Sentences with phrase «with human beliefs»

«Religion» has to do with human beliefs and behaviors that are as riddled with nonsense as any other human enterprise.

Not exact matches

«Any time you look at any kind of real life piece of text or utterance that one human wrote or said to another human, it's filled with analogies, modal logic, belief, expectation, fear, nested modals, lots of variables and quantifiers,» Lenat said.

A person with a growth mindset, however, has internalized the belief that humans» ability to achieve is much more malleable and controllable.

«Everyone looks at the past and recognizes flawed human beliefs and behaviors, but no one realizes future generations will do the same with us,» investor Chuck Gafvert points out.

Anytime one religion interferes with another religion, or the life of humans, I tend to take it a little more seriously, not because I believe in their beliefs, but because their beliefs can cause me death.

Thus, if we recognize this part of human nature, we can avoid falling victim to the negative consequences of embracing false beliefs by actively researching topics that may seem preposterous to us if we have no direct experience with such topics.

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».

The disposal of unsound religious beliefs and practices through the resolute application of knowledge leading to common acceptance of their fatal flaws is a well - established and time - honored tradition whose constructive value is populated with hundreds of noteworthy precedents that serve as benchmarks in the continuing enlightenment of the human race.

Unfortunately in my case, I've probably gone to excess the other way... after 43 years of being (in my view) threatened with hellfire for every cotton - picking thing (including the «sinfulness» of being born in the first place because it's a well - known scriptural fact that every human is born sinful and separated from G - d, with a heart that does nothing but desire evil and no way to please G - d even when righteous), threatened with being «left behind» in the rapture (should I fail on some doctrinal (belief) point at the crucial moment)... I refuse to consider ANY possibility of hell at all.

Don't be so quick to call other people «stupid,» all human beings are the same, each with their own quirks and beliefs.

It is so SAD to me that we as human beings have to bully, belittle and find fault with other people's feelings and beliefs.

This belief, that human activity ought to be directed towards promoting what John Locke called «the advantages and conveniences of life,» and that the human mind ought to concern itself exclusively with gathering together and putting in order the sort of knowledge this enterprise demanded — useful knowledge — is a moral belief, that is, it is a belief about how we ought to spend our lives.

You think that humans and dinosaurs lived together and you say I am the one with the insane beliefs?

Christianity + a belief that aliens from other planets mated with humans who will one day be gods with their own planet, that Jesus and Satan were brothers, that the Israelis colonized America and that magic underwear will protect you = mormonism.

«Through the UK - Sudan Strategic Dialogue, and our policy of phased engagement, we continue to raise human rights issues with the government of Sudan and make regular representations on freedom of religion or belief, including in relation to reported church demolitions, most recently during the Archbishop of Canterbury's visit to Sudan in July.»

It's the belief of the fearful and the weak... people who live with the fear that they can't deal with the world with the capabilities they have as a human being.

Scalia, the most conservative of the activist Roberts court once wrote in Department of Human Resources of Oregon v. Smith: «We have never held that an individual's religious beliefs excuse him from compliance with an otherwise valid law prohibiting conduct that the State is free to regulate.»

Schweitzer's disenchantment with theological conceptions of God and his passionate belief in the reality of human spirituality involved him in a quest that inevitably forced his intellectual and moral concerns to move beyond traditional theism.

This viewpoint may or may not be compatible with a belief that the Bible is divinely inspired and written by humans under the influence of that inspiration.

The above disagreement should not and does not preclude human beings from getting along with each other in the spirit of camaraderie and should never attempt to hurt another for their belief.

Over the course of human history there have been thousands of such belief systems, with no beliefs they all share.

«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.

In effect he is noting that our human minds are naturally compatible with belief, in that «from childhood, humans have a number of predispositions that incline them to believe in gods generally and perhaps a super-knowing, creator god in particular.»

Of course it would be naïve to assume that sitting down with ISIS terrorists would produce a quick change of heart, but a fearless, coherent defence of orthodox Christian belief about the human person, human love and thus human society is essential and is, at present, generally lacking even among church leaders.

but if anyone truley had God in thier heart and had faith in the Lord... simply by folding your hands and asking God to enter your heart... (try it he will be there for you, and you will feel the joy of His love), then they would never do things like this... he obviously was not a person who loved God because No one with God in thier heart would want to do thing s like that... you HATE sin when you truely love God, No ones perfect though, even those who belive in God we all stray from our beliefs, its human nature and the devil takes advantage of this.

The belief that the Incarnate One possessed both human and divine natures raised a few additional questions on this matter: Did Christ's divine nature also have an external appearance through its union with the human one?

I have no problem saying that an intelligent person could believe, and this is because humans tend to compartmentalize their beliefs, and give special exceptions in terms of standards of evidence to the belief that they were either raised with, or feels most comfortable to them.

Would such belief be any more dangerous than an alignment with any human movement or world view?

In line with the premise of continuity, if belief as an operative principle for the achievement of the future appeared in man as a «rational» or human act, it must somehow be already in the past, but in an irrational form.

Every time I interact with a Muslim I am aware that his religion considers me less than human for not sharing his beliefs.

I believe he is providing a prominent professional service to humanity free of charge, where he doesn't have to, out of belief in the «Sanctity of Human Life» and as a Christian with a directive from the Lord Jesus Christ to do so.

Pope Benedict again reminds us: Many people today have a limited idea of the Christian faith because they identify it with a mere system of beliefs and values rather than with the truth of a God who revealed Himself in history, anxious to communicate with human beings in a tête - a-tête, in a relationship of love with them.

We as human beings driven by instinctual needs with belief systems we must negotiate even if we don't fully subscribe to them are constantly working in an environment of unknowns.

thats why we have to debate more and realize that our diferrences are just superficial misunderstanding, that to be united to a common belief in him can be logical and true only with the belief that we are evolving to attain a better relationship for all of us.Proven by science that all humans evolved from one parent, who evolved from lower forms of life, who evolved from pure energy through the big bang and guided by the spirit or conciousness of His Will.

In short, the central theme of faith in Romans is removed from its powerful role as the essential human response to God, one with profound anthropological implications, and reduced to something far more formal (like commitment to Christian belief).

The secret of all spiritual religion is the union of the human soul with the divine soul, the belief that man's spirit and God's spirit are in their essence one.

This freedom means that all men are to be immune from coercion on the part of individuals or of social groups and of any human power, in such wise that no one is to be forced to act in a manner contrary to his own beliefs, whether privately or publicly, whether alone or in association with others, within due limits.»

your understanding of the change process is very simplistic, because your mind is not open, you specifically believe already in the traditional doctrines, Dogmas as shown in thousands of years of history evolves, and the need for input variables, meaning the diversity of religious belief is necessay because nature through his will is requiring this to happen, we are being educated by God in the events of history.In the past when there was no humans yet Gods will is directly manifisted in nature, with our coming and education through history, we gradually takes the responsibilty of implementing the will.Your complaint on your perception of abuse is just part of the complex process of educating us through experience.

Christianity + a belief that aliens from other planets mated with humans who will one day be gods, that Jesus and Satan were brothers, that the Israelis colonized America and that magic underwear will protect you from evil = Mormonism.

They wanted to ditch the old Judaeo - Christian belief in the sanctity of all human life and replace it with what they regarded as a more advanced and rational philosophy.

I think I can only respond to your succinct comments as: I can not always see what my fellow human being sees, but I can accept their belief, or none, and respond with love and respect to their human right to see and hear what they see and hear.

It is obvious that if the Bible is handled as a merely human document, then its claims may be accepted or rejected, its teachings may be in agreement or disagreement with each other, its subject may or may not be found relevant to our belief today.

In ecumenical and interreligious dialogue, as also in encounters with those of no religion, all participants are of equal human dignity but their beliefs are not equally true.

It's a rotten injustice when someone neglects to treat another with human dignity, especially if it's in the name of a belief system.

From belief in idealism or confidence in material progress to the questioning of pervasive ideologies of conflict, from militarism to pacifism, from empire to anticolonialism, or from multiculturalism to the supposed clash of civilizations, the Crusades have appeared as witnesses for all parties in some cosmic lawsuit with human nature in the dock.

Gods will is for us humans today to evolved to a level of conciousness that will prepare us for the challenges of our future survival, Scientists now predicts of hardships in the future due to over population and changes to the natural environment.and that is happening now with activists through out the world are reminding us of protecting nature.That is why we need a phsychological revolution to hasten the evolution of consciousness that will address the problems.Ideological and philosophical enlightenment had the past great minds to develop ideas and belief because God sent them to reality in their times.Abraham, Jesus, Mohammad, Buddha, and many other religious leaders to teach humanity the doctrines that God willed to be appropriate and applicable in those periods of their existence, Also great philosophers in another dimension of social involvement were born to interprete and connect philosophically as the second element of our conscience, Kant, Marx and countless of them also were born.To complete the triangular structure or dimension of our conscience is knowledge.

But in a secular age in which visions of human flourishing are no longer limited to religious belief, other practices — even those that are seemingly private but ultimately public — compete with those of worship in shaping the desires we follow in pursuit of the good.

There never was a time in History that atheists exist, only in this present stage of our intellectual developement that they deny His exisrence, but it can be easily explained that they are just part of the dialectical process of having to have two opposing arguments or forces to arrive to the truth, The opposing forces today are the theists or religious believers of all religions and the other are the atheists who denies religion, The reslultant truth in the future will be Panthrotheism, the belief that we are all one with the whole universe with God, and that we Had all to unite to prepare for human survival that will subject us humans in the future.Aided by the the enlightend consevationist, environmentalists, humanists and all of the concerned activists, we will develop a kind of universal harmony and awareness that we are all guided towards love and concern for all of our specie.The great concern of the whole conscious and caring world to the natural disaster in the Phillipines,, the most theist country now is a positive sign towards this religious direction.Panthrotheism means we will be One with God.

Beneath the various attempts to articulate the content of Christian faith lies a «vision of reality» with implications for beliefs about God, the world in general, human existence in particular, and even some historical events, especially about Jesus.

This notion of the demonic, especially when it is developed to explain the widespread proclivity of human beings to evil (through being born into cultures more or less dominated by demonic habits, symbols, beliefs, and attitudes), provides a further basis for reconciling God's goodness with the world's evil.