47 The reader might reasonably wonder whether this is a matter of faith that requires belief and also who should no longer be advising whom.
A truly dynamite farewell show requires planning, time, manpower – ego, in other words, because it requires belief from the star that they merit all this hoopla around their departure.
To admit this, but to retain the concept of the non-temporality of deity, requires belief in contingencies eternally fixed in the being of God.
(I see no evidence that moral or political wisdom requires belief in a deity).
It requires belief that the trees and vegetation will, in an exposed and challenging situation, be as lush and abundant as they are in the enticing visualisations.
All members must subscribe to a Statement of Faith that requires belief in the Bible "as the inspired, the only infallible, authoritative word of God" and commitment to a well-defined category of fundamental Christian doctrines.
Therefore, knowledge requires belief.
Because she doesn't believe it, it isn't something she knows, because knowledge requires belief (in the knower).
The reason in question may be a practical reason, when conformity requires action, or an epistemic reason, when convention requires belief.
Though most Enlightenment thinkers hold that morality requires religion, in the sense that morality requires belief in a transcendent law-giver and in an after-life, d'Holbach (influenced in this respect by Spinoza, among others) makes the case for an ethical naturalism, an ethics that is free of any reference to a supernatural grounding or aspiration.
