Sentences with phrase «even adherents»

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Just because so many old composers were Catholic or CofE adherents did not make their music religious even though their religion may have «inspired» them.

... The reality is that the adherents of this view of Islam are numbered in many millions, have in some countries, elements of official support, and are systematically teaching it to millions of young people across the world... even in its more moderate and non-violent form it has a way of thinking that is still inconsistent with the pluralist and open - minded view of the world that defines the only way it can work peacefully in the 21st century.

Even though we live in a time where Islam is the world's second largest religion, with over 1.5 billion adherents, Islam is also probably the planet's most misunderstood religion.

Mary was not only still alive at the crucifixion, it's clear in Acts that she herself was a follower and adherent — which says A LOT, considering women had no leadership powers (so no special treatment) and normally family members are the first to expose charlatans (note: even his brothers came to believe in Acts 1, after being skeptics earlier).

Perhaps even more important than the relative number of confessionally literate adherents, I suspect that the Lutheran understanding of baptism and the Lord's Supper constitutes a huge barrier to the influence of Lutheranism among American Evangelicals relative to the influence of Calvinism.

Perhaps because the Klan is universally familiar, Americans are apt to ignore or even to laugh at it, yet to underestimate the hatred inherent in the Klan's ideology and the violent and criminal acts that this ideology so often motivates its adherents to commit, is to make a serious error.

Not only were these churches leveling off from the heady gains of the postwar revival era (the main Presbyterian bodies from 1940 to 1960 had gained adherents at more than twice the rate of the preceding 20 years), but just as important, even more than before they were «losing» members and potential members because the regions in which they were strongest were «losing» population.

Even if the effort doesn't have that effect, its adherents view it as worthwhile.

At any rate even Mark's narrative presupposes that when he entered Jerusalem for the fatal Passover he already had friends and adherents in the neighborhood.

But because the homogenizing worldview of liberal individualism exalts individual autonomy over all standards outside the will, adherents regard with suspicion all communities based on non-individualist assumptions, especially those such as marriage, family, and even the gathered church which are not obviously reducible to private contract.

A perfect counter-example is Hinduism, which by construction is more spiritual than religious — it's adherents do not have strict rules or norms, and there is incredible diversity of norms within one umbrella (some who believe in caste system, even though a large majority of urbanites study in Christian missionary schools; some who believe cows are sacred though 2/3 of Indians are actually non-vegetarian).

Important issues are indeed at stake, including the right of Christians and adherents of other religions to uphold their vision of sexual integrity and marriage even if they are in the cultural minority.

Not just towards religions and their adherents, but even towards other scientists and rational thinkers.

Even Hinduism, with its 300,000,000 adherents, would seem a strange country to your mind, were you to try to understand it.

Here and there Messianic prophets and even «kings» appeared; under Cuspius Fadus, the «prophet» Theudas; under Ventidius Cumanus, the «bandit» Eleasar; under Felix, a «prophet» who came out of Egypt, who led the crowd of his adherents to the Mount of Olives and attempted to enter Jerusalem with them, expecting the walls to fall at his command; under Festus, a «prophet» who promised «salvation» and deliverance from all suffering.

My central concern with communitarianism in its current form is that its adherents seek to impose a new psychology, a new history, and even a new reality on the public.

But if they arc seen as clues to a personal quality of men's lives, then a sympathetic appreciation of this quality may at least in part be derived from having adherents of that faith as informants17 and perhaps even as friends.18 Of the various ways of finding out what something means to the person concerned, one way is to ask him.

Religion has enjoyed commanding «respect» for a long time now, and this expectation becomes even more vocal once people actually question ideas and practices of religious adherents.

Henry Murray describes «cognitive and convictional functions» of myths, which must be credible to their adherents, though he considers these secondary to other functions.28 Even though a living myth is closer to daily life than to metaphysical speculation, it does seem to presuppose some sort of truth - claims which can be examined.

Therefore, not making studies about this essentially leads to great controversy, and who started this controversy gets famous and rich because his books are sold to thousands of adherents for whom he sounds revealing, and even by non-adherents who need to read him before they can critically think about him.

«Adherents of the faith should leverage this festive moment to foster unity and continue to live up to the tenets through the acts of charity, peaceful co-existence with our neighbours, obedience to the injunctions of the Holy Qura»n and sacrifice as exemplified by Prophet Ibrahim whose spirit of obedience was demonstrated through his submission to the will of Allah even in very difficult situation.

This is said to have irked some Mahama adherents who have vowed to forcefully detach Stan Dogbe and other «undesirables» from the former President's team, even if that will require «abduction».

Some extreme adherents to this point of view, called embodiment theory, speculate that even the highest cognitive functions, including thought, do no more than regulate streams of intelligence rising from the body, much as the sound coming from a radio is modulated by turning the knobs.

What I don't understand is that the GAPS and the Dr Wahl diet and even Paleo, all have so many adherents that swear by it.

No matter how I try, I can not get to an ideal weight, even though I am more adherent to this diet than even I can believe because I feel so well and have ditched so many health issues, its easy once you get a handle on things, and delicious!

Mind you, even the most strict adherents of low - carb advocates end up adding a small amount of rice, oatmeal and potatoes back into their diet when they start exercising or training.

A fermented drink hailing from the Caucasus, kefir is pretty hard to fault even for adherents of -LSB-...]

Since the OASIS was primarily conceived by James Halliday (Mark Rylance), an eccentric inventor with a vast nostalgia for the pop culture of the 1980s, Halliday's most ardent adherents, most of whom weren't even born then, are awash in the movie and video game artifacts of that era.

(3) Along with other uncritical adherents of Social Darwinism, Göbbels and Hitler believe that they are doing the world a service by liquidating Jews and so - called inferior peoples, and Hitler is even willing to have all Germans die as a race because he believes that they are being proved inferior when the army is incapable of withstanding the Allied military onslaught.

On the right, many Tea Party adherents and others view the initiative as a dangerous or even unconstitutional expansion of federal control of education.

Religious language resonates even beyond adherents: for example, the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Tutu are moral leaders who use the vocabulary of their faiths to influence thinking and behavior well beyond their own traditions.

Science does not transcend its historical context quite as efficiently as its adherents claim, indeed, in many senses, it more precisely reflects the prejudices of political elites — the «Politics or Politicians, Finance or Financeers, Rackets or Racketeers» — than even the politicians, financeers do themselves.

Unfortunately Gaia is often misrepresented as a conscious super-being deserving of religious devotion, with some adherents even advocating Gaia should replace the earth's major religions.

It is like communism once was — a superficially appealing philosophy that garnered a number of adherents even in the West, but which, as history has proven, engenders and spreads harm like an ebola virus sneezed into a classroom.

Such an organization could not require even its senior officers, who constitute the organization's directing mind, to be adherents to its religious beliefs.

In determining what the law is, the Court of Appeal took a decision that even the most ardent and dyed - in - the - wool adherent of the Purposive Approach to interpretation would have been at great pains to follow, ie choosing long uniform and uninterrupted usage and course of dealing over the clear, unambiguous provisions of a statute of parliament.

This view is not very, or even at all, popular in Canada, but it does have some adherents.

Sanford Levinson, a law professor at the University of Texas at Austin, said Justice Thomas's position claims few adherents in the legal community — Not even Justice Antonin Scalia, who like Justice Thomas argues that the Constitution should be applied according to the original meaning of its text when ratified.

Even where the religion does not require particular clothing or symbols, some adherents foreseeably tend to wear or display them, so the disparate impact is very clear.

Newbies, experienced adherents and even gurus could find something interesting to upgrade their mastering of the subject.