Sentences with phrase «religious leaders do»

He questioned why religious leaders do not rise up to slam such religious impositions when terrorist groups use religion as a basis to enhance or sanitize their religion.

Stories in the newspapers about religious leaders do not offend or persuade us simply because we bring to them certain educational levels and political inclinations; they offend or persuade because something in the stories signals to us that the reported event violates certain standards of common decency or that it can be understood within some familiar framework.

The overwhelming majority of religious leaders do not touch the subject and when they do, it is often to simply explain some complex interpretation.

and on that note... I wonder how many pastors and other religious leaders don't really believe in religion.

Gil you have asked some very good questions why does bad things happen in the world i personally do nt know God did nt explain to Job either why he had to suffer.What i do know is that God desires that none of us should perish but that all would have eternal life in him through Jesus Christ.This world will one day pass away and the real world will be reborn so our focus as christians is on whats to come and being a witness in the here and now.Both good and bad happens to either the righteous or the sinner so what are we to make of that.What we do know is that God will set all things right at the appointed time the wicked will be judged and the righteous will be rewarded for there faith isnt that enough reason for us to believe.Free will is only a reality if we can choose between good and bad but our hearts are deceitfully wicked we naturally are inclined toward sin that is another reason whyt we need to be saved from ourselves so what are we to do.For me Christ died and rose again that is a fact witnessed by over 500 people that were alive at the time and was recorded by historians how many other religious leaders do you know that did that or did the miracles that Jesus did.As far as the bible is concerned much of the archelogical evidence has proven to be correct and many of prophetic words spoken many hundreds of years ago have come to pass including both the birth and the death of Jesus.Interested in what philosophy you are believing in if other than a faith in Jesus Christ so how does that philosophy give you the assurance that you are saved.Its really simple with christianity we just have to believe in Jesus Christ.brentnz

Turns out the religious leaders do not share Jesus» flair for the dramatic, and so they challenge him, asking who gave him the authority to do these things.

Better that our religious leaders do it for us.

I simply mean that following the teachings of all the religious leaders do not end up being the same thing do not lead to the same implications for life on the planet in the years to come.

Unfortunately, religious leaders do not seem to recognize the importance of zakat, and political leaders in the Muslim world do not seem to have much interest in religious teaching, especially in almsgiving.

If profound religious leaders do not provide these, they will be sought in simplistic answers;

Unfortunately, since most religious leaders don't have uteruses, they've been all the more easily deceived.

Back in the day, the Jewish religious leaders didn't think it was cool that Jesus called Himself the Messiah and God and His followers did (and still do) the same.

This was not because the religious leaders didn't know who the man was, for they had caught the woman in the very act of adultery.

Seventy percent said opposition from religious leaders doesn't impact their position on this issue.

The planted fake religious leader did not interfere with his freedom to worship or express himself spiritually.

Not exact matches

«I don't want the IRS looming over our faith leaders in the community as they express their religious freedom,» said Texas Rep. Kevin Brady, the highest - ranking Republican working on the bill, told reporters when the bill was introduced.

How about we have the government kill all the religious leaders that do not up hold the true meaning of God.

Isn't that kind of what Jesus did whenever He spoke, especially to the religious leaders of the time?

Other religious leaders regularly note that «the love of money is the root of all kinds of evil» and that «a man's life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions.»

Inquisition: The Persecution and Prosecution of the Reverend Sun Myung Moon by Carlton Sherwood Regnery Gateway, 705 pages, $ 29.95 Carlton Sherwood is a Pulitzer Prize - winning investigative reporter who has done a number of exposes of corrupt religious leaders in recent years.

But I do think that black religious leaders have a responsibility, if they can not support gay marriage, to at least support and fight for the secular rights of gay people.

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

Too bad most of the «religious» leaders in this country don't care about spirituality.

Even the gospels portray Jesus chastising the religious leaders, not for portioning their dill and other spices for tithing, but for doing that without showing compassion to the poor.

I do trust in the collective wisdom of most others — I say most because I absolutely do not trust any religious leaders — they are all delusional snake oil salesmen.

I would go for some good old boys from the USA, like Jim Jones, David Koresh, and Marshall Applewhite.They were strong religious leaders and they got their followers to do some pretty jaw dropping things.

A contemporary of Jesus Hillel a religious leader was reportedly the author of:» «That which is hateful to you, do not do to your fellow.

Plenty of religious leaders are doing that every day in the US, aren't they?

And these people have been taught for so long to take their religious leaders at their word and that their religion means more than anything that they don't care whether the person is lying or not.

If I answer these does it make me «religious» or a «leader»?

And especially after the Noachian Flood, did false religion take a leap, with false religious doctrines and practices such as the trinity, immortality of the soul, that God torments people in a «hellfire», the establishment of a clergy class, the teaching of «personal salvation» as more important than the sanctification of God's name of Jehovah (Matt 6:9), the sitting in a church while a religious leader preaches a sermon, but the «flock» is not required to do anything more, except put money when the basket is passed.

Consider the methods described herein the degradation of youth through $ ex and drugs, the se - du - ction of this nation's media, educational, and religious inst - i - tutions, the discrediting of her leaders and decide tor yourself whether or not they are the very means that have been employed to accomplish these ends.

Long before Obama we had no problem with Satan at lease religious leaders and Glen Beck didn't.

I personally think religion should not be a factor.No one should ask the candidates what their religious views are and they should never mention them.Their religious preferences have absolutely no effect on what type of leader they will be.Unless they are some kind of a religious fanatic.I think it's time for an atheist.There was not a Christian president for over the first 50 years of our nations existence.And, I do not think there has been one since.If you look it up you will find not one of our founding fathers were Christian.Not even Jefferson.I know he wrote the Jefferson bible, but, that's just because he, like the other founding fathers, did not believe Jesus to be of divine decent.So, he kept his philosophy while removing all the mystical and dogmatic concepts.

They didn't appear to the religious leaders in Bethlehem.

I like the new pope a lot — I am not even a christian but he strikes me as a gentle caring and honest person who is going to do good for humanity — wish all the religious leaders could take a page out of his book.

The religious leaders have done next to nothing in this regard, except at times to be teach their members to be intolerant of others, especially those who have no regard for the Bible, such as atheists or agnostics.

I have been saying that the leaders on conservative right who espouse their religious credentials tend to do the exact opposite of the teachings of Jesus.

They look at the context of Matthew 12 and notice that it is the Jewish Religious leaders Jesus was talking to, and they did not accept Jesus as the Messiah, nor listen to the Holy Spirit's testimony about Him.

But leaders of the group say that gay Christians do not need to be celibate to retain their religious identify.

I was involved with the Children of God in my late teens - in Texas — me and my ex was married and exploring a lot of religious groups — but I could see how wicked they were when they started separating the wives from their husbands and drinking and the leaders using drugs - so I left abruptly after 2 weeks - if I didn't know the WORD of GOD I would have been a fool of fools.

Last week, another 300 Muslim religious leaders from about 30 countries did much the same.

In interviews with CNN, religious leaders from Newtown, the site of last year's school shooting where 20 children and six adults were killed, said that a recent gun control agreement does not do enough to fight gun violence, leading one rabbi to doubt whether Congress was actually working for the American people.

If anyone else wants to come here and «apologize» please don't embarrass yourself, or insult the emotional intelligence of the very bright and empathic people here, many who have faced real abuse at the hands of religious leaders.

The Air you breath is One of the HOLYSPIRIT forms so ALL you have done in secret saying no one can see or hear me, HE has and HE is also known as the SPIRIT of TRUTH, all you religious leaders had time to repent for your sins against JESUS since 2005 you know when GOD THE FATHER exposed HIM in the flesh on Earth, the door is shut.

His only judgments came against the religious leaders who were judged not for their sins but, because they lived in continual judgment of any who did not act just like they did and because they failed to extend grace and love to those who needed it the most.

Although both of these movements created militant groups in which the leader claimed temporal and spiritual power, they did not leave any appreciable marks on Muslim religious thought.

At the «informal» meeting, Hollande did not comment directly on the concerns expressed by the religious leaders about the draft law, according to Le Figaro.

History shows that clearly, just as many religious leaders killed non-believers and those who didn't believe like them.

Most so called» religious wars» were nothing more than atheistic leaders trying in vain to use God for there immmoral purposes and had nothing to do with True faith at all.