Sentences with phrase «punishment for thought»

It included psychological torture, physical torture and punishment for thought crimes all done in god's name.

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.

Only, these gulags are imagined to be worse than any labor camp Stalin ever dreamed up, and this punishment for thought crimes way beyond anything found in the book 1984.

The bite of the prosthetic into the stump of what used to be my knee is punishment for my thoughts.

Not exact matches

There are a lot of people who are opposed to the death penalty not because they think no one ever deserves to die for their crimes, but because they think the government shouldn't have the power to hand out such a punishment, even when that punishment is justified.

The fear of the great nothing is too much for my mind to bear, and I can sleep at night by convincing myself that the absolute nothing we all face one day will instead be full of happy choirs of angels, reward for any suffering I've endured, punishment of the wicked and evil (it pains me to think those who cause so much evil will not suffer for eternity, so hell is a great comfort too), and that I'll get to see all those I currently miss since the death of friends and family are so painful.

His point is that he thinks it is completely absurd theory that all 7,000,000,000 human beings on the planet are simultaneously being supervised 24 hours a day, every day of their lives by an immortal, invisible being for the purposes of reward or punishment in the «afterlife».

It sounds more like you think that an unintended pregnancy is a just punishment for women who are such who.res that they have s.ex, and maybe lots of it, outside of marriage.

Even though it isn't a happy thought, I am convinced that God's holiness, which encompasses His justice and righteousness demands punishment for those who break His laws.

I heard a rumor, that the Vatican thought a better punishment for Aziz, would be to dress him as an altar boy and leave him with a group of priests...

Perhaps god doesn't like a bunch of mindless sheeple, and lets in only people who think for themselves and live honest and compassionate lives because they think it's a good idea, not because they fear eternal punishment.

It's scary to think that because I «don't believe» I'm going to hell for all eternity (pretty severe punishment for simply not believing, don't you think?

That is something to worry about — that there are people who can't imagine living for the common good and who feel they must believe in eternal punishment else they will do things that they think we all should fear.

The basic error Joseph Bottum makes is in thinking that there is no level of justice between an entirely temporal punishment and a punishment that fully and perfectly satisfies the universal demand for justice built into the fabric of existence itself.

For most of my life I thought that the punishment that mankind and the rest of creation suffered for Adam and Eve's one act of disobedience in the garden seemed incredibly harFor most of my life I thought that the punishment that mankind and the rest of creation suffered for Adam and Eve's one act of disobedience in the garden seemed incredibly harfor Adam and Eve's one act of disobedience in the garden seemed incredibly harsh.

He reported sarcastically that «there» were some members [at the Constitutional Convention] so unfashionable as to think that a belief of the existence of a Deity, and of a state of future rewards and punishments would be some security for the good conduct of our rulers, and that in a Christian country it would be at least decent to hold out some distinction between the professors of Christianity and downright infidelity or paganism» (IV: 642) This chapter also includes excerpts from state constitutions that imposed religious tests on government officers (Delaware, for example.

Weird that Christians think that the hurricane is sent as punishment for sins, and then they get punished all over again in hell afterward.

Social diseases were also violent and fearful and were thought to be nothing less than punishment from God for violating the moral code.

Christianity has lost — more, I think, for better than for worse — its primal negative sanction: it can not, outside of Fundamentalist circles, scare people into faith by threats of eternal punishment.

I took my punishment and have waited so long for things to be right and I finally thought it was.

Even, at times when I truly begin to feel intensely guilty for my thoughts and fear punishment, I remind myself that God even has mercy towards Satan, the very enemy of God, by not utterly and completely destroying his existence but given him free will to operate in this world and to do evil.

I too, have dealt with blasphemous thoughts against the Holy Spirit, so much, in fact, that I actually began to resent the Holy Spirit for even existing, because the very mention of him in the Bible would fill my mind with terror over blaspheming Him and thereby fearing unforgiveness and eternal punishment in hell.

It's likely that many diseases could have been cured long ago, if not for the religious who think that disease is a punishment from god.

«Until we know the power of divine grace, we read in the Bible concerning eternal punishment, and we think it is too heavy and too hard, and we are apt to kick against it, and find out some heretic or other who teaches us another doctrine; but when the soul is really quickened by divine grace, and made to feel the weight of sin, it thinks the bottomless pit none too deep, and the punishment of hell none too severe for sin such as it has committed.

There is not a bit of difference between them and the people who think that the shooting was some sort of punishment for taking god out of schools.

There are of course further issues with capital punishment, like the number of innocent people who have been executed by our gov «t. I would think anyone on the «sanct!ty of life» bandwagon would necessarily be against the death penalty for that reason alone.

God thought a fitting punishment for making fun of hid baldness was to send bears to maul no fewer than 42 children.

On Monday, Ishihara had told reporters, «I think (the disaster) is tembatsu (divine punishment), although I feel sorry for disaster victims,» according to Kyodo News, which translated Ishihara's remarks from Japanese.

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.

I'd say the only real difference is at least Iran is overt with their actions and have swift punishments, I think it's far crueler to hold someone for years, give them appeals, wheel them into court with the IV sticking in their arm and then go through with it anyways.

The scientists involved then asked some of their subjects to do things that might change their beliefs, like write a paper arguing for the other side» the article mentions capital punishment» and found that people tend to change their beliefs and at the same time change what they thought were God's beliefs.

Is it possible and after reading about it i kept on thinking «i will sell to my soul for 20 carats get out shut up i will never ever sell my soul to you oh god please help me and this is continuing for a few days i am afraid that i have sold my sold to the devil have i please help and still i think god's way of allowing others to hate him us much worse even you know and can easily think think about much better punishments like rebirth after being punished for all the sins in life and i am feeling put on the sin of those who committed the unforgiviable sin (the early 0th century priests) imagine them burning in hell fire till now for 2000 years hopelessly screaming to god for help i can't belive the mercy of god are they forgiven even though commiting this sin keans going to hell for entinity thank you and congralutions i think the 7 year tribulation periodvis over in 18th century the great commect shooting and in 19th century the sun became dark for a day and moon was not visible on the earth but now satun has the domination over me those who don't belive in jesus crist i used to belive in him but now after knowing a lot in science it is getting harharder to belive in him even though i know that he exsists and i only belived in him not that he died for me in the cross and also not for eternal life and i still sin as much as i used to before but only a little reduced and i didn't accept satan as my master but what can i do because those who knowingly sin a lot and don't belive in jesus christ has to accept satan as their master because he only teaches us that even though he is evil he gives us complete freedom but thr followers of jesus and god only have freedom because they can sin only with in a limit and no more but recive their reward after their life in heaven but the followers of satun have to go to hell butbi don't want to go to hell and be ruled by the cruel tryant but still why didn't god destroy satun long way before and i think it was also Adam and eve's fault also they could have blamed satan and could have also get their punishment reduced but they didn't and today we are seeing the result

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.

To Ken Margo: I am totally agree with you about this evil thing going around the earth... this evil minded people is there everywhere regardless of faith... that was not what i was trying to say... my point was to be able to recognize the One True God who is Unseen and who has no partners as He is not in need of any partners but we the creation is in need of Him... thats all... I wish I could do something to stop all these taking place around the earth... I think we human fear the fed laws more than we fear the laws of our Creator, for example not to associate any partner with Him, taking the life of others, drug dealing, human trafficking, believing in hereafter and so on... I remember a story that I was talking with one of my friends... I was telling him look we all obey the law of the land so much like for example when we drive and no one moves even an inch when there is a school bus stop to pick / drop kids as it is a fed laws but when it comes to the laws of our Creator, we don't care... like having physical relationship outside of marriage and many more... then he said something nice... he said that its because we see the consequence of breaking the law of the land but we do not see the punishment of hereafter even though it is mentioned very details in Quran, it even gives pictures of hereafter....

The author of Timothy seems to think that women should submit to men, because patriarchy IS the curse received as a PUNISHMENT for the fall, not as a natural result.

Bobinator: I don't think it's so much about «blame» since heaven isn't a reward for virtue and hell is not a punishment for vice.

None of the translations you posted have anything to do with stoning as a punishment for adultery... The article did explicitly say the Quran does not mention stoning, but I think we all know what it is referring to.

The writer seems to think patriarchy exists as a PUNISHMENT from God for eating of the fruit, as opposed to a natural result of human evil.

Janet i think what you have said is quite insightful and you are right and there is another meaning to Go and sin no more and that speaks to me of repentence making a decision to Follow Christ the one who saves.The words Go and sin no more is referring to a continual ongoinging process of living for Christ rather than dying in our sins daily there is no comparison.I thought that was awesome pointing the law back to all of us for we all have sinned and the judgement is death but Jesus came that we might have life in its fullness.Many people only see the adulterer when she portrays who we are as sinners that he came to save all of us sin is sin and the punishment is death so again you are quite right people use the scriptures to judge and that was never Jesus intention.I hope that helps when someone uses that scripture incorrectly and you can you use it like Jesus did to point it back at those who judge i hope that helps.brentnz

If you believe eternal punishment for finite «crimes» is ok on one hand and God is loving on the other, then I think you may be confused.

Correctly, we ought to speak of the Descent into Hades, for whatever this line of thought actually came to mean, it began by meaning, not that Jesus descended into the place of punishment, but that Jesus descended into the place where according to Jewish thought all the dead go.

(177) And let not the disbelievers think that Our postponing of their punishment is good for them.

Christianity has bad morals at its core, for example Christians somehow think it is o.k. to let someone else take their punishment.

Until then, what do you think this view of divine punishment does for how you think about God, and how you interact with other people?

I'm not opposed to disciplining our sexual desires any more than I am opposed to keeping our food intake at a healthy level; but I really don't think that the draconian punishments are going to have the transformational affects that we are hoping for from grace.

The reason for the plausibility of the orthodox formula — all suffering is punishment for sin — was that, at the beginning of its use, the Hebrews were thinking of justice in relation to the social group rather than to the individual.

(E.g., Judith 16:17) As for the permanence of this torture chamber, while the Greek word, a i w u i o (may mean age - long, and the corresponding Hebrew word means the same, there is no clear reason for supposing that Jesus entertained any mitigating thought about what he called «eternal punishment,» (Matthew 25:46) or saw any end to its quenchless fire.

I'm not a big fan of capital punishment, but I have thought it would put a dent in the economist and investment advisor population, not to mention giving pause for thought to followers of Mr. Camping.

So, JIL, how come you and your lot and your sky fairy think eternal torture is fair punishment for mild «sins» in a finite life, «sins» such as reasonable doubt?

5:10 ------- By the way, I don't think Ananias and Sapphira would have considered themselves a loved child of God ---- that is unless you believe God killed them as punishment for lying to the Holy Spirit, just so they would go right on into paradise?