Sentences with phrase «religious leaders use»

Dr Stephen Minger, director of the stem cell biology laboratory at King's College, London, said religious leaders use using «intentionally inflammatory» language.

Too often, self - righteous religious leaders use their power to promote actions that go against the core values of their religion and religious texts.

It is the ultimate irony to listen to black / hispanic religious leaders use «the Bible» to justify discrimination, the same book that was used to justify slavery and ban intraracial marriage.

The Law can be used in either way, and while many religious leaders used it to destroy life, Jesus wanted to show how to use the Law as means of giving life.

Not exact matches

But they are being used by their religious leaders.

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.

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.

Lenin, Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot, Mao, Kim, and many other leaders used Atheism as a tool of oppression and slaughtered millions of religious people, whether they be Muslim, Jew, Christian, Pagan, Hindu, Buddhist, or whatever.

And so now, the religious leaders get their heads together again for another theological question, namely, how they can use the law to kill someone.

Due to a misunderstanding of the word «saved» this verse has been tragically used by some misogynistic authoritarian male religious leaders to require women to remain barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen, because otherwise, they can not be «saved.»

My impression of these religious leaders was that they used tradition and their external «holy appearance» as a means of authority to simply govern people's lives and not truly lead them to God.

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.

The only reason that the teaching of a «devil» exists in my opinion is because it is a useful tool for religious leaders to use to frighten people into obedience to their edicts.

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.

The irony: the university is using a rule intended to protect and to include religious groups to exclude religious groups because they want their leaders to be representatives of that religion.

Just like governments can gather personal information about you, the police can invade your privacy, and CEOs can treat you like a number, so religious leaders can use fear, shame and guilt to manipulate you.

You're aware that a panel of religious leaders gathered to discuss and decide which of the independent works they would use to create the greater work of the bible?

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.

One of those things in common is that the youth reject hypocrisy of religious leaders or political leaders that use religion to achieve their ambitions or goals.

As a religious leader, the minister counselor can use the healing symbols of Christianity by which such guilt can be transformed.

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 example, at one time many religious leaders in the early days of our «Christian nation» and even (some of our) Founding Fathers believed that people of African decent were not fully human and used the Bible as proof.

Wage a war of words using black leaders like Louis Farrakhan, Rev. Jesse Jackson and other religious personalities who promote Islam as the religion of African - Americans while insisting Christianity is for whites only.

Preists, Pastors, Reverands all have easy access and predators use the position of religious leader to give themselves unquestioned authority.

American Conservatives are used to their religious leaders stirring up hatred against... everyone not like them.

Benito Juárez, supreme court justice and then president, was the liberals» foremost leader and engineer of the 1857 constitution (for which he is now honored by schoolchildren as the first among national heroes).37 Earlier outlawed had been any but «secular» education and the use of civil machinery to enforce religious vows and payment of church tithes.

Those religious and political leaders which recognize this threat to their power often use the name of God in the attempt to destroy the Kingdom of God.

We were not allowed to talk about evangelical staff proselytizing or about leaders who used their power to promote a particular religious ideology, but only to frame this as a problem between cadets.

And if the academy acknowledged that religious intolerance is systemic and involves abuse of power, then its leaders would also have to acknowledge their tenuous position in relationship to the First Amendment, which says that the government will not use its power to «establish religion.»

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.

So when Jesus quotes the law in Mark 7:10 about putting children to death for cursing their parents, He is not necessarily quoting it with approval, but is instead pointing out how the religious leaders were using the law to do the exact opposite of what the law said.

Just like governments can gather personal information about you, the police can invade your privacy, and CEOs can treat you like a number, so religious leaders can use fear, shame and guilt to manipulate...

Quite to the contrary, the religious leaders were saying that it was okay for children to not honor their parents and provide for them if the money that would normally be used to do so was given to the temple.

The task of religious leaders is to call their people to live citizenship as discipleship, which in this instance means using the arts of persuasion rather than the anarchic tactics of disruption to do the work of justice.

At the end of the day humanity needs both, scientists who ask if what they are doing is right, and religious leaders who use reason, and that only happens when the two sides meet in the middle.

He's far more suited to being a sleazy used car salesman than a religious leader!

Similar approaches can be used to revitalize other people - serving institutions: (1) The consciousness of many religious leaders (professional and lay) concerning the urgent need in their community for networks of nurture for both individuals and families must first

Israel's religious leaders had been moving towards monotheism, and the prophetic idea that Yahweh was using Israel's enemies as his agents in bringing judgment on his sinful people was a long step towards recognition of his universal sway.

and on Einstein... the Government used his formulas to make the bomb... which caused him to almost commit suidice... it shows that he had more of a coinscience than most of our leaders... Religious or otherwise...

If your religious leader has not warned you of God's word banning Christians from using mind - altering pharmakia drugs, you are being misled and also have child abusers in your church being known of by your leaders and kept secret from the police.

He theorized that religious thinking evolved at some point (ironically, you might say) and that in some cases tribe leaders were able to use this to get people to stop fighting and to form bigger, more powerful political units, which in turn won out over isolated tribes, thereby facilitating the spread of a particular religion.

if were only going to use the KJV why stop at greek, or latin why not only read the original texts which were written in Coptic the simple fact is not a single one of us, including our highest religious leaders, other then about 30 ancient language specialist in the world have ever read an original scripture.

A good deal of the material out of New York, Geneva, and the denominational headquarters on the church and ministry reflects this promising line, and a good many religious sociologists and radical religious leaders on the race issue tend to use Bonhoeffer and religionlessness in this way.

There we go again, shut up this hypocritical rightwingers.Only at election time do rear their ugly heads up to be seen and heard.It's time to unleash the CRACKKIN, the monster that the IRS people use on unruly religious groups, exemption is like a death sentence to these groups.Most of these religious leaders are wolves in sheeps clothing, selling their political poison to anyone in their flocks.They push the envelope on the seperation of church and state issue, seeing how far they can go.Pastors and ministers would never speak politics like this years ago, that was taaboo.Now people like Robertson, Graham, and the rest, flaunt their ideaology both religious and political at every event.They don't care about the legal consequences, they have LAWYERS, perishioners pay for that.

Television certainly offers the potential for social and political impact by religious broadcasters who seek to use it in that way, and yet, the example set by broadcasters in the 1980 election year left much to be desired in the eyes of many Christian leaders and adherents.

One uses religious belief as the means by which the leaders strive to control the thoughts and actions of the faithful followers.

Imam — in the most general sense, a Muslim head of a movement, community, or state; also used to designate a recognized religious leader.

«Allie» has been used to educate friends, families, schools, administration, and even religious leaders.

The partial concession to calls for conscience votes comes as religious leaders are warned not to inflame or distort the debate surrounding the use of hybrid embryos and other updates to fertility and embryology legislation.

He said whereas other countries in the West African sub-region continue to suffer religious conflicts, Ghana continues to enjoy peace and urged religious leaders across the nation to continue to use dialogue to address their differences.