Sentences with phrase «calling these people christian»

and called those people Christians (followers after Christ) instead of having people self - identify based on belief...?

But to call these people Christians is to make a mockery of the word, a mockery of faith and commitment and Jesus Christ.

It sounds like you should not call people a Christian if they don't act Christianly, like calling people unChristian.

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Why is it that wen Christians committ heinous acts of violence (and many, many Christians have, for centuries) they are called «bad people», but when Muslims commit heinous acts of violence, Islam is called a «bad religion»?

Political Life and Human Dignity Mary Ann Glendon («The Bearable Lightness of Dignity,» May) is right on target in noting that within the Christian tradition, dignity has a twofold meaning: «In its ontological sense it is a given attribute of the person, while, in its moral sense, it is a call to an end to be gradually realized.»

«My thoughts on whether or not we're a Christian band — I don't think that's our job to decide because I think people can call us whatever they want,» Foreman says.

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.

I am so sick of of so - called «Christians» being among the most judgmental people here.

JACINJAX: Only if the candidate misleads people by calling mormonism as Christian.

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.

But I try not to be a snooty holier than thou Christian and I have a lot of close people surrounding me daily that I would call among my best friends that are non believers, Someday I hope I can help change their minds, but I'm not going to be pushy about it.

Because if this is true i think more Muslims would be in jail for beating there wife but we see so called christians or people who do not represent any religion in jail or being arrested for beating there wife.

Modern American «Christian» as represented by people calling themselves Christian in public today, seem to have forgotten or have never known, what the teachings of Christ are.

In Israel, people whose Christian ancestors lived there for centuries are called «Pallistinians».

Call me a peacemaker â $ «but I feel like not everyone needs to sound or be like some proto - typical Christian person â $ «there is room here for variations.

They are mocked, called weak, delusional or crazy even by the people who claim they are Christians.

What we are calling atheistic nature today resembles a path of anarchic extremism, which is mainly made up of people who are part of a system of former religious extremists and Judeo - Christian zealots.

Calling people idiots for using their brains, seeking answers, isn't Christian.

When someone calls that Imam one of the most evil people on the planet, when someone says he wants to build his center to train terrorists, when someone calls for amending the constitution to exclude Islam, when someone says our founding fathers wanted this to be a Christian nation and that they didn't want Muslims included, when Muslims are afraid to go out because they will be attacked, when Christian pastors are preaching against Muslims (as opposed to the belief in Islam), THAT is hatred.

It was the Christian theocracy in Europe that called people / groups they didn't like satanic, evil and practitioners of black magic.

How can a Christian sit back and let people lose Healthcare and call themselves a Christian?

I cintend that the bible also calls us to do the same thing — it calls us to action and then says when we have donr everything we can and there is nothing else we are to stand in faith that it will work out — of course i paraphrase — but wht do people think all christians do is sit on their butts and pray and look pie eyed at the sky - this christian worked her butt of on the streets - and look at Mother Thresa - and other christians working for humanity all over the world - i think athiests have the wrong idea about chtistians...

Thousands of people all around the world call themselves «Christians» yet their actions and words say otherwise.

You can't just go around calling people who hold a standard Christian confession «trolls», Cecilia.

Now, add to that the mission of a Christian which is to name the wrong when you see it and also call people to repentance... You'll certainly be in trouble in these days.

What really makes my head hurt trying to understand is when people claim to be of a faith or to be a Christian and have absolutely no clue as to the idea that they're supposed to actually believe and uphold the teachings of CHRIST and not their own religion ideas and call it «close enough».

Some may still call the U.S. a Christian nation, but the fastest growing religious group in America is people who are not affiliated with any organized religion, according to a recent Pew survey.

Those who call yourselves Christian who have wealth, well tomorrow why don't you go out there and put some money into education and empower someone, go out there and donate a few billion to schools and hospitals to lessen the burden on the powerless, go out there and hire a few MILLION PEOPLE with your TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS.

People can call themselves any kind of Catholic, or Christian they want and it isn't anybody's business but their own.

The best we can do is to remember the mystery that God chooses to call * us * to be the hands and feet of Jesus Christ (a person whom Kerry neglects to mention in her heartfelt, but incomplete, accounting of the role of the Christian chaplain), and our job is to point the way to him; but this, and I think Kerry would agree, is best done through our loving actions and not, as the professor or «Nancy» above might suggest, through our fancy words, theology, or persuasion.

It seems to me the very people so - called Progressive Christians most despise are the very people they have become.

If Kennedy, the womanizer and a so called great CATHOLIC was PRESIDENT then any person in any religion can be PRESIDENT of this great country.So leave the MORMONS alone be cause they are CHRISTIANS.MY kids are MORMON and im not but i know for sure they are christian.

The deluded ideologists of Realpolitik notwithstanding, the «hard» realities of American - Israel relations are ideas about chosenness, destiny, messianic promise, and a people that, however imperfectly, participates in the holiness of the land that Christians call holy.

However, there are some Christians who believe evangelism is the sole calling of the Church, and my hope is to highlight that caring about the whole person — particularly a desperately needy person — is part of our role as «salt and light».

most articles on this subject implies that those who think he is a Muslim are misinformed or mistaken, whereas it seems clear that people are aware that he calls himself a Christian and simply don't believe him.

very simple test for people that call themselves christians, jesus said if you really believed in him you too can walk on water, well I have a bucket, anyone want to try?

Tell those so - called Christians to mind their own bloody business and get out of other people's bedrooms.

How about all you «magic underwear» bashing, «Not Christian» branding, cult calling, people that profess to know more about Mormon doctrine than Mormons do.

For instance, 67 percent affirm that «God's grace is irresistible,» and 58 percent say they believe that «people do not choose to become Christians; God chooses and calls people who respond to him.»

A joint initiative by 14 Vietnamese and international organisations, including Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW) has called for the release of 165 people arrested for their religious or political beliefs.

So at the end of the day, even as a follower of the teachings of Jesus Christ (the name Christian has been so stained, refuse to call myself one to distance myself from traitors to God like Bush and just about every Conservative American), I'd vote for an astheist with good ideas and was brave enough to push for the interests of people, not corporations, then I would vote for them.

I would argue that many if not most people who call themselves Christians are gnostic theists, while most people who call themselves atheists are agnostic atheists.

It's even more disturbing to see so - called christians refuse to stand up to people who happily promote these myths as true.

If you haven't been seeing Christians threatening eternal damnation, if you haven't seen Christians calling others a «fool», if you haven't seen Christians accusing people of being Satan's pawns, if you haven't seen Christians spread any of the vitrol you accuse atheists of spreading, YOU HAVE NOT BEEN PAYING ATTENTION.

I now longer call myself Christian because I refuse to be identified with these people who call themselves that today.

The vast majority will be people who call themselves Christians but aren't saved — which might be an even more sorrowful fact.

I can hardly believe there are churches like that, that there are people like that who call themselves Christian & don't see their hypocrisy.

The Christian concept of the People of God is supranational by nature, for Christians are called out of their respective nations to become a new pPeople of God is supranational by nature, for Christians are called out of their respective nations to become a new peoplepeople.

I'm a little disappointed that this «article» or blogging opportunity makes mention of people giving things up for Lent as if that's the only way a person is called to make a sacrifice during this period of the Catholic / Christian calendar.

They were considered a dishonor to the family but no one will call this an honor killing since the person doing it was Christian or white, sad but true.