Sentences with phrase «losing adherents»

But in this moment, with scientific success being in part a simple function of math — is an idea gaining or losing adherents?

But that's why religion is losing adherents every day, zach.

In the same letter he argues that Catholicism will be the only lasting form of Christianity; this argument also appears in Democracy, as Peter mentions, but without mention of the letter's key point that Protestantism is a half - way house between «reason» and «authority» that can not maintain its contradictory position over the long run, and which thus must lose its adherents to these two poles.

Not exact matches

Not only were these churches leveling off from the heady gains of the postwar revival era (the main Presbyterian bodies from 1940 to 1960 had gained adherents at more than twice the rate of the preceding 20 years), but just as important, even more than before they were «losing» members and potential members because the regions in which they were strongest were «losing» population.

Lewontin thus saw creationism as falsified not so much by any discoveries of modern science as by universal human experience, a thesis that does little to explain either why so absurd a notion has attracted so many adherents or why we should expect it to lose ground in the near future.

When Muhammad lost the support which his uncle afforded him in Mecca, he left the town to look elsewhere for allies and adherents.

ponder a minuteâ $ ¦ the world is overflowing with religions, cults, churches, etc., whose adherents have lost their ability to think rationally and behave responsiblyâ $ ¦.

ponder a minute... the world is overflowing with religions, cults, churches, etc., whose adherents have lost their ability to think rationally and behave responsibly....

In Europe once Christianity became the state religion, paganism lost its secular support and the tendency was for people to become adherents of Christianity.

«The church will become small and will have to start afresh more or less from the beginning... As the number of her adherents diminishes... she will lose many of her social privileges... It will be hard going for the Church, for the process of crystallisation and clarification will cost her much valuable energy... But when the trial of this sifting is past, a great power will flow from a more spiritualised and simplified Church... And so it seems certain to me that the Church is facing very hard times.

(This effect was not lost on early population control adherents.

Adherents of «de-extinction» hope to see al world repopulated with species thought lost to the planet — but there are some major caveats

I know you have written about it before on the blog, but I think its findings are actually more applicable to overweight people than standard diet adherents think (i.e., those who believe in limiting food intake to lose weight, whether by cutting calories, or intermittent fasting, or cutting out certain macros).