Sentences with phrase «of human belief»

That God is not worthy of human belief.

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At least 24 of the 34 colleges and universities granted religious exemptions based on their beliefs about gender identity also received waivers allowing them to discriminate against gay and lesbian students and employees, citing faith - based prohibitions against homosexual sex, the Human Rights Campaign said.

It also solidified my belief in how important Human Capital is to the success of an organization.

«Any time you look at any kind of real life piece of text or utterance that one human wrote or said to another human, it's filled with analogies, modal logic, belief, expectation, fear, nested modals, lots of variables and quantifiers,» Lenat said.

Wise admitted that «people are concerned» the rise of robots could mean less jobs for humans, but she thinks that belief is a «misnomer.»

The net result of this built - in human mental trait is that rather than letting our beliefs about the world tell us how to feel, we tend to let our emotions tell us what to believe.

Most human cultures depend on leaders to define, modify and reinforce the behaviors and beliefs of the group.

Zakaria wasn't suggesting ceding Western values and beliefs — but rather recognizing that prevailing attitudes on such issues as the environment, human rights, and social affairs are different in many parts of Asia than those that hold sway in the West.

Anytime one religion interferes with another religion, or the life of humans, I tend to take it a little more seriously, not because I believe in their beliefs, but because their beliefs can cause me death.

Thus, if we recognize this part of human nature, we can avoid falling victim to the negative consequences of embracing false beliefs by actively researching topics that may seem preposterous to us if we have no direct experience with such topics.

We live in exciting times, when the things that humans are capable of creating almost defy belief.

It will mean letting go of long held beliefs in rigid B2B product marketing and embracing a brave new world where human connection is not seen as fanciful but essential to helping businesses succeed.

The utilitarian belief that «human goods can be measured against each other by means of some quantitative scale is the belief that human goods can be assessed in a way analogous to that by which commodities have a monetary value.

Sally Jansen, Actually not ALL people inherently believe in a creator, though t is a common human belief that the world around them came from something outside of its own understanding.

The modern project of controlling nature is founded on the belief that technological innovation improves the human condition and should be encouraged rather than controlled.

- Pursue the UN Commission of Inquiry's recommendation of referral to the International Criminal Court; - Thoroughly consider and instigate appropriate alternative justice mechanisms to compliment the International Criminal Court process; - Ensure that all discussions on the North Korea at the UN and the EU include human rights and especially the «orphaned right» of freedom of religion and belief: Article 18.

Religious beliefs aside, I don't see how anybody can trust another human being to the point of seeing them as divine.

So how do you go from that reasoning to «Since it wasn't accidental then it must have been this ancient male diety named (fill in blank depending on religion) who loves me and knows me and cares for me and wants me to perform rituals that have nothing to do with morality like prayer, not eating certain things, sabaath and many more just because he said so, even though we have no record of him saying anything, just records of humans who wrote things down that they claim he said, but I want to believe it all so badly I will base my beliefs on no other evidence than «it just can't be accident».

Death obsession is corroding our society's belief in the intrinsic value and inherent dignity of human life.

Otherwise stated, advocates of the belief that human beings have the duty to perfect their dignity are often persecuted or marginalized.

Not for the communist atrocities those were caused by attempts to engineer society, based on a flawed understanding of innate human nature and a fallacious belief in humans beings as blank slates.

Once we devalue a human life because of a different belief or skin color we have lost our ability to be human.

hawaiiguest We do not know what the world would look like without the continuing influence of a core belief held by the vast majority of humans that existence is more than physical needs and desires.

Atheists aren't innocent either: eugenics, the belief that certain races do not deserve to live because they could hinder the evolution of the human species.

The disposal of unsound religious beliefs and practices through the resolute application of knowledge leading to common acceptance of their fatal flaws is a well - established and time - honored tradition whose constructive value is populated with hundreds of noteworthy precedents that serve as benchmarks in the continuing enlightenment of the human race.

This belief actually entails the transcendent, fundamental given - ness of what it means to be human — which carries an authority over the individual, such that I do not get to decide who I am and how I may behave.

Unfortunately in my case, I've probably gone to excess the other way... after 43 years of being (in my view) threatened with hellfire for every cotton - picking thing (including the «sinfulness» of being born in the first place because it's a well - known scriptural fact that every human is born sinful and separated from G - d, with a heart that does nothing but desire evil and no way to please G - d even when righteous), threatened with being «left behind» in the rapture (should I fail on some doctrinal (belief) point at the crucial moment)... I refuse to consider ANY possibility of hell at all.

As a country and just as humans we need to respect one another regardless of the belief system, society would be a much better place.

By transcending the «authority» of human bishops, Ms. Morthole has reached toward a higher authority; she has followed her inner beliefs.

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!»

It's a human thing, regardless of belief, discipline, vocation, status, etc., that is «corruption.»

We can assume that all the Justices sitting on the Court today, like other humans, have their own preferences and biases about religion, but the judicial opinions of one of them, Justice John Paul Stevens, raise more than a slight suspicion that some of his actions on the bench stem from animosity, if not to animal sacrifice, at least to certain less exotic religious beliefs and practices.

Were a person to have violated a court order directing the return of a runaway slave when Dred Scott was the law, would a genuinely held belief that a slave was a human person and not an article of property be a matter the Court could not consider in deciding whether that person was guilty of a criminal contempt charge?

Love is an emotion that every human is capable of regardless of their belief.

This belief, that human activity ought to be directed towards promoting what John Locke called «the advantages and conveniences of life,» and that the human mind ought to concern itself exclusively with gathering together and putting in order the sort of knowledge this enterprise demanded — useful knowledge — is a moral belief, that is, it is a belief about how we ought to spend our lives.

Not only are we constantly being bombarded by the religious beliefs of the faithful (Christians mostly in America) we can see how religious beliefs are stifling human progress and perpetuating hatred and segregation.

The arguments here are, for the most part, human beings who want to be right, right in their own belief of God, Church, Religion, or Non-Believers of any or all of the above.

Why you all don't understand that Chrisianity gave humans dignity in the belief of free will and our obligation as Christians to forgive then you avoid reality.

Now, this moral belief began to be partnered, about four centuries ago, by a second belief of a different sort — namely, an immense optimism about the success of this enterprise of compelling the natural world to satisfy human wants.

To describe a work as an autobiography merely because of the first - person pronoun effaces what distinguishes autobiography: the belief in the existence of a stable self and the meaningfulness of human action.

Even if we abhor the beliefs of others, we are exhorted to see them as complex human beings like ourselves.

That's an indoctrinated belief placed upon a natural human reaction, just as much as the Hindu idea that good deeds only make sense in the context of people trying to improve themselves through reincarnation, isn't it?

The difference between the death spiral of the Abrahamic religions and all the other religions that have been discarded throuought human history is that humanity has no need for a replacement «belief gap filler» this time.

Theological Ethics and Technological Society» (May), is mistaken in his belief that technology will «liberate the human spirit» and achieve the «purposes of God.»

Do you think our lack of belief in a higher power negates all of the very valid, real and human emotions you described?

As for the belief that blacks or people of darker skins are inferior to whites, that belief was (and is) widespread across human culture.

I say the new book should include the Magna Carta, the Declaration of Independence, Psalms, Proverbs, writings from Confucious, Socrates, Plato, Epicurus, Pythagoras, Descartes, Jefferson etc so as to give a well rounded perspective of human history and beliefs.

so how can you expect to look at them as human if your only view of them is through their belief?

The human brain is NOT hardwired to believe in god, it is hard wired of supernatural beliefs in general though.

Also, the term «religion» used to reflect «belief / faith» before the various incorporations of human doctrines.