Sentences with phrase «making martyrs»

Was this the fault of Assad for being brutal and arguably, making martyrs out of his enemies and making things worse?

Indeed, it runs the risk of making martyrs out of monsters.

Can we stop making martyrs out of women who are simply feeding their children?

One of the reasons would appear to be Roberta Alison, University of Alabama tennis player, who leads the league in making martyrs out of males.

We can critique problems in the church without making martyrs out of those those who choose to use dysfunctional churches to victimize others.

They undoubtedly face widespread ridicule from the media (especially Hollywood) and an increasingly vocal minority who essentially call them stupid - heads (like Jacob) and mischaracterize their beliefs,, but this fact doesn't make them martyrs.

Before I lost consciousness, I prayed: «Lord, if you take me, then make me a martyr.

However, it also disallowed the extremists from creating a shrine of his burial site; or their ability to relocate his remains and take them to a «holy site» of their choosing; making a martyr out of him.

And he and the other Apostles probably forgot to pay their Roman taxes and the legendary actions by the Romans made them martyrs for future greed.

They took a popular hippie revolutionary named jesus, made him a martyr, and then created a book of Harry Potter proportions to sell to the masses who find it easier to swallow than reality.

He was made martyr; he did not choose or make himself a martyr.

«Thus I hang upon the boughs of life, knowing that the inevitable dragon of death is waiting ready to tear me, and I can not comprehend why I am thus made a martyr.

CT previously reported how the ISIS beheadings of 21 Coptic Christians made them martyrs, which unified Egypt and led to the majority - Muslim nation's biggest Scripture outreach in 130 years.

And he and the other Apostles forgot to pay their Roman taxes and the legendary actions by the Romans made them martyrs for future greed.

Reformers and counterreformers spit at one another St. Augustine's aphorism that the cause, not the punishment, makes the martyr.

To be sure, Americans of conviction and conscience are not under the same threats that made a martyr of Shahbaz Bhatti in Pakistan a year ago.

She should not be made a martyr in the fight for better school food.

Elizabeth, a protestant now excommunicated by the Pope, must decide whether to authorise the death penalty and risk a Catholic uprising, making a martyr of her foe.

With strength of character, integrity and patriotism, we can make those martyrs proud once again.

As the nasty old piece of work who runs Panem quickly intervening realizes (as played with terrific levels of sour venom by a terrifying Donald Sutherland), simply killing our heroes would the make martyrs of them, and possibly kick off a full - blown civil war he «s trying to avoid.

Denis films the men around Isabelle with the same tenderness that she affords her heroine — though this doesn't blind her to their myriad foibles and failings, any more than she is tempted to make a martyr of the self - pitying, often oblivious Isabelle.

There's no computer virus that will snuff out the impending doom and there's no brilliant scientist to selflessly push a button that will both make a martyr out of said scientist while simultaneously saving the planet by properly aligning the earth's core rotation.

Even parts that could only have come from hypothesis and Greengrass's imagination are true to life, never engaging in cliché or melodrama, not seeking to make a martyr out of anyone.

I deliberately chose not to make them a martyr simply because they had a propensity to see the glass as mostly empty.

The well - intentioned opposition to TWU need not make martyrs to the cause of secularism, nor victims out of the very human rights principles they claim to promote.

Not exact matches

@ Joe: And if your religion tells you that you must bring jihad to the nonbelievers of the world, and your religion tells you that if you die a martyr fighting and killing the nonbeliever, and so, in the name of your religion and your religious beliefs, you hijack 4 planes and kill 3,000 people, that makes you a proper person?

Fortunately the Christian fundamentalists just sit on their butts and make up fake stories of their «martyrdom» (oh, no, can't force the local atheists to pray... we're martyrs!)

No one's asking you to be the martyr who surrenders his precious gun to tyranny, Reasonable people are simply asking for a few common sense tools to keep a few less weapons of mass destruction off the streets and make buying an assault rifle at least as tough as buying Advil Cold and Sinus.

The article did NOT say that there were no martyrs at all, just that there were not as many as you would like... And to even TRY an equate Christianity in America as the kind of persecutions early Christians experienced makes you look quite childish and hysterical.

For centuries the only way this religion of sword has been able to proliferate has been to brainwash people by getting them angry, and injecting sorrow, into their souls about the dead and martyrs, as well as creating hate towards an enemey, even a made - up one Without a funeral, mourning, and a physical shrine, muslims are lost!

True, but are there any practical examples where one could be martyred without making one's beliefs known or resisting the dominant religion?

In Robert Bolt's play A Man for All Seasons, Thomas More, lord chancellor of England under Henry VIII, attempts to reassure his wife and daughter (who are rightly concerned for his safety) by pointing to himself with the words, «This is not the stuff of which martyrs are made.»

He made conversion easier by substituting festivals in honor of Christian martyrs in place of the old pagan festivals.

the blood of the martyrs fills the soil of our country from north to south and from east to west... many of the bodies are recovered and are broken between churches all over egypt and the rest of the world and by the way the movie was not made by Coptic Christians at least not orthodox anyway.

When I used to attend (evangelical christian) church there was always a vocal strain of folks who wanted to think they were persecuted, they told made - up stories about christians being persecuted in various parts of the world (at the time a lot of them were set in the U.S.S.R.)... it was so obvious that they LOVED thinking of themselves as some small group of martyrs, that they NEEDED to imagine themselves to be a persecuted minority... holding on to some secret truth that the rest of the world had turned its back on.

There's no denying that the early Christian apologists (Justin Martyr and others) made up that whacky «diabolical mimicry» notion — saying the the devil caused what looks like plagiarism in reverse; so it's pretty obvious those old Xtians were trying to explain away something that would normally look ridiculous.

Stirred by the example of the martyrs who died rather than deny their Lord, Christians today should be prepared to make sacrifices for their faith.

His aim was not to martyr Christians but to reconvert them into paganism, and to make them Apostates.

It was this general intention that made the primitive Christians such eminent instances of piety, that made the goodly fellowship of the Saints and all the glorious army of martyrs and confessors.

Christians who honor the Jewish dead of the Holocaust are «making them into honorary Christian martyrs» as if forcibly converting them after death.»

Of such stuff are heroes and martyrs made.

For faith to reject the historical traces of its most important figures doesn't make sense to Catholics, of course, who venerate shrines associated with saints and martyrs, but Wahhabi doctrine is clear and simple.

Persecuting the deniers would only give them the publicity that they desire and need, maybe even make them into martyrs or folk heroes.

In 12: 1 - 13:6 Judah and Jerusalem are vindicated against the nations and made victorious by Yahweh's intervention; the city repents and mourns for someone martyred in a just cause (the historical allusion is unknown); and Yahweh now removes all idolatry and prophecy (degenerate prophecy, prophecy of a mercenary and corrupt form), and effects Jerusalem's spiritual cleansing in a divine fountain.

Yang - Won Son (1902 - 1950), one of the great martyrs in Korea, made grace real.

All you do is attack, make excuses, play the martyr (you probably don't know what that means) and act self - righteous.

Most Muslims will not have the «opportunity» to become a martyr in this war between Islam and the rest of the world and make no mistake every true Muslim must be involved in making America (or the nation where he lives) a Muslim nation.

RCC will just make another one (pope), and this one would get to be a «martyr».

It is said that the fire, «forming a sort of arch like a ship's sail billowing in the wind, made a wall around the body of the martyr, which was in the midst, or like gold and silver burning in furnace» (15:2).

Socrates drinking the hemlock, Christ on his cross, Hugh Latimer burned at the stake, Lincoln martyred when he was profoundly needed — such events, to say nothing of commoner experience, make it impossible for us to say that all suffering is penalty for corresponding sin.