Sentences with phrase «by adherents»

Ethics are simply «prescribed» rules of behaviour to be adopted by adherents of an organization on pain of punishment for non-compliance if one is found to be wanting in that regard.

Unfortunately these remnants of Christendom have been used by adherents to and supporters of NCRs to make society look like a bunch of hypocrites.

As per usual, there is no lack of misleading claims made by its adherents, not to mention brainless NY Times reporters.

I understand PNS well enough, having seen it put to practice by its adherents who, unlike Judith, were happy to call it by its name.

One can imagine movement conservatives opposing the expansion of school choice because it allows for the launch of charter schools whose politically - driven missions they will likely oppose (such as, say, Cesar Chavez in D.C. or the charter schools run by adherents of the Gulen Movement) as well as for the provision of vouchers that allow kids to attend Catholic schools.

It has since become a cult film and cinematic cause celebre, revered by its adherents and condemned by its detractors.

A new movie, Expelled, claims that intelligent design is good science that is being censored by adherents to evolution, which is nothing but Darwinian dogma.

The evidence in this case demonstrates that under California's blanket primary system, the prospect of having a party's nominee determined by adherents of an opposing party is far from remote - indeed, it is a clear and present danger.

Therefore war and all other forms of murder must be rejected by the adherents of the Jesus model.

Few moral and theological positions are as deeply cherished by their adherents, yet so quickly dismissed by their opponents, as pacifism.

If it's «by their lives you shall know them,» is homosexuality vindicated by adherents who show kindness, gentleness, and charity?

This, I submit, is uncharitable in the extreme, and it also violates the principle, to which Griffin subscribed in Searching for an Adequate God, that a position ought to be criticized on the basis of its «core doctrines» and not on the basis of views that may have been espoused by some adherents but are not essential to the position itself.

««Mormonism is still imagined by its adherents as a religion founded by whites, for whites, rooted in a millenarian vision of an America destined to fulfill a white God's plan for earth,»» she reads aloud.

When we begin to get spiritually curious outside the box of our assigned religion, we begin to survey the at first baffling array of sacred literature that is held in just as high an esteem by their adherents as the Bible is held by Christians.

Belief in gods and the continual pressure by those adherents of said gods to get society to conform to its wishes is cause for concern and has to be confronted..

'' Cult» is not regarded by its adherents as something «quaint» or particular at all; they regard it as the axis mundi, the very connection between God and the world, and that which gives humans their true place in the cosmos.

Religious experience, in other words, spontaneously and inevitably engenders myths, superstitions, dogmas, creeds, and metaphysical theologies, and criticisms of one set of these by the adherents of another.

There are within them various doctrines proposed by theologians and espoused by adherents.

As these egalitarian and traditionalist positions have been argued, implicit hermeneutical procedures have been used by adherents in both camps.

Modernity's emphasis on secularism involves three elements - a) the desacralisation of nature which produced a nature devoid of spirits preparing the way for its scientific analysis and technological control and use; b) desacralisation of society and state by liberating them from the control of established authority and laws of religion which often gave spiritual sanction to social inequality and stifled freedom of reason and conscience of persons; it was necessary to affirm freedom and equality as fundamental rights of all persons and to enable common action in politics and society by adherents of all religions and none in a religiously pluralistic society; and c) an abandonment of an eternally fixed sacred order of human society enabling ordering of secular social affairs on the basis of rational discussion.

I'm aware of all the ways these passages are explained away by adherents of ET — I used to defend such views and they all fail in my opinion, no matter how logical they may seem.

The constitution of the relation between God's revealed law and universal moral law is an intellectual operation that will be conducted differently not only by the respective religious communities themselves, but by adherents of particular theological and philosophical tendencies within those communities.

As president, Monson is considered by adherents of the religion to be a «prophet, seer, and revelator» of God's will on earth.»

Bone marrow - derived mesenchymal stem cells (BM - MSCs) are obtained by isolating mononucleated cells from a marrow aspirate by centrifugation on a density gradient, followed by adherent cell expansion in tissue culture.

Not exact matches

They are sometimes portrayed as misguided adherents to defunct Phillips curve notions that unemployment can be reduced permanently by tolerating higher and higher rates of inflation.

And, by your standards, the Jewish community, with roughly 6 million adherents in the United States, and 12 million worldwide (comparable to the Mormon community), isn't «relevant on the global scale» either.

The most comprehensive study of its kind, it provides detailed county - by - county information on congregations, members, adherents and attendance for 236 different faiths groups.

That is basically the only real differences in the religions themselves, but the adherents of all 3 of these religions pray to the same God, by whatever name they may call Him.

Atheism has a long history of its adherents changing living people into dead ones by the millions.

Precise statistics on the number of adherents within each church are difficult to come by.

Religion is deceit, a glorified supernatural Ponzi scheme designed to defraud the feeble minded, and its adherents are by definition either dishonest, or delusional.

«A study in the United States, published in the Social Forces journal and conducted by Sociology researcher Lisa A. Keister while she was at the Ohio State University, found that adherents of Judaism attained the most wealth, believers of Catholicism and mainline Protestants were in the middle, while conservative Protestants accu - mulated the least wealth, while in general people who attend religious services achieved more wealth than those who do not (taking into account variations of education and other factors).

These belief system seek to trascend whatever sociopolitical environment their adherents find themselves in by asserting universal ideals over cultural traditions.

I'd challenge you to show me any religion or philosophy (including atheism) that does not have in its history some dubious statements made by individuals that nearly all adherents would condemn and condemn harshly.

But, to my surprise, I learned through my reporting that as Christianity finds its place in Chinese culture, its adherents are less defined by how they cope with state - sponsored adversity.

They hold to their beliefs in a way rivaled by only the most lunatic religious adherents.

That human beings can not live without transcendent points of spiritual and moral reference is nicely illustrated by the fact that, as liberal mainline Protestantism was collapsing, those who previously might have been expected to have been among its staunch adherents found a new god: the earth.

Ideas that, by their very nature, create an obligation to recruit new adherents.

Jahangir for a time took strong steps to check his pervasive influence but, faced with an uprising by one of his army chiefs who was an adherent of Shaikh Ahmad, came to terms with him.

Our elites are characterized by their pursuit of de-creation — an unending total war against the sacred order and its adherents.

depending on your criteria (if you go by cultural influence or numbers of adherents), a case could be made that it's the clearest book in history.

Many of its adherents refuse to acknowledge the sanctity and equality of human life, instead taking the so - called «quality of life» approach, which determines the moral value of each organism — whether human, animal, or plant — by measuring its individual cognitive capacities.

Once sucked into the parallel universe of Christianity, the adherent is too intimidated by the existing framework of threats and rationalizations to attempt escape.

Point is this: the veracity of one's faith is not necessarily determined by the action of it's adherents.

In 1989 it reported a constituency in the U.S. of over 2 million served by over 11,000 churches and 30,000 ministers (it lists 16 million adherents worldwide) In 1969 the AG membership in the U.S. was only 592,000.

It afforded the emotional comfort of certainty, offered a compelling explanation of current affairs, situated its adherents on a social map, and was led by men and women of skill.

By theology of religions, I mean critical theological reflections on the interaction and intercourse between different religions through such means as proclamation and sharing of their different creeds and teachings, through dialogue of their adherents, and mutual challenges and partnership for common cause.

Since these «mixed» ventures may not always be the churches» most direct or effective way of fulfilling their central function of explaining the ultimate meaning of life to their adherents — and certainly not if muffled by the requirements of public fisc — perhaps churches should be less eager to enter into what can at best be but a very unequal partnership with the public, and less tenacious in clinging to «mixed» institutions rather than letting them spin off to nonsectarian auspices.

Americans in the two opposing strains of Protestantism, the evangelical and liberal, along with many adherents of Pentecostal and holiness cults, would agree that religious knowledge is special knowledge that can not be taught or learned by ordinary means (Philip J. Lee, Against the Protestant Gnostics, 113).

It seems to me that this approach has been used by many adherents of religions of every stripe.