Not exact matches
I love how you and so many
other atheist / agnostic
individuals accuse «
believers» of acting in emotional, unscientific ways, yet it is often your side that fails to debate in a coherent, logical, and civil manner.
As a
believer it certainly behooves us in
individual encounters where we are willing to sacrifice ourselves wholly for the
other to do so if following the example of Jesus.
What Neville does not seem to recognize sufficiently is that theistic faith demands an understanding of God who is the object of its faith and worship (for the
believer can not relate himself to what is unknown to him) and, furthermore, that it generally demands a coherent concept of God who is not only the ontologically, valuatively, and rationally
other but also an
individual reality who instantiates these qualities in a personal mode of being.
There are
other Latin patristic bridal mystics as well, and, contra Messrs. Clark and Schrader, they use the image of spiritual marriage to describe the
individual believer's union with God.
A sermon should not only lead
individuals into a greater knowledge of God's word, but also instructing
believers on how to study God's word for themselves and not always be reliant on
others.
Through monotheism and the worship of God, God has protected the
individual's right, for
believers in God should not be aggressive toward
others, but should respect
others» rights.
The real myth, in
other words, may be that there can be religious freedom at all in the modern state without a strong religious tradition acting both as a curb to the state's power on behalf of
believers and nonbelievers alike and also as an alternative narrative within which people can work out their
individual visions of the good life.
Editor's Note: Author and pastor Jamie George, the band All Sons & Daughters and a film crew ventured to Europe to trace the lives of C.S. Lewis, Saint Patrick, John Newton, Saint Thérèse, Saint Francis, William Cowper, Saint Augustine, George MacDonald and
others, mining for undiscovered gems, something to connect these
individuals to modern
believers.
Freedom of religion, they piously intoned, is «an essential part of the identity of
believers and one of the foundations of pluralistic, democratic societies... However, where an
individual's religious observance impinges on the rights of
others, some restrictions can be made.»
While I think it's great for a novice investor to read as much as they can, including following what
other smart people do, I'm a firm
believer that you should study the reasons, criteria and mistakes they make rather than the
individual stocks they invest in.
«an essential part of the identity of
believers and one of the foundations of pluralistic, democratic societies -LSB-...] However, where an
individual's religious observance impinges on the rights of
others, some restrictions can be made.»