Sentences with phrase «of human opinion»

Through its authoritative teaching of beliefs and values, it also provides established points of reference amid the conflicts and ambiguities of human opinions and points of view.»

Only the Sceptics argued in favour of the relativity of all human opinions, especially in matters of religion.

Not exact matches

Communicating and expressing opinions can cause tremendous success in human resource management and this is one of the purposes team buildings have.

In March, the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) adopted a positive opinion to include a new indication for adults with established atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (myocardial infarction, stroke or peripheral arterial disease) to reduce cardiovascular risk by lowering LDL - C levels.

This is not only normal, it's human, with studies indicating that all people have implicit biases that shape their opinions of people immediately upon meeting them.

March «Letter about the coalition about the law CLOUD», writing that the draft law, in their opinion, undermines privacy and other human rights and important democratic guarantees, to bypass Congress and existing procedures for the storage of information in the hands of the Executive power.

Opinion surveys conducted by the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada reveal that Canadians are concerned about human rights protection while also being committed to expanding business opportunities.

Thank you for pointing out that our individual opinions regarding what may or may not have happened at some point in human history about two thousand years ago, that our individual opinions regarding the credibility (or lack thereof) of gospel accounts in terms of their accuracy and historicity, do not trump what actually happened (or didn't happen) in human history about two thousand years ago.

It doesn't matter to me whether this is «correct» exegesis — either the Bible finds some way of adapting to the modern notions of morality, or it gets left by the wayside on the ever growing dung - heap of rejected holy texts of human history — in my opinion, that's the historical moment we are currently faced with.

Additional reasons might be given for The United Methodist Church to rid itself of a commitment to abortion rights: the increasing numbers of African delegates (who are, in the main, pro-life) to General Conference; the horrifyingly high abortion rates (though the annual totals are continuing to decrease) in the United States; the pro-life drift of American public opinion (which United Methodism seems to follow); the uncommon clarity of ecumenical teaching on the dignity of the human person; and the providence of God.

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.

of course i'm of the opinion that without religions and god the human race would be a better species but i'm not very adamant about that

How many outside a rather limited cult do not see the bible as personal opinion, beliefs and prejudices of the human authors.

In my opinion, however, many, many Christians are unbelievably naive when it comes to human nature and the kinds of power dynamics exposed in this conversation.

«I think internalizing the fact that no opinion / belief / enthusiasm inoculates either you or anyone else from the baser aspects of the human condition, or the larger social milieu in which we all exist, is probably a very smart thing to do.

In 1992, in the Casey opinion which confirmed America's unlimited abortion licence, Kennedy wrote that «at the heart of liberty is the right to define one's own concept of existence, of meaning, of the universe, and of the mystery of human life»....

It just seems that people like Hawking ignore religion completely when a HUGE part of science is questioning all beliefs including your own which I don't think human beings do as much as they should, or respect other people's opinions.

If all mankind catalyze world opinion in support of human dignity and the worth of personhood, together with all the wealth of rights and values already part of U.N. instruments and international jurisprudence, there is hope.

I totally agree with you that God can not be contained within human constructs and i commend and admire you for being bold enough to write it because it is not a popular opinion among many professing Christians but then i think you took Mark 13:21 out of context.

In fact, theologians who write about ecological concerns are united in their opinion that a holistic view of reality is basic to a responsible relation between humans and nature.

The differences of opinion among Muslims as to whether or not God resembles human beings, and the opinion of some common people that God resembles a medieval absolute king, arise only from different patterns of education; they are not fundamental to Islam.

Like a boil that can never be cured so long as it is covered up but must be opened with an its ugliness to the natural medicines of air and light, injustice must be exposed, with all the tension its exposure creates, to the light of human conscience and the air of national opinion before it can be cured.»

The tendency to «hallow the relative,» or give absolute divine authority to our own desires and opinions, is one of the commonest forms of human perversion.

It is his opinion that we can best state the evangelical message and the evangelical demand in the idiom of contemporary existentialism, more particularly by use of the analysis of the human situation made in the writings of the German existentialist philosopher Martin Heidegger.

c)...» the opinions of millions of human beings currently living and the perspective of billions of humans already passed.»

When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation — We hold these truths to be self - evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

The greatest lesson of his Harvard years, in R. Lichtenstein's opinion, was the extraordinary complexity of the human condition.

The popular idea leaves out the necessary human element of study, of the consultation of experts and theologians, of discussion with its inevitable clash of opinions.

Through his religious education every mature Christian ought to be able to distinguish between the actual dogma of the Church and theological opinions that may be changed and improved, between immutable divine law and changeable human law.

[T] he exposure of persistent human rights violations by the contras has led the Administration not to pressure contra leaders to enforce international codes of conduct,» the Americas Watch Report cited earlier states, «but to drown U.S. public opinion with praise for the «freedom fighters,» and to attempt to discredit all reports of their violations as inspired by communist or Sandinista propaganda.

human beings, «born free and equal in dignity and rights,» are entitled to human rights «without distinction of any kind, such as race, color, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status.

That all of it is opinion based on the social evolution of humans for the last 100,000 years as we have attempted to decipher our origins with only our physical senses coupled with our internal emotions to go on.

Freedom of thought and freedom of speech are freedoms given by God to human beings, though any freedom can be abused - but Islam and Sharia law persecute the slightest wrongs in their opinion.

More important, as I have written, «In trying to reach a consensus of the faithful, the key to bringing persons together is in sharing opinions, ideas, dreams, hopes, doubts, feelings of despair or joy, and those normal human expressions that make us who we are.»

and thus there is no possibility that the awesome variety of conflicting opinions about the things most important to human beings, including the best political order, can be transcended toward universal and objective knowledge.

In my opinion, the only reason the male bastion of the clergy holds the scriptural position that it does is to protect the power base, a very human trait for a very human group, and quite unChirstian — but I'm just sayin»

Because all human laws, customs, and opinions change from time to time and vary from place to place, we tend to think of right and wrong as relative to the particular culture in which we live.

But that is not to say that God does not have qualities commonly associated with human personality, such as awareness, intellect and most importantly in my opinion, love, which is connected to peace, and which I see as the heart of my own spirituality.

The board of the Human Rights Commission will decide whether to ask the Kentucky Supreme Court to hear the case after reviewing the opinion, Ray Sexton, the agency's executive director, told the Lexington Herald - Leader.

It seems to me that the church has been simply supine before the mores of Western culture, according to which it is indecent to talk about death in polite society P «Theological Perspectives on Aging,» Human Values Institute Conference, May 12 - 14, 1986; published in Second Opinion: A Journal of Health, Faith, and Ethics, November 1986].

My opinion is that birth control (I am not speaking of abortion) is a good thing because it prevents a lot of human suffering, especially in Africa and other poverty - stricken areas, where AIDS is rampant.

Christians are always faced with the temptation to overrate the opinion of other human beings, and to try to be pleasing to other people, to the peril of their relationship with God (see John 5:44, Gal.

Even a Bible translation is an act of providing a human interpretive opinion.

so that would be an opinion based off of your bible, not factual seeing no human has ever lived that long.

In my opinion, the general realization that policies justified by the dominant economic theory destroy human community and degrade the natural environment should be enough to persuade people of good will that they should look in other directions.

To regard Jesus as revealing God because of his ideal human obedience does not, in Brunner's opinion, safeguard the distinctive teaching of Christian faith.

Paul went on to remind the Galatians that the gospel is not of human origin, and that its message should not be distorted or debased by the imposition of controversial human opinions.

«Christianity has such a contemptible opinion of human nature that it does not believe a man can tell the truth unless frightened by a belief in God.

The answer rather is to learn to respect and be tolerant towards one another regardless of human differences such a culture, heritage, opinion, and belief.

State the editors, «Those who know and practice... truth must ever stand as guardians of what is essentially the Christian tradition, and call before the bar of human justice and public opinion those who traduce these truths of natural and special revelation.