Sentences with phrase «only adherents»

And teachers don't seem to matter to people like Connecticut Democratic Governor Dannel Malloy who is not only an adherent to the Common Core and the Common Core Testing fiasco but remains the only Democratic Governor in the nation to propose eliminating tenure for all public school teachers and rescinding collective bargaining rights for teachers working in the state's poorest school districts.

And, given the volume of evidence that has accumulated on the issue, only an adherent of some very strong form of scepticism could reasonably remain undecided.

Not exact matches

But according to Lucas, the system works only if you want to be an adherent business and want to keep your books clean and be compliant to the system.

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.

The only reason this is news is that the intelligent design people see it as a chance to create some frenzy among their pathetic whack - job adherents.

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....

His final explanation (note the «purely») of any religion refers only to what that religion does for its adherents, and only to the mechanisms of the evolution of social organisms.

They hold to their beliefs in a way rivaled by only the most lunatic religious adherents.

... The reality is that the adherents of this view of Islam are numbered in many millions, have in some countries, elements of official support, and are systematically teaching it to millions of young people across the world... even in its more moderate and non-violent form it has a way of thinking that is still inconsistent with the pluralist and open - minded view of the world that defines the only way it can work peacefully in the 21st century.

Not only that science and faith are of course not antagonistic, and that the popular opinion that «science will solve all our problems» is fallacious, but also that, from a Church and faith perspective, science and scientists must not be seen as «the adversary,» adherents of some threatening or remote activity.

Mary was not only still alive at the crucifixion, it's clear in Acts that she herself was a follower and adherent — which says A LOT, considering women had no leadership powers (so no special treatment) and normally family members are the first to expose charlatans (note: even his brothers came to believe in Acts 1, after being skeptics earlier).

In the same letter he argues that Catholicism will be the only lasting form of Christianity; this argument also appears in Democracy, as Peter mentions, but without mention of the letter's key point that Protestantism is a half - way house between «reason» and «authority» that can not maintain its contradictory position over the long run, and which thus must lose its adherents to these two poles.

If this second thesis is correct, Christianity confronts an adherent of a non-Christian religion not only as a mere non-Christian, but also as a person who may already be regarded in certain respects as an anonymous Christian.

In my survey of 1,275 AG adherents from 16 different congregations, only 30 percent were raised in the Assemblies; an additional 10 percent were converts from other Pentecostal sects.

In 1989 it reported a constituency in the U.S. of over 2 million served by over 11,000 churches and 30,000 ministers (it lists 16 million adherents worldwide) In 1969 the AG membership in the U.S. was only 592,000.

Well, not only Atheists go to hell, others including Muslims who are not adherents go to hell TOO!

Not only were these churches leveling off from the heady gains of the postwar revival era (the main Presbyterian bodies from 1940 to 1960 had gained adherents at more than twice the rate of the preceding 20 years), but just as important, even more than before they were «losing» members and potential members because the regions in which they were strongest were «losing» population.

Only 21 % of religious adherents in northern Europe have significant personal contact with Christians, according to Christianity in its Global Context 1970 ‐ 2020,...

The only thing required to harmonize religious diversity and civil stability is the commitment of religious adherents to the way of persuasion.

The erosion of Christian membership continued not only for lack of nurture from the church but also because the jobs which the government reserved for «scheduled castes» (the official term for the so - called untouchables) in government employment were not open to those who claimed to be adherents of a non-Hindu religion, and therefore no longer in any caste at all, «scheduled» or otherwise.

I'm not personally interested in creation stories that have only small numbers or adherents and little or no impact on the cultures that brought forth the western technological society in which I live.

Theologians influenced by positivism, whose adherents saw reality as strictly that which can be experienced through the senses and knowledge as that which can be obtained through a narrow definition of the scientific method, and linguistic analysis, which purported that the only proper function of philosophy is the study of the usage of words and sentences, also treated science and religion as separate realms, distinct «language games,» each with its own set of rules.

We find ourselves in conversation with adherents of other religions, and the question whether Christ is the only way to God inevitably arises.

It is only that freedom can only be kept by rulers which are adherents of a very kind and moderate Protestantism without any bigotry.

Not only that, the federal RFRA does not protect against state laws that infringe upon religious liberty, and state religious protections are now vociferously opposed by progressive political adherents and large corporations — as Indiana discovered recently when it was threatened with economic ruin for attempting to pass an RFRA that extended to the operation of businesses.

Believers, he argued, can prove the rationality or relevance of their religious tradition (or any tradition) only by skillfully using its internal grammar: «The reasonableness of a religion is largely a function of its assimilative powers, of its ability to provide an intelligible interpretation in its own terms of the varied situations and realities adherents encounter.»

David's sincere (but again, astute) lament over Abner, reflecting not only David's continuing loyalty to the house of Saul, but his concern to unite the kingdom by winning over the adherents of Saul (3:31 - 39)

The only difference between a cult and a religion is the number of adherents.

As it is important that he is addressed as Rabbi, so also it is significant that his adherents (not the twelve only) are called pupils (disciples).

As has been defined by Arvind P. Nirmal, religion, for me, is a «symbol - system» that not only reflects the world - view of the adherent community in talks and rituals but also has a profound influence on the very value - system of the community.9 And since the data consists mostly of observations by others I would pick up cultic practices like festivals and related rituals.

Its imaginative power shapes not only narrative but also practice and makes the historiography of Pentecostalism surprisingly contentious because adherents generally embrace a particular version of the revival's story and often engage parts of its legacy rather the whole.

At a conference in Japan, a pioneer of Christian dialogue with tribal peoples once observed that Western Christians tend to be at ease only with those adherents of other faiths who are as precise and sober as they are.

The imaginative power of the Azusa Street revival shapes not only narrative but also practice and makes the historiography of Pentecostalism surprisingly contentious because adherents generally embrace a particular version of the revival's story and often engage parts of its legacy rather the whole.

But many close observers of the Communist movement, including FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, have concluded that it can be understood only as a faith that demands the total allegiance of its adherents.

Most guide their adherents in the way they should live in society and not only in their worship and creedal confessions.

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.

Today the Mauch viewpoint is gaining adherents, for not only is the 1975 Foli a crackerjack player, he is a notably steadier human being.

6) encouraging adherents to employ only other adherents or to conduct commercial relations with them only;

Contrary to Paladino's claims, the average American does not seem have some doubts that the president is a Muslim: polls indicate only 18 to 29 percent of the populace identify him as an adherent of the world's second - largest religion.

He said there was need for Muslims to share love not only among themselves but also among adherents of other religions which will engender brotherliness among Nigerians.

It was Karl Popper who first identified what he called «the demarcation problem» of finding a criterion to distinguish between empirical science, such as the successful 1919 test of Einstein's general theory of relativity, and pseudoscience, such as Freud's theories, whose adherents sought only confirming evidence while ignoring disconfirming cases.

Marrying prodigiously and with virtual impunity (the leader of the largest fundamentalist church took seventy - five «plural wives,» several of whom were wed to him when they were fourteen or fifteen and he was in his eighties), fundamentalist prophets exercise absolute control over the lives of their followers, and preach that any day now the world will be swept clean in a hurricane of fire, sparing only their most obedient adherents.

Thankfully, besides Mr. Bennett himself there appears to be only on other adherent to the cult, but no one listens to him either, so not to worry too much.

«The value - investing community is no longer the small group of adherents that it was several decades ago,» he wrote in a 2009 introduction to a new edition of Security Analysis, one of the only other major pieces of writing he's produced outside of regular — and well - guarded — letters to investors.

The last update, the Kyoto Protocol, only binds three dozen industrialized countries to cut emissions, and many of the adherents are not on track to hit their targets by 2012, when its terms expire.

One possible way to not be indicted for a «politics of fear» approach is to take the «politics of hope» approach — I recommend Paul Hawken's recent «Blessed Unrest,» which not only offers an education about the background of the sustainability movement, but which also expresses the certainty that such movements are gaining adherents and growing worldwide.

If a goal of realclimate is to inform laypeople of issues in climate science, then arrogance in this forum will only appeal to its most unquestioning adherents while driving away those who prefer to keep an open mind about a complex and dynamic field.

As a result I believe that RGGI is only a qualified limited success and no where near as successful as it its adherents claim.

To see that the only empirical and observed evidence of climate sensitivity was tampered with in IPCC WG1 shows how perverted that organisation has become and how twisted are it's adherents.