Sentences with phrase «practiced by cults»

That's not even including the millions upon millions of individual victims of ethnic cleansing, religious intolerance and the centuries of human sacrifice practiced by cults around the planet.

Not exact matches

Although it would be foolish to demarcate too rigidly cultic and other depictions of the emperor, as in some way all imperial ideology was pervaded by religious conceptualizations of the imperial figure, the emperor was more than the cult, and imperial ideology was embodied in other forms and practices, many of which still require extensive examination (for example, its significance in the ideological construction of gender in the empire, and particularly of the body, is only just becoming visible).

``... [the] gulf between the Church and the scientific mind... widens with each generation, and modern means of diffusing knowledge by the press, radio, and film, have brought us now to such a pass that the Christian, and especially the Catholic, whose beliefs are enriched in their religious manifestation by the ceremonies and practices of a most ancient past, finds himself considered the initiate of a recondite cult whose practices are not only unintelligible to men around him, but savour to them of superstition and magic.»

But I have been harassed at great lengths by people practicing Christianity to try to get me to enter their little cult.

-- and 5:23) Indeed, Isaiah literally damns the total structure of the formal Yahweh cult not for the cult itself but because the ceremonial practice is accompanied, in the grossest hypocrisy, by a corporate life of injustice, oppression and violence.

And if you practice it by yourself... hey good news, your not in a cult.

If you think that the god believed in and the christianity practiced by the early jesus cult was anything like the pauline cult or the various evolved mutations throughout history or is anything like the god or religion that «christians» believe or practice today.

Cult prostitution, scattered idolatrous sanctuaries, the practice of child sacrifice, and all objects and manifestations of astral worship (ancient Babylonian in origin, taken over by Assyria) are abolished.

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).

For instance, schools that would be run by religious «cults» that lack particular institutional credentials could be excluded, or schools that engage in discriminatory practices or that engage in teachings that citizens find offensive could be disqualified.

Frieze Artist Award winner Kiluanji Kia Henda merges the cult of Marxism - Leninism after Angolan independence with the drawn parallels between witchcraft practices during Angola's civil war and science fiction narratives used by Cold War superpowers.

But what of the commercialization of occult practices, the kind done by corporations, the illegitimate posturing by en vogue gentrifier covens, mystics, and bro - cults?

These presentations of modern masters and their tribal influences are complemented by the expanded Spotlight section, which will highlight solo artist presentations of 31 pioneers of 20th - century practice, such as Thomas Kovachevich (Callicoon Fine Arts, New York); self - taught artist Felipe Jesus Consalvos (Fleisher / Ollman, Philadelphia); Barbara Chase - Riboud (Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York); and Dom Sylvester Houédard — a Benedictine monk turned counter-culture cult figure of 1960s London (Richard Saltoun Gallery, London).