Sentences with phrase «of the humanist world»

At the bottom of the humanist world view hovers the opinion that ultimate reality may not be intrinsically benevolent or supportive of human welfare.

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I don't care what all the secular humanists and their ilk think, there IS an agenda to discredit Christianity in America and the rest of the Western world.

This may come as a shock to you — BUT - evolution could not be proven beyond a reasonable doubt in court — if it is a «Law» of science and not a theory explain to me why Scientist in the same field have differing opinions theory has undergone massive changes since the 1850's when Darwin first came up with the THEORY — there are a lot of interesting similarities to true science which makes it sound so plausible, but it should sound good — After all the top scientist / humanists in the world promote it and they are all pretty smart

This not only helps to explain religion's primordial, irrepressible, widespread, and seemingly inextinguishable character in the human experience, it also suggests that the skeptical Enlightenment, secular humanist, and New Atheist visions for a totally secular human world are simply not realistic — they are cutting against a very strong grain in the nature of reality's structure and so will fail to achieve their purpose.

If Grayling has faith of any sort it is probably most clearly illustrated in this optimism (which some might call naïve) that the world will, after ditching religion, be inclined to work together in a brotherhood - of - man style humanist enterprise.

Several times recently Pope Benedict has spoken of the «urgent» need for a «new humanist synthesis» in order to resolve «the succession of crises that afflict the world today» (Caritas in Veritate, CiV, para. 21, cf. our last and current Road from Regensburg column).

One of Pagels's goals is to indicate how profoundly the Western world has been influenced by the patristic period, an acknowledgment resisted by many «secular humanist» historians.

There never was a time in History that atheists exist, only in this present stage of our intellectual developement that they deny His exisrence, but it can be easily explained that they are just part of the dialectical process of having to have two opposing arguments or forces to arrive to the truth, The opposing forces today are the theists or religious believers of all religions and the other are the atheists who denies religion, The reslultant truth in the future will be Panthrotheism, the belief that we are all one with the whole universe with God, and that we Had all to unite to prepare for human survival that will subject us humans in the future.Aided by the the enlightend consevationist, environmentalists, humanists and all of the concerned activists, we will develop a kind of universal harmony and awareness that we are all guided towards love and concern for all of our specie.The great concern of the whole conscious and caring world to the natural disaster in the Phillipines,, the most theist country now is a positive sign towards this religious direction.Panthrotheism means we will be One with God.

Only after we have recognized the Christian hope in this form, are we in a position to ask the humanist or the Marxist if his work for the renewal of society and for the future generations of mankind actually exhausts the meaning of hope for the man of the new world.

His Faith Foundation was overwhelmed by the response: hundreds of entries, from Jews and Christians, Muslims and Hindus, Sikhs and humanists, on five continents around the world.

In 2002, at the 50th anniversary of the World Humanist Congress in Amsterdam, the gathered participants signed a declaration affirming «the worth, dignity and autonomy of the individual and the right of every human being to the greatest possible freedom compatible with the rights of others».

Secondly, Norman Cousins has recently proposed that some foundation establish a Commission on the World's Future made up of eminent scientists and humanists with moral vision who would devote themselves to thinking about the problem of survival and fulfillment in the future.

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Humanists should acknowledge their membership in the contemporary world, seek to understand it in its own terms (which means making a serious effort to gain authentic scientific insight), assimilate its ideas into their world of composing, building, and analyzing, and assume responsibility for guiding the course of its further development.

The humanists eagerly sought the rebirth of the free and creative human spirit which they believed to have flowered in the ancient world and to have been lost in the Middle Ages.

Though the world and its» humanists and their humanisms may one day be gone from the Clestial Cosmos, we will not be gone within the framed worings of Fractal Cosmologies every and any where that cosmological Life does ever abound!

To ring in the New Year, CNN's Belief Blog asked experts in religion, faith leaders, and a secular humanist about how the forces of faith and faithlessness will shape the world in 2012.

What secular humanists don't understand is even their world view of equal human rights are built on New Testament principles.

For since human beings would be the judges of which tenets are included and which are excluded we find ourselves back again in the closed humanist world which denies supernatural revelation.

Therefore, it does not follow that one who is committed to a particular world view — Christian, Marxist, humanist or some other — must subject himself or herself only to some univocal understanding of a particular field of intellectual inquiry.

Evangelicals of Manichaean bent who want to divide the world into God's and the Devil's, Christ's and the Antichrist's, Christian's and secular humanist's, evangelical's and modernist's, are not so sure of the enemy.

This is to say, then, that a Christian world view does not, except within the broadest limits, dictate any particular understanding of phenomena; indeed, it can properly be said that there is no such thing as a Christian approach to any field of inquiry — no Christian astronomy or anthropology, for example — just as there is no such thing as a Marxist, or a democratic humanist, approach to phenomenological inquiry.

He expressed his own view of the importance of education to his old poet friend Eobanus in March 1523, in a letter which takes us into the Renaissance world of the humanists: «I do not intend that young people should give up poetry and rhetoric... it is through these studies, as through nothing else, that people are really well prepared for grasping sacred truths, as well as for handling them skilfully and successfully.»

The Buddhist's sympathy with the pain of the world, the Hindu's sense of the unchanging stability of the Eternal, the Moslem's realization of international comradeship, the Confucian's appreciation of social morality, and... the sacrifices of scientific workers in the quest of truth and human welfare [and today, may we not add the Communist's concern for social justice, the humanist's insistence on the value of right self - realization of man's capacities, and the secularist's recognition of the non-religious goods in human experience?]

His world view is that of a secular humanist and a Marxist.

Therefore, when it comes to the question of the most valid means for acquiring knowledge of the world, Humanists reject arbitrary faith, authority, revelation, and altered states of consciousness.»

Humanist of the Year award has been won in the past by Philip Pullman, Terry Pratchett, Alice Roberts and Richard Dawkins, as well as human rights activists from around the world such as Gululai Ismail.

BHA Chief Executive Andrew Copson commented, «Paul was a great example of a politician and a campaigner inspired by the humanist perspective to make the world a better place.

«We call on the international community to stop placating states which criminalise being a humanist or otherwise non-religious, to condemn the persecution of humanists and atheists, and to work with human rights defenders around the world to bring an end to this injustice.»

org.uk asking them to make representation to the Rt Hon Hugh Robertson MP, who has responsibility for ceremonies, to ask again for equal treatment for those humanists who are current members of the Armed Forces and those who served their country in the First and Second World Wars.

She explained that humanists share the vision which underlies the principles of the UN, which is that of «a world where everyone lives cooperatively on the basis of shared human values, respect for human rights, and concern for future generations».

In 2014 the BHA awarded the bloggers the Free Expression Award at the World Humanist Congress in Oxford, the theme of which was freedom of speech and expression; Mohiuddin collected the award on behalf of his fellow bloggers.

Humanists UK Chief Executive Andrew Copson added, «Religious people currently have the legal right to marry in a ceremony that reflects their most fundamental views of the world, but humanists can not do likewise: they are denied legal recognition for a bespoke personalised ceremony that reflects the values of the couple involved, that they share with the celebrant, and that is built aroHumanists UK Chief Executive Andrew Copson added, «Religious people currently have the legal right to marry in a ceremony that reflects their most fundamental views of the world, but humanists can not do likewise: they are denied legal recognition for a bespoke personalised ceremony that reflects the values of the couple involved, that they share with the celebrant, and that is built arohumanists can not do likewise: they are denied legal recognition for a bespoke personalised ceremony that reflects the values of the couple involved, that they share with the celebrant, and that is built around them.

Throughout its existence, its guiding conviction has been that «this is our world, our responsibility, our possibility», in the words of an early Humanists UK member, Dr Peter Draper.

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Flitting from one sly comic digression to the next, the director conducts a broadly satirical investigation of both the modern art world and the troubled conscience of 21st - century Europe, indicting the hollowness lurking beneath its ostensibly progressive, humanist values.

Gérard Depardieu and Catherine Deneuve star as members of a French theater company living under the German occupation during World War II in François Truffaut's gripping, humanist character study.

Director Sean Baker, whose last film was Tangerine, a remarkable movie about transgender prostitutes in West Hollywood, brings his humanist eye to another community of social outcasts: a group of children spending their summer making mischief at the low - cost motels on the strip leading up to Disney World in Kissimmee, Florida.

In this world in which every day it becomes more difficult to maintain social cohesion, we believe it is suitable to guide the training of future teachers to humanist education, that comes close to the needs and the reality of life of the inhabitants of the planet and educate the citizens aware of the context in which we live.

Humanist at heart — he is a graduate in European Humanities and Bachelor of Arts in History — and a great lover of reading, López ran his own bookshop in Madrid for several years, a job that he made compatible with positions in the business world.

If the political despair of post-Second World War and McCarthy - era artists, such as de Kooning, Passloff, and Resnick, generated an inward looking, psychologically inflected humanist vision, the post-Vietnam generation had seen the groundbreaking gains and political optimism of the civil rights, feminist, indigenous, and gay rights movements.

Ko's is a humanist vision amidst a world that has become foreign to its inhabitants as creators, but as Einstein famously said, «In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.»

Wilson writes, «The works amount to an ethical disturbance in which the involvement of intelligent, amoral actors complicates a humanist legacy that understands the world as having been given for our needs and created in our image.

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Magnum Photos, founded in 1947 on the shared belief in humanist values, has seen a world in increasing disarray at the brink of social change, alienated by divisive politics and migrations.

If we have to find a term to define him, we would choose «humanist», since he is one of the few architects in the world capable to combine — like Renaissance's architects — outstanding technical skills, artistic sensibility, and a strong belief in the ethos of architecture and in the possibility for designers to positively influence people's life.

Trouble is, things like humanist perspectives and living in boxes rather than on the land has taken away much of our familiarity with the natural world.

To which I add further... and is craftily manipulated by the Global Socialists for that very end... As a non humanist religion and worship of the world as a «living thing» complete with a doctine of Environmentalism and «sustainable living».

One of the noteworthy early calls for the creation of a global environmental agency appeared in an advertisement sponsored by the World Association of World Federalists (WAWF) in the January - February 1972 issue of The Humanist, published by the American Humanist Association.

«The greatest hope for the Earth lies in religionists and scientists uniting to awaken the world to its near fatal predicament and then leading mankind out of the bewildering maze of international crises into the future Utopia of humanist hope.»