Sentences with phrase «religious leaders made»

Your problems are that the old religious leaders made a man into what they wanted not what he was.

DO NOT insist on religious leaders making their case by reasoned argument, but by bald assertion or authoritarian claims which are much easier to invent and promote.

DO insist on religious leaders making their case by reasoned argument not by bald assertion or authoritarian claims.

Not exact matches

«I will make absolutely certain religious orders like the Little Sisters of Poor are not bullied by the federal government because of their religious beliefs,» Trump wrote in October in a letter to the leaders of Roman Catholic organizations.

They make people think that only the Religious leaders know what is and this is the misleading as ordinary people can know what God Is.

For now there are many religious sects / denominations due to man - made doctrines and people who believe but are too lazy to read the word and seek God for themselves so they hook themselves to a sect / denomination and are taught the leaders belief system instead of the pure word.

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

In extracting «insights from sources as varied as Greek mythology, Catholic mysticism and fairy tales like Cinderella», Mr Rohr has followed in the steps of the religious leaders of Jesus day, who «made the word of God invalid because of your tradition».

Some Religious Leaders even made it a point to say, «You can be Good Catholic but still not be a good (true) Christian.

In remarks to Croatia's religious, political, business, and cultural leaders in Zagreb's National Theater, the Pope refined into six digestible propositions the case he has been making about religion - and - society ever since his election to the papacy in 2005: 1.

They used the lessons of how to live and how not to live handed down from their faith, parents and religious leaders to make choices.

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

The book is dedicated «To those religious leaders who refuse to be pushed to the margins and out of public life,» and with ten winning profiles ranging from Rabbi Daniel Lapin to T. D. Jakes to Elder Dallin H. Oaks, it makes sure they'll remain squarely in the mix.

Though there were dozens of royal rulers and religious leaders within a few miles of Bethlehem, God chose to make the angelic proclamation to people without power, riches, and authority — to poor shepherds in the cold, dark, night.

One of the plaintiffs, Episcopal Bishop Henry Parsley Jr., said Tuesday that religious leaders were worried over a provision in the law that will make transporting or harboring unauthorized immigrants a crime.

Four years later, Obama hired religious outreach staffers like DuBois for his presidential campaign and made a point of meeting with Christian Right leaders who'd never before heard from a Democratic presidential nominee.

In later years it served as a center of Muslim orthodoxy, but it also created religious leaders who did not hesitate to make common cause with the Hindus in an effort to wrest power from the British.

But religious leaders spend almost as much time making you feel guilty about actually thinking, than they do raising money from the non-thinkers.

These and subsequent «heresies» made leaders somewhat wary of unbridled religious experiences and often led them to discourage the use of some of the gifts of the Spirit.

For this reason, some persons who might make good religious leaders are lost to the profession simply because they made early decisions to take other paths.

Whereas the first generation of Latin American liberation theologians was made up primarily of Roman Catholic priests and other male religious leaders, today there are many voices speaking from the perspective of gender or incorporating the rich symbols inherited from a pre-Columbian or an African heritage.

The «presumption» has tended to give theologians and religious leaders a bloated sense of their own role in decision - making about war and peace.

It's as if these religious leaders are mocking everything their «savior» supposedly said about poverty while still making themselves out to be the authority on the bible.

The power is in the religious leaders who have made you succomb to their twisted, sick and destructive beliefs.

Religious leaders that attended the meeting said the president spent more than an hour with them, and after making a few remarks at the top of the meeting he let each group discuss their priorities and problems with comprehensive immigration reform.

All through the NT we see Christ reserving his harshest rebukes, strongest words for the «religious» leaders of the day who oppressed the people and made numerous burdensome demands on them turning them into «twice the son of hell» that the same religious leaders were.

First, I am currently writing commentary on Luke 6:1 - 10, where Jesus has Sabbath day controversies with the Jewish religious leaders, and I was hoping the book could shed some light on the statement by Jesus that the Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath.

What makes this psychology so prevalent is that those who have the power - agents of government, parents, teachers, business managers, and religious leaders, who also define what's right or wrong - totally support it.

An impartial reading of the Gospels, apart from the conditioning of an excessively juridical and rationalistic theological tradition, makes it unmistakeably clear that it was not God who demanded the death of Jesus; but the Jewish religious leaders and the imperial Roman government whose hierarchial power was threatened by the Gospel Message Jesus was preaching.

Yes, this was evidence that God also was upset about what this man named Jesus was teaching, and had seen fit to make Him a public spectacle in the sight of all so that nobody would ever again seek to challenge the teachings of the religious leaders or the traditions of the Jewish people.

Today, we still see our share of religious violence and inconsistent or abusive behavior by prominent religious leaders, which rightly makes us shudder, if not roil with anger.

And we should make no mistake — we are just as culpable as the religious leaders of Jesus day.

One can not be a member of one faith and claim that a person of a completely different faith is their religious leader... it makes no sense.

To which almost every religious leader said that those types of discussions might make their church attendees feel «uncomfortable» and a few admitted because it would drive people away who they count on for larger donations.

In either event, religious leaders and FBOs need to make informed decisions, neither rushing haphazardly into new public partnerships without weighing the pros and cons, nor simply dismissing such collaborations without any thought about what their social responsibilities might be.

And though Stalin executed priests and other clergy that he perceived as a threat to his power, later when he, like many political leaders, saw benefit to be gained by using religious beliefs to enhance his own power, he made an alliance with the Russian Orthodox Church, just as Putin has done today.

Religions are what we make out from them to be... if we what them to be religions for loving and caring we could... or otherwise we can make out of them to be religions for hating and hitting others as well we could... So really it depends on what our religious leaders popes, imams, rabbis call for... but if those managed to control theirs who will control the non religious??

Despite formal separation of church and state, the effect of this arrangement over time has been to covertly control religious leaders by making it appear that the institutions they lead are the bulwark of democracy.

The Pope made his comments on Wednesday during a previously scheduled meeting with a Palestinian delegation of religious and intellectual leaders.

Then you wouldn't be following these GOP Taliban or your religious leaders who only care about how much money THEY can make.

In addition, religious leaders often have the stature to advocate and negotiate with the most senior national decision - makers as countries make tough decisions on how to allocate scarce resources for health.

Since mainstream religions don't control language, their religious authorities simply can't exercise the degree of power over membership that cult leaders can when they make an active effort to reduce the critical capacities of their adherents.

I have a dream that multitudes of God's people will no longer tolerate those man - made systems that have put them in religious bondage and under a pile of guilt, duty, condemnation, making them slaves to authoritarian systems and leaders.

You might even hurt millions, or billions (and its just plain dumb luck, as you can see from the war mongering and stupidity of «religious» political leaders, like McCain, et al, who have said it would be a dandy idea to nuke Iran, that the body count has been higher due to people with lots of weapons, and countries full of people, who where duped into following insane people, because they where tired of the failure of priests to make the world better.)

In view of all this the charge must be made against the radical group of religious leaders, whom we call Humanists, that they have failed to do justice to the fundamental feature in the phenomenon of religion.

The Jewish religious system and political scene had become corrupt, full of power - hungry priests and religious leaders who stole from the poor and the widows to make themselves rich so they could bribe political officials for special privileges and positions.

Only those religious leaders are not making enough efforts with concerned to settle disputes what ever they are...

As far as I can see, most of their critics were religious leaders who really didn't want anything ruled as being unlikely, simply because it would make their work of holding the NT up as God's inspired Word more difficult.

In general, Democratic voters seem less concerned with a candidate's faith life, though more who believed Clinton was religious were likely to think she would also be a good president (69 %) than those who didn't believe she was religious but would make a good leader (54 %).

If I started a secular club, and offered all the attractions that are offered at any mega-church, only without the religious teaching and preaching, and I, as club leader, made sure the members knew that I expect them to pay at least 10 % of their income to the club, and I was getting very, very wealthy as a result, I bet the vast majority of Christians who abstain from thinking badly about Benny Hinn, Jerry Falwell, Joyce Meyer, etc, would have no problem at all criticizing me, just because I am not a servant of the Lord.