Sentences with phrase «religious followers of»

Ironic isn't it — the biggest mass murders in history perpetrated by the most religious followers of a religion promoting turning the other cheek...

Is it EVER anybody other than the religious followers of competing beliefs?

@Chad «ok, so you have given up on maintaining that Babylonians Romans, Persians, Ottomans ever had any «common practice of destroying the gods, and killing the religious followers of the conquered indigenous people (don't forget, Christianity arose as a sect of Judaism, in an occupied Roman territory (Judea).

I can understand why there is so much confusion among religious followers of the Bible, and that's simply because far too many of you accept it as truth from God himself.

we shall create an alter just as elijah (one of god's chosen) i shall stand watching 400 + religious followers of god pray and pray for as long as they wish, days, weeks, hell even a full year.

If you are a religious follower of trends, ballerina shoes are a wardrobe essential.

Not exact matches

Why don't you learn what the various religions actually teach instead of drawing your conclusions from the misguided «professed followers» who simply use their religious beliefs to make their actions acceptable to the dumb masses.

The religious leaders of this cult are in control — they make the rules and dictate what their followers must do and not do.

The FACT that the US is destined to support their «prophecy» stems from self - educated, self - appointed fundamentalist religious authorities who interpreted the sections of a book that seem to be easily misinterpreted by their largely uneducated followers.

TitforTat, you express the heart of Jesus better than most religious followers I know.

My great question of the day is why does the God of the religious right and his followers seem ubiquitously obsessed with other people's sex lives?

I do find it really interesting that from the view point of some religious followers even a single point they can pick as inconsistent with their stories invalidates the entire scientific method.

In early 2000, followers of the religious movement perished in a devastating fire and a series of poisonings and killings that were either a group suicide or an orchestrated mass murder by group leaders after their predictions of the apocalypse failed to come about.

That there have «only» been 75 - 100 million people killed for religious reasons is hardly compelling evidence of God's power to produce moral followers.

For example, there are people in all religions who use it to convince themselves they have evidence their religious beliefs are correct, even when their beliefs conflict with those of other religions, whose followers also claim they have evidence their beliefs are correct.

Our experience is that our churches are filled with what we call religious people, but only some of them are Jesus followers.

Ay follower of Jesus will be called many things (as He said would happen), so being called «religious» is hardly surprising.

«Motivated in large part by their religious traditions of protecting the vulnerable and serving «the least of these,» as Jesus instructed his followers to do in the Gospel of Matthew,» writes Eric Marrapodi, «World Relief and other Christian agencies like the Salvation Army are stepping up efforts and working with law enforcement to stem the flow of human trafficking, which includes sex trafficking and labor trafficking.»

While Jesus resisted the allure of power and privilege, it has long been a snare to his followers, and the Religious Right sold its soul long ago.

The same right to religious liberty that should protect followers of Christ should also protect followers of Moses, Muhammad, Krishna and Buddha, as well as those who believe there is no god to follow in the first place.

I proclaim that it is more tolerant to refrain from well - deserved violence in the face of greater provocations than is experienced by delusional religious followers.

What made St. Francis so influential was his extraordinary originality: the son of a rich businessman who renounced his wealth and slept in pigstys while retaining the courtliness and gentility that were noble attributes of his era; the anti-establishment figure who founded a great religious institution; the man of radical poverty whose followers were not permitted (even if they had wanted) to imitate his utter rejection of worldly goods; the man of the Bible who never owned a complete one; the author of the first great literary work in Italian dialect, the «Canticle of the Sun,» who was steeped in the jongleur tradition of French poetry and song; the naïf who moved the heart and enriched the religious imagination of that great realist and exponent of papal power, Innocent III; the child of the age of Crusades who sought not the conquest of the Muslims but their conversion.

After some phenomenal successes with the help of the frontier tribesmen of Peshawar and adjoining districts, the movement suffered a serious defeat due to the betrayal of Sayyid Ahmad by his tribal followers and the disunity of the party caused by minor religious and juristic differences.

He stirred up controversy in the religious community when his followers no longer observed the cherished tradition of fasting.

The movement was very popular because of its religious color, military discipline, the habits of simple living it inculcated, the unconditioned obedience to leaders which it enjoined upon its followers, and its utter disregard of rank and riches in the enforcement of its discipline.

Conceding to believers that they can redefine the term «religion» to encompass «atheism», or whatever other ideas they wish to encompass within the word, if that suits their purposes in trying to put anyone who doesn't believe in their god or any god into the same category as themselves, grants to them the opportunity to dismiss anyone who doesn't believe in their god as holding a religious belief no more valid then their own and to classify you as just another follower of a «false religion» unlike their own, which is the «true» religion.

Religious freaks appear in world history FIRST and are the original offenders - and in particular, followers of religions based on the belligerent Jewish «god,» going around telling everyone to «turn or burn,» «If you don't convert we'll torture or kill you,» or you'll be an outcast, etc., etc..

Although Egypt is entirely Sunni and most of the people are followers of the Hanafi school, Azhar teaches the four schools without distinction, and the religious courts pass judgment according to the religious school of the defendant.

It was only after he found fame as an adult that his followers, like those of any religious or cult leader, felt the need to embellish his birth to supernatural status and fit it into to the expectations of the people they were trying to convince or influence.

Or, if in a position of religious leadership, they fear that those who ask questions will raise doubt in the minds of their followers.

I'll start: When people ask me about my religious affiliation, I say that I am a follower of Jesus Christ.

Islam found its way into the African continent through three channels: through the merchants who came from Egypt, the Maghrib, and Zanzibar in the east; through followers of Sufi orders and graduates of the Islamic schools of Fez, Zaitouna, and Cairo; and through the intermarriage of Muslim merchants and religious leaders with African women.

Not only that, but you assume that Calvin was the bearer of all truth, but you and the rest of his followers can't even all agree on what that exactly was, so that makes each Calvin follower equally wrong, all based on the ramblings of a random religious agitator who lived centuries ago.

Religious freedom remains under threat in China, especially for followers of the Dalai Lama and Muslims in the west of the country, the U.S. State Department said Wednesday in a major report.

Prosecutors said the 15 followers, at Mullet's instruction, shaved the beards and cut the hair of Amish people who had left his group over various religious disagreements.

those arent christians on that premise you cant relate christianity to any atrocities, because it was not administered by the Holy Spirit, only authentic non religious endwellment is what a saved person is and they areent the leaders or followers of demonic evils, opressions, and carnal endeavors

that's all religion can give seeing anything of substance can't be proven by religious leaders or their followers; the reason for the whole «wait and see» thing.

I used to think that CNN was just playing into the hands of religious followers by having a belief blog... now, with articles like this one, it seems more likely they are subtly making fun of them by showing the absurd side & how religion evolves to meet the needs of the current religion industry to keep butts in seats.

In Religions, Values, and Peak Experiences, social psychologist Abraham Maslow noted how the great religions of the world developed around the religious experiences of the prophet and his or her early followers.

I am now convinced that most of American Christianity is a cultural practice, routed mostly in traditional affiliation than a true conversion, a weekly religious exercise, no different than what the Imam demands of the followers of the Muslin faith.

Religious fact (and I use the term extremely loosely here) comes from the deity who seems to expect the adoration and unquestioning loyalty of their followers.

He will examine the role of intimacy to the first, second, and third power (examples: the circle of Jesus» followers, the renewed intimacy on the basis of the experience of the sixteenth century Reformers, the Pietist group of the seventeenth century, etc.) As far as the constitution of religious groups is concerned we find a variety of principles.

We have seen a lot of religious crooks and pedo pastors on CNN, but those gullible followers still believe them.

The systematization of religious dogmas in Islam was a task undertaken by the followers of Muhammad when the need for the establishment of a Muslim theology was felt.

Clearly, it is within the canon of most religious traditions themselves to regard their followers as a pilgrim people whose tents must always, in a sense, be in motion through the wilderness.

Jesus» strategy,» claims Crossan, «implicitly for himself and explicitly for his followers, was the combination of free healing and common eating, a religious and economic egalitarianism that negated alike and at once the hierarchical and patronal normalcies of Jewish religion and Roman power.

Fundamentalism, he said, «represents a mind - set confined within one Prophet, one Book, a single way of worship» which by nature led to the «concept of believers going to heaven and nonbelievers going to hell, with a religious duty cast upon its followers to convert the rest by any means whatsoever» (Indian Express?

It's amazing how religious folks especially followers of islam get away with playing the victim card.

One can think of religious restructuring as partially motivated enterprise in which organizational leaders and followers produce ideas and actions within given institutional constraints.

Oh, now that makes sense... All followers of religion are culpable for any religious crime.