Sentences with phrase «thing as belief»
Lack of belief is not the same thing as belief for no reason.
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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.»
«Émile Durkheim understood religion not as belief in the supernatural (as the popular conception would have it), but as a system of beliefs and practices relating to sacred things.
«My own belief is that as things settle down it's not going to be as bad as people think.»
Type 3 experiences do not alter existing beliefs or nurture new belief systems because they are perceived as insignificant and within the normal pattern of things.
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Authentic leaders start with a strong sense of values, and some deep beliefs in their mission and purpose, but just as importantly, they are able to personally inspire and build trusting relationships with the people around them who can make things happen in the business.
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.
You also ignore the fact that Christians have done just as bad things as those living in the Middle East and those you would call doing the work of the devil: killing those who do not share their faith, using their religious position to gain wealth and discriminate against those who have different beliefs or lifestyles.
I had in my heart and tongue the Name of Allah when ever I had fears, troubles or depression of any kind but from Jan 05 1995 when had lost my father and second brother in a car accident, it was the time I really felt am alone at age of 33 to face all the challenges my father has left upon me to run and manage among other partners therefore had been investigating the Quran as to understanding every word of it rather than to memorize it, have been did a lot of reciting verses of prayers begging God to look upon me and give me strength... am sure through such difficult times if I had no faith in God I would have perished and lost every thing long ago... Another thing my heart always gave me signs and my mind gave me logic of what to believe although have read many books abroad in my youth of many beliefs out of curiosity but could not belief in other than that God is one and Muhammed is his last prophet in all belief of the Quran he brought upon me / us in all that it says... Should mention at times had experienced dreams seeing signs and warnings long in advance of things going to happen A year or more before losing my father in a car accident I had seen him in my dream good bye wearing white cloth and going to board a tourist ship all crew dressed in white uniform rolling a red carpet on front of him and when was on the top of the stairs weaver smiling good bye... seen in another dream how or wealth will be stolen and what I will hold... so many things like that..
Also, I would expect to see him backtracking on things like his belief that there's more than one way to The Father and his endorsement of Islam as being just as valid as Christianity.
One thing that many Christians get hung up on is the idea of evolution as a belief that we all developed from single celled organisms and that our genetic map split from apes and etc..
So perhaps you should come to terms with the one fact that is truly undeniable, infallible and that links all together as one people: regardless of what any of us believes, the thing that gives us the certainty to argue for our beliefs is simply faith.
And while science may not have as yet explained all the unexplained things in our universe, it has to begin to be seen as, at the very least, having explained enough that we can reasonably dismiss most, if not all, beliefs of this nature.
Non-belief is in the same place as belief is... standing on the sidelines while bad things happen to some good people.
But we do see things consistent with the Bible, To take a concrete example, the Bible states that Israel wold be destroyed as a nation, but after a long period of time would become a nation again, It's a matter of belief whether the Bible made a God - inspired prophecy or a lucky guess, But it's a matter of objective fact that Israel was destroyed by the Romans and became a nation again in 1948.
one of the definitions of religion: a cause, principle, or system of beliefs held to with ardor and faith» As noted above Atheism is none of these things.
I'm just tired of people who say there is no God saying I am stupid for my beliefs when they act in moronic things and do things just as bad as Christians do in the name of what they believe.
They could, but you would get as many answers as there are people, because belief is a very personal thing and we all craft our gods in our own image... or in the image of what we fear most.
That was very interesting thing to read about and I respect every word it came with and Thank you for the guidance and encouragement therefore I find my self more attracted to read the old books after all they are the elder parts of our book what ever they say although each has his own belief and can figure which are similar to ours and which are not... after all verses seemed as ours although were put differently... Thank you again and wish all the Christians a Happy and Peaceful celebration for this occasion... our prayers and peace upon the soul and the spirit of the Prophet and Messenger of God Jesus the Son of Mary..
If you feel «scientific evidence» is a good thing to provide, as your words had indicated, then your beliefs are self - contradictory.
We should be happy about how far we have come as a species via the hard work and dedication of man kind... we should be stopping and looking at the big picture and think about how far we have come in 2000 years... we have made tremendous progress in so many ways and it is really sad that instead of doing the right thing and giving mankind credit where credit is due, you fall back on 2000 year old beliefs and you thank a god who has never been proven to exist.
There is no such thing as a «perfect church»; but the Eastern Church has remained much closer to the foundational beliefs and practices of biblical and patristic beliefs and practices than the Latin / Western Church (es):
It's nothing that will ever change my beliefs, but I saw that it worked for Lucas, just as belief in such things works for many others.
It's one thing to call Pat out for one of his teachings, but this just seems spiteful; like you're attacking him as a person and not just his beliefs or teachings.
Do you truly believe that being as dishonest as possible to justify your immoral beliefs is a good thing?
In other words with all the things going on in the world this long winded ambiguous rant about the religious beliefs of a horror writer whose name I've barely heard mentioned in the last decade is being presented as the most important information people need to know at this particular time.
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.»
This presupposes that there is such a thing as a «Christian belief» in the first place.
Evelyn — how is proclaiming something one holds to be true (e.g. «Jesus is Lord») the same thing as «forcing» a belief on someone?
So many people who advocate or speak publicly for political or personal reasons aren't acknowledged as much when it comes to religion when someone is wanting to speak out about there faith a light bulb goes off and says we don't want to hear, or talk, or, air any thing that has to do with the mentioning of God but because of the high profile story and because this is the President of the United States it's ok hats off to them for not being ashamed to speak about there faith I agree with Richard some people just because they profess there faith doesn't mean there trying to push there beliefs on anyone people of faith have a right to free speech also.
Belief is not the same thing as religion though.
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.
He wrote it completely unbiased, and stated the facts as they are, and when things couldn't be proven, like john taylor creating a secret society of apostles, he STATED that it was the polygamists beliefs, not fact.
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.
Since, apparently, the ISIS members who do such things as kidnap and behead noncombatants act with the conviction that it is what God wants them to do, it's relevant to ask of believers in general if absolute commitment to doing God's will as they think they know it is a feature of true belief in God.
Most of them agree on this, with the possible exception of people who believe in multiple gods, but as you examine the beliefs of more and more religions what you find are believers who «know» contradictory things.
I am looking for authenticity, relevancy, no ovewhelming bands that take away from the experience of worship, clergy who are willing to answer my hard questions, who understand doubt is a stepping stone to deepening my belief, who accept everyone as Jesus did (and we know Jesus was a rebel who accepted and led all sorts of people), who don't feel the need to try to be hip, who speak about things without inserting politics, who are wiling to trash the temple to bring us back to the truth, who will step out of the box of comfort and be real.
I understand that doing the research feels a bit like you lack faith because you don't want to undermine your preconceived beliefs, but that is the only honest thing to do as hiding your head under your pillow does nothing but show how little faith you actually have.
There are no such things as «demons», and prayer won't work, because the game is already rigged according to your own beliefs.
Him posting as an atheist then suggests that how he sees things is not dictated by a religion, and his beliefs have been determined from life observations, educational background.
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?
«Their insistence that scripture contains all things necessary for salvation,» he writes, «was part of their protest against the Roman insistence on belief in dogmas like transubstantiation [and the perpetual virginity of Mary] as necessary articles of faith.
«Having one thing in common, whether it be a belief or enthusiasm or hobby or political mission, does not make you immune, individually or as a class, to all the other ridiculous social baggage humans carry with them all the time.
This is your belief as no one can definitively prove these things didn't happen.
There are myriad of beliefs and religions that got corrupted by human hands as any other thing in world.
Many people would say that my dis belief in a god that is described by any organized religion, and my rejection of jesus christ as our savior, and feel he was just another person, those two things alone would be sufficient to keep me out of heaven.
It would learn these things not principally from the «content» of the stories but from their «form»; whether a novel is, like O'Connor's, an experience of coming to belief within a recognizably Christian universe, or, like Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse - Five, an experience of deepening despair over the ways of the universe, it would see them both as parabolic stories.
When Jerry DeWitt converted to Atheism and it was posted as an article here on the Belief Blog, the Faithful said the same thing you said in wondering who this guy was and why was it news worthy.