Sentences with phrase «as other cult»

I wanted to get a sense of whether or not these sneakers were as comfortable and easy to fall in love with as other cult - favorites (Allbirds being the most obvious)-- specifically because the greatest indicator of a shoe becoming «the next big thing» is generally whether or not people actually like wearing them.

The Mormon structure relies heavily on family and peer pressure, just as other cults.

Not exact matches

The Lord's Resistance Army in Uganda quotes the Bible, as did the Branch Davidians of David Koresh, the People's Temple of Jim Jones, and many other eccentric Christian cults.

To b Christian is to recognise Christ as God in one form or the other and this is what excludes JWs, LDS n other quasi-Christian cults.

There is not Christian truth, your religion is cult stolen from other pagan religions it's time for people to recognize it as the myth it is.

no spell check) and others that want to have as many children as possible to make more money for their respective cults.

From the outside it may seem obvious to you, but I personally know a lot of people who would describe Catholicism as a cult, and still others who would say the same thing about Pentecostalism, Mormonism, Evangelism, and a few others.

Although it would be foolish to demarcate too rigidly cultic and other depictions of the emperor, as in some way all imperial ideology was pervaded by religious conceptualizations of the imperial figure, the emperor was more than the cult, and imperial ideology was embodied in other forms and practices, many of which still require extensive examination (for example, its significance in the ideological construction of gender in the empire, and particularly of the body, is only just becoming visible).

Other factors clearly played a part in this development, not least the unrelated growth, during this period, in the numbers of independent women who had the freedom to join a new cult such as Christianity.

Sounds like just another cult (atheists) no different than christian, muslim and all the other cults atheism is just as bad.

But it is ok for a delusional believer cult such as the RCC to tell others how to live their lives, right Frankie?

«Practitioners of Falun Gong, as well as other Buddhist, folk religionist, and Protestant groups deemed «superstitious» or «evil cults» face long jail terms, forced denunciations of faith and torture in detention, and the government has not sufficiently answered accusations of psychiatric experimentation and organ harvesting.»

Several of the Yale ministers, as well as other clergymen whom I have known, have criticized AA because some of its members tend to make it a religious cult.

Not belief itself, but one belief to the exclusion of all others and the cult of belief (as in lifestyle) to that of society at large.

The command to have no other god but Him whom Christ revealed was never for Christians simply an invitation to forsake an old cult for a new, but was an announcement that the shape of the world had changed, from the depths of hell to the heaven of heavens, and all nations were called to submit to Jesus as Lord.

Their view on women, of other religion and encouragement of violence against LGBT classifies it as a cult.

Hell, a lot of you wingnuts think it's your duty to get other people to believe the same garbage as you, so you go around bugging people and trying to get them to convert to your cult as a way of life!

In todays world with so many extremes, factions and cults in Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, etc. warring with each other the idea of God as a non-intervening force should be attractive to all free thinkers.

And so it is, to a large extent, with the other saints» cults as well, a point vividly illustrated in the testimony of several of the children of Sanchez, for whom the Lord of Chalma (another cult, centered about sixty miles southwest of Mexico City) was the focus of their spiritual life.48 Even when the cult is community oriented — as in the case of agricultural saints — it remains largely apolitical.

I don't bother with many other comment sections on the internet, so if she wants to explain to me how a complete lack of proof led her in one of the worst possible directions or how her lack of understanding of morals and ethics lead her to choose the most criminal of religious cults to join..., then that would be great and I'm sure we could all enjoy picking apart her arguments for her «conversion» to those of us who know the difference between reason, logic, common sense, and ethics and morals and empathy and sympathy... as I would guess she doesn't give a crap anyway I doubt she'll show up here.

Bill — as long as the Catholics, or any other religious cult, continue to denigrate women and gays, you can not, by any stretch of imagination, claim they are liberal.

Billy Graham's Evangelistic Association can disassociate itself from the truth that Mormonism is a cult all they want to support Romney, but I know the truth about Mormonism, Scientology, and the other «cults» that they themselves recently identified as such.

In any other domain, silly * beliefs * such as those of religious cults would have been discarded centuries ago.

- Mohammed NEVER went to Jerusalem it was just a so called dream he had when his cult was searching for followers, and placing his cult along with other cults of the one «true» god just gave islam the credibility it needed to add more followers as was just an extension of judism or christianity.

My money is on them continuing to be conspicuous by their absence and for their various cult members to continue to kill each other and innocents as well.

Cult religions such as Hinduism, Buddhism, Atheism, agnostics and all other form of religions that worship a man based earthly utopian system are ALL Antichrist because their net result is a unification / utilitarian approach at the expense of the truth of Christ.

Believer, not to put too fine a point on it, you, nor any other believer, has fuck all as evidence of your cult's god, nor any other.

For present purposes, it will suffice to say that one standard way of defining sects, and of distinguishing them from churches and cults, is to focus on their origins: sects arise as splinter groups through schisms from churches or other sects, whereas cults generally arise independently as autonomous organizations.

As the years pass, and your cult goes the way of ALL the others that came before it, you will see that for many Americans, the only freedom of religion, is freedom FROM religion.

The doctrine of grace distinguishes the Christian faith from every other religion in the world, as well as from the cults.

Poets celebrated the divinity associated with Augustus, and across the empire coins, monuments, temples and artwork promoted the cult of Augustus and other emperors who adopted Caesar as an honorific title.

As a popular cult figure, however, Merrick must also take on all the other figures» contradictory dreams.

Opinions differ as to whether the others rejected outright the sacrificial cult.

In other words, if believers can't successfully argue that a newborn is born a member of their cult, they will argue that the newborn should be put in some indeterminate group rather than a non-cult group such as Nones, skeptic or agnostic.

The cult of expressive divorce, as mediated by therapists, self - help books and other vehicles of popular culture, changed all this, Whitehead argues.

Nor were they undergirded as effectively by philosophy as were the popular cults in the other three realms.

cult: n., any group that TruthPrevails1 does not believe, that they want others to fear and hate as much as they do.

Moreover, I have merged as cults a number of groups, many of which others would call something else and each of which would resist being classified with the others.

For as long as the peculiarly Christian - prophetic religion bearing within itself the Stoa, Platonism and various other elements continues, all possibilities of a community and cult, and so all real power and extension of belief, will be tied to the central position of Christ for faith.5

Some interpret him as a cult prophet, a professional member of the Temple staff, whereas others exclude him altogether from the company of the prophets.

if CNN is going to show it live on tv or the website, let me know the time and also contact the local authority and try to stop them as of now U.S have too much on the plates with other social and political issues and pretty sure U.S is not able to handle such a dessert of mass cult suicide.

It means he can get in just as easily at two of his other predawn haunts, Mister Laffs and Dudes»n Dolls, places long ago ruled impenetrable by earth people, or nonmembers of the Youth Cult.

This allows you, the viewer, to connect with a couple of players straight off the bat, while still allowing space for somebody or other to emerge as a cult figure of affection.

Google indicates that Corbynism has been described as «a cult» or «cultist» by heavyweight publications ranging from the Guardian, Telegraph, Evening Standard, New Statesman, Spectator, Scotsman, and numerous others.

The cult known as The Family — the secretive extreme right - wing group that has been influencing Washington DC politics for decades, a group that actually has a house in DC where Republican congressmen live, plot, and conspire to cover up each other's crimes and scandals — is behind this.

«The Nigeria Police Force hereby implores members of the general public to disregard and discountenance the claim of plot by the IGP against the Senate President as a ruse, unfortunate and an attempt to divert Police investigation into the killings of more than Eleven (11) innocent people from kwara State and other States of the Federation in the recent past by the killer squad who operate under the guise of a cult group.

The State Coordinator, NYSC Ekiti State, Mrs. Nwano Eze Ukgha who put the number of youths registered in the new batch at 2,066 warned the corps members against indulging in cult activities, consumption of illicit drugs, and other forms of unwholesome acts on the camp as erring members would be handed over to the camp court for trial according to the by - laws.

Amaraizu noted that the suspects have being helping police operatives in their investigations as it relates to cult activities and other vices.

Among a number of other jobs, she worked as a dogcatcher, a reserve policewoman, and a cult deprogrammer.

Of course, such cults exist in other training communities as well and it's not a problem related to calisthenics only.