Sentences with phrase «reason than their faith»

Muslims, including lifelong U.S. citizens, are being detained at airports for no other reason than their faith, and law enforcement officials report a surge in hate crimes against them.

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There are those who think that the Christian religion is what we should smile at rather than hold fast, for this reason, that, in it, not what may be seen, is shown, but men are commanded faith of things which are not seen.

You wrote: «And yes, I could say my life based on â $ œatheistic standardsâ $ was more than satisfactory, because I based my beliefs on reason, logic and evidence, not faith, gut feelings, wishful thinking and guessing.

But, I have much more reason to place my faith in science, that we will eventually find the answer, than I do these ridiculous myths.

Why, there's thousands of different «denominations» even within the major faiths, and no faith has any way to prove that their reasoning is better than that of any other faith.

Faith, Reason, and the War Against Jihadism brings together in a little more than two hundred pages a treasure of information and perspectives on what may well be the defining conflict of the twenty - first century.

Woods writes: «The structure of the novel suggests that Clarence Wilmot's fall from faith has somehow caused this carnage and confusion; that the failure of belief will not have awakened modern America to reason, only delivered her to more craziness than anyone can bear to contemplate.

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.

There will never, ever be a truce between reason and faith, any more than there will be a truce between justice and slavery or between health and addiction.

I firmly believe that science, reason and logic are far superior than blind faith to explain the world as we experience it.

I might be wrong but it could be the reason she thought you needed to meet Jesus is because the Christian faith is more about a relationship with Him than it is about His flawed followers.

They brainwash you to believing faith is better than knowledge, that somehow unsupported belief is better than reason, facts, and evidence, and they do it because belief is all they have.

Reasoning with people of faith is more tricky than the happiness one finds by abandoning their own faith in religious delusion.

This has resulted in a way of understanding Christian faith that maximizes the «forensic» rather than the actual impact of grace and tends to contrast faith and reason, faith and works, and so on.

It «proved» that Catholics did not use reason but blind faith and trusted rather divine providence than their intellect.

A lot of believers do that, I suspect because it's easier to paint atheists with the same brush than it is to realize that so many people from so many walks of life have found reason to reject the faith you cling to with such desperation.

Rather than working to tearing down this wall and making the world a better place, American society and the media continually shore up this separation between «faith» and reason, hence the comparitively sorry state of science and research in our country today.

1) This is not a particularly hospitable place for agnostics 2) Nothing would crush my parents more than learning that their daughter has walked away from the faith 3) I have a book deal with a Christian publisher 4) I want to keep my Christian friends 5) My doubts come and go, so there's no reason to unnecessarily drag the people I love through my drama 6) If I fake it maybe I can convince myself that everything's okay

I became convinced that one major reason for decline was that theology had become an academic discipline rather than the articulation of the faith of ordinary Christians.

How can we possibly explain something like that to people who base what they believe on logic and reason, rather than on faith and the word of God?

18th April The Corriere della Sera assistant editor Magdi Allam, whose controversial Easter Vigil baptism by the Pope we reported upon in the May edition of this column, has stated that «the person who influenced me more than any other in determining my conversion to Catholicism was certainly the Pope, Benedict XVI, in indicating that the indissoluble union of faith and reason is fundamental to authentic religion.»

«Faith and Reason are the two things that the world needs today more than any other time and it is our duty to provide this need for society.»

Like the religious objectors, scientists wishing to separate faith and reason — a minority, but a noisy one — claim that nature, which they often think of as self - subsistent rather than as created, can not be reconciled to God, whose existence they often deny.

But faith, it must be understood, is none other than evolved reason.

Therefore, faith is none other than reason, but it is reason reborn to a new dimension.

But for the man of faith, the light of faith is a surer light than that of reason to guide man on his journey toward the Absolute Future.

Reason not only attains the past and the present better than an animal's memory and perception can, but it alone can attain the future by foresight, faith and hope.

So rather than wearing out my voice in calling for an end to evangelicalism's culture wars, I think it's time to focus on finding and creating church among its many refugees — women called to ministry, our LGBTQ brother and sisters, science - lovers, doubters, dreamers, misfits, abuse survivors, those who refuse to choose between their intellectual integrity and their faith or their compassion and their religion, those who have, for whatever reason, been «farewelled.»

For some reason people of faith raised in the eccliastical sub-culture are less threatened by non-conforming non-members than they are by non-conforming members of their faith community.

This, of course, does not mean that there; is, avoidably as well as unavoidably, much that is «undemocratic» in the Church, if for no other reason than that the baptized children must slowly be led by the Church to a free and responsible decision of personal faith without which no adult can be a member of the Church in the fullest sense.

This third option takes a lot of hard work and much more FAITH than the other 2 options, but in my opinion, is well worth it to strive for, rather than a. completely giving up your reason and subjecting it to the limits of the Bible, or b. completely giving up on a faith that you hold and that is an integral part ofFAITH than the other 2 options, but in my opinion, is well worth it to strive for, rather than a. completely giving up your reason and subjecting it to the limits of the Bible, or b. completely giving up on a faith that you hold and that is an integral part offaith that you hold and that is an integral part of you.

The same can be said for other religious texts, but my point is that faith should never be more important than reason.

2) Faith & science are no more opposed than faith & reFaith & science are no more opposed than faith & refaith & reason.

It's fairly easy to see that there is no form of thinking less compatible with blind faith than scientific reasoning.

Such an identity appears to be possible because, as Walsh claims (most clearly and emphatically in The Third Millennium: Reflections on Faith and Reason), following Heidegger and Voegelin, the transcendent must be utterly «differentiated» from our worldly or secular existence: the withdrawal of the divine into utterly transcendent mystery relieves existential - theological practice of any ends «higher» than humanity.

For this reason, among others, the faith is presented as adherence to a set of formulations of doctrine rather than a following of the moral teaching of Jesus that God is love and calls us to love one another.

Admittedly, in the area of religious faith and morals we have been rather slower to discard the old in favour of the new, for this is the aspect of human life in which conservatism has always been most strongly entrenched, for the very good reason that man looks to this area of life more than any other for his stability and security.

However in a country that defines itself as «christian» then it makes sense to criticise that prevailing faith, if for no other reason than said atheist has absorbed those cultural memes and can be intelligently critical.

In my book Jewish Renewal: A Path to Healing and Transformation, I point out that in the original Hebrew version the word for «the Lord» that calls Abraham to sacrifice his son is very different than the word for the angel of God (YHVH) who tells Abraham to NOT GO THROUGH WITH IT, and that the reason we Jews celebrate Abraham as the father of our people is NOT because of his faith in being willing to carry out this violent and bloody act, but rather because he was able to hear the voice of God as a voice that allowed him (and through him all subsequent Jewish and Muslim believers) to NOT FOLLOW THE VOICE OF CRUETLY AS SOMEHOW THE VOICE OF GOD.

I'll be praying your hearts are not so hardened by those who would rather place their faith in reason rather than a loving God.

The school's curriculum is traditional, ordered toward the end of nurturing faith and reason rather than preparing young people to climb the greasy pole of meritocratic status.

The media makes more out of him than there needs to be for one reason: He walks his faith.

My answer is simply this, that it is because at present our magnificent Christian charity lacks what it needs to make it decisively effective, the sensitizing ingredient of Human faith and hope without which, in reason and in fact, no religion can henceforth appear to Man other than colorless, cold and inassimilable.

You can not respond to them using that kind of reasoning any more than they can coherently use these tools, which are not designed to address questions of faith, to make arguments that would shake the faith of someone who has faith.

Since a developing tradition does not sharpen and isolate metaphors but rather mixes and blunts them, we may assume that these two sayings have given nse to the tradition of faith «moving mountains» in the Church rather than vice versa, and there is good reason to accept their authenticity.

I appreciate that it may be hard for some to come to terms with this, but in the light of the most basic and central Christian gospel, the message and achievement of Jesus and the preaching of Paul and the others, there is no reason whatever to say, for instance, that Peter or Paul, James or John, or even, dare I say, the mother of Jesus herself, is more advanced, closer to God, or has achieved more spiritual «growth», than the Christians who were killed for their faith last week or last year.

It is suspicious of any ideas that seem to come only from authority, common sense, or faith rather than from reason, direct experience, or scientific inquiry.

Faith is nothing more than a willingness to abandon reason for something that makes you feel better.

You have to have just as much faith that you are nothing more than a speck of dust floating through existance for no reason, than you do to believe that you are part of creation.

Gil you have asked some very good questions why does bad things happen in the world i personally do nt know God did nt explain to Job either why he had to suffer.What i do know is that God desires that none of us should perish but that all would have eternal life in him through Jesus Christ.This world will one day pass away and the real world will be reborn so our focus as christians is on whats to come and being a witness in the here and now.Both good and bad happens to either the righteous or the sinner so what are we to make of that.What we do know is that God will set all things right at the appointed time the wicked will be judged and the righteous will be rewarded for there faith isnt that enough reason for us to believe.Free will is only a reality if we can choose between good and bad but our hearts are deceitfully wicked we naturally are inclined toward sin that is another reason whyt we need to be saved from ourselves so what are we to do.For me Christ died and rose again that is a fact witnessed by over 500 people that were alive at the time and was recorded by historians how many other religious leaders do you know that did that or did the miracles that Jesus did.As far as the bible is concerned much of the archelogical evidence has proven to be correct and many of prophetic words spoken many hundreds of years ago have come to pass including both the birth and the death of Jesus.Interested in what philosophy you are believing in if other than a faith in Jesus Christ so how does that philosophy give you the assurance that you are saved.Its really simple with christianity we just have to believe in Jesus Christ.brentnz