Sentences with phrase «because most traditions»

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These media already give the news that the public needs and are much better about screening out lies, whether because of regulations (in the case of radio and newspapers) or traditions of responsibility (in the case of most print media).

The coalition holds together informally for the most part because of the perceived threat to the integrity and continuity of the Methodist tradition.

Yet you do not see the narrow path you have been led down by simple dint of «tradition» and other long - standing violations of the Constltution merely because most Christians support this sort of thing.

I find that most of my Christian friends who talk about homosexuality are either determined to not think about the issue because of tradition and fear or are on the other end and choose not to think about the issue because the pressure of contemporary culture (in our part of the world) is to equate my sexuality with the colour of my skin which is, in light of history, a silly equation but we should just adjust our understanding to accomodate.

I joked last year that 33 was «My Jesus Year» (because in most church traditions, Jesus did the whole «Death and Resurrection Thing» in his thirty - third year and so people try to make their 33rd year very meaningful).

I suspect because it is required to keep the belief going otherwise you would have to call in to question everything you believed in and that is a very deeply painful road — so most interpret it as a «test» rather than your brain working rationally because it is scary to go against tradition.

Most people, however, understand me as asking which Bible translation they are using, and so they will launch off into an explanation of why they read the KJV (because it has the greatest tradition), or the NASB (because it is the most accurate), or the ESV (because some big name scholars endorse it), or the NIV (because it's the most understandable), or whateMost people, however, understand me as asking which Bible translation they are using, and so they will launch off into an explanation of why they read the KJV (because it has the greatest tradition), or the NASB (because it is the most accurate), or the ESV (because some big name scholars endorse it), or the NIV (because it's the most understandable), or whatemost accurate), or the ESV (because some big name scholars endorse it), or the NIV (because it's the most understandable), or whatemost understandable), or whatever.

But because such religions are inextricably mixed with Christian traditions — most Haitians, for example, are located somewhere on a voodoo - Catholic continuum — the number of Christians is not at the same time overestimated.

But for our purposes here, Origen is the most illuminating because he stands at the beginning of the Christian intellectual tradition.

However, because of the premium placed on descendants of the «children of Abraham» in the Jewish tradition, marriage was normative for most Christians, and women were expected to bear children.

Palmer ignores this Jamesean strain of pragmatism, because his own thinking was shaped, as he tells us in one of the most powerfully confessional portions of his book, by a different strand of the pragmatic tradition.

I simply wanted Jesus, and since I couldn't seem to part the weeds of my own tradition to find his face (that, most assuredly, was because of my own baggage), I began to walk in the well - worn paths that the pilgrims before me had craved out.

However, this should not dissuade readers of other Christian traditions because the differences are, for the most part, negligible for the beginner in process theology.

Most Christians do not accept Mormons as one of them because of their different traditions and religious habbits, much like the Mormon Church refuses to recognize the FLDS and their child brides and multiple marriages as one of them.

Just keep questioning everything you do in the church, and with some careful, critical thinking, you come to see that most of what the church does, it does by tradition: just because we've always done it that way.

You'll find that if you study many of the practices we Catholics are criticized for by non-Catholic Christians, most of those things are spelled out right there in Scripture or derived from the earliest recorded Christian traditions... be careful though, because an honest, accurate, historical study of Catholicism by non-Catholic Christians often leads to conversion that's how I ended up Catholic.

I'm similar to what I guess most of you are and make my turkey the same way every time because, tradition.

Crayfish parties are generally held during August, a tradition that started because crayfish harvesting in Sweden was, for most of the 20th century, legally limited to late summer.

Most families have pancake traditions because let's face it — a stack of warm pancakes, especially banana pancakes, can make everything better.

Whether it be helping you all style a lovely spring tea party (because I lived in Ukraine and absolutely have to do tea time in any city I visit now) or sharing our most cherished recipes & traditions in a fun and beautiful way; I want to bring effervescence and joy to each and every one of your lives.

I love it because most often traditions come out of nowhere like that.

Yes ARSENAL FOOTBALL CLUB has a great History and Tradition to be proud of but only a MAD MAN (sort of YOU) will bring this into the context of what that MAD (no) MAN WENGER is doing to our Club.The fans and supporters are MAD (no) with the continued decline we are in.We are MAD (no) at our league position, MAD (no) at the pathetic excuses he continues to spout out and extremely MAD (now this is most definitely you) at the mindless yet somehow opionated «Supporters «who feel they need to defend him because he is a part of our history.

Those of us who care about civil liberties and therefore want the tradition of policing by consent to mean something in modern Britain should read this book, if only because one of the most intelligent policemen around does not really get it.

That said, chancellor is the most powerful position in the day to day running of Germany, because tradition dictates that the president will just represent the country and otherwise support whatever the parliament and the chancellor do.

Guggul Cholesterol Compound is unique among guggul formulas because it also contains Triphala — one of the oldest and, beyond doubt, the most highly revered compound in the 5,000 - year Ayurvedic tradition.

because what most people do, and is «tradition», is to use a german or polish type ceramic pickling crock.

Pfeiffer would follow more in the Streep tradition, but because she was considered one of the most beautiful women in the world at the time she would not quite be let into that club.

FORUM / Diversity: CS&A's Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion We believe it's important to host this conference because of the many common themes that unite even the most disparate independent schools: the need for quality teachers and motivated students, the desire to produce students of integrity as well as intellect, and the tension between progress and tradition.

We'll focus on the V - 8 half of the story in this report because tradition dies hard and most customers will gravitate towards the satisfying thump and steady pull only eight cylinders can deliver.

The most important part is that Alex and her family are brujas and brujos because their origins do not come from European traditions.

But don't despair just yet, because if the Halo tradition continues then there will most likely be a Beta for Halo 4.

Some of that is tradition, but most of that is because it just works.

Scully is a great artist because, constructing a great variety of two and three - dimensional works from a narrowly restricted choice of forms and media, he shows, in opposition to almost all other contemporary painters and sculptors and, also, to most art writers, that there is life, still, in this now seemingly distant modernist tradition.

I've wanted to go to Cooper Union for years because I'm a young American artist and its most important tradition is free education in New York City.

By the beginning of the Tang dynasty (618 — 907), the tradition of landscape painting had advanced little, partly because of the ever - increasing demand for Buddhist icons and partly because artists were still struggling with the most elementary problems of space and depth.

Most people in North America are fungiphobes, because we don't have a tradition of collecting mushrooms in our forests over generations, as you find in Europe and Asia.

Atheism is the primary focus, because, among other things, it represents the ultimate rejection of the demands of religious teachings and moral traditions, most of which are based on a quasi-governmental purpose that includes control of the population.

Tribal courts are much more tolerant of this because most tribes have an oral tradition which placed much more of a premium on the spoken, rather than the written word.

It is all because of people like us that children have a sense of tradition, that daddies and husbands can go to work every morning with a full belly and come home to a happy home and a good dinner, and most importantly, happy kids:) As I continue to check back and read your blog posts, I always look forward to reading more encouraging ways to make my home more inviting for family and friends, whether it be creating traditions, your yummy pie recipes, or ways to decorate your home.