Sentences with phrase «older religions use»

«Cult» — The word followers of larger, older religions use to label beliefs or non-beliefs they do not approve of.

If He had, they would have had to go without branches or booths, since other, older religions used tree branches in their idolatrous rituals, as the prophet Ezekiel noted (see Ezekiel 8:17).

Not exact matches

As he grew older, he used the authority he had acquired to challenge those of his colleagues who believed that discussions of religion were beneath their dignity.

I wish I had a dollar for every time a Christian in this forum had disavowed the Old Testament when it is used to show your religion's infantile foolishness..

But some fundamentalist religions are stuck on the idea of using older translations, made by people who simply were uninformed or uneducated.

I used to be unsure about whether there was a god, and as I got older and approached my late twenties, I decided I was not going to believe or participate in any organized religion.

Most importantly, note this: I am a Christian, I'm gay, I'm a recovering alcoholic, I believe in Evolution, I believe the universe is 13 billion years old and that the Earth is 4.5 or so billion years old, I believe man evolved from lower primates and that Adam was the first man who God gave a soul and sentience, I do not believe in hell but I do believe in Satan, I do not believe the Bible is a book of rules meant to imprison man or condemn him but that it is rather a «Human Existence for Dummies» guide, I believe Christ was the son of God but I do not believe Christianity is the only «valid» religion, I do not believe atheists will go to hell, while the English Bible says God should be feared, the Hebrew word used for fear, «yara», such as that used in the Book of Job, actually means respect / reverence, not fear as one would fear death or a spider.

I was not talking religion I very specifically used the word compassion, yet you feel you have to make you point vilifying someone's belief, gosh that is getting old with you... you can't even celebrate the fact that here is an example of a good deed.

Today we still speak of the cross only in the explicit language of the Church and religion; perhaps some pious old Christians may still use the expression for the experience of their own life.

So at the last minute to try to get the rules to change and use the old adage of «religious persecution» if conformity to your will is not met does not hold merit as sport is not a subset of religion and shouldn't be governed by it.

Christianity is the «new kid on the block» as far as belief systems go, so almost anything we use to remember Christ has probably been used by older religions first, including the days of the week.

They know that religion is an old machine that will never wear out and that has always been used to insure the fidelity of people and put a brake on the restlessness of human reason.

I used to think it was the old European women from three or four generations back that had religion and superst.ition fed to them in equal amounts — even some as recent as my mother's generation with the nuns» stories about lying before communion and having their tongue fall out of their mouths, or having the stone lions in front of the protestant church come to life and eat them or having the earth open up and swallow them because they didn't go to confession.

An exhibition in the old town hall, formerly used as the headquarters of the Belgian army in 1914, aims to tell the unique, personal and remarkable stories of the townspeople, divided into themes including religion, jurisdiction, diplomacy and medical care.

The artist explains: «When I transform old Coke or beer cans found in the California desert, where they've been used for target shooting since forever, into prayer wheels, the work starts to open up to all these issues art history is always drowning in — national identity, romanticism, nature — mixed with the loss of religion, which has been replaced by an almost folkish attachment to consumer goods.»

Of these pseudo-devotional forms, the artist explains: «When I transform old Coke or beer cans found in the California desert, where they've been used for target shooting since forever, into prayer wheels, the work starts to open up to all these issues art history is always drowning in — national identity, romanticism, nature — mixed with the loss of religion, which has been replaced by an almost folkish attachment to consumer goods.»

We mebbe could use a little bit of that old time religion, er global warming.