Sentences with phrase «not run the churches»

The new story claimed that Benedict was old and feeble and an intellectual out of place, who just couldn't run the Church.
The problem is, you can't run a church as a business, and also follow the teachings of Jesus.
And government does not run the churches, select religious leaders, or set criteria for choosing religious leaders.

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And again, anytime doing anything other than prayer, study, church attendance was supposed to be used to work, clean your house to the n - th degree in case Jesus showed up, run necessary errands and then hot foot it back to church.
I too wish he were a Church leader and not running for President, Church and State need to be kept separate.
When our fore fathers came up with the idea of seperation of church and state it wasn't to keep religion out of the government it was to keep the Church from running the goverchurch and state it wasn't to keep religion out of the government it was to keep the Church from running the goverChurch from running the government.
The murderer on - the - run preacher in The Apostle who founds a church where class and status make no difference, a congregation of displaced misfits who are poor and poorer, dumb and dumber, black and white, male and female, and fatter and fatter still, is telling people who need to hear (because they can't read) what they most need to know to turn their lives around: They can be saved, despite it all, if they believe in Jesus and «Holy Ghost power.»
I don't think you are generally disgusted with all churches — in fact, through Lasting Supper you are again running your own sort of Church with doubters and not those clamoring for certainty.
It suggests that we can't run hard enough, chase God fast enough, pray enough, serve enough or be in church enough.
The church is not run as a democracy, and its members chose to follow the doctrine or not — or pick and chose as this young lady has chosen to do.
Perry isn't the only candidate who believes the road to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue runs down the church aisle.
I am a Catholic (by Catholic I mean, regularly attend church, send my children to Catholic school, and work in many ministries) I also use contraception, but I don't think that organizations the church runs should have to pay for anything they oppose — even it I don't oppose it.
I hope the Vatican doesn't going back to their glory years or else I'm going to have to run and hide out of reach from the catholic church, probably to Argentina like the Nazis....
I had the option of converting to Catholicism when I married my husband and chose not to because of what I saw as a church run by a bunch of old, white men out of touch with the needs of women and people of diverse backgrounds.
If they really cared about sticking to the letter of their religion we wouldn't see them overlooking so many other obvious practices that run contrary to the Church's teachings.
The Catholic Church's position on artificial birth control has NO basis in the teachings of Christ... it was not an issue then... the teaching is solely based on the opinion of the men running the church who claim «divine inspiration»... BULL... they wanted people to have more kids so they could contribute more money to the church so that the so - called «princes of the church» could maintain their princely life - Church's position on artificial birth control has NO basis in the teachings of Christ... it was not an issue then... the teaching is solely based on the opinion of the men running the church who claim «divine inspiration»... BULL... they wanted people to have more kids so they could contribute more money to the church so that the so - called «princes of the church» could maintain their princely life - church who claim «divine inspiration»... BULL... they wanted people to have more kids so they could contribute more money to the church so that the so - called «princes of the church» could maintain their princely life - church so that the so - called «princes of the church» could maintain their princely life - church» could maintain their princely life - style.
Now having said all this stuff, I want to tell you, I don't care if Mitt Romney is a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints or not... because there are many incompetent members of the Church who wants to run for the Presidency, and I wouldnt vote for them because of the religion.
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.
His years running the Inquisition did not prepare him to fill the Shoes of the Fisherman, given the financial and legal scandals the Church was going through.
And I don't want the Catholic Church running America.
«We don't have any explanation of what «gay lobby» means,» said Rocco Palmo, a Vatican watcher who runs Whispers in the Loggia, a website on Catholic news and church politics.
don't care if Mitt Romney is a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints or not... because there are many incompetent members of the Church who wants to run for the Presidency, and I wouldnt vote for them because of the religion.
It is an «open» practice I agree, but the people who call themselves Mormons and practice Polygamy are NOT part of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter - Day Saints, they would be part of the FLDS church.I would know if I had 2 moms running around right now.Arrests have already been made in Polygamy groups like that.
The government can not contribute to any church or religion, and religion can not actively support or oppose anyone running for office.
He doesn't want to be questioned about his church because once he is in the White House he does not want anyone to know that his church elder will be running the country.
Were the television networks, the movie producers, and the editors of the prestige papers really in charge, there would be no pro-life movement, active euthanasia would be the uncontested law of the land, every school child would be indoctrinated in the joys of gay sex, home schooling would be prohibited, church schools would be run by state agencies, government day care for preschool children would be mandatory, churches would not be tax - exempt, and smoking anywhere would be a criminal offense.
And if you don't succeed in splitting the church, you might get the consolation prize of running off the pastor!
Though I am not attending churches run by those manipulative leader types any more, the memory of it lingers long in my life.
I don't care if Mitt Romney is a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints or not... because there are many incompetent members of the Church who wants to run for the Presidency, and I wouldnt vote for them because of the religion.
The LDS Church does not approve or disapprove of who runs for different offices of government.
Obama's accommodation proposes that Church authorities who run hospitals, schools, and other facilities will be entitled to tell their employees that the health care insurance provided by the Church does not cover contraceptives, the «morning after pill,» or sterilization, but that the health insurance company that covers the Catholic institution will be free to contact the employees of that institution and inform them that they are entitled to «free» coverage of these things from the insurance company in question.
No, it is not fair and does not look anything like Jesus when they must have their way, and if they don't they bully and try to run their victims away from their churches and church friends.
I don't believe in state run marriage but as long as that will never happen let them marry who or as many as they want a church that don't believe same as me should never be forced to mary them though
You are not going to find a church that tells you its okay to live in sin, and to celebrate it, (and if you do I'd recommend you run from it).
Unfortunately, the youth group was run by a couple who were well organised and enthusiastic until anyone didn't agree with them when they would push out that person from the church by being unkind and cold shouldering them.
While that event didn't match expectations for numbers, Hillsong showed us the Church can still draw a crowd by filling London's o2 arena three days running for its European conference.
She says the residents «think somebody owes them something,» and complains that they spend money on expensive hairstyles, makeup and leather coats but won't pay a token fee to send their children to a weeklong summer camp program her church runs for the benefit of inner - city youngsters.
For example, if their USA school was one run by the Westboro Baptist Church, it's likely that Christian children would not be representative of Christian children as a whole!
In the 1980s (I'm not surprised that it took them so long, the wheels of religion run along their own tracks, and slowly) the Lutheran church condemmed their founder's views and struck them out of their literature.
«I visited my brother - in - law's church, the Running River of Life Tabernacle, and I don't know what it was, but something happened and I'm born...
The Pope does not run the whole Church on a daily basis; that is done by the bishop in each diocese.
The Pope does not run whole Church on a daily basis, that is done by the bishop in each diocese.
I don't mean just being a safe haven to run to when their churches and homes are destroyed by violence, but whether we as a nation are pursuing the policies and diplomacy that give them the greatest chance of surviving and flourishing where they are — so they don't have to flee their homeland.
Running me out of a church and making me prove my child attended preschool there... those behaviors are of a man whose frantic to keep things under wraps, whether he'll ever admit to it or not is irrelevant.
I do not believe that any church has the right to run a hospital or a university on a religious basis outside of chapel and perhaps counsel.
I am also not confused about what the church truly is... my comment was that the church should not be run like a business.
It seems like they are now running the Catholic church like an efficient modern business, not from a profit perspective (although they seem to be doing quite well thank you), but from a marketing perspective.
I do not believe that a church should be run like a business, Andrew.
Want to run a course at your church but not sure where to start?
First of all a Church should be run like a business because if it is run wrong it will not flourish.
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