religion

I like the confusion you get between science and religion _ that__ where belief lies and art as well.

The most purely free decision one can make__nd thus, the highest order of spirit on Earth__s believing in something without evidential knowledge.

It's awkward how some people refuse to be humans regarding their behaviours! Isn't that against God's will for he created them as humans? And yet, they at night hold hands up and ask God for forgiveness and to grant them their wishes; when he created animals sinless.

Ironically, the only people anyone believes these days are the skeptics.

The choice to believe is yours. It__ the only thing that truly is.

The truth of the gospel is the true words of God.

When I think of the years when I had no faith, what I am struck by, first of all, is how little this lack disrupted my conscious life. I lived not without God, nor wish his absence, but in a mild abeyance of belief, drifting through the days on a tide of tiny vanities _ a publication, a flirtation, a strong case made for some weak nihilism _ nights all adagios and alcohol as my mind tore luxuriously into itself. I can see now how deeply God__ absence affected my unconscious life, how under me always there was this long fall that pride and fear and self-live at once protected me from and subjected me to. Was the fall into belief or into unbelief? Both. For if grace woke me to God__ presence in the world and in my heart, it also woke me to his absence. I never truly felt the pain of unbelief until I began to believe.

Atheism is a lack of belief...what about the powers of darkness, and that of light, will you trace both to nothing? Then you must have created yourself.

I Think The Fact That A Human Being Created "Dettol" ... A Product Which Protects You 99%You Should Learn That Nothing In This World Can Do It 100% Except God.

When I wake up I go through an abbreviated process of mourning all over again. Plainly, there__ something within me that__ ready to believe in life after death. And it__ not the least bit interested in whether there__ any sober evidence for it.

The only valid faith today is disbelief.

Why is it you trust my daughter so much when others almost universally revile her?""I consider their disdain for her to be a recommendation," he said."She is a heretic.""She refused to join any of the devotaries because she did not believe in their teachings. Rather than compromise for the sake of appearances, she has been honest and has refused to make professions she does not believe. I find that a sign of honor.

People believe in something, they themselves don__ know what it is, it isn__ a good thing, but it stands for a good thing. Because all belief stands for something that__ better. All belief comes from wanting to believe. People aren__ up to the real thing, though. So they substitute. And that harms them. It__ the problem of problems. I like it a lot.

That the earth in its course stood still; that a she-ass spoke; that a storm was quieted by a word, we do not believe, and we shall never again believe.

The moment when someone attaches you to a philosophy or a movement, then they assign all the baggage and all the rest of the philosophy that goes with it to you. And when you want to have a conversation, they will assert that they already know everything important there is to know about you because of that association. And that's not the way to have a conversation.

I am a religious man! The only thing is, that in my religion, I am the God!

Leonardo believed his research had thepotential to convert millions to a more spiritual life. Last year he categorically proved the existence ofan energy force that unites us all. He actually demonstrated that we are all physically connected_ thatthe molecules in your body are intertwined with the molecules in mine_ that there is a single forcemoving within all of us._ Langdon felt disconcerted. And the power of God shall unite us all. __r. Vetra actually found a wayto demonstrate that particles are connected?___onclusive evidence. A recent Scientific American article hailed New Physics as a surer path to Godthan religion itself.

Suppose that members of a religious movement, such as Christianity, maintain that the existence of some powerful god and its goals or laws can be known through their scriptures, their prophets, or some special revelation. Suppose further that the evidence that is available to support the reliability of those scriptures, prophets, or special revelations is weaker than that God is hypothetically capable of producing. That is, suppose that Christians maintain that Jesus was resurrected on the basis of the Gospels, or that God__ existence can be known through the Bible, or Muslims insist on the historical authenticity of the Koran. Could God, the almighty creator of the universe, have brought it about so that the evidence in favor of the resurrection, the Bible, or the Koran was better than we currently find it? I take it that the answer is obviously yes. Even if you think there is evidence that is sufficient to prove the resurrection, a reasonable person must also acknowledge that it could have been better. And there__ the problem. If the capacity of that god is greater than the effectiveness or quality of those scriptures, prophets, or special revelations, then the story they are telling contradicts itself. 'We know our god is real on the basis of evidence that is inadequate for our god.' Or, 'The grounds that lead us to believe in our god are inconsistent with the god we accept; nevertheless, we believe in this god that would have given us greater evidence if it had wished for us to believe in it.'Given the disparity between the gods that these religious movements portend and the grounds offered to justify them, the atheist is warranted in dismissing such claims. If the sort of divine being that they promote were real and if he had sought our believe on the basis of the evidence, the evidential situation would not resemble the one we are in. The story doesn__ make internal sense. A far better explanation is that their enthusiasm for believing in a god has led them to overstate what the evidence shows. And that same enthusiasm has made it difficult for them to see that an all powerful God would have the power to make his existence utterly obvious and undeniable. Since it__ not, the non-believer can__ possibly be faulted for failing to believe.