While I agree that the church could definitely be less political and break with tradition in some areas, I think that a lot of this has to
do with people hardening their hearts to the truth of the Bible.
Not exact matches
You don't have to be a bad
person or a
hardened criminal to find yourself
with a negative result or two showing up when
people Google your name.
The second reason that drives a lot of entrepreneurial excess has more to
do with managing
people's imagined perceptions rather than reality except that — in the intense context of a startup — perceptions and impressions are often long lasting and can quickly
harden into unpleasant realities.
The controversy has to
do with the «other» kind of Augustinian, the
person whose piety can not find expression in a secular society, but
hardens into a «new traditionalism» that rejects even Stout's generous terms for religious participation in public life.
I
do this... as a duty of brotherly love, so that if any misfortune or disaster comes out of this matter, it may not be attributed to me, nor will I be blamed before God and men because of my silence... We have no one on earth to thank for this disastrous rebellion except you princes and lords, and especially you blind bishops and mad priests and monks whose hearts are
hardened... The murder - prophets [a reference to Karlstadt, Muntzer and all the Schwarmerei] who hate me as they hate you, have come among these
people... for more than three years, and no one has resisted and fought against them except me... I beseech you not to make light of this rebellion... The peasants have just published twelve articles some of which are so fair and just as to take away your reputation in the eyes of God... Because you made light of my To The German Nobility you must now listen to and put up
with these selfish articles.