Sentences with phrase «sole purpose of church»

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However, there are other organizations that seem to exist (churches, too) for the sole purpose of self perpetuation.

My favorite part was «Their policy of recruiting and proselytizing young people to become missionaries, with promises of a low - cost education and a good career, is for the sole purpose of adding new members who are willing to add to the coffers of the church.»

The Date was taken by the Vatican, and proclaimed the Day Christ was born for the sole purpose of assimilating Sol Pagan worshipers into the newly formed Catholic Church in order to increase the tax base of its members.

Westboro Baptist is not a real church, they are hiding behind the appearance of an organized church, but there are no members besides Fred Phelps family, they do not have a place of worship, their sole purpose is to protest at funerals, of gay people and members of the military, which is not protected by the first amendment, it is harassment of people on the worst day of their lives, when they have to bury a loved one.

In Germany, proponents of this hermeneutic speak more boldly and declare that its sole purpose is to be the advocate of the church's decisive word - event, its representation of Jesus the Christ.

Their subsequent editing — and purging — were done with the sole purpose of establishing a hierarchical church structure, and much of what's left is there because it drives that point home.

Because of this, I used to laugh at churches with the view that women weren't created for ministry, that biblical submission meant the man was in charge and somehow had ownership of his wife, and that being a wife and a mother was a woman's sole purpose.

We do not have churches all over the world just for the sole purpose of interpreting scripture.