Sentences with phrase «telling people their beliefs»

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«But he keeps winning these Democratic primaries, and he's getting the support of a majority of Democratic voters despite his views that are clearly not Democratic, which tells me that the things he says transcend politics and if there is not universal acceptance, there's more widespread acceptance for his beliefs and viewpoints than I think people realize.»

«I have a core belief: People want to consume content over a mobile phone,» Rogers Communications CEO Guy Laurence told a press conference on September 14.

Most sales people are tempted to tell their buyers what to believe instead of asking questions that allow the buyers to come up with their own beliefs about the product.

Anyway, I stand by my belief that if you are a happy person with a healthy dose of self - esteem, it's hard to tell others to f off once you have f you money.

As a woman who got married in the late 1960's I can tell you a lot of things about limiting your beliefs including how people around you can set up limits and barriers.

How ironic that you'd post a semi-public comment on the Internet telling people that their belief system should be a private affair.

@ Joe: And if your religion tells you that you must bring jihad to the nonbelievers of the world, and your religion tells you that if you die a martyr fighting and killing the nonbeliever, and so, in the name of your religion and your religious beliefs, you hijack 4 planes and kill 3,000 people, that makes you a proper person?

I didn't state religious beliefs and I did not advocate telling people they will go to Hell by how they vote, parent, or are employed.

@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

In case you haven't noticed, people don't like having someone come to their door telling them their religious beliefs are wrong.

I believe the point of the signs was to tell to those people without belief in those predominantly monotheistic communities that they are not alone.

Christ followers were explicitly told to put the needs of others before themselves, to sacrifice their own comfort for others — and not just people they knew, but complete strangers with different backgrounds and beliefs.

You a-people (a-theists, a-gnostics, etc.) are all really good at telling people what you don't believe or why other peoples» beliefs are wrong, but I don't really get to hear what you DO believe about things.

now i feel i have to defend my questioning and new found beliefs to people who just believe what they are told to believe.

When I tell people about the John Frum cargo cults of Vanuatu, they laugh at what the sillyunsophisticated natives believe When I tell people about Mormon beliefs they shake their heads at the things a fool will believe When I tell people about $ cientology they shake their heads at the things a fool will pay to believe

I will consider a person's religious beliefs relevant to their scientific contribution the day I hear a scientist claim that a god told them the answer to the problem they were researching.

Instead of letting a person attempt to shed his or her beliefs, You are demonstrating «All Negative Behaviors» that a book that just so happens to be called, «Bible», and was noted so many hundreds of thousands of years, Tells us, «the believers», That people of your sort would be here to «Dictate» other wise!!

You have eye witness accounts in the bible, you have present day people telling you he's there, knowing he's there, not belief, knowing, you have vast supernatural events like the big bang that happened once and never again, you have life starting up, species forming, male and female that have to be there for offspring, and lo and behold... you deny all of them because God being there, isn't what you wanted.

It wasn't the summer that brought an end to my doubt, but it was the summer I encountered a different Jesus, a Jesus who requires more from me than intellectual assent and emotional allegiance; a Jesus who associated with sinners and infuriated the religious; a Jesus who broke the rules and refused to cast the first stone; a Jesus who gravitated toward sick people and crazy people, homeless people and hopeless people; a Jesus who preferred story to exposition and metaphor to syllogism; a Jesus who answered questions with more questions, and demands for proof with demands for faith... a Jesus who healed each person differently and saved each person differently; a Jesus who had no list of beliefs to check off, no doctrinal statements to sign, no surefire way to tell who was «in» and who was «out»; a Jesus who loved after being betrayed, healed after being hurt, and forgave while being nailed to a tree; a Jesus who asked his disciples to do the same...

He railed against the church leaders... he urged people to question their values and their beliefs... he told them if they didn't rise above the status quo they'd be lost.

Telling people they are sinning for being LGBT or for having an abortion or using birth control or trying to impose your specific set of beliefs upon others in the public square is not a good thing and certainly doesn't show that you have a clue as to the meaning of the word respect.

but if your parents told you, from the day you were brought home from the hospital, that the Bible was the literal truth, and everyone — EVERYONE around you continually reinforced that belief — in school, at home, at your friends» houses, and you were in that 24/7/365 from the day you were born, you can start to see — and have sympathy — for these people when other people appear to be attacking their core conditional belief system.

Please tell me — what atheist or atheist group is trying to «force [their beliefs] upon other people.»

It isn't true that scientists are trying to change the beliefs of others, but rather they are observing and testing natural phenomena with tomes of evidence telling the rational person that the notion of a deity as a NATURAL being rather than SUPERNATURAL one is absurd and silly.

this election should be telling all you conservatives that trying to shove your beliefs down other people's throats is detrimental to your so called «cause.»

In the meantime, they live in a sort of self - imposed spiritual isolation — never telling people what they really believe about various things, because those are the things they are going to write about in their book, and they are deathly afraid that anyone they share their beliefs with will take them and write their own book about them before they can get THEIR book finished.

I have dealt with people in real life from atheist telling me my belief is a joke, or the «idea of Christianity» offends them, and then had people try to tell me that God is in fact the evil one.

Conservative xians are squirming and telling «unfair» because the US electorate Is turning against the imposition of their religious beliefs through laws affecting people who do not share those beliefs.

with all and full respect; You know that your used name is dear to my heart, for having been a believer in God the Creator of the whole Universe he has all the beautiful names that we know or do not know, I believe that God starched his hand to mankind in love, sending among them his prophets and messengers to warn and guide to righteous, am not told to force belief or religion upon people of any faith or of non faith, am a mere reminder and Warner to my self and whom my want to know and judge their senses life is a spiritual challenge, life is a maze and only if make use of the heavenly codes that could be found in All Scriptures of God that was relaid upon mankind from prophets & messengers from Adam to Noah to Abrahim to Musa to Issa to Muhammed which many obviously seem to Ignore!!

You may believe the Bible tells you gays should be able to marry or maybe even that blacks should not be able to marry whites (another thing people have used the Bible to protest against); however, that does not mean that US civil equal rights laws should be based on your personal religious beliefs.

Before telling me, like most christians do, that I don't know what I speak of, do note that as a Recovering christian I have a very good idea as to what I speak of and any rational minded person see's the belief for the true horror it is.

the belief on the existence of the devil was concieved by theologians of the past thousands of years, there was no other way of explaining the bad experiences of people in the past because we were not educated yet to the kind of what we have now, Why this happened because that was part of the learning process that God wants us to know, in pathrotheism, we are part of God, and He himself is evolving because He is the universe, We are now the conscious part of Him, our destiny in accordance to his will also be His destiny because it is His will.Although He prepared first all the material reality of the universe ahead of us, The experiences for us humans including the supernatural is just part of nirmal process for learning because its natural process, today we reach a point of not believing the practices of the past, but it does not mean its wrong, Just like a child, adults loved to tell mythical stories to them, because we knew children enjoys it as part of their learning process.

Any gay person can tell you of the same fear of rejection by those they trust the most at that time upon coming out... the religiously - minded in our society are so self - righteous about their beliefs that when a loved one comes out as a non-believer their first genuine instinct is to pity you and work frantically to «save» you.

I disagree with many people's religious beliefs, but I would never dream of telling them they don't actually believe what they think they believe.

Another is a person who told me she's afraid of going to Hell because her beliefs about God have changed — even though she's still captivated by Jesus.

I am yelled at by street corner evangelists, teenage «elders» knock on my door to tell me about their faith, I find flyers at my door telling me «the good news», there are politicians on a national level basing their entire campaign on their faith, there are people trying to enforce their beliefs through legislation, there are people holding up signs with bible verses at sporting events - the list goes on.

Next, you don't see a bunch of people on here telling you what to believe, so why do you feel you have the right to insult and attack someone elses beliefs?

@clinton — I was observing the hypocrisy of telling an atheist not to push their views on people when the church (and I'm not calling you out specifically)-- in general, pushes their beliefs on lots of people.

Belief in resurrection, historians tell us, emerged in ancient Judaism only when disaster followed disaster and Jews could no longer feel confident that their memory and legacy would be preserved in the life of their own descendents in particular and the Jewish people in general.

Preachy?!? Until athiests start knocking on doors to tell people the good news that «you don't have to be a slave to Iron Age beliefs» you can't really call us preachy.

If God were to just change peoples beliefs willy - nilly I don't think He would have been so specific about telling his disciples to go, baptise and teach.

No matter what I said, Mark was going to keep going to groups like this one and telling thousands upon thousands of Christians that being gay was caused by faulty parenting, that it only led to misery, and that anyone who wanted to become straight could... And they would pass those beliefs on to their children and other Christians, who would act upon that misinformation whenever they encountered gay people.»

«Kathy is an ordinary American with some sincerely held religious beliefs, and like a lot of Americans and a lot of people in Colorado she was pretty upset by some of the displays at a city - owned museum,» one of her attorneys, Cliff Stricklin, told CNN Friday.

I was struck by a remark Paul Haggis made, that other religions give you all their most basic beliefs in the first few minutes, while with Scientology you can be years into it and hundreds of thousands of dollars down before they get around to telling you about Xenu and the volcano people and so on.

Hopefully some day we can learn to just look the other way (You know, turn the other cheek as Christ taught), or learn that saying other people's beliefs are stupid (atheist's you don't like it when people tell you you're wrong, but you feel you can tell others they're wrong) is detrimental to a civilized society.

YOU are attempting to tell an entire group of people that they are lesser beings than you because your religious beliefs say so.

No you tell me which is worse, a person who has no belief in ANYTHING, even not in them self, Or someone who is confident about their religion and them self that goes out of their way to help?

Justin Jaye of Fly Signs Aerial Advertising, told the Belief Blog last week, «I've been in this business for 20 years and I've never run into so much resistance on people flying,» Jaye said.

As these beliefs are their world - view... it tells them what is right or wrong for them and in the world, so since we can't really separate the believers from their beliefs, I am just saying it behooves us to truly understand what a person's world - view truly is, and take appropriate actions accordingly.

Something tells me he was more concerned with other things, yet today it seems like many people make it the focal point of their entire belief system.