Sentences with phrase «attacks on believers»

A senior church leader in Nigeria has described the «difficult» life being experienced by Christians in the country, as attacks on believers by militant Islamist group Boko Harem continue.

Christian leaders in Kenya have called for their Muslim counterparts to do more to stop attacks on believers in the country.

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Ms. Redford quickly proved those believers wrong with deep funding cuts to colleges and universities and attacks on public sector workers and their collective bargaining rights.

Believers should be understanding yet aware that their attacks on faith are the result of predispositions not facts.

But believers share with postmoderns the recognition that truth rests on a faith that has itself been the sole subject of the long attack of modern times.

Out of all the postings on this site today, I found «Derp's «post the most fascinating and informative, as well as deeply revealing.Even after boasting of what seems to be a practically perfect live by any measure, he informs us that he takes pleasure in mocking and ridiculing those of faith who are presumably his opposite; I can only wonder if, given all his supposed accomplishments, he is smart enough to realize how deeply revealing of his true character his remarks are.As a believer, I rarely engage in arguments with my atheist friends, and like to think I wouldn't lower myself to the level of juvenile name - calling and personal attacks against whatever my atheist friends hold dear.Most of the time we simply agree to disagree; when they hold forth with misinformation or ignorance on their assumed «knowledge «of my faith, I try to gently correct them; I certainly don't allow any disagreements we have to devolve into hateful insults and name - calling.

I've been devastated to find that satan has planted himself so firmly into the church and is leading people away from the truth about who Jesus is and what He did on the cross, and keeping Christians from prayer and evangelism, focusing instead on attacking believers and turning them from simple faith in Christ to Calvinism.

They admit it to me, since they know I am an atheist, but believers instantly see it as an attack on them.

His attacks on the Jewish Law in his epistles do not seem to have been on the Torah as such, although this is how they have often been understood, but upon those who insisted that gentile believers were required to observe all the commandments of the Law.

It's very easy to calm yourself when you listen to people attacking the messengers and lazily relying on pastors who are insisting «peace and safety», but to me it's so regrettable and heartbreaking that hardly anyone seems to care enough to actually look at the Biblical message that these believers are all trying to bring.

As opposed to the thousands and thousands of billboards & church message boards every 50 ft with their snarky comments pushing their beliefs and quite often attacking non -(Jesus) believers and / or science directly or indirectly, all the millions of people that like to go around constantly «sharing their beliefs» about how everyone who believes differently is gonna be tortured and burned for eternity, or the countless attempts by local, state, and federal government officials to push laws based on those beliefs and to favor those beliefs all over the country.

Questioning the nonsensical belief in fairy tales based on an ancient tribal myths, and encouraging the «believer» to employ reason and rationally evaluate his or her position, isn't an attack.

Walsh and Keesmaat say that in the letter to the believers at Colossae, Paul's attack on the predominant philosophy of the day was animated by a similar concern — to remember the story.

Not content with his unparalleled attack on the Church in Judaea, Saul was granted letters of authority to act against believers of the new sect in Damascus.

Islam was not in on the attack — just a sliver of believers.

The irony of course is that the video looks like it was made by climate change deniers --- not believers --- as an attack on the supposed «fascism» of those who would mobilize society to reduce greenhouse gases.

Too bad these climate blogs (both skeptics and believers) focus on ad hominem attacks like this.

purely & simply due to it having been used against the believer, but all the more so, if the attack is shown to have relied on false premises.