Sentences with phrase «religious leaders thought»

The religious leaders thought they were righteous, but since they kept themselves from sinners, proved that they were only self - righteous.

He doesn't practice it the way religious leaders thought He should.

Because, as every spouse knows, you always have to top last year's present, Rodong Sinmun got bold and claimed that «even foreign religious leaders think Kim is comparable to a god.»

Not exact matches

Politicians, religious leaders, and other public figures emerge to offer «thoughts and prayers» to those afflicted.

Either way, the severe Twitter backlash to Lakewood's closure suggests that, when it comes to our religious leaders, thoughts and prayers are no longer enough.

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.

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.

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.

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

Terrorists twisted thinking is being allowed to lead real believers around by the nose while the supposed real religious leaders are afraid to intervene, or have been replaced by extremist front men.

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.

I think it's about time a religious leader followed Christ's actions.

As a world leader for freedom and the protection of basic human rights, the United States should take every opportunity to advocate for people — including Americans here at home — to think, believe, and act according to their religious belief whether they belong to a minority or majority religion in their nation.»

the thought processes of many of thie religious leaders..

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.

Religious leaders and pastors also come in for some gentle chiding from Wuthnow, who thinks they hold views about human action and social change that are simplistic and individualistic.

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.

Of course, I don't think I'm in a position to go around blasting any religious leaders.

You take someone else's explanation for scripture because: a) Everyone else does, b) The person explaining is a religious «leader», or c) It's easier than thinking for yourself.

European religion is phony actors inside big Ugly goofy buildings built by retard Gentile European who think king David was a red headed European who spoke Latin as his birth language in the middle east.European religious people are like a 400 pound anchor dragging in the sand wanting the 12 Hebrew Isrealite Tribes to all sing kombiyah at their lame hang another picture up cannonized a lame Gentile fake leader of a has been lame their whole life

People who think they have committed the unforgivable sin usually have a religious leader who is trying to control them, or warped and dangerous ideas about who God is and what God is like.

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

This revolution in religious thought is exemplified by religious leaders» current support for the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which was drafted by the UN Commission on Human Rights.

I think to some degree he was also trying to say something to the religious leaders of His day about their own lack of inner righteousness.

As for the reason Jesus was put to death, Cox locates the proximate cause not in humanity's sinfulness; nor in Jewish outrage over Jesus» claims to be the Son of God and the Way, the Truth, and the Life; nor in the jealousy of religious leaders threatened by Jesus» miracles (which Cox suggests were the fruit of positive thinking on the part of those who «feel» healed after touching Jesus); nor in his teachings (which Cox insists were uncontroversial among the Jews).

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

Even if it is unpopular and flies in the face of what other «religious» leaders do and think, we've been given a picture of how to treat those who need our help, even if they are different than us.

I think I just read about a radio talk show host who is beginning to understand that a religious leader (the Pope) is outside his personal political ideology.

But then, I don't think I've ever heard any religious leader ever DARE to try to answer that question and give a credible positive spin to it.

While I think Jones is an idiot and a charlatan (same as any so - called religious leader including the pope - a-dope), I must defend his right to believe and say whatever he likes.

Way too often it's the conservative Christians who seem to think that men are the only ones «qualified» to be religious leaders.

This revolution in religious thought is exemplified by religious leaders» current support for the Universal Declaration of...

A survey that William McKinney and I recently conducted invited 1,500 conservative and mainline Protestant denominational leaders to choose from a list of 63 contemporary religious leaders and authors the ten who have had «the greatest impact on your thinking about the church's life and mission today.»

One can think of religious restructuring as partially motivated enterprise in which organizational leaders and followers produce ideas and actions within given institutional constraints.

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.

@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.

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.

maybe these religious leaders should be thinking about why they tacitly supported arab dictators for so long (and still do) while their own people are rising up for (american style) democracy.

We both think the evidence is good that prominent evolutionists have joined with equally prominent theologians and religious leaders to sweep under the rug the incompatibilities of evolution and religion, and we both deplore this strategy.

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.

, historians help us understand that the Judaism of Jesus» time was more diverse, interesting and grace - filled than the Gospels would lead us to think, and that the crucifixion can not be understood as simply the result of a religious plot against Jesus carried out by the Jewish people or their leaders.

that famous preacher and religious leader stated to me that he had never met anyone who didn't think that God was the «Higher Power» to which Bill Wilson referred.

Instead, I think Jesus was simply pointing out that the religious leaders were not following the law at all, but were instead misusing the law in a way that allowed them to dishonor their parents, which was the exact opposite intention of the law (see 7:13).

Considering there is the small matter «separation of church and state» I think those religious leaders are looking for a pay raise from their sheep, and not staying tax free is what they seem to thumb their noses at.

Yet the same words struck fear into most thinking Europeans of the day, including religious leaders; they appeared then to threaten the very fabric of society.

And it is this aspect which the radical leaders of religious thought overlook, apparently with intention.

If the people of the religion of Islam who do not think violence is the answer then why have I not seen anywhere your religious leaders condem what has been done to inocent people?

I certainly don't think Jesus gave up himself to a brutal execution because he believed he was upholding a common philosophy with other religious leaders.

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.

Religious leaders, I think, face alternatives not easily reconciled: to try to form communities in which biblical imagery and ideas provide an alternative vision to our cultural ones, or to engage in a process of mutual critique, edification, correction and revision of frameworks that are informed both by our religious traditions and by the sciences andReligious leaders, I think, face alternatives not easily reconciled: to try to form communities in which biblical imagery and ideas provide an alternative vision to our cultural ones, or to engage in a process of mutual critique, edification, correction and revision of frameworks that are informed both by our religious traditions and by the sciences andreligious traditions and by the sciences and culture.