Yeah, instead for a healthier time send them to religious camp so they can be sodomized by a priest or
other religious leader who is a closet gay but refuses to understand it because in his deluded mind it is eveil to be gay but righteous to sodomize a little boy.
Not exact matches
What Jesus said about the evil shepherds and
other individuals,
who were using the flock for their own selfish gratification, could also be said today of many of our
religious leaders and our political
leaders.
Marty joined 17
other religious leaders and signed a statement pledging «to risk fine or imprisonment to assist young men
who resist [ed] the draft on grounds of conscience» (December 13, 1967).
Yes, you are correct that the
religious leaders of Christendom gave their blessing to its members to kill
others «in the name of Christ», such as Catholic Dominican inquisitor Tomas de Torquemada (1420 - 98) of Spain,
who ruled tyrannically for 15 years (1483 - 98, with the blessings of Pope Sixtus IV [
who praise him for «directing his zeal to those matters that contribute to the praise of God»] and Innocent VIII) and saw that over 114,000 (of which 10, 220 were burned at the stake) people were put to death.
The
religious leaders have done next to nothing in this regard, except at times to be teach their members to be intolerant of
others, especially those
who have no regard for the Bible, such as atheists or agnostics.
Among the colleagues and disciples of Sir Sayyid one of the most outstanding was the historian Shibli,
who wrote scholarly biographies of the Holy Prophet and of several
other religious leaders such as the Caliph Umar, Abu Hanifah, and Ghazali, thus awakening the Muslims of India to a sense of their glorious past.
To those
who have been abused in any way shape or form by MD or
other religious leaders... please know that you are not alone, and I as well as
others support you, hang in there, you are a warrior..
For this reason, some persons
who might make good
religious leaders are lost to the profession simply because they made early decisions to take
other paths.
Wage a war of words using black
leaders like Louis Farrakhan, Rev. Jesse Jackson and
other religious personalities
who promote Islam as the religion of African - Americans while insisting Christianity is for whites only.
Even if it is unpopular and flies in the face of what
other «
religious»
leaders do and think, we've been given a picture of how to treat those
who need our help, even if they are different than us.
If the
religious leaders of this world do not preach to embrace everyone of those
who herald from
other faiths and those
who are not faithful, we are going to sink in this battle to swim ashore.
Catholic bishops, among
other religious leaders, see Buhari as «a man of integrity and decency
who can fight corruption and Boko Haram,» John Bakeni, secretary of the Catholic diocese in Maiduguri, told RNS.
Religions are what we make out from them to be... if we what them to be religions for loving and caring we could... or otherwise we can make out of them to be religions for hating and hitting
others as well we could... So really it depends on what our
religious leaders popes, imams, rabbis call for... but if those managed to control theirs
who will control the non
religious??
On the whole, one is hard - pressed to find examples of
other leaders,
religious or otherwise,
who did a better job of managing access to so much power, especially when it presented itself as the power to do good.
I think there was a time that many believed their faith drove them to seek justice - abolitionists, civil rights
leader, healthcare, etc. but now it just seems many want to isolate themselves from the «
others»
who won't «turn to Christ» and deny them rights in the name of
religious liberty.
In a world where the
religious spend a signficant amount of time pointing out the sins of
others while claiming that they are in relationship with the One
who has set the moral standards... and then a significant number of them commit one of the most heinous of crimes against children and have
leaders spend significant effort at covering it up...
† Atheism making you agree with Mussolini, Stalin, Hitler (denied his faith later), Mao, Pol Pot &
other terrible mass murder
leaders who killed
religious people because of their
religious cult!
Once a Gandhian
leader came to Kohima and we had fellowship with him As I was sitting by him, he started conversing with me about
religious matters: «There are some extreme Christians
who say that human being can be saved through Christianity only and thee is no
other way.
Some
other news about young people: 57 percent said that the primary reason they helped
others was that it «makes them feel good personally»; 19 percent would not fight for their country under any circumstances, 24 percent were uncertain and 60 percent would not be willing to volunteer one year to serve their country; 17 percent could think of no famous person or celebrity they admired (only 1 percent admired Mother Teresa, and Donald Trump received a similar vote — indicating that
religious and business
leaders are among the least admired adults); 65 percent would cheat on a major exam in school, while 36 percent would lie to protect a friend
who vandalized; 53 percent claimed that growing up for them is harder than it was for their parents (minority young people were more likely to say it was easier).
The sign of Jonah is in One
who was rejected as a blasphemer by the
religious leaders of his time and condemned to death as a criminal by the political
leaders, rising up from the dead and sitting at the right hand of God, and being given a name that is above every
other name, so that «at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth» (Phil.
Given that
other public figures, like politicians,
who actually have some power, were judged influential by only 38 %, it is no shock that
religious leaders,
who don't, scored so low.
Many of us grew up with parents, caregivers, siblings, teachers and / or
religious leaders who told us lies about ourselves, about
others and about God...
These include: Sister Schools, Sister Cities, Rotary Clubs, and projects initiated by women,
religious leaders or immigrants, all of them primarily grassroots efforts initiated by one individual
who recruits
others to join her.