Sentences with phrase «than belief though»

Faith is more than belief though it involves belief.

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Millennials aren't rewarded for staying in one job Contrary to popular belief, millennials are switching jobs less than previous generations, even though employers have stopped offering pay hikes to millennials who stick around.

The speculation, though, underscores the belief that Trump's electoral success may have opened the door for more candidates who have business experience, rather than government experience.

It is my personal belief that we should invest more than we do in emerging markets as well — though that is harder to justify.

I personally hear the atheists I know complain more than the religious people about others talking about their beliefs, could just be the people I know though.

So how do you go from that reasoning to «Since it wasn't accidental then it must have been this ancient male diety named (fill in blank depending on religion) who loves me and knows me and cares for me and wants me to perform rituals that have nothing to do with morality like prayer, not eating certain things, sabaath and many more just because he said so, even though we have no record of him saying anything, just records of humans who wrote things down that they claim he said, but I want to believe it all so badly I will base my beliefs on no other evidence than «it just can't be accident».

(LOL) if they do not want me because of my beliefs, even though I live a better, more «christian» life style than most christians I deal with... no problem..

Now, realize that in today's society you are still just as hated, shunned and looked down upon for declaring that same differing belief... or even non-belief — just because people are still too hung up on their precious religious dogma to realize that, though the outcome is obviously less drastic than in the past, they are still doing the same thing that religious people did in the past?

The abnormalities of atheistic beliefs are in today's timelines littering profusely many cherished religious societies whose fundamentalisms have been a social consistency for many good years... Even though I am distasteful of today's religions in that they are usurping the least wealthy, I see their mismanaging of financial dexterities due each religion's hierarchies needing more money for themselves than for their communal poor folks...

This difficulty lay like a great sorrow upon all theologians whose last norm of belief was nothing more certain than private interpretation of the Bible, and while it broke the faith of some, it serves also, paradox though it may seem, to explain how it was that so many non-Catholic exegetes found it easy to strip themselves of theological vesture and to plunge wildly with the higher critics into the maelstrom of that speculative free - for - all and devaluation of Christian dogma which followed.

Though there aren't any hard or fast numbers, it's my belief that more people have come to Modern Paganism through The Goddess than any other factor.

That's a very different political belief system (though in my mind equally naive) than communism.

Even though we do not adhere to christian beliefs, we adhere to this christian principle more than Christians do.

Though Boyer himself is more interested in tracing the impact of premillennialist beliefs than in analyzing the wellsprings that perennially fed them, his research offers numerous clues.

Yet 46 % of Americans still think the earth is less than 10,000 years old, because they think «bible tells them so» even though merely reinterpreting a chapter or two of the bible differently permits the two beliefs to co-exist.

Picking in a religion gives you a 1:1000 shot at making it into heaven, though a.1 % chance is still better than no chance, I believe that even if you have no faith in any god whatever god you may face at judgment day, you have a better chance of getting in, living a good life without faith than living a life with belief in a different god, as gods are usually jealous and would not like you believing in a different god.

Even though specific Christian beliefs were unknown in Athens, Christian thinkers used resources which were far less internally consistent than process thought to express religious meanings, defend practices, doctrines, and so forth.

I don't talk about it a lot because rather than exploring belief and how I came to believe it, I generally just get bombarded by both atheists and Christians (primarily, though other theists have bashed me too) for being irrational and stupid and other less interesting insulting things.

I think that will be very clear to everyone that the predominant religions of today is ancient beliefs that might have been reasonable at the time when they were written, but that was more than 1,600 years ago and we have learnt a lot since, even though I sometimes question that when I see what is going on in the world.

It is essential for the development of science that the Catholic beliefs about the material world mentioned above are firmly held, even though it is at a deep psychological level where they are implicit rather than explicit.

There are very few thing sin life that bother me other than bad drivers abnd religious believeres who though some fault of their own think I should be bound by their beliefs.

Atheism is nothing more than a lack of belief in any particular deity (it technically doesn't even deny the existence of a deity, it just doesn't actively believe one exists, though I suppose we could get into the whole «weak atheism vs strong atheism» thing if we wanted to).

It is now 6 noes and 5 yeses, the noes win, because they each technically got more than one vote, even though there are an even number of people on both sides of the issue, who all should have been free to practice according to their own beliefs, That; s why the organizations «beliefs» must be secondary to individuals.

I will submit that though no decisive falsification is possible, the cumulative weight of evidence does count for or against religious beliefs, but with greater ambiguity than in science.

Romney is frighten due to his beliefs in a religion that is based on some very wacko premises that are fairly recent in origin and though not any more far fetched than the origins of christianity, I just worry that any one that blindly believes in such craziness shouldn't have the authority of the potus.

Doctrinally and cognitively, insofar as worldviews and belief systems or patterns of biblical interpretation are concerned (though not always stylistically), evangelicalism can not yield its ties to these two sets of cousins, being closer to them than to other forms of Christianity and ecumenically committed to their advance.

But though Updike writes of contemporary life, most critics have seen his interest in it as more than sociological and have rightly affirmed the novelists religious underpinning, even while disputing the exact nature of his beliefs.

Generally, Latinos and whites have relatively liberal beliefs about maternal employment, while African Americans have more conservative attitudes — even though black mothers are more likely to work outside the home than white mothers.

... Delight in smooth - sounding platitudes, refusal to face unpleasant facts, desire for popularity and electoral success irrespective of the vital interests of the State, genuine love of peace and pathetic belief that love can be its sole foundation, obvious lack of intellectual vigour in both leaders of the British Coalition Government, marked ignorance of Europe and aversion from its problems in Mr. Baldwin, the strong and violent pacifism which at this time dominated the Labour - Socialist Party, the utter devotion of the Liberals to sentiment apart from reality, the failure and worse than failure of Mr. Lloyd George, the erstwhile great war - time leader, to address himself to the continuity of his work, the whole supported by overwhelming majorities in both Houses of Parliament: all these constituted a picture of British fatuity and fecklessness which, though devoid of guile, was not devoid of guilt, and, though free from wickedness or evil design, played a definite part in the unleashing upon the world of horrors and miseries which, even so far as they have unfolded, are already beyond comparison in human experience.

This book has reaffirmed that belief in more ways than I can count — though if I tallied up the notes graffitiing the margins, you'd get an idea.»

Obviously one can make the argument that top athletes must be able to execute skills under fatigue, though my personal belief is that this type of activity teaches athletes to F up less, rather than become better.

However, though the world we live in today is smaller than ever thanks to technology, it can be difficult to meet people who share your beliefs as well as your personality.

However, given that the subject is, to say the least, touchy, the fact that this film was even made is worthy of at least some kudos to Maher for having the guts to potentially offend the vast majority of people in the country, and perhaps the world, with his expression of doubt in their beliefs and his own belief that, though many individuals have found great benefit from the ancient scriptures, religion ultimately does more harm than good when looking at it in its totality from a global historical scale.

Though it's been opined elsewhere with more eloquence, one of the reasons that American animation is so far behind the sophistication and maturity of Japanese animation is the belief that professional voice actors are less important than «names» like, I suppose, Cary Elwes, Billy Crudup (Princess Mononoke's English - language lead), and Courtney Thorne - Smith.

Sixty - three percent of physicians believe that the theory of evolution is more correct than belief in intelligent design, according to a recent poll, though the responses vary significantly by religion.

as in» there is a belief among reformers...»» reformers probably do not have much to say about teacher prep...»» There is probably a parallel belief that teaching should only be a short - term job...» Or,» youthful energy is more valuable than experience, though this is less explicitly stated and may not be as consistently supported among reformers...» and therefore»... it should be clear that the quality of... Read More

In the vanity press business, there are a few honorable exceptions to the belief that it's fraught with peril; for far too many authors, though, the experience mirrors that of the authors who filed more than 800 complaints against Tate Publishing and Music.

So blaming Linda was easier for Leo (whose religious beliefs controlled the situation) and Patra (who went along even though troubled, it seemed, by Leo's direction) than accepting responsibility for their own actions.

In contrast to popular belief, equities underperform during periods of rising inflation as rising interest rates cause the net present value of future cash flows to decrease (though equities do fair better than bonds).

It is also good to know that the dose of aspirin needed to thin the blood is traditionally believed to be much lower than the anti-inflammatory dose, though in recent years this long - held belief has become controversial.

Though it is immediately apparent that the work on view is united by a commonly held belief in humor, saturated color and abstracted form, it is the variety of approaches and motives rather than any one shared aesthetic concern that gives the exhibition its strength.

But there are fewer religious connotations in global warming than in evolution (though both sides in the warming debate will readily accuse the other of religious beliefs).

Often justified largely on the basis of junk science they have come up with such wonderful policy prescriptions as using only unreliable sources of energy because they are «sustainable,» keeping natural resources in the ground rather than using them to meet human needs, having government tell manufacturers what requirements their products must meet to use less energy rather than encouraging manufacturers to meet the needs of their customers, all in the name of «energy efficiency,» substituting government dictates for market solutions on any issue related to energy use, and teaching school children junk science that happens to meet «environmentalists» ideological beliefs in hopes of perpetuating these beliefs to future generations even though they do not conform to the scientific method, the basis of science.

These new data, though, show that acceptance of «scientific consensus» in fact has a weaker relationship to beliefs in climate change in right - leaning members of the public than it does in left - leaning ones.

And should it dawn on us that our behaviours don't match our beliefs — that we're not doing our bit to save the planet, even though we think we should — we find it far easier to adjust the belief (downgrading the importance of climate change) than the behaviour (flying less, having fewer children).

However, there certainly are a wide diversity of political beliefs among climate scientists and though I won't go through lists, I know a few strong Republicans and few that are more to the left, and more than a few independents.

What is telling, though, is that it's never a statement of fact, but rather a statement of belief (i.e.,» WILL disproportionately BE comprised of» rather than «IS disproportionately comprised of» (as an side, I think «composed of» is more appropriate than «comprised of» — sorry that's a pet peeve).