Sentences with phrase «adherents say»

Right God forbid that anyone take the time to actually examine what the bible and its adherents say, after all.

Not exact matches

I think it's gaining adherents,» Cramer said.

«The biggest consumers are politicians, their cronies, family and coteries,» says Omoyele Sowore, publisher of Sahara Reporters, an online news network that covers Nigeria and sub-Saharan Africa, adding there is a growing number of «movie stars, musical artists, con artists and a sizable population of religious adherents of the prosperity - preaching get - rich - quick Pentecostal stock» who are revelling in the bubbly.

Clara Shih, the chief executive of Hearsay, said that her social media gospel was gaining adherents among top executives.

No one is saying that the other religions / philosopies are not as bad, although I have never heard of a politician who follows Buddhist tradition trying to stop legalization of abortions, or an adherent of Jainism trying to stop same sex marriage.

In our age, when there is so much confusion over issues of ethics that are family issues in one way or another, the Enlightenment and its adherents have little to say.

The irony of communitarianism, says Frohnen, is that its adherents place themselves beyond the beliefs they seek to foster, and thus «sap the sources of the communal feelings they crave.»

I'm a retired Presbyterian minister and I've been saying the same things since fundamentalists rose to ascendancy, I hope I've lived to see the day when the new — actually the old — approach to the good old faith will find adherents again!

«It's a shame that the president totally dismissed the other adherents, the other celebrations that are happening at this time,» said David Silverman, president of the American Atheists.

And their adherents among humankind will say: Our Lord!

Mary was not only still alive at the crucifixion, it's clear in Acts that she herself was a follower and adherent — which says A LOT, considering women had no leadership powers (so no special treatment) and normally family members are the first to expose charlatans (note: even his brothers came to believe in Acts 1, after being skeptics earlier).

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.»

Here it suffices to say that adherents typically proved themselves tireless toilers in the Lord's vineyard and viewed the end of history with anticipation, not apprehension.

But he says this symbolism is «adherent,, rather than being a true act of language (a true act of language being, for example, the metaphor, which is a free invention of speech).

Now, over sixty - five years later, here is what others have said and fashioned about what Bill meant to say about this program that worked and the Creator upon whom its adherents had placed their reliance.

Judaism I guess takes it a step further and wants to make sure it's adherents are very serious about being part of the religion, than say a person who accepts jesus or mohammed to ease their conscious at a certain moment in time.

Its adherents are said to believe in the irrelevance of deity, supremacy of human reason, inevitability of progress, science as the guide to human progress, autonomy and centrality of the individual, and evolution as an absolute.

What was formerly taken to be a peculiarity of «holiness» sects has become a reality in the mainline churches; indeed, it has been said that the fastest growing group in these churches is composed of adherents of just this charismatic position.

But according to Cross» 1999 biography, he is an adherent of Odinism, a neo-pagan religion that experts say has emerged as one the most vicious strains in the white supremacist movement.

Belief in gods and the continual pressure by those adherents of said gods to get society to conform to its wishes is cause for concern and has to be confronted..

When some of your detractors post here saying you are looking for adherents or people to «agree» with you, what they don't understand is that we come here because we are free to disagree with you, and to discuss it.

Obviously, Christians need to pay attention to what the adherents of other religions are saying if it is to be decided whether the language of «saving faith» has its counterparts outside the church.

This concern with prejudice against blacks or women was not pervasive among social gospel adherents, many of whom championed labor, for example, but had little to say about sexism or racism.

It is said to have had «the unfortunate and dangerous effect of lulling adherents of the traditional approach into a false sense of security regarding the adequacy of the interpretations they have arrived at by means of that approach» (60).

In a letter he wrote to the organization's adherents, published on the site after his death, he said:

In a letter to Kepler in 1597 Galileo confessed himself an adherent of the Copernican system but indicated that he had said nothing in public for fear that it would jeopardize his post as Professor of Mathematics at Padua.

This is why it's hard take religion seriously... the bible says «Thou Shalt Not Kill» but then their adherents kill and torture things like crazy.

This does not mean that I should uncritically accept what historians, scientists, philosophers and adherents of other religious traditions say.

Yeah, respond to one of the few cases where people of one religion A behave with a surprising degree of respect to a radical member of your own religion B by haughtily saying that God doesn't hear the prayers of adherents of religion A, only those of religion B.

Critics say it's just training the parents, but it's being done all over the world and gaining an increasing number of adherents here in the United States.

Richard Clarke, a former counter-terrorism advisor to the White House and current ABC News consultant, said, «Since ISIS has used propaganda and its «winner» image to lure new adherents, when its propaganda figure is killed that makes it look more like a loser, more like the tide may be turning against it.»

«This information comes against the backdrop of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant's public call for its adherents to carry out terrorist attacks globally during the upcoming month of Ramadan,» it said in a statement posted on its website.

This is said to have irked some Mahama adherents who have vowed to forcefully detach Stan Dogbe and other «undesirables» from the former President's team, even if that will require «abduction».

He tasked Muslim adherents on good deeds, saying no Muslim must be found wanting of good character.

«For the European court of human rights to compel a religious body or its adherents to conduct a religious marriage of a same - sex couple would require a legal miracle much greater than the parting of the Red Sea,» he said.

He said there was need for Muslims to share love not only among themselves but also among adherents of other religions which will engender brotherliness among Nigerians.

This finding, he says, supports him in his belief that the Labour party needs a «greater rethink» than «New Labour adherents are comfortable with».

Professor Frank Chambers, Head of the University of Gloucestershire's Centre for Environmental Change and Quaternary Research, who led the writing of the Fast - Track Research Report, said: «Both sceptics and adherents of Global Warming might draw succour from this work.

«I was really intrigued by the results of a previous MIND study, which showed that the people who were most highly adherent to the MIND diet cognitively functioned as if they were 7.5 years younger than the least adherent group,» Cherian said.

These encourage patterns exhibited in the most restorative periods of sleep, say its adherents.

First and foremost the strict Paleo adherents lay the ground rules by saying that any foods which need the process of cooking in order to become edible are stricken off the list.

One can imagine movement conservatives opposing the expansion of school choice because it allows for the launch of charter schools whose politically - driven missions they will likely oppose (such as, say, Cesar Chavez in D.C. or the charter schools run by adherents of the Gulen Movement) as well as for the provision of vouchers that allow kids to attend Catholic schools.

That's not to say, however, that there isn't a legacy of cheap diesel cars waiting out there on used vehicle lots to take their place alongside newer adherents to the mileage - extending cause.

Adherents to this view say that people aren't more willing to load up on stocks during market surges because their risk tolerance is higher.

How ironic, then, that 40 - odd years later the first major social and artistic tendency to say loudly «no» to materialist, triumphalist America is being celebrated in museums - the kind of stuffy, establishmentarian institutions its adherents most heartily dismissed as square.

These adherents to AGW are so rabid that they have absolutely no clue as to what the science says or of the most fundamental concepts of science and yet they have the audacity to lecture real scientists on the subject.

«Fifteen thousand adherents, which is the size of a small town, is not a negligible social phenomenon,» Stanislav Drapal, deputy head of the statistical office, said.

As Dr Vakulenko, an expert on the Islamic dress in legal discourse, says: «although it might be argued that it's direct discrimination because it affects adherents of religions more than it affects secular employees, the courts were unlikely to interpret direct discrimination that way.

Sanford Levinson, a law professor at the University of Texas at Austin, said Justice Thomas's position claims few adherents in the legal community — Not even Justice Antonin Scalia, who like Justice Thomas argues that the Constitution should be applied according to the original meaning of its text when ratified.