Sentences with phrase «challenged by people of faith»

Just like anti-Semitism or Islamophobia, anti-Christian persecution must be named for the evil that it is and challenged by people of faith and of no faith.

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I question the author's notion that connecting yourself to a doctrine by blind faith, based on no evidence whatsoever, is a sign of a critcal person willing to question and challenge.

Tim: I think there is always of course the danger that if you are challenging too much of non-Christian faiths, particularly faiths that are held mostly by members of ethnic minorities, that you might conflate criticisms of their faith with criticism of them as individuals and therefore be seen as racist, so people are nervous of that.

[1] The Pope sees his proposal in the context of his whole pontificate as a commitment by the Church to «lead people out of the desert» [2] of «a profound crisis of faith» (Porta Fidei, 2), but there is also a sceptical challenge from those who perceive an intent to impose a backward - looking theology, a «hermeneutic of retrenchment».

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