Sentences with phrase «committed by their ancestors»

Often people insist that they as individuals have no responsibility for the sins committed by their ancestors or their nations.

We applaud those Christians who reject this teaching of contempt, and we do not blame them for the sins committed by their ancestors.

An argument could be made that the old puritan was too generous, thinking that God had killed his son for a thought crime rather than for a crime committed by ancestors who lived millennia ago.

Not exact matches

It's like, yes, that's a nice homage to the Salish tribe on the Seahawks pants stripe, but does that do anything but commoditize a culture that had genocide committed against it by the ancestors of the current US political power structure?