Sentences with phrase «churches control people»

I know one of the biggest reasons why churches control people.

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If we point people to churches that have a proper understanding (of God and the human) and focus on Christ and what He has done instead of us and what «we do»... then you can have a church with a proper anthropology and you can have honesty and less phoniness and control.

This is all about control with religion and it has to stop.Gay people getting married doesn't have anything to do with straight people getting married.People are so full of hatred and disrespect it isn't funny.I'm glad this has come out now, because it really shows how evil people really are.But these people who are so into GOD, the Bible, Church, and the only way of life they live 4 god, by god are the 1s who prmote going around the world starting WARS, killing innocent women, men, children and families because Jesus guides them in everything they do.That is a crock of B.S. if I ever heard it.They will continus to use GOD and continue their EVIL ways to get whatever they want and CONTROL who ever they can.

The leaders hide church history from its members, when we find it, we take it to them, and of course are called aposates, there are so many mental systems in place at every level to control the people and there thoughts and actions, at a very young age.

The religious among us keep trying to chip away at the separation of church and state by making people recite the pledge of allegiance with the God clause, installing religious symbols and displays on public property, holding prayer breakfasts for politicians, berating the removal of prayer in public schools, trying to pass laws limiting women's access to birth control, and trying to get an amendment passed outlawing abortion (since in their view God creates a soul the moment a sperm enters an egg).

This is the church that perpetrated the dark ages, sided with hitler, tells people in third world countries that if they birth control they will go to hell, etc..

if your so called god will forgive murders and child molesters as long as they go to confession and say 10 worthless and meaningless prayers, don!t you think god would forgive a person the tales birth control, if there really was a god, which there is not, I do not believe in god or wasting time going to church to try to get myself into the dream world heaven, but if I am wrong I am going to hell because that's where all my friends are going and I don, t want to hang out for eternity with you morons in heaven.

Is this article suggesting since one person in the Catholic church uses birth control, the hierarchy should capitulate to the pressures of the Obama administration?

I think that the Catholic Church should not be in the business of condemning people who use birth control.

The Catholic Church's position on artificial birth control has NO basis in the teachings of Christ... it was not an issue then... the teaching is solely based on the opinion of the men running the church who claim «divine inspiration»... BULL... they wanted people to have more kids so they could contribute more money to the church so that the so - called «princes of the church» could maintain their princely life - Church's position on artificial birth control has NO basis in the teachings of Christ... it was not an issue then... the teaching is solely based on the opinion of the men running the church who claim «divine inspiration»... BULL... they wanted people to have more kids so they could contribute more money to the church so that the so - called «princes of the church» could maintain their princely life - church who claim «divine inspiration»... BULL... they wanted people to have more kids so they could contribute more money to the church so that the so - called «princes of the church» could maintain their princely life - church so that the so - called «princes of the church» could maintain their princely life - church» could maintain their princely life - style.

In this current economy where people are struggling to make ends meet the catholic church wants a husband and wife to abstain from intimacy because that is the only form of brith control they approve of.

It is these aspects of the church: control of the finances of members, control over all aspects of interpersonal relationships, segregation of believers into levels of worthiness, not to mention the dubious credibility of the sole person who made up the entire religion... That make Mormonism look a whole lot more like a cult than a religion.

the Mormon church is all volunteer «Are you saying the top people in the Mormon church receive no economic benefit from the church and any of the companies it controls?

You can also poke around on your Nook or Kindle — there are e-books there written for the faithful that give a detailed insight into the cult - like thinking (well, poor choice of words, a favorite LDS saying is, «the thinking is done», but you catch my drift) that's used to control their people from a very young age to find «the world» unbearable and the church to be a haven, etc..

The PBI site allows people to anonymously report «out of control pastors» or priests to the larger church community.

There are many additional «color of authority» situations, where the person, under the «color» of their position in the church (be it pastor, elder, staff member, Bible study teacher, the «I've been a Christian for X years» people, the «I've studied the Bible for X years and know what it says» people, or whatever), attempts to impose their opinions and wishes on those over whom they somehow attempt to assume «authority» and control.

The church saw these people with knowledge as a threat to their control.

The simple truth is that the internet and social media has userped the power of the «church» to control the people, and people who once occupied pews now find it easier to find like minded believers (of all fathis and creeds) online and can be exposed to any theology they want by simply using Google.

My experience and observation is that the church is a safe haven for abuse, manipulation, control, bullying, and strong - armed tactics that chew people up and spit them out, leaving countless voiceless victims in its wake.

The bullies have been in the church for many years, and make it their personal mission to control everyone including the pastor, and bullying is often their chief tool for controlling people.

And that presumption has severely weakened the Church in America of being the kind of community that produces people that can stand against the pretensions of a nation state that is out of control.

I believe he was the one that had it translated in his native german dialect... after that the game was up and the church turned to outright killing people they couldn't control on a grand scale.

Many ways of reading Scripture, doing theology, and being the church have become enslaved to a religion which seeks to control God and control people.

It came from early church leaders who wanted to exert their power, authority, and control over other people.

The patriarchal, macho, controlling, manipulative, shaming, money - grubbing, name - it - and - claim - it, fear - mongering, other - despising, fiefdom - making, using and abusing, excuse for narcissistic and plain old selfish and power - addled appalling behavior that is commonly called «church» and «church leadership» has nothing whatsoever to do with anything the person or character or compilation or concept called «Jesus» ever reportedly or theoretically said, did, or conveyed.

Steve, you say, «He seems to me to blame the «implement» (the «institutional church») rather than the individuals who «use» it, much the same way the gun control people blame guns for violence.»

1) Laws have been used and maintained by men long before the catholic church started imposing theirs upon the people 2) The vatican observatory has tried to use its influence to den scientific study and control what is known.

And I believe that the ability to control one's reproduction via birth control is something that a church institute should not have say over, especially if they are trying to do so for people who do not hold to their theology.

Many outside the church view us as modern day Puritans — social control freaks who want to impose our morality on them and to oppress people by running roughshod over human rights.

The most dangerous person in the Church is a Scribe who is not filled and controlled by the Holy Spirit.

People seem to have a need to be herded and controlled in so many of these churches... whew, I've escaped

«Thinking Catholics, who knew what had happened in Rome before the encyclical, who had absorbed all that Vatican II had to say about the Church as the People of God, had assumed that their concerns would be listened to and change in the Church's stance on birth control was inevitable.»

A money, power and control obsessed Church, or a collection of people who've rejected the word of God to accommodate sin?

Many people are controlled by churches because they are terrified of going to hell to burn forever.

I believe that it is part of the desire to have power and control over the lives of people, that the church has had the arrogance to act like they have power and control over God's grace.

God, churches, and those of faith do not need to disappear from this country; rather, people who use the aforementioned to spread hate and control.

Many churches have left their foundation, people want to hear a different kind of message were they are in control.

To the contrary, it seems that the more a church tries to completely control what people hear, read, and think, the more cultish they become.

Now I think the mainline churches are going to have their turn on the electronic stage as two - way communication becomes increasingly possible on radio and TV, and as cable TV and videotape enable ordinary people to make more use of, and to regain some control over, electronic communications.

But I'm fed up with leaders who are such controlling people that they won't allow anybody else to do the «important» jobs in the church.

You may, if you like, get this or that person out of the church — like the homosexual person who is generally in control of himself but who has occasional relapses.

The catholic church tried to control everyone and that led to the reformation when people like Martin Luther realize how corrupt the pope and catholic clergy were.

SActually Jo, the heathcare bill did originally require churches, who employ people, to provide for birth control AND abortions.

The Catholic church has always been and will always be about controlling people, oppressing women, and advocating a patriarchal society.

This would be the first step toward a decentralized educational structure that would enable communities and churches to take control of the future of our young people.

She became an embarrassment to the first missionaries and a reproach to the kinds of pharisees who later came to control the church, to men who preferred not to remember Jesus» preference for sinful people.

When people in the church talk about authority they are very often talking about controlling people or situations.

God was used to control the poor and ever since then it is used by people in power to influence those not in power and it is still in use today, just look at the U.S congress, we even have separation of church and state, but that doesn't seem to stop people.

Anyone with a half decent mind can see that all church is, is control over a crowd of people who chose to still believe in it.

I believe that whole construct, and confession, was established so the Church could hear what people were thinking, thus have control over them.