Sentences with phrase «of a new religion»

But our ancestors, who brought it about, didn't actually see themselves as proponents of a new religion.

The Roman Empire had tried every other way to stop the spread of this new religion which threatened the «deity» of their Caesar and their Caesar's claim to ultimate authority.

While pagan peoples were pressing in from the North and the Northeast, the bearers of a new religion were conquering the South and the Southeast.

Romney believes in and is devoted to a religion which is based on a guy who back around 1840 stuck his head into a «Magic Tophat» and then dictated the scripture of a new religion which he claimed appeared to him inside that Magic Tophat.

Religious revivals and emergence of new religions must be seen in this context of spiritual victimization of the people.

someone comes up to you and tells you he is the member of a new religion, which you know is just a cult - do you happily congratulate him?

They form the ideology of a new religion, and make up a relatively complete and internally, consistent explanation of humanity, the world, and human destiny, asserting that this vision is true and others are, at best, less true.

3.28 — with rather less endearing texts culled from a narrow range of pagan and Jewish sources, and maintain that one has uncovered the causal factor: the essential character of the new religion.

After all, their members are sisters and brothers, and without doubt, the forms and language of the new religions depend very heavily in either negative or positive ways on the historic Judaism and Christianity which they repudiate.

In actuality, their plan was pure brilliance as in one fell swoop they killed the main leader of the unrest, then created a mythology about his divine heritage putting the Roman leaders in charge of the new religion, and after all this time, still have control.

However, religion does not stop that at all, and in fact usually positions itself to profit handsomely — cases in point of your new religion: the Crusades, and the invasions of Russia in the 1200s by Teutonic Knights to bring the Eastern Orthodoxy back under Catholic rule (brutal, by the way).

In their time, people have at last discovered the secret of this historical process and were no longer willing to deify this process in the exuberant form of a new religion.

Recently it has been possible to direct some attention to some of the more obvious evils associated with the dominance of the new religion of economism.

He called for a «New Reformation» that would ordain scientists as the elite priesthood of a new religion, leading his contemporaries to dub him «the Apostle Paul of the new teaching» and even «Pope Huxley.»

The European Union will fail because of the new religion, «secularism.»

called Jesus to Christ, available on line), about the string of events, leading to the formation of the new religion, (Christianity).

This means that the religious and cultural experiences of the people in terms of new religions and new cultural movements, and also in terms of religious and cultural «deviations» from the norm, may be very instructive for understanding the overall story of victimized people's religious and cultural experiences.

In some respects Christianity is confronted with a greater menace than in the tragic decades when the triumphant Arabs, champions of a new religion, Islam, were establishing governments in what had been professedly Christian areas and through the machinery of the state were slowly strangling the churches and eradicating Christianity.

False gods strut through the movies of Paul Thomas Anderson: rapacious oilmen, well - endowed porn stars, inventors of new religions and spinners of old lies.

I think what we have here, in the blogosphere, is the kind of conversation that may have predominated in the early days of new religions.

The answers are complicated by an underlying assumption of the new religion of environmentalism that humans shouldn't be here, so anything they do is wrong.

You, president of the Republic, you can not support the ultra-politicized scientists of the GEIC, the corporate lobbyists, the NGO environmental groups, nor the self - proclaimed apostles of the new religion of climate.»

The decline of Christianity from approximately 500 A.D. to 950 A.D. can be ascribed to the gradual weakening of the Roman Empire, the inroads of the barbarians from the North and the conquests of the Arabs, the bearers of a new religion, Islam.

Religious revivals and the emergence of new religions must be seen in this context of spiritual victimization of the people.

Of the four high civilizations — Rome, Persia, India, and China — the first afforded the most opportunity for the spread of a new religion.

Never must one of these new religions be laughed at or dismissed easily; rather it must be understood on its own terms and as a serious response to some fundamental issues raised by the women's movement.