Sentences with phrase «not martyrs»

We must often put our feet in the shoes of the martyrs but we must realize that we are not martyrs; we most often come closer to being the torturers and the persecutors, because we often fail to understand and what we do not understand we would like to hate and destroy.

John... one of the 12, also wrote «Revelation»... the only one of the 12 not martyred

Early Christians were not martyred for metaphors and fictional stories.

I am not a martyr.

Updike was not a martyr for his faith, but he was not above treating mainline Protestantism as the cross he was meant to carry.

Some of us aren't martyrs, so we'll miss out on that crown.

We know he is not a martyr, why would the military bury him as one?

Yes, we know he was not a martyr, but someone bothered to understand the cultural differences in burial rites so that we wouldn't inadvertently treat him as one.

I am not a martyr.

We weren't perfect, we weren't martyrs and we certainly weren't always happy about doing it.

If you are experiencing a lot of symptoms and if you could benefit from a medication, don't martyr yourself for a cause of wanting to do things medication - free.»

Determined to send Oscar to a private school that won't martyr him for his quirks, Rose decides to follow up on an suggestion made by her boyfriend Mac, the selfsame quarterback from high school.

While images of St. Sebastian were often an excuse to paint the human figure, not all martyred Saints were this «elegant».

In other words, you are not a martyr to your cause.

You are not a martyr.

Not exact matches

«We had a pen they didn't know about and we were taking little scraps of paper and trying to hand out notes to anyone and everyone that wasn't one of the guards or commanders involved in killing Martyr,» Coleman said, referring to their aborted daughter.

«I thought he would recover from his injury, I didn't expect his death, but God has chosen him as a martyr, thank God,» she said, sitting on the ground as mourners came to the house to pay their respects.

I don't want my employees to martyr themselves as they try to navigate the storm of stress that comes with balancing a newborn and a demanding tech job.

With the raging of ISIS and other jihadi groups throughout the Middle East, Antioch is being martyred once again: Not only the faithful but also clergy are being persecuted and killed in the name of a radical form of Islam.

Books, movies and plays were disseminated and discussed with offense taken only by the so - called «wingnuts» of the right who, though disgusted, understood that these extravagant fantasies were simple, immature venting: in truth, the left knew that such a horrific event would martyr Bush, place Dick Cheney in the Oval Office and solidify, not weaken, Republican power.

REVELATION CHAPTER SIX And he open the fifth seal, and I saw under the altar the souls of those who were slain for the word of GOD and for the testimony they held and they cried out with a loud voice, how long O LORD holy and true do you not judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth and white robes were given unto them and it was said unto them that they should rest a little season until their fellow servant and their brethren should be slain as they were should be fulfilled.Under racial profiling many BLACK AMERICANS were arrested and were either martyred within the prison system or were deported to AFRICA, where many of them were martyred there and were buried in mass graves in both the SUDAN and in the CONGO.

Modern Christians do not have a «martyr» complex.

It did not need to be tens of thousands or thousands of martyrs, but just enough for society to see it and be aware of it.

Judas was not to become a martyr because of the way the apostles wrote about him in the Gospel - they saw through the eyes of men, and Judas was unable to redeem himself before he died a natural death, dying instead loathed, hated & driven to suicide for his deed against the Son of God, Jesus, whom he had Loved so much.

The article says on 6 credible martyrs, then states Nero lighted his garden with Christians (I believe more than six died there, not counting the others whom he blamed for burning down Rome) Then we have 11 apostles who were martyred in the Roman empire (more than six there also).

While some of the martyrs were fortunate enough to leave a written record (like Perpetua), most were not so lucky.

I can't believe Prof. Moss dares to say there are only 6 reliable accounts of Christian martyrs, because the Romans kept good records.

So... maybe the facts about early church martyrs are sketchy, and maybe they are not, but there's no disputing that Christians today are persecuted around the world for their beliefs.

The early Christians weren't foisting a narrative out of the blue about being martyrs.»

Martyrs and Martyrologies edited by Diana Wood Blackwell, 497 pages, $ 64.95 The story of Christian martyrs of the twentieth century is yet to be told, and one of the merits of this collection of learned essays, consisting of papers read at the Summer 1992 and Winter 1993 meetings of the Ecclesiastical History Society, is that they not only deal with early, medieval, and early - modern martyrs (and ideas about martyrdom), but include several original essays on latter - day martyrs.

The author IS CHRISTIAN, and we have actual evidence for the Holocaust... Christian martyrs... not so much.

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.

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!)

hey hey hey, let's not forget all of the wonderful atheists, jews, pagans, muslims, and racial minorities the christians «martyred» when the shoe was on the other foot

I think that is the view you have because of the weight you give the early martyrs in validating your beliefs, e.g. «people would not die for what they don't believe».

* sigh * people have known for decades if not centuries at least that the numbers of Christians martyred was exaggerated.

And if Christians have a martyr complex its the same one Jews have... good thing I do nt believe any of this stuff!

The good reverend says Christians don't have a martyr complex, and then goes on about how Christians are persecuted.

I suppose I could have finished it but I didn't want to be a martyr.

We don't have a martyr complex.

There were actually some martyrs, but not as many as initially thought.

Even the early Christian apologists such as Justin Martyr could not hold onto a claim without the help of the devil when they claimed that he was able to perform plagiarism in reverse time order in attempts to confuse the faithful.

This way, he wasn't put on trial, housed in an American prison paid for by taxpayers, fed our food or given the opportunity to defend his indefensible actions and then become a living martyr for his supporters.

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 hystericNOT 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 hystericnot 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.

the sheikh is one of the new faces to world religion, they willfully attempt at being a martyr by saying things that the rest of world agrees with but the culture that bore the said creature doesn't!!

i was just there they call Joseph Smith a martyr... wasn't he gunned down in a jail house faces charges for treason because he called to arms against his country?

Can anyone who is a muslim explain what happens to him since he didn't die as a martyr?

How can you NOT understand why people (Jews) who were persecuted for their faith by Christians would NOT be offended by having their martyred icons «baptized» by Christians in order to «save them?»

I mean how would a person become a martyr if they were not involved in a struggle.

By the second century, Roman soldiers were bringing their new faith to Britain, and in the middle of the third century St. Alban became Britain's first known Christian martyr, but we don't know much more about who these Christians were, and it is here that Malcolm Lambert begins in Pagans and Christians: The Conversion of Britain from Alban to Bede, producing a captivating narrative by squeezing what he can» but no more» from archeological evidence (mostly from burial sites) and the limited historical record.