Sentences with phrase «holy war by»

Holy War by Nigel Cliff tells the story of Vasco da Gama's many sea journeys in the service of Portugal's rulers, who wanted not only to spread Christianity across the globe but to take over the spice trade from India to Europe, previously dominated by Muslim Arabs.

Jesus did away with the entire concept of Holy War by showing us what God is really like.

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.

Not exact matches

Also, in response to the way you twisted your question, the so - called holy wars that you and Thor are referring to were also run by governments so also fall under the whole «nations supressing other religions» clause of your statement and are invalid.

Holy wars produce large numbers, but countless people have been killed throughout history by people who believe they were justified by their religious beliefs.

It would seem to me that before the news of «that day and hour» can be received that those who claim to represent the holy spirit and yet keep the chaos and division thriving would first have to be gathered into one place where war could be waged against them in order that they should be overcome by the very spirit they have claimed to represent.

Fundamentalist Islam is at war with the West and its values of intellectual and civil freedom and democracy — and it actually takes advantage of those liberties to advance its Jihad «holy war» by using tax breaks for religions to erect edifices or get subsidies for large Muslim families that are used to sway Western democracies, and, yes, suing for the right even to build a fundamentalist mosque at Ground Zero.

Of course these laws can be grasped only by intuitive faith — which is why ecology has become a religion, and why the battle over mundane issues like dams or highways is at bottom a holy war.

Aggressive war can never be reasoned by the Holy Bible.

The country was up in arms, the war was on, in every breast burned the holy fire of patriotism; the drums were beating, the bands playing, the toy pistols popping, the bunched firecrackers hissing and spluttering; on every hand and far down the receding and fading spread of roofs and balconies a fulttering wilderness of flags flashed in the sun; daily the young volunteers marched down the wide avenue gay and fine in their new uniforms, the proud fathers and mothers and sisters and sweethearts cheering them with voices choked with happy emotion as they swung by; nightly the packed mass meetings listened, panting, to patriot oratory with stirred the deepest deeps of their hearts, and which they interrupted at briefest intervals with cyclones of applause, the tears running down their cheeks the while; in the churches the pastors preached devotion to flag and country, and invoked the God of Battles beseeching His aid in our good cause in outpourings of fervid eloquence which moved every listener.

Yes those extremists try to paint the US as the Great Satan who's on a holy war against Islam, but that's not a pill swallowed by the majority of the muslim world.

I have always been puzzled by Christianity's use of the Old Testament to justify supposedly «holy wars», which in our country has meant, at least for some people, every war in which we have been involved.

By the Holy Bible at least the pagans, which have converted to Christianity (we), can not reason any aggressive war.

While the vast majority of Muslims worldwide were horrified and disgusted by such indiscriminate violence, clearly there are some on the fringes of Islam who interpret these acts in the context of a holy war.

Some how it's felt that values, morals, virtues are not there in a secular world only faceless solid lifeless laws of men rather than what has been relayed by Holy books that calls for good deeds and reject bad deeds and to build a faithful societies, communities, nations since communications among nations or even among the nations of mixed cultures and beliefs... Laws or God and universe are to be prepared by some thing that is equivalent to UN but built on nations beliefs to achieve the code of understanding among nations but as can see now it is build on groundless bases if not of words of God to faiths... in addition to those non spiritual secular beliefs to make decisions of faith but at the moment the secular world make and take the decisions while the beliefs and faiths has to pay for it when it becomes a war between all faiths or religions outside your world, it would become back into your inside among the mixed culture and beliefs of the nation or nations under one country flag...!

Christianity was used as war propaganda by the Holy Roman Emperor Constantine.

You know, please rest your conscience here as you read I am not an authority AT ALL as youll come to see, My lord has pulled me out of church the holy spirit filled church where I recieved Christ, and told me to visit ALL churches, oh and by the way 6 years ago The Lord asked me to open an out reach food pantry and safe haven for the needy, in the city that we live in, anyway this journey was humbling, God always shows me I am the stinker, that its my flesh that wars against the spirit, So many people are worried about satan, and demons or bad freinds or family or other religions, Yeah it makes you wonder 1st is it the same bible Im reading Jesus said it is finished!

Certainly there are places where this must be tempting: the ten plagues visited on Egypt by God because God had hardened Pharaoh's heart, the «holy war» instructions to Joshua to kill all the inhabitants of Jericho and Ai, and other passages that reflect an understanding of God that is certainly not consistent with the God of love taught by Jesus of Nazareth.

In the 1930s a humble and holy housewife Agnes Holloway was shown a vision of «God's Master - Key — the Law of Control and Direction» which was given for a time when «Rome was sacked and desolate as never before — either by persecution or by war, or if by war by a war which was also a persecution.»

It is a «place» made all the holier by its mute testimony to the folly of war, just as its replacement nearby, sparkling and ghastly, testifies to the folly of modern architecture.

This devastating critique was delivered by Norman Gottwald in «War, Holy» in The Interpreter's Dictionary of the Bible.

The Jeebus freaks would be well advised to note they if they ever get their beloved Religious Holy War, some well - trained, highly educated and extremely dedicated people plan to oppose them by any and all means.

On the other hand, if Jesus had been a military Messiah who avenged the Jews by leading a crusade against Rome, then the command for holy war would have been validated and given definitive sanction by the Messianic general.

Since the people were now scattered abroad and oppressed by Romans at home, the Messiah was to be a victorious general in a holy war.

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.

Just because Wars had been waged in the name of religion doesn't make the point of it Wrong,,, otherwise why does it say (He who loves me, keeps my commandments) almost at the same time as it says (I give you a new commandment, love...) in short, Yes, Jesus is what matters, but to know Jesus I need His word, the Bible, I need a relationship with Him, I need to understand What He wants me to be Like (Be Holy as your Father in Heaven) which is not just an old testament quote, but a new Testament as well,,, at the end, if Religion was so pointless and to be hated, why Would God ask us to test the spirits, why does he tell us (by their fruits you would know them.)

Those chapters were these: «Holy War, Divine Action, and the New Atheism» by Robert Stewart «The Unholy Notion of Holy War» by Murray Rae

This is our new «Holy War,» and it is a story that has yet to be told by someone sympathetic to Christianity in Ireland.

And whereas, it is the duty of nations as as well as of men, to owe their dependence upon the overruling power of God, to confess their sins and transgressions, in humble sorrow, yet with assured hope that genuine repentance will lead to mercy and pardon; and to recognize the sublime truth, announced in the Holy Scriptures and proven by all history, that those nations only are blessed whose God is the Lord: And, in so much as we know that, by His divine law, nations, like individuals, are subjected to punishments and chastisements in this world, may we not justly fear that the awful calamity of civil war, which now desolates the land, may be but a punishment inflicted upon us for our presumptuous sins, to the needful end of our national reformation as a whole People?

If you posit that Jesus never existed, then you are in the minority of minorities, and either you have never studied the evidence and writings (both holy and secular authors), or you are in the class of historical revisionists occupied by Bart Ehrman, the Jesus Seminar, and those guys who say that the Confederate States of America won the War of Northern Aggression in 1865.

It also sought the establishment of the commercial domination of the Italian republics and the carving out of principalities for the feudal lords of western Europe (as it has been expressively put, it attempted the solution of the problem of the landless younger sons); and the Crusades also provided scope for all who desired to strike a blow for the faith or do penance by enduring the hardships of a holy war.

The moderates» break with the national Southern Baptist Convention came more than ten years ago after they were trounced in a Baptist «holy war» in the 1980s by politically savvy conservatives determined to enforce their conviction that the Bible is historically, scientifically and theologically inerrant.

However, a Hope Not Hate report released last year revealed that behind the social media facade lay an organisation led by religious fundamentalists intent on starting a holy war on Britain's streets.

And sure enough, what begins as a clarion call settles into a somewhat familiar period costume drama spiced up now and again with racy sequences nonetheless sobered by the memory of the delirious hedonism of that opening, wherein we get Dracula's backstory as a hero of a holy war, repulsing Muslim invaders in Romania, turning to blasphemy when the vengeful Turks fool his wife Elisabeta (Winona Ryder) into believing that her beloved has died on the battlefield, and gleefully chewing artificial scenery with toothy relish.

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These produced stories including wartime black humor in Iraq, musical diplomacy by the New York Philharmonic in Pyongyang, North Korea, a kerfuffle over the plumbing in Jerusalem's Church of the Holy Sepulcher, Pakistani artists» struggle with religious extremism in Lahore, and the Syrian civil war's spillover into neighboring Lebanon.

As Dracula attempts to expand his legions and simultaneously secure Mina's affections, a holy war against the demonic unfolds, led by the pious Professor Abraham Van Helsing (Anthony Hopkins), in an attempt to save Harker and Mina.

Synopsis: Bailian (Orlando Bloom), a young French blacksmith, is mourning the loss of his wife and son when he's confronted by his estranged father, Godfrey of Ibelin (Liam Neeson), the baron to the king of Jerusalem and a man committed to keeping peace in the holy land despite the increasing possibility of war.

It's a rousing tale of a lowly boy rising to become beloved King, a tragic love story, a thrilling adventure and an inspirational spiritual quest to heal the wounds of war and hate by finding the Holy Grail.

And when such links can not be ignored (as, for example, in the cases of the horrendous treatment of women by the Taliban or the rulers of Saudi Arabia, the clear calls for holy war against the infidel by many Muslim clerics, or the widespread dissemination of Nazi - level anti-Semitic propaganda throughout the Arab world), students are still exhorted to tolerate the intolerable by «understanding» its cultural or historical context to the point of excusing it all away.

A year ago, we were beset by self - publishing evangelists who (a) seemed to think there was some sort of holy war to be won, and (b) were frequently their own worst enemies because of the nasty, foul - mouthed attacks they made on traditional companies and / or personnel.

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.

Infuriated, he tracks down his imposter and uncovers a fringe religious sect that worships Amalek, the father of a biblical tribe destroyed by King David in a holy war.

The Holy War (Updated, Illustrated): Made by Shaddai upon Diabolus for the Regaining of the Metropolis of the World (Bunyan Updated Classics Book 2)

The game, as if you didn't already know, follows the adventures of Master Chief as he attempts to save the human race from certain doom via a holy war being waged by the Covenant, a particularly nasty group of badass aliens.

Developed by Marvelous Inc. and expanding upon the extensive Fate universe with a story from acclaimed series writer Kinoko Nasu (of Fate / stay night fame), Fate / EXTELLA: The Umbral Star features a diverse cast of «Servants» — ancient warriors of legend and imagination, always at their Masters» orders — who survived the Holy Grail War that took place on the Moon.

Developed by Marvelous Inc. and expanding upon the extensive Fate universe with an original story from acclaimed series writer Kinoko Nasu (of Fate / stay night fame), Fate / EXTELLA: The Umbral Star previously released for PlayStation ® 4 and PlayStation ® Vita, features a diverse cast of 16 playable «Servants» — ancient warriors of legend and imagination, always at the beck and call of their Masters — who survived the Holy Grail War that took place on the Moon.

The man who left his family to partake in the holy wars of far - off lands no longer exists, all that's left is a man who knows only the feeling of the hatred of zealotry, the sound of the cry of a thousand soldiers, and the smell of the thousand rotting, bloodied bodies felled by his sword.

[Platforms: PS4, PSVita; Release: Winter]-- Expanding upon the extensive and much - beloved Fate universe with a standalone story from acclaimed series writer Kinoko Nasu (of Fate / stay night fame), Fate / EXTELLA: The Umbral Star, developed by Marvelous Inc., transpires on the new world of Extella through a diverse cast of «Servants» — ancient warriors of legend and imagination, always at their Masters» orders — who survived the Holy Grail War that took place on the Moon.

Developed by Marvelous Inc. and expanding upon the extensive Fate universe with an original story from acclaimed series writer Kinoko Nasu (of Fate / stay night fame), Fate / EXTELLA: The Umbral Star features a diverse cast of «Servants» — ancient warriors of legend and imagination, always at their Masters» orders — who survived the Holy Grail War that took place on the Moon.