Sentences with phrase «ordered system of belief»

I think this clearly speaks to the «religion» of atheism... a structured and ordered system of belief.

And given that religion is a structured and ordered system of beliefs, an awareness of self is not in any way, or by any interpretation, a religion.

Not exact matches

Financial industry norms and academic theories — even popular beliefs — have always assumed assets saved for retirement would be systematically withdrawn — following the «4 % rule» or some other rule of thumb or system — by retirees in order to maintain a consistent standard of living.

Doctrine Over Person is taking many of the experiences you've had and either denying they ever existed or suppressing / avoiding them in order to perpetuate the belief system of the cult.

Compare that to the dogmatic stance of religion — a phony belief system that starts and end with unproven manmade tribal myths, not open to true debate, and that only changes in order to maintain power over the gullible.

On the other hand, there's power in learning from careful observations of the world, when we can understand God through his creation and the work of his creation without having to adapt our belief system in order to accommodate the diversity of creativity in storytelling and entertainment.

Many people claim that the early church invented stories about the resurrection of Jesus in order to support their new belief system and practices.

But the dominant structures were ordered more to the promotion and implementation of Christianity as an institution and as a system of beliefs and practices.

Lt. Cmdr. Christensen went on to say that «all service members are free to exercise their constitutional right to practice their religion in a manner that is respectful of other individuals» rights to follow their own belief systems; and in ways that are conducive to good order and discipline; and that do not detract from accomplishing the military mission»...

While our rights tradition stems from a belief in a moral order independent of government, a strong case can be made that our system of limited and dispersed power depends even more profoundly upon an appreciation of human imperfectibility.

I reject completely the predominant Judeo - Christian belief system, have enjoyed the philosophy and ceremonies of Native Americans, Wiccans, and Buddhists, and continue to seek understanding in the order of the universe.

Her audience — a group of about fifty women in their twenties and thirties — dutifully follow her lead, shaking their extremities maniacally in the thick air in order to dislodge any negative belief systems they possess.

I'm of the belief that we need to hop on our shark happy train, ride all the way to Science Nerdliness Town in order to get it out of our systems, before the train takes us back the real world and we start to store away the shark love for another year.

Change takes time and perseverance in order to assure that the shift in thinking and practice become part of the belief system of the school and are therefore better able to weather changes in state and federal mandates, administration, staff and budgets

This transcendence can be as open to interpretation as the evaporation of sea water, the struggle to personify the natural world in human form in order to make an emotive connection, or ultimately, the idea of interpreting a belief system as architecture, both of the natural and man - made world, in order to transport oneself from a secular state to a sacred experience.

Faldbakken's practice questions the potential of artistic intervention to disrupt and negate the existing system of behaviors and beliefs in order to generate new content and release creative freedom.

This powerful, evocative piece extends her interest in the co existence of extreme opposites, exploring themes of conflict and resolution, both domestic and political, which challenge our belief systems and our sense of the natural order of things.

His interventions focus on the ways in which rules of order affect our systems of belief and our notions of self.

They splice together scale and scales of time in single artworks and this time will hark back to a seminal religious text in order to link it to belief systems of all kinds, including democracy, science and art itself.

I believe these unpleasant pieces of the puzzle need to be fit into place in order to understand the internally conflicting positions of many honest «deniers», and to understand and the positions of others who are committed to absolute confidence in the truth of some fundamental «axioms» of their ideological (religious / mathematic / econometric / political) belief systems.

The resulting 14 - item questionnaire (see Appendix) revealed that change beliefs in the local Chinese formed a multi-faceted, coherent system of beliefs that includes perceptions about who and what is responsible for changes in the relationship, believing in inevitable changes, and asserting effort to manage the change in order to maintain the relationship.

And while years of mission experience has imbued traditional owners with elements of Christian belief and practice, most traditional owners also hold the Dreaming, and its accompanying ritual system, as fundamental, both to their lives and the wellbeing of the ongoing socio - cultural order of which they are part.

Bowen further expanded his family systems theory with the belief that the behavior of each family member was influenced by his or her birth order and position in the family construct.