Sentences with phrase «by the fundamentalists of»

The Palestinian / Israeli impasse is easily the most serious conflict in the world today and it is being continually exacerbated by the fundamentalists of all three monotheistic faiths.

Not exact matches

I beleive that Liberal Socialists who feel threatened by Christian Evangelical Fundamentalists fear their political power so much, that even President Obama is a blind naive proponent of tollerance to Islamic Shariah Law as he funded the Great Iman of NYC.

Just ask any non-Christian in the military if they feel threatened by a fundamentalist superior officer should they dare to opt out of such an event.

Bottom line: A «good Muslim» is a bit of a misnomer; what Americans consider «good» is seen as «bad» by the fundamentalists, and vice versa.

Anything short of that will be explained as a wise pastoral accommodation that is being misinterpreted by a few simple - minded fundamentalists.

The FACT that the US is destined to support their «prophecy» stems from self - educated, self - appointed fundamentalist religious authorities who interpreted the sections of a book that seem to be easily misinterpreted by their largely uneducated followers.

The definition of irony is christian fundamentalists raking Islam through the mud when their religion was started by an Arab in the same part of the world.

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.

But some fundamentalist religions are stuck on the idea of using older translations, made by people who simply were uninformed or uneducated.

Mormon fundamentalists seek to uphold tenets and practices no longer held by mainstream Mormons (members of the LDS Church).

Conservative evangelicals are driven by their fundamentalist convictions about the absolute truth of their beliefs.

2) I know members of several fundamentalist groups and they all teach that the LDS Church is in apostasy by prohibiting the practice of plural marriage.

its not really atheism or religion that I have a problem with, its the hate, control, and fear that goes along with it that I have a problem with, you say that those who are spiritual are into new agey, crystal ball, stuff, see that's what I'm talking about, you assume to know what something is about when you don't understand something you naturally fear it, your self righteous clouds you, don't you get that by being narrow minded in your view towards things, you really act no better than religious fundamentalists, being spiritual is a lot more than just the new agey, think positive all the time that you think it is, its about being aware of who you are?

I used to be theologicaly attacked everyday by a group of fundamentalists at work.

Fundamentalists must turn religion into a conspiracy theory: any fact or figure, however simple or reasonable, not in accordance with the story must be part of a conspiracy by sinners, a trick by a demon, or a test from a god.

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.

As mainline Protestantism ceased to be a culture - forming force in American public life, the void was filled by a new Catholic presence in the public square and, perhaps most influentially in electoral terms, by the emergent activism of evangelical, fundamentalist, and Pentecostal Protestantism in what would become known as the Religious Right» a movement that has formed a crucial part of the Republican governing coalition for more than a quarter - century.

Thousands of Muslim fundamentalists trained and armed with automatic guns, had, she said, come from other parts in Indonesia, arriving by sea in the Malukus, once known as Spice Islands.

Again, St Augustine of Hippo (354 - 430), one of the Church's greatest theologians, recognised that the six days of creation can not be interpreted in a fundamentalist way: days are normally reckoned by the rising and setting of the sun, but the sun was only created on day four!

I myself am a survivor of multiple incidents of spiritual abuse by leaders in a range of evangelical, moderate, conservative, and fundamentalist churches and parachurch settings over the past 40 years.

If you are a fundamentalist Christian, you will probably be offended at the humorous approach Steve Wells takes in his book, Drunk With Blood, by pointing out all the violence of Scripture, but I think that humor is the only way to write a 300 - page book detailing all the violence in the Christian Scriptures.

Similarly, fundamentalist Protestants, believing in the inerrancy of the Bible as though every word of it, dictated by God himself, was to be accepted as indubitably true, ultimately rely in all their arguments on an external authority.

Islamic fundamentalists are in whole - hearted support of the Palestinians and are united by the goal of winning back the territory which they believe has been unjustly taken from them by the West.

In 1942 people from this group formed the National Association of Evangelicals — and found themselves attacked by the hardline fundamentalists just as they attacked the mainstream moderates and liberals.

The agreement that we are not Fundamentalists or evangelicals as defined by this manifesto is clearer than the positive affirmation of the Gospel.

The Zionist Organization of America said: «Christian fundamentalists are by and large supporters of Israel and we are not selective when it comes to mobilising support.»

The reason why Muslim fundamentalists have become so judgmental of western secular culture is well described in a book by Benjamin Barber, entitled Jihad versus McWorld.

So the Palestinians have been protesting about their plight in the only ways open to them — the throwing of stones and acts of terrorism by Islamic fundamentalists.

The only way your analogy can be made relevant is if all of Islam is represented by the fundamentalist terrorists we are all so familiar with.

Muslim fundamentalists give unwavering support to the Palestinians, while the claims of Israel are strongly defended by Christian and Jewish fundamentalists.

It is somewhat ironic that the fundamentalist Taliban was doing its best to stamp out the production of opium in Afghanistan, but their defeat by American forces has allowed the opium trade once again to flourish.

There are two main areas in which Christian fundamentalism endangers our human future: its domination of the churches by what may be called «the fundamentalist captivity of Christianity», and its uncritical support of the «axis of power» exercised by America and Israel.

That's because Piper and many in the fundamentalist neo-Reformed movement are working off of a perversion of the doctrine of total depravity that not only teaches that human beings are depraved — that is, that our humanity is marred by sin — but that this depravity renders the world's men, women, and children into valueless objects of god's wrath, worthy of nothing more than eternal torture, pain, violence, and abuse.

Fundamentalist Islam is at war with the West and its values of intellectual and civil freedom and democracy — and it actually takes advantage of those liberties to advance its Jihad «holy war» by using tax breaks for religions to erect edifices or get subsidies for large Muslim families that are used to sway Western democracies, and, yes, suing for the right even to build a fundamentalist mosque at Ground Zero.

The fundamentalists, who have converted approximately 10 per cent of the Chilean population, including 15,000 members of the armed forces, are called «Reagan cults» by Catholic critics because of their close association with such Reagan supporters as Swaggart, Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell.

One - eighth of the region's 481 million people belong to fundamentalist or evangelical churches, and in some countries, such as Guatemala, it is estimated that half the population will have switched into those churches by the end of the century.

But the fundamentalists are popular with the Pinochet government because of their political conservatism and emphasis on passive acceptance of authority — in contrast to socially activist Catholic groups inspired by liberation theology.

One of the big arguments fundamentalists make about the BB is that it had to be «caused» by something.

Guatemalan fundamentalists remain unmoved by such suffering, for they believe the Indians are «demon - possessed» because so many of them are Catholics (at least nominally) And since demons are associated with communists, the Indians are subversives, too.

The more strictly the tenets of a particular religious sect are pushed on us, such as by Christian fundamentalists, the more we see conflict between democracy and religion.

It is fascinating that the movement would arise in the American branch of the Hebrew Christian Alliance (HCAA), an organization that has consistently assuaged the fears of fundamentalist Christians by emphasizing that it is not a separate denomination but only an evangelistic arm of the evangelical church.

All the death and destruction comes from the right wing fundamentalists of each religion who are too immature and insecure to accept living side - by - side with people of other beliefs.

I do not agree with many of the social & political beliefs expounded by fundamentalist Christian organizations, but it was Christ who defined Christianity, not the fundamentalists & not the social justice Christians.

In the light of this definition, we may ask if the attempts of various fundamentalist groups of different religions (including Christian fundamentalists) to crush the boundary by destroying the cultural differences be considered mission.

Yet Boyer's instincts are sound, for it was the unique version of premillennialism nurtured by Darby and brought to these shores after the Civil War that helped form the doctrinal core of virtually all fundamentalist and many evangelical churches.

But, today's modern evangelical fundamentalists, going back to the days of Abraham Vereide founding of the religio - business - political cabal The Family / The Fellowship / C Street / National Prayer Breakfast, chooses to ignore Jesus» comments about his ministry and are bound and determined to have our government controlled by theocratic politicians who are passing laws to further their goal of turning this country into an theocracy.

Moderates and progressives distinguish themselves from fundamentalists by favoring the separation of mosque and state, and by enthusiastically affirming democracy.

Also, thank you for acknowledging that fundamentalism exists everywhere (I once shocked a friend of mine by telling her she wasn't an atheist, as she believed, that her religion was animal rights, and that she was actually a fundamentalist).

Having left or been driven out of mainline denominations, fundamentalists replaced the services and associations they had lost by turning increasingly to an elaborate network of parachurch agencies.

FOX news is reporting that radical fundamentalist Tea Party patriot «heroes» have defended freedom in a very Christian and Second Amendment way against the «Islamo - Fascist Communist Libtard Socialist Kenyan - by - birth squirrel - homo Bippy», while CBS is reporting that Bippy was the victim of one Cleetus Joe Dogwanker of Klanton, Mississississississippippippississippi, who they are reporting simply saw a good opportunity for an afternoon snack of deep - fried - chocolate - covered - bacon - wrapped - squirrel - roadkill - on - a-stick, and of course, CNN is reporting on WalMart unveiling Black Friday deals.