Sentences with phrase «someone believes in a deity»

The problem is that instead of accepting reality understanding your true self you have to believe in a deity to keep that feeling of being special alive as an adult.

The voices in your head, the loving feeling you get from believing in your deity is created by your brain, nothing more.

Not everyone believes in a deity, and not everyone who does even believe in the same one.

More and more are unreligious and / or don't believe in a deity.

Just so you know, deism refers to a certain set of beliefs and not just anyone who believes in a deity of some sort.

As someone who does not believe in a deity, I spent a lot of time thinking about what it means to «pray».

I find it weird that many of the atheists I encountered until recently were of the thought that you can't possibly have spiritual or religious practices (or superstitions) AND not believe in deities.

The only difference between these lunatics and anyone else who believes in deities..

The reason for not believing in a deity or a creator is that there is NO scientific, verifiable - through - experiment evidence that one exists.

Those who believe in a deity all have very different ideas about what they are.

@J3sus Sandals, Bennington is the school NOT populated by students who believe in a deity in the sky, turning water into wine, healing the dead etc..

Many of the finest intellectuals today and throughout history have not believed in any deities.

You can have that same feeling without believing in a deity.

As an atheist who believes in «Choice» (I dislike the idea of abortion but see the need for people to be able to opt for it) and polygamy (marriage should be for any number of consenting adults regardless of gender) and believes that the idea of draconian anti-gun measures is anathema as it takes away an individual's right to live the way he wants to live, I think that if believing in a deity makes a person treat other people nicer then we should leave that person and his beliefs alone.

Calling the mystery «God» is not the same as believing in a deity.

Why do Christians arrogantly claim that it's impossible to be moral without believing in their deity?

so therefore just as much a religion as one that believes in a deity and tries to get others to believe the same.

Now you are hearing more from the people who don't believe in deities, and rightly so since they have been some of the most oppressed and attacked group in history.

You can be a good person without believing in a deity.

Please come up with a more compelling reason to believe in a deity other than «he's gonna kill you if you don't».

Comparing not believing in deities and not believing in Gravity... one of the most silly strawman arguments I have heard in a long time.

Secondly, one either believes or doesn't believe in deities.

I don't care if someone believes in a deity, that in itself is not a moral or immoral act, but if someone uses their belief in a deity to justify actions that negatively impact someone else's life, then that is immoral.

The ONE and ONLY thing that is «common» between ALL atheists is the simple fact that they DO NOT believe in a deity!

I don not believe in a deity.

You are certainly making some rather HUGE and completely unfounded presumptions about what a person who DOES NOT believe in a deity thinks and feels!

How about Christians stop making war on everyone else and insisting we believe in its deities to be saved?

Please note that this is the Christian way is not a valid argument due to this country being secular and composed of people of all faiths, creeds and even of those that choose not to believe in deities.

If you believe in a deity the just shut up — don't demand everyone else's approval of and conformance to your deviance.

92 % of all people believe in Deity and that is all that were killed in religious wars?

You believe in deities because you were indoctrinated to.

For example, the fact that Christian Scientists do not believe in the deity of Jesus precludes their church from membership in the World Council of Churches.

I'm sure that many people who don't believe as you do, have questions as to why and how you could believe in a deity that is so dysfunctional, repressive, and intolerant.

I can name at least 10 people who were tenfold more intelligent than you are and they believed in a deity

Also, not only do you believe in a deity and are a theist but you went that extra step of becoming a member of a religion.

Time for believers, especially of the Christian sort, to get off this notion that not believing in their deity is a mandate to rob, steal, maim and kill.

Agnostics, being that they do not currently believe in a deity, also count as atheists.

At least you say you «choose» to believe in a deity realizing there is zero evidence.

You don't need to believe in a deity to have good morals.

BEcause, for example, Hindus aren't trying to force the world, through mind games and manipulation or via threats of death and war, to believe in their deities.

However, based on statements like «Christ did not rise from the dead and was most likely eaten by dogs,» you kind of get the idea that this guy doesn't believe in the deity of Christ.

It isn't necessary to subscribe to every detail of creationism in order to believe in a deity.

I believed in the deity of Jesus as a very young man, but I definitely did fall away in willful sin after knowing the truth and I fell miserably for many many years.

Believing in the deity of Jesus (only) doesn't save you.

Atheism makes no claims, it just is a statement that the individual does not believe in any deity.

The atheist's perspective is that there is insufficient evidence to reasonably believe in a deity but reserve the right to change their opinion if such evience is provided.

A religious person may or may not believe in a deity.

I'm not keen on the cartoon, as I don't think there's something about not believing in deities that magically leads to more rational thinking in general.

Neither believe in any deities..

Well, FAITH, there's the problem... that gibberish in the bible was just made up by «some guy» to keep the peasants behaving in a manner that whomever wrote it thought was a good way to behave... some of those guys were wise, yes, and there are benefits to following some of the «guidelines» set forth in the Bible... but it's a circular argument to use the Bible as a reason to have faith, because you have to first BELIEVE in the deity, THEN believe that the deity inspired the writings, THEN you can take the writings as «truth»... I'm two steps back, not believing in the deity at all (Yay, Atheists!