Sentences with phrase «history of its adherents»

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

Not exact matches

So, though southerneyes44 writes of Christian «appreciation of alternate views», there's a long and brutal history of Christians persecuting adherents of other religions, including the followers of Judaism, from which Christianity arose, during various European pogroms against Jews throughout many centuries, and adherents of other branches of Christianity.

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.

Adherents invariably saw themselves living on the cusp of history, straddling the end of the present age and the beginning of the age to come.

Here it suffices to say that adherents typically proved themselves tireless toilers in the Lord's vineyard and viewed the end of history with anticipation, not apprehension.

Peters, an erudite scholar of Middle Eastern history and religion at New York University, explores the ways adherents think, how they talk about and worship God, how

There is little basis in history for the promise that this religion sincerely followed will bring fullness of life to its adherents in the sense that theological utilitarianism intends.

the religion does teach nonviolence, though the history of it's adherent often commit violence.

Most Protestant millenarians are adherents of dispensationalism, and they assert that believers need not fear the violence and conflict (the «tribulation») at the end of history, for the saved will be rescued in the «rapture» - lifted off the earth to dwell with Christ in heaven until the Second Coming.

(ENTIRE BOOK) This book summarizes the history of the Christian religion, directing attention to the challenges it has met, the failures of many of its most loyal adherents to live up to «the high calling of God in Christ Jesus,» and some of the achievements in seeking to make that calling a reality.

Inconceivably, adherents to this approach would have advocated exactly the same mix of stocks and bonds in December 1999, when stocks were as overvalued as they had ever been in history, as they would have advocated in 1982 when stocks were dirt cheap.

Our guides are specifically selected and trained to be expertly qualified, intimate with the wildlife, geography, history and culture of our locale, strictly adherent to minimum impact wildlife viewing and respectful of the environment.

Her depiction of the Mona Lisa is as reminiscent of the Shroud of Turin and the power it holds over its adherents as the Mona Lisa itself holds sway over us as «the greatest painting ever» and the most enigmatic female ever recorded in history.

While Martha Mayer Erlebacher has certainly studied the history of art, and has looked hard at the rich tradition of allegorical painting, she is neither a neo-Classicist nor a rigid adherent of any theory of contemporary narrative painting.

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.