Sentences with phrase «christian symbol of a cross»

In the UK Christians are not allowed to offer prayer in a hospital to the sick, on airlines wearing a Christian symbol of a cross is not allowed, Christian teaching in school must not be taught as the only truth, and a blind eye is turned to extreme religious life styles.

The cases of Shirley Chaplin and Nadia Eweida, on the other hand, involved the NHS and British Airways respectively and centred upon employees being refused permission to wear the Christian symbol of the cross.

Not exact matches

Though crucifixion on this cross only means physical death, not spiritual.The ankh was a symbol, not of death, but of life, and it is the ankh that was used by all Christians until the 4th century when the Vatican introduced the Roman cross for the first time.

To a Christian, the cross is a symbol of death.

Sorry, but a cross is a cross, and you may say it is historical and, yes, it is - it is the historical symbol of Christianity, and many people killed in 9/11 were not Christian.

Will the new Christian Right Cross have a right turn at the extremities of the cross, or will the symbol include the cross aflame?

Premier Markus Soder said crosses should not be seen as religious symbols but as a «clear avowal of our Bavarian identity and Christian values».

Seeing them together in their robes — large jeweled pectoral crosses, long ebony shepherd staffs in hand, the golden double - eagled symbol of Byzantium topping each staff — one was reminded of the civilization that shaped the Christian East for 1,000 years.

I know the cross is symbolic of the Christian faith and it's very presence is a symbol of hate.

The Christian symbols that speak to those realities of negation — cross, apocalyptic, sin, the demonic, the radically incomprehensible, the hidden and revealed God — strike home to me today far more than they ever did before.

The cross is rightly the eternal symbol and focus of the Christian faith.

It appears to me that Christians who continue to use these symbols in Muslim contexts have not yet internalized the meaning and the purpose of the cross.

He only conceded the use of a simple cross as a Christian symbol.

Bishop Donald (pictured below) declined to comment specifically on the case but told Premier: «It hurts me deeply as a Christian if the name of the Lord Jesus is abused or taken in vain or Christian symbols such as the cross.

Put a peace symbol, but not a cross that will leave people who died inside the towers and who were not Christians out of the story.

As was mentioned in the article, a cross is a symbol of Christianity, but Christians aren't the only people who died on 9/11.

The cross has become a universally accepted symbol of death and mourning even in mostly non christian countries.

Christians have used the cross for centuries as the symbol of their religion.

The cross is a symbol of one religion, for one group of people, who is trying to relabel all the victim as christian.

For the Christian community, the cross is the supreme symbol, for in his self - sacrifice Christ pointed beyond himself and surrendered the particular to the ultimate; the cross was the manifestation of God's participation in man's existence, universally present but not universally recognized.31 Tillich's own background in the Lutheran Church and his sensitivity to Luther's experience of guilt, forgiveness, personal faith and divine grace, are reflected at many points in his writings, especially in his sermons.32

Because Jesus died by crucifixion, the cross became the chief symbol of Christianity, and the heart of Christian proclamation.

For most Christians, the primary symbol of God's love and care for humanity is a cross — a reminder of the crucifixion.

Forget about the cross being a Christian symbol, and why don't you just view it for what it is — one man's message of hope, love and compassion to the victims and their loved ones.

The cross is a symbol of hope and new life to Christians, which is what we all wish upon the victims» families, friends, and those who were present that night.

I disagree with Voice of Reason, To me, the cross is still very much a Christian symbol, as Christmas is a Christian holiday.

Because for Christians, a cross is a symbol of redemption, resurrection and hope.

The death of Jesus is portrayed in Christian faith and hope as an act of life, as an affirmation of life in the face of death, and the cross of Jesus are symbols not of death, but of an unquenchable and invincible life that this world can neither give nor take away from us.

However, offering slang and fashionable jargon as «renewed» preaching, celebrating the secular embrace of certain Christian symbols (i.e., use of crosses as warnings at highway danger points, putting Christ in Christmas, etc.), or reducing the Gospel to the lowest common denominator of acceptable faith and ethic will hardly be received by a serious world as adequate penance.

It's kind of funny because Italy is one of the few predominantly Christian countries without a symbol of the cross on their flag and they're doing this.

Christian arguments for the cross to be displayed 24/7 in a public classroom as a constant reminder every second of the day that Jesus was murdered by Jews and died for our sins won't hold up to Christian review if all other religious symbols were placed right next to it.

if it was a symbol of the cresent moon rather then the cross you nutter christians would be all over it and you know it.

With an artistic rendering of a Jesus figure hanging on that cross, it then becomes a symbol of a Christian religious principle, to wit; he died for your sins.

David G. Roskie's compelling study Against the Apocalypse: Responses to Catastrophe in Modem Jewish Culture discusses the cross symbol's use not only in Chagall's painting, but in the literary work of Der Nister, Lamed Shapiro, Sholem Asch, S. Y. Agnon and the poet Uri Zvi Greenberg (Harvard University Press, 1984 [pp. 258 - 310]-RRB- In literature written before World War II (and under the influence of biblical criticism that had emancipated Jesus» image from its doctrinal Christian vesture), these authors used the cross symbol variously; for Asch, the crucified figure in all his Jewishness symbolized universal suffering; for Shapiro and Agnon, on the other hand, the cross remained an emblem of violence and a reminder of Christian enmity against Jews.

The group defends churches whose crosses have been forcibly removed amid a government campaign to strip skylines of Christian symbols.

It was the most barbaric and horrible way to die in those days, yet Christians made the cross the symbol of their movement from the very beginning.

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.

Then to ascribe motive and meaning to symbols and icons Christians use to remind us of His willing sacrifice which are canards and obfuscations, or at best linking them to darker events from history is not even a legitimate response to the cross itself.

In many historically Christian countries, the buns are traditionally eaten on Good Friday, with the cross standing as a symbol of the crucifixion.

The policy recognizes that it is not practical for some religious symbols — such as turbans and hijabs — to be worn underneath the uniform; wearing the cross is not a necessary observance of the Christian faith.

The court ultimately held that schools must not proselytize on behalf of a particular religious doctrine and that the display of crosses in the classroom exceeded the constitutionally established limits on freedom of religion, as the crucifix is a core symbol of the Christian faith and was being displayed in a public school where attendance is mandatory.