Sentences with phrase «outcast people»

Online dating websites are not only for socially outcast people.

The poor and oppressed are stereotyped as lazy or violent; outcast people are dirty and ignorant; the ethnic, national, racial, religious and cultural minorities are subject to old and new stereotypes in their own situations as political or social separatists.

Low and outcast people are perpetually condemned to such traditional and reinforced stereotypes, mutilating their human dignity and subjectivity.

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«It was more like you did it because you found something that spoke to you and you found like - minded people and you were all weirdos, everyone were kind of outcasts.»

Our service is an outreach to the community, for people who have been hurt by church in the past, non believers, people who are feel they are outcasts, etc.We run with no budget, all the offering goes to a need in the community, tonight its going to a senior that lost everything in a house fire.

I want to follow his example and calling for us to accept and love all people, and to not consider any as outcasts.

One likely «scenario» is that people with mental illness gravitate toward spiritual paths that are less rule driven (not to mention less likely to treat them as outcasts due to the societal stigma of mental illness) in order to feel supported.

The people of Israel can accept the inclusion of others because they know themselves to be outcasts and sinners, welcome in God's house because of who God is and what God has done, not because of their own righteousness.

He would do it, Luke shows, through persistent befriending of the poor, the outcasts, the little people of his day, including those who seemed his enemies.

Unexpectedly and uncomfortably accepting outcasts by breaking social mores, he created a sense of belonging for them, which frequently conflicted with the moral sensibilities of religious people of his day, angering them.

If getting a tattoo were some sort of societal punishment, then I might get one in order to identify with the outcasts, but they're completely elective, and usually had by people with self - image issues.

Women, men, children, unemployed people, excluded and oppressed people, workers, landless peasants, communities suffering from racism, impoverished city dwellers, indigenous peoples, students, intellectuals, migrants, small business people, outcasts, declining middle classes - citizens - are asserting their dignity, demanding respect for their human rights and natural heritages, and practising solidarity.

They hope that God accepts people regardless of their sexual or political orientation, who sides with the poor and the outcast, who doesn't have favorites, and who wants equality, justice, freedom, and fairness for all.

Furthermore, the story reminds us that people who worshiped the one monotheistic god of Abraham (Christians, Jews and Muslims alike) were all considered societal outcasts in 7th century Arabia.

Then came Jesus, claiming that they were wrong in their understanding of God and his attitude to these outcasts and so striking a blow at the fundamental convictions which upheld the Jewish people.

The fact that people continue to suggest otherwise and perpetuate this idea that homosexuality is wrong and attempting to make outcasts of people who identify as gay is unbelievably disgusting and frightening and old - fashioned.

Protestant theology has largely stood aside from peoples who are outcast, downtrodden, humiliated.

A first step might be the realization that over the centuries, Protestant theology has largely stood aside from peoples outcast, downtrodden, humiliated.

Strangely enough, John's message was heard and accepted by two groups whom the temple authorities and the people believed to be outcasts: the tax collectors and the harlots.

Whether he dealt with women, children, or slaves, whether the persons in need were Jew, Roman, Syro - Phoenician, or Samaritan, whether he associated with «respectable» people or social outcasts, whether he was illustrating true neighborliness by the story of the good Samaritan or declaring the principle of divine judgment on the basis of «as you did it to one of the least of these my brethren» — all persons were of equal and supreme worth to him because he saw them through the eyes of God.

He responded by relating the parable of the Good Samaritan, one of my personal favorites... bear traps are hidden, and often unseen till bear or human are caught in them... the traps are deliberately placed, they don't just suddenly appear... the answer to the question was the man who had compassion on the man taken by robbers... he was a social and spiritual outcast who had compassion on someone who in normal circumstances would have hated his guts... because his doctrine and «lifestyle» were not acceptable to the religious establishment... I have had life experiences that bear this out, experiencing love and compassion from people whom today's religious establishment demonizes and looks down upon... any reading of the Good Samaritan story should be followed up by a reading of 1 Corinthians 13....

People adhere to organized religions out of fear - fear of being outcast and fear of being unsure.

Nearly 900 people have survived the Ebola virus in Sierra Leone, but they are now being stigmatised and treated as outcasts by their communities as fear of the disease grips the country.

The shepherds were considered by most to be dirty, outcast thieves, and while the wise men from the East are often called «Kings» (though they were likely not kings at all), most people in Israel would have considered them to be religiously unclean, astrology - practicing, sinful foreigners.

In the middle of that crowd — which likely would have included more than a fair share of holy or influential or important or preferred or religious people — Jesus heads right for that tree and calls out to that guy — the one who is a social and religious outcast, ridiculously perched up in the branches — to come on down because Jesus wants to go to that guy's house for supper.

I saw the younger Sons carry the royal blood far down among the people, down even into the kennels of the Outcast.

I am Levi, a traitor to my own people, an outcast, a reject, and Jesus is calling me.

It is all about Steve, If he were about Jesus he wouldn't be arguing here, He would out helping the poor, outcasts, visiting prisoners, making arrangements to take orphans, single moms, into his home, giving all his extra money to people who need it etc..

In Jesus» time lepers were outcasts, unclean persons who needed to be cleansed to be reincorporated into the people of God.

In my own life I have had struggles and it led me to some 12 step groups and its funny, but the 12 steps are really based on some pretty biblical ideas - equality of person before each other - in other words the social outcast is equal to the executive in the meeting.

He secured the passage of the Lunacy Act of 1845, which for the first time treated the insane as a «person of unsound mind», rather than as a social outcast.

In the whole course of the book we can catch hardly a distant echo of the sermon on the Mount... From the Revelation it could never have been gathered that Jesus was compassionate, that he healed the sick and encouraged the helpless and outcast and bore our infirmities, that he was meek and lowly of heart... As we know him from this book, Christ is a great but terrible figure, righteous but implacable, the champion of his people, but breathing destruction on his enemies.»

If Jesus gave special status in his day to persons who do not procreate, on what grounds do churches today treat modern eunuchs — single people, homosexuals, and childless couples — like outcasts?

From personal experience i was in a church who has the whole congregation pray for 1/2 hour in tongues.The people in this church were leaders from Africa.A place who sees more supernatural then us because we feel the need to analyze the thing to death.When we did the atmosphere shifted lives were changed.When i was on a mission trip to Mexico i felt lead to go pray with the women who in that culture are outcasts one of ladies who came with me started singing in the spirit as i was we stopped each other in shock when we realized we were sing the same song the needs of the women were met with out an interrupter.

«The poor, the broken - hearted, the captives, the blind, the bruised, the outcasts, the persons who have no hope» (cf. Luke 4:18).

«My goal with this book,» he writes, «is to assure people of faith that they do not need to feel anxious, disloyal, unfaithful, dirty, scared, or outcast for engaging these questions of the Bible, interrogating it, not liking some of it, exploring what it really says, and discerning like adult readers what we can learn from it in our own journey of faith... We respect the Bible most when we let it be what it is and learn from it rather than combing out the tangles to make it presentable.»

Not to mention the intolerance shown to groups of people they don't happen to like, clearly in conflict with Christ's acceptance of the outcasts of society.

Jesus combated stigma in his day, people with leprosy or who were disabled were outcasts by society.

The elderly should not be great social outcasts, but a living «overpass» between generations; not a dead end but a well - lighted avenue to lead younger people into the riches of a superlative time of life.»

Q: Jesus was always pushing the boundaries and reaching out to people who were outcasts.

The Exodus story of Yahweh's redemption of an oppressed people, the prophetic protest against neglect of the poor, Jesus» proclaiming the good news to social outcasts — this theme of divine concern for those who lack power and possessions is too dominant for us to ignore when we ask what God is like.

The scriptures tell us that the gospel will divide people, and even cause some to be outcast, and some to be persecuted and even killed because of their faith in Christ.

We don't find him in churches, but among people, especially among the poor, the homeless, the outcast and sometimes even among the rich.

Even the churchless church has its share of outcasts and sellouts; people who don't practice the fundamentals of atheism are ostracized amongst the atheist church, for not being true to the faith.

He hung out with the poor, the outcast, women, lepers, tax collectors, prostitutes, rich people, and ordinary people.

The days are coming when God's people will be outcasts, and they will hunt God's people down, thinking they are doing humanity a favor by killing Chrisians.

What are we playing at shortage of CB and we are letting Mustafi go (treating him like an outcast for no reason)??? We are trying to get Sterling of all people as a part of a swap deal for Sanchez??

Why to tie up your little angel!!? It is very common these days that people outcast the ones who advocate cloth diapers.

«Even in todays enlightened society, where acceptance and diversity are hailed as the right thing to do... mentally ill people tend to be outcasts.

I felt ugly and outcast, and I was sure that if only I were prettier, people would like me.