Sentences with phrase «view as belief»

So I don't think that being convinced that there is no god is as irrational or arrogant a point of view as belief that there is.

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The title's not - so subtle biblical reference is a hint at Stursberg's view of the Ceeb as the place that business common sense forgot, and the book serves largely as a catalogued defence of his belief that audience numbers, not an ambiguous cultural mandate, would define the network's success.

While most sellers view proposals as a step that gets them closer to orders, my belief is that proposals do not sell.

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I find it interesting that people who adhere to orthodox / fundamentalist streams of Christianity feel the need to make everyone live as they do (regardless of their beliefs)-- it's as though the only way these people can come close to living in accordance with their views is to make sure everyone else pretends to be like them in order to remove the temptation for them.

To say your purpose is to be a loving father is in error as that is the result of a belief or world view (I do not know you so that is an example)

Now, please note what I'm not saying: I'm not calling for anyone to abandon their religious convictions or political affiliations, and I'm not calling for religious believers of any stripe to extricate their religious beliefs from their political views (as though that were possible).

It's just a shame that we haven't come to the point in society where it should be required that those who make decisions must meet certain, more highly regulated, fool proof, corruption resistant criteria proving their intellect and open mindedness as well as weeding out individuals with preconceived notions, racist, sexist or religiously or other discriminative views (even if they themselves don't believe they are discriminative in their beliefs... this happens more than many people realize) and overall ignorant minds.

Not all Jews believe this, BTW, but in Judaism I have yet to run across someone who believe that G - d would punish anyone for their «beliefs» and not their «deeds» (take a good look at the Tanach... the contract with the Jews (known as the «teachings of G - d», not «the law») is all about behaviour; and while many Christians have been raised to view «the teachings of G - d» (the law) as something to be «freed» from... one has to ask the simple question..

But they try to make it look like it is about «belief» in the sense of faith (in a deity or non faith in a deity) and as often as not it is about political views (beliefs) and elections and politicians (and nothing to do with deity).

Assumptions along these lines are what atheists hang their hats on, but assumptions lead to false reasoning, and in any case, they base their view on beliefs, even though they don't recognize it as a belief.

I am making the «belief in no god» a concept that a Atheist (not a Agnostic Atheist) would view as true but can not prove so their view would fall under the definition of faith.

Let us remember that and be more respectful — let us reach out to each other with AT THE LEAST tolerance that each person will have different views and INSTEAD of trying to degrade someone just because they refuse to adhere to your beliefs — LISTEN to them and allow that you may feel differently but they have a RIGHT to believe or not believe as they will.

Regardless of your beliefs and views, is it not tasteless for CNN to run this as their lead story on Easter morning??? Americans are appalled by anything done to insult Islam believers, so why is this felt to be appropriate??? There is nothing wrong with the article, but its timing makes it a poor and inflammatory choice of journalism, and would be taken as «persecution» if was directed toward any other belief system.

so glad YOU know what god means... why don't you enlighten the rest of us becuase the bible is full of contradictions... I am going to come here everyday now to see if you can fill me in... but unless you can clear it up for me post haste, I am going to continue to view belief in god as silly and childish which it is and that is how I teach it... I don't say «all of you listen: god doesn't exist.»

Also, I couldn't quite get this into words as I was writing before, so: I am believe that I am correct in my view of Scripture as it has been handed down to me from teachers, preachers, writers and others; I believe that I am correct in my beliefs about who God is, and about His self - revelation, in the same way that all people believe that the opinions they hold are true.

I could care less if someone worshiped a shoe in a jar as long as they have the sense to keep their beliefs out of the law and when viewing how the law will apply to the US Citizens that they do not only look at it from their perspective as there are many out there that have dissimilar beliefs and do not always view the world from the same perspective.

To me, the most effective way of doing so is pointing out the sheer absurdity of their beliefs in public forums such as this, so as to weaken the underlying social support and impetus for such draconian views.

so how can you expect to look at them as human if your only view of them is through their belief?

Atheists (not all just as not all christians preach) that try to spread their beliefs to others do so with similar ideas of helping people free themselves from they view as mentally oppressive.

Your belief is flawed and contradictory as I have noted you agree with William Provine @ Cornel University: «He says, «Let me summarize my views on what modern evolutionary biology tells us loud and clear.»

This is not surprising in itself, of course; what Roof and McKinney regard as significant is the fact that religious communities are increasingly distinguished not by theological beliefs but by «contrasting ethical styles and moral views.»

In view of the cogency and desirability of the goals expressed in ECE, and as a demonstration of our belief that all Catholics, in Cardinal George's words, are «both invisibly (spiritually) and visibly (socially and juridically) related to our brothers and sisters in Christ around the world,» it is appropriate to rely on bishops for apostolic governance.

Trust me, I can understand logically how Atheist view God or Gods as being the same as Santa Claus but in the end the statement of non-belief is just as wide of a gorge as belief.

He moves from a belief central in Western monotheism, that God acts in history, to claim that American foreign policy can — and should — be viewed as an instrument God uses to realize God's ultimate plan.

I know Christ followers who view the «say the sinner's prayer and get saved» version / understanding of the Gospel (and the mindset the usually goes with that set of beliefs) as a strange perversion of the Gospel.

(For the record, Bell describes his current theological views as agnostic - somewhere between belief and atheism.

Salvation by God's grace alone through faith in Christ alone as revealed in Scripture alone is unlike any other belief or world view.

• Traditional liberals, writes our friend Robert P. George, have promoted their views as a way that people holding conflicting comprehensive doctrines» «an integrated set of beliefs about the human good, human dignity, and human destiny»» can live together.

The media hounded Tim Farron for his Christian views; they did not regard it as acceptable for him to hold views other than those of the political elite, or the majority, Similarly, our belief in the personhood of the unborn child and the sanctity of their lives enables us to see abortion as a sin crying to heaven for justice, not merely some privately held opinion; for us it is most definitely not «a woman's choice».

I came to view Christian experience as suspect, holding out little possibility that it could add anything beneficial to my well - defined belief systems.

If we view schools as antithetical to our beliefs, it's likely harder to get motivated to improve those same schools.

In the first draft of Catholicism, now published thanks to Fr Nesbitt as Matter and Mind, we find a fuller discussion than Catholicism offers of Fr Holloway's view of this philosophical movement and its challenge to Christian belief.

Theology in the Reformation tradition has explored other alternatives, as in the «Andover theory» which views biblical texts such as 2 Peter 3:19 «20 and 4:6 and Christ's descent to the dead referenced in the Apostles» Creed as warranting belief in the Hound of Heaven pursuing the last and the least.

Since the belief system of a parish includes not only its formal creeds but also the meanings it assigns to itself and its members as finite bodies, to learn about a church's world view — what it believes is really going on in life — one must listen to the church's stories about its own body and those of the members who constitute it.

I am guessing that people like you usually view any reaction that is contrary to your beliefs, as «knee jerk».

Christians in Rome were viewed as a threat to the Emperor (Roman Emperors, by the way, were not atheists, they tended to have Pagan beliefs — recall the Roman gods).

But what resulted from this state of affairs was a false view of reason as being totally opposed to belief, and of the natural world as being outside the realm of belief.

The willingness to classify political views which should be respected, such as leaving or staying in the EU, as «extreme», shows the danger of focusing the extremism debate on beliefs we may find uncomfortable or disagree with, rather than on actions that threaten lives.»

Unfortunately, to echo in advance another regular of this forum, there's a real gravity in taking on some beliefs like, say, viewing Jesus as the Messiah.

It is possible now, if we view reality as evolutionary, to situate belief in the world.

If religious belief is attained when reason makes a «total response of the total being to what is apprehended as the ultimate reality,» such that in this act reason is reborn, then it follows that those who totally accept a given world - view as ultimate, whether it be theistic or non-theistic, naturalistic or supernaturalistic, immanentist or transcendentalist, as normative for their entire lives and as the supreme value in their hierarchy of values, and hence not taken as a means but as an end, belong to the religious dimension.

[10] «ln our view there is an important difference between this factual information being imparted in a descriptive way as part of a wide - ranging syllabus about different religions, and a curriculum which teaches a particular religion's doctrinal beliefs as if they were objectively true.»

The 1938 report Doctrine in the Church of England says that «every individual ought to test his or her belief in practice and, so far as his or her ability and training allow, to think out his or her own belief and to distinguish between what has been accepted on authority only and what has been appropriated in thought or experience».23 Such an emphasis has to allow for variety of belief and view within the community.

The Bible can't be used to verify claims any more than the Quran or the Book of Mormon, as all religious texts first require a basic belief on the part of the reader that they (the texts) are right in order to be viewed as such.

For example, if one understood by the church simply the historically given communities with their multiplicity of beliefs and practices, the view of theology as the articulation of the church's faith would lead to a plurality of theologies that could hardly escape the recognition of their relativity with respect to historical factors.

Hindutva's defenders insist that, although reflective of Hindu belief and practice, theirs is in fact a broader «cultural» or «civilizational» ideology and should be viewed alongside other ideologies such as socialism and communism.

Similarly, a belief in subsitutionary atonement, or other views of Jesus as the divine sacrifice for our salvation would be unusual, and technically not in keeping with our Universalist heritage.

What I do want for them is a place / church to experience other Christians as the world is filled with other views and beliefs... it is nice to be around others who share a love for Jesus and want to serve him and are willing to walk the walk and take on battle scars to serve him in whatever way that shapes up for that individual.

He takes particular issue with doctrines ratified by popes down the centuries, such as the immaculate conception (the belief that Mary was born free from original sin) which, in his view, have no basis in scripture.