Sentences with phrase «by christians because»

CAR activists assert that trapping must be condemned by Christians because of its cruelty and threat to ecosystems.

Some of the greatest artworks in history have been destroyed by Christians because they did not conform to their religion.

Even artists who do things that are clearly and distinctively Christian, such as the novelist Walker Percy, are frequently rejected as «unsuitable» by some Christians because their works do not toe to one or another line of orthodoxy.

Yet you see, all of the time, persecution of gays and lesbians by christians because of what the bible says.

Normally I shy away from testimonial type books written by Christians because they are so often formulaic in design and downright boring.

However, the argument has been presented that non-Christians should not be offended by the use of the cross placed by a Christian because they (Christians) would not be offended by the placement of a Star of David by a Jew or a crescent placed by a Muslim.

Not exact matches

One of the reasons the early Christians were so heavily detested by the Romans is because they refused to pay tribute to the Roman gods.

If I wrote a book, people probably would not believe what I have experienced and how I was blessed by things that might have destroyed me because I had a praying aunt who was everything a Christian is supposed to be — and because God loves me.

For one to say that building a Mosque near ground zero is wrong is no different than someone saying they don't want a Christian church being built somewhere because someone close to them died in a Christian cult bombing or suicide like Jim Jones or Timothy McVeigh, or to say they don't want a Catholic church to be built because they or someone they care about was molested by a priest.

I'd be slammed by people associating me just because I'm a Christian.

The comment resonated with me because I had just spent time with a young man who was visibly shaken by an email he'd received from a Christian colleague...

Any call for massive cuts to education by the same people who push for «vouchers» so they can send their kids to private Catholic schools and such, are the Christian Right seeking to gut secular education because they hate it.

It depends on if you're a «christian» or a Christ - ian... today a believer can pretty much get away with anything because they pull the grace card, and I'm not saying there is no grace (my mouth is not perfect, but I bridle it by the Holy Spirit in me.)

the christians were bad during the crusades, stirred up by Pope Urban II into going and taking land the ROMAN EMPIRE, not christianity, had lost, and these same «holy crusaders», upon taking Jerusalem, massacred men, women, children, muslims, jews, christians, everyone just because they were different.

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.

Briefly speaking, doing the laundry was no Christian act of Jorge or pope Francis but deepest godlessness because by doing the laundry he wanted to underline his superiority about the other Jesuits.

The New Testament verse is held up by Christians around the globe because it neatly summarizes some key points of Christianity: «For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only son, that whosoever believes in him would not perish but have eternal life.»

Horus not all christians live by certain christain scriptures because I myself try everyday to live by all of GOD»S Laws, so not all christians do thank you

He hoped to reach a remote tribe, thought to be one of the last on Earth to have no contact with the outside world, but was discovered by a Christian missionary worker at a remote airstrip in the heart of the country where roads have been cut off because of tribal fighting.

Christians had to worship in secret back then like today because they are being attacked back then by their beliefs as they are being attacked today.

On philosophical grounds, this form of accommodationism is inadequate for purposes of dialogue because its portrayal of the other faith (whether by Jews of Christianity or by Christians of Judaism) is one that the other faith — in good faith — can not possibly accept about itself.

Therefore, just as Christians do not believe that Jesus is the risen Lord because of a conviction that the story of Joseph «raised» from prison by Pharaoh is both a prefiguration and historically accurate in the details of Genesis, so also Jews do not commit themselves to observance of the law on the basis of convictions about the historical accuracy of the book of Exodus.

Those who support gay marriage will say they are «persecuted» by Christians and that all Christians are bigots because they don't support the ideas of the gay and lesbian community.

Because I have just completed thirty years of teaching at a Christian university in Canada, I was most interested in his exploration of educational initiatives undertaken by ordinary Christians against long odds.

But to get to primary assertion of if not be based on Christian principles — read the Constitution & study Christianity (because judging by your words, you don't know it) and if you can't see the correlation then you just don't want to.

That's because we recognize only one Christian nation, the church, the holy nation that is bound together by a living faith in Jesus rather than by man - made, blood - soaked borders.

Moreover, it is demeaning to suggest that Paul VI affirmed the Church's classic position on marital love and procreation (which had been held for centuries by virtually every Christian community until the Anglican Communion broke ranks at the 1930 Lambeth Conference) because he was afraid that changing the traditional position would unravel the entire body of Catholic moral teaching.

I remember (but could not find to link) a splendid editorial by the Christian Century's David Heim (some uncertainty about the author) from quite a few years ago (presumably before the 2008 election) wryly encouraging evangelicals to enjoy their moment in the political and cultural limelight because it would prove fleeting.

It's not interesting because it was almost certainly a joke to annoy some fundamentalist Christian pro-lifer who had been falsely accusing these people of being influenced by Satan.

Christians in this country need to totally abandon the two corrupt parties we have, because those who are seated in the seats of making decisions will NEVER abandon their practices, for their love of power and the love of BRIBE that comes abundantly to them from those who have means to give it, in order to receive favors in form of making our country's laws and policies to further allow them to do their self serving practice, disregarding those which they hurt by them.

It's interesting to see how people will find their own truth, dig in their heals and be blind to any other idea... What would Jesus do is an interesting question... I consider my self a Christian and a spiritualist... because I believe it's just not as black and white as one religion or another thinks... there is way more grey area... but a fundamental truths that are a good rule to live life by, wether you are christian or not... treat others the way you want to be treated... do unto others... I am my brothers keeper... aChristian and a spiritualist... because I believe it's just not as black and white as one religion or another thinks... there is way more grey area... but a fundamental truths that are a good rule to live life by, wether you are christian or not... treat others the way you want to be treated... do unto others... I am my brothers keeper... achristian or not... treat others the way you want to be treated... do unto others... I am my brothers keeper... all apply.

So I doubt many will take her views seriously, since the fly in the face of what we have learned through the years about such Christians martyrs as Jim Elliot (speared to death by the Aucas and yet his son went back to be a missionary to them, because he LOVED them, something she might want to consider).

I only read the headline but because it is featured by CNN I already know it will be disparaging of Christians.

And Bush was embraced by the evangelicals because he spoke «Christianspeak» and look what happened under his Christian reign!!!

civiloutside - Exactly, there are too many Christians who have a personal opinion, and then assume that just because they call themselves a Christian their opinion is endorsed by Jesus» teaching and character.

The reason why Christians don't believe in evolution is because they believe god created every animal for a purpose, as can be demonstrated by the delicate balance and hierarchy of life.

One of the most common «attacks» by Christians is they are a religion or faith too, because they claim atheists have put up signs, or banners, and now, made movies.

The reason atheists respond and get so angry and want to shut Christians up is because they are somewhat convicted by Christianity.

Jews are disliked by so many because of one thing: twenty centuries of vile Christian propaganda, slander, assault and oppression, led by the Catholic church and the founder of Protestantism, Martin Luther.

It was invented, or «revealed» according to mormons, 150 years ago to a New Yorker, and the religious beliefs of mormons are completely anathema to Christianity AND mormons do not conside any of the actual Christian denomonations to be «Christians» because they don't beleive that Joe Smith was guided by Moron - i to translate magic tablets using a magic breastplate and hat in New York, thus revealing the truth that Indians are Jews and Jesus was in North America.

Not least by the number of posts above in which people have expressed their disillusion with the Christian Gospel because of some 19th Century self - proclaimed prophet with a zipper problem decided to re-invent it.

Through this alliance Clinton embraced the Oslo peace accords, which were opposed by Likud and the Christian Zionists because the accords called for reductions, however modest, in the expansion of Jewish settlements and asked that Israel withdraw from a significant portion of the West Bank, East Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip.

The notion of betrothal should be revisited by Christians, Thatcher argues, because it helps us to see marriage not as a single event, but as a «process.»

It was created by Christian that believe Israel would have to be re-founded because of their interpretation of the prophecy.

In Church, because we're all Christian and because we want to be nice to people, we let well - meaning people do the wrong jobs and therefore we do God a disservice by not presenting his incredibleness in the best possible way.

People burned as witches, blacks lynched by Christians in this county, people killed in human sacrifices, servants killed to accompany pharaohs on their journeys to the afterlife, untold numbers of people killed in various cultures because they were deemed to have offended God in some way, and so on.

Those Christians killing natives and mistreating them did so in part BECAUSE they were told it was okay by their pastors and priests, they were directly dehumanized from the pulpits that allowed their members to go about their murder and mistreatment without guilt or punishment.

Those churches seem to believe (often they're convinced by those who bully), that they should tolerate the bullying because that is «the Christian thing to do,» «their Christian duty.»

Without a doubt Christians can be demonized (not demon possessed because they are owned by Jesus).

You fundamentalist born - again Christians claiming to be offended by these «false prophets» really ought to regard them more closely, because they're exactly what you look like to the rest of the world.