Sentences with phrase «at worst»

The silencing and dismissal that comes along with the stereotype of man - hater is annoying at best and hurtful at worst.
All the clues i have found add up to one thing, god is nothing more then an idea... a lovely idea sure, but just an idea — a hope at best and a poor excuse to kill at worst!
A church service called the U2charist would seem like liberal Protestantism at its worst: take music from a band that was cutting - edge over two decades ago, sprinkle some religiosity on top and try to reach hip younger people.
Because of this, I feel deep sorrow that on one hand, vast numbers of people around the world consider it confusing at best, and at worst, intolerant and violent.
Even though the two scholars represent opposite ends of the evangelical spectrum on salvation, both made essentially the same allegation: the wording seems, at best, theologically careless and, at worst, represents a heretical understanding of sin, human nature, and the human will.
At worst, I hope to write things that would make someone want to know just a little more about God.
There it appears, at best, as a side issue of legitimate interest to specialists, at worst, as a distraction from the truly urgent priorities.
If the Crucifixion does not express and embody a decisive self - transformation of God, then at most it can only give a guilty humanity a temporary respite from the sovereign power of the transcendent Creator, while at worst it can seal a fallen humanity in its abject state of powerlessness and self - abasement, totally repressing every tendency to movement and life.
Everything in me resisted the admission, fearing that exposure of my sin at its worst would lead to relational disaster and rejection.
And, at the same time, to be fair, what you may perceive as a «Love Story by God» and take it «literally» others perceive it at best, a book of fiction, with some good words of wisdom now and then, to at worst, a book of an insane deity who demands obedience, among other ridiculous things, and... sent «himself» to die for «us» as we are «broken» and «flawed» / sinful» creations, and by sending his - self... if... we just «believe» we go to eternal paradise with him.
Misattunement can leave someone feeling misunderstood at best, rejected at worst.
Whatever tendencies Jewish mothers and fathers have to be «superprotective,» and whatever they may do in creating unusual anxieties in their children, these are at worst diseases of moral conflict, which are, after all, curable.
But if it's any consolation, it will change from being scary to only occasionally heartbreaking at worst, as you come to understand where the devil comes from and how it all works.
At worst, the Bible becomes an idol that literally confuses the scriptures with their rightful subject matter.
Unless we learn to challenge our own beliefs the way we challenge others», whatever they may be can be no more than a blind faith at best or a delusion at worst, be that for or against religion (especially the puerile version of Christianity).
At worst such leisure becomes a great emptiness - a time void of any meaningful activity.
and to those who say that believing in God at worst, costs nothing, well, thanks, but I'm not wasting my entire life ignoring the existing planet in exchange for telling a make believe character how great he is.
But as it stands now Your Prayers for her are at the very least unproductive and at the worst destructive.
Liturgists can generate many powerful experiences, but when experience is the aim, this becomes cheap theater at best and manipulation at worst.
I also think that, given that there is current, on - going litigation the call by some for mediation is at worst disingenuous and at best mis - guided as so much has to happen before I personally would feel comfortable sitting across from those that have hurt you and then make myself vulnerable to them once again.
Any Christian who has said they have never had doubts is at worst, not exploring their faith.
It blurs the sanctification process (our part of that process at least) with salvation or at worst brings them into union.
The fact it happened twice, and in a similar fashion to the Christmas furore, might at worst suggest malice: at best it suggests incompetence.
Such a shift at best undermines, and at worst denies outright, the recognition that abusers have free will and culpability for the horrific assaults they commit.
At the worst, he killed an innocent child.
, you basically were standing in front of everyone and asking for help and for whatever reason at best no one really could or would help, and at worst, people actually threw you under the bus.
These were of course poor precedents, since no clear - headed person had ever argued that women should not be ordained because being a woman was a sin, while many thoughtful people had noticed that the shift toward increasing tolerance of divorce had been at best sloppy and at worst downright unfaithful.
When it does happen — when a group comes up with a novel interpretation that defies the church's historical and present teaching, it usually ends up becoming a small sect at best and heretical at worst.
This is NOT a biblical term, and it is unclear at best, and extremely confusing and misleading at worst.)
He says spiritual mentors like a Sunday school teacher in Fayetteville, Arkansas, and some of his Redskins players helped him get back on track with a deeper, more meaningful Christian faith even while the struggles were at their worst.
He defended traditional missionary preaching of the gospel of salvation in Jesus Christ against historical relativists and religious pluralists who viewed it as at best pointless and at worst a cultural imposition.
It is at best, a book describing the evolution of the Jewish mythology, at worst it is the definition of an evil deity I could never again revere.
At worst he's the careless, absentee, father of a world in chaos.
At worst, people may be using Christianity for personal gain.
Some see Mother's Day as at best an antiquated observance or at worst a patriarchal indulgence, evoking traditional ideals of motherhood and domesticity, when what the churches really need are new liturgies of gender equality and inclusion.
But any attempt on the part of a British Christian to claim a share of responsibility for the Shoah would be, at best, a tasteless piece of play - acting; and at worst, what perverted desire to command good and evil, I wonder, might possibly motivate such a claim?
But in fact it can possibly be the church at its worst!
His Times op - ed piece is historical revisionism at its worst.
The cross is reality at its worst and points to th.e limitations of individuals and groups and to the need for order to keep sin in bounds.
Losing your income can put serious stress on you family, which could lead to divorce at worst and resentment at the least.
In the story's grim world, sex is a currency at best and death at its worst.
That's dualistic thinking at its worst; and it's the normal mind that has taken over our world.
He is viewed at best as a wayward child of the nascent Hellenistic age, the beginning of the end of classical thought, and at worst as illegitimate, the importation of an eastern asceticism and impoverishment.
Finally, the extraordinary claims made by religion are at best, unsupported, and at worst, demonstrably false — although for too long, it has been a taboo to point this out.
If he exists at best he doesn't really care at worst he is a self agrandizing meglomaniac who loves to torture those weaker than he.
My point is that even within the context of this metaphor, anyone who «buys the cow» as a way of getting «milk» is completely reprehensible, while «getting free milk» from a willing «cow» is at worst somewhat sleazy.
At the worst it indicates that you have an axe to grind.
Any so - called «God» who allows the level of suffering that we've seen on this earth is, at best, impotent and, at worst, evil or indifferent.
Precisely where God comes out for the building of Israeli settlements on land formerly controlled by Palestinians is not clear to me, but the Republican parade to the Holy Land seems united in its view that Obama's efforts to curtail those settlements are wrongheaded at best and sinful at worst.
At worst they are from hundreds or thousands of years later.
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