Sentences with phrase «religious leaders know»

I wonder if sometimes pastors or religious leaders know this and they don't want other people to feel alone and scared like they do, so they make their followers think that there is religion.

Religious leaders all know these things but prefer a dumbed - down church following mindlessly and believing their false words just as they do for medical doctors.

Religious leaders know that people want to feel they're right.

They make people think that only the Religious leaders know what is and this is the misleading as ordinary people can know what God Is.

And when a fan in the audience — one of a dozen or so selected by the singer's team for a question - andanswer session — asked if he had any advice on how to get through a romantic break up, he demurred, flashing a bit of the humility that every religious leader knows is crucial in establishing a bond with one's flock.»

Before scientists or religious leaders knew the earth was round, God had Isaiah say in Isaiah 40:22, «He sits enthroned above the circle of the earth, and its people are like grasshoppers.»

As an elected official and a religious leader I know the pain of such acts.»

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«If you're Mike Pence, and you believe what he believes, you know God had a plan,» Ralph Reed, an evangelical religious and political leader and friend of Pence's, told The Atlantic.

Either way, the severe Twitter backlash to Lakewood's closure suggests that, when it comes to our religious leaders, thoughts and prayers are no longer enough.

I will no longer be respectful of the leadership of the Archbishop of Canterbury, who seems to believe that rude behavior, intolerance and even killing prejudice is somehow acceptable, so long as it comes from third - world religious leaders, who more than anything else reveal in themselves the price that colonial oppression has required of the minds and hearts of so many of our world's population.

I will no longer take the time to refute the unlearned and undocumentable claims of certain world religious leaders who call homosexuality «deviant.»

For years, the series has featured thinkers, writers and leaders from across the religious spectrum, including many well - known Christian guests.

Known as the Religious Right, vocal Christian leaders on radio and television convinced an entire generation of evangelicals that faithfulness to Christ meant voting for the Republican Party.

3) Realize that your religion is no different that many Christians that recruit the ignorant and tell them that information that is not convenient to the religious leaders is bad and sinful.

I personally think religion should not be a factor.No one should ask the candidates what their religious views are and they should never mention them.Their religious preferences have absolutely no effect on what type of leader they will be.Unless they are some kind of a religious fanatic.I think it's time for an atheist.There was not a Christian president for over the first 50 years of our nations existence.And, I do not think there has been one since.If you look it up you will find not one of our founding fathers were Christian.Not even Jefferson.I know he wrote the Jefferson bible, but, that's just because he, like the other founding fathers, did not believe Jesus to be of divine decent.So, he kept his philosophy while removing all the mystical and dogmatic concepts.

Although Hoffman was nominated for Oscars twice for playing religious figures - a Catholic priest in «Doubt» in 2009, a cult leader in «The Master» in 2012 - his own faith wasn't widely known.

I was involved with the Children of God in my late teens - in Texas — me and my ex was married and exploring a lot of religious groups — but I could see how wicked they were when they started separating the wives from their husbands and drinking and the leaders using drugs - so I left abruptly after 2 weeks - if I didn't know the WORD of GOD I would have been a fool of fools.

For decades, preachers and religious leaders alike have received a housing tax exemption from the IRS, known as a parsonage exemption.

Gathering in Jakarta, Indonesia, the country with the largest Muslim populus and historically known for its religious peace, the leaders denounced extremism and addressed its causes.

The Air you breath is One of the HOLYSPIRIT forms so ALL you have done in secret saying no one can see or hear me, HE has and HE is also known as the SPIRIT of TRUTH, all you religious leaders had time to repent for your sins against JESUS since 2005 you know when GOD THE FATHER exposed HIM in the flesh on Earth, the door is shut.

If you believe what the bible says, then surely you must know that Jesus critiqued much about the religious institutions and leaders of his day.

The religious leaders — who of all people should have known because they prided themselves in their knowledge of the Scriptures — told Jesus to tell the multitudes to keep silent.

You pull a number of religious deaths for all known history and compare that to a 47 year period when atheist leaders killed 285 million?

I would just like to know with all this salaries being paid to these religious leaders, who is caring for the poor?

To those who have been abused in any way shape or form by MD or other religious leaders... please know that you are not alone, and I as well as others support you, hang in there, you are a warrior..

They looked around them and saw their tiny movement opposed by the greatest empire the world had known, opposed by local political and religious leaders, and riven by internal schism and heresy.

I want to know why the public outcry against these religious leaders is not so overpowering that they are not all flipping burgers at McDonald's by the end of the week.

Altee11, no matter how many meetings between the leaders and religious leaders and community leaders, etc, NOTHING will be change if their mindset is NOT changed.

You yourself said you want to see a Christian leader so it seems you would want to know answers to your own questions about any candidate's religious beliefs.

Rush Limbach's comments will be taken as gospel for the Right, but they truely illustrate the reason the GOP is in turmoil... the leaders need the Religious Right to win, but know they are being intellectually dishonest because their values do not match the Religious Right, except on the abortion issue, whhich will never go away because the GOP needs that 20 % of voters who would otherwise vote Democrat becasue the Liberal values match Christian values more closely.

The religious leaders of Israel knew that they were there to manage it for him.

Having been a part of a church that went through the painful resignation of a lead pastor, and having been the daughter of a religious leader who resigned due to moral failure, I know how incredibly difficult this transition will be for everyone involved.

Religion might teach of duties and soften the inherent corruption of leaders and the governed alike, but the founders knew that the virtue of the nation was by no means assured, no matter what religious commitments its civic leaders might have.

You are right though, the flat world did come for folks who did not know any better, including priest, prophets and religious leaders.

Because, as every spouse knows, you always have to top last year's present, Rodong Sinmun got bold and claimed that «even foreign religious leaders think Kim is comparable to a god.»

• No central religious leader like Oxford Group founder Dr. Frank N. D. Buchman (Garth Lean.

According to the will of his father he was accepted by the Shi`as as their religious leader and became known as Imam Zain al - Abidin, the Ornament of the Pious.

I have a dream that multitudes of God's people will no longer tolerate those man - made systems that have put them in religious bondage and under a pile of guilt, duty, condemnation, making them slaves to authoritarian systems and leaders.

It would be no different than any number of modern religious figures or cult leaders.

He knew she was not so different from the religious leaders who surrounded her, not so different from you and I.

(Although there can be no doubt, as we have seen, that Jesus was put to death by the Roman authorities, I can not agree with those who virtually deny any hostility toward him on the part of the authorized religious leaders of the people, especially the Pharisees.

These are but some of the answers that contemporary religious leaders offer to those who want to know the good deed that is essential to eternal life.

In much the same way that denominations can no longer assume that people will take on the religious loyalties of their parents, they can no longer assume that today's church leaders will continue the funding patterns of previous generations.

This was not because the religious leaders didn't know who the man was, for they had caught the woman in the very act of adultery.

From civic faith to the practice of transformation: With their churches no longer part of the religious establishment, and with the country increasingly diverse culturally and pluralistic religiously, mainline leaders have had to ask bottom - line questions — questions about purpose, not profit.

«That said, if the churches do not take the opportunity now to «advocate» and «teach» why same - sex marriage is wrong for everyone (i.e., harmful to children, to the couple, and undermining of a culture of marriage), religious people should not expect to find a lot of sympathy for their right to exercise their religious freedom to dissent from same - sex marriage,» Esbeck told CT. «In other words, church leaders no longer enjoy the luxury of not teaching biblical marriage, as much as large numbers of the laity don't want to hear it.

I may be a non-believer now, but I was raised Catholic, a religious minority in the US, and I know what it's like to be part of a misunderstood religion, a religion that even now, people think is weird, with the mystical aspects of Catholicism, the fact that we have a Pope who is the leader of not just the religion, but an independent state, the Vatican.

If I started a secular club, and offered all the attractions that are offered at any mega-church, only without the religious teaching and preaching, and I, as club leader, made sure the members knew that I expect them to pay at least 10 % of their income to the club, and I was getting very, very wealthy as a result, I bet the vast majority of Christians who abstain from thinking badly about Benny Hinn, Jerry Falwell, Joyce Meyer, etc, would have no problem at all criticizing me, just because I am not a servant of the Lord.

And the ones who knew, the ones who were the intellectuals, the leaders, the religious teachers, they never even bothered to walk the 2 or 3 miles south to Bethlehem to check it out for themselves.

Gil you have asked some very good questions why does bad things happen in the world i personally do nt know God did nt explain to Job either why he had to suffer.What i do know is that God desires that none of us should perish but that all would have eternal life in him through Jesus Christ.This world will one day pass away and the real world will be reborn so our focus as christians is on whats to come and being a witness in the here and now.Both good and bad happens to either the righteous or the sinner so what are we to make of that.What we do know is that God will set all things right at the appointed time the wicked will be judged and the righteous will be rewarded for there faith isnt that enough reason for us to believe.Free will is only a reality if we can choose between good and bad but our hearts are deceitfully wicked we naturally are inclined toward sin that is another reason whyt we need to be saved from ourselves so what are we to do.For me Christ died and rose again that is a fact witnessed by over 500 people that were alive at the time and was recorded by historians how many other religious leaders do you know that did that or did the miracles that Jesus did.As far as the bible is concerned much of the archelogical evidence has proven to be correct and many of prophetic words spoken many hundreds of years ago have come to pass including both the birth and the death of Jesus.Interested in what philosophy you are believing in if other than a faith in Jesus Christ so how does that philosophy give you the assurance that you are saved.Its really simple with christianity we just have to believe in Jesus Christ.brentnz