Sentences with phrase «of the adherents of»

They seek to maintain the integrity and vitality of their faith while acknowledging the inherent worth of the adherents of other religions.

«The assailants of dogmatic truth have got the start of its adherents of whatever Creed; philosophy is completing what criticism has begun; and apprehensions are not unreasonably excited lest we should have a new world to conquer before we have weapons for the warfare.»

In 2005, Gao criticized China's torture of adherents of Falun Gong, a traditional Chinese religion, and his comments triggered a brutal response.

What was formerly taken to be a peculiarity of «holiness» sects has become a reality in the mainline churches; indeed, it has been said that the fastest growing group in these churches is composed of adherents of just this charismatic position.

[Rachel Zoll, 2001:8 A] This example indicates the influence that the sheer number of adherents of a particular religion have on the socio - political affairs of modern states, and in a world where truth seems to get blurred amidst statistics.

Many of the adherents of Christian fundamentalism are themselves older people, but they and their leaders remain silent in the face of the chipping away at the Social Security system.

Yeah, respond to one of the few cases where people of one religion A behave with a surprising degree of respect to a radical member of your own religion B by haughtily saying that God doesn't hear the prayers of adherents of religion A, only those of religion B.

One of the adherents of this method is Ric Drasin, who trained with the best of the best back in the days.

(2) For the purposes of this section, a person publishes or utters blasphemous matter if --(a) he or she publishes or utters matter that is grossly abusive or insulting in relation to matters held sacred by any religion, thereby causing outrage among a substantial number of the adherents of that religion, and (b) he or she intends, by the publication or utterance of the matter concerned, to cause such outrage.

«Blasphemous matter» is defined as matter «that is grossly abusive or insulting in relation to matters held sacred by any religion, thereby causing outrage among a substantial number of the adherents of that

«Blasphemous matter» is defined as matter «that is grossly abusive or insulting in relation to matters held sacred by any religion, thereby causing outrage among a substantial number of the adherents of that religion; and he or she intends, by the publication of the matter concerned, to cause such outrage.»

This is a business whose model depends on the ongoing conscious avoidance of its adherents of the rules of the game.

Not exact matches

«Emerging market powers eager to move away from being tied to the monetary policy of the U.S. and the banking system as well as to adopt the block chain as a payment system prove willing adherents as they adjust to zero interest rates and the decrease in systematic risk.»

While Bitcoin adherents cite low fees as an advantage of the cryptocurrency over traditional finance networks, the median fee for a transaction reached $ 34 in late December.

He argues that most negotiators are overly willing to compromise, and he blames this on the way that some win - win adherents prize «relationships» over getting the best possible deal — a style of negotiating that others, especially non-U.S. negotiators, go out of their way to exploit.

It wasn't exactly a superheist, but it does nothing to assuage forfeiture critics or Bitcoin adherents, many of whom embrace the currency precisely because they lack faith in the integrity of governments.

Pope Francis has 10.6 million twitter followers, and is the leader of a global religion that counts more than 1.2 billion people among its adherents.

Its new CEO, Jim Hackett, is a meat - and - potatoes business guy (he ran office furniture maker Steelcase for years) who also is an adherent of so - called design thinking.

You don't need to be a devotee of «servant leadership» or an adherent to the notion of «leading from behind» to recognize that leadership typically requires a sensitive appreciation of the talents, motives and desires of a team of people.

Below, a selection of the worst from Silicon Valley and its adherents in 2013 (they're not all geographically based in the Valley, but they're all part of the same bicoastal startup ecosystem) from founders, venture capitalists, and more.

Each of these ideas has its own body of adherents — management thinkers pushing a particular point of view, and practising executives experimenting with a different way of working.

«Although it is common to disparage adherents of conspiracy theories as a delusional fringe of paranoid cranks, our data suggest that medical conspiracy theories are widely known [and] broadly endorsed,» they write.

Both Bitcoin and its blockchain are gaining imitators as well as adherents, along with plenty of critics, including Jamie Dimon, the chief executive officer of JPMorgan Chase & Co..

«The biggest consumers are politicians, their cronies, family and coteries,» says Omoyele Sowore, publisher of Sahara Reporters, an online news network that covers Nigeria and sub-Saharan Africa, adding there is a growing number of «movie stars, musical artists, con artists and a sizable population of religious adherents of the prosperity - preaching get - rich - quick Pentecostal stock» who are revelling in the bubbly.

All of this forms a complex, reinforcing network of content and actors whose goal is to leverage the power of the Internet to recruit new adherents.

Despite the brutality of the recent Bear market, some adherents still cling to this philosophy, despite their recent pain.

They are sometimes portrayed as misguided adherents to defunct Phillips curve notions that unemployment can be reduced permanently by tolerating higher and higher rates of inflation.

Clara Shih, the chief executive of Hearsay, said that her social media gospel was gaining adherents among top executives.

The most comprehensive study of its kind, it provides detailed county - by - county information on congregations, members, adherents and attendance for 236 different faiths groups.

That is basically the only real differences in the religions themselves, but the adherents of all 3 of these religions pray to the same God, by whatever name they may call Him.

My key point is this... religion should be a private affair for the adherent, regardless of which belief system it is.

In regards to your comment to OneTrueKinsman, «You believe that «religion should be a private affair for the adherent, regardless of which belief system it is», right?

and a set of social controls (political correctness) to keep it's adherents in line.

As president, Monson is considered by adherents of the religion to be a «prophet, seer, and revelator» of God's will on earth.»

The researchers found Illinois to be the most Muslim state with around 2.8 percent of the population identifying as Muslim adherents.

No one is saying that the other religions / philosopies are not as bad, although I have never heard of a politician who follows Buddhist tradition trying to stop legalization of abortions, or an adherent of Jainism trying to stop same sex marriage.

Atheism has a long history of its adherents changing living people into dead ones by the millions.

Precise statistics on the number of adherents within each church are difficult to come by.

The constitution of the relation between God's revealed law and universal moral law is an intellectual operation that will be conducted differently not only by the respective religious communities themselves, but by adherents of particular theological and philosophical tendencies within those communities.

Will adherents of traditional morality, who seek only to protect their view of marriage (and not in any other way legally to stigmatize homosexuality) be relegated to the margins of society, treated the way....

So Popey failed to appropriately handle the major scandals that plagued his reign, he failed to stop the flight of European and American adherents from his church, and now he is going to hide and reflect.

In our age, when there is so much confusion over issues of ethics that are family issues in one way or another, the Enlightenment and its adherents have little to say.

For the accommodationist, the body of Israel (or the body of the Church) extends, in a descending sense to be sure, beyond the range of its literal adherents.

Moreover, the Northern European Jewish thinkers who advocated this view (unlike their contemporary counterparts in Spain) were in no wise adherents of Aristotelian philosophy and its natural theology, which argued that God's existence could be demonstrated outside of historical revelation.

«A study in the United States, published in the Social Forces journal and conducted by Sociology researcher Lisa A. Keister while she was at the Ohio State University, found that adherents of Judaism attained the most wealth, believers of Catholicism and mainline Protestants were in the middle, while conservative Protestants accu - mulated the least wealth, while in general people who attend religious services achieved more wealth than those who do not (taking into account variations of education and other factors).

The doctrine of Noahide law, in particular the doctrine of the universal prohibition of idolatry, gave Jewish thinkers the criterion they needed to judge the two religions among whose adherents they bad to live from late antiquity on: Christianity and Islam.

Kevin, they need new adherents so thier religion doesn» y die outThey would hate being the last of a cult that uses myth as a belief syste for their salvation, whatever that is.

The irony of communitarianism, says Frohnen, is that its adherents place themselves beyond the beliefs they seek to foster, and thus «sap the sources of the communal feelings they crave.»

The amount of control thatnthe church has over the daily lives of adherents is disturbing.

Merriam Webster defines a cult as, 1: formal religious veneration: worship 2: a system of religious beliefs and ritual; also: its body of adherents