Sentences with word «backward»

My former Catholic Religion still adheres to a medieval backward policy that creates unwanted children, suffering, and an eventual social, medial and tax burden to all American society.

Thus, religion seems to be a backward rather than a forward movement.

Your a complete moron if you believe in any 2000 year old fairy tales written by ass backward sheep herders.

Muslim rage, Pamuk wrote, results from a deep sense of inferiority about the backward condition of life in Islamic countries.

Therefore, just as it is important for Americans to face backward and to take their bearings from the Declaration of Independence, so Christians need from time to time to examine their charter.

Now ask yourself what was it that caused them to go, fall backward and be broken, snared, and taken?

(i) Circu.mcise them and prevent them from ever experiencing se.xual pleasure as women, because we are a mob of backward sava.ges;

That can only be inferred by reading backward from later in the book.

They do not trust their salvation will come unless they bend over backward.

We get it so backward.

Then finally we get to verse 13....13 But the word of the Lord was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.

Sure, some of them vote for Bachmann, some for Palin, others for Santorum or Rick Perry, but all of these charlatans offer the same snake oil, backward, 18th Century solutions to 21st century problems.

Or, to put the matter more precisely, Moltmann considers creation, but he redefines it as a backward projection in light of our eschatological hope.

The OT code represents a bending over backward of divine patience and forbearance.

There is little appreciation for the nature of conversion as an ongoing process made up of many steps forward and backward along the way; or, for marriage as only one option among a couple, or even a few, equally viable, equally «holy» alternatives for living out one's God - given vocation... I don't have to dig too deep into my own experience to recognize the hang - ups that this glorification of marriage and a one - time conversion experience can foster.

The first step is to recognize when we feel disconnected and then work backward to discern what provoked that feeling.

Development experts complained that they could not make progress until they could modernize or rationalize the thinking of these backward people.

Many regard Russia as backward, lagging behind the West.

Others turn us outward in proclamation, backward in commemoration or inward in reflection.

Do you think that given the supremacy of the revelation in Jesus Christ, the sequence of Scripture can ever go backward?

First, then, Amos, a sheep - farmer from the comparatively poor and backward south, came into the northern kingdom at the height of its short period of hectic prosperity in the reign of Jeroboam II.

I wonder if the American evangelical church has it all backward.

GET educated - you are obviously interested enough to be critical, so attend a Mormon baptism OR would you prefer being «backward» as is your present condition.

You sing with them and command the muezzin to call out the azan backward because you yourself have just told my dog that it must be so from this day on.

Common sense thinks that «there is» first time, «then» location in time, and only then a looking - forward and backward (and «at» the location itself) from which future, past, and present arise.

Tallulah: I think you have it backward.

Looks we should build a wall around the entire Middle East until these backward, immature, and irrationale clerics can have at it with each other.

Let him be totally ignorant of the down - street gossip, but give him a chapter and order him to walk around it, camp on it, sup with it, and come at last to speak it backward and forward, until all he says about it rings with the truth of eternity.

The Spaniards who came to Central America saw as backward and primitive the native system of soil cultivation, which was migratory or itinerant agriculture, involving prolonged rotation (Hall, 122 - 23).

But again we would be looking in vain for any precise point - like limit; this is why James speaks of the «vaguely vanishing backward fringe of the specious present.»

(As a historical explanation it may be pointed out that the consciousness industry in Russia at the time of the October Revolution was extraordinarily backward; their productive capacity has grown enormously since then, but the productive relationships have been artificially preserved, often by force.

Oh dear, yet another interpretation of a book chain - written by Mesopotamian and Roman era storytellers, deified and literalized by backward folk too lazy to think, and used to justify social / cultural abuse and imposition.

Like when he allegedly performed plagiarism backward in time.

A recent visitor from headquarters called us «backward - looking,» and although his opinion needs to be modified, there is much truth in the remark.

«The mainline church bent over backward to accommodate modernism, and its members have budget crunches and shrinking churches to show for it.

We Millennials can no longer stand the backward, stuck in the mud, nature of the generations that have come before us in this matter.

Sure, religion plays a role in legitimizing power and rationalizing colonization (just look at the Spanish conquest of the Americas, for example), but if the Abrahamic holy books were really a good social agent the rest of the world would be imitating the most backward parts of the Middle East.

If you get your Popes and Pastors, fundamentalist anti-science crackpots, drill baby drill anti-environmentalists, and other backward ignorant obstacles out of our way, we will.

He also held the Reformation responsible for the rise of modern individualism and capitalism, when in fact Calvin (like Luther) looked backward to Augustine far more than forward to the Renaissance and Enlightenment.

America doesn't need anymore reason for blokes to plot against us and you're just pouring alcohol on an already burning fire.Anyways, as much as I am angry and hurt by this, I agree with this scholar - we can print more and more and as Muslim we need to set the standard of rising up and REMAINING calm and not be the stereotype the world thinks we are of angry backward water buffalos.

One might expect that Benedict was working his way backward through the theological virtues, with the first encyclical on love, the second on hope, and a later on faith.

if the afgan people got that mad when the twin towers came down or at the number of people that die from their heroine crop or at the way they surpress women then I would stay and fight for them but they are a backward people and they deserve the taliban

It's over 70 % Moran and 70 % registered Republican, the largest Republican majority state not a part of the deep, backward South.

The only things that points to any «god» are lazy, underdeveloped minds like yours that just want to conveniently fill in the gap with «goddidit» instead of tracing cause after cause backward to the beginning with provable, empirical EVIDENCE.

We should be looking» backward» not forward, because what do we have to bring us into the future?

They see him as the head of a backward - looking, misogynistic organization that continues to thwart social progress by her stands against homosexual relationships and the use of prophylactics to thwart the spread of AIDS.

The social philosopher Eugen Rosenstock - Huessy wrote: «Man as an animal organism lives forward from birth toward death, but, as a soul who knows beforehand that he will die, he molds his life looking backward from the end.»

This is a very, very frightening man from a backward culture of repression and fear.

You've got it backward.

There are a bunch of egotistical jerks here talking about how backward the south is... when in reality there are backward people everywhere.