Sentences with phrase «whole system of beliefs»

In all of these cases, we are referring to the whole system of beliefs and practices which differentiate one system from the others.

Not exact matches

I left so shaken that I was willing to tear apart my whole belief system, my whole history, to get the heck away from that kind of thinking.

If you do not believe the Bible as the infallible and authoritative Word of God, why read Piper, as his whole belief system is based on it?

This is not an isolated issue but concerns the whole of our belief system.

Thirdly, the two - tier structure of African cosmology does not fit the Malayarayan's pre-existing belief system which was an integrated whole.

I am just pointing out how full of holes your whole belief system is.

Christianity is a belief system, completely made up out of whole shroud, whose tenets have no evidence to back them up, only a book written and adjusted by men, and a huge power structure that generates enough income to keep people coming back to the trough.

@good: ok here is the truth you all need... the catholic faith was a power play by constintine to rally the whole of the roman empire to his cause, seeing the plebs were converting to jewish based belief system to begin with.

Each awakening has occurred during a period of profound cultural disorientation, when the whole cultural system was jarred by disjunctions between old beliefs and new realities, past norms and present experience, dying patterns and emerging patterns of behavior.

That Man is the product of causes which had no prevision of the end they were achieving; that his origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and his beliefs, are but the outcome of accidental collocations of atoms; that no fire, no heroism, no intensity of thought and feeling, can preserve an individual life beyond the grave; that all the labours of the ages, all the devotion, all the inspiration, all the noonday brightness of human genius, are destined to extinction in the vast death of the solar system, and that the whole temple of Man's achievement must inevitably be buried beneath the debris of a universe in ruins — all these things, if not quite beyond dispute, are yet so nearly certain, that no philosophy which rejects them can hope to stand.

The whole movement back to a commitment to the church started to make more sense when I reread Erik Erikson's discussion of identity as being tied to the discovery of an ideology, a belief system, which gives one a transcendent fix on the meaning and purpose for existence.

I thought the characters were flat and unattractive, the story ho - hum, and the premise churlish and clumsy (i.e. the whole point is to tear down the belief system of others rather than put something positive forward as an alternative).

That man is the product of causes which had no prevision of the end they were achieving; that his origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and his beliefs, are but the outcome of accidental concatenations of atoms; that no force, no heroism, no intensity of thought or feeling, can presume an individual life beyond the grave; that all the labors of the age, all the devotion, all the inspiration, all the noon - day brightness of human genius, are destined to extinction in the vast death of the solar system, and that the whole temple of Man's achievement must inevitably be buried beneath the debris of a universe in ruin... all these things, if not quite beyond dispute, are yet so nearly certain, that no philosophy which rejects them can hope to stand.

«When politicians use their belief systems to override the facts, the scientific facts, we are all in for a whole world of hurt,» said Green Party co-leader James Shaw, thanking the crowd for standing with science.

What's hard about it too is because the whole belief system of low - carb or whatever paleo is so foreign.

It's as if Harbor and his followers have cut themselves off not only from the world but from its history, wiped the slate clean and built a whole new system of belief from the ground up.

And that was a very deliberate move, because the whole game is about our interpretation of reality and how we undermine our own belief systems and how we suffer by believing things that we are absolutely certain works in one way, and it turns out it's another thing.»

The whole show revolves around the notion of failure and bankruptcy in the financial system and the way the language of the corporate world is affecting our notion of faith and belief.

While the growth of interest in art and in its value (in all senses of the word) is truly sensational — it is a fulfillment of belief in the creative power of art — the market has become so damn efficient that it is suffocating a crucial sector of the gallery system as we have known it, the part that has nurtured and financed whole generations of artists who were never big money — makers.

Thus the whole ensemble may be interpreted (at least potentially) as sampling our collective beliefs and uncertainties regarding the climate system, although the ad - hoc and uncoordinated nature of the model - building process around the world may raise some doubts as to the plausibility of such an assumption.

Family counseling operates on the belief that a family unit is a system that works as a whole, with each member of the family playing their own role.