Sentences with phrase «adherents from»

The anti-development and legalistic logic of environmental alarmism was the very thing that separated its most zealous adherents from its putative beneficiaries.

This success draws away adherents from the other schools, and a widespread consensus is formed around the new puzzle - solutions.

Heineman has crafted a film about the barbarism of war, in which ideology blinds its adherents from recognizing the common humanity of others.

Times Union: Caring Communities, Albany, New York, July 18, 2006 Simple life liberates adherents from stress.

Falsely linking morality to a belief in the supernatural is a time - tested «three card trick» religion uses to stop its adherents from asking the hard questions.

The fact that, in spite of its early association with that world and of the antagonism felt because of this seeming alliance, Christianity won some adherents from other cultures is evidence of the striking universality and vigor of the impulse which created it.

Falsely linking morality to a belief in the supernatural is a time - tested «three card trick» religion uses to stop its adherents from asking the hard questions about the transparently silly aspects of the faith (s).

Because fundamentalism must draw its adherents from among those who are outside the religious mainstream, it tends to ally with populist extremes.

In my survey of 1,275 AG adherents from 16 different congregations, only 30 percent were raised in the Assemblies; an additional 10 percent were converts from other Pentecostal sects.

Yes, and as well or better than most adherents from both inside and outside.

So Popey failed to appropriately handle the major scandals that plagued his reign, he failed to stop the flight of European and American adherents from his church, and now he is going to hide and reflect.

5) discouraging any adherent from marrying outside the religion in question (other than by denying recognition for such a marriage);

Not exact matches

«Emerging market powers eager to move away from being tied to the monetary policy of the U.S. and the banking system as well as to adopt the block chain as a payment system prove willing adherents as they adjust to zero interest rates and the decrease in systematic risk.»

You don't need to be a devotee of «servant leadership» or an adherent to the notion of «leading from behind» to recognize that leadership typically requires a sensitive appreciation of the talents, motives and desires of a team of people.

Below, a selection of the worst from Silicon Valley and its adherents in 2013 (they're not all geographically based in the Valley, but they're all part of the same bicoastal startup ecosystem) from founders, venture capitalists, and more.

Although its legitimacy was not universally recognized, the Ukrainian Orthodox Church drew many adherents, from traditional believers to hard - line nationalists.

The doctrine of Noahide law, in particular the doctrine of the universal prohibition of idolatry, gave Jewish thinkers the criterion they needed to judge the two religions among whose adherents they bad to live from late antiquity on: Christianity and Islam.

So, though southerneyes44 writes of Christian «appreciation of alternate views», there's a long and brutal history of Christians persecuting adherents of other religions, including the followers of Judaism, from which Christianity arose, during various European pogroms against Jews throughout many centuries, and adherents of other branches of Christianity.

Mormonism demands adherents» first allegiance is to Mormonism (which isn't necessarily any different from other religions), and ALSO gives adherents an ethical obligation to lie if it benefits the religion.

As former military and private soldier that worked in the Middle East (as well as having been raised in both religions), I've seen and experienced nastiness from adherents of both religions, but 1st prize goes to my sexually repressed, angry little friends from the «Religion of Peace», Islam.

Indeed, as Pleket has shown, from Augustus onwards, the emperors were the focus of «mysteries» that resembled the long - established mysteries of the Hellenistic world, and drew substantial numbers of adherents.

Regarding you post calling me a liar here is the direct quote from your own source as cited: «No president thus far has been an atheist, a Jew, a Buddhist, a Muslim, a Hindu, a Sikh or an adherent of any specifically non-Christian religion.»

Not only that science and faith are of course not antagonistic, and that the popular opinion that «science will solve all our problems» is fallacious, but also that, from a Church and faith perspective, science and scientists must not be seen as «the adversary,» adherents of some threatening or remote activity.

Advances were made in winning fresh peoples and new territories to the Christian faith of the pagan barbarians who invaded the Mediterranean world from the North and Northeast all who permanently settled in that region became adherents of Christianity, although the conversion of some was de1 until after A.D. 950.

CNN: Survey: Catholics divided on political issues, as adherent numbers decline As important as the Catholic vote is in the 2012 election, a new survey finds that the group is far from monolithic and is not largely focused on the issues that get a lot of attention from church leaders — abortion and gay marriage.

A Christian who is authentically concerned for the poor must withdraw at once from a movement that counts its adherents in millions.

This anticlerical thinking gave rise to a theologically liberal brand of Protestantism, whose adherents were receptive to demands from atheists, liberals, and secular Jews for total separation.

From the pulpit of a church, speaking to a live audience about religious diversity, Obama sarcastically belittled America's Judeo - Christian heritage and degraded its adherents with trite remarks typical of any atheistic antagonist, saying things like: «Whatever we were, we are no longer a Christian nation,» «The Sermon on the Mount is a passage that is so radical that our own defense department wouldn't survive its application» and «To base our policy making upon such commitments as moral absolutes would be a dangerous thing.»

Adherents of TM claim benefits ranging from the shrinkage of ulcers to an improved sex life.

You are not so moral... and the recent events with in the catholic church, and the amazing silence from its adherents to the pope to clean house, is proof that the church holds society to a higher standard than it is able to meet itself..

Previously, when American paramilitary groups became convinced of the inevitability of official persecution, their most militant adherents shifted from a defensive to an offensive mind - set, unleashing terrorist violence.

Not only were these churches leveling off from the heady gains of the postwar revival era (the main Presbyterian bodies from 1940 to 1960 had gained adherents at more than twice the rate of the preceding 20 years), but just as important, even more than before they were «losing» members and potential members because the regions in which they were strongest were «losing» population.

Modernity's emphasis on secularism involves three elements - a) the desacralisation of nature which produced a nature devoid of spirits preparing the way for its scientific analysis and technological control and use; b) desacralisation of society and state by liberating them from the control of established authority and laws of religion which often gave spiritual sanction to social inequality and stifled freedom of reason and conscience of persons; it was necessary to affirm freedom and equality as fundamental rights of all persons and to enable common action in politics and society by adherents of all religions and none in a religiously pluralistic society; and c) an abandonment of an eternally fixed sacred order of human society enabling ordering of secular social affairs on the basis of rational discussion.

This from a person who practices a religion that has millions of it's adherents everywhere calling for the death of anyone who draws their child touching, slave owning prophet, but is upset when new yorkers are mad about the building of a mosque (which as everyone knows, become hotbeds of islamic fundamentalist education) right next to the spot that your pathetic comrades killed thousands of innocent people.

The phenomenological approach took seriously the faith of the believer and tried to appreciate a religion from the standpoint of its adherents.

It provides a base for new coalitions between Roman Catholics and Protestants (witness the ecumenical character of its adherents), liberals and conservatives (witness the continuing concerns of the World Council of Churches and the evangelicals» Chicago Declaration), «majorities» and «minorities» (witness the numerous theological works written from black, feminist, Latin American and Anglo perspectives), and therefore can become an acceptable, sound theological foundation for church education.

Therefore it should be purged from the earth, to the point that in the future adherents to a religious faith of any kind must suffer shame.

The erosion of Christian membership continued not only for lack of nurture from the church but also because the jobs which the government reserved for «scheduled castes» (the official term for the so - called untouchables) in government employment were not open to those who claimed to be adherents of a non-Hindu religion, and therefore no longer in any caste at all, «scheduled» or otherwise.

In order to maintain a positive mental state and avoid the perpetuation of «negative» circumstances, adherents of New Thought may be counseled to turn their «attention from the outer visible effects of this world to the inner world of First Cause....

The failure of this ambitious attempt to fuse an evolutionary concept of nature with a high Christology and an orthodox Trinitarianism has won few adherents among either students of Christology or process thinkers, and has probably discouraged others from entering this thicket.

The AG's U.S. division grew more than twice as fast as the American population in 2012 (1.8 percent vs. 0.7 percent), gaining almost 54,000 adherents to now number nearly 3.1 million worshipers at more than 12,700 churches (up 127 from 2011).

Worship involved deviant sex, shirking off marriage and childbearing, possible abortions and infanticide, and immodest dress that made adherents indistinguishable from prostitutes.

However, the task became complicated when reports from investigation of September 11 identified those involved in the terrorist acts as adherents of Islam, and alleged to be highly motivated by their religious teaching.

The adherents of John the Baptist had their special prayer, as we know from an allusion in Luke 11:1; similarly the early Christian community had its prayer, the Lord's prayer, which was attributed to Jesus, as the sect of John ascribed their prayer to their master.

I don't doubt that most theists believe their religion liberates its adherents; but from the perspective of those who don't share the belief, the opposite is true.

The council has taught us to treat all human beings as «invaluable gift [s]» from God, as truly our brothers whether they are near or far from the fullness of truth known to the Catholic Church — whether they are non-Catholic Christians, the adherents of non-Christian religions, or indeed hardened atheists.

Almost all of its growth has come from ethnic minorities, who compose more than 41 percent of its 3.1 million American adherents.

Here and there Messianic prophets and even «kings» appeared; under Cuspius Fadus, the «prophet» Theudas; under Ventidius Cumanus, the «bandit» Eleasar; under Felix, a «prophet» who came out of Egypt, who led the crowd of his adherents to the Mount of Olives and attempted to enter Jerusalem with them, expecting the walls to fall at his command; under Festus, a «prophet» who promised «salvation» and deliverance from all suffering.

The largest new religion in Japan, Soka Gakkai, grew from a small lay Buddhist movement in the 1930s to millions of adherents today.

It was largely due to Paul that the Christian movement began to move outside the boundaries of Jewry, and this partly derived from the discovery that, whereas there was considerable resistance among the Jews to the new form of the faith, some of the Gentile adherents of the various synagogue centers were quickly attracted to the Christian Gospel.