die so they latch on to a belief that gives them comfort... belief in an afterlife, eternity or any version of «god» is nothing more than a coping mechanism for those who can't accept that we are in fact finite creatures that are born, live, and die and are not meant or destined to exist for eternity.

Christians says faith is the evidence of things not seen but the die hard «the big bang is true» refuse to admit that all they have is evidence for the thing not seen thus making it a belief.

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?»

One can assume that tribes that did not have such beliefs ended up dying out, so it must be as important as development of technology for survival.

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.

i do nt want to see anyone die for his / her religious belief.

If this man is willing to die for his belief in the Lord doesn't that say something.

The underlying premise behind the idea that adultery is unforgivable is based on the belief that in order for a person to go to heaven when they die, they must not have any unconfessed sin in their life.

1) We're highly evolved primates 2) We have overactive imaginations 3) Our greatest evolutionary asset, our large and highly-folded brains, are also responsible for an insatiable curiosity 4) As a species, and a survival tactic, we make things up to comfort ourselves in difficult times 5) As a complex societal species, we create commonalities and «traditions» with others in our clan / tribe / community 6) These «traditions» result in security, trust, and strong relationships that make the collective more able to survive than the individual 7) These common beliefs also act as a means of numbing the brain to questions and concerns without legitimate or tangible answers 8) Religion is simply a survival mechanism 9) When we die, we simple «are not alive» anymore.

I do in a sense have faith but my faith lies in believing in things such as personal responsibility, values such as hard work, respect, and ethics such as charity and helping others (which I developed on my own out of my own choosing and I recieve my own satisfaction from doing not a belief in sucking up to an invisible man in the sky for «great reward» after I die).

From the moment Levin saw his beloved brother dying and for the first time looked at the problems of life and death in the light of what he called the new convictions that between the ages of twenty and thirty - four had imperceptibly taken the place of the beliefs of his childhood and youth, he was horrified not so much by death as by a life without the slightest knowledge of where it came from, what it was for, and why, and what it was.

But transitioning is not the same as dying, particuarly if you hold the belief that Christianity is represented by people who live for Christ, not check «Christian» on a survey form.

but i didn't state anything example — i stated that the theory of evolution is yet to be proved and so with that i agree that due to that lacking it is equal to the theory of god... the only thing i said which is cemented truth for anything is that we don't know what the real answer is... and by stating ideas as facts serves no real purpose but a selfish one... lets call it an ease - ment on the inner self, the mind can now be at peace with the hope that when i die i get to live yet again... full belief in this is insane without evidence.

no one can die for you behaviors and save you... we are not «relgion» Religion is at set of beliefs by man which describe a personal god Judaism is a set of laws by G - d which describes what man should be... (R.Hirsch) G - d does not make mistakes and change his mind....

As the demographic cotinues to change and these people die off, the conservative far right will be either irrelevant or forced to embrace those true Christian ideals of loving and accepting their neighbors in a country not founded upon Christian beliefs but tolerance for all faiths.

is this not what these soldiers have been fighting and dying for «freedom» that's why we live in this country to have the freedom to live and have our own beliefs without the government telling us how we should live and act im proud of this soldier for standing up for his beliefs that's what he is fighting for if you holly rollers want forced religion then move to another country

If you believe there is no hell, that Jesus suffered and died for everyone regardless of belief, I could understand the atheist living a good and meaningful life, but Jesus said none are good, not one.

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.

The only real thing that separates «Christianity» from any other religion or spiritual belief, is not whether we incorporate Easter Bunnies, goblins, ghouls, monsters, Santa, or tiny elves into our celebrations, but rather, that our faith is not found in our ability to «save» ourselves but in Christ who died for all, so that all could enter into unbroken friendship with Him.

The issue i have is that christians stay at the cross and never go any further in there belief that is tragic and if the songs and teachings only lead them to the cross then that is a crime.The cross represents our death as we were crucified with him and after that death we rose with Christ.Sadly many christians are still at the cross still struggling with there demons and flesh life and asking for forgiveness continually pleading the blood.They do nt understand because they are babes in Christ The reality is that Christ died and rose again our life is not in the Cross but is in the risen Christ and in him we are more than conqueres.Lets celebrate our new life in Christ not the death of our old life in Christ.brentnz

But for the moment I wish only to insist that one of the consequences of the «immortality» position, for so long presented as essential to Christian belief, has been precisely the tendency to minimize the reality of death and to make it appear blasphemous for anyone to say, as I did in an earlier paragraph, that not only do we all die but that all of us also dies.

you need to figure out if the belief is true or not, just dying for it only indicates that they believe it strongly.

It goes something like this: since some people do believe Jesus is God, that He died for sins, and that He rose again, and yet remain unsaved, it must follow that belief in these truths is not essential for salvation.

Dying for a belief, doesn't make it true.

Subsequently, by virtue of defining that an adult and infant are unable to safely sleep on the same surface together, such as what occurs during bedsharing, even when all known adverse bedsharing risk factors are absent and safe bedsharing practices involving breastfeeding mothers are followed, an infant that dies while sharing a sleeping surface with his / her mother is labeled a SUID, and not SIDS.26 In this way the infant death statistics increasingly supplement the idea that bedsharing is inherently and always hazardous and lend credence, artificially, to the belief that under no circumstance can a mother, breastfeeding or not, safely care for, or protect her infant if asleep together in a bed.27 The legitimacy of such a sweeping inference is highly problematic, we argue, in light of the fact that when careful and complete examination of death scenes, the results revealed that 99 % of bedsharing deaths could be explained by the presence of at least one and usually multiple independent risk factors for SIDS such as maternal smoking, prone infant sleep, use of alcohol and / or drugs by the bedsharing adults.28 Moreover, this new ideology is especially troubling because it leads to condemnations of bedsharing parents that border on charges of being neglectful and / or abusive.

Some think a man will die sooner if he eats continually of fat - free meat than if he eats nothing, but this is a belief on which sufficient evidence for a decision has not been gathered in the North.

And as people begin to understand the issue, and realize this isn't going to be a killer complaint we start to hear all the other beliefs relied on as rationalizations for doing nothing come out again — it can't be real, it'd cost too much to avoid the cliff maybe the car will grow wings before we crash, my life is too short to care what happens after I die, I can't believe it's a problem, anything people do is natural change....

It is better than agreeing with global warmers who want people to die for the sake of «green» and their belief they can control nature again, you don't control nature, nature is stronger than man, and will do as it will.

sets out standards of conduct for physicians who choose not to assess patients or perform physician - assisted dying based on their values and beliefs;