Sentences with phrase «religious leaders tell»

I am pointing out the reality that in some Islamic countries the religious leaders are in the background pulling the strings while the political people are basically puppets mouthing what the religious leaders tell them.

DO NOT accept it when religious leaders tell you it is wrong to question, doubt or think for yourself.

@KM, you're not completely wrong, there are believers in all of the world's religions who are perfectly content to let their religious leaders tell them what to think, but consider that 95 % or so of the world's population believe in god in one form or another.

My take: «I'm going to believe what my religious leaders tell me just so I don't have to think» is a cop - out.

How about you stop listening to what your lying religious leaders tell you is the truth and go learn the actual truth.

So your religious leaders tell you there is a god and you believe it.

Our religious leaders told us in Mass, Church, Temple etc that do not let fear and ignorance spread and control us.

Not exact matches

«If you're Mike Pence, and you believe what he believes, you know God had a plan,» Ralph Reed, an evangelical religious and political leader and friend of Pence's, told The Atlantic.

«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.

as a living being you are not even able to understand yourself consiouness and believe in religious leaders to tell you what to think and not to think.

David Saperstein told the BBC: «These detentions fit into the disturbing pattern of state intimidation of public interest lawyers, internet activists, journalists, religious leaders.

It's what your religious leaders have told you think.

3) Realize that your religion is no different that many Christians that recruit the ignorant and tell them that information that is not convenient to the religious leaders is bad and sinful.

Jesus told the religious leaders that god allowed laws for divorce because of hardness of heart..

• Karim Aga Khan IV, a descendant of the prophet Muhammad and spiritual leader of 20 million Ismaili Muslims told a German news website that he would welcome a debate with Pope Benedict XVI and other religious leaders on faith, reason and violence.

Former Pakistani lawmaker Ikramullah Shahid told demonstrators protesting the movie in Peshawar on Monday that he'd pay $ 200,000 to anyone who kills the filmmaker, according to Siraj Ul Haq, a senior leader of the religious group that organized the rally.

If you attend church and give an «offering» you are paying for that religious leader to tell you how to live your life.

He did the same thing when, much to the chagrin of the religious leaders, he dined with tax collectors and prostitutes and told his more well - to - do hosts that «when you give a banquet, invite the crippled, the lame, the blind, and you will be blessed.»

Those religious leaders aught to be telling the Taliban to stop killing women and innocent children.

The author should also have touched on the religious leaders who use the church as their personal stepping stone to greater wealth, telling us the poor shall inherit the earth while they're being chauffeured around in their limos, driven to their multi-million dollar mansions or to their private million dollar jets.

The religious leaders — who of all people should have known because they prided themselves in their knowledge of the Scriptures — told Jesus to tell the multitudes to keep silent.

@b3clan... Unfortunately religious leaders (like the ones that find a tv camera) quote what I told you.

Tell us, so we can cut funding to NASA and just appoint religious leaders to man our space program at a much cheaper cost.

He told the religious leaders that he would help them capture Jesus.

When one of the religious leaders asked Jesus how he could have eternal life, Jesus told him to love God and love his neighbor as himself.

And the teardowns won't stop until 2016, the government told religious leaders.

Catholic bishops, among other religious leaders, see Buhari as «a man of integrity and decency who can fight corruption and Boko Haram,» John Bakeni, secretary of the Catholic diocese in Maiduguri, told RNS.

Spiritual but not religious simply means one is able to think for themselves and decide what is the truth instead of religious leaders (and very powerful ones at that) telling us what to believe.

Lawyer Li Guisheng told China Aid a group of his clients have been «accused of being cult leaders, gathering secretly in different regions of Yunnan, doing missionary work, recruiting new members, spreading apocalypse rumors, rebuilding Three Grades of Servant's buildings, accommodating secret gatherings, and fostering new religious leaders».

Jesus tells the people that they have been deceived by their religious leaders.

I was — and remain — angry at religious leaders who tell same - sex - attracted people that they can, and should, «choose» heterosexuality and marry an opposite - sex partner.

The priest who first did my instruction in the faith was once a missionary in Africa, and told me terrifying stories of having to do spiritual battle as an exorcist with the same sort of «religious leaders» the pontiff was now welcoming as his honored guests.

So when Jesus tells the man «Go and sin no more or else something worse might happen to you,» I think he says it with a sparkle in His eye, some satire in His voice, and a head nod toward the disapproving and judgmental religious leaders.

I do not agree that the reason Jesus told her to «go and sin no more» was because the religious leaders were out to get her, no!

Keep asking questions of what your religious leaders are telling you and keep an open mind to alternative explanations.

«That said, if the churches do not take the opportunity now to «advocate» and «teach» why same - sex marriage is wrong for everyone (i.e., harmful to children, to the couple, and undermining of a culture of marriage), religious people should not expect to find a lot of sympathy for their right to exercise their religious freedom to dissent from same - sex marriage,» Esbeck told CT. «In other words, church leaders no longer enjoy the luxury of not teaching biblical marriage, as much as large numbers of the laity don't want to hear it.

Beck said he told the leaders, «I'm asking you not to stand with me, but to stand with freedom and liberty, because we're all going to lose our religious freedom if we don't.»

What if Jesus is saying here, «Look, you have been told by religious leaders that you have to DO this, or DO that, or BE this, or BE that, or BELIEVE this, or BELIEVE that, or even SAY you BELIEVE, DO, or ARE these things (or, if you belong to a different denomination, then you must BELIEVE, DO, or BE these other things instead of those)... but this ALL a sham!

This was after religious leaders / past best friends told us we are not connected to the Bridegroom or Bride bc we don't attend the formal church on Sundays.

Some ugly and foolish thoughts expressed in slovenly language were put forth by President Ronald Reagan when, during a 1982 conference with some eastern Carribean leaders, he called Marxism a «virus»; when, in 1983, he labeled the Soviet Union an «evil empire,» telling the assembled National Association of Evangelicals in Orlando, Florida, that communism «is the focus of evil in the modern world» and that «we are enjoined by Scripture and the Lord Jesus to oppose it with all our might»; and when, while conferring in 1984 with 19 conservative and religious leaders, he vowed to fight the «communist cancer.»

Mohammad Dadkhah, attorney for Pastor Youcef Nadarkhani, told CNN that Nadarkhani was still alive and that the court has asked the highest religious leader in Iran for his input.

In describing and accounting for the lives of the Religious Right, which we define simply as religious conservatives with a considerable involvement in political activity, the book and the series tell the story primarily by focusing on leading episodes in the movement's history, including, but not limited to, the groundwork laid by Billy Graham in his relationships with presidents and other prominent political leaders; the resistance of evangelical and other Protestants to the candidacy of the Roman Catholic John F. Kennedy; the rise of what has been called the New Right out of the ashes of Barry Goldwater's defeat in 1964; a battle over sex education in Anaheim, California, in the mid-1960's; a prolonged cultural war over textbooks in West Virginia in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently in community after community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt over the election of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was, of all things, a Democrat; the rise of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church aReligious Right, which we define simply as religious conservatives with a considerable involvement in political activity, the book and the series tell the story primarily by focusing on leading episodes in the movement's history, including, but not limited to, the groundwork laid by Billy Graham in his relationships with presidents and other prominent political leaders; the resistance of evangelical and other Protestants to the candidacy of the Roman Catholic John F. Kennedy; the rise of what has been called the New Right out of the ashes of Barry Goldwater's defeat in 1964; a battle over sex education in Anaheim, California, in the mid-1960's; a prolonged cultural war over textbooks in West Virginia in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently in community after community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt over the election of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was, of all things, a Democrat; the rise of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church areligious conservatives with a considerable involvement in political activity, the book and the series tell the story primarily by focusing on leading episodes in the movement's history, including, but not limited to, the groundwork laid by Billy Graham in his relationships with presidents and other prominent political leaders; the resistance of evangelical and other Protestants to the candidacy of the Roman Catholic John F. Kennedy; the rise of what has been called the New Right out of the ashes of Barry Goldwater's defeat in 1964; a battle over sex education in Anaheim, California, in the mid-1960's; a prolonged cultural war over textbooks in West Virginia in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently in community after community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt over the election of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was, of all things, a Democrat; the rise of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church aReligious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and state.

The Evangelical Immigration Table, including leaders like National Association of Evangelicals (NAE) president Leith Anderson and Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC) president Russell Moore, wrote the President and congressional leaders this week to tell them that Dreamers are «leading in our churches and our communities» and to «find solutions that allow these young people to stay in our country long - term and continue to be a blessing to our communities.»

A lot of things happened in that service that would make some of the leaders in my evangelical religious community very angry: a woman serving the bread and the wine, a lesbian couple partaking of the elements with their baby daughter in tow, a gay man embracing me in a big bear hug and telling me that it was the first time in twenty years he felt worthy to come to the Table.

«When all my hopes in [the religious leaders] and in men were gone, so that I had nothing outwardly to help me, nor could I tell what to do, then, oh then, I heard a voice.»

Mike Pence, himself an evangelical believer, also told CBN: «I've been with this President in the Oval Office with religious leaders.

Local religious leader, Jerry Datim told WWM: «Political leaders in the state have failed to protect the people from the Fulani attackers because they fear that President Muhammadu Buhari may move against any politician that goes against the Fulani, who are Buhari's kinsmen.»

Joint letter: religious leaders, parliamentarians, education experts tell Education Secretary to keep cap on faith school admissions

Religious leaders, such as Imam Adam Adamu of Yonkers Islamic Center and Rabbi Scott Weiner of Temple Israel in New Rochelle, told tales of trials and tribulations regarding immigrants and led prayers.

Update: Republican Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos just told reporters that there would be a «lengthy» GOP conference on the marriage equality bill today, during which they'd consider the religious exemption amendments.