Sentences with phrase «many holy wars»

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»).

(I'm fighting a holy war.)

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

Business is a holy war that the client must win and the competition must lose.

In his opening statement, prosecutor William Weinreb argued that Tsarnaev «believed he was a soldier in a holy war against Americans.»

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.

It details Bill Ackman's «holy war» against the company and also touches on Carl Icahn's long position.

Whats the world coming to when you can't even pray or sing praises out loud without everyone assuming its a call to holy war.

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.»

The crusades and the reformation come to mind... not to mention the current wars you take part in the the middle east in which the US is considered the infidile... it is a «holy war» for the Taliban.

And with our current conflict I can see with news like this why people think that this is another holy war.

Christianity was invoked to rationalize everything from pacifism to holy war.

Do you even know what the world population was back in the days of the inquisition and holy wars?

The second category he calls «circumstantial evidence ``, which, if he was shown any of these, might cause him to rethink his position even if he doesn't convert: a genuinely flawless and consistent holy book; a religion without internal disputes or factions; a religion who's followers have never committed or taken part in atrocities; a religion that had a consistent record of winning its jihads and holy wars.

look up The Inquisition and the Holy Wars.

They're not blowing themselves up in holy war.

It only states holy war, but it involves everyday activities that include simply getting up to go to work to support your family.

So what exactly are you talking about when you say it is a holy war?

It wasn't the gays who had a «holy war» against Sanitorium, it was intelligent people who had a «holy war» against Sanitorum, because he is a moron!

Jews are fighting a holy war.

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.

@HotAirAce You asked: How many people have died because their shaman and charlatans sent them off on a holy war?

The difference is that the US is complicit in jewish holy war against the local muslims so the jewish terrorists don't need to blow oneself to kill their enemies.

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.

, He didn't do a perfect job of spreading the message of peace (crusades, holy wars) despite a PERFECT knowledge of humans.

Also, in response to the way you twisted your question, the so - called holy wars that you and Thor are referring to were also run by governments so also fall under the whole «nations supressing other religions» clause of your statement and are invalid.

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...!

If God is our exemplar of a superior violence, violence itself becomes the object of faith, and religious people then engage in a perpetual holy war that is deemed a valid form of religious expression.

Holy wars produce large numbers, but countless people have been killed throughout history by people who believe they were justified by their religious beliefs.

A host of scholars — believers, agnostics and atheists alike — put the number of people killed in all the holy wars, Crusades, inquistions, etc. — IN ALL OF HUMAN HISTORY — at ~ 50 - 75 million.

The reactions, especially on «Christian» message boards where we now had a «holy war» with Islam and not just a National defense threat, were brutal.

More blood was spilled during holy wars than anyone remembers today.

One absent of holy wars, holy hate, and holy violence.

This guy wants to wage a holy war against anything he thinks is different from what the Archbishop of Pittsburgh teaches him.

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.

They have been killed in holy wars and inquisitions, concentration camps and prison cells.

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.

Don't we have to say, at the very least, that Joshua mis - heard, that he mistook the cultural custom of «holy war» for divine command?

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.

Yes, that would certainly explain holy wars or violence in the name of deity.

Let's take a quick look at three ways Israel's encounter with Canaan in the Old Testament — the paradigm for biblical holy war — is radically different from our modern conflicts today.

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 is... a Holy War.»

Just in the post above some fundie is trying to get other religions to have a holy war against islam.

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.

And what about young Muslims in the Middle East ready to risk their lives in some form of holy war?

A number of small groups in the occupied territories of Palestine began to call for jihad, or holy war, against Israel.

Most Christians are reasonable people who understand there are those among us who would love to see a holy war.