Sentences with phrase «religious hierarchy»

The higher authority being the self - appointed religious hierarchy?

There are enough unusual names and complicated religious hierarchies in God of War that it's a good idea to turn on subtitles, at least at first.

Their enthusiastic support of expensive, lie - based, unnecessary massive violence (e.g., the War in Iraq) directly contradicts the teachings of Jesus, as the Vatican and most Protestant religious hierarchies have repeatedly pointed out.

For the present, CPA 2004 shields religious hierarchies from the embarrassing discovery that not all congregations share their negative view of same - sex relations.

You are a loyalist to your religious hierarchy... you are no more «in the light» than an atheist.

These divisions are painful enough in the religious sphere, as orthodox and progressive factions vie for dominance in religious hierarchies, seminaries, and congregations.

No wonder the religious hierarchy hid child abuse.

I did not see any religious hierarchy.

Islam has no ordained clergy, no religious hierarchy with authority over their fellow Muslims.

This is unavoidable when you have each religion claiming to be God's chosen ones and doctrines that set forth a religious hierarchy.

He or she is unable to move to other types of parishes within the larger church, move up the religious hierarchy or to other jobs.

People are disentangling themselves from the controlling aspect of the religious hierarchy.

When the state holds powerful control over the religious hierarchy and other public institutions, popular religion may become a nursery for political opposition.

Consequently, one may speak of «bureaucratization» as a master trend in societal evolution and yet recognize that the specific manifestations of this trend in religious hierarchies and in government agencies may be quite different.

Authority rests with the community not with a «Pope» or religious hierarchy.

The fastest growth is occurring in noncreedal congregations with little or no religious hierarchy — that is, among Pentecostals.

Hitler used religion to con the masses, but doesn't the religious hierarchy and governments not do the same thing today?

American Catholics have often lived with tension between their national character — a feisty don't - tell - me - what - to - think independence — and a religious hierarchy that struggles to contain a set of shared rules and beliefs.»

Not the organized structure of Buildings, Religious Hierarchy and offices.

The society was becoming increasingly dominated by a religious hierarchy in which cult specialists or priests controlled much of the industry of the people.