Sentences with phrase «of irrational faith»

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I may disagree with people of faith, but now matter how irrational I may think it iis, they have a right to their opinion.

Thus when late moderns come across, say, St. Anselm's famous phrase «fides quaerens intellectum» (faith seeking understanding), they are often predisposed to see it at best as slightly duplicitous, at worst as expressing a somewhat contemptible ambition: the aspiration of an irrational passion (fervent, tender, fierce) to the dignity of a rational conviction (cold, adamantine, calm).

This person is obviously suffering from mental illness and yet this irrational respect that is given to «religious faith» blinds CNN to the point where they post this as «Belief» instead of on the medical page where it belongs.

Trust me, it takes much more faith, and many more irrational thought processes, to believe in the fairy tale of the blob than to believe in an Almighty, all - loving, creating God.

John I don't know any atheists who believe in ghosts, leprechauns, Nostradamus, faith healings, astrology, or any other irrational beliefs, but I do know plenty of Christians who do believe in such things, so I can't say that we're as prone to irrational belief as you claim.

Faith is not an act of blind credulity or the acceptance of irrational and absurd ideas.

I wonder a lot of things concerning the massive irrational contradictions allowed by faith.

«Faith is a device of self - delusion, a sleight of hand done with words and emotions founded on any irrational notion that can be dreamed up.

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This difficulty is particularly strong in connection with those unusual events where men feel the presence of the demonic and the irrational, events that arouse terror, threaten security, and disturb faith.

Apealing to an faith based and assumed to be infallibible «external moral source» is irrational and dangerous precisiely because there can be no determination of relative truth or compromise in a conflict between two faith based beliefs.

More likely than not, many of them assumed that, having lived through some difficult years, I was turning to faith for some form of irrational consolation.

Arguments like the one you made only reinforce their belief that people of faith are irrational and delusional.

Reassessing the Philosophy of Knowledge Faith is different from routine knowledge not because it is a different kind of knowing - a unique or irrational act of the mind - but precisely because it is knowledge within a supernatural relationship.

By way of contrast, Rolt insisted that this way of conceiving of divine power is «immoral, irrational and anti-Christian,» from which have sprung some of the most egregious travesties in the Christian faith.50

This goes back to the point i was trying to make that humanism and belief in individual human rights are irrational, and are a form of faith.

I don't think only a «handful» of religious people, for example, make irrational decisions based on faith.

While it is impossible to prove a negative, the complete lack of empirical evidence to support belief in any God and the self - professed reliance on belief (faith) rather than knowledge combined with a rigid and irrational unwillingness to apply basic logic with regards to these particular beliefs strongly suggests that God does not exist.

Design - debunkers such as Dawkins will point out that religious people draw the line there for reasons of «irrational» faith rather than science.

Do some of the actions called for by your faith seem wasteful or irrational to you?

David, can you give me an idea of how a non believer, lets say and engaging atheist, who considers religious faith to be irrational, is to express his idea about religious faith without offending Christians?

Theists have faith, which is an irrational choice to believe in something of which they have absolutely no definitive proof.

However, I tend to sympathize with the atheist view because of the historical irrational behavior demonstrated by groups of faith over the history of humanity.

In other words, it is irrational, while claiming to be the synthesis of faith and reason.

And if Day of Wrath and Ordet were an exploration of faith, religion and the supernatural, then Master of the House and Gertrud bookend the study of the irrational with the rational.

Patience, diligence, and a sometimes irrational faith are core requirements of the profession.

Perhaps I do in my more irrational moments, but it's a vast leap of faith to believe you've had past lives.

Even if I am fully aware of the conflicts inherent in the irrational arguments for things like God, Country, or finding a «soul mate,» I feel like any good faith investigation into these beliefs must acknowledge that the vast majority of humanity really does believe, or at least wants to believe, in romance and myths.

So those on the right side of the political spectrum who portray environmentalism as a religion do so because, if faith is inherently not achievable through rationality, and if environmentalism is a religion, then environmentalism is utterly irrational and must be discredited and ignored.

(The, at first glance, irrational faith of liberals in growth, so characteristic of all our present political and economic theories, depends on this notion.)

... «core policy» government decisions protected from suit are decisions as to a course or principle of action that are based on public policy considerations, such as economic, social and political factors, provided they are neither irrational nor taken in bad faith.

The court clarified that «core policy» government decisions protected from suit are «decisions as to a course or principle of action that are based on public policy considerations, such as economic, social and political factors, provided they are neither irrational nor taken in bad faith.»

The motion judge concluded that the action was not justiciable because it concerned a matter of core policy, and therefore was immune from suit unless the decision was irrational or made in bad faith.

Atheism UK's ultimate goal is the end of religious faith the false and irrational belief that God exists and of religion, the social manifestation of faith.