Belief in God - guided evolution is about
the same as belief in ghosts.
MY QUESTIONS IS: In your experience, what are «normal» recharge characteristics of modern cars (are they different or about
the same as my belief above)?
Faith is not
the same as belief.
To a person unburdened by religion, the belief in God / Jesus seems
the same as a belief in Santa Claus.
But is faith
the same as belief?
«The foundation of your agnostic delusion is
the same as my belief.
Not exact matches
As a product launch date inched closer, it was common for a few teams working on the
same project to realize they were unlikely to make the date, but no one spoke up, under the
belief that another team was even farther behind.
These are things that are important to us
as a culture and
as a society and I only want to align myself with brands that have the
same kind of cultural
beliefs that I do.»
Over the last decade, new projects were developed based on a
belief that global demand would continue to increase at more or less that
same pace
as it had prior to the last recession.
Affinity Fraud: Victims often belong to the
same group or ethnicity, such
as common nationality, church, synagogue, country club, or other organization where they have common interests or
beliefs.
Loyola keeping a Catholic identity helps promote real intellectual diversity in American public life (and, again, I'd say the
same as to other religious universities; I can imagine some religious
belief systems that are so pernicious that, while they must be constitutionally protected, we can still say they hurt American life more than they help it, but I think that most of the traditions that found universities do have a good deal to contribute).
Tepper's comments come the
same day
as the latest Bank of America Merrill Lynch Fund Manager Survey shows
belief that the market is overvalued at historic highs.
The
same is true of gender and minority representation, since the expectations of the day, unfortunate
as they were, didn't commonly include the
belief held by many today that Parliament should look, think, and care about issues in broadly similar ways to the country at large.
Something you christards need to understand when you spew the following crap: «A
belief in science (or being an atheist) requires the
same amount of faith
as a
belief in god / gods.»
Disbelieving in God could be looked upon the
same as believing there is no God, and therefore it's a
belief.
It is no coincidence that virtually all believers have the
same religious
beliefs as their parents.
Interesting Pope for sure — but BTW: None of his core
beliefs differ AT ALL from the two previous Popes, it's just that his communication style is more focused on everyone's common ground — the other Popes had the
same beliefs, it just that they were more outspoken on the controversial issues — so the media did not warm to them
as much.
It's his
same old nonsense, and fails to make any case for his crazy god
beliefs, just
as it did previously.
Non-
belief is in the
same place
as belief is... standing on the sidelines while bad things happen to some good people.
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.
You and Gopher are so myopic that you equate learning ABOUT religious
beliefs of all kinds is the
same as learning to believe.
Seriously, I have met many pagans that were dogmatic, close minded and exclusionary to my
beliefs because they erroneously thought they were the
same as what they erroneously thought Satanists are.
The upshot of all of this is that all of us should fight oppression and repression when it exists in the world regardless of whether or not we have the
same beliefs as those being oppressed.
Lack of
belief is not the
same thing
as belief for no reason.
Do you want that the people you know and love who do not share the
same belief as you be tortured forever?
Granted any set of
beliefs will have people that are idiots and Christianity has their share, but saying you are oppressed just because someone mentions God isn't the
same as being oppressed.
I ask this for three reasons: 1) Warfield begins the chapter with Edward Gibbon's conversion to Catholicism, which was related to Gibbon's
belief in the continuation of the miraculous; 2) he spends several pages in the
same chapter critiquing another famous convert to Catholicism, John Henry Newman, noting what he sees
as Newman's shift toward the miraculous; 3) even though he knows that Gregory of Nyssa, Athanasius, and Jerome all wrote about saints in which the miraculous was prominent, he still makes the claim that these «saints» lives» follow other Christian romances and thus represent an infusion of Heathenism into the church.
then you use faith in your
beliefs the
same as any religion and yes you do have a
belief it is that there is no god, that is not absence of believing that is the presence of a
belief system
Don't you see that children, 4, 5, 6 year olds can come to the
same basic
belief as you have, and they do not arrive there by using reasoning abilities, but are usually lead there out of fear or love, two very powerful emotions?
So my question to you even before it gets to that point is the
same as I have given to others, first why do you hate God so much and second what are you afraid of by switching your faith and it is by faith that you believe there is no God to a
belief that God does exist he sent his Son Jesus to the world to redeem you from your evil and hateful ways?
For those that believe it can be about reinforcing those
beliefs (whether those
beliefs are the
same as those of the chaplain, or not).
You share the
same belief as them, and the fruit from that
belief is the
same, judge mental holier than thou, etc..
Michael «
As a gay man I appreciate there efforts and support, but I think putting up this sign isn't really the best way to get through to people, all it does is create more hate, intolerance, and separation, I am not a christian but I am very spiritual, and putting up this sign implies that all gay people are atheists which is the furthest thing from the truth, I have no problem with religion, I have a problem with those who use there religions to control and hate others,
same applies with atheism, if you don't want to believe in anything than fine, just don't push your non
beliefs on me.»
Evelyn — how is proclaiming something one holds to be true (e.g. «Jesus is Lord») the
same thing
as «forcing» a
belief on someone?
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.
However, in defense of President Obama's religious
beliefs, I suggest that maybe much the
same as JFK, President Obama truely believes in separation of Church and State and does not want people to think that his religious
beliefs in any way influence his political actions.
This hypocritical
belief applies to all lovers of the self, lovers of self - will, lovers of self - interest, lovers of self - rights...... lovers of the
belief in freedom of rights and religion... making Christ into a «faith» of the
same validity
as any other man - made «religion».
In many areas of
belief (probably the majority of areas) Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter - day Saints (Mormons) believe the
same as most other Christians.
I could care less if someone worshiped a shoe in a jar
as long
as they have the sense to keep their
beliefs out of the law and when viewing how the law will apply to the US Citizens that they do not only look at it from their perspective
as there are many out there that have dissimilar
beliefs and do not always view the world from the
same perspective.
Belief is not the
same thing
as religion though.
your Christian «morals» come from the
same place
as all of them do... they've just been intertwined with
belief in some god.
As a gay man I appreciate there efforts and support, but I think putting up this sign isn't really the best way to get through to people, all it does is create more hate, intolerance, and separation, I am not a christian but I am very spiritual, and putting up this sign implies that all gay people are atheists which is the furthest thing from the truth, I have no problem with religion, I have a problem with those who use there religions to control and hate others,
same applies with atheism, if you don't want to believe in anything than fine, just don't push your non
beliefs on me.
At this point, all you've done is shown how your reasons are exactly the
same reasons
as Muslim uses for his
belief or a Hindu for his..
The point is not trying to force people to believe the
same as the atheist; the point is to respect all people, allow them to live
as they believe best, and do not allow people in positions of power or government to force their religious
beliefs upon others.
I'm not sure my god is the
same as other's but that's what mine is telling me, so please everyone, respect my
beliefs and let me practice them
as I, sorry, my god, sees fit.
As an atheist, I only ask for the
same thing everyone asks, freedom to chose one's own religious
beliefs, in my cases a lack of
belief.
They are following their
beliefs in what is right, much in the
same was
as Ben and Jerry's or Starbuck's.
No... it is a
belief that there is no deity or «God»... it's not a «non-
belief» That's a poor attempt by your ego simply wanting to keep itself from being labeled in the
same group
as you label believers.
You're making circular arguments, and you're also misusing the term «
belief», applying to the
same meaning
as «faith».