Sentences with phrase «stand on their beliefs»

You would rather allow the Taliban to stand on his belief and kill 1000s, oh it's there religion you say.

(UPDATED) President Richard Stearns: «Certain beliefs are so core to our Trinitarian faith that we must take a strong stand on those beliefs.»

«What we are affirming today is there are certain beliefs that are so core to our Trinitarian faith that we must take a strong stand on those beliefs,» said Stearns.

So for me this is about attitudes rather than any stand on belief or religion.

I'll stand on my belief that the most scenic area from Stratton to Coburn gore and all the townships within the area are at high risk for degradation.

We stand on the belief that seniors deserve to be provided with healthcare insurance at a minimal cost.

Not exact matches

Instead of bland, crowd - pleasing statements about mission and beliefs, customers now expect — and sometimes demand — that big - name companies take stands on political issues.

On comments about the deal, the CMO of Stockpair, Yoni Messika, has stated: «We havent rushed to initiate partnerships, and have only moved forward in this new direction due to having found a partner that truly stands up to, and shares our values, beliefs, and drive for excellence.»

From where I stand, it's the «fairy tale believers» that are the ones who are trying to push their beliefs on others.

Non-belief is in the same place as belief is... standing on the sidelines while bad things happen to some good people.

@grist how many times has the world pushed their stuff on christians saying we cant pray in school saying we cant you persecute us all the time you take GOD's name in vein right in our faces all the time and we come out and stand up for our beliefs and we are the bad guy i'm sorry sir but you are extrtemly wrong funny everything us christians do is wrong telling us what to preach and what not to preach and you say we are pushing our beliefs on people

Atheism can not stand on its own as a belief because it isn't one.

You and I disagree on a lot of things, but I've said before and I'll say it again, if someone was going to discriminate against you because of what you believe (unless it was a religious organization that had different beliefs) I'd stand with you.

My Christian beliefs don't make me a Republican or a Democrat, but they strongly influence my voting and my stands on the environment, abortion, education, and so forth.

You can stand on a street corner and scream your beliefs, but leave ME alone at work.

If you can't stand the culture and belief's that this country was founded on.

But I suppose that, to a religious person who's been indoctrinated to believe their ideology is the only true one and has been brainwashed into thinking that it's their obligation to «save» others by bringing them into their way of thinking, somebody standing up to that might seem like that person is pushing their beliefs on them, but they'd still be wrong.

shrewdly aligned with the American ethos of individual success and self - fulfillment, mainline churches have courageously taken unpopular stands, confronting head - on the diversity of American life, the depth of our social problems and the intellectual challenges to belief.

I have never pushed my beliefs on others, I simply choose to stand up to those who try to push their beliefs on me.

If they make a profit on their organization, they do not have a stand on not paying for meds based on their religious beliefs.

If you doubt the accuracy of the Bible, then how was a man named Job able to say with precision that «the earth hung upon nothing» (Job 26:7) some 3,600 years ago, since the most learned men even a thousand years later held to the belief that the earth was held up by elephants standing on the back of a giant turtle?

Standing up against someone who is trying to push THEIR beliefs on me does not make me «intolerant».

If does not matter that their view on same s $ x is at odds with you or even that you feel their views are fanatical, they still have the right to stand up for their beliefs.

Just as the emphasis on spiritual experience moves a person beyond differences of ritual and belief, so the urgency of the need to end war and violence and injustice, to bring relief to the hungry, to stand with those who are exploited and to seek to protect the environment unites Christians with people of other faiths.

And hopefully show others that the long - standing belief that every christian is a crazy bible thumper is false (I do nt think your input helped on that one though Heaven Sent, sorry.)

Further, the spirit world is a powerful reality in Africa... Such a cosmology calls for a Christology that consciously deals with the relation of Christ to God, the relation of Christ to the spirit world and how the Christ, in the context of the belief in spirits stands in relation to Africans in their dependence on God.32

I commend Beren Assembly for «standing tall» for their beliefs... Our country was established on religious tolerance.

This is the concept of that beyond which thought can not go, in which it completes its search for understanding, at which it really affirms only itself, and through which it relates all else.2 Leaving aside his views on its historical character, this is what R. G. Collingwood seems to be suggesting when he says that Anselm's argument does not prove «that because our idea of God is an ideal of id quo maius cogitari nequit therefore God exists, but that because our idea of God is an idea of id quo maius cogitari nequit we stand committed to belief in God's existence.

Of course, as my beliefs changed, you would think my stand on abortion would change.

Beliefs have stand or fall on their merits.

Wouldn't he be more of hypocrite if he just stood on one side (of his beliefs) throwing stones at the other side without at least listening and making an attempt to understand.

I am hungry to hear more from those solid, law - abiding, honest, Bible - loving, Christ - loving, individuals and business owners - to take a stand and express their beliefs and opionions freely just like the leftists do on a continual basis!

There were some who took a stand based on their beliefs that it was wrong.

The Church of Rome attributed divine authority to the general corpus of Catholic teaching, which included the Bible, traditions of long standing, and the belief that the Divine Head of the church would not allow His church to err on important issues.

The belief that God acted became a part of the conscious, conceptual structure, but the action itself stood outside the sphere of conscious experience and was looked on as past and future rather than present.

In a statement, Broglio's office said: «Archbishop Broglio and the Archdiocese stand firm in the belief, based on legal precedent, that such a directive from the Army (about not reading the letter) constituted a violation of his Constitutionally - protected right of free speech and the free exercise of religion, as well as those same rights of all military chaplains and their congregants.»

Another feature often emphasized in addition to atheism is its autosoteriology, the belief that each individual stands on his own feet and must accomplish his own salvation.

If a religionist had to stand on their own with only their own mind to justify what they have been accepting as common belief they would be terrified if they thought all around them rejected what they thought was believed by all.

And in the House of Commons he quickly became respected on all sides as a principled man who stood up for his deeply held beliefs rather than blindly following the dog whistle of party politics.

He was, of course, always more neo-orthodox than orthodox in his beliefs, and his essay on the concept of «basic Judaism» shows him struggling, as so many other thoughtful modern Jews do, to extract what is enduring and imperishable in the Jewish understanding of life: «groping to establish rapport with the Jewish tradition, standing at the synagogue door.»

Does this mean that you're saying that a) religious people are nuts and atheists are getting on their level or b) that atheism is somehow a religion because they stand by their lack of a belief in a god?

Being is the doctrine that «everything stands still,» a fateful doctrine resting only on belief in philosophical and theological authorities, not on the nature of reality (TSZ 218f.).

You stand for oppression based on a stone age belief and a horribly faulty understanding of it at that.

These suggest a vision which revealed Jesus in his heavenly glory at the right hand of the divine throne, not unlike that seen by the martyr Stephen when he looked up to heaven and «saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at God's right hand».47 So Goguel comments, «When we consider the part played by the faith in the resurrection in Paul's religious life and thought as a result of Christ's appearance to him, we see that most essential to his faith was not the feeling that Jesus had returned to the environment of his life on earth preceding his passion but a belief in his glorification, i.e. in his transition to life in heaven where death has no more dominion over him.»

However, there are those who still cling to the outrageous belief that happiness only comes as we stand these «real world» values on their heads.

but thats not what i'm talking about... i am discussing the god you claim to worship... even if you believe jesus was god on earth it doesn't matter for if you take what he had to say as law then you should take with equal fervor words and commands given from god itself... it stands as logical to do this and i am confused since most only do what jesus said... the dude was only here for 30 years and god has been here for the whole time — he has added, taken away, and revised everything he has set previous to jesus and after his death... thru the prophets — i base my argument on the book itself, so if you have a counter argument i believe you haven't a full understanding of the book — and that would be my overall point... belief without full understanding of or consideration to real life or consequences for the hereafter is equal to a childs belief in santa which is why we atheists feel it is an equal comparision... and santa is clearly a bs story... based on real events from a real historical person but not a magical being by any means!

lol, yes clay i am an atheist... i created the sun whorshipping thing to have argument against religion from a religious stand point... however, the sun makes more sense then something you can't see or feel — the sun also gives free energy... your god once did that for the jews, my gives it to the human race as well as everything else on the planet, fuk even the planet is nothing without the sun... but back to your point — yes it is very hypocritical of me, AND thats the point, every religious person i have ever met has and on a constant basis broken the tenets of there faith without regard for there souls — it seems to only be the person's conscience that dictates what is right and wrong... the belief in a god figure is just because its tradition to and plus every else believes so its always to be part of the group instead of an outsider — that is sadly human nature to be part of the group.

Why is there no mention on the Belief Blog of Senatorial candidate Richard Mourdock who yesterday said that when a woman becomes pregnant during a rape «that's something God intended,» and today said he stands by those comments?

We recognize, of course, the relatively late emergence in the Old Testament of a positively and precisely articulated belief in Yahweh's universal creation, and that it is not, indeed, until the time of Second Isaiah that such a belief is taken for granted.24 On the other hand, the J story of creation in Gen. 2 reflects an early if imprecise creation faith25 while the eighth - century prophets clearly stand upon a thoroughly practical though untheoretical belief in Yahweh's creative function.

The sad thing is, the only moral high - ground these fundie idiots have to stand on is their unshakeable belief that the way they live and believe is «right,» «moral,» «godly,» and «good.»