Sentences with phrase «holy war as»

The Crusades also helped to stiffen the principle of holy war as the main justification for the existence of dynasties and states with large military forces.

Lind accepts holy war as a cultic institution that deeply influenced Israel's life and history, but he does not agree that synergism is its typical form.25

What else would you expect from a religion that has a holy war as one of its major tenets of faith?

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.

Speaking of Holy wars as Christian, can you back that up with a new testament passage ordaining holy war?

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As Ryan Selkis of the Digital Currency Group tweeted, blockchain is friendlier to business and innovation («I want to make money / follow rules») while bitcoin suggests obsession and perhaps delusion («I'm fighting a holy war»).

The audience rose as one, cheering and raising their arms, soldiers now in a great holy war.

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.

These days I believe the Christians like to call it «justified killing»; previously it was things like «purifying the faith» (as with the various Inquisitions), «Holy War» and «Crusade.»

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.

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.

Tom, And the Catholics that ran the Holy wars were Catholic, And I am pretty sure that Hitler was as well, except the catholic church didn't want to be associated with him in the end.

... What has happened over time is that people were forced to believe in the one of the Abrahamic faiths through Holy wars, torture, Crusades and Inquisitions, and as people practiced this chosen people ideology, whether Christian, Catholic, Jew or Muslim, which was built on the principle of remaining segregated from the un-chosen, their faith urged them to remain segregated, where they lived and never to marry anyone outside their faith... and even in death there is a history of segregation which to this day continues, try having a non Jewish person buried in Jewish cemetery.

I suppose that the «holy» wars» deaths» and the conversion techniques of such times as the Spanish Inquisition, and such nice fellows as Sain Olaf, who chopped the heads off of non-convertable Europeans, all is simply a figment of the imagination.

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...!

According to Rummel, the number of people who have died as the result of holy wars, Crusades, inquisitions, witch hunts, etc. is ~ 75 - 100 million — in all of recorded history.

Among the doctrines which caused conflict between the Qadianis and the general body of Muslims was Ghulam Ahmad's rejection of jihad, holy war, as one of the principles of Islam.

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.»

It was the Holy Spirit who gave her the courage to tend the wounded in wars, to enter the slums without a penny, to live as the only white woman in a black enclave, to endure the failure of two apostolates and to begin again, to push herself beyond her limits to preach the Gospel of Love.

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.

we are here moving in the world of a holy - war theology such as we find at Qumran, where references to God and his Kingdom are to be found in the context of the eschatological conflict of the «War of the Sons of Light against the Sons of Darkness&raquwar theology such as we find at Qumran, where references to God and his Kingdom are to be found in the context of the eschatological conflict of the «War of the Sons of Light against the Sons of Darkness&raquWar of the Sons of Light against the Sons of Darkness».

Overlapping with the «just» alternative in early medieval thought, «holy» war or the Crusade differs from the just war (properly so - called) as to cause, last resort, and probable success, and usually with regard to the human dignity of the enemy / infidel.

As distinguished from people holding to pacifism or the «holy war,» people holding to the just war tradition claim to make decisions on the empirically knowable facts of the case.

Nothing is quite so evil as fanatical religious people who in the name of God carry out inquisitions, pogroms, heresy trials, witch - hunts holy wars and crusades.

Now that we know science is true, each life lost during these so - called «holy wars» where some «God» fought on one or both sides... consider these as victims of mansllaughter.

The country was up in arms, the war was on, in every breast burned the holy fire of patriotism; the drums were beating, the bands playing, the toy pistols popping, the bunched firecrackers hissing and spluttering; on every hand and far down the receding and fading spread of roofs and balconies a fulttering wilderness of flags flashed in the sun; daily the young volunteers marched down the wide avenue gay and fine in their new uniforms, the proud fathers and mothers and sisters and sweethearts cheering them with voices choked with happy emotion as they swung by; nightly the packed mass meetings listened, panting, to patriot oratory with stirred the deepest deeps of their hearts, and which they interrupted at briefest intervals with cyclones of applause, the tears running down their cheeks the while; in the churches the pastors preached devotion to flag and country, and invoked the God of Battles beseeching His aid in our good cause in outpourings of fervid eloquence which moved every listener.

Yes those extremists try to paint the US as the Great Satan who's on a holy war against Islam, but that's not a pill swallowed by the majority of the muslim world.

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...!

They suggest that the holy wars of the past were as much a product of politics and secular desires as any war today and that the war in Iraq may be neither holy nor just, but merely business as usual.

Christianity was used as war propaganda by the Holy Roman Emperor Constantine.

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.

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.»

It is a «place» made all the holier by its mute testimony to the folly of war, just as its replacement nearby, sparkling and ghastly, testifies to the folly of modern architecture.

«22 The wars, as recorded, were so diverse that it is questionable whether the kind of pattern or design that von Rad discerns ever existed even in the minds of biblical writers, much less in the actual events.23 In particular, von Rad's insistence that holy war was always defensive can not be supported.24

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 bookAs 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 bookas 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.

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.

Ali gave numerous lectures on many topics, such as how to pray and how to thank God, on Muhammad, on prophecy, on the virtues and morals of Muhammad, on the Qur» an, on the stages of life to come, on ways to live in this world, on holy wars, and the like.

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?!

As in medieval times, the war grew out of the situation of Christians under Muslim rule in the Middle East, and specifically the control of Jerusalem's holy places.

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.

John Howard Yoder pictures Jesus as seriously tempted to follow the holy war pattern, to exercise «the Zealot option.»

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?

Just because Wars had been waged in the name of religion doesn't make the point of it Wrong,,, otherwise why does it say (He who loves me, keeps my commandments) almost at the same time as it says (I give you a new commandment, love...) in short, Yes, Jesus is what matters, but to know Jesus I need His word, the Bible, I need a relationship with Him, I need to understand What He wants me to be Like (Be Holy as your Father in Heaven) which is not just an old testament quote, but a new Testament as well,,, at the end, if Religion was so pointless and to be hated, why Would God ask us to test the spirits, why does he tell us (by their fruits you would know them.)

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.»

Cardinal Alfredo Ottaviani (1890 - 1979), who headed the Holy Office, and became known as the «traditionalist's traditionalist,» realized the ideology's destructive nature and protected persecuted Jews during World War II.

That Church had seemed to be engaged in a holy war against communism as an ally of the West in its political conflict, but now it seems to have accepted the reality of coexistence.

And whereas, it is the duty of nations as as well as of men, to owe their dependence upon the overruling power of God, to confess their sins and transgressions, in humble sorrow, yet with assured hope that genuine repentance will lead to mercy and pardon; and to recognize the sublime truth, announced in the Holy Scriptures and proven by all history, that those nations only are blessed whose God is the Lord: And, in so much as we know that, by His divine law, nations, like individuals, are subjected to punishments and chastisements in this world, may we not justly fear that the awful calamity of civil war, which now desolates the land, may be but a punishment inflicted upon us for our presumptuous sins, to the needful end of our national reformation as a whole People?