Sentences with phrase «like church and state»

It seems as though he is kind of finding his way in terms of doing that, joining the consensus, but opening the door to broader decisions, both when it comes to things like church and state issues and when it comes to situations like the Second Amendment.

Or do you think just like church and state are separate in our government, in your career, what happens at home stays at home?

Like Church and State, these warnings seem to imply that successful parenting entails creating a great division between the realms of parenting and friendship.

But we got ta separate race — just like church and state — from what we love.

Not exact matches

I believe in separation of church and state and like to think that young people, even those who firmly follow a religion, also believe in the separation of church and state.

Wail away all you like, about the const - itution and how it is being mis - read, the true meaning of the separation of / from church and state, but it all does not matter — the law as currently interpreted and enforced says events of this nature are not legal!

I think it is very important that we remember that what Christians think should really not matter — what happened to separation of church and state — if anything, this is a state issue and not a federal govt issue... but since it has been brought up, i'll chime in on something — I bet when the Reverend was young and he was told to sit in the back of the bus, he didn't like it and did nt» think it was fair... neither do I...

Like me, you may have at one time or another found yourself looking at the state of the church, either local or at large and expressing some level of discontentment with your perceptions.

The separation of state and church was construed by sick minds like you.

They still have to comply with federal and state laws, which means gays are out, but everyone else has to be considered for employment by the company (the only exceptions to the law are where your religion or other protected status are essential for the job... for example, a Muslim couldn't sue an Episcopalian church who wouldn't hire them in an administrative role because their faith clashes with that of the church — things like that don't apply to a fast food chain).

The woman claims to be Catholic yet condones fornication, contraception, and probably other things like abortion which the Catholic Church clearly states are against the faith (and teaches that they are, serious, mortal sins that unrepeated of before death, will put one to hell).

Regarding the separation of state and church the Western Countries are secular for decades, but that even whole populations like the Spanish become secular, is a new occurence.

Like his predecessor Cardinal Pio Laghi, Pietro Sambi realized that the unique role of religion and faith in the United States has much to offer the world, and succeeded in conveying this realization to a heavily Europeanized Church leadership.

If you want to see a more equitable distribution of income in the United States — tax the churches like the private companies they are organized like and see what happens.

He found the national churches of state Protesentism more to his liking, simply because they were easier for him to control and because they represented the religion of the north German states.

Did they actually say that or did they say something more to like separation of church and state?

People like Santorum are why we need separation of church and state.

we atheists are sick and tired of people like you who refuse to understand the SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STAand tired of people like you who refuse to understand the SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STAAND STATE!

I can tell you that Mitt, like the rest of us, is not perfect but he is a man of great integrity who understands and respects the separation between church and state.

Not at all like the Religious Extremeists that want to put wpmen back in slavery, taking away her freedoms, viewing gays as sub-human, that can't get past the separation of Church and State, and think that the US was founded on Freedom OF Religion, when, in fact, it was founded on Freedom FROM Religion.

I feel comfortable in stating that, like most socialists / communists, Obama is agnostic and that he simply used the church for political purposes — until it no longer suited his needs.

The concept of once saved always saved takes a bit to get your head around but Gods grace is greater than our sin and greater than our good works it just takes faith in Jesus Christ to recieve Gods grace.In saying that to continue to sin as a christian is like playing with fire you will be burnt.Paul talks of the sexual immorality in corinthian church of the son and father that were sleeping with the same wife they were excommunicated from the church the members were not allowed to even eat with them until they repented.There are consequences for our actions.The other side to this is that if you continue to sin as a christian you are not walking by faith but walking by the flesh and are really backsliding.In the backslidden state you also become powerless and open to attack by satan as long as we walk in the flesh he can influence us to get worse not better.If we are walking in Christ satan may still try to tempt us but we are empowered by the holy spirit and overcome him and our faith increases.Both are saved by grace but one is powerless because of sin versus saved but an overcomer having been set free from sin i think this is what Paul was trying to explain.It is better to be an overcomer than overcome by sin.brentnz

I clearly stated that I knew it was David's right to moderate how he wanted, and I noted that I believe it is fair to talk about silencing in church systems, but I asked him to consider the damage and misinformation that a free - for - all like this can have when it takes a huge left turn into picking apart people's personal darkness from a far.

Andrew came on, unidentified, and dogmatically stated that a church should be run like a business and challenged David with a veiled threat «does the vineyard know what you're doing?»

Fishon, I'll call you what you are: you are a troll and a bully, and the RIGHT churches with absolute standards are full of bullies like you who are not content to follow your exacting standards in your churches; you are trying to make total strangers in the world at large subject through them in the secular courts and laws, flipping your middle fingers at the principle of constitutional separation of church and state.

Good point, this does seem like a bit of a stretch; and an article on blue laws would be rather interesting (they make for a healthy seperation of church and state conversation).

One of them stood up and stated she would not make and take food for a funeral for people she didn't like and she is featured at the church.

Their cause probably would have been served better with something like «learn more about atheism» or «keep church and state separate».

Bodies like the Church of the Nazarene and the Assemblies of God were built up by a complex agglutinative process as various independent ministries, small groups, and local or state associations came together in merger.

For myself, I support things like CHOICE, separation of church and state, women's rights, universal healthcare, etc..

Here, I could understand how you might be describing the West as having «excommunicated Christ» in that Western thought has ideas like separation of Church and State and many tend to believe that government should not be informed by «the Church», thus leaving the working paradigm you establish.

The entire pact does not continue in «secular» states like Egypt, but the prohibition on construction, rebuilding and repair of churches does.

Regarding the separation of state and church the Western Contries are secular for decades, but that even whole populations like the Spanish become secular, is a new occurence.

This is why the Irish clergy are often so timid about proclaiming Christian doctrine: they know well that people like them personally and that they are grateful for the social work done by the Church, but that Church teaching is deeply resented, and that any attempt to state it is met with bitter hostility.

As opposed to the thousands and thousands of billboards & church message boards every 50 ft with their snarky comments pushing their beliefs and quite often attacking non -(Jesus) believers and / or science directly or indirectly, all the millions of people that like to go around constantly «sharing their beliefs» about how everyone who believes differently is gonna be tortured and burned for eternity, or the countless attempts by local, state, and federal government officials to push laws based on those beliefs and to favor those beliefs all over the country.

Then you have people like Mr. Perry in Texas who uses his office to promote his own religious agenda, despite, as I previously mentioned, the separation of church and state.

I believe, like Ellul, that the church is horribly apostate and debilitated and borders on complete collusion with its fallen state among the principalities and the powers.

ok i've decided — after soul searching and observing my and other's reactions to these religious blog news on CNN learning more about religion from this alone and about the mideast than from anywhere else in my USA educated life i need to be more tolerant of others having religious based governments THAT is what is confusing me — that religion are governments are not seperated that is hard for much of USA population to understand perhaps it is for me i think you would have to actually live in a society like the mideast to truly understand it i mean — actually be part of the society the religious part is truly offputting — since most in USA seperate church and state like — church is for faith and imagination and celebration and family and community involvement and state is for protection and education and health and infrastructure, etc., for all it is hard to be serious about religion — when the serious side of society is state it is hard to see religion being the serious side of enforcement — and the state enforcing the faith based side of society egad — doesn't god get lost in all that?

Imagine if people like Michelle Bachman, Kent Hovind, or Pat Robertson had their way, and there was no such thing as separation of church from state to hold them back from brainwashing our children, persecuting non-believers like they did in medieval times, and turning our country into a Christian oligarchy.

Sorta like the one that Islam is a peaceful religion... lol... Seperation of Church and State... Peace be upon me...

I agree that there needs to be some separation of church and state, but look at the name above, and remember names like Hitler Stalin and Mao all glorified in the name of atheism and science and equality, and they were a catastrophe!

Republican religion did much to lay the historical groundwork for the tradition of religious liberty and limited separation of church and state, as it did to nurture creative minorities like the abolitionists, social gospelers, and civil - rights protesters.

I mean, it's not like he can claim tax exempt status, blather incessantly from the pulpit of his mega-church, and through his money around in an attempt to undermine the separation between church and state.

Like him or not, there is absolutely nothing to suggest that * he * is having any problem keeping church and state separate.

When I am asked about my experience ten years ago, I often say the same thing stating something like «I am glad that this happened today and instead of 200 years ago... they would have burnt me at the stake and made my wife and sons wards of the church!»

Yet, like the state, the school, the business and the labor union, the institutional church has its own distinctive sphere and task — not to save us from the state, once again, but to mediate God's saving grace, to nurture its members in the faith and to support them in living the life of obedience before God in Christ.

In his first year, according to tax documents, the nonprofit disbursed $ 700,000 to groups like the Secular Coalition for America, the American Humanist Association and Americans United for Separation of Church and State.

This country needs more than ever to have separation of church and state, do you see other countries that arent like that?

Yep you are right, I moved down here in the state of Mississippi, north of Crystal Springs from Chicago when I was ten years old but still I visit once in a while, now it's twenty years and sad to not much has change, like the parts you said about non-whites discrimatory or rasicts at other non-whites, when I went to school here they treated me as a alien from another galaxy, they pick at my voice cause I didn't had that southern dialog, unlike them I said my words correctly, but not just me, they even hated at others who had better intelect I am not picking at them, It is what I went through all these years, Mississippi and mainly this small town of Crystal Springs see America in a crazy awful view, They don't like difference that even within they own race, ther not that politcal, when some one say God they got there vote, I don't to say much to waste your time, I still remember when I was ten years old I had a constanct back ground check on me to see were I really come from evn though I had the paper saying Chicago Illinois barely no jobs but a church on every street for a town barely under five Thousand, till this very day, they look at me like I am a alien, did you ever had that experiance down here damn my keybroad mess up,

How about you be more concerned with things like the separation of church and state.