Sentences with phrase «consider idolatrous»

Of course, it won't ultimately help them much; fundamentalist Muslims do not take kindly to Christians (or ancient archeological treasures that they consider idolatrous abominations, for that matter...) and brutal theocracy is the only alternative there to dictatorship; democracy is just not an option unfortunately.

Behaviour considered idolatrous or potentially idolatrous may include the creation of any type of image of the deity, or of other figures of religious significance such as prophets, saints, and clergy, the creation of images of any person or animal at all, and the use of religious symbols, or secular ones.

Not exact matches

It's still idolatrous even if we don't consider the the flag divine because your swearing your allegiance to a flag (a graven image) which represents the state.

«A lot of folks dabble in the occult, or they will be involved in practices that... classical Christianity at least would consider to be idolatrous.

Jewish people, however, did not believe that it was possible to become «one with God» and would have considered such an idea idolatrous.

Recognizing that their critique has rendered images of God no longer absolute, feminists have discovered that the religious power structure is reluctant to admit that patriarchal symbols for God are culturally influenced (as if God really were male) or contingent (as if use of a feminine symbol to point to a nonrepresentable God is more inadequate or idolatrous than use of a male symbol) To read Mary Daly or Naomi Goldenberg, to consider Rosemary Ruether's demasculinizing of the Gospel stories or to ponder the renewed attention to «goddess» theology and the development of a lesbian theology is to see the basic language of theological discourse upset and transformed.

This was considered an offensive and idolatrous ritual to the ancient Israelites and is forbidden by the Torah.

What's missing, of course, is the great Buddha of Bamiyan: It, and a slightly smaller neighboring Buddha, were dynamited by the Taliban, who considered representations of the human form idolatrous and offensive.