Sentences with phrase «rise of atheism»

He emphasizes the Christian and theological character of the rise of atheism.

First of all, it must be pointed out that the rise of atheism is an almost unprecedented phenomenon.

Believers can thus have more than a little to do with the rise of atheism.

He said that before it happens, he must first suffer many things and be rejected of this generation That rejection is what you see going on right now — with the rise of atheism and gays and with people worshipping Lucifer — once that rejection is fully complete, only then shall Jesus come....

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They're quoting only part of the stats — but atheism is on the rise.

If the idea that our beliefs are determined by our upbringing or geographical location then why the rise in atheism in America, a so - called Christian nation (according to the rest of the world and confirmed in polls... yet quickly denied by the U.S. media when addressed this way), taking off?

Atheism is about being free to see the world as it really is, without the rose - colored glasses of faith, without believing in a supernatural grandpa in the sky.

All of this has implications for the rising tide of aggressive secularism and the «new» atheism.

All the mass murderers of history have used lengthy reasoning to justify their killing, David Johnson is in good company and has risen to the highest ideals of atheism, total disregard for human life.

Even in boards of missions there were some suggestions that the real struggle was of the higher religions against the rising tide of secularism and atheism, rather than conversion from one religion to another.

At the recent Book Expo America in New York, there was a panel on «Atheism: The Rise of a New Subcategory in Religion.»

To some extent this is still true, but I think the Church is now in a better place after the rise of New Atheism.

Richard Dawkins style of atheism rose and fell dramatically.

The skepticism brought on in some quarters by the rise of empiricism, Darwinism and various forms of atheism led to the search for some standard that would unite radically heterogeneous values.

The Twilight of Atheism: The Rise and Fall of Disbelief in the Modern World By Alister McGrath.

Why didn't 12th - century corruption give rise to atheism rather than giving rise to great reformers like St Francis of Assisi?

This «rising above» the regional nature of all religions was probably instrumental in your achieving atheism.

While the book gives an interesting summary of various authors who have argued that it was the Protestant Reformation that gave rise to atheism, the author fails to note any connection between the rejection (traceable from nominalism) of reason's capacity to know reality, the Protestant Reformation's appeal to faith against reason, intellectual scepticism and current postmodernism.

The narrative of this book's subtitle, The Rise and Fall of Disbelief in the Modern World, runs as follows: the corruption of the Church was so horrendous that it made belief in its God cease to be credible; atheism thus arose as a credible alternative proposing that a new, freer and happier world would arise when belief in God was rejected.

This statement is at total odds with natural law theology... The Thomistic synthesis, which Hittinger clearly represents when he connects natural law to a doctrine of God, unearths the far - reaching background behind the rise of contemporary atheism in dialectical theology's placing these two revelations in opposition.

I predict that as atheism rises, so too will infanticide, euthanasia, «mercy killing», and a degredation of human rights

With atheism and apostasy on the rise, it's worthy of careful study by those of us who want to prevent apostasy and reclaim the apostate.

Your god and faith is in mankind and its «intellect», through which you will conquer nature, disease, poverty, and rise above all obstacles to become gods... that is atheism... goes all the way back to the garden of Eden when the serpent tempted Eve by telling her, «ye shall be as gods...»

I do not think Atheism is an entirely new concept... I think there were cultures that understood enough about science to realize that the sun didn't rise and set solely because a god told it to, seasons didn't change because a god got bored of one temperature, etc..

But this is a far cry indeed from the public controversies that our current epidemic of so - called realist atheism has given rise to, such as whether it is permissible to pray or celebrate Christmas in schools and other public institutions, or to grant government support of one kind or another to private religious education.

Are such events a product of the collapse of traditional religious authority and the rise of secularism and atheism?

Another montage shows the rise of communism and atheism as proof that the world is falling apart.