Sentences with phrase «persecution complex in»

It is not a pleasant thought, this possibility that the most brilliant and lucrative career in the history of soccer might be cut short; it is a thought that has produced a budding persecution complex in Pelé.

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Anyway this article presents both sides of the issue and is in no way biased, and the consistent persecution complex from the right wing is annoying.

Yeah, that's the deal with Christians — the world's most massive persecution complex, shielding what, in all honesty, we should recognize as an inferiority complex.

Their fears are utterly unfounded in reality and at times exaggerated paranoia and it reflects a belief that everyone has it in for them.Symptoms of persecution complex may be seen when the person interacts in normal ways and then over-reacts to perceived wrongs.)

«We live in a world that is hostile towards Christianity»... ah, yes, the persecution complex of Christians.

he develops a relentless persecution complex not unlike that seen in the politicized Islam and fundamentalist Christianity, the obessession that «his» is being taken from him.

I prefer to apply lessons learned from a wider range of human experience and condemn those biblical passages as the product of an ignorant, arrogant, bloodthirsty tribe of self - centered nomadic shepherds whose primary characteristics were a raging persecution complex and an unending quest for justification for their major case of the hots for the little girls in the naboring tribes.

that minimizes the historical suffering of women and minority groups in this country, 2) an overwrought persecution complex that confuses sharing civil rights with others with being persecuted by them, and 3) a persistent fear of the perceived «other» — Muslims, LGBT people, immigrants, refugees, etc. — that results in culture wars meant to «take back» the public square.

An entire industry of books and films has blossomed in the red soil of the American Christian persecution complex, with the first «Gods» Not Dead» installment caricaturing and vilifying atheists and the second set to expose liberal efforts to «expel God from the classroom once and for all.»

The persecution complex blinds Christians to our own privilege, which then blinds us to the challenges faced by the genuinely underprivileged in this country.

please, put your persecution complex back in your prayer shawl.

Does that help you understand an atheist POV or are you going to just keep badmouthing atheists in the guise of a christian persecution complex?

This attitude is encapsulated in the remark made by a perceptive analyst of the complex processes at work in the early church, Robin Lane Fox, who begins his chapter entitled «Persecution and Martyrdom,» with the words: «The most excellent Christians in the early Church were neither virgins nor the visionaries.

fans of every team (across all major sports) have a persecution complex about their local franchise being snubbed in this way; and

In The Myth of Persecution, Candida Moss, a leading expert on early Christianity, reveals how the early church exaggerated, invented, and forged stories of Christian martyrs and how the dangerous legacy of a martyrdom complex is employed today to silence dissent and galvanize a new generation of culture warriors.

Best known as a refuge for Christianity before it was widely accepted, Cappadocia became home to early believers as they fled Roman persecution in the 4th century A.D. Over the next 600 years, these holy settlers would create the region's most notable landmarks, carving out their homes and churches into soft canyon walls to make so - called «fairy chimneys» while building unimaginably complex beehives of humanity.

People are not obligated to print what you have to say in the least, and the moaning you get from this tribe on this subject is evidence of a profoundly juvenile persecution complex.

In support of his persecution complex, Lennart dropped a small bomb about how a paper of his had been rejected by ERL because, according to the Times, «Research which heaped doubt on the rate of global warming was deliberately suppressed by scientists because it was «less than helpful» to their cause, it was claimed last night.»