Sentences with phrase «christian citizens of»

In doing so, these governments aimed to transform Indigenous peoples into productive Christian citizens of their nations.

The Vatican is building a Catholic community in Israel both to accommodate the growing number of Christian citizens of Israel as well as to strengthen the Christian presence in the Holy Land.

Not exact matches

Oh, he is part of the «Christian'tradition indeed... treat all women like second - class citizens and let the men deal with the tough stuff.

So in 1972, when I was exploring with others the idea of launching a Christian - citizens lobby against hunger, we had lunch and I told him of the mixed responses I was getting, which left me uncertain.

Outside of our borders, American Fundamentalist Christians are looked upon in the same way some US citizens view radical Islamic followers.

There are those who believe the myth of America as a «christian nation», whose citizens ALL do have a Ticket to Heaven.

I have seen video footage of Silverman being shouted down by angry Christians who were angry that atheists were allowed to be American citizens.

A Christian think tank has said that current proposals to reform Britain's membership of the European Union will make migrants «second - class citizens».

Maybe when Christians stop toting themselves as the moral authority on EVERYTHING and keep their noses out of peoples personal lives AND stop trying to keep taxpaying American citizens from having rights (ie gays)... maybe then they will come into less ridicule.

Ashley — I assume you live in America, where the vast majority of citizens claim to be Christians.

At the hands of bureaucrats, bosses, and judges, Christian merchants, universities, schools, hospitals, charities, campus fellowships, students, public officials, employees, and citizens have been fired, fined, shut down, threatened with a loss of accreditation, and evicted for living out traditional convictions about marriage and sexuality.

He taught Christians are citizens of two kingdoms, the City of God and the City of Man.

Catholic claims of priestly and especially papal authority thus seemed to prevent individual Christians from choosing their own faith, as necessary for salvation; they also seemed to prevent citizens from thinking and voting independently, as necessary for democracy.

The continent's widespread loss of Christian faith has hardened hearts, creating a gulf between secularized citizens, and deeply religious immigrants.

Meanwhile, Iraq's beleagured president Nouri al - Maliki accused the organisation of trying to destroy the «centuries - old heritage» of Christians in Iraq, he said: «What is being done by the Daesh terrorist gang [ISIS] against our Christian citizens in Ninevah province, and their aggression against the churches and houses of worship in the areas under their control, reveals beyond any doubt the extremist criminal and terrorist nature of this group, he said.

I believe it was Citizens United for the Separtion of Church and State that sought a court injunction against issuing explicitly Christian license plates there, but they managed to finagle a way around it.

In fact, the oppression of some Christian governments against rival sects of Christians is the entire reason our founding fathers built our government to be secular, with no authority on religious matters, with no voice over the religion of its citizens, and guaranteed to all the freedom to worship, or not, as their conscious dictates.

The Jewish theologian Michael Wyschogrod has observed that, uniquely among the peoples of the world, the Jews are the People of God as a nationality, whereas Christians must be dual citizens of the People of God and their nationality of birth.

If Christians / conservatives had been of a mind to force their fellow citizens in this Country to «convert or else», then non-believers would long since have been driven into hiding their non-belief.

You should have stopped when you wrote: «I don't care what religion any of the candidates are» Remember what freedom of religion means; An American citizen can believe in any religion or non religion so it should not matter if a candidate is Christian, Jew, Muslim, Atheist or....

In a book called «On the Road to Civilisation, A World History» (Philadelphia 1937) it said, «Early Christianity was little understood and was regarded with little favour by those who ruled the pagan world... Christians refused to share certain duties of Roman Citizens... they would not hold political office.»

Christians in places like Egypt and Palestine want to cast their lot with the others of their own societies; they don't want to be thought of as dubious citizens.

If the Church had had it's way we'd still be treating women as second class citizens and all of you Christians would not own a bible but rather would have to go to the Church to hear what it had to say on the matter.

Nobody thought much of religions other than Christianity; as was obvious by our public school pledge — which admonished us all to be good Christian citizens... Sure, I had questions too, but our church was pretty low - key so I was safe from some of the more radically - minded (read: brainwashed) of my peers.

The fundamentalists were driving out Christians, who account for about half of the two million citizens in the islands, one of the strongest Christian areas in Indonesia.The violence has raised concerns in the international community and particularly in ecumenical circles in recent months.The woman told ENI that the Jihad warriors, shouting Islamic slogans, «attack and burn down Christian houses, shops and even entire villages, killing whoever comes in their way».

It's also important for those of us who have grown weary of being treated like second - class Kingdom citizens to be reminded of the fact that there are indeed many Christian men out there who support and celebrate women in the Church.

4) Making people who are not Christians feel that their voice will not be heard on the same level of Christian citizens.

Also, that's awesome, so now you're saying that GW couldn't have been a christian because of his actions, even though he stated he didn't believe atheists should be citizens, he attended church every sunday, preached the heck out of the gospel.

As we learn to live as citizens of one world, the history of the whole world - wide church becomes the inheritance of all Christians and a rich resource for the future.

Every Christian is a citizen of this new world order, this kingdom with no end, we live our lives in light of this truth and it effects our worldly interactions and supersedes our earthly allegiances.

It offers such metaphors of the Christian life as «ambassador for Christ» — a favorite of evangelicals — and «citizen of God's commonwealth,» a favorite of social activists.

The earliest Christian writing said to be by a woman is the diary of Perpetua, a citizen of Carthage.

While we fully support and appreciate President Trump in his stated mission to protect U.S. citizens from harm, we are similarly concerned for the safety and protection of refugees — some of whom are Christian, most of whom are Muslim, and nearly all of whom come from the homeland of Jesus himself.

For the tradition to which Plato had been heir, paideia was as essential to the well - being of the public realm as of the political realm, by forming virtuous citizens capable of filling political roles wisely; for fourth - century Greek - speaking Christians paideia, while it aimed to shape persons» private interiority rather than their public political activity, contributed to the well - being of the public realm as a cultural realm accessible to any literate, educated person, Christian or pagan.

Thankfully for current citizens of the U.S., our key founders also had arguing Christians to deal with — but they had the insight to realize that our government would be successful only if religion was not involved in its primary, legislative duties.

It exposes the two - faced nature of the Christian and demonstrates how easily a Christian can justify infringing on a U.S. citizen's rights under the Const * itution.

«As a citizen of this Christian Nation, I ask only two things of my President, or my Vice President, or my Congressional Representative in 2012.»

Catholic laymen must take up their place in life and face their family, their love, their children (who perhaps do not always come up to their expectations), their professional duties which grow ever more irksome and their duties as citizens; in doing so they will meet situations in which, because they reflect on their faith, they will know how to behave as Christians living in the grace of God, the light of the gospel and the imitation of the crucified Christ.

His petition, signed by 750,000 in 143 countries, urges that the rights of Christians and other minorities as citizens of Middle Eastern countries be recognised, and that they have access to «dignified» living conditions.

This ethnic tension did not hold for the other Greek Jewish communities, and the large proportion of Jews of the rest of Greece survived, not least because of support from their Christian fellow - citizens.

«Law - abiding citizens, such as Christians, could be caught by the vague definitions of extremism that get bandied about when ministers are trying to talk tough.

According to our Christian tradition and culture we (citizens of Western World) love our fellow citizens independent from their religion, colour, nationality, etc..

Over the centuries, these «alien citizens,» still far from their true home in the New Jerusalem that is history's promised consummation, have followed the course of Christian fidelity in accepting responsibility for the well - being of what is their home in time before the End Time.

For example, even though the liberal state has no right to require its citizens who are Christians to accept Locke's proposition that toleration and a respect for religious freedom are the marks of the correct understanding of the Gospels, it has every reason to hope that they do, and perhaps to do more than hope — to educate and persuade, if not to coerce.

Without discarding an appropriate regard for political engagement on the part of Christian citizens, I would insist that Christian power and influence are maximized before the altar and in self - abnegating service.

Obviously, given there is a majority of those who identify as «christian» (of some sort)-- in this country, the «attacks» (other than ongoing obviously more violent types in various Middle East countries with state enforced muslim citizens) are so angry and vicious.

To the degree that this faith can be made to capture the minds and direct the speaking, acting, and voting of Christian citizens — to this degree the world will be a far safer place to live in.

I think what is not Christian is to call a man who saw the moral dishonesty in denying about 50 million of our citizens healthcare a socialist or anti-Christ.

Government funding of abortions through Medicaid and other agencies has upped the ante for Christian citizens, according to David Carlin, a Democratic politician in Rhode Island.

We can not mandate Christian values, they are incomprehensible and repugnant to those who are not citizens of the Kingdom of God.