Sentences with phrase «year old beliefs»
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.
http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/ Not exact matches
Even though Christopher Hitchens» Why Women Aren't Funny is now a few years old, it remains emblematic of his generation's beliefs about a conventional, biological and historical inability to create comedy and humor.
So Karen, how do you integrate the religious belief that the earth was made 6000 years ago, and was made before any stars, with the fact that the earth is 4.54 billion years old and coalesced 9 billion years after the first stars began fusion?
They claim her discoveries support their belief, based on their interpretation of Genesis, that the earth is only a few thousand years old.
The evidence is there that the world is much older than 6000 years, so I can not support that line of belief.
Two thousand years later, the vast majority of the world's population has disregarded the belief that dragons roam the sea, Zeus, Poseidon, and most other ancient gods (as these people thousands of years ago believed), yet the world inexplicably still clings to the thousands - year - old myths of God and Jesus.
Even my 7 year old daughter has experienced persecution at school for her biblical beliefs.
Don't you see that children, 4, 5, 6 year olds can come to the same basic belief as you have, and they do not arrive there by using reasoning abilities, but are usually lead there out of fear or love, two very powerful emotions?
How does a belief in the words in a 2,000 year old book equal knowledge that those words are true?
And what exactly is a 14 year old doing on the cnn belief blog at (the latest) 4:00 pm on a Thursday?
For that reason I do not disclose my agnostic beliefs at work or around my neighbors (I do not want my 9 year old daughter to be discriminated against).
A belief in God does not necessitate that a person accept the position that the earth is just six thousand years old.
are people so simple they crave the misguided beliefs of others to feel better about themselves or are we triing to understand the lunacy of our citizens to believe something as pathic as a 3000 year old IDEA in order to act properly when voting in those who will run this country for the next 4 years a.k.a. voting in one who using rational thinking and logic to make choices!
My 7 year old daughter (non-christian) felt the same way going to her public school in Texas where all she would see in December were christmas trees and veiled holy symbols, at the exclusion of any other belief (or non-belief).
Writing on Twitter, the US President said 22 year old Otto Warmbier from Ohio was «tortured beyond belief» during his time in detention.
Belief in your god is just as reasonable as a five year old's belief in monsters under hiBelief in your god is just as reasonable as a five year old's belief in monsters under hibelief in monsters under his bed.
What cracks me up is the religious attack our science... we have their god pushed all the way back to TBB... they seem to lose track of the fact that their beliefs are based on, at minimum 1350 year old thinking (quaran) and somehow ancient philosophy can trump The Big Bang and the solid science that its based on.
Believers are no more advanced in their beliefs than a five - year old that still believes in the Tooth Fairy.
Were the Founding Fathers proper Christians and modern «liberal» Christians who do not own slaves or marry 14 year old girls are not, or the other way around in which case America could have been founded upon heretical, flawed Christian beliefs?
Stupid things such as, «Jesus wants me to be rich», «the Earth is 6000 years old and every human is descended from Adam and Eve», and «my ignorant beliefs should be imposed on everyone by the government, as long as I don't have to pay for it.»
Certainly, some religious beliefs are scientifically untenable: for example, that the world is six thousand years old.
The Earth being younger than the radiometric age of 4.5 billion years old is based on the Young Earth Creationism religious belief.
Until the rise of the creationist movement amongst southern baptists over the last couple of centuries, belief in a 6000 year old earth was never doctrine in any christian church.
This guy's kids could very well be posting their own videos in 20 years denouncing their old man's misguided beliefs.
Your beliefs are no more rational than those of a five year old in the Tooth Fairy.
Beliefs in gods and other fictional characters is fine for 5 year olds, but I'm truly saddened that otherwise rational adults can't seem to shed such nonsense.
Yet 46 % of Americans still think the earth is less than 10,000 years old, because they think «bible tells them so» even though merely reinterpreting a chapter or two of the bible differently permits the two beliefs to co-exist.
As a Christian, I believe that the earth is millions of years old, and I support that belief with the Bible.
If your belief is that our world is only 10,000 years old because God got bored and magically created all living things exactly as they are today over the course of a week, you are basically calling all the work and discoveries by archaeologists and anthropologists a bunch of baloney.
He was the bishop of Myra around 300CE (so a 5 year old has a more rational belief than christians do).
He then writes a book to inform others of his groundbreaking observations of the most significant kind, knowing that many will persecute him and reject his findings for hundreds of years based on their older religious beliefs.
And in the growing suburbs of Nashville, where New South mobility is bringing lots of non-Methodists into an old traditional Methodist church, another pastor reported: «Every year I try to do, after I do the confirmation class for the kids, a series of four to five weeks on United Methodist beliefs.
Christianity requires little more than belief and a 2,000 year old book that you can buy at any store for a few dollars.
His case drew international attention after his October 2009 arrest, and the 34 - year - old pastor refused to recant his Christian beliefs.
i wonder whih god will be more pleased with its slave — the one who murdered a man for his beliefs or the one who allowed his follower to die for his faith either way — god is a man made belief system that is only a few thousand years old — and in that time, no one single thing has killed more humans, than a man claiming to know the will of some kind of god Faith is good thing, faith in one's self.
I know that I have certain beliefs that some members of my Church would find heretical (like I believe in evolution, the universe being 10 billion years old, and that there has to be at least one other world where the accident we call live followed a similar path to that of Sol - Jupiter 3, or as we know it Earth).
A belief that is only 250 to 270 years old.
So, the next time you proudly proclaim that you know the secrets to life, death, the origins of life on Earth and the origins of the Universe, because your parents or priest taught you some comforting stories from late Bronze Age Palestine as a ten year - old, you might like to consider where your beliefs fit into the bigger picture.
When one looks at the various Christian beliefs that were once firmly believed — Adam and Eve, Noah's flood, people living to be 700 or 900 years old, the Red Sea splitting, water turning into wine, a talking snake, a man living in a whale's belly, people rising from the dead, Jesus driving demons out of people and into pigs — but which are now acknowledged by most thinking people to be mere mythology, it is pretty hard to give a lot of credibility to what's left.
When one looks at the various Christian beliefs that were once firmly believed — Adam and Eve, Noah's flood, people living to be 700 or 900 years old, the Red Sea splitting,
Mohammed Riskallah, a 24 - year - old Egyptian, says he doesn't watch Khaled's shows because he doesn't agree with his religious beliefs, but says Khaled is nevertheless an important leader in building a «new Egypt.»
So... if a Christian organization puts up a billboard proclaiming their beliefs, those would be the actions of 10 year olds too?
Good, then tell your religous friends to stop pulling laws into place that are based on beliefs derived from a book that is thousands of years old.
I raised my 18 year old without a belief in god.
There is no reason that a Christian can not maintain a belief in God and accept that the earth is 4.5 billion years old and evolution is God's method for creating life.
There is no way to prove or disprove a higher being, and there is no way to prove or disprove the big bang theory (contrasting beliefs in most people's opinions), but what we do know is the Earth is way older than 6,000 - 10,000 years old, and that is FACT.
Why can't a belief in God be consistent with holding the viewpoint that the earth is 4.5 billion years old?
Christianity is a cultural tradition of religious belief and practice which, by its own reckoning, is 2,000 years old in the year 2000.
If you believe in God because there is only life on Earth, or only because the Earth is 10,000 years old, or because man can not create life, then your beliefs in God can be in question.
«my beliefs have been the same for years» some other morons might say, ok so i pose a question then to all the believers whos faith has gotten them thru so much (laughs) HOW OLD IS THE EARTH?