Sentences with phrase «adherents who»

Or, if one were to consider the civil libertarian streak of Democratic thought (which they wouldn't, since the party in power always looks to its adherents who favor perpetuating that power, the foresight to reflect that its opponents will eventually come to power being quite beyond it), Randy Barnett and quite a few others.

I understand PNS well enough, having seen it put to practice by its adherents who, unlike Judith, were happy to call it by its name.

I'm of course referring to the «no pain, no gain» adherents who take every set to failure every workout.

I know a number of Primal adherents who fit this profile and then went on to experience the symptoms Jessica describes.

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».

9) applying or attempting to apply any kind of financial or social sanction against adherents who depart from the faith or fail to observe its obligations;

These programs have many ardent adherents who view the Ezzos as rescuing them from a chaotic family life ruled by undisciplined children that other families who don't use their methods must surely experience.

Woe unto the slack orators, woe unto the loose thinkers, and woe, woe unto all the adherents who have learnt from them and extolled them!

If it's «by their lives you shall know them,» is homosexuality vindicated by adherents who show kindness, gentleness, and charity?

Church growth has strong adherents, both within and without church bureaucracies — adherents who are just beginning to be challenged by serious theological voices.

It is well known that the serious decline in membership of the «mainline,» or liberal, branches of American Protestantism is largely due to the loss of a substantial portion of their adherents who were born after World War II.

Also, some of these books, just like the Bible, are not to blame as much as the adherents who think they have to be applied literally and rigidly.

Not exact matches

Its new CEO, Jim Hackett, is a meat - and - potatoes business guy (he ran office furniture maker Steelcase for years) who also is an adherent of so - called design thinking.

«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.

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.

Will adherents of traditional morality, who seek only to protect their view of marriage (and not in any other way legally to stigmatize homosexuality) be relegated to the margins of society, treated the way....

Moreover, the Northern European Jewish thinkers who advocated this view (unlike their contemporary counterparts in Spain) were in no wise adherents of Aristotelian philosophy and its natural theology, which argued that God's existence could be demonstrated outside of historical revelation.

«A study in the United States, published in the Social Forces journal and conducted by Sociology researcher Lisa A. Keister while she was at the Ohio State University, found that adherents of Judaism attained the most wealth, believers of Catholicism and mainline Protestants were in the middle, while conservative Protestants accu - mulated the least wealth, while in general people who attend religious services achieved more wealth than those who do not (taking into account variations of education and other factors).

As Christianity grew, its adherents were rich and wealthy, who dealth with Christians exclusively in loaning money and investing in business.

How can capitalists proclaim steadfast Christianity, when Jesus preaches that it is the poor and dispossessed who are his true adherents?

Imagine that Mr. Cochran, who is black, were an adherent of a religion that avowed the inferiority of white people, and that he distributed literature to that effect.

That human beings can not live without transcendent points of spiritual and moral reference is nicely illustrated by the fact that, as liberal mainline Protestantism was collapsing, those who previously might have been expected to have been among its staunch adherents found a new god: the earth.

Jahangir for a time took strong steps to check his pervasive influence but, faced with an uprising by one of his army chiefs who was an adherent of Shaikh Ahmad, came to terms with him.

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.

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

The changes in social structures of moral action, which previously were strongly linked to and supportive of Christian faith, has important implications both to how we conceive our relationship as Christians to our host society, and how we nurture ethical behaviour within adherents of the Christian faith who also participate fully as members of this society.

If this second thesis is correct, Christianity confronts an adherent of a non-Christian religion not only as a mere non-Christian, but also as a person who may already be regarded in certain respects as an anonymous Christian.

Both their adherents and the majority who ignored or disdained their appeals kept their attachments to occultism and to other hardly licit supernaturalisms.

He notes that in subsequent years Gilson's approach attracted a number of high - profile adherents, including Joseph Ratzinger, who, over the long course of his theological and now magisterial service, has relied consistently on the «Gilsonian paradigm» when explaining the relation of faith and reason.

What matters is what people KNOW about Islam, not Muslims who could be adherents or not.

Why do you assume that the dictators who are in control of the region today are adherents of Islam?

Sometimes, the best friends a minority can have are adherents of other religions, who see it in their interest to lobby on behalf of the minority.

Well, not only Atheists go to hell, others including Muslims who are not adherents go to hell TOO!

These new devotees of evangelism are imperialistic, attacking those who deviate as secular humanists (read pagans) and demanding conformity of its adherents under pain of excommunication (read being targeted for defeat in the next election).

Typically though, there are plenty of religious adherents / nut jobs who would disagree, to the extent of telling us we really should blame a particular religion in its entirety, including everyone practicing it, so long as its not their own version being blamed.

Today, the 30 Days Prayer movement (30daysprayer.com) counts hundreds of thousands of faithful Christian prayer warriors who cry out to God on behalf of Islam's 1.7 billion adherents, asking God to reveal to them his truth.

As I use the word in this book, it refers to that group of over forty - five million Americans and millions more worldwide who believe in (1) the need for personal relationship with God through faith in the atoning work of Jesus Christ, and (2) the sole and binding authority of the Bible as God's revelation.5 «Evangelical» is, first of all, a theological term, though its adherents may also have derivative sociological and psychological traits.

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.

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

The result is a remarkable and often brilliant blend of the insider's penetration and the outsider's critique that demands the attention of all who would understand fundamentalism, whether as adherents or as observers.

The adherents of «pan-Germanism» fumed against the «Jewish emperors» who ruled Austria - Hungary and against the Roman Church that in their view deprived the nations of their true substance.

I suspect that a number of these conclusions are shared by many middle - of - the - roaders who have thought of themselves as just - war adherents.

A perfect counter-example is Hinduism, which by construction is more spiritual than religious — it's adherents do not have strict rules or norms, and there is incredible diversity of norms within one umbrella (some who believe in caste system, even though a large majority of urbanites study in Christian missionary schools; some who believe cows are sacred though 2/3 of Indians are actually non-vegetarian).

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.

For milennia, adherents to this «faith» have had us believing that the same god who made people gay wanted them punished for the way «he» made them.

archeologists... she also fails to mention that it is a book written by goatherds who didn't know why the sun came up in the morning and were this god to exist, believing in him or worshiping him would have little effect as his adherents are subject to his «will» so that our needs and desires are fulfilled at an equal rate to hoping and wishing.

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.

Last week, the AG reported a gain of 48 churches and about 45,000 adherents (those who consider an AG church to be their church home) in 2015, bringing its total number of American adherents to 3.2 million.

Article I of the Statement of Belief, which must be signed by all who seek membership in the First Church of Christ Scientist in Boston, the Mother Church, reads: «As adherents of Truth, we take the inspired word of the Bible as our sufficient guide to eternal life.»

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.