Sentences with phrase «make christianity»

Andrew Copson, Chief Executive of the BHA commented «Any politician or government that tried to make Christianity and Christian beliefs the foundation of British values or social morality would be building on seriously unstable foundations.

«A politician and a government that tried to make Christianity and Christian beliefs the foundation of British values or a social morality would be building on seriously unstable foundations.

I could say just as easily «well, Christians havent tried to make Christianity the official state religion, so they arent legislating anything»

But a movement is growing which is trying to make Christianity look more like Jesus.

If the government stepped in and did away with just these three things, but did not make Christianity illegal, I fear that most Christian churches would fold.

The history of Christianity is replete with church states, and there are movements today that intend to make Christianity — and obedience to its rules — the religion of our country.

On the other hand, I see no more promise in the «left» strategies of trying to make Christianity plausible by secularizing its contents, no matter whether this «secularization from within» (one of Luckmann's helpful terms) is done by means of philosophy, psychology or political ideology.

In it he sought to make Christianity intellectually respectable, especially to members of the younger generation.

We make Christianity all about what we believe.

She left on one hand the huge bulk of Arianism, buttressed by all the worldly powers to make Christianity too worldly.

Not only he endeavoured to make China Christian but also tried to make Christianity, in a worthy sense, «Chinese».

If you really want to understand the value of prayer from a secular view, read up on the emporer Constantine and his efforts to make Christianity the state religon of Rome.

Being a Christian organization, they clearly have a desire to make Christianity look good.

We fail when we make Christianity a mere moral religion.

«I will make Christianity a legal religion within the empire, and I will be baptized.»

Many Christians, if they had the power to do so, would make Christianity official and mandatory.

According to The Encyclopedia Americana, many scholars believe that this was done «in order to make Christianity more meaningful to pagan converts.»

Don't you need Steve Martin's Jesus to make Christianity unique?

Does that make Christianity bad or was it just some bad christians?

When you try to make your Christianity seem consistent, I step in to question it.

Russia's grim Soviet - era housing, high rates of abortion and of alcoholism and substance abuse, crime syndicates controlled by the Mafia and widespread corruption — all these help to make Christianity deeply attractive.

Something that would make Christianity «more appealing.»

Conceding this does not make Christianity a Western institution as you state.

When we realize Him to be all in all — to be the meaning and content of everything that all creation is about, then all the nonsensical issues that we make Christianity about (i.e., denominations, docrinal differences, Christian culture, saving the world... the list is endless) will fade away.

Barth taught the essential lesson: stop trying to make Christianity seem reasonable, stop catering to the secular modernists, start preaching the gospel and witnessing to the crucified Lord.

Changes were necessary in order to make Christianity meaningful for modern man.

Folks want to make Christianity fit their lifestyles and immediate concerns.

We can make Christianity about ourselves, but on that trip I «got» it.

I think this new perspective on Paul is an effort to make Christianity into a humanistic, enlightened, tolerant form of inclusive religion, wherein all are saved by a God who reflects our form of generous reason.

This is why the whole attempt to make Christianity indigenous is anti-gospel.

But I definitely had pastors in mind, or youth pastors or just leaders in Christianity... people who are especially concerned with the question of how to make Christianity appealing to the culture and whether or not we should try to make Christianity «cool.»

We must help teens think about, practice and experience the theological details that make Christianity distinct.

He did not make Christianity the official religion of the Empire.

The enemy in this paradigm is primarily a nominal Christianity that is not serious in its appropriation of the faith but is too often satisfied with orthodoxy that fails to make Christianity a genuine «disposition of the heart.»

In other words it is literally trying to make Christianity into a form of Buddhism or Hinduism.

Justtell your friends to stop trying to make christianity the law of the land, and things will get easier.

Mirosal the problem here is that most atheists on this board are so ignorant of the usefulness of our mythology and others that they make Christianity look like the better of the two.

There are two questions here: Can Islam, and hence the Muslims, go through the same evolution that has made Christianity a largely peaceful religion that accepts secularism?

Only if the instances in the Bible where people are incited to violence makes Christianity a violent religion.

In the old testament God is an insane, vengeful, jealous, murdering entity that makes Christianity seem violent, bloody and insane... just as the Muslim faith appears to people who know nothing about it.

This happened also when Constantine made Christianity the religion of the Roman Empire and needed to modify it to get everyone to accept it.

Well Robert, Christianity has repeatedly done all of those things you listed, so that makes Christianity evil.

«God made Christianity to have a masculine feel.

Lent is making Christianity into a religion and it is not.

Despite complaints over hard - to - define bias, many shows and movies have made Christianity a part of on - screen characters» lives, portraying the faith as an important element of a bigger story — instead of just a punchline.

That in and off itself makes christianity compelling.

It's painful that some have made Christianity a message of exclusion.

But after Constantine made Christianity the official state religion, Christians in Rome were less counter-cultural and more complicit in the acts of the empire.

He observes that with the conversion of Constantine, which made Christianity the official religion of the empire, bishops were invested with social significance and huge financial resources, and were obligated to give evidence of a responsible use of this entitlement.

The great advance which had made Christianity the formal faith of the most populous cultural center on the globe was followed by a long period of decline which for a time seemed to presage the end of the influence of Jesus.