Sentences with phrase «punishment for»

The law imposes a fine of 150 euros ($ 190) and / or a citizenship course as punishment for wearing a face - covering veil.

It imagines evil undergone as punishment for misbehavior according to an unfailing rule by which the degree of punishment is proportionate to the seriousness of the misbehavior.

For example, the punishment for violating regulations protecting the environment is usually a fine.

Death may present him with a problem, but he can not see how it can be a punishment for sin.

Punishment for everyone from tinies to teenagers to tense adults.

As far as Jesus» followers facing death and punishment for being outspoken — 100 % certainty is no proof of anything.

We (every person) was judged to have committed sin and to have deserved punishment for those sins.

Advocating death or severe punishment for actions such as holy book destruction or dunking an avatar in place of a dead person may cause the «offended» in a position of appearing quite distance from his / her religious instruction and thereby sinning against one's own diety.

Their punishment for disobeying was death in a fiery furnace — a public consequence of rebellion against the empire.

But eternal punishment for lack of belief certainly seemed cruel and unjust, two things that did not reconcile with a God who IS love.

And there is no fear of punishment for failure, because I have no concept of law and punishment.

And the worst part about all of these, is that punishment for breaking these Sabbath day laws was not a fine, not imprisonment, not even a sacrifice in the temple.

Some claim that every storm, every problem we experience, either as individuals or as a nation is punishment for some supposed «sin».

We MUST speak of BOTH: Jesus is the peacemaker with grace for the peadophile, but He's also the judge with punishment for the unrepentant.

The legislation had teeth in it: capital punishment for disobeying the priests!

Titled after the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which freed the enslaved and prohibited slavery (unless as punishment for a crime), DuVernay focuses on the fact that the nation's prisons are disproportionately filled with black people.

One of the strongest arguments against the crazy doctrine of eternal punishment for the majority of mankind.

It covers every facet of human relationships; it spells out punishment for crime; it states the way children, servants, and animals are to be treated; it gives directions in intimate detail for worship, sacrifice, burnt offering, dressing the altar, and a thousand other details.

Shortly after the Japanese quake and tsunami, the governor of Tokyo said publicly that the disaster was divine punishment for Japanese egoism, though he apologized for the remarks a day later.

If I don't agree with you he will zap me, or roast me, or whatever the hell you think is the proper punishment for not agreeing with you.

He see Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon as the instrument of Yahweh's antagonistic warfare, Yahweh's punishment for Judah's sins.

Men did shameful things with other men, and in their bodies they received the punishment for those wrongs... They know God's law says that those who live like this should die.

Why should I have any respect for something that condemns one to punishment for not believing it?

Those who have been asked to live for others have been instructed to see their subordination as noble sacrifice or, worse, as merited punishment for sin.

Children would be made to sleep in soiled sheets for two or three nights as a punishment for bed - wetting, she said, and when they went on an annual holiday to Ayrshire, they would end up badly burnt and blistered from the sun.

I'll throw in a nifty little «Don't EVER use healthy suspension of disbelief» or I'll make up some horrible place of anguish that you'll be sent to as punishment for ETERNITY (that is forever and ever and ever and ever) and what is great is that if you do all I say, I'll make up a wonderful place that will fulfill ALL YOUR DESIRES.

The crux of the problem is this: Christians (mostly) think that eternal torture is a fitting punishment for the thought crime of failing to believe in their God.

South Africa has outlawed capital punishment for the strong reason that it repeats the crime it punishes.

If they are not do what God told them unintentionally than God has a punishment for them or anyone else corrupt in the Catholic Church.

According to PEW polls, in 1987 some 60 % of evangelicals believed AIDS to be God's punishment for being gay.

For effecting a transition to a new civil society, the truth about the past can be more important than punishment for the past.

More frequent and harsher punishment for black girls.

If they are not doing what God told them unintentionally than God has a punishment for them or anyone else corrupt in the Catholic Church.

St. Augustine wrote in his City of God that God introduced slavery into the world as a punishment for original sin.

Death was both a part of nature taken for granted and a punishment for evil, the result of God's activity.

You claim that God is bringing this storm to us as a punishment for our sins.

How could explicitly stating that the punishment for working on the Sabbath is being stoned to death, and the punishment for not being a virgin on your wedding day is being stoned to death, etc. could possibly be taken metaphorically?

And Moses» terrific anger against the idolaters signifies that he threatens them with castration — the punishment for loving one's mother.»

and i want to know why the punishment for this sin is so worse is this the mercy of god for non believers?

(CNN)- The death penalty has been part of human society for millennia, understood to be the ultimate punishment for the most serious crimes.

Hell is the punishment for the fallen angels, only the human fools that reject Gods offer of redemption will go there and that by their own choice not by their creation.

Undeniably, the reciprocity of killing as punishment for murder in its own way takes life very seriously; but two side effects undercut its impact.

Thomas Jefferson himself said,» Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is JUST, that His justice can not sleep forever» These words clearly testify AGAINST the Founding Fathers showing they KNEW FULL WELL what they were doing and that their GROSS SINS would someday mean PUNISHMENT for how this nation was ESTABLISHED.

The public response to AIDS proves the tenacity of the notion that illness is divine punishment for wrongdoing.

Capital punishment for crimes such as murder maybe thought as grievous and inhumane but to think that one can be punished for holding onto one's religious beliefs certainly is not fair.

We all deserve eternal punishment for our sins, but God's infinite love and grace have allowed us a way out.

But what if the friend were nevertheless convinced that her illness was a punishment for her misdeeds?

The American value honoring free speech doesn't preclude condemnation of the speech, only that there should be no legal punishment for it.

The punishment for leaving islam is death.

One, that it was a punishment for sin (Job's friends take this position in their argument, and see also John 9:2); another, that the demons visited even good men and took control of them.