Sentences with phrase «christian holy war»

It states al Qaeda's power is being eroded and that most terrorists groups are trying to advance their political agenda, not bin Laden's dream of a Muslim - Christian holy war.

The Crusades were a Christian holy war against Islam, not unlike the present call against the terrors of that faith.

The message seemed clear, and the media nodded in agreement while the Crusades were a Christian holy war against Islam, the war on terrorism is a secular campaign in defense of justice.

I think that your conclusion is correct there is no Christian holy war of battle arms authorised.

Not exact matches

These days I believe the Christians like to call it «justified killing»; previously it was things like «purifying the faith» (as with the various Inquisitions), «Holy War» and «Crusade.»

Many practical concerns, including the safety of Middle Eastern Christians, the interest of the Church in the holy places of Jerusalem, and the issue of war and peace in the region, have colored the Catholic attitude toward the State of Israel, but the theological concern ultimately overrides the temporal issues.

... What has happened over time is that people were forced to believe in the one of the Abrahamic faiths through Holy wars, torture, Crusades and Inquisitions, and as people practiced this chosen people ideology, whether Christian, Catholic, Jew or Muslim, which was built on the principle of remaining segregated from the un-chosen, their faith urged them to remain segregated, where they lived and never to marry anyone outside their faith... and even in death there is a history of segregation which to this day continues, try having a non Jewish person buried in Jewish cemetery.

The reactions, especially on «Christian» message boards where we now had a «holy war» with Islam and not just a National defense threat, were brutal.

In 1648, delegates of the European powers concluded «in the name of the most holy and individual Trinity» the Peace of Westphalia, securing «a Christian and Universal peace» among the feuding parties of the Thirty Years» War.

Most Christians are reasonable people who understand there are those among us who would love to see a holy war.

If some Norwegian Christians were engaged in a violent, worldwide holy war, then it would be right for other Norwegian Christians to denounce them.

Just like Osama Bin Laden can find Jihad in their holy book, Christians can find war in the Bible.

If the Christians that served in the crusades really knew what was going on, they probably wouldn't have served, however, the leaders of the time used their beliefs against them and got them to fight for what they called a «holy war.»

For our ethical considerations on peace, peace - ministry, conflict resolution, Christians may profit from reading the Old Testament, our Holy Scripture, as a witness to the experience of a people in war and peace with other nations and as a reflection on what peace requires of the community.

The conception of a Christendom united under an inclusive Christian state, the Holy Roman Empire, and under an equally inclusive spiritual fellowship, the Catholic Church, if it could have been fully realized, would have saved Europe the horrors of political division and the recurring and disastrous wars which have cursed and still curse that continent.

In love of God, God's Angels, God's Holy Books and God's Prophets as Christians, Jews and Muslims which all of you to become more active in approaching those who are non religious to attract them rather than concentrating on each other as to gaining converts against each other or to fight in war with each other but are to become as one or wallies against it otherwise this country would become a Hell for believers inside and overseas under evil powers?!

As in medieval times, the war grew out of the situation of Christians under Muslim rule in the Middle East, and specifically the control of Jerusalem's holy places.

The Jews are willing to fight to drive others out of Jerusalem, the Christians endured dangerous pilgrimages not to worship, but to fight the Crusades to take the Holy Land for their faith, they tortured to «convert» infidels, and they fight amongst themselves (Protestant v. Catholics in N. Ireland, for instance); The Muslims declare «jihad» against their version of «infidels,» and they fight wars between Shia and Sunni over who should set the rules.

We Christians condemn Islam for engaging in Jihad on America, but we engage in Holy War by invoking God's name as we head out to battle against others.

OOO — SPIRITUAL BATTLE — spiritual warfare is the cosmic war of good versus evil: its battles are fought daily between God and Satan; between the Christian Church and the world system ruled by our spiritual enemy; and within every child of God, between the Holy Spirit and the lusts of the carnal flesh.

Will we raise taxes on the rich to support this Holy War, or will they want to cut healthcare for poor little American children (perhaps poor little Christian American children)?

I think we need to stop hurting each other I don't understand the world I'm a Christian and I only a man so I stay in my place I was taught to spread the good news of Jesus no to force it so when I here of people hurting people and they worship God God is good not bad so no matter what you call God it's not your place to tell some one they can't worship there God this holy war no this the good guy always wins so search deep with in your self ask your self do I hurt other people and if yes you need to under stand that you may be in for a surprised your God may be evil so let's judge are own actions

Speaking of Holy wars as Christian, can you back that up with a new testament passage ordaining holy Holy wars as Christian, can you back that up with a new testament passage ordaining holy holy war?

The most well known of all Christian symbols, the cross has for centuries marked the graves of Christians, perched high on steeples, inspired soldiers to wage holy war, or rested silently on altars between two candles.

It was this defeat and the expansion of Turkish power into Syria and Palestine, the control of Jerusalem, and the reports of their harsh treatment of the Christian pilgrims that inflamed feeling in Christendom and favored the extension of the holy war from Spain and Sicily to the Holy Lholy war from Spain and Sicily to the Holy LHoly Land.

Replacing the holy wars of the Old World have been religious patterns that left few dead bodies, though competitive denominational missionaries in many a new suburb have come down with ulcers, heart disease, endocrine disturbances, alcoholism arid, as they say, «other specifically Christian diseases» in their scrambles.

This lesson looks at Just war and Holy war from the both the Christian and Muslim perspective.

«Widespread criticisms of jihad in Islam and the so - called sword verses in the Quran have unearthed for fair - minded Christians difficult questions about Christianity's own traditions of holy war and «texts of terror.»

The Crusades were wars proclaimed by the ruling Pope against the «infidel» Muslims in the Middle East with the intent to restore Christian access to holy sites in Jerusalem and surrounding lands.

His portraits refer to Christian iconography like the holy Mary or to German soldiers (the young generation in Germany mostly knows their grandfathers just from old photographs of the 30ties because they died in World War II) or philosophers of the romantic era discussing the German identity in the context of the poly national state.