For
every person holding your belief, there is at least one doing the opposite, so your actions do not really make a huge difference.
people hold beliefs all the time without such requirements.
My take on Dan's concept of «knowing disbelief» boils down to something that seems quite obvious and common to me:
People hold beliefs that are contradictory, without a hitch in their step, because of how their identity orientation influences their reasoning.
Not exact matches
Trump softened his position on immigration considerably this week, seeming to abandon his long -
held belief that it was necessary to deport the millions of
people living in the US without permission.
Millions of
people hold this limiting
belief, and it does nothing but stunt your growth and
hold you back.
These are «immoral» thoughts or urges that contradict the deeply
held beliefs of
people who live with them, like a religious Jew constantly imagining eating a pig.
There has been a long -
held belief that more attractive
people have an edge in job searches.
The Republican - led Mississippi Senate voted 31 - 17 to pass House Bill 1523, otherwise known as the «religious liberty» bill, states that public employees, businesses, religious organizations and social workers will not face repercussions for denying services to
people based on «sincerely
held» religious
beliefs.
Most
people are
held back by their own limiting
beliefs, our coaches are trained to help you identify and break those patterns.
The underlying
beliefs that
people in the United States and China
hold toward each other in the security realm are likely to influence, directly or indirectly, each side's foreign policy with regard to the bilateral relationship.
The underlying
beliefs that
people in the United States and China
hold toward each other in the security realm are likely to influence foreign policy.
At Space Angels, it is our strongly -
held belief that, in our generation, the
people who carry the mantle of this «answerable courage» are not only the young men and women who are risking their lives to go into space, but also the entrepreneurs who are putting everything they have on the line to build a future in space for all humanity.
See seven bad financial
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The thing I really enjoy, not being affiliated with any religion, is sitting back and watching
people who
hold «Insane
Belief X» criticizing «Insane
Belief Y», apparently completely unaware that both
beliefs are equally insane.
Some of the phrases used, for instance, imply that the
people who
hold certain
beliefs are disingenuous, rather than simply wrong.
He does a disservice to his cause with his pretty callous dismissal of
people's closely
held beliefs.
I also know
people who
hold to the same
beliefs regarding homosexuals as fishon but who have gone out of their way to educate themselves on both sides of the debate... and even though they still think homosexuality is a sin, they don't resort to the language and comparasions that fishon does... because they know that homosexuality isn't anything comparable to pedophilia or alcoholism.
You will notice that you won't see these same level of oppositions against any other
belief system, where
people who
hold the worldly opinion would be so motivated and compelled as to try and convince believers that their faith is wrong.
Amazing how
people will come up with stuff to
hold so tightly to their
beliefs.
Suppose every single
person on Earth
held a positive
belief in a god or gods.
Naturally,
people want their pastor to affirm and strengthen their already preciously
held beliefs.
Were a
person to have violated a court order directing the return of a runaway slave when Dred Scott was the law, would a genuinely
held belief that a slave was a human
person and not an article of property be a matter the Court could not consider in deciding whether that
person was guilty of a criminal contempt charge?
religion: 1: a set of
beliefs concerning the cause, nature, and purpose of the universe 2: a specific fundamental set of
beliefs and practices generally agreed upon by a number of
persons or sects 3: a cause, principle, or system of
beliefs held to with ardor and faith
Of course, perhaps by returning again to the abortion issue I've fulfilled the stereotype of a one - issue conservative, but I hope that
holding firm
beliefs about important issues and loving real
people aren't mutually exclusive.
Also, I couldn't quite get this into words as I was writing before, so: I am believe that I am correct in my view of Scripture as it has been handed down to me from teachers, preachers, writers and others; I believe that I am correct in my
beliefs about who God is, and about His self - revelation, in the same way that all
people believe that the opinions they
hold are true.
I think religion is a very personal thing, and
people (including we atheists) should be free to
hold and practice their own
beliefs without fear of persecution.
But gee, so Dorothy Day, the SCLS and Martin Luther King and all those religiously oriented
people who restrain their baser impulses, feed the hungry, clothe the naked, take in children no one else wants, seek justice for those society devalues in the name of money, power, or maintaining the
hold of the class in power — all based on their
beliefs — are dangerous to society and mentally ill?
People like NP (and myself, when I started my long journey away from the
beliefs I once
held so strongly) have begun to wrestle back control of those areas of the thought process that were off limits for so long.
The
people within it
held fast to their
beliefs, even as the LDS Church tried to shut them and their practices down.
It amazes me how many
people are on here mocking the idea of God, and mocking
beliefs that others
hold sacred.
-- It's a simple matter to find
people who are just as convince of their «personal experiences» as you are of yours, but
hold incompatible
beliefs.
• Traditional liberals, writes our friend Robert P. George, have promoted their views as a way that
people holding conflicting comprehensive doctrines» «an integrated set of
beliefs about the human good, human dignity, and human destiny»» can live together.
TJ — I recall another group of
people who insisted everyone ascribe to their
beliefs in order to do business or
hold a job... they called themselves Nazis.
«He is a man of convicted compassion and courteous candor who — as a function of his own deeply
held Christian
beliefs — will work tirelessly for
people of all faiths and none,» said Chris Seiple, president emeritus at the Institute for Global Engagement.
Religion is the last hope of under educated
people to
hold on to some mystical
belief of a better life after death.
-- All the
beliefs held by respected
persons or by our society are accurate and should not be questioned.
A
person's religion, if sincerely
held, does influence their
beliefs.
(Ibid., p. 239) Theology does not consist of the describing of
beliefs held about God by a designated group of
persons but of the affirming about God and creatures in their relation to God of that which it has been given to the church to know.
This central
belief to a large extent
held people together in their widely varying activities.
I'm not keen on evangelism from any quarter — it would be great to live in a world in which one's spirituality and one's
belief system aren't things you must insist that others join in order to feel that they are valid, or in order to
hold that other
person in high esteem.
I've been watching
people with golden crosses around their necks and on their lapels shout at the TV about how serving gay and lesbian
people is a violation of their «sincerely -
held religious
beliefs.»
No church, no
person, identifies the world merely by self -
held beliefs.
As Christians, our most «deeply
held religious
belief» is that Jesus Christ died on the cross for sinful
people, and that in imitation of that, we are called to love God, to love our neighbors, and to love even our enemies to the point of death.
People look back at the original Greek thousands of years after the fact and claim that it means something different to what the traditional meaning was believed to be, even if that
belief has been
held since that actual time of the original texts.
If I were not privileged to be in these relationships, it would be easy for me to demonize or belittle
people who
hold theological
beliefs more conservative than my own.
What about employers who have deeply
held beliefs against other medical treatments: anti-depressants, antibiotics, and don't forget the anti-vaccination
people.
However, it doesn't negate that this
person holds on to the
belief that democracy is a superior form government compared to the rest.
Not that I did that, but that is the risk run when one isn't careful of the distinction of disagreeing with an idea /
belief / etc, and disrespecting the
person who
holds it.
It was the book, taken as a whole,
held up against history,
held up against decency and hope,
held up to the
person I desired to be... I had to choose to cling to
belief despite all of that and continue to fail to be a
person of compassion and love or to begin to let go of that
belief and make room in my heart for compassion and love.
== If you post billboards calling
people's most deeply
held religious
beliefs nonsense and ridiculing them, you are a «free thinking hero == Ah.