Let the skepticslook to Islam's own rich history, with its centuries of learning, and tolerance and progress.
There are cynics, there are skeptics who say it cannot be done.
Again, an investigation of the charge of discrepancy against the Gospel writers shows that the critics and skeptics have classified mere omissions as contradictions.
But the Evangelists were guided by inspiration, the skeptics say; and discrepancies are inconsistent with the theory of inspiration.
Again, touching the question of bias and prejudice, it is worthy of observation that skeptics fail to apply the same rules of criticism to sacred that they employ in profane literature.
Skeptics may call it prejudice; but it is a kind of prejudice which, as Burke very truly says, is wiser than all our reasonings.
They had waged a long and bitter war against the churches and ministers of their land, and had become skeptics and unbelievers of a somewhat extravagant kind.
Religion has become the sport of infidels and skeptics because so many who bear its name are ignorant of its principles.
The appalling views of God which have spread over the world from the teachings of the pulpit have made thousands, yes, millions, of skeptics and infidels.
It is thus that doubters, unbelievers, and skeptics turn the truth into a lie.
Hellenism, abolished, counts less skeptics to-day than in the days of Socrates and Anaxagoras.
Serious Minded Skeptics and Skeptics who are Triflers.
It is best as a rule before taking up specific difficulties to deal with the inquirer with the passage under the head of “Skeptics who are triflers,” or those under “Serious minded skeptics.
And here again I speak only of facts which are acknowledged by Germans and Frenchmen no less than by Englishmen, by critics and by skeptics even more than by theologians and ecclesiastics.
Both skeptics and believers of all ages have alike pronounced His name with reverence and respect.
With all these skeptics and half-skeptics Wiseacre was out of all patience.
Mankind are certain of many things; philosophers, skeptics not excluded, are equally so.
But as these skeptics admit consciousness, it is right that they should defend it against whoever attempts to deprive them of it.
When possessed of all these characters, the criterion of common sense is absolutely infallible, and may defy skeptics to assign a case wherein it has failed.
As there was no one nearer to the table than six or eight feet, the fact of its moving, very naturally astonished the skeptics present.
Skeptics are seldom willing to acquire the necessary faculties to test the assertions of the mystic, but prefer to judge him offhand, without regard to their own lack of qualification.
I may also add, that I have read carefully all the principal works against Religion,--from the treatises of the earliest skeptics down to Voltaire and others of our own day.
Thus do skeptics deny miracles--yet we live surrounded by miracles!
His depreciation of the reason to exalt faith establishes a certain relationship with the skeptics of his native land, among whom Cousin has unjustly classed him (Études sur Pascal, 5th ed.
Without this second witness, nine times out of ten your children will be skeptics and infidels.
Notwithstanding all that skeptics and infidels say against the old Book, it goes on its way.
You can afford to laugh at the skeptics and these smart-Alecs who pretend to know it all.
Well, I guess we earn our money, what with skeptics and all.
If they's any skeptics here to-night, I hope they'll go away satisfied.
Mrs. Sidgwick, than whom few harder-headed skeptics could be found.
Skeptics were convinced, and occult lodges spread rapidly over India among the dreamy, marvel-loving natives.
Whatever might be believed or doubted concerning the after life, for this life at least believers and skeptics alike are united in the full assurance of a true, permanent, and unmistakable self.
Elliotson, the doctor was sitting in his office, in company with three friends--one a medical gentleman, and all skeptics regarding mesmerism.
Accosted by skeptics who doubted a camel's ability to pack anything at all, Wayne had bales of hay packed on a kneeling camel.
Throughout, those who had originally had faith in a camel corps persisted in battling all skeptics and going ahead.
Herodotos could not believe the story, which, indeed, is probably a late Greek fable; but there must have been some skeptics within the sphere of the Semitic cult of sacred prostitution.
It is certain that the unbelievers and the skeptics alike held their own with the believers in the matter of right living.
As the Stoics had inculcated the control of the passions as such, so the skepticsundertook to make men rise above the prejudices and presuppositions which swayed them no less blindly than ever did their passions.
Owen was mistaken (Skeptics of the French Renaissance, p.
There were no women skeptics or freethinkers; they would have been impossible in the society of that day.
To say therefore that Jean de Meung's part of the Roman de la Rose is a "popular satire on the beliefs of Romanism" (Owen, Skeptics of Ital.
There were five people present, three of whom were skeptics of the worst kind.
Both these works, and, indeed, the whole school of ultra-Hegelian skeptics generally, are a singular reaction upon the usual warmth and sentimentality of German character and literature.
Rousseau, for instance, aroused a revolution in politics and education, whileskeptics and materialists alike strove for general enlightenment, which was sadly needed.
Later they were known asSkeptics and Zetetics, to indicate that they were always in search of truth without flattering them selves that they had found it.
The same skeptics inquire how, after all the horses were destroyed by hail, in the sixth plague, Pharaoh was able to pursue the Jewish nation with cavalry.
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