Sentences with phrase «of such a blasphemy»

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It's the height of blasphemy to use God for such purposes, yet Jews and Christians do it all the time as if it was second nature.

Fourth, denial of Christ doesn't even fit the context here, since such a denial would be a blasphemy against Jesus, which He says will be forgiven.

Governmental restrictions include items such as blasphemy laws, bans against evangelism, and preventing religious groups from constructing houses of worship.

No other structure in the world can be called on to promise eternal salvation, and when such salvific claims are made in the name of some nation, race, social class, religion, or ideology, the church must fight such idolatry and blasphemy with all its means of persuasion, even to the point of martyrdom.

For instance, when speaking eschatologically about the nuclear arms race, a preacher would refer to such things as the blasphemy of destroying God's handiwork and the idolatry of the bomb, not simply to a nuclear freeze.

It is true that many scientific theories have proven to be wrong but many have also been proven to be fact including many that religion had deemed as blasphemy such as the world is round and the sun is the center of our solar system.

There were many others less lucky, such as the great Sufi mystic al - Hallaj, who was executed for blasphemy after running through the streets of Basra shouting «ana» l - haqq»» literally, «I am the truth»» the statement having been interpreted by the authorities, probably correctly, as meaning «I am God.»

Its logic rests upon supreme disproportion not only between virtually limitless power and any hope of protection but also between its goal (averting cataclysm) and its means (the threat of that very cataclysm) Such incongruity goes beyond the immoral; it approaches blasphemy — it idolatrously confuses what is relative with what is absolute.

Normally I would shoot mental shockwaves of negative energy towards any man who uttered such blasphemy.

Therefore, from a scriptural perspective, such criticism of Obama is evidence of blasphemy and of rebellion against Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit on the part of his critics.

Who can even read such blasphemies without weeping from sheer grief if he still retains in his heart even the smallest spark of Christian piety?

The US State Department flagged anti-conversion and blasphemy laws as one of its biggest concerns for religious freedom globally, stating in 2012 that «such laws often violate freedoms of religion and expression and often are applied in a discriminatory manner.»

Leaders of these ministries sometimes state if other people write off supernatural healings, demonic exorcisms, and the gift of tongues as possibly coming from the devil, such people deny the power of the Holy Spirit and commit blasphemy against the Holy Spirit, which supposedly is the unforgivable sin.

In the case of blasphemy, a person is not only denying who God says He is, but mocking His character and attributes, such as unconditional love, mercy, grace, forgiveness, and justice.

Now I know some might read this and call it blasphemy to tarnish your good name with such accusations but, in the words of Rafa Benitez, let's take a look at the «facts».

Bloody reprisals in response to perceived blasphemy have become an endemic problem, and states like Bangladesh must affirm the human right to express one's own beliefs without fear of attack, and do more to prevent such attacks from happening in future.»

Though I will never speak such blasphemy in the month of July, I am hopeful of its chances during the year.

Some say that modifying such a car is a blasphemy, while others argue that the German saloon needs a bit of salt and pepper from time to time.

Such funds are a blasphemy to market - cap indexing purists who spend a lot of time poking holes in these strategies.

It's blasphemy to compare any video game to such a sublime work of genius as Citizen Kane.

Brazilian artist, Ana Smile, has created a bit of controversy with her company Santa Blasphemy, which creates plaster religious statues painted in the form of pop - culture icons such as Batman, Frida Kahlo, Catwoman, Captain Hopper, The Joker, and Minnie Mouse.

In the more than fifteen years since the tempest in a teapot initiated by Rudolph Giuliani's «outrage» at the inclusion of Ofili's painting The Holy Virgin Mary, 1996, in the 1999 exhibition «Sensation» at the Brooklyn Museum, no other artist has been framed for such blasphemy.

It was not blasphemy at common law to attack any religion except Christianity, and an attack on the Christian religion had to be such as tended to lead to a breach of the peace.