Sentences with phrase «religious figures use»

I'm always a little amused when religious figures use science to give credence to their faith, but that's another debate altogether!

Not exact matches

Behaviour considered idolatrous or potentially idolatrous may include the creation of any type of image of the deity, or of other figures of religious significance such as prophets, saints, and clergy, the creation of images of any person or animal at all, and the use of religious symbols, or secular ones.

Dr. Gary North, a major figure among the Dominionists, clarifies their goal and tactics: «We must use the doctrine of religious liberty... until we train up a generation of people who know that there is no religious neutrality, no neutral law, no neutral education, and no neutral civil government.

For the years 1987 through 1995, according to the methodology used in Giving USA 1997, AAFRC updated its figure for religious giving by using denominational data to show the change in giving (by percentage) from year to year.

Its nice to see people using their science books, and Pedro its nice to see you've read some science as well as religious books, I would just like to say that no one has actually figured out how the first cell came into existence billions of years ago.

Therefore, even when religious programs are on semiprime time, the number of viewers per set is probably no more than about 1.8 — the viewers - per - household figure widely used by the rating firms themselves.

But almost all religious programming is scheduled during fringe or even deep - fringe time, when the figure of 1.4 persons per household is usually used by the broadcasting industry.

So basically, Russ, you dragged MLK into this because he's a religious figure who stood up for human rights, and you are trying to use that to defend men who use their religion to try to deny human rights to others.

Typically, these lower figures are used when religious activity in Britain is compared to the U.S., which means that churchgoing in America appears to be three or four times greater than in Britain.

Astarte (for convenience» sake, I'll use the Hellenized version of her name) was a key figure in the cult of sacred sexuality that was central to the religious life of the ancient Semites.

Likewise this phenomenon has drawn much attention from the mainstream media, who seem eager to point out the apparent discord that religious believers would flock to such a controversial figure, one who flaunts his past moral failings, publicly uses indecent language, and «isn't sure» if he's ever asked God for forgiveness.

The man clearly isn't Mormon and doesn't believe in God, he's just using it (as many so - called «religious» figures do) to drum up controversy and thus give him more attention.

We all use the figures 10, 100, 1,000, and 10,000 as handy approximations for particular periods of time and these all occur frequently in the Bible, as they do in other religious traditions.

The use of mythic figures to distinguish individual societies has continued, though many of the figures have long since lost any social or religious power.

Instead of using the kind of deus ex machina embodied in a formal religious figure that Percy favors in his other novels, we have instead Binx's Catholic family, most notably the saintly Lonnie, that stands for «wise answers.»

If you use the image of a guru, religious figure, or master, whatever energy they have will be with you.

Following the images move to the Convent of Nossa Senhora da Esperança (Convent of Our Lady of Hope), under the inspiration of the Venerable Mother Teresa da Anunciada the figure was used in religious processions that snaked through the streets of the city, stopping at each convent (and former - convent) in the city.

The public artwork has been the subject of heated debate since it was first proposed, with some figures debating the use of public money to fund the presentation of religious imagery.

Look for his coral - like shoe sculpture, built over years using tiny plastic beads, and the mesmerizing processional of religious figures, made from pressed yarn or beads, that double as costumes in his performance works.

For many centuries religious / mythological figures in particular — for instance, Adam and Eve — were used in painting as a way to represent the naked body, usually a controversial, prohibited subject.

Used as backdrops to spray paint doors, gates, grilles, railings, furniture, tools, religious figures, cooking utensils or windows - the workshop's walls accumulate layers and layers of paint residue.

Due to relation between the colors, which name the expo, «Preto e Branco» reveals a symbiosis of different languages coming from the peculiarities of each particular creative world — the abstract forms and the tendency to use the lines of 2501 as well as the realistic traces and the strong presence of religious figures of Ozmo.

Walking around any city or small town in Latin America, you'll usually find at least one of these laying on the street somewhere: small religious metal figures used as offerings or tokens of gratitude to saints.

What the Court did not perhaps envision is what transpired in R. v. Welsh, where the communication was made to a police officer posing as a religious figure, who pressured those involve to adopt the faith, and then used this believe to extract a confession.

It said this had been achieved by «organising anti-election rallies on the day of polling in opposition strongholds» and using «local religious figures to maximise their appeal especially among the spiritual, rural communities».