That it was
done by a Christian - derived society, and even with the belief that this was the truly human and Christian task, makes explanation especially harsh for our society.
... Nine - tenths of the work of the Church in the world is
done by Christian people fulfilling responsibilities and performing tasks which in themselves are not part of the official system of the Church at all.
They disagreed, however, on the reason why the situation had come about and what ought to be
done by the Christian community within the new situation.
By the way, by your logic we should blame any killing ever
done by a Christian even if it wasn't done in the name of Christianity.
Love of God; love of neighbor: an important part of the ethical teaching of Jesus can be brought under these twin heads, and this has often been
done by Christian moralists.
I find it ironic that the pioneering work
done by Christian scientists are being held in high regard by the atheist scientists of today.
But when a Muslim does a terrorist act then Islam and the Muslim BOTH go on trial, even though every terrorist act done by Muslims throughout history combined are nothing compared to even 1 of the many terrorist acts
done by Christians, like the holocaust.
Matthew addresses the incredible damage
done by Christians who teach LGBT people to hate their sexuality, which can not so easily be separated from their very selves.
The only reason Muslims want to come to Christian nations is to reap the rewards of the hard work
done by Christians.
If concerning the 6 million Jews in WW2 that was not
done by Christians... Hitler and his people were polytheists..
What this pastor is doing is not much different than what was
done by the christians during the Salem Witch Trials or the Crusades or Hitler for that matter.
In the carrying on of Richard's work» which will be
done by Christians and Jews, Catholics, Protestants, and Orthodox» that commitment to differences engaged and explored must remain both watchword and method.
Not exact matches
New research published this summer
by economists
Christian Dustmann and Uta Schönberg in the American Economic Journal found that policies that increased maternity leave
did little to increase children's future educational achievement.
GATA board member Adrian Douglas has studied the LBMA statistics and
Christian's work and estimates that the great majority of gold sold
by LBMA members doesn't exist — that most gold sales
by LBMA members are highly leveraged.
by christian doctrine, we
do not render ourselves sinful, it was one of those bizarre arbitrary decisions
by god to bestow hereditary sin.
You might not choose to live
by that story, but if more people
did and
did it better (including
Christians, non-
Christians, athiests, agnostics, and myself), the world would be the heaven or the Heaven that all of us long for.
So, is the Army not the responsibility of the federal government, and wouldn't their support for a faith specific event such as this (it doesn't even cater to all
Christian groups, only the evangelicals) be seen as an endorsement of evangelicalism
by the federal government?
And
by evolutionary biologists
do you mean biologist and Orthodox
Christian Theodosius Dobzhansky who wrote «Nothing in Biology Makes Sense Except in the Light of Evolution»?
Parental consent on many topics (NOT A LAW) 6: Thou shall not kill — NOT UNIQUE TO CHRISTIANITY (long pre-dated it) = > Goes back to the first offspring of humanity or the chosen depending on version 7: Thou shall not commit adultery — huge number of
Christians commits adultery
by LEGALLY remarrying = > still actionable in various tort and civil cases across America (didn't say it was a law) 8: Thou shall not steal — NOT UNIQUE TO CHRISTIANITY = > many laws on this we are very concerned about our stuff 9: Thou shall not bear false witness — NOT UNIQUE TO CHRISTIANITY = > purgery anyone 10: Thou shalt not covet — NOT A LAW = > stalking laws (Stalking IS a crime.
For one to say that building a Mosque near ground zero is wrong is no different than someone saying they don't want a
Christian church being built somewhere because someone close to them died in a
Christian cult bombing or suicide like Jim Jones or Timothy McVeigh, or to say they don't want a Catholic church to be built because they or someone they care about was molested
by a priest.
When you're
done, please
by all means come back and tell me that we aren't a
Christian nation without looking foolish in the process.
Belinda, it
does not matter if you are Orthodox Jew, Muslim,
Christian, Buddist, Wickin, or Voodoo... to board a commerical airliner and launch into prayers that can be overheard
by other passengers is totally, deliberately, irresponsible these days.
I don't think
Christians do themselves any favors
by throwing their lot in with «Young Earth» creationists like Kenneth Ham.
The First Vatican Council included language like (the Pope) «is the true vicar of Christ and head of the whole Church and faith, and teacher of all
Christians; and that to him was handed down in blessed Peter,
by our Lord Jesus Christ, full power to...» This transfer of power depends on the Roman Church's understanding of the Office of the Keys which I
do not agree with, but their statements make it clear that the Pope's authority as the Roman Church understands it is derived from Christ's.
All the good works
done by religious organizations of all kinds (
Christian and otherwise) might get a mention in a human interest story sometimes, but decades of this media treatment have skewed public perceptions of what faith is about.
Jim Al - Khalili says that he doesn't have a «religious bone in his body» — despite being brought up
by a Shia Muslim father and a mother whom he describes as a «born again evangelical
Christian».
«While I applaud and agree with many of Glenn Beck's conservative and constitutional views, that
does not give me or any other Bible - believing
Christian justification to compromise Biblical truth
by spiritually joining Beck.»
In the current climate,
Christians need to be very careful to make sure that the perceived political needs of the hour
do not translate into words and actions that can easily be shown
by our critics to be highly selective and very inconsistent with respect to our larger doctrinal commitments and convictions.
I can't really cite things I've heard said verbally in churches or at talks and I don't tend to read books
by fundamentalist
Christians — not many anyway.
Yes,
Christian Dems
do exist, it is not a contradiction in terms, and they were joined
by Christian Republicans, who voted Democratic, to ensure that a Mormon isn't in the White House come January.
The vast majority of
Christians and Muslims don't live
by sola scriptura, or
by Qur» an and sunna alone — and this is the case even when they claim to
do so.
Do you know the mathematical impossibility that even one of these could randomly come into existance?Let alone all of the building blocks required for just a single simple cell to come together to form any type of living thing?There sure should be some blobs of fossilized transitions if evolution could happen.You people are real smart why don't you quit bashing Christians and quit believing the garbage you have been fed, and look up the evidence put forth by the Creation Research people.They have in fact proven creation down to a cellular level.Unlike evolution scientists who have no answers, but cleverly devised fables.Evolution is not even a very good fairy tale.Even if I didn't believe in God, Evolution is such a fools explanation of the origin of man that it takes just that to even consider it true.I understand though that you athiests will believe anything that allows you to love your sin and hatred of the one true Go
Do you know the mathematical impossibility that even one of these could randomly come into existance?Let alone all of the building blocks required for just a single simple cell to come together to form any type of living thing?There sure should be some blobs of fossilized transitions if evolution could happen.You people are real smart why don't you quit bashing
Christians and quit believing the garbage you have been fed, and look up the evidence put forth
by the Creation Research people.They have in fact proven creation down to a cellular level.Unlike evolution scientists who have no answers, but cleverly devised fables.Evolution is not even a very good fairy tale.Even if I didn't believe in God, Evolution is such a fools explanation of the origin of man that it takes just that to even consider it true.I understand though that you athiests will believe anything that allows you to love your sin and hatred of the one true God.
I honestly don't agree with them, I'm a
christian, but I think it's sad if you're offended
by someone trying to help you.
If a
christian disagrees, or is disgusted
by something, spew hatred, but
do it in a backhanded way, just in case there IS a god, maybe he won't notice how much you hate his creations.
Christians, on the other hand, believe that we will be in the presence of God the Father and Jesus Christ solely
by our faith in Christ and what He alone
did by dying on the cross and rising again on the third day, so we believe it is a free gift of God and it doesn't just come after all we can
do as Mormons believe.
No - one can dispute that the Founding Fathers were influenced in their ideas
by the Bible — but «influenced
by» doesn't mean they intended to create a
Christian Nation.
Do the conservative Protestants who were influenced
by religion choose to earn less
by becoming pastors or teachers at
Christian schools or
by taking jobs that allow them to spend more time with their family?
Two things bother me, why jeopardize your children's security for this experiment, and why
do it??? I mean everyone has doubts I their faith, but being a
Christian raised
by atheists, turning your back so publicly is the same as saying your faith was a joke... it is insulting to believers, a crisis of faith is normal in life, denouncing faith is shameful
By this term we mean economic, social, and political structures which
do not conform to
Christian moral standards....
Glen Beck is a
Christian if you believe that saved means that we get to live in the afterlife with a chance to have eternal life in the mansion where God the Father and Jesus Christ are if we are worthy enough
by doing good works to progress to be there and that God's grace comes after all we can
do.
I think you could
do your «almighty God» a favour
by keeping your legs closed before you're married, giving to the poor, involving yourself with defending other people's rights or even giving to your own struggling
Christian organisations.
so you have a bunch of fake
Christians with a non profit / no tax paying cathedral going bankrupt, and another bunch of pagan laced above the law non tax paying ped protecting catholics buying a cathedral (notice i
did nt say
Christian), from a bailed out
by taxpayers bank....
Yet you
do not see the narrow path you have been led down
by simple dint of «tradition» and other long - standing violations of the Constltution merely because most
Christians support this sort of thing.
And don't forget all the victims of Christianity's own Jim Jones... I'm certain you and all you
Christian Extremists are in your churches, always trying to find ways to brainwash everyone into committing suicide like Jim Jones and have plans to blow up buildings like Timothy McVeigh and think about as well as act upon your perverted thoughts
by molesting young boys... don't you?
Briefly speaking,
doing the laundry was no
Christian act of Jorge or pope Francis but deepest godlessness because
by doing the laundry he wanted to underline his superiority about the other Jesuits.
Did you ever think that you
Christians, and all other religions (created
by men), are wrong?
I think
Christians, in general, don't know jack squat about the gay lifestyle / community nor
do they really take the time to understand... their scripture says this and that's all they need (blatant ignorance — but that's life)... even those scriptures are up for contention as noted earlier
by Trey.
Do you know how many innocent Jews were slaughtered
by Christians due to rumors that Jews sacrificed
Christian children on Passover over the past few hundred years?
You might not understand that non-Mormons
do not believe in your religion and are OFFENDED
by your beliefs and your practices of trying to Mormanize the dead, particularly those who were killed for not being
Christian such as Anne Frank.
If you're a
Christian and believe that Jesus was pre-ordained to die for our sins and save the world
by doing so, doesn't it seem just plain wrong to blame and hate the people who were the supposed instruments of «God's plan»?