Sentences with phrase «by christian groups»

The trinity is simply not taught in the bible and is only taught by Christian groups that accepted some very bad interpretations of a handful of scriptures that just happen to mention the father, the son and the holy spirit in the same sentence.

While admitting that there might have been some extreme form of asceticism practiced by some Christian groups, the question has been asked whether we can speak of the whole of the Christian monastic movement as similar to that of Manichean monasticism.

Same for «Fear God or burn in Hell», PullthePlugOnAtheism.org billboards, «Islam Rising... Be Warned», and actually «In God We Trust», «One Nation [Under God]...» Not to mention anti-science messages by Christian groups, such as «In the begining, God created...» (with an X'd out evolution - of - man sequence picture), which is just silly.

ay legislation in the U.S. is always back by christian groups?

One of the arguments for long periods away while everything is fine is the prevention of potential problems in the future but Sir Paul Coleridge said there were better ways to deal with any problems, such as going on holidays for couples, organised by Christian groups or with a Christian theme: «I would immensely encourage people to investigate those and take them up.»

Much of it sounds familiar to those acquainted with the more extreme millenarian beliefs held by some Christian groups.

A new document calling for UK Christian support for Palestine has been welcomed by some Christian groups and criticised by others.

A new document calling for UK Christian support for Palestine has been welcomed by some Christian groups... More

But the issue has not been solely spearheaded by Christian groups; Muslim organizations have also been vocal about condemning Iran.

Christian Zionism has been denounced as unbiblical and even unchristian by some Christian groups, including the National Council of Churches, but it has become an orthodoxy of sorts among Republican social conservatives.

Similar efforts have been launched in recent months against Blake Mycoskie, founder of TOMS shoes, for speaking at a Focus on the Family event; and Howard Schultz, CEO of Starbucks, for agreeing to appear at a leadership conference sponsored by another Christian group, the Willow Creek Association.

A new report by Christian group Oasis Foundation has suggested that religion and ideology are not the... More

Not exact matches

The short version goes like this: Blake Mycoskie, head of TOMS, agreed to be interviewed by Jim Daly, president of the right - wing Christian group Focus on the Family.

So, is the Army not the responsibility of the federal government, and wouldn't their support for a faith specific event such as this (it doesn't even cater to all Christian groups, only the evangelicals) be seen as an endorsement of evangelicalism by the federal government?

Carey is fronting a new campaign, «Not Ashamed,» by the group Christian Concern.

I found this graphic pretty telling by The Barna Group, Are Christians More Like Jesus or the Pharisees?

I bet the Baptist group was indeed very big... A 2006 Purdue study found that the fundamental Christians are by far the heaviest of all religious groups led by the Baptists with a 30 % obesity rate compared with Jews at 1 %, Buddhists and Hindus at 0.7 %.

Let's not forget what and how America was suposedly started as a place of relgious freedom by the pilgrams (according to so called american history books) these religious people proceeded to rob & kill the Indians who saved their lives, take & kill Mexicans for land & gold & oil enslave a whole group of people as property for financial gain all under the guise of being good «Christians» (WHITE) and now perceive all «Muslims» (NON-WHITE) are evil unless proven otherwise.

If the same Bible can provide a reason for different sects of Christianity where one group can tell another group that they are not «truly Christian,» then there must be some other evidence besides the Bible that proves sect right eo usness since the same Bible is being interpreted (i.e. influenced by some other non-Biblical source) differently.

I have seen the copies of death threats by Christians toward Silverman and his group.

By the way, essentually every minority group has been persecuted, throughout history, christians are not special in that regard.

Except for the vulgar allegiance of what McGinn calls «Fundamentalist Christians,» «the legend» of Antichrist no longer captures the imagination: «Most believing Christians seem puzzled, even slightly embarrassed by Antichrist, especially given the legend's use in fostering hatred and oppression of groups.»

Given the numbers of Christians, Yazidis, Shia Muslims and others who have been displaced by Islamic State for fear of their lives, this would likely lead to Britain's highest court deeming the group's actions as genocide.

Moreover, after Christ death, there were several competing groups of Christians each with their own version of Chrisitanity... (Much like today lol) Such as the gnostic gospels, and others that were destroyed by order of Roman emperors....

In June, Perry secretly met a group of nearly 80 conservative Christian leaders at a gathering organized by evangelist James Robison.

According to the work produced by David B. Barrett's religious statistics organisation (FYI, the man was a Christian no less) atheists number more than Jews, Sikh's, Shintos, Baha'is, Jains, combined, and if you want to consider all «non - religious / secular / agnostic / atheist» together, since the whole «non-religion» movement is kinda riddled with people who find conontations of words like «atheist» to be bad enough to not want to declare themselves atheist, you'll find the number of that non-religious group also amounts more than those religions plus buddhism, and taoism or even Confucianism.

A number of Christian groups have since formed what they call a «Circle of Protection» in the hopes of doing just that - protecting groups that are in danger of being heavily impacted by cuts to various food and nutrition programs as well as to Medicare and Medicaid.

Meanwhile, Iraq's beleagured president Nouri al - Maliki accused the organisation of trying to destroy the «centuries - old heritage» of Christians in Iraq, he said: «What is being done by the Daesh terrorist gang [ISIS] against our Christian citizens in Ninevah province, and their aggression against the churches and houses of worship in the areas under their control, reveals beyond any doubt the extremist criminal and terrorist nature of this group, he said.

Groups historically oppressed and persecuted by Christians?

A decision by the United Nations» Security Council (UNSC) last week to investigate the allegations has been welcomed by Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF)- a Christian group which speaks out against persecution - as a «really important first step».

For example, the U.S. is predominantly a Christian nation by its population, and when a predominantly Christian sample is surveyed to rate Christians, hence the Christian direction of the survey, the outcome would naturally reflect a Christian favor in the land, more favorable among older age groups, and so on and so forth.

The UNSC voted unanimously on Friday to establish an investigative team led by a special advisor to work with the Iraqi government in assessing the treatment of groups including Christians and Yazidis at the hands of IS.

In addition to the reported forced payments, many Christians are being driven from their communities by the violence or may soon face the prospect of being forced to flee from the brutal insurgent group...

In impoverishing themselves by giving their gifts and abandoning their intellectual pride, the Magi «brought themselves down to the level of the shepherds, and so a first Christian community can be formed out of the two groups.»

Tens of thousands of Christians have been forced to flee their homes by the terrorist group with many being killed by the extremist Islamic fighters.

Elsewhere, I have indicated how this field - approach to Whiteheadian societies allows for a trinitarian understanding of God in which the three divine persons of traditional Christian doctrine by their dynamic interrelatedness from moment to moment constitute a structured field of activity for the whole of creation.6 Here I would only emphasize that thinking of Whiteheadian societies as aggregates of mini-entities with one entity providing the necessary unity for the entire group is reductively much more impersonal and materialistic than the approach sketched in these pages.

The Christian group supported a united Jerusalem under Israeli sovereignty rather that a Jerusalem shared by Palestinians and Israelis.

And globally, the Red Cross and Salvation Army (founded by Catholics) and Medicin Sans Frontieres (originally founded by Christians, but now largely a secular group) have provided gratis disaster and emergency medical and other aid for decades, regardless of age, gender, religion, ethnicity, etc..

The actual true doctrine of Jesus could have been recorded in some of the ruled out books and practiced by groups of Christians that the stronger party in Rome declared «heretic» and stamped out long ago.

Students spent each day of the four - day conference participating in «community group» learning sessions and praise and worship led by well - known Christian musicians like Chris Tomlin.

No portrait is more radical and disturbing to traditional Christian belief than that put forth by the Jesus Seminar, a group of scholars who regularly meet to sort out the historically valid from the invalid in the New Testament narratives.

And then to follow up the description by the author with the picture of Christians consciously thinking they must use this or that set of inside - group - think in order to fit in... that's just idiotic.

On Friday, the al Qaeda splinter group issued an ultimatum to Iraqi Christians living in Mosul - by Saturday they must convert to Islam, pay a fine or face «death by the sword.»

Personal commitment, personal choice, faith as pure subjectivity, social liberations advanced by organized groups of self - designated victims - these become the substance, or rather non-substance, of the Christian faith.

A prominent churchwoman from Indonesia's troubled Maluku islands has declared that brutal attacks on Christians by «Jihad groups sent from outside» are wiping out the Christian community in central east Indonesia.

Do a personal or group study around Forgive Us: Confessions of a Compromised Faith by Soong - Chan Rah, Mae Elise Cannon, Lisa Sharon Harper, and Troy Jackson This powerful book provides historical information, reflection, and prayers around Christian complicity in sins against God's creation, indigenous people, African Americans and people of color, women, the LGBTQ community, immigrants, Jews and Muslims.

The country has long been considered a model of tolerance, but religious tensions in the past few years — including the demolition of 20 churches, protests over attacks on Christians by Islamist extremists, and a law requiring minority religious groups to collect signatures from local majority groups before building churches — highlight the country's increasing struggles to maintain harmony between its religious groups.

Your comment about Christians railing against scientific discoveries is another example of unfair grouping, again caused in part by the Christians themselves unfortunately.

Unfortunately, Ash Wednesday fell on a day when I woke up unsure that God even exists, in a week when I felt betrayed by a group of Christians, and in a month full of writing deadlines and social commitments.

Former Archbishop of Canterbury Lord Carey and Archbishop Desmond Tutu have surprised some Christian groups by speaking out in favour of the proposed assisted... More