I saw a cultural Christianity that preached hellfire and
brimstone about sexual immorality and cultural decadence.
Not exact matches
If the couple wants to talk
about their sexual topics, be it hetero or homo, they will do that, and they must be treated with real, humble love and compassion, and not with
brimstones and fire, and not making scapegoats out of them in front of the congregation.
So I guess what I'm trying to say is this: there is a right way for religious people to help those around them come to know and follow God, should they so desire, but yelling at them
about fire and
brimstone is not really acceptable or in good taste.
The belief in a «fire and
brimstone» hell we may well surrender; we shall say more
about this later.
Threatening hellfire and
brimstone is
about as effect as a screen door in a submarine.
Usually, they have heard some fire and
brimstone sermon
about the unpardonable sin or the sin of blasphemy against the Holy Spirit, and because of the book I have written on the subject, people contact me because they are scared out of their mind that they have committed this sin.
I always find it odd that believers talk
about free will and then threaten with hellfire and
brimstone.
What I really like
about your post, as I have seen in other posts from people of your ilk, is the nice little ditty at the end
about «ATHEISTS WILL BURN IN HELLFIRE AND
BRIMSTONE WHERE THEY BELONG AND I THANK GOD.»
Sometimes, these pastors use phrases like «turn or burn» and may talk a lot of
about the wrath of God being poured out upon sinners with fire and
brimstone.
plenty of rants
about people who think differently or worship differently (even within Christianity) or live different lifestyles than what people think they should, and not nearly enough anger
about injustice, disdain for prejudice, discontent
about misrepresentation of Jesus» words and frustration at the unwillingess to be salt and light rather than fire and
brimstone.
Cambridge university volcano researcher Tamsin Mather talks to Next Wave's Anne Forde
about her research, her field work in Chile, Nicaragua, and Italy, and how studying volcanoes poses many challenges but rarely the fire - and -
brimstone risks that most people imagine.
Chapman: Well, I mean, I think the thing was that not only had it not evolved, but then if you read the accounts of the Scopes Trial in 1925, and you read
about the local preachers and the hellfire and
brimstone and all that stuff.
And I'm not talking
about the in - your - face, fire - and -
brimstone religion.
There are many positive points to
Brimstone, a brutal Western with a point to make
about female subjugation.
The compelling thing
about Malcolm X is not the fire and
brimstone «chickens come home to roost: angry guy speeches, it's the fact that he rejected all of that after realizing how corrupt and fake it really was.
Methinks there is a little of the autobiography here, with sly references to her character's religious upbringing in the shape of Johnny Knoxville, a hellfire - and -
brimstone preacher who's shaming, conservative diatribes etched themselves on her, resulting in all kinds of issues, low self esteem, her negative views on sex and concepts
about men.
One wonders why they even bother still setting the games in a city when the plots have
about as much to do with urban domination as they do with appraising fine bone china, but here it is nonetheless: part
brimstone, part sleazy commercial dump.
I find this particularly ironic, as the only thing that the Hard Fork was successful in demonstrating was that the worst case scenario that the hard fork alarmists have been droning on
about for more than a year was completely unfounded, and that two chains can exist without any fire and
brimstone falling from the skies.