Sentences with phrase «shi`as as their religious leader»

Just as the religious leaders in Jesus day, «Christian» religious leaders in general are hypocritical, greedy and concerned about politics.

If, as these religious leaders espouse, that they hate the «sin», but loves the «sinner», then why have they failed to follow in Jesus «footsteps» (1 Pet 2:21) and go to the homes of the people, «teaching them to observe all the things I have commanded you»?

The company wants to verify prominent pastors as the religious leaders navigate social media challenges.

Every so often someone recognized as a religious leader will have an «aha moment» and writes an «our God is too small book;» but the sectarian religious tribalism never seems to go away.

As a religious leader, the minister counselor can use the healing symbols of Christianity by which such guilt can be transformed.

IF Christ were here today, He would call Heaven and earth to witness against these modern day money - changers masquerading as religious leaders while spreading hate in His name.

And we should make no mistake — we are just as culpable as the religious leaders of Jesus day.

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.

Harding identifies several «story cycles» that constitute Falwell's version of his own biography; each opens up for listeners gaps between his suspect motives and actions and his calling as a religious leader.

Crowds gathered around the shattered national palace as religious leaders from several different faiths held a prayer service...

Another book which seeks to present Buddhism from the point of view of the Buddhists is The Path of the Buddha, edited by Kenneth W. Morgan and written by eleven Buddhist scholars, three Theravada and eight Mahayana, who were recommended by Buddhists as the religious leaders best able to speak for them.

Luther was caught in a political bind commonly unavoidable for any man who emerges as a religious leader of a large number of people.

This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes.

The partial concession to calls for conscience votes comes as religious leaders are warned not to inflame or distort the debate surrounding the use of hybrid embryos and other updates to fertility and embryology legislation.

«I think he should apologise to the President because his comments were in bad taste as a religious leader,» he stated.

«As elected officials, as community leaders, as religious leaders, as ordinary citizens, we must stand together to condemn these acts of hate against our Muslim and Jewish communities.

And FGM is unlikely to stop as long as religious leaders condone it and parents believe their daughters will otherwise be disadvantaged.

A week after getting our first glimpse of Philip Seymour Hoffman as religious leader Lancaster Dodd in Paul Thomas Anderson «s The Master, we now have a first teaser to go with it.

Two lessons focusing on Guru Nanak as a religious leader for years 7 and 8.

For Galileo, who used observations of the planets and stars to show that the Earth was not the center of the universe, the result was house arrest for the final years of his life as religious leaders fought the erosion of world views based on faith.

Following the lead of the great recent Popes, especially Paul VI, Pope Francis has a unique role as a religious leader and moral guidance to protect, preserve, sustainably develop the natural environment and achieve that social inclusion that can no longer be postponed.

«As religious leaders, we have a special way of dealing with issues of addiction — and oil is an addiction for our societies.

`... As religious leaders of different faiths, who share the conviction in the one Creator, Lord of the Universe; we believe that the essence of religion is to worship G - d and respect the life and dignity of all human beings, regardless of religion, nationality and gender.

Outside resources, such as religious leaders, might work with the therapist and family.

Not exact matches

Just this week, justices weighed the religious values of company leaders, as the Hobby Lobby case came before the Supreme Court.

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who serves as both the head of state and the highest - ranking religious figure in the country, condemned the protests Tuesday.

The scheduled attendees of the conference encompass a wide variety of experts, ranging from medical professionals, hospice advocates, scholars, religious and spiritual leaders, as well as entrepreneurs and business men and women interested in learning how an understanding of death and dying can help them live lives of greater purpose and meaning.

Modi's tenure as Gujarat's leader was not without its religious and managerial complexities.

«I don't want the IRS looming over our faith leaders in the community as they express their religious freedom,» said Texas Rep. Kevin Brady, the highest - ranking Republican working on the bill, told reporters when the bill was introduced.

The question is ridiculous, since yes, the religious leaders (Jews) had a hand in killing Jesus, but the conclusion that modern Jews are responsible is also ridiculous, as well as the insistence on retracting the question by the ADL, whose whole point is to prevent people from blaming modern Jews, not whether the answer is true or not.

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.

So the only words King actually is quoted as saying is that he «hates organized religion» and in his stories you find religious leaders as the great villains (prison warden in Shawshank Redemption) and this article concludes he is a great proponent of religious faith?

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.

If the people with guns also subscribe to their theology, the «religious right» leaders are that much closer to creating the United States as a Christian religious theocracy.

If memory serves me correctly, the bible reports quite often when Christ was on Earth that he sat and ate with those condemned as sinners and he quite often, and openly, criticized the closed minded religious leaders of his day.

CNN: Rev. Moon, religious and political leader, dies in South Korea at 92 The Rev. Sun Myung Moon — founder of the Unification Church, which gained fame worldwide decades ago for its mass weddings, as well as the Washington Times — died early Monday in South Korea, the church said.

In extracting «insights from sources as varied as Greek mythology, Catholic mysticism and fairy tales like Cinderella», Mr Rohr has followed in the steps of the religious leaders of Jesus day, who «made the word of God invalid because of your tradition».

It's almost as much fun as seeing religious leaders be drawn and quartered (slowly, in spray of vinegar).

as a living being you are not even able to understand yourself consiouness and believe in religious leaders to tell you what to think and not to think.

Verses 5 - 8 describe more of this religious leader's pride in the context of what his end will be: «By your great wisdom and traffick have you increased your riches, and your heart is lifted up because of your riches: therefore thus says the Lord God; because you have set your heart as the heart of God; behold, therefore I will bring strangers upon you... they shall bring you down to the pit.»

So, the Jewish religious leaders were cast as the villains because of that clash.

Lenin, Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot, Mao, Kim, and many other leaders used Atheism as a tool of oppression and slaughtered millions of religious people, whether they be Muslim, Jew, Christian, Pagan, Hindu, Buddhist, or whatever.

It's a good thing for him that his religious leader kept the post as head of medicine at his hospital or he might not have access to such relevant and accurate medical science...

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.

And especially after the Noachian Flood, did false religion take a leap, with false religious doctrines and practices such as the trinity, immortality of the soul, that God torments people in a «hellfire», the establishment of a clergy class, the teaching of «personal salvation» as more important than the sanctification of God's name of Jehovah (Matt 6:9), the sitting in a church while a religious leader preaches a sermon, but the «flock» is not required to do anything more, except put money when the basket is passed.

The Law can be used in either way, and while many religious leaders used it to destroy life, Jesus wanted to show how to use the Law as means of giving life.

I like the new pope a lot — I am not even a christian but he strikes me as a gentle caring and honest person who is going to do good for humanity — wish all the religious leaders could take a page out of his book.

Yes, you are correct that the religious leaders of Christendom gave their blessing to its members to kill others «in the name of Christ», such as Catholic Dominican inquisitor Tomas de Torquemada (1420 - 98) of Spain, who ruled tyrannically for 15 years (1483 - 98, with the blessings of Pope Sixtus IV [who praise him for «directing his zeal to those matters that contribute to the praise of God»] and Innocent VIII) and saw that over 114,000 (of which 10, 220 were burned at the stake) people were put to death.

As we look at the life of Jesus, we can not help but notice that He spent much time with those whom the religious and political leaders would not associate with because they judged «those sinners.»

The religious leaders have done next to nothing in this regard, except at times to be teach their members to be intolerant of others, especially those who have no regard for the Bible, such as atheists or agnostics.