Sentence examples for rejected faith from inspiring English sources

Or do some of them believe?" For a second, Jomier's cynicism melts away in a sudden encounter with the numinous that underlines what this cussed, crabby, but ultimately humane novel is all about – a grasping for solace in a society which seems to have rejected faith.

Rand advocated reason as the only means of acquiring knowledge and rejected faith and religion.

The Enlightenment embraced reason, but did not reject faith.

He taught students to reject faith in anything but faith itself.

Is America, supposedly God's last bastion in the Western world, rejecting faith and endangering religious liberty?

Americans are not rejecting faith -- they are, however, rejecting self-serving religious institutions.

4 89 - They but wish that ye should reject Faith, as they do, and thus be on the same footing (as they): But take not friends from their ranks until they flee in the way of Allah (From what is forbidden).

One of the findings that piqued the interest of many was that the decline in traditional church membership was not leading to people rejecting faith at the magnitude that many had expected.

Bereft of his leadership, thousands of Christians apostatized (rejected their faith) or obtained libelli (certificates), by which they declared that they had sacrificed to the pagan gods.

Important to that interpretation of history was the view that Israel was an apostate people having rejected a faith once confessed from the very earliest times, and the view that Yahweh's acts on behalf of his chosen people had been answered by their worship of other gods.

Yet this is not a man who has rejected the faith culture he grew up in in his birthplace of Tooting, which he now represents as its MP: I was present in July when he broke his Ramadan fasting at sunset following a Labour candidate hustings in Southall.