Sentences with phrase «geonocide of its adherents»

Each of these ideas has its own body of adherents — management thinkers pushing a particular point of view, and practising executives experimenting with a different way of working.

Atheism has a long history of its adherents changing living people into dead ones by the millions.

Precise statistics on the number of adherents within each church are difficult to come by.

The amount of control thatnthe church has over the daily lives of adherents is disturbing.

Merriam Webster defines a cult as, 1: formal religious veneration: worship 2: a system of religious beliefs and ritual; also: its body of adherents

1rst, the definition of cult according to the dictionary in this case Webster «Cult: formal religious veneration: worship 2: a system of religious beliefs and ritual; also: its body of adherents» so anyone involved in a church is in a cult period.

They seek to maintain the integrity and vitality of their faith while acknowledging the inherent worth of the adherents of other religions.

Indeed, as Pleket has shown, from Augustus onwards, the emperors were the focus of «mysteries» that resembled the long - established mysteries of the Hellenistic world, and drew substantial numbers of adherents.

Many other religions are replete with miracle stories and require of their adherents the suspension of ordinary historical reasoning.

well I heard you were looking for a place to fit in full of adherent people with the same objective a family to cling to and call brethren come join us

«The assailants of dogmatic truth have got the start of its adherents of whatever Creed; philosophy is completing what criticism has begun; and apprehensions are not unreasonably excited lest we should have a new world to conquer before we have weapons for the warfare.»

For a religion to succeed, it must in some way claim the working hours of its adherents.

But there is no doubting the popularity and fruits of the charismatic influence, with many of its adherents being instinctively on the side of orthodox belief and moral precepts.

Hinduism in India — over 7,000 years and counting - billions of adherents over the centuries - must make those gods real, huh?

depending on your criteria (if you go by cultural influence or numbers of adherents), a case could be made that it's the clearest book in history.

Many of its adherents refuse to acknowledge the sanctity and equality of human life, instead taking the so - called «quality of life» approach, which determines the moral value of each organism — whether human, animal, or plant — by measuring its individual cognitive capacities.

Dislike it as we may, they have weathered the storms without splintering, but at the expense of loss of adherents and at great cost to people's well - being.

Here again, evangelical media could have a crucial role in focusing the thinking and concern of their adherents on issues like world hunger and the plight of our urban minorities — issues that correspond to the problems of slavery and child labor which 19th century evangelicals successfully attacked.

How can ANY religion reconcile geonocide of its adherents?

By theology of religions, I mean critical theological reflections on the interaction and intercourse between different religions through such means as proclamation and sharing of their different creeds and teachings, through dialogue of their adherents, and mutual challenges and partnership for common cause.

These new devotees of evangelism are imperialistic, attacking those who deviate as secular humanists (read pagans) and demanding conformity of its adherents under pain of excommunication (read being targeted for defeat in the next election).

A religion that makes no difference in the lives of its adherents is not a religion at all.

Now, I know the vast majority of adherents to religion are good decent, rational people.

Totalitarianism is, almost by definition, religious in its intensity and in the nature of the demands it makes upon the total being of its adherents.

The more juvenile the religion, the more likely some of the adherents will become radicals and try to force everyone to follow their rules.

• Consequent to the notion of disaster, and fueled by MacIntyre's polemicism, there is a streak of victimhood running through MacIntyre's work, and especially through the attitudes of his adherents — «we poor moderns» and such.

And in fact one Zealot at least passed into the other camp and entered the inner circle of the disciples of Jesus.16 We may be sure that here were others with a Zealot background among the wider body of adherents.

Rather, each is a kind of pseudopod into which the Jewish energies of their adherents have flowed.

The phenomenological approach took seriously the faith of the believer and tried to appreciate a religion from the standpoint of its adherents.

It took several decades before this message found large numbers of adherents.

^ «Major Religions of the World Ranked by Number of Adherents».

In 2005, Gao criticized China's torture of adherents of Falun Gong, a traditional Chinese religion, and his comments triggered a brutal response.

It provides a base for new coalitions between Roman Catholics and Protestants (witness the ecumenical character of its adherents), liberals and conservatives (witness the continuing concerns of the World Council of Churches and the evangelicals» Chicago Declaration), «majorities» and «minorities» (witness the numerous theological works written from black, feminist, Latin American and Anglo perspectives), and therefore can become an acceptable, sound theological foundation for church education.

But can one judge «success» by numbers of adherents?

So, millions of adherent Catholics on the African continent that die of AIDS should be happy that they were at least adherent to Catholic dogma?

Finally, I vehemently disagree with Taylor that the Christian faith does not require the deconstruction and reconstruction of its adherents.

@SevenPup: «The number of adherents mean nothing.

It is well known that the serious decline in membership of the «mainline,» or liberal, branches of American Protestantism is largely due to the loss of a substantial portion of their adherents who were born after World War II.

What was formerly taken to be a peculiarity of «holiness» sects has become a reality in the mainline churches; indeed, it has been said that the fastest growing group in these churches is composed of adherents of just this charismatic position.

Since mainstream religions don't control language, their religious authorities simply can't exercise the degree of power over membership that cult leaders can when they make an active effort to reduce the critical capacities of their adherents.

The rejection of the corruption, the cruelty and all around sociopathy of its adherents has been a cornerstone of my life.

Islamic Governments and Rulerships have rarely indulged in brutality that is reflective of a lack of inner peace of its adherents.

[Rachel Zoll, 2001:8 A] This example indicates the influence that the sheer number of adherents of a particular religion have on the socio - political affairs of modern states, and in a world where truth seems to get blurred amidst statistics.

Christianity (both Protestants and Roman Catholics), Hinduism and Buddhism have smaller number of adherents.

There are tens of thousands of movements and communities, each of them counting thousands and, in some cases, millions of adherents.

The question modern readers have to answer is whether the Greco - Roman household codes reflected upon in Ephesians, Colossians, and 1 Peter are in and of themselves holy and divinely instituted, or if their appearance in Scripture represents the early church's attempt to blend Christianity and culture in such a way that it would preserve the dignity of adherents while honoring prevailing social and legal norms of the day.

But according to our research, a growing slice of adherents no longer feels comfortable using the name.

Rome had historically been given to political ambitions and this raised obvious questions about the national loyalties and patriotism of her adherents.

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.

I asked if you hold your government to the same standard as Christianity, or is your hatred of all adherents strictly for members of the Christian faith, and if so, why the double - standard?