Sentences with phrase «church over belief»

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And all those who believe in separation of church and state... Atheism is a belief and therefore, should not be taught, recognized or given a special preference over other beliefs.

Obama created this 1st amendment issue over Relgious Freedom and seperation of Church and State, when he mandated that a Relgion change it's beliefs.

Instead, the expansion of the Church into society reflects a belief that Orthodoxy has a powerful and enduring influence over the Russian imagination.

I'm sure you forgot to mention how many churches change their beliefs and practices over time because it's almost all of them!

My Baptist church over here in London, UK has a policy of «open doors for all who wish to enter»; by leaving the sentence «open - ended», they are willing to allow anyone of any faith, belief, or no belief to enter.

Until the rise of the creationist movement amongst southern baptists over the last couple of centuries, belief in a 6000 year old earth was never doctrine in any christian church.

Protestantism accepted the idea that uniformity of belief is a necessary factor in a church, so that as new formulations of belief have arisen new churches have been founded to represent them, until in the United States we have over two hundred different kinds of Protestant Christians.

Indeed, as early as Origen in the third century it was being pointed out that we must not think of the Ascension as a movement in space; and in fact Luke seems to have translated into mythical form, i.e. a pictorial narrative, the universal belief of the early Church that Jesus has ascended to the throne of God, not in a physical manner but in the sense that he has been exalted to Lordship over all the world.

For some of you it understandably takes a long time to get over changing your beliefs, leaving the church, or even rejecting your inherited beliefs.

There is a basic incompatibility between Islam's belief in all encompassing doctrines that embrace religion, private and public life and the American principles of liberty of belief and speech and the absolute separation of state and church affairs For Americans belief is a private matter, not so for Islam, where theocracy rules over all human affairs.

«Slaves believe that persons attacked with any disease if prayed over in their Church will get cured,» observed Oommen Mammen.50 Epidemics particularly put such belief to the test.

This belief gives men the role of authority over the wife and children, and only allows men to be church leaders.

As opposed to the thousands and thousands of billboards & church message boards every 50 ft with their snarky comments pushing their beliefs and quite often attacking non -(Jesus) believers and / or science directly or indirectly, all the millions of people that like to go around constantly «sharing their beliefs» about how everyone who believes differently is gonna be tortured and burned for eternity, or the countless attempts by local, state, and federal government officials to push laws based on those beliefs and to favor those beliefs all over the country.

The author is in fact appealing, over the heads of the agents of persecution, to intelligent and well - disposed persons in Graeco - Roman society, in the belief that accurate information about the origins, aims and principles of the Christian Church would do much to disarm the hostility under which it suffered.

In both church and state, the extent of the authority one enjoys as an officeholder is not delimited by beliefs shared with the people over whom authority is exercised.

its really just another form of crazy religious beliefs much like the westboro baptist church... (by the way... lets fly the westboro guys over to Iran or Pakistan...)....

Since early in the Church's history the Old and New Testament have been recognized as its «Canon», as authoritative over all other writings, beliefs and opinions.

Last week I wrote a post for the CNN Belief Blog about millennials and the Church focusing on how church leaders hoping to win twenty - somethings over with coffee shops and concerts may want to go a little deeper and consider substance over Church focusing on how church leaders hoping to win twenty - somethings over with coffee shops and concerts may want to go a little deeper and consider substance over church leaders hoping to win twenty - somethings over with coffee shops and concerts may want to go a little deeper and consider substance over style.

But those days are long over and that church has revoked those beliefs and denied any racial division of goodness, worth or blessings.

They don't do what they say, they act horrible to people, there is no respect, they have become political... I will take my «feel good» beliefs any day over the hate, greed, and violence of the church.

Another preacher preaching what ever goes is ok with Christianity... If your going to preach Christianity based on the Bible, then you might as well forget gay marriages are ok... If you want to twist it around then thats up to you... Paul said, «The Berens were of noble charachter because they didn't believe what they heard, but they took what they heard and confirmed it with the Bible... So its like the Yen or Yang... Its either Gods church or Satans Church... Can't be any other way... Do I hate gays, no... I have some very close friends that I have had for over 30 years that are gay, but I think they will be accountable for their life styles... Thats the thing about Christianity, we are held accountable, its not an everything goes belief... Its rules we have to follow... And rules we will be held accountable... So maybe this preacher needs to start a dfferent faith or religion... One where there are no rules and where its people are not accountable for their actichurch or Satans Church... Can't be any other way... Do I hate gays, no... I have some very close friends that I have had for over 30 years that are gay, but I think they will be accountable for their life styles... Thats the thing about Christianity, we are held accountable, its not an everything goes belief... Its rules we have to follow... And rules we will be held accountable... So maybe this preacher needs to start a dfferent faith or religion... One where there are no rules and where its people are not accountable for their actiChurch... Can't be any other way... Do I hate gays, no... I have some very close friends that I have had for over 30 years that are gay, but I think they will be accountable for their life styles... Thats the thing about Christianity, we are held accountable, its not an everything goes belief... Its rules we have to follow... And rules we will be held accountable... So maybe this preacher needs to start a dfferent faith or religion... One where there are no rules and where its people are not accountable for their actions...

It's not the belief in God, it's the church that is impeding my belief in a God that is not some sort of cosmic policeman, or one who sends his weak, fragile creations to hell for an eternity over a metaphorical loaf of bread.

The overall feeling the movie left me with was that it reminded me of some churches I've been too, even fundamentalist ones: those gathered believe something to be true (in this case, there is no god), and they had their preacher (Harris) who was there to confirm their beliefs, and when it was over, there were the «amens!»

There will always be two camps of belief in the church over issues like this.

Among those that oppose the beliefs, which is part of the church's official doctrine in their «Book of Discipline», is Rev. Thomas Ogletree, the former dean of Yale Divinity School and Drew Theological School, who recently presided over the wedding of his gay son.

Even within a local church, there are little groups that have very little to do with each other because of disagreements (whether voiced or not) over minor doctrinal or procedural beliefs.

Over 40 million Americans belong to church groups that hold the latter belief.

What Jeremy has highlighted is just how much of our belief system has been influenced by church history and politics over 2000 yrs.

The number of those who profess to be Christian has been declining steadily over the past few decades, and the numbers of those who say they regularly attend church has declined dramatically, to fewer that 10 % of those who profess Christianity or simply a belief in God.

I am Greek Orthodox and as such we do believe in birth control, but to force the Catholic Church to go against its beliefs is against Freedom of Religion in our country After giving over 1,200 waivers this administration chose to force the Catholic Church to follow its regulations is irrational.

They opposed organized religion because the churches and temples held sway over people's loyalties, not because they simply disagreed on the belief in gods being real.

Organized religion is the root of most evils today: Abuse of children and women, wars over religious territories, terrorists with radical religious beliefs, denial of a women's right to choose, denial of gay rights, oppression of differing cultures, corruption in churches, synagogues, mosques, etc..

And if one is in any case not going to work out his own beliefs, there are good reasons for turning the task over to the Catholic Church or the Bible rather than to many of the other willing masters that are around.

In episode 108, the magicians examine the beliefs behind a Biblical interpretation of the world's creation, including a visit to a vigorous debate over separation of church and state at a Georgia school board meeting.

Over the past 25 years or so, we've seen the emergence of a new (or newly restored, some would say) legal and cultural understanding of religion, driven in part by the insight that for many believers, religious faith isn't a private «hobby» that can be relegated to the home and church; rather, religious belief and identity are integral parts of a person, necessarily and appropriately informing public roles and the public sphere.