Sentences with phrase «religious leaders who»

We have anthrax scares, suicide bombers, and religious leaders who outright encourage killing.

There are many religious leaders who offer relationship advice and support.

However, in today's blogspace on climate we have scientists acting as if they are religious leaders who hold anyone who expresses doubt as a heretic and someone who is to be despised.

In an interview with the BBC, Qari Asim, senior editor at imamsonline.com, said, «Someone has to reclaim that territory from ISIS, and that can only be imams: religious leaders who guide and nourish their community.

«We thank the Florida PTA for putting the needs of low - income children first and dropping from this misguided lawsuit,» Bishop Victor Curry, who leads New Birth Baptist Church in Miami and chairs a coalition of religious leaders who support the scholarships, said in a statement.

Jennifer Merin: Switzerland's entry for the Best Foreign Film Oscar is a compelling political drama set in 1971 in a quaint rural village where Nora (Marie Leuenberger), a conventional housewife and mother, facing gender oppression on every front, champions a burgeoning suffragette movement that challenges political and religious leaders who cited the Divine Order as reason to keep women in their place.

Many of us grew up with parents, caregivers, siblings, teachers and / or religious leaders who told us lies about ourselves, about others and about God...

Throughout their quest to develop IVF they faced opposition from religious leaders who expressed moral outrage, from politicians keen to reduce the world's population, and from scientists who warned that the technique would be unsafe.

The medium learnt that the murder of Isiaka has been a major concern for the sons and daughters of community including the traditional rulers, community leaders and religious leaders who wanted justice to prevail.

I think it is unfair to parents and religious leaders who are trying to raise a generation of children who believe in following the rules.

Religious leaders who had opposed the demand for Pakistan and criticized Jinnah's progressive ideas became the custodians of its destiny.

I think perhaps that's why I keep bumping into theologians and religious leaders who turn their noses up at the suggestion that love is the most fundamental element of Christianity.

From their home page: «The Clergy Project is a confidential online community for active and former professional clergy / religious leaders who do not hold supernatural beliefs.»

He is among the more than 70 religious leaders who have endorsed the Oct. 11 National Equality March on behalf of gay rights.

I should have written that then Bishop Niederauer declined to join religious leaders who supported the amendment.

Religious leaders who have studied the bible for years do not agree on most anything in the bible.

They created a hierarchy of religious leaders who helped develop rules of morality and decide which understandings of Scripture were correct.

In the same way, religious leaders who oppose gay rights must accept that gay Americans are afforded the same religious liberty protections.

We see this in the story of the religious leaders who ganged up on the woman caught in adultery.

His Trump ties: Jeremiah was one of about 40 religious leaders who prayed with Trump in September, and asked God to send Trump «a strong African - American who can stand with him and represent that community.»

Religious leaders who dispute science will ALWAYS end up embarrassing themselves.

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.

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.

Christian religious leaders who resemble this characteristic are only imitating the god of the OT / NT.

Such behavior looks less like Jesus and more like the religious leaders who sought to kill Jesus.

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.

He knew she was not so different from the religious leaders who surrounded her, not so different from you and I.

Since there are no ambassadors during the long absence, Shi`as are responsible to their religious leaders who have a thorough knowledge of jurisprudence and understand religion comprehensively.

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.

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

Instead it relies on the light of the imams, whom Shi'ites believe receive special divine guidance and on the authority of ayatollahs — a modern title for religious leaders who gain a personal following.

I am tired of religious leaders who put themselves on a pedestal and deem what is proper or good or holy and what isn't as if they are God.

In fact, however, Neuhaus avoided any substantive application of just war criteria to the Gulf War itself, obviously preferring to seize one more occasion to beat up on religious leaders who don't share his brand of neoconservatism.

It is not your responsibility to «protect» religious leaders who hurt you.

The Catholic church is as Jesus gave in an illustration of «Lazarus and the Rich man», whereby Lazarus pictured the common people or am - haarets (Hebrew meaning «people of the land») and the rich man pictured the Jewish religious leaders who fed the Lazarus class spiritual «crumbs».

(CNN)- A handful of progressive Christian leaders are joining the mostly conservative chorus of religious leaders who are criticizing New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg for excluding clergy from this weekend's 9/11 commemoration event at ground zero.

It seems to me that we can do this more easily based on our own sound reasoning than based on instructions by religious leaders who always seem to end up compromising one group or another on our planet.

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

It was the religious leaders who perverted the Law of God and taught people to «hate your enemy.»

• Do you agree with those religious leaders who say that America is a «Christian nation» or a «Judeo - Christian nation?»

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.

Until recently it was mainly the religious leaders who were saying this.

He criticized religious leaders who try to «slam the door to the Kingdom of Heaven in people's faces.»

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.

He condemned and cursed the self - appointed religious leaders who perpetuated the perverted Judaism of the day through their promotion of the Talmud and Rabbinic Halachal above the Mosaic Law given by God; those who added to the Scriptures (the Pharisees) and those who subtracted from the Scriptures (the Sadducees) and anyone else who changed the commandments of God because of their own human desires for acceptance and the honor of men.

His only judgments came against the religious leaders who were judged not for their sins but, because they lived in continual judgment of any who did not act just like they did and because they failed to extend grace and love to those who needed it the most.

The religious leaders who were expected to respond enthusiastically to the gospel of the kingdom turned out to be enemies of the kingdom.

In Matthew 12:31 - 32, which talks about the sin that will not be forgiven, it is true that some sort of denial is taking place by religious leaders who accuse Jesus of performing His miracles by the power of the devil.

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.

The religious leaders who conspired to kill him!