Sentences with phrase «state is wicked»

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If not, move to a more wicked state, where you'd be more comfortable.

That is, what we can observe today (states and their populations become more and more profane or secular), and moreover it is predicted in the book of Revelation of the Bible that finally the whole world will worship the Arch-Blasphemer (the head of the Beast) or the Wicked.

You have no standing to condemn or judge or state oh so confidently that those who disagree with your interpretation are condemned, perverted, wicked, and on and on with the hellfire and brimstone.

But has there ever been a more wicked policy, with more disastrous social consequences, than the «one - child policy» China began to implement in the early 1980s — a state - decreed population - control measure that resulted in, among other horrors, untold tens of millions of coerced abortions?

It is not stated that the wicked will endure eternal suffering, so I believe that they will be simply destroyed, even as the ancient Israelites always said God would do.

One possibility is simply to take the Bible at its word: All of humanity, and indeed all of the animals too, was wicked, and even Noah was not entirely righteous but only the most righteous of his wicked generation, as an ancient Jewish tradition stated.

Al - E-Imran sura 03: In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful It is not (the purpose) of Allah to leave you in your present state till He shall separate the wicked from the good.

My state of mind was as if some wicked and stupid jest was being played upon me by some one.

The «wicked» spirit, in whom evil is already present in a nascent state, has to choose between the affirmation of himself and the affirmation of the order which establishes good and evil.

Looking at this side of the ambiguity, we see a church in which many first - world Christians of our day could feel comfortable and undisturbed: a church that lives without question or resistance in a state founded on violence and made prosperous by the exploitation of less fortunate nations; a church that accepts various perquisites from that state as its due; a church where changing jobs for the sake of peace and justice is seldom considered; a church that constantly speaks in the language of war; a church given to eloquent invective in its internal disputes and against outside opponents; a church quite sure that God will punish the wicked.

Luk 11:26 Then goeth he, and taketh to him seven other spirits more wicked than himself; and they enter in, and dwell there: and the last state of that man is worse than the first.

These are likely to have wicked governments and fail as states.

The «Father» of the Nation, being the United States of America is quoted saying; «The General is sorry to be informed — , that the foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing, a vice heretofore little known in an American army, is growing into a fashion; — he hopes the officers will, by example as well as influence, endeavor to check it, and that both they and the men will reflect that we can have little hope of the blessing of Heaven on our arms, if we insult it by impiety and folly; added to this, it is a vice so mean and low, without any temptation, that every man of sense and character detests and despises it.»

(178) Allâh will not leave the believers in the state in which you are now, until He distinguishes the wicked from the good.

What is remarkable in these theological constructions is that they do not retain the biblical perspective which sees the state as ordained by God, in harmony with the divine order, and at the same time as the Beast of the Abyss, the Great Babylon; as wielder of the sword to chastise the wicked and protect the good, but also as the source of persecution and injustice.

Being about as far away from an ocean as is geographically possible in the United States by living in St. Louis, I have to say, it's a cruel twist of fate, or God has a wicked sense of humor, or whatever, for me to be a seafood junkie.

All though Wicked came up a bit short of a State Cup Championship in a tremendous battle, to reach the finals is a great accomplishment.

Yes Madison just called a key platform of the Dems, student loan forgiveness, a wicked project] for an equal division of property, or for any other improper or wicked project, will be less apt to pervade the whole body of the Union than a particular member of it; in the same proportion as such a malady is more likely to taint a particular county or district, than an entire State.

«The brutal murder going on in Benue state and other parts of Nigeria is very attrocious and wicked.

«The N9.6 bn refund is exclusively for the state government to pay salary and so any other claims by Fayose to brainwash the workers to deny them their entitlements once again is not only wicked and selfish, but also a fraudulent practice that Fayose has elevated to an official policy to short - change the state and her people at all times.»

«We are more disturbed today as this state government hides under the self - created crises and blackmailing the Federal Government into releasing to them security operatives to achieve their illegal and wicked agenda on our people.

«We want to state that the stories are patently false and we urge unsuspecting Nigerians to ignore the lies being spread and the wicked stories about what Tinubu purportedly said or did.

The group stated that, they had water tight evidence to support their claim of a meeting held last week in Kumasi at the instance of Akufo - Addo, where Nana Akufo - Addo is said to have deployed Kofi Jumah, Amoako Tufuor and others to form mushroom groups with what the group described as «wicked purposes» in springing forth «outright lies» and «concoction of untruths» that will translate into setting the stage to blame innocent people in the Kufuor faction against the outcome of the 2016 elections.

Another Conservative MP backing the move, Michael Fabricant, said: «There can be no doubt that just as prohibition on the sale of alcohol failed in the United States and encouraged gangsterism, the banning of drugs has promoted a wicked and lucrative black market.

The element is called californium — Cf if you're looking at the Periodic Table of Elements — and it's what Florida State Professor Thomas Albrecht - Schmitt, the lead researcher on the project, calls «wicked stuff.»

The wicked irony of the situation leaves her in an awful state of mind, but she finds solace in the arms of her otherworldly android teammate Vision (Paul Bettany), who's feeling romantic butterflies in his semi-synthetic belly for the first time.

Phenix City, Alabama, 1954 - according to Look Magazine, this small town just west of the Georgia state line was «The Wickedest City in America.»

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However this view is based on a lack of knowledge of what Marx actually wrote about the nature of the modern state which was: «The executive of the modern state is nothing but a committee for managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie» Some leftists may well scream in exactly the same way as the new rightists, that carbon taxes are part of a plot by the wicked capitalists to make the poor freeze in winter.

While these issues may share some superficial similarities with the climate change problems, they are «tame» problems (complicated, but with defined and achievable end - states), whereas climate change is «wicked» (comprising open, complex and imperfectly understood systems).