Sentences with phrase «of a cult if»

It is a little bit of a cult if you think about it, the legal profession.

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Instead, he works out of a bullet - proof van, and defends the people no other lawyers want to represent: satanic - cult drug addicts, child molesters, you name it — all because he believes everyone deserves a fair trial, even if that means cheating the system to ensure his clients get one.

It was never going to replace the IBM PC which was the initial intent, but what we discovered during those six months is that there was a little bit of a cult personality in this computer and that certain people thought this computer was really cool and it reflected their difference, if you will.

I ask the front of the line about the cult fandom surrounding the beer, and it's as if I've yelled, «Free cases!»

DIvidend stocks are kind of a cult right now, and will suffer some significant setback, particularly if interest rates rise.

Curiously, founder / CEO / cult leader Elon Musk just tweeted an April Fool's joke yesterday that Tesla was declaring bankruptcy... making light of his company's dire financial condition as if he either doesn't understand or doesn't care.

The number of pedophiles in the rcc may not be much different than in the general population, but it appears that the number of priests, or others in authority, that place the safety and future of children above their cult is very low, if not zero, given that not a single «whistle blower» from within the rcc has come forward, to my knowledge.

If science was unprepared for the influx of careerists, it was even less prepared for the blossoming of the Cult of Science.

if you «re thinking freely you ca n`t be a part of a cult then.

If hurling insults is part of your cult, I'm certainly glad that I'm not part of it!

Mr. Bush, as many people have taken on the «Church is making (insert name here) into a cult member», Catholicism and Lutheranism have a process called confirmation where the adolescent is supposed to make a choice if he / she wants to be a member of the church.

Me, I wouldn't send any child of mine anywhere near any church, and I'm having are hard time deciding which cult is worse, the rcc with their never ending child abuse or islam which thinks it's OK to marry off 10 year girls (if they are «ripe»).

Many traditional Christians believe Mormonism to be at least an offshoot of Christianity if not a cult.

If you believe in the resurrected Christ, you are of a cult of sacrifice that believes in a God that requires sacrifice.

yes, even if you're in a religious cult and you think all kinds of crazy things that have no basis in reality.

It would be nice if this blog had more articles about other sects than this new cult - of - personality evangelical trend.

If you knew me and what kind of churches I attend, you would be foolish to label them as a dangerous cult.

Most cults make people afraid to leave for fear of being rejected and made to feel as if they betrayed God.

It is only slander if it isnt true LDS is a cult by any definition and quite a twisted one at that with a history of racism and treason

People feel like they need to be special and if they know some magic words or are a part of a secret cult then they feel better about themselves.

Given that 70 + % of all abortions in the USA are had by believers, the abortion issue could be significantly reduced if believers simply followed their cult's rules.

Yep Dawkins is definitely somewhat of a «head ideologist» — he could actually turn into somewhat of a cult leader if he wanted to.

I laugh at this leader of pedophile central... as if the leader and protector of child rapists has any legitimacy to speak of issues outside his own cult.

Mother's Day gave quintessential if belated expression to what Ann Douglas calls the 19th century's «cult of motherhood,» which, as she observes, offered women «flattery in the place of justice and equality.»

If by «touched» you mean «brainwashed beyond hope of escaping the cult,» then apparently you are correct.

Seems to me that if a framework of questionable theology ripe for exploitation didn't already exist, the sociopathic bully with religious leanings will create his or her own — which is how cults are born.

If Christian thinkers had not done this, there would still have been acculturation of Christianity, but it would have been far more the assimilation of Christianity as one more Hellenistic cult.

The definition of a destructive religious cult is like alcoholism - if booze controls you instead of the other way around you are an alcoholic.

Delusional believers could reduce the number of abortions per year in the USA if they just followed their cults» rules, no changes in laws required, no need to enforce their cults» rules on anyone.

If there were such affiliation, however, it would be wrong to assess and evaluate any of the «name» Yahweh prophets of the Old Testament in terms of simple identity with the conventional cult prophet.

Unfortunately, all the churches in East Tennessee are above ground, so earthship church is not an option... Besides, First Earthship Church of Chattanooga sounds a little too much like a cult, if you ask me.)

And if you've ever read the Koran, you know it's a death cult, and when you see Islamic terrorism carried out, it's merely the reader following the commands of the Koran (not so with the bible when grammatical - historical exegesis is used).

You could postulate a million plus similar scenarios: «if God commanded the Holocaust,» «If God commanded a cult leader to murder his followers,» «If God commanded a serial killer to go on a rampage,» etc. but the issue with each of these scenarios, is that they present a false god who is not the Christian Goif God commanded the Holocaust,» «If God commanded a cult leader to murder his followers,» «If God commanded a serial killer to go on a rampage,» etc. but the issue with each of these scenarios, is that they present a false god who is not the Christian GoIf God commanded a cult leader to murder his followers,» «If God commanded a serial killer to go on a rampage,» etc. but the issue with each of these scenarios, is that they present a false god who is not the Christian GoIf God commanded a serial killer to go on a rampage,» etc. but the issue with each of these scenarios, is that they present a false god who is not the Christian God.

Both appear — if in exceptional roles — in association with group prophetism; Micaiah with Ahab's official court prophets and Elisha with the cult - related «Sons of the prophets» at Bethel (II Kings 2:3), Jericho (II Kings 2:5), and Gilgal (II Kings 4:38; cf. 6:1)- These «sons of the prophets» (first appearing in Elijah's day in I Kings 20:35) are in direct descent from the «bands of prophets» encountered more than a century earlier in the Saul narratives (I Sam.

Believers singlehandedly can reduce the number of abortions in the USA by 700,000 each year, if they only followed their own cult's rules, no changes in any law required.

It was performed during the festival of Dionysus, which was a fertility festival, of course, but only because it was also an apotropaic celebration of delirium and death: the Dionysia was a sacred negotiation with the wild, antinomian cruelty of the god whose violent orgiastic cult had once, so it was believed, gravely imperiled the city; and the hope that prompted the feast was that, if this devastating force could be contained within bright Apollonian forms and propitiated through a ritual carnival of controlled disorder, the polis could survive for another year, its precarious peace intact.

Two verses — «They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly things, it shall not hurt them» (Mark 16:18) and «Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you» (Luke 10:19)-- are used by the snake - cult Christians in Appalachia as support for snake - handling and the drinking of poison as tests of Christian faith.

If Radha is parodha parakiya, which she is in some sections of the later cult, then her relationship with Krishna is adulterous.

A reel of well - known actors and Hollywood celebrities appear in the opening scenes, describing a cult classic called The Room as if they're describing a miraculous contribution to filmmaking.

If a recognized cult leader was to publicly proclaim that an individual or group was not a member of the cult they claimed, I would pay attention, but I do not expect this to happen much as the charlatans leading the cults know that it is bad for the believer business overall when there is Infighting.

I lived through at least a dozen of the ends - of - the - world, if one takes a note of some minor but vocal cults.

If you can't admit that, you've been assimilated into the cult of your own, or your community's choosing.

I assume if folks were educated on these areas of Mormonism, I would think people would not quite see as anything but a cult.

And there are still sects of this cult that secretly practice this pedo lifestyle!!!!!! And, most distressing of all, given that we're talking about someone who could become the most powerful man in the world, the Mormon church teaches that Mormons can lie if it suits their needs to impose their «religion» on others!

If you're going to look at religion (oddly enough there is that separation of church and state that most people keep forgetting) then look at the cult that Romney belongs too.

If King's work is so religious then why hasn't some opportunist nutjob already formed a new cult based on the work of King?

@David Johnson «It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so, and will follow it by suppressing opposition, subverting all education to seize early the minds of the young, and by killing, locking up, or driving underground all heretics.»

I am part of no one's «cult», I broke away (escaped if you will) decades ago.

sorry got a little off track we as believers are screwwing up big time we are using His word, Big and HUGE uncool thing, we are still normal, we all fall short of the glory of God, So because of this deception or lack of the proper teaching of the way of the cross we have a huge on set of actual so called Christians that cant even get along, and tell me this dosent exist in the muslim home or what ever cult mindset you are following and that includes the Christian church if they are more consirned with getting you in and keeping you there then setting you FREE!

leaving the cult of christianity (insert religion here) is worthwhile, and if this blog helps - it's a positive thing.