Sentences with phrase «of died for the belief»

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Millions of Jewish people died in the Holocaust for their beliefs.

The willingness of His followers to die for their beliefs was a contributing factor.

At least one place Lewis explains this problem was in the Screwtape letters, where a demon exclaims, «How much better for us if all humans died in costly nursing homes amid doctors who lie, nurses who lie, friends who lie, as we have trained them, promising life to the dying, encouraging the belief that sickness excuses every indulgence, and even, if our workers know their job, withholding all suggestion of a priest lest it should betray to the sick man his true condition!»

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».

Kevin, they need new adherents so thier religion doesn» y die outThey would hate being the last of a cult that uses myth as a belief syste for their salvation, whatever that is.

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?

All you have is your own baseless belief and a desire to torment dying people with it by stealing the final moments of their life for YOUR purpose.

The two are based on the belief of «Jesus» and a single god then two religions start to divide in their little rules for being a «good little Catholic» vs a «good little Christian», people have died because of this, example the Crusades.

However, would you say that, each one of the 11 martyred men, who really had stolen the body of Jesus in the first place, would be willing to die for a belief they themselves knew to be false?

Isaac Newton kept his true religious beliefs secret, for fear of persecution, until literally his dying day.

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».

Faith (or belief without evidence) is more motivated by two basic human emotions: FEAR of dying and punishment and HOPE for an eternal afterlife.

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.

The religious act of belief offers a total structure of meaning; it is holistic, for within it everything occupies its proper place and is duly accounted for; it is the horizon of meaning within which rational or reflective thought operates; it provides us a reason to live and a reason to die; hence, the religious belief is a revealing structure.30 Or again, as Joachim Wach noted, religious belief serves as undergirding for the rational world of experience, conditioning it, endowing it with consistency.

============ @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.

Unless, you can show me no other group of humans have ever died for a belief, that is false.

As Christians, our most «deeply held religious belief» is that Jesus Christ died on the cross for sinful people, and that in imitation of that, we are called to love God, to love our neighbors, and to love even our enemies to the point of death.

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.

Lots and lots of people over the eons have died for mistaken beliefs.

Jesus came to rid the world of ritual so belief in Jesus dying for your sins as a way to salvation is anti Christian doctrine.

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.

Further, as the last sentence makes clear, the author is pointing out that President Obama, and others whose Christian beliefs are more akin to his might «resurrect a dying brand of Christianity for a new generation.»

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.

That's just a sampling of misguided, delusional people over the last few years... how many over the centuries died for untrue beliefs?

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 wonder whih god will be more pleased with its slave — the one who murdered a man for his beliefs or the one who allowed his follower to die for his faith either way — god is a man made belief system that is only a few thousand years old — and in that time, no one single thing has killed more humans, than a man claiming to know the will of some kind of god Faith is good thing, faith in one's self.

Cause so many different people of faith swear they have the truth and will die for their beliefs.

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.

The eyewitnesses of the Resurrection of Jesus — those who ate, drank, spoke with, and listened to the Lord Jesus Christ after His Resurrection — were so convinced of the Good News of God's Love, Forgiveness, Peace, and Healing Power for all humanity revealed by the Risen Jesus Christ that these eyewitnesses were willing to die as martyrs for their belief in the Risen Christ as fully God and fully man when it was illegal to do so under Roman authority (where Cesar was considered a deity in the state cult religion).

Many have held that encounter more precious than life itself.Most of the authors of the New Testament reportedly died for their beliefs.

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 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.

Religion is the power of man over man where no legitimate basis for that power otherwise exists — how else do you explain so many killing and dying for the the «beliefs» of others who lead them to such actions?

Non-Muslims know it's best to let the sons - of - bitches who want to die for their beliefs do all the dying.

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....

Peter, Paul, Steven and a slew of others went on to die for their beliefs after Jesus» death.

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

You begin at number 1 where the purpose is self - protection at all cost and at number 4 you have with religion where a lot of people are willing to die and have died for their belief.

Some say that is the last place from which to expect any resolution of the terror wars, for it is the true believers, fundamentalists and hard - liners who are unable to compromise, preferring to die for their beliefs.

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.

the list goes on for people who have died because of religious belief.

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.

A belief they held so firmly that they were willing to die for the truth of it.

A belief they held so strongly that they were willing to die for the truth of it.