Sentences with phrase «much as priests»

And we like little boys as much as priests, but what we like more are suicide vests.

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At least one place Lewis explains this problem was in the Screwtape letters, where a demon exclaims, «How much better for us if all humans died in costly nursing homes amid doctors who lie, nurses who lie, friends who lie, as we have trained them, promising life to the dying, encouraging the belief that sickness excuses every indulgence, and even, if our workers know their job, withholding all suggestion of a priest lest it should betray to the sick man his true condition!»

Unlike «the amateur, educated, gentlemanly Anglican clergyman» (Ker's phrase), the Catholic priest was a classless professional with a job to do, a job that involved his hands as much as his voice.

They point to the priest sex scandals as proof positive that chastity is too much to ask of people — completely ignoring that it was the randy absence of chastity that created the scandals in the first place.

Although much of the Old Testament does have historically verifiable occurances, the lead characters are heads of state or high priests or the stories are about the nation as a whole.

If these morons spent as much time worrying about their child molester priests as they do bashing their views into other people, people would respect them and they might actually do some good.

Actually, I really wonder if most religious folks actually value Truth or Salvation as much as their preachers and priests try to tell them they should.

He didn't so as much to crack down on bishops who hid abusive priests.

yes much has to be discerned in the book of remembrance, so called OT, for the priest did all go astray from the ways of YHWH, but one must read, pray, and do the righteous ways of YHWH to get His anointment to understand, and call 1-773-874-0325, YHWH Our Righteousness, the Movement, and arm, and Branch of YHWH, prophesied in Jeremiah 23 vs. 1 - 8, and Jeremiah 33 vs. 14 - 21, also as described in Isaiah 59, and Malachi 3 vs.1 - 4, to get any answers to any questions about this book.

After all, it is argued, the Romans themselves did not appear to take it seriously (Vespasian's famous deathbed joke, «I think I am becoming a god» seems to indicate as much): it could only be believed by those who were either insane, such as Caligula, who went so far as to sacrifice to himself daily and made his beloved horse a high priest of his cult, or irredeemably barbarian and by implication, stupid, such as the Britons of Colchester who built an enormous temple to the Divine Claudius.

I share my talents generously to my church, and have never requested any payment for them, I pledge as much as my limited finances will allow, and spend much time at my church, instituting new worship programs (as my priest requested), and yet I am constantly criticized for the smallest «infraction» by this same person.

It's different with the priest, he mirrors Jesus Christ, in Our Lord's office as Head and Bridegroom of the Church, and that is a much deeper identification.

He disagreed with me for implying he could not love God as much as a celibate priest because he was married.

The accounts of the appearance or appearances before Pilate involve as much uncertainty and confusion as those of his trial before the high priest.

The Psalmist realizes that he is not a bird nor a priest, and so as long as he is on this earth, it is not possible for him to spend as much time in the temple as he would like.

Even the pope, that creepy hider of criminal priests, could do that much, as can most children.

Yes, priests and nuns have done many bad things, but they have done much good as well.

Very frequently, the priests said special prayers or required people to say special words when undergoing these sacred rituals, so that over time, people began to think that there was actual power in these rituals, so that the way they were done did not matter as much as simply doing them.

As long as there isn't a priest or deacon around, not so mucAs long as there isn't a priest or deacon around, not so mucas there isn't a priest or deacon around, not so much.

Typologies of religious charisma (founder, prophet, priest, etc.) as outlined by Max Weber, A. Causse, G. van der Leeuw and J. Wach, should be worked out in much the greater detail.

Your as much of a perv as any priest who has molested a child.

Dudes who organize money and launch campaigns to get the «atheist message» out there are as much a con artist as pastors and priests.

Finally, I have written as a priest of the Anglican obedience and much but not all of what I say is naturally a reflection of that particular allegiance.

I don't believe the outsider feeling came so much from being a woman in an overwhelmingly male environment as it did from being a layperson surrounded by future priests.

1) The people, including Father Greeley, who incessantly lament the gap between teaching and the reception of teaching are typically the same people who have for years worked to undermine the credibility of the Church's teaching office; 2) Their measure of whether the Church is listening is whether teaching is brought into line with their preferences; 3) The curia in Rome coordinates and corrects as necessary, but the teachers of the Church are the bishops, priests and catechists who too often find it easier to blame Rome than to do their job; 4) Catholic Americans are about 6 percent of the universal Church, and Greeley's think - for - themselves educated Catholics who are unhappy with church teaching, usually on matters sexual, are a much smaller part of that 6 percent.

Is it possible and after reading about it i kept on thinking «i will sell to my soul for 20 carats get out shut up i will never ever sell my soul to you oh god please help me and this is continuing for a few days i am afraid that i have sold my sold to the devil have i please help and still i think god's way of allowing others to hate him us much worse even you know and can easily think think about much better punishments like rebirth after being punished for all the sins in life and i am feeling put on the sin of those who committed the unforgiviable sin (the early 0th century priests) imagine them burning in hell fire till now for 2000 years hopelessly screaming to god for help i can't belive the mercy of god are they forgiven even though commiting this sin keans going to hell for entinity thank you and congralutions i think the 7 year tribulation periodvis over in 18th century the great commect shooting and in 19th century the sun became dark for a day and moon was not visible on the earth but now satun has the domination over me those who don't belive in jesus crist i used to belive in him but now after knowing a lot in science it is getting harharder to belive in him even though i know that he exsists and i only belived in him not that he died for me in the cross and also not for eternal life and i still sin as much as i used to before but only a little reduced and i didn't accept satan as my master but what can i do because those who knowingly sin a lot and don't belive in jesus christ has to accept satan as their master because he only teaches us that even though he is evil he gives us complete freedom but thr followers of jesus and god only have freedom because they can sin only with in a limit and no more but recive their reward after their life in heaven but the followers of satun have to go to hell butbi don't want to go to hell and be ruled by the cruel tryant but still why didn't god destroy satun long way before and i think it was also Adam and eve's fault also they could have blamed satan and could have also get their punishment reduced but they didn't and today we are seeing the result

The church is a clip joint erected to get as much cash flow from the congragation and keep the priests and pastors, if not fat, at least portly.

I've been doing a lot of reading on church history recently (for that book I'm writing... Close Your Church for Good), and it constantly amazes me how much of what we do «in church» is a result of tradition (so much for Sola Scriptura) which developed 1000 - 1500 years ago as a result of a politician or priest who wanted more power or more money.

NOT ONCE was I ever so much as touched by any of these devoted priests.

Tilden Edwards, an Episcopal priest who has explored this practice in real life as well as in a book, urges contemporary Christians to be flexible, embracing not a renewed Sabbatarianism as much as a pattern of «Sabbath time.»

The priest or pastor is sometimes confused today as to what constitutes his real role, for it seems so much more limited than it was in an earlier day when he was a «father - in - god» to his flock in every possible way.

Its interest lies not so much in the content as in the identity of the author, Paul F. Morrisey, a Catholic priest, and the context.

Too much about Catholicism I could no longer tolerate — pedophile priests, and a refusal by the hierarchy to recognize women as anything but servants top my list.

A younger generation of priests, in this as in much else, is looking to the Church's authentic teaching rather than to ideas and slogans.

The priest sees God's goal as something much more immediately manageable; namely a world where life is regulated by the God - given law, and any margin of failure is covered by cultic atonement.

Take lots pictures of your baby (sooner rather than later as your child's coloring will change) Dress, hold and clothe your child Spend as much time as you want with your child Have a priest and other family members visit and see your child Get foot and handprints

Mellaart saw Çatalhöyük as the ancestor of much more elaborate Bronze Age civilizations, such as Knossos on Crete, and he assumed it too must have been ruled by an elite — perhaps the priests whose shrines he thought he had uncovered.

blank slate and had new breeding or is much about is sometimes my dad as it is in Zen teacher is an ordained Zen priest.

The supporting cast includes an outstanding Daniel Kaluuya («Get Out»), a rare on - screen appearance by motion - capture master Andy Serkis with his Tolkien co-star Martin Freeman as a CIA agent, Forest Whitaker as a priest, Winston Duke as the leader of on of Wakanda's five tribes, and «This is Us» star Sterling K. Brown as a guy you're better off not knowing too much about until you see the movie, which I hope you do, more than once.

We don't really know much about the film at the moment, but we do know that Demian Bichir has been cast as a priest named Father Burke who is dispatched by Rome to investigate the mysterious death of a nun.

Flood (Jim Broadbent), the priest who arranged Eilis» situation in America, arrives to offer some kindly advice and as much consoling as he can when times become difficult (Broadbent, of course, is perhaps the logical choice for the role).

Among the other fiction films to look for in theaters or on VOD: John Michael McDonagh's Calvary, in which Brendan Gleeson gives a beautifully modulated performance as a dedicated priest who is no match for the disillusionment of his parishioners and the rage of another inhabitant of his Irish seaside village, determined to take revenge against the priesthood for the sexual abuse he suffered as a child; the desultory God Help the Girl, the debut feature by Stuart Murdoch (of Belle and Sebastian), all the more charming for its refusal to sell its musical numbers; Tim Sutton's delicate, impressionistic Memphis, a blues tone poem that trails contemporary recording artist Willis Earl Beal, playing a character close to himself who's looking for inspiration in a legendary city that's as much mirage as actuality; and two horror films, Jennifer Kent's uncanny, driving psychodrama The Babadook, with a remarkable performance by child actor Noah Wiseman, and Ana Lily Amirpour's less sustained A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, which nonetheless generates some powerful political metaphors.

As the three priests, Pena, Andersson and Hounsou don't have much to do, but they add subtle details to their scenes.

As the priest explained that failing to act (or in this case confess) when we know we should is not much different than doing an intentionally bad act, I pictured an endless loop of sin piled on sin and confessed on the spot — both to setting the blaze and, as they say in D.C., to misremembering that fact when questioned by my fatheAs the priest explained that failing to act (or in this case confess) when we know we should is not much different than doing an intentionally bad act, I pictured an endless loop of sin piled on sin and confessed on the spot — both to setting the blaze and, as they say in D.C., to misremembering that fact when questioned by my fatheas they say in D.C., to misremembering that fact when questioned by my father.

The fixed sport suspension means the ride will always be as stiff as a priest's collar; great for the church of the race track, not so much for the purgatory of my daily drive.

The game knows its story isn't the best around, with yet again another case of wasted villain (the hipster priest doesn't show up as much as he should), focusing on providing great gameplay instead.

Classic sound effects such as the battle fanfare and the old priest's «WOLOLO» shout are still present, but the game also features a somewhat faulty preset sound mixing, as the music is extremely loud while the sound effects are set to a much lower setting.

He gathered inspiration as much from Allen Ginsberg's Beat poetry and Eastern philosophies such as Zen and Tibetan Buddhism, as he did from Western humanism, his own training as a priest and the growing firmament of Conceptual art, which revolved around the founding of Lisson Gallery and other experimental art spaces in the late 1960s.

A critical voice in the AJC, national publications and the blogosphere as well as at Art Papers, he has curated exhibitions and written countless catalog essays for local artists, often gratis, and spent so much time mentoring and encouraging them that one dubbed him the art community's parish priest.

A priest at the Ann Arbor temple, Haju Sunim (aka Linda Murray), explained that Dumpster diving is actually a modern variant of an ancient tradition by which Buddhist «patched - robe monks» and nuns reclaimed clothing, sometimes from corpses, and would repair garments repeatedly to extend their life as much as possible.