Sentences with phrase «power of their cult»

These semantic tricks are not simply oddities of a few isolated cults, but the very source of the cognitive power of cults, the means by which cults concentrate power at the top of the pyramid.

The brands that are strategically winning on social media are those that use multiple platforms to engage fans, flaunt some personality and inspire healthy living through photography, video, purpose - driven campaigns, the power of cult followings, and, of course, hashtags.

The film feels both cozy and oppressive as it deals frankly with one character's death wish, familial and romantic love, the power of a cult to drive a member toward suicide, the sustaining warmth of a circle of friends, and the seductive allure of both art and oblivion.

Not exact matches

The character of the imperial cult, at least in the eastern empire, is the subject of considerable debate at present, as can be seen by a cursory examination of the two most significant works on the subject: S. R. F. Price's Rituals and Power: The Roman Imperial Cult in Asia Minor and Steven Friesen's Twice Neokoros: Ephesus, Asia and the Cult of the Flavian Imperial Famcult, at least in the eastern empire, is the subject of considerable debate at present, as can be seen by a cursory examination of the two most significant works on the subject: S. R. F. Price's Rituals and Power: The Roman Imperial Cult in Asia Minor and Steven Friesen's Twice Neokoros: Ephesus, Asia and the Cult of the Flavian Imperial FamCult in Asia Minor and Steven Friesen's Twice Neokoros: Ephesus, Asia and the Cult of the Flavian Imperial FamCult of the Flavian Imperial Family.

She is the author of Godly Women: Fundamentalism and Female Power (Rutgers University Press, 1998) and Give Me that Online Religion: Churches, Cults and Community in the Information Age (Jossey - Bass, 2000).

(Sadly, our churches can sometimes resemble our culture instead of Jesus — witness our fascination with militarism, entertainment cults of celebrity, power, materialism, and patriarchal culture and so on.)

[I disagree with the assertion that Mars Hill is a cult, but I think Fred's point about our tendency to see sexual betrayal as bad «because it involves sex rather than because it involves betrayal» is spot - on, and his concerns about Driscoll's preoccupation with sex and power are, of course, warranted.]

In spite of the recurrent failure of the church to be true to Christ's teaching, in this important matter, the fact remains that the gospel continues to this day to be the chief antidote to the cult of power which has been the worst scourge of our distraught century.

The terrible dynamism of nature had to be both resisted and controlled by rites at once apotropaic — appeasing chaos and rationalizing it within the stability of cult — and economic — recuperating its sacrificial expenditures in the form of divine favor, a numinous power reinforcing the regime that sacrifice served.

Two verses — «They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly things, it shall not hurt them» (Mark 16:18) and «Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you» (Luke 10:19)-- are used by the snake - cult Christians in Appalachia as support for snake - handling and the drinking of poison as tests of Christian faith.

Hence, the fathers of Enlightenment surely never took in acount that a cult like LDS could ever assume power.

Remember — the primary religions of the day were the fertility cults that believed, as part of their religious rites, that sexual relations with another somehow conveyed a portion of that person's strength and power to you.

@David Johnson «It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so, and will follow it by suppressing opposition, subverting all education to seize early the minds of the young, and by killing, locking up, or driving underground all heretics.»

Neither is there any personality cult of Edward Holloway among those who have caught the power of his ideas in the loose knit co-operative called the Faith Movement.

These people are just accomplishing step one of escaping the hold of oppressive religious cults, realizing that organized religions are obvious scams created to concentrate money and power in the hands of a few.

The eyewitnesses of the Resurrection of Jesus — those who ate, drank, spoke with, and listened to the Lord Jesus Christ after His Resurrection — were so convinced of the Good News of God's Love, Forgiveness, Peace, and Healing Power for all humanity revealed by the Risen Jesus Christ that these eyewitnesses were willing to die as martyrs for their belief in the Risen Christ as fully God and fully man when it was illegal to do so under Roman authority (where Cesar was considered a deity in the state cult religion).

Thus understood, the doctrine of radical evil can furnish a receptive structure for new figures of alienation besides the speculative illusion or even the desire for consolation — of alienation in the cultural powers, such as the church and the state; it is indeed at the heart of these powers that a falsified expression of the synthesis can take place; when Kant speaks of «servile faith,» of «false cult,» of a «false Church,» he completes at the same time his theory of radical evil.

Since mainstream religions don't control language, their religious authorities simply can't exercise the degree of power over membership that cult leaders can when they make an active effort to reduce the critical capacities of their adherents.

«It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so, and will follow it by suppressing opposition, subverting all education to seize early the minds of the young, and by killing, locking up, or driving underground all heretics.»

we just get frustrated at the power the cult of christianity has in our lives when we just want to be left alone.

Francis challenges «the omnipresent technocratic paradigm and the cult of unlimited human power», while Solzhenitsyn provides concrete examples of the deadly outcomes of this paradigm: «The only possible explanation for [World War I] is a mental eclipse among leaders of Europe due to their lost awareness of a Supreme Power above them.&rpower», while Solzhenitsyn provides concrete examples of the deadly outcomes of this paradigm: «The only possible explanation for [World War I] is a mental eclipse among leaders of Europe due to their lost awareness of a Supreme Power above them.&rPower above them.»

Arguably too, it's a sort of false start, as his message is repeatedly obscured by the cult of his person and power.

We are forced to conclude that, as in Solomon's day, Yahwists believed that the power, prestige, wealth and apparent security of the crown and the nation were bought at a price too dear — widening economic disparity between rich and poor, the ruthless exploitation of society's weaker members, a deepening acquisitiveness and an inevitably accompanying disregard of the justice and righteousness of Yahweh, the meaning of covenant, and the true practice of the Yahweh cult.

Opus Dei is, they say, a secretive, cult - like organization that is running a vast international conspiracy with unlimited funding and tentacles reaching into the most unlikely centers of power.

Men of power: Qaddafi; King Solomon; even cult leaders, simply have harems or concubines to express and legitimize Hyde.

For as long as the peculiarly Christian - prophetic religion bearing within itself the Stoa, Platonism and various other elements continues, all possibilities of a community and cult, and so all real power and extension of belief, will be tied to the central position of Christ for faith.5

Commentators looked at the power she held over her audience, and some people even likened her viewers to members of a cult.

A petite version of the Linea Classic, the cult - favorite espresso machine from the 1990s, the new machine is sleek, with a double - boiler and just a few gauges and knobs, including one that powers a steam wand.

Like most brutal dictators, he maintains his hold on power largely by a cult of personality - he appears so strong that no one in his own government will challenge him.

Self - help guru Keith Raniere, who has charged by federal prosecutors with running a violent sex - slave cult called NXIVM, allegedly used the star power of two actresses from the Superman - prequel TV series «Smallville» to lure other women into his organization.

The cult - conference hasn't had much of a philosophy over the years except to maintain its own perks, power and privileges.

I hope the Conservatives will turn against their current cult of personal power which is now evident in their support for directly - elected executive mayors.

Corbyn's people have neither the media dominance, nor the power of surveillance necessary to create or monitor a genuine cult.

However, it added «the Center continues to note with dismay, however, that governmental accountability and responsiveness have remained highly insufficient (despite delivery of considerable voice to citizenry under the 4th Republic); public corruption remains pervasive; progress of the constitutionally - mandated political, administrative and fiscal decentralization has stalled; the economy remains characterized by jobless growth; income and spatial inequality are on the rise in spite of poverty reduction; and the nation's two main political parties which have alternated in power in the 4th Republic have increasingly taken on the features of rival cults (whose primary purpose seemingly is to win elections, achieve «state capture» and practice «winner - takes - all» politics).

It told the story of an ageing socialist demagogue who maintains his power through a sinister personality cult, rewriting history and crushing all internal descent.

A pronouncement by the Awujale of Ijebuland, Oba Sikiru Adetona, that the controversial Osugbo cult was just an association that should not have the power to hijack traditional rulers» corpses at death, has garnered support from some prominent Yoruba traditional rulers and subjects of the Ijebu monarch have equally sided with his decision.

Both sets of tattoos — which consist of a carbon - based pigment, possibly soot — may have symbolized power, social status or knowledge of cult activities, but their precise meanings are unclear.

Trump understands the power of a big idea, and the leverage that can come from a cult of personality.

Having powered his way through the «Lord of the Rings» trilogy, which had its occasional majesties, director Peter Jackson now feels compelled to give us this prequel, based on the Tolkien novel that spawned the cult I never joined.

This is hardly the first time Anderson has slyly subverted the power dynamic of a marriage, as anyone who remembers Amy Adams» glittering eyes in «The Master,» silently asserting control over her cult - leader husband, can attest.

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Ed Power The voodoo pins were out for Michael Fassbender when it was announced the Oscar - nominated actor would both star in and co-produce a mega-budget adaptation of Assassin's Creed, the cult...

House of Demons: Chilling tale of four old friends who reunite at a remote rental house once used by a Manson Family - like cult and which now has the power to manifest its inhabitants» deepest fears and darkest demons.

A story of a close - knit family with a boy who's got special powers, on the run from a religious cult and the government, pulsates with potential.

Seriously the entire story is your character has taken on the burden of freeing a small Montana town from the grips of a psychotic religious cult and you still hear the supposed sane thinking characters thanking a higher power when something goes well.

Like Tim Burton's beloved valentine to man's insatiable hunger to create in general and one dreamer in particular, The Disaster Artist offers the curious phenomenon of the film industry's biggest winners and power - brokers paying tongue - in - cheek homage to the handiwork of some of cult film's most exquisitely deluded dreamers.

Players will take the roll of a deputy stepping in to try and stop the rise in power of a faith - based cult who take their attempts to «save» the people to biblical extremes.

This alone is a great testament to the creative powers of director Alex Proyas (whose previous film was the cult The Crow favorite).

I believe that 13 Ghosts could have been made forty - some years ago by Roger Corman, with a hell of a cheaper budget, Vincent Price in the role of the power - hungry uncle, and ended up having a certain cult / camp value (much as all movies like that do).

Primary themes of interest to high schoolers: totalitarianism and state power, individual freedom, the mutability of historical truth, the power of propaganda, the cult of personality.