Assertion: atheist's belief | /r/HasProperty | essential
Facets:
value: to christian orthodoxy
type: OTHER
value: to a christian
type: OTHER
value: to explains existence
type: PURPOSE
Source sentences:
text: In other wealthy countries, smaller shares tend to say that belief in God is essential for good morals, including just 15% in France.
text: The belief that there is or is not a god is essential to how one explains existence, the nature of authority, and our place in the universe.
text: I think also that all who called themselves Christians in an earlier time, and a great majority of those who do so at the present day, would consider that belief in God and immortality is essential to a Christian.
text: For example, the orthodox Christian belief that God is providential — that God will cause everything to turn out OK in the end because God is ultimately in charge of history — is essential to Christian orthodoxy.