Sentences with phrase «reason over belief»

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Might the reason be that belief in human perfectibility has taken so many hard knocks over the last several thousand years?

You said, «Your problem LinCA, is that you're «all over the map» trying to rationalize your baseless beliefs...» What part of «if there isn't any evidence for a phenomenon, there is no reason to believe it», is «all over the map» or a «baseless belief»?

«Well aware that the opinions and belief of men depend not on their own will, but follow involuntarily the evidence proposed to their minds; that Almighty God hath created the mind free, and manifested his supreme will that free it shall remain by making it altogether insusceptible of restraint; that all attempts to influence it by temporal punishments, or burthens, or by civil incapacitations, tend only to beget habits of hypocrisy and meanness, and are a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion, who being lord both of body and mind, yet chose not to propagate it by coercions on either, as was in his Almighty power to do, but to extend it by its influence on reason alone; that the impious presumption of legislators and rulers, civil as well as ecclesiastical, who, being themselves but fallible and uninspired men, have assumed dominion over the faith of others, setting up their own opinions and modes of thinking as the only true and infallible, and as such endeavoring to impose them on others, hath established and maintained false religions over the greatest part of the world and through all time.»

It was written by many people over the span of hundreds of years, it is tribal rules from the infancy of our development and arguably is not a good book at all but full of hatred, spite and unspeakable violence, and you arent allowed to use «faith» as your proof of existence... faith is nothing less than the throwing away of reason i.e. belief without evidence.

However, not all beliefs and morals are shared alike, hence the reason to eventually turn to one belief over another.

I would include World Wars I & II and a hige list of other conflicts, but there would be difficulty separating out which side killed how many (and for what reasons; e.g. the debate over Hitler's «beliefs»).

But one thing I don't think will ever change, but again, I absolutely believe that at least one person at sometime over another, chose to either be religious, or go from typical belief status to fanatical for the wrong reason (s).

I've been mulling this over for a while, and while I may have missed something in my research, I can not find any reason to justify the Christian belief in heresy.

I have discovered that most atheists claim sole authority over the realms of science and reason and promote a view that belief in a creator is incompatible with them.

By claiming, for example, that Arkes has incorrectly interpreted the reasons for the Civil War and the debate over abortion, and has neglected to provide a fuller picture of the Founders and their beliefs, Prof. Smolin is presupposing a moral notion that is logically prior to his analysis: historical texts and events should be interpreted accurately.

I mean, isn't that the reason it's called a belief in the first place???? Sorry pops, but that story stinks of «here's how I'll win them over and do my due diligence as a Christian and try to save some people.

Latest was explosions in India marked as «Islamic Jihadists» and another in Pakistan although I was surprised that it was not marked as «Hindu Jihadists»... That would have had both Great Countries confront each other serving the purpose of other competing nations over the Rich Indian Peninsular... Believe me no nation fall back unless people of her own are traitors to it's nations principals and beliefs for the reason of Hate, Envy, Revenge, or Greeds towards material wealth even if by selling their Dignity and integrity or their family, tribe, community, the nation and the country it wouldn't mean much to them... and those can be found among every level of the one Society...

Research studies have shown that many scientists are now trending towards believing in at least some form of divinity however; I think it's largely that we're only now letting science get the oppression it experienced over some of the religious wars fought over political reasons with little to do with actual beliefs or study.

Much like the CNN piece about 46 % of Americans being Creationists, it is the same thing, choosing belief over reason and facts.

The stories and belief systems changed and evolved over time but before the scientific method came into play, there was little reason not to accept the religious explanations for why the world was the way it was.

Some of his more shocking statements actually had a reason behind them — if they didn't kill out an evil nation when they took over the land, that evil nation's beliefs started watering down theirs, they started intermarrying, etc. «You will have NO OTHER GOD BEFORE ME.»

And if one is in any case not going to work out his own beliefs, there are good reasons for turning the task over to the Catholic Church or the Bible rather than to many of the other willing masters that are around.

tactical political reasons (progressive atheists aren't likely to vote for a Republican even if he's an atheist so no votes to be picked up there; a far smaller # of people who are conservative atheists similarly wouldn't require politician to be atheist to vote for him in the first place; and non-atheists wouldn't be more likely to vote for an atheist over his professed lack of belief and may be more likely to NOT vote for the person if they are deeply religious).

Parents cited several reasons for having their students opt out, including a belief that the tests are not age appropriate and that students are over tested.

That's why parents have such a strong influence over their young children and the reason small children blindly adopt the beliefs of their parents, at least in the early years.

One of the reasons we invested in JP Morgan Chase (JPM) and Morgan Stanley (MS) is our belief that they are over capitalized.

This only furthers our belief at TulsaPets that spaying and neutering is crucial for even more reasons than saving the lives of cats and dogs as the problems of overpopulation spill over to other areas.

Over five years ago, I wrote a blog opining that the reason PETA slaughters virtually every animal it seeks out and «impounds» has more to do with Ingrid Newkirk's dark impulses than with any ideology, philosophy, or belief in overpopulation.

Messages left on the ground by other players are still an integral part of the experience — my belief is that this system is in there for a reason and I choose to use messages whenever I find them, even though many of them promise rare items just over the edge of every cliff in the game (Protip: The items are a lie).

Like sundry other isms, Climatism is a triumph of belief over evidence, of righteousness over reason.

It is called close minded thinking, and it is very different, and it usually finds ways to substantiate itself — to convince itself it is using reason and perpetuate the pattern and persistence in a false belief or idea; only further enabled when so many others want to do the same, the issue produces a lot of passion, and there is massive information (often put out by ideological think tanks who are fighting possible ways of redress by instead sowing doubt over the issue itself.)

The government's paper provides that all EU citizens arriving after the cut - off date will be subject, from the end of the grace period (and possibly an additional period of temporary residence) to whatever new immigration regime is decided over forthcoming months, further to its belief that a wish for the UK to «control its own borders» was one of the main reasons that the majority of the public voted for Brexit.

You can go online and look up «confirmation bias» or «motivated reasoning» and see that studies show, again and again over a period of years, people seek out and believe information that aligns with what they already believe and to disbelieve or avoid any information that contradicts those beliefs.

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Some spouses prefer annulment over divorce because of their religious beliefs or other personal reasons.

There's no reason to threaten to break up with someone over a difference of opinion unless this is a crucial issue to your belief system.