Sentences with phrase «hands of the church»

One hand of the church does the nice stuff, the other hand, is, well, let's not even go there.

I think you forgot the multiple crusades, the salem witch trials, the constant degredation of the jewish by the christians and catholics up until right after WW2 and the holocaust, or not even mentioning the iron hand of the church during the ENTIRE dark ages, the complacency and silent approval of Hitler by the RCC, the fact that Hitler himself grew up a catholic and professed to be doing the will of god.

Responsibility for such protection was long in the hands of the church.

You see, I've gone through extremely painful experiences, not only in the church but at the hands of the church.

Everyone who has suffered at the hands of the church and its leaders has a stake in this story.

Education remained largely in the hands of churches for a long time.

Wouldn't it be interesting to know how much money actually flows through the hands of the church... the whole Christian church all around the world... in one week?

At the hands of the Church, the children are being «intercised,» separated from their souls (what Pullman calls daemons) so they can be protected from Dust, fine particles that the Church regards as original sin.

The abuse I've suffered at the hands of church leaders, other Christians, the insane chaos of a church split, being fired from another international ministry for «insubordination», etc., are all not just little episodic blemishes in church life, but revelatory symptoms of deeply serious defects, profound flaws, and continental faults that need immediate and radical treatment.

There is more blood on the hands of the Church than anything other then natural causes of death.

It started with Twitter users Emily Joy and Hannah Paasch, who took to social media to share their stories of abuse at the hands of church leaders under the hashtag #ChurchToo.

The Church, then, conceives itself as the continuing embodiment of the historic «Israel of God»; and we receive the Bible from the hands of the Church.

I think actually a much better response is to say to the conservative Christians «you need to take up your cross and suffer with and for the LGBT people who've suffered at the hands of the church.»

Spiritual abuse at the hands of the church is something that all Christians need to take seriously.

As someone who has suffered deeply at the hands of the church thanks to their belief that suffering in our family was due to some secret sin of mine, I must speak up and voice my belief that people should still refrain from judging the suffering individual.

Could it really be that religious truth lay in the hands of a Church that safeguarded it reliably for almost two thousand years?

That places so much authority, power and opportunity for abuse in the hands of the church, as history has shown and continues to show time and time again.)

Those who have suffered at the hands of the church, its leaders and its members, must be allowed to tell their story to believing and sympathetic ears or the possibility of healing is almost closed to them.

hroughout the history of «Chistendom», pagans, atheists, heathens and other assorted heretics have endured such torture at the hands of the Church innumberable times.

Coming from someone who has experienced my own fair share of pain at the hands of the church and regularly laughs at and gets ticked off with the church, I think you're deeply misrepresenting the heart of the original piece.

has no right to force the hand of a church on any issues involving sterilizations and brith control.

True, Rachel writes honestly about the pain she and others have experienced at the hands of the church.

His belief in a Copernican universe led to his imprisonment and torture at the hands of the church, or so the story often goes.