Sentences with phrase «christian fellow citizens»

Others changed their day of worship from the Sabbath to Sunday to be more in keeping with their Christian fellow citizens.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

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

The call to U.S. Christians today is to struggle for this revolutionary restructuring and to prepare our fellow citizens for a painful structural adjustment to Latin Americans» long - overdue freedom from U.S. exploitation.

If clergy are reluctant to provide bold leadership and instruction on these difficult issues, it is easy to see why conservative Christians are reluctant either to act politically or to engage their fellow citizens.

There is a Christian attitude toward man as a fellow citizen, but no Christian law.

As Christians, we don't speak in just one way to our fellow citizens.

This is a moral concern, a Christian concern — we want to protect the lives and jobs of our fellow citizens.

Yet Christian thinkers, including Augustine, were no less critical of the theological ideas of the philosophers than they were of the religious practices of their fellow citizens.

«I deem the present occasion sufficiently important and solemn to justify me in expressing to my fellow - citizens a profound reverence for the Christian religion and a thorough conviction that sound morals, religious liberty, and a just sense of religious responsibility are essentially connected with all true and lasting happiness...»

Still, Christians have the duty not to be too alienated from their country, and to do what they can to be of service to their fellow citizens by loyally encouraging what's good and could be better in the political place where they live.

I feel in awe when many so - called Christians, support politicians that are so out of touch with the needs of our fellow citizens... what Bible are they reading?