Sentences with phrase «heretical religious»

X wants Junk's help to meet the Reverend Nagil, leader of a heretical religious sect; but Junk suspects that X has hidden motives for this meeting.

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In The Heretical Imperative: Contemporary Possibilities of Religious Affirmation (Garden City: N.Y.: Doubleday, Anchor Books, 1980), Berger again takes up his argument concerning the possibility of religious belief in our moReligious Affirmation (Garden City: N.Y.: Doubleday, Anchor Books, 1980), Berger again takes up his argument concerning the possibility of religious belief in our moreligious belief in our modern age.

The once - stellar giants of theology in the Roman Catholic Church and the Protestant «mainstream» have faded from the scene, only to be replaced by a new array of religious inventions bent on undermining the faith of the fathers in ever more heretical ways.

But what makes the lack of love even more heretical, is that a lack of love often leads religious people to do horrendous and hurtful things «in the name of Jesus,» which makes these actions not just heretical, but satanic and evil.

He would provide a profile of the early Church which was «a religious communion claiming a divine commission, and holding all other religious bodies around it heretical or infidel, a sort of secret society binding its members together by influence and engagement, spread over the whole world, a natural enemy to governments, intolerant and capable of dividing families and breaking laws.

I realize that such a passage may be offensive to some heretics, but imagine how offensive it must be to religious believers who fancy that their heretical simplifications are orthodox!

This was also the principle of the Brothers of Waldo (at Lyons) and of those heretical movements — Joachimites, Brothers of the Poor Life, etc. — which preached true evangelical communism, practiced absolute nonviolence, and declared that apocalyptic visions had revealed that the «poor and pure religious orders will bring in the mystical government of the world.»

One could look at the Bible and perhaps reach the conclusion that using one's religious beliefs as a cudgel with which to hammer the marginalized is... well, somewhat heretical.»

Use in religious rites among the Sufi branch of Islam led to being put on trial in Mecca: it was accused of being a heretical substance, and its production and consumption were briefly repressed.

Fearing religious persecution, Copernicus waited until just before his death in 1543 to publish his heretical theory that Earth circles the sun — and so is not at the center of the universe.

It is rooted in iconoclasm — the belief that religious imagery is heretical, and should therefore be destroyed.

Catholic religious truths have I beleive 5 or more defined levels of certainty from De Fide Definita down to any non heretical opinion.