Sentences with phrase «as zealots»

So the atheists are the ones best described as zealots.

Imagine what this country would be if it were a christian theocracy as you zealots would like.

Under foreign oppression it was natural to feel, as the Zealots did, that only by rebellion could the Roman yoke be cast off; but many of the Jews must have agreed with the Pharisee that an attempt to take matters into their own hands would be both impious and futile.

It really makes me wonder; If Phillip would have been so narrowly focused as those zealot today, would he have told the Ethiopian, Sorry you can't be baptized there that's a women's baptismal font / pond; if that happened would any of us other gentiles be here religously?

One who shows zeal, after all, is known as a zealot, a word that has pejorative connotations, as does its cognate zealotry.

A True Believer can be otherwise described as a zealot who believes they can't possibly do wrong.

Acting as a zealot in either direction could result in many lost investment opportunities.

Not exact matches

Already, farsighted zealots are pouring newfound riches into the cryptocurrency economy, creating blockchain - oriented businesses, like the Winklevoss twins» Gemini, or starting cryptocurrency - specific hedge funds, as AngelList founder Naval Ravikant is doing.

«You become a Popeyes zealot as soon as you experience Popeyes food.»

As genial as he is — he is the quintessential cheerful Sunday - school teacher and kids» - little - league - coach kind of dad — he has the personality of a zealoAs genial as he is — he is the quintessential cheerful Sunday - school teacher and kids» - little - league - coach kind of dad — he has the personality of a zealoas he is — he is the quintessential cheerful Sunday - school teacher and kids» - little - league - coach kind of dad — he has the personality of a zealot.

Why follow Khosla: 431,000 people can't be wrong — Khosla is a true influencer and «entrepreneurship zealot,» as he says.

Fret Zealot will be competing directly with products like FretX, a $ 59 LED device that serves the same function, though it's more basic in design as it's placed only on the first four frets of a guitar.

ViralNova, a Buzzfeed - like media startup chock full of feel - good stories, was bought this year by digital - media company Zealot Networks in a cash - and - stock deal that could be worth as much as $ 100 million if Zealot appreciates in value.

That being said, in defense of the anti-globalists, White House senior adviser Stephen Miller is also Jewish, and as an anti-immigration zealot, he's never been tarred with the «globalist» line.

It seems as if since the religious zealots God is unable to call down lightning as they think he should when they feel we have blasphemed him, the zealots enjoy taking matters into their own hands and attempt to bully and persecute and even murder atheists on their God's behalf.

What you morons describe as «partial - birth abortion» was outlawed YEARS ago because of zealots like you.

They're generally portrayed as hyper - religious zealots with a strong evangelical bent.

The hypocrisy of the religious zealots is revolting, they speak as if their history is pure as the driven snow and that people like me are the evil ones.

The atheists take unfair advantage of the religious zealots, because they refuse to stop using reason as their core belief.

When will all delusionary religious zealots realize that it was HUMANS (as in mortal men) who wrote ALL religious books, tomes, and manuscripts?!

I am sick of hearing bible - spouting zealots as Nicholas would say, asking Jesus for eternal live and forgiveness.

We can do the same as the religious zealots and either deny it says that or spin it to have some different meaning.

They're bigots, IMO, and every bit as dangerous as the religious zealots they constantly condemn.

For those on the straight and narrow, you're labeled as hateful, biggoted, or a zealot.

People like Jon are the reason I will need to stay vigilant long after my children graduate to make sure that they are not poisoned by the «science» of the religious zealots, but so to that my future doctors are not, as well!

Jennifer conveyed to me exactly how Planned Parenthood views its protesters: as religious zealots, as annoyances, as people who obstinately and stubbornly refuse to see the good the organization promotes.

Now, I realize I am now automatically dismissed as a narrow - minded zealot by the «free thinkers» on this site, but, if one is Christian and believes in the veracity of Christian tenets, then it is * illogical * to consider that other paths are equally valid.

Instead of asking him about «Zealot,» she asked him why, as a Muslim, he would presume to write a book about Jesus.

Otherwise you will be dismissed as some marginaly literate unstable zealot (But hey, if the shroud fits, wear it!)

Saul of Tarsus was not just some ordinary person he was a Roman citizen, educated by the finest scholars of his day, a zealot for the Jews and you want to make believe he fell for myth, Jesus who his fellow Sanhedrin leaders hated and crucified was a myth, Saul was dispatched to kill those who believed in a myth, Saul witnessed Stephen filled with the Holy Spirit and stood by as Stephen was stoned to death over a myth, Saul later called Paul established the church over a myth, Paul tortured and killed for refusing to reject a myth.

I'm nice to anyone who shows me the same respect and if religion never come up, no problem, but when it does and I get some type of zealot or another trying to preach I polietly excuse myself, and write that person off as a lost cause and remember to aviod them in the future.

as you say, «narrow - minded religious zealots» make up as much of the voting bloc as they once or ever did.

Fellowship — Among Jesus» closest disciples was the first century equivalent of a Jewish right - winger (Matthew, the tax collector) as well as the first century equivalent of a radical Jewish leftist (Peter, the zealot).

When my favorite Founding Father — Thomas Paine — was dying a Zealot broke into his room and and demanded to know if Ol' Tom accepted Jesus as his «savior».

We are to wage the warfare of faith, our only weapons those Paul speaks of: prayer, the Word of God, the justice of God, the zeal with which the gospel of peace endows us, (I consider «zeal» most particularly important; the term means military courage, such as characterized the Zealots.

But he is no zealot, eager to practice child - sacrifice or insensitive to the horror involved; this we learn from the austere, steady, and dignified way he proceeds, as indicated by the simplicity, compactness, and austerity of the verbs used to recount his actions: He arose, saddled (his ass), took (two youths with him and Isaac his son), cleaved (wood for the burnt - offering), rose up and went.

Whoops, sorry about that, here, we'll instead portray them as war - mongering zealots who just want to destroy America, would that be better?

Being «offensive» is typically not a good argument as far as law, otherwise, I would attempt to make laws that make radicalized ignorant christian zealots such as you, as «hate» groups.

That is just as insane as the religious zealots who believe in God.

Both early Christian apocalyptic and Zealot apocalyptic drew on the openness of this form of world - vision to the new, to make possible a meaningful participation of the believer in the «big story» to which he found that he was contributing as it moved forward to its end.

If it had been «proven» so many times as you proclaim we would have at least some evidence other than the crazed ravings of halucinating religious zealots.

But from then on an «underground front» (the «Zealots», as they liked to be called) kept the government on tenterhooks.

The «christian» zealots of this country like to throw the fact that this country was «founded by moral, christian people» when in fact this country was founded as a way to make money..

Oh dear, another alky zealot quoting the AA book as if it is gospel.

Otherwise we come across as religious zealots, convinced of our particular version of God, and determined to force him upon anyone who will listen.

The Zealots, fanatical as they were, had no ignoble cause to fight for, and they gave an example of uncalculating courage in a not very heroic age.

The Zealots, as Josephus tells us, refused to recognize the Roman government because «they held God to be the only Governor and Master,» and rather than acknowledge any man as master they endured indescribable sufferings.

Just as Jesus rejected both the politics of the Sadducees and the revolutionary violence of the Zealots, so his followers must embody not with their weapons but with their lives a counter social ethic.

you really have to dig thru some sh-t to get to the gems, modern christians who claim the founding fathers on their side should keep this in mind, these men where largely liberal intellectuals with a practical bent and where not the judeo / christian zealots that some try and make them out to be, jeffersons take on jesus is wonderful and it is useful in the modern world where we really need to focus more on the lessons of jesus than THE RULES in the entire bible, as jesus said ABOVE ALL ELSE love neighbor as yourself, jefferson had a great mind and his approach to spiritual matters like this is great

Zealots on both ends of the spectrum, Left and Right, do not stand as the majority's template for what we feel is for the good of the whole of this great nation.