That you keep attempting to pretend you can speaks to
your very lack of faith - you simply can not acknowledge that there is no proof.
Not exact matches
I also developed a
very strong sense
of fellowship and the inherent good that is the most common thread and stabilizing factor among my fellow human beings, despite their
faith or
lack thereof.
Add to that the variety
of doctrines / Theologies within orthodox Christianity... with Consensus on a
very small Core
of Truths: God Is, We are not God, Jesus Christ is the Messiah and Salvation is Through
Faith / Belief in Him... there is much that
lacks Consensus and there are mountains
of arguments and counter-arguments for each doctrinal / Theological position.
1) i hear you stating your point
of departure / «end
of the line» / etc. & admitting — for you — that this is a somewhat arbitrary thing... or, at the
very least, requires «
faith»... for
lack of a less - loaded term.
Again, the
very frank admissions
of weakness or stupidity or
lack of faith or downright blindness and disloyalty on the part
of the disciples are sometimes explained as due to Peter's lifelong penitent self - accusation: he could not recall incidents from the life
of his Master without breaking into tears once more, as once he did outside the high priest's house in Jerusalem.
I have learned to keep my
lack of religious
faith close to my chest for that
very reason.
not sure i said this before or not, i have been on cnn.com for over a year — anyway — i have been going to random churches, temples, really place that worships any form
of the
of abraham and others — i have yet to get anywhere but where i started from — which is what i am, what i am meant to be, and what i was... only this has been gained — gained is a gift
of a word for i knew all
of this before i started and so i view my time as wasted only for this the reason
of getting somewhere — i did meet many great people with great views but all required the
very real existence
of god which was something
lacking and why they had a constant failure yet what they called «keeping the
faith» att itude type results... something was missing or missunderstood — your take?
He asks us to believe that the U.S. bishops issued a statement called «Political Responsibility» during a U.S. election year that merely rediscovers nineteenth - century German social thought, which by chance offers a political platform that, by sheer coincidence, parallels the U.S. Democratic platform program by program, yet these
very bishops are completely immune from influence by the current political constellation in their headquarters» host city
of Washington, D.C. Further, this
very professor tells us that the problem with Republicans» the party
of Ford, Bush, and Dole» is that they are excessively committed to the «unfettered free market» and
lack «
faith in the government's ability to provide» social benefits, a position he claims is completely contrary to the Catholic
faith.
Considering the vast array
of geopolitical issues with which a Supreme Pontiff is burdened in his solicitude for the whole
of the universal Church, that Benedict should choose to close his pontificate (or Francis to open his own) with anencyclical on the theological virtue
of faith indicates a
very pointed discernment
of the signs
of the times made by the papacy in our age; namely, that what is most
lacking in the century in which we live — what is most crucial to today's society and what this era
of history most requires, therefore, from the Church — appears to be
faith.
WHY: «Sausage Party» isn't a
very subtle movie (the dialogue is laced with so much profanity that it feels like it was written by a bunch
of prepubescent boys who just learned about swear words), but what the comedy
lacks in maturity it makes up for with some clever commentary on
faith, sexual temptation and the Palestine / Israel conflict.
My point is only that there are often
very good reasons why defenders
of the current order find reformers»
lack of faith, well, disturbing.