Sentences with phrase «so against the church»

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«When we started the layoffs in the late»70s, even the Catholic Church was putting out pastoral letters against layoffs and stopped doing so.

The issue isn't whether the CAtholic church's position is right or wrong, but rather whether the government has the right to make them provide something so against their teaching, for free.

I know, it's very ironic for a lie to protect liars, but «a house divided against itself can not stand», so that's how Satan (who rules the world) is protected by the Church as well.

I really dislike the «big box» churches and mega-churches, the seem to so fundamentally go against what the whole idea is about.

So a woman could not take Christ's Bride, the Church, for her Spouse; the Church can not change the Truth to suit people's ideas of today if it goes against the Truth.

So we have to guard against it, because bitterness can slowly turn us into church bullies.

When Peter is the one who recognized Jesus as the messiah, Jesus told Peter he was blessed because only His Father in Heaven could have revealed it to him, not a flesh and blood person, so Jesus told Peter He was going to build His Church upon this rock [Peter] and the gates of the netherworld shall not prevail against it.

The stuff I've written on topics like getting to know neighbors and being the church in the community doesn't seem to connect with church people, who usually think church is about sermons, a belief system, music, political causes to be for or against and so on.

These churches you rail against are the ones that created your silly book, so get a clue.

We are enabled to live as a disciple of Christ, and can draw daily on the grace given by God in this sacrament so as to witness to Christ, fight against evil and defend the Church.

I think he and people around him have a sense that the church's pendulum swung too far toward the firm reassertion of Catholic rules and vision of the Church as a bulwark against the turbulence of modernity and church's pendulum swung too far toward the firm reassertion of Catholic rules and vision of the Church as a bulwark against the turbulence of modernity and Church as a bulwark against the turbulence of modernity and so on.

The German political theologians see their task as calling the church to repentance for the way in which it supports the oppressors so that the church may speak effectively against injustice in every society.

The full record, as I have read it, actually shows that Tony has actually written against Driscoll's spiritual abuses so many times that one might actually conclude Tony is an example of how the church DOES SOMETIMES CONFRONT ABUSE.

I have sinned against the Commandments of the Church, but so has the greater part of mankind.

Kyle Haselden, the late editor of the journal, explains that at a conference on Church and Society, convened by the National Council of Churches, one of the so - called «work groups» declared that American society is guilty of overt violence against the poor and maintains an unacceptable order of injustice, and that the church supports this exploitation by its own «systemic» vioChurch and Society, convened by the National Council of Churches, one of the so - called «work groups» declared that American society is guilty of overt violence against the poor and maintains an unacceptable order of injustice, and that the church supports this exploitation by its own «systemic» viochurch supports this exploitation by its own «systemic» violence.

I did however pray a lot for more than forty years before I left my Church and while I was there I read the bible several times cover to cover, so I would pit my knowledge of the bible against the most fervant of believers.

Women may feel discriminated against in many institutions but few have made it so blatantly clear that the woman's place remains at the kitchen sink as the Catholic Church.

All presiding ministers of the Church, from the Pope and the bishops down to the parish priests and chaplains, exist only so that there may be Christians, that is men and women who believe, hope and love, who bear their cross, who see light even in darkness, who firmly hope even against hope, men who have the folly and the courage to love in a loveless world.

I exited the church somewhat somber, trying to figure out what the Asian young people had done to piss my dad off so much, wondering if maybe racism was okay for Christians as long as it wasn't against black people.

These fears are not so different from the fear I see in the eyes of protestors carrying signs that depict President Obama as Hitler, the fear I see in the red faces of angry preachers urging their parishioners to «take America back for God,» the fear I detect in some of the books against emerging church, the fear I detect in some of the books in support of the emerging church, the fear I hear in the voices of both gays and the conservative evangelical activists who lobby against them when both sides consider for just a second the possibility that maybe they have it wrong.

So the Church working through the churches faced the question of revolution and came to the conclusion that there was a point where people might and should rebel against their Government.

The second major conviction of Judaism so clearly needed by the Christian church today is a passion against idolatry.

• So, having heaped upon the National Council of Churches» screed against the celebration of the 500th anniversary of Columbus» arrival in the Americas a small measure of the derision that it deserves («Repenting of America 1492 - 1992,» October 1990), we are asked how Christians should think about the occasion.

Now these very same conservative evangelical Christian, god - fearing church goers, are willing to sleep with the enemy, the very group the preached so hard against, «Mormonism.»

In these months it has been a disappointment that so few non-Catholic Christians seem to recognize that the attack is not just against the Catholic Church but against Christian faith and morals as such.

Unfortunately, few Catholics do this which is why so many of them do not understand why the Church stands against things like the HHS mandate and why non-Catholics like the author of this article don't understand it as well.

Not against mega churches due to size... if so gonna hate to be before the Lord in heaven.

so this is a group for gays folks to go and get told that there desires go against the teachings of the church and if they keep at it they will spend the rest of the time in hell... but if they just stop doing that terrible deed then all is well....

The usual assertions are (1) that this kind of religion is today on the defensive; (2) that the defensive posture is occasioned by the flourishing of «conservative churches» (although the alleged liberal enervation is also seen in more autonomous terms); (3) that the growth in religious conservatism and conservative churches is itself the result of widespread reaction against «secular humanist» values and against those who hold such values; (4) that our society as a whole has been experiencing a breakdown in moral consensus, a loss of moral coherence somehow connected with a decline in oldline Protestant dominance; and (5) that some or all of these happenings have been quite sudden, so that the early 1960s can be taken as a kind of benchmark — as a time before the fall.

Althought i can say that some (so called) Christians may have had a hand in the Third Reich (I can't say there weren't because I haven't studied it), you can not make a sweeping generalization by sy equating a few politically and nationally charged fanatics who were most likely on the fringe of «The Church», it part of it all, with the Christians were resisted against, or fell victim to, the Holocaust.

It is so disturbing to see such vitriol being poured out against the Catholic Church and against Christians in general.

That's so true Rush proudly displays his ignorance when calling the Pope Marxist when the Catholic Church is staunchly against Marxism and its secular ideology.

«But the real secret of the church's financial strength is that each of the 178 Roman Catholic dioceses in the U.S. organizes its affairs separately; nearly all employ a highly complex and decentralized legal structure that so far has effectively shielded their assets from legal claims brought against priests.»

I understand you feel like because i posted on this I am against gays and because im Catholic i have to be «Hard headed» and «Non-reasonable» But I am proud of what i believe, My church doesn't really enjoy the Gothic child in the back of the church professing faith so proudly, they want everyone to be the same.

What is obvious and easier to admit in 2013 is the corruption of the Vatican, but Francis separates the Vatican from the church, he can only do so much against this powerful organization.

I have to tell you, I am staunchly conservative, as I'm sure you can attest, and I am against the unending flood of illegal and undocuumented immigration into the U.S.. But, like the statement says, what we need is a logical, enforceable, orderly process by which we, as Americans, can express the opportunities to come enrich our culture to future immigrants that so many of our ancestors enjoyed, which coincides with the Church's admonition to help the needy.

They've grown wary of many of the stupider rules of the church and the oppression against women that has always existed, in most religions but overwhelmingly so in the Catholic church.

Communism killed people and at one time if you talked against the church you could be killed so whats the difference?

So, many of the clergy and Churches reacted against the laborers without ever posing the question of justice or the love of one's brother as oneself.

Too often the debate between a Bernard of Clairvaux and a Peter Abelard is read in terms of the latter's so - called heterodoxy when it was just as much about Bernard's progressive vision of a church disentangled from the control of secular princes over against Abelard's more conservative view of an ordered relation of patronage and rule between secular rulers and sacred institutions.

You know, please rest your conscience here as you read I am not an authority AT ALL as youll come to see, My lord has pulled me out of church the holy spirit filled church where I recieved Christ, and told me to visit ALL churches, oh and by the way 6 years ago The Lord asked me to open an out reach food pantry and safe haven for the needy, in the city that we live in, anyway this journey was humbling, God always shows me I am the stinker, that its my flesh that wars against the spirit, So many people are worried about satan, and demons or bad freinds or family or other religions, Yeah it makes you wonder 1st is it the same bible Im reading Jesus said it is finished!

One of the reasons why I am so insistent on this point is that the Church is up against very powerful social influences which promote the «values» of the «sexual revolution», undermining the capacity for young Catholics, and young people generally, to hear and receive the teaching of the Church.

(I must say, all of these warnings against boasting sound a little disingenuous coming from the guy who, at the end of his list, included an embed code for a «Top 200 Church Blogs» badge so listed bloggers can announce it on their sites.)

As we learned during our series on abuse in the church, cases of fabricated allegations of child abuse are quite rare, so when this many consistent counts are leveled against an organization, we should be wary of jumping to the defense of the accused and treating the alleged victims as liars.

The alleged subordination of the gospel to Karl Marx is illustrated, for example, by charging that «false» liberation theology concentrates too much on a few selected biblical texts that are always given a political meaning, leading to an overemphasis on «material» poverty and neglecting other kinds of poverty; that this leads to a «temporal messianism» that confuses the Kingdom of God with a purely «earthly» new society, so that the gospel is collapsed into nothing but political endeavor; that the emphasis on social sin and structural evil leads to an ignoring or forgetting of the reality of personal sin; that everything is reduced to praxis (the interplay of action and reflection) as the only criterion of faith, so that the notion of truth is compromised; and that the emphasis on communidades de base sets a so - called «people's church» against the hierarchy.

Noni and all those who find themselves ostracised or slandered unfairly firstly God loves you and you are special to him you are his children his daughters and sons do nt ever forget that so you are not alone in fact you are the apple of his eye and he loves you.No matter what people say about you it does nt change the fact that he loves you and will protect you just abide in him he will strengthen you in your weakness.Never think you are alone we have the holy spirit and have other believers even though we may not go to church together we love the Lord just as much as you do which means we are brothers and sisters in Christ.Just trust him and take each day as it comes he promises to never leave us or forsake us.He has given us his strength in our weakness so that like him we are overcomers the head not the tail.Keep asking the Lord what it is he wants you to do and be obedient though it may be hard but in the end it will prove good for you for the Lord is for you not against you.regards brentnz

Atheist don't wan't the catholic church scorning / insulting them and they will try to use the law to prevent them however they want to attack the catholic church which is against the bill or fights in freedom of religion to do so publicily.

So when one Christian accuses a church leader of doing something evil or wrong, the pastor often feels justified in retorting the same way Jesus did, and accuses his accusers of committing a sin against the Holy Spirit.

The arguments against evolution have been so explicitly and thoroughly expounded in the Catholic theology of the last eighty years, that it is not to be expected that later on they will become even more evident, in relation to the Church's awareness of what she believes, than they are now, and so become capable of providing new and certain grounds for rejecting the theory of evolution of a kind that have been declared to be not yet at present available.

Churches and pastors who participate in miracles and prophecies don't like to be told that they are being controlled by the devil, and so they often counter with the argument that anyone who says that something is of the devil when it is actually from God is committing a blasphemous sin against the Holy Spirit and will never be forgiven of such a sin.