Sentences with phrase «by secular people»

Don't be fooled by secular people trying to pretend they are Christians just to get your hard - earned dollars.

Don't be fooled by other sites that masquerade as Christian owned, but are owned by secular people and companies, who don't share your Christians beliefs.

What is strange, to me, is that when I show my true self as a proactive Christian man, I'm accepted by secular people and people of other faiths and rejected by... you guessed it... churchgoers.

Not exact matches

In addition to this secular shift in portfolios, a paper published by the Kansas City Fed predicts a gradual overall increase in bond ownership among people older than 65 compared to the same age group in previous years.

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.

No, over 180 million people have been killed by their own secular humanist governments in the 20th Century.

= > You're the secular naturalist and should know people progress over generations not by waves of a hand.

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.

By attempting to subvert our civil rights, you religious people show us that you can not be trusted with secular responsibilities.

By the way, the Secular West gave you that computer you are typing on: if it had been up to people in Asia, you would still be doing foot - binding, adding with an abacus, all with at least as much cultural and religious arrogance as in the West.

Church - state decisions by the Supreme Court, and by the judiciary more generally, sometimes seem to be aimed at replacing this inconveniently religious people with another people more to its secular fancy.

secular humanists always conveniently forget that more people have been murdered by evolutionists in the last century than then entire dark ages put together, i.e.: Hitler, Stalin, Mao

By the way, the Secular West gave you that computer you are typing on: if it ahd been up to people in Asia, you would still be doing foot - binding and adding with an abacus.

What we meant to model was the sending of one of our number to be a foreign missionary — to learn a new language, to understand a local culture, to sacrifice the amenities of affluence and to live knowing that he or she is always being watched by seekers — while the rest of us stay here as lifetime local missionaries, learning to speak the language of the unchurched, understanding secular culture, sacrificing the amenities of affluence and living as a «watched» person in a society that is skeptical of Christian spirituality until it sees the real thing on display.

He conveniently overlooks certain other considerations favorable to socialism; when these considerations are given their due, even some practical people unafflicted by the need for a secular religion will find the alleged superiority of capitalism something less than obvious.

Although acknowledging that pastoral counseling had the same ultimate aim as other dimensions of pastoral work — that of bringing people to Christian faith and the Christian fellowship, where those goals were «relevant» — Hiltner defined the special aim of pastoral counseling in more flexible terms, virtually indistinguishable from those of secular counseling: «The attempt by a pastor to help people help themselves through the process of gaining understanding of their inner conflicts» (Pastoral Counseling, 1949).

The decision in the Hobby Lobby case helps prevent progressives from achieving their goal of making religious people into dhimmis, second - class citizens in a society governed by secular values.

Predictably, the secular media has responded by reporting on the disparity in the responses between what the Church teaches and what people believe.

Such questions may arise because people confuse the vocation of consecrated virginity with the taking of vows of celibate chastity by religious and the consecration to celibacy of the secular priesthood.

The program of these seminars has been directed by qualified persons able to win support and cooperation from the religious and secular leaders of the region concerned.

And now they have the impression that people are discussing anything and everything, questioning everything, that everything is collapsing, that their own perhaps hard - earned and dearly - bought rigid adherence to the doctrine, and above all the traditional practice, of the Church even to the slightest concrete detail of the style of religious and secular life, is disavowed and almost despised by the Church and its leading representatives.

I don't know how many times I heard,» their just going to spend it on beer», «that's the governments job»,» it's their own fault and God is judging them,» I have seen so many people healed by secular organizations, physically and Spiritually.

Similarly, his ideal version of secular education, though it allows for a «proportion» of persons professing other faiths, and for some disbelievers, recommends that these people conform to public Christian values, presumably as determined by the Community of Christians.

In this sense a process hermeneutic will be more fully «secular» than the new hermeneutic, since it will recognize that all beings, in all times and places, who can in the full sense be named human persons, are — simply by virtue of their humanity — capable of grasping (and being grasped by) the message of the text.

No matter that even in our own complex and secular day, when the old notion of «parish» as a particular area where people sleep and work has almost expired, the majority of people can still be ministered to by local churches for most of their lives if they are interested in the services of ministry.

Atheists are minority in the U.S. and the world no matter what «secular» sources and polls voted by few thousands of people tells you that were made up by silly atheists dreaming about making America more atheist, unbiblical and unGodly than what it actually is.

There are now persons in the pews who were born in the city, who are secular in their outlook, who are keenly aware of the ways in which their lives are shaped by structures which they do not control and who are concerned that their religious institutions should be active agents of social change.

The ministry of exorcism in the secular city requires a community of persons who... are not burdened by the constriction of an archaic heritage.

The people that take a stand for a secular government are trying to keep our country up to the high standards established by our Founding Fathers.

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.

What would this look like for this minority view to also become known, by religious and secular people alike, as the most life - giving view?

But I suppose it has to be dealt with in this consultation from the point of view of its relevance and relation to the problems raised by the threat of Religious Communalism to the Secular Democratic character of Indian polity and the democratic struggle of the people for an egalitarian community.

[9] This is similar to a 2002 survey by Adherents.com, which estimates the proportion of the world's people who are «secular, non-religious, agnostics and atheists» at about 14 %.

Human rights, the favored language of secular progressivism, is undergirded by an implicit belief in the intrinsic dignity of the human person.

To hold that the evil of this world will be redeemed by an agency beyond the human person and time is to destroy the motive for secular transformation.

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The real danger comes from a much larger group of persons who believe that Notre Dame can strive for ever - higher standards of academic excellence — and use the same criteria of excellence by which the best secular universities in the land are judged to be excellent — without forfeiting the Catholic character of the University.

I suppose Rose is worried that people are looking to Taylor's A Secular Age as if it were some sort of encyclical issued by a progressive magisterium.

Nothing new with this type of attack by a secular media like you people in CNN.

«The kingdom has drawn near,» Jesus» first proclamation, was followed by healing of bodies and minds; by freeing persons who felt bound; by challenging authorities, religious and secular, when they stepped beyond their limits (the cleansing of the temple; on paying tax).

Those theories are reassuring to people who suspect that «traditional» values are being eroded by life in a technological, secular society.

Israel had been governed by secular rulers chosen, such was orthodox dogma, by the Lord himself and commissioned to «shepherd his people Israel.»

Interwoven with familial, civic, devotional, and secular configurations that are structurally different from the local church, other religious groupings offer alternative patterns of collective reverence and incidentally suggest other ways by which Christianity might conceivably have spread among peoples.

Nowhere in the Bible do God, Jesus, or the Prophets advocate: 1) Democracy 2) consent of the governed 3) government by the people and for the people 4) the right to vote and choose our representatives, etc. etc.THESE human rights were won by BRAVE SECULAR FORCES that tore down and broke up the POWER OF THE CHURCH to rule our lives and oppress us.

By now the consensus was largely secular and most often defined by persons who were themselves secularistBy now the consensus was largely secular and most often defined by persons who were themselves secularistby persons who were themselves secularists.

It is often thought that change would open the door to control by crude and godless people, perhaps by «secular humanists,» perhaps by individuals influenced by some revolution abroad.

And are beautiful «secular» buildings appropriate for religious services, the occasions when people by intention open themselves to the consciousness of God?

His research was «haunted» by the weirdly Calvinist question of whether some people are «secular by nature.»

If we pursue these eccesiological motives, the church will not be an organized closed community marked by rigid boundaries as at present, and competing with religious communities but a congregation of believers meeting for spiritual fellowship around the Word and the Sacraments, meant to equip them for Christian living, struggles of justicefor the people and evangelistic mission in religiously pluralistic or secular social economic and political institutions.

«Viewed from the perspective of oppressed people's struggle for freedom, the holy become a radical challenge to the legitimacy of the secular structures of power by creating eschatological images and legends about a realm of experience that is not confined to the values of this world.