Sentences with phrase «for holy war»

And when such links can not be ignored (as, for example, in the cases of the horrendous treatment of women by the Taliban or the rulers of Saudi Arabia, the clear calls for holy war against the infidel by many Muslim clerics, or the widespread dissemination of Nazi - level anti-Semitic propaganda throughout the Arab world), students are still exhorted to tolerate the intolerable by «understanding» its cultural or historical context to the point of excusing it all away.

She has the Spaniards spoiling for a holy war, her imprisoned cousin Mary Stuart (Samantha Morton) is plotting an overthrow and, on top of all this, being the Virgin Queen in the presence of dashing adventurer Sir Walter Raleigh is losing its appeal.

Spain angles for a holy war.

Now a member of our government is calling for a holy war?

On the other hand, if Jesus had been a military Messiah who avenged the Jews by leading a crusade against Rome, then the command for holy war would have been validated and given definitive sanction by the Messianic general.

I can not wait for the Holy War to start in the USA.

I haven't heard the Pope call for a holy war.

any god that would set up his followers from different religions for holy wars is a devious monster.

Not exact matches

Ironically, Ackman's 3 - year - long «for profit species of holy war,» as Parloff dubs the investor's extended Herbalife siege, has forced the company to shake off many of its most unsavory operations, like its dogged lead generation businesses.

The crusades and the reformation come to mind... not to mention the current wars you take part in the the middle east in which the US is considered the infidile... it is a «holy war» for the Taliban.

And in that tack of semantics, of loving God above all things, of obeying him and blindly doing his will, we will continue to discriminate and to fight holy wars and to hear men with two faces tell us that they are His middlemen and to pander for politicians and to condemn science, which is merely the study of His design, as we have for centuries.

In a letter announcing his retirement from the army at the close of the War, he wrote: «I now make it my earnest prayer, that God would have you, and the State over which you preside, in his holy protection, that he would incline the hearts of the Citizens to cultivate a spirit of subordination and obedience to Government, to entertain a brotherly affection and love for one another, for their fellow Citizens of the United States at large, and particularly for their brethren who have served in the Field, and finally, that he would most graciously be pleased to dispose us all, to do Justice, to love mercy, and to demean ourselves with that Charity, humility and pacific temper of mind, which were the Characteristicks of the Divine Author of our blessed Religion, and without an humble imitation of whose example in these things, we can never hope to be a happy Nation.»

Some historians, such as Jonathan Phillips or Thomas Asbridge, have even written books for a general audience, seeking to bridge the gap between what historians know and what most people think about Christianity's holy wars.

Seems to be the beginning of the end for Foreign troops in Afghanistan since now it is becoming more like a Holy war were every one there will be glad to give his life as a martyr...!

For decades before the founding of the state of Israel in 1948 and for a few decades afterward (until the Six - Day War silenced much of the religious / spiritual left up to the late 1970s), Jewish theologians argued that dividing or sharing the Holy Land was a religious preceFor decades before the founding of the state of Israel in 1948 and for a few decades afterward (until the Six - Day War silenced much of the religious / spiritual left up to the late 1970s), Jewish theologians argued that dividing or sharing the Holy Land was a religious precefor a few decades afterward (until the Six - Day War silenced much of the religious / spiritual left up to the late 1970s), Jewish theologians argued that dividing or sharing the Holy Land was a religious precept.

I doubt any of us are going to sign up for a war like that — the West or terrorists — so let's stop calling our wars holy.

We tend to think of holy war as the strong using God to justify their conquest of the weak, but the Old Testament flips this picture on its head: God arises on behalf of the weak when the tyranny of the strong has raged for far too long.

Don't we have to say, at the very least, that Joshua mis - heard, that he mistook the cultural custom of «holy war» for divine command?

Let's take a quick look at three ways Israel's encounter with Canaan in the Old Testament — the paradigm for biblical holy war — is radically different from our modern conflicts today.

The Merriam Webster dictionary defines the term as «1: a holy war waged on behalf of Islam as a religious duty; also: a personal struggle in devotion to Islam especially involving spiritual discipline» and «2: a crusade for a principle or belief.»

Any way as it seems this will be the beginning of the end for Foreign troops in Afghanistan since now it is becoming more like a Holy War were every one there will be glad to give his life and die as a martyr.

A number of small groups in the occupied territories of Palestine began to call for jihad, or holy war, against Israel.

Fundamentalist Islam is at war with the West and its values of intellectual and civil freedom and democracy — and it actually takes advantage of those liberties to advance its Jihad «holy war» by using tax breaks for religions to erect edifices or get subsidies for large Muslim families that are used to sway Western democracies, and, yes, suing for the right even to build a fundamentalist mosque at Ground Zero.

He wishes to internationalize the holy places in Jerusalem, which leaves me shaking my head in dismay (such an intervention would lead to a chaos of injustice and violence that would make the present Intifada war against the Jews seem like a picnic and would have dire consequences for the holy places themselves» so far still untouched).

The international community thorugh the courts should start charging religious organizations for the cost of having to intervene in their holy wars, jihads and crusades.

If some Norwegian Christians were engaged in a violent, worldwide holy war, then it would be right for other Norwegian Christians to denounce them.

It's a Holy War of another kind waged in our hearts, for sure.

I have always been puzzled by Christianity's use of the Old Testament to justify supposedly «holy wars», which in our country has meant, at least for some people, every war in which we have been involved.

Some how it's felt that values, morals, virtues are not there in a secular world only faceless solid lifeless laws of men rather than what has been relayed by Holy books that calls for good deeds and reject bad deeds and to build a faithful societies, communities, nations since communications among nations or even among the nations of mixed cultures and beliefs... Laws or God and universe are to be prepared by some thing that is equivalent to UN but built on nations beliefs to achieve the code of understanding among nations but as can see now it is build on groundless bases if not of words of God to faiths... in addition to those non spiritual secular beliefs to make decisions of faith but at the moment the secular world make and take the decisions while the beliefs and faiths has to pay for it when it becomes a war between all faiths or religions outside your world, it would become back into your inside among the mixed culture and beliefs of the nation or nations under one country flag...!

If the Christians that served in the crusades really knew what was going on, they probably wouldn't have served, however, the leaders of the time used their beliefs against them and got them to fight for what they called a «holy war.»

For our ethical considerations on peace, peace - ministry, conflict resolution, Christians may profit from reading the Old Testament, our Holy Scripture, as a witness to the experience of a people in war and peace with other nations and as a reflection on what peace requires of the community.

If anything ever destroys it, it'll be religious nuts who think they're fighting some holy war for the invisible man who lives in the sky... geez, haven't we outgrown the needs for these ancient fairy tales yet?

You know, please rest your conscience here as you read I am not an authority AT ALL as youll come to see, My lord has pulled me out of church the holy spirit filled church where I recieved Christ, and told me to visit ALL churches, oh and by the way 6 years ago The Lord asked me to open an out reach food pantry and safe haven for the needy, in the city that we live in, anyway this journey was humbling, God always shows me I am the stinker, that its my flesh that wars against the spirit, So many people are worried about satan, and demons or bad freinds or family or other religions, Yeah it makes you wonder 1st is it the same bible Im reading Jesus said it is finished!

Elimination of the Jewish State in response to Islamic violence will only prove to them that violence works and such «great victory» for Islam will encourage them to continue their Holy War against the infidels finding other «excuses» as required.

In the 1930s a humble and holy housewife Agnes Holloway was shown a vision of «God's Master - Key — the Law of Control and Direction» which was given for a time when «Rome was sacked and desolate as never before — either by persecution or by war, or if by war by a war which was also a persecution.»

4th, were was this doctrine when they were mass murdering people for not believing, for being a witch, or during the holy wars?

As for «jihad» itself, not only is the word «jihad» mentioned in several places within the their koran, such as the infamous Sura 9 («Verse of the Sword»), there are over 150 calls to «holy war» AKA «jihad: scattered throughout the entire text of this hateful book..

But there is no rallying cry here, as there was in the old days of holy war, for the people of God to come out and do battle.

With the death of Josiah, holy war came to an end, but the holy war ideal continued to occupy and stimulate Israel for centuries.

I have suggested elsewhere that value - free technology, the military - industrial complex, and narrow nationalism might be modern examples of such principalities and powers.9 Hendrikus Berkhof suggests that human traditions, astrology, fixed religious rules, clans, public opinion, race, class, state, and Volk are among the powers.10 Walter Wink sees the powers as the inner aspects of institutions, their «spirituality,» the inner spirit or driving force that animates, legitimates, and regulates their outward manifestations.11 They are «the invisible forces that determine human existence «12 When such things dehumanize human life, thwart and distort the human spirit, block God's gift of shalom, the followers of Jesus are rallied for a new kind of holy war.

Interestingly, Patrick D. Miller, Jr., embraces an early date for this poem, even though he persists in agreeing with von Rad that holy war was always synergistic.

According to Shi`a when the Imam is not present and there is no special substitute for him, a holy war is not obligatory.

In love of God, God's Angels, God's Holy Books and God's Prophets as Christians, Jews and Muslims which all of you to become more active in approaching those who are non religious to attract them rather than concentrating on each other as to gaining converts against each other or to fight in war with each other but are to become as one or wallies against it otherwise this country would become a Hell for believers inside and overseas under evil powers?!

The Jews are willing to fight to drive others out of Jerusalem, the Christians endured dangerous pilgrimages not to worship, but to fight the Crusades to take the Holy Land for their faith, they tortured to «convert» infidels, and they fight amongst themselves (Protestant v. Catholics in N. Ireland, for instance); The Muslims declare «jihad» against their version of «infidels,» and they fight wars between Shia and Sunni over who should set the rules.

P.S. Humanists have murdered more people in the 20th century than all the people killed in «holy wars» for the last 2000 years.

We Christians condemn Islam for engaging in Jihad on America, but we engage in Holy War by invoking God's name as we head out to battle against others.

Is this a transformation of the holy war motif, with Jesus as the Divine Warrior, doing battle for God's little people, the marginalized whom we also described earlier?

Because he has vigorously fought for and in «holy war»?

Instead, people simply wanted to go to war, to annihilate their enemies, to set themselves up as ruler, or raise taxes, and so they claimed that God had given them a message, that God was on their side, and that God would fight for them in their «Holy War.&raqwar, to annihilate their enemies, to set themselves up as ruler, or raise taxes, and so they claimed that God had given them a message, that God was on their side, and that God would fight for them in their «Holy War.&raqWar.»

Probably Muhammad made - up the Koran, in order to unite the Arabic tribes or gangs for a war against the Holy Empire Byzantium.