Sentences with phrase «christian right church»

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After I became a Christian, I dove right into study and being active in the church.

The Mormons got this right, and as explained in Corinthians, the modern christian churches have lost the principle of baptism for the dead... and ultimately lost the doctrine of a just God.

Right... because the good christian right would much rather have a man whose church supported polygamy, believe that Jesus popped over to the US after the resurrection, and will return again in MissRight... because the good christian right would much rather have a man whose church supported polygamy, believe that Jesus popped over to the US after the resurrection, and will return again in Missright would much rather have a man whose church supported polygamy, believe that Jesus popped over to the US after the resurrection, and will return again in Missouri.

Of course, the government has taken on this human responsibility because the churches — filled with the Christian Right — have failed abysmally in following Christ's exhortations regarding taking care of the needy.

Most churches and Christian organisations oppose the right to die, saying man does not have the right to end life prematurely, and because states should help people to live - not to die.

If you mean time to worship your god in your churches, homes, and Christian gatherings, this right is already yours.

I went to a program the Catholic Church has called The Right of Christian Initiation (RCIA for short).

Release International is an advocacy movement on behalf of the persecuted church, formerly known as Christian Mission to the Communist World which is part of the International Christian Association, a global alliance of fifty ministries working among the persecuted church These organisations will often urge readers to write to their MP or the appropriate ambassador to register concern at the way human rights are being flouted.

However, I do wish the curators had done the right thing and chosen not to include the cross, which could easily have been placed outside one of the countless Christian churches in that neighborhood.

Madison, a Deistically - influenced Christian who, along with his family, helped establish the Anglican church in the U.S., saw many of this goals for government attained with the ratification of the Consti.tution and the Bill of Rights.

Imagine a day where christians respect the rights and views of others and actually leave religion in their churches.

If The Christian Right kept there beliefs at home, in the church and up kept separation of church and state, no one would have a problem or care.

@chris, that is my conclusion from my upbringing in the church and many interactions with many Christians including people right here on this blog.

I see no reason why church leaders should cease promoting Christian understandings of human rights in public settings as a way of promoting justice, morality, and the common good.

You're right about one thing — there are worthy and the unworthy in the Christian churches.

«Once again, expressions of Christian faith that honor the rights of women to choose their own health care options and what happens to their bodies are not seen or heard,» wrote the Rev. Barbara Kershner Daniel, who pastors the Evangelical Reformed United Church of Christ of Frederick, Maryland, in a message that she circulated via email.

@Shelley, The typical right wing Christian sexual ethic promoted in most evangelistic churches is MAN MADE.

Again and again, Charles hammered home the point that it is not necessary to oppose gay civil rights on Christian principle; but it is necessary to show love and acceptance, because the church has the responsibility of welcoming and sharing the good news of Jesus Christ with all people.

If a gay person wants to get married in a church by a priest or pastor, the gay rights trumps the Christian doctrine.

Speaking of being open - minded, if the church (including the Christian extremists) were open - minded, why do they bother trying to denounce and use the government to insure gays don't have the same rights as others?

Obama is a Christian and his actions as president are very much in line with the teaching of the new testament, yet I couldn't dare say that at my Evangelical church where the ACA has literally saved the life of our pastors child but here is so much hate for Obama it's down right scary.

Some more: St. Paul says in Romans, the Christian Church (the heavenly Israel) has no right to turn up her nose at the earthly Israel (descendants of Jacob).

Heck, I'd even make a safe bet that there are hundreds... thousands of Christians, right here in the US, attend Church every Sunday, etc, and don't believe in god, heaven or hell.

Churches are often a good place to bully because «good» Christians are supposed to be open to being «taught» and «corrected», which to a bully means they have the right to make others think and do as the bully directs.

Don't you find it difficult to say Obama is a Muslim at the same time you criticize him for belonging to a Christian church that's not right wing?

If we all, as Christians, just got that right, the world wouldn't be able to resist the Church.

-- like the Republican evangelicals who all think their church is the most Christian, the most right, the only ones going to heaven yet ignore the real teachings of Jesus by judging others, ignoring charity and the needs of their community, not understanding when the Lord's Prayer begins with «Our» Father — the «Our» is not just white people.

[What] I found deeply ironic, is that if there was anyone on the planet who would understand the role of the Church and nationalism and where that could go, I would say that I could be right in the group of top people who ought to understand that fairly well, because I'm a Christian and I wrote a book on Bonhoeffer and because I saw what happened to the Nazified German cChurch and nationalism and where that could go, I would say that I could be right in the group of top people who ought to understand that fairly well, because I'm a Christian and I wrote a book on Bonhoeffer and because I saw what happened to the Nazified German churchchurch.

The new Egyptian constitution is stronger on human rights protections and provides for the construction and renovation of Christian churches, according to the IRF report.

Personalism and the Foundations of Human Rights by Thomas D. Williams The Catholic University of America Press, 342 pages, $ 69.95 When the Christian churches incorporated «human rights» as a philosophy and project, did they take on an ethic that corrupts their beRights by Thomas D. Williams The Catholic University of America Press, 342 pages, $ 69.95 When the Christian churches incorporated «human rights» as a philosophy and project, did they take on an ethic that corrupts their berights» as a philosophy and project, did they take on an ethic that corrupts their best....

• «What is the biblical view and Christian experience of the operation of the Holy Spirit, and is it right and helpful to understand the work of God outside the Church in terms of the doctrine of the Holy Spirit?»

The two churches aren't alone: dozens of Christian leaders have complained that even though they fulfill the requirements, the government has denied them permits, according to Human Rights Watch World Report.

«I do notice that sometimes, like on health care, when [Obama] says it's the right thing to do, it's him saying you love God by loving your neighbor,» says Watkins, who leads a mainline denomination called Christian Church (Disciples of Christ).

He said when he asked Obama about how he became a Christian, the president said he joined a church in Chicago after becoming a community organizer, leaving Graham to speculate whether he became a Christian for the right motives.

Huffington Post: Louie Giglio, Atlanta Pastor Giving Benediction At Inauguration, Under Fire For Anti-Gay Sermon The Rev. Louie Giglio, the Atlanta pastor of Passion City Church who will deliver the benediction at President Barack Obama's inauguration, is under fire for anti-gay preaching and for calling Christians to respond to the gay - rights movement's «aggressive agenda.»

I think you forgot the multiple crusades, the salem witch trials, the constant degredation of the jewish by the christians and catholics up until right after WW2 and the holocaust, or not even mentioning the iron hand of the church during the ENTIRE dark ages, the complacency and silent approval of Hitler by the RCC, the fact that Hitler himself grew up a catholic and professed to be doing the will of god.

It was customary among the Reformers themselves to speak of a «valid» ministry as one in which «the pure Word of God is preached and the sacraments be duly administered according to Christ's ordinance» (to quote the Anglican Thirty - nine Articles, which are paralleled in other and similar «confessions»); and the history of the ministry in the Christian Church as a whole makes it abundantly clear that «authority to preach the Word of God,» or the right to «dispense the Word of God,» or the giving to the candidate of the Church's recognition and authority to be «preacher of the Gospel» — all these are more or less synonymous phrases — has been an integral part of ordination.

«I wish to express my church's sincere and joyous preparedness to cooperate as best they could with the government now ruling that had set itself that tasks of promoting the Christian education of the people, repelling ungodliness and immorality, developing readiness to make sacrifices for the common good and protecting the rights of the Church.&church's sincere and joyous preparedness to cooperate as best they could with the government now ruling that had set itself that tasks of promoting the Christian education of the people, repelling ungodliness and immorality, developing readiness to make sacrifices for the common good and protecting the rights of the Church.&Church.»

''... the right of holding slaves is clearly established in the Holy Scriptures, both by precept and example... Had the holding of slaves been a moral evil, it can not be supposed that the inspired Apostles... would have tolerated it for a moment in the Christian Church.

When they struggled with the church for power, the debate was about the right way to organize a Christian society.

So, the absence of sexual sins, church attendance, and right theology become the measure of a true Christian.

You may not like the members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, you may not agree with their tenets, you may even feel you are such an expert on what makes someone a Christian and have the right to make the judgement on who is and who isn't, but spouting off inaccurate claims indicates no credibility, and inasmuch as Jesus said «thou shalt not bear false witness» I guess it doesn't leave you looking much like a Christian.

Also, it seems probable that Hitler, being the great manipulator, knew that he couldn't fight the Christian churches and their members right off the bat.

«If the Church does not regard Israel from a Christian point of view,» he remarked, «if it does not recognize the theological significance of this people, having a national destiny that can be cultivated only in Zion, the Church has no right to pass judgment on Israel.»

Conservative Christians are right about one thing: public opinion has shifted on same - sex marriage (particularly within the Church), and this means they are more likely to encounter pushback when they insist same - sex marriage ought to be illegal.

We usually focus on the content of faiths and policies in disputing groups; for example, the Catholic bishops» pastoral letters, the sermonic messages of Martin Luther King, Jr., and black churches, Mormon doctrines about equality or inequality, New Christian Right teachings based on revealed truths, or Jews» concepts of the land of Israel.

Yeah, because local governments all over the country tell Christian congregations they're not allowed to build churches or wear vestments in public all the time, right?

Of course this is just another case where you think your church has it right, and all other Christians who don't hold the same view are wrong.

It was the Catholic Church that launched National Right to Life and the rhetoric of Jerry Falwell that compelled Christians across the nation to keep abortion at the forefront of their agenda.

We can not of course go more closely here into the question why the Church has the right and duty, not only to promulgate and inculcate the precepts of immutable divine law and to supervise its observance, but on its own initiative to go beyond this and lay down positive legal prescriptions, and impose obedience to them as a Christian's duty, although they are enacted with full consciousness that they are not necessarily eternally valid but can be changed and even abolished.