Sentences with phrase «religious leaders say»

Cincinnati's most influential business and religious leaders say they won't support future school tax levies unless the district superintendent gets more authority to make changes to raise lagging test scores.

Although that embryo may only contain four or five cells, some religious leaders say that destroying it is the equivalent of taking a human life.

The religious leaders say they have written to the Democratic governor and legislative leaders in support of legislation backed by Cuomo that would send most 16 - and 17 - year - old offenders to juvenile facilities.

Religious leaders say they have written to Andrew Cuomo and state lawmakers to raise the age of criminal responsibility so fewer juvenile offenders end up in adult prisons.

If any religious leaders say tomorrow that the hurricane is God's punishment against some group they're idiots.

who cares what religious leaders say — they should have no bearing on the real world — they believe in fairy tales and then expect people to listen to the - I don't listen to homeless people talking to themselves either

The man is showing independent thought and not blindly following what religious leaders say.

I hear religious leaders say that all the time.

Washington (CNN)- The faith community needs to be a check against political vitriol in the 2012 election, which two religious leaders say has the potential to be the «ugliest campaign» in decades.

It has become a spiritual dilemma for some of the nation's pastors and their parishioners, religious leaders say.

Who cares what religious leaders say?

despite the «kill all the XYZ» I hear religious leaders saying all the expletive time.

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.

Jeremy — earlier, you wrote — Dave, Just to riff on the United States example a bit more... When we went to war with Iraq, many of our nation's religious leaders said that this was God's will, and that we needed to bomb Iraq back into the dark ages.

The government owned nearly all printing equipment and supplies and regulated printed materials, including religious literature, although some religious leaders said they had received permission to print religious materials on their own presses.»

he even quotes some looney tunes religious leader saying universal health care could herald the end of days.

Cheney has had the taxpayer foot his medical cost for the 33 years he's been having heart attacks and not one religious leader said a word about Jesus.

I have heard a great religious leader say that for years he has followed the practice in his private devotions of opening the Bible at random to see what it would say to him.

In a 2011 conversation with the U.S. ambassador to India, the religious leader said that «melting glaciers, deforestation, and, increasingly, polluted water from mining projects» were problems that couldn't wait.

Egypt's Islamic religious leader says the cryptocurrency trading is not legal based on the Islamic religious law.

I am also very uncomfortable at church when the religious leader says things I know in my heart are wrong.

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During his tenure, embassy officials «advanced American values» by meeting with religious leaders and human rights lawyers and visiting Tibetan and Uighur ethnic minorities in Tibet and Xinjiang, Locke said.

«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.

So the only words King actually is quoted as saying is that he «hates organized religion» and in his stories you find religious leaders as the great villains (prison warden in Shawshank Redemption) and this article concludes he is a great proponent of religious faith?

Among those surprised by all of conservative TV host Glenn Beck's recent religious talk - including at Saturday's Washington rally, where Beck said that «America today begins to turn back to God,» - is the Rev. Richard Land, a Southern Baptist leader.

Christ himself had PLENTY to say about intolerant, «self = proclaimed righteous» religious leaders of his day... and not much of it was very nice.

Jesus called out the religious leaders of his time and said that they would not enter the kingdom of heaven because they lived in palaces on hills while they devoured the houses of widows (in Luke).

CNN: Rev. Moon, religious and political leader, dies in South Korea at 92 The Rev. Sun Myung Moon — founder of the Unification Church, which gained fame worldwide decades ago for its mass weddings, as well as the Washington Times — died early Monday in South Korea, the church said.

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

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.

Given that only 18 percent of American adults say they're more active in organized religion today than they were ten years ago, while 32 percent said they're less active, perhaps religious leaders should take some comfort in the data here.

Verses 5 - 8 describe more of this religious leader's pride in the context of what his end will be: «By your great wisdom and traffick have you increased your riches, and your heart is lifted up because of your riches: therefore thus says the Lord God; because you have set your heart as the heart of God; behold, therefore I will bring strangers upon you... they shall bring you down to the pit.»

And Amnesty International, in a report released earlier this year, said «repeated calls by the Supreme Leader and other authorities to combat «false beliefs» - apparently an allusion to evangelical Christianity, Baha'ism and Sufism - appear to have led to an increase in religious persecution.»

Afterward, at an event kicking off a lobbying day for more than 300 evangelical pastors on Capitol Hill, Richard Land, president of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission and a leader of Evangelical Immigration Table, said that anyone who says the bill provides amnesty needs «a course in remedial English.»

What Jesus said about the evil shepherds and other individuals, who were using the flock for their own selfish gratification, could also be said today of many of our religious leaders and our political leaders.

The house invited leaders from major Judeo - Christian religions to say how the mandate would infringe upon their religious freedoms.

«It excludes the right to raise your children in your faith; the right to have religious literature; the right to meet with co-religionists; the right to raise funds; the right to appoint or elect your religious leaders, and to carry out charitable activities, to evangelize, [and] to have religious education or seminary training,» said Shea, who previously served on the Commission.

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.

He became somewhat popular among the crowds as a result, and certain religious leaders became nervous about some of the things he was saying, so they got the local government to arrest Josh.

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.

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

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.

Supporters of the law say it is ludicrous to imagine that a religious leader or church member would be arrested for giving a hand to those in the country illegally.

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.

If you believe what the bible says, then surely you must know that Jesus critiqued much about the religious institutions and leaders of his day.

Once, when he came upon a drunken scene, probably in connection with the temple sacrifices, where priests and prophets, as he says, reeled with wine and staggered with strong drink until the tables were full of «vomit and filthiness,» he was greeted with the intoxicated jeers of the people's religious leaders: «Whom will he teach knowledge?

They say that the Islamic state would be a theocratic state dominated by the Mullahs — the conservative religious leaders — and that the shari`a can not be enforced under modern conditions because the very attempt to enforce it would undermine the economic structure of the state based on modern finance and banking.

«It would be a step backwards if California, a state that has long been a leader in diversity, inclusion and pluralism, could not find a way to value and honor the religious freedom of Christian universities like Biola while at the same time respecting the dignity of our students,» Corey said.

Jackson and other religious leaders challenged the city on the measure saying the matter should be put to District voters in a ballot initiative.

Benedict Rogers, East Asia team leader at religious freedom charity Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW) said the vote is an «extremely significant development, which will in all likelihood mean a continuing crackdown on human rights generally, and religious freedom in particular».