Sentences with phrase «christians waging a war»

In the Middle Ages, it was the Christians waging a war of oppression against others.

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Atheists are waging a war against Christians.

If the first Christians pictured themselves as waging war against the world, the martyrs were their version of the Navy SEALs.

In Iraq and Afghanistan, soldiers, most of whom are Christian, have waged war against fighters who are Muslim, but not on account of their religion.

Chinese Christians also see in Bonhoeffer a man who dared wage war as an ant on an elephant.

There's not that much of a distinction... Jewish Neocons and Christian Neocons (ie the 15 % German Ethnic majority in this country and all of the other White people who are following them hook line and sinker) are on the same team and have waged a war TOGETHER against the Arabs.

You see, I am a pacifist — not in the sense that I do not believe that the government has been given authority to wage war but that as a Christian, I do not believe I should every personally seek to kill anyone for any reason.

According to some of the Republican presidential hopefuls, Obama, a Christian, is waging a «war on religion.»

The Islamic world encounters the face of Christian fundamentalism in the trigger - happy fundamentalist cowboy from Texas who, as president of the most powerful nation on earth, is ready to wage war against any nation that stands in the way of America's economic interests.

I've heard from gay Christians offering words of thanks and encouragement, from mega-church pastors and youth leaders saying «message received,» from college students and grandfathers and stay - at - home moms who are ready to «stop waging war and start washing feet.»

But, waging a war on a design choice isn't just misguided, it underscores what's wrong when some Christians demand that others exclusively acknowledge their values.

But take a look at the carnage in the Thirty Years War, a war between two groups of Christians who were horrified that anyone dared to believe other than the way they did, and tell me with a straight face that the religious zealots who waged that war wouldn't have used ANY technological advantage they might have gotten their hands on and didn't kill with modern bombs not because of self restraint but because of lack of availabiliWar, a war between two groups of Christians who were horrified that anyone dared to believe other than the way they did, and tell me with a straight face that the religious zealots who waged that war wouldn't have used ANY technological advantage they might have gotten their hands on and didn't kill with modern bombs not because of self restraint but because of lack of availabiliwar between two groups of Christians who were horrified that anyone dared to believe other than the way they did, and tell me with a straight face that the religious zealots who waged that war wouldn't have used ANY technological advantage they might have gotten their hands on and didn't kill with modern bombs not because of self restraint but because of lack of availabiliwar wouldn't have used ANY technological advantage they might have gotten their hands on and didn't kill with modern bombs not because of self restraint but because of lack of availability.

He simply represents the most harmful, dangerous kind of radical Christian there is — fork tongued — ready at an instant to wage war or give love — even on the same damn side of an argument if it is «politically» advantageous for his to do so.

Firstly, the two greatest wars ever waged by humankind were initiated within Christendom and were largely fought by the so - called Christian nations.

Maybe when the «Christians» in the United States stop waging war on the non-believers and those of other faiths you may have an argument.

Long before both of these cases, I, like many Christians, had been troubled by the vehement energy I saw among Christians who had chosen to wage war on the «sins» of others.

During the Middle Ages the Christian establishment of Europe was merrily waging war against Islam (remember the Crusades) and happily slaughtering Jews in countless pogroms.

Various sources have claimed it is a war waged by Muslim Arabs against Christian and Animist black Africans.

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.

Today's Christian simple doesn't see the fact that THEY are the evil ones sowing discord between societies, and vowing to wage the war of god.

George Soros, Michael Bloomberg, Rahm Emanuel, Dianne Feinstein, Frank Lautenberg, Nancy Pelosi, Piers Morgan... Gun bans are about hypocritical rich Jewish liberals waging war on white Christians.

Among the workers waging this ultra-violent war are: Chariot (Rob Corddry, pushing his cranky jerk shtick to its limits) who takes regular swigs from a glass revolver flask, bitchy menopausal veteran Empress (Ellen Barkin), Fool's ex-girlfriend Temperance (Odette Yustman), straight - laced republican Tower (Brandon T. Jackson in false nose), Southern Christian Heirophant (Emilie de Ravin), and dramatic pun - making Judgement (Ving Rhames).

The original war on Christmas was waged during the sixteenth and seventeenth century by Puritans and Protestant Christians who believed that people needed strict rules to be religious and that merrymaking was not only sinful, but should be punished by the long arm of the law.