Sentences with phrase «state ran the church»

We came from an oppressive country where the state ran the church.

The old traditional state run churches.

Mills were places where things were ground down and Blake was saying that England's state run churches (and Catholic churches — well, really all churches) which demanded conformity were mills grinding down both mind and spirit.

Not exact matches

I too wish he were a Church leader and not running for President, Church and State need to be kept separate.

When our fore fathers came up with the idea of seperation of church and state it wasn't to keep religion out of the government it was to keep the Church from running the goverchurch and state it wasn't to keep religion out of the government it was to keep the Church from running the goverChurch from running the government.

Hours earlier, Maj. Gen. Qassim Atta said in a press conference broadcast on state - run Iraqiya TV that 15 «Arabs» - in Iraq, a euphemism indicating they came from outside the country - were responsible for three deadly attacks in Baghdad in recent months, including a bloody church siege.

Were the television networks, the movie producers, and the editors of the prestige papers really in charge, there would be no pro-life movement, active euthanasia would be the uncontested law of the land, every school child would be indoctrinated in the joys of gay sex, home schooling would be prohibited, church schools would be run by state agencies, government day care for preschool children would be mandatory, churches would not be tax - exempt, and smoking anywhere would be a criminal offense.

I don't believe in state run marriage but as long as that will never happen let them marry who or as many as they want a church that don't believe same as me should never be forced to mary them though

The Church was running schools across Britain long before there was any State involvement.

Everything we are taught in the church promotes the notion that EVERYONE who leaves churchology is either wounded or running from God and in a backslidden state.

Andrew came on, unidentified, and dogmatically stated that a church should be run like a business and challenged David with a veiled threat «does the vineyard know what you're doing?»

For two and a half years, Jones ran the clinic out of a Lutheran church with volunteer doctors and nurses from out of state.

It is intended to prevent the state from running the church, and the church from running the state.

As Humanists UK campaign against the involvement of religious organisations in the running of state schools, they say this money from the Catholic church «represents inappropriate influence.»

«We are stressing now on guarding churches,» Adil Labib, the governor of Alexandria, told state - run Nile TV.

Just ask any Republican candidate about the separation of church and state... or try to run for a political office as an atheist.

Scheffler is a testament to evangelical influence in the caucuses; his group has hosted caucus trainings in churches across the state in the run - up to January 3.

Ran across many interesting quotes from our founding fathers who are so oft cited today as deists who believed in separation of church and state...

Having grown up in the disproportionately Christian state of Kerala in southern India and studied at a church - run school, Narayanan condemned the Hindu nationalists thought to be responsible for violence against Muslims and resisted efforts to shift the secular education system.

= > true, this is why we always need a balance of Church and State as both run amok.

By way of contrast, the Rev. Norman Dewire, the chief program coordinating executive for the United Methodist Church, pointed out that «the national United Methodist Church runs on five cents of each $ 1, supports 750 missionaries, 900 short - term missionaries, curriculum and worship materials, the largest network of private colleges in the United States, one hundred retirement homes, and the recruitment and training of ministers plus all communication materials.

While none of Jesus Christ's 1st century Christian leaders ever involved themselves in politics to the point that they ran for public office, after they all died out those men Jesus said would sneak into the church did sneak in and did get involved with political leaders and in just a couple of centuries the Holy Roman Empire was the old Roman Empire whitewashed to appear to be something of God's and both the church and the State being led by the very same man, Pontifex Maximus who had his own wife killed for proving that his trinity doctrine was horsepucky.

In the Presbyterian Church (USA), one of our more recent confessions states that even though we rebel against God, God remains faithful, «like a mother who will not forsake her nursing child, like a father who runs to welcome the prodigal home.»

I am a researcher and activist working to protect the separation of church & state and am founder of a project called The Kryptonite Project where we compiled a list of ReBiblicans (not republicans) who ran for national and gubernatorial offices in every state and put this info in an interactive map to make access as simple as possible for voters.

Europe has had a enough of religious organisations having too much control of the running of the state and control over young people (especially the hurt the church has inflicted on the young).

Your problem is you want your belief to be what runs our politics and that is why we hafe a separation of church and state.

Well, for one thing Romney isn't in any church leadership role currently, so basically he is just like anyone else who is of a certain faith who also happens to be running for office, so how does someone in that situation run for office when it comes to the idea of separation of church and state?

It has been very difficult this year for them with a member of their church running for president and they want very bad to appear to the rest of the United States as being neutral.

The Left runs around demanding separation of church and state.

Holy Nativity Lutheran Church runs a day school licensed by the Maryland State Department of Education at 1200 Linden Ave, Halethorpe.

A third of all state - funded schools in England are currently «faith» schools, the vast majority of which are run by the Church of England.

«I want to lean heavily on the LDS Church,» he said, adding that the «stars have aligned» in that he is on the state's primary ballot running against Romney, a member of the LDS Church.

James, who kicked off her campaign for attorney general last week, running as a Democrat, did not attend the WFP's annual state convention at the First Corinthian Baptist Church in Harlem yesterday.

New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman told the story of Good Shepherd Temple Church's run - in with Gordon.

«There needs really to be a top to bottom reconsideration of what the role of government will be,» he told politics.co.uk, arguing that institutions such as churches, the family, voluntary groups, and state organisations such as decentralised local government, could run Britain better than Whitehall.

The leaders of the Catholic Church, which runs hundreds of schools in the state, back the measure, and church leaders, including Cardinal Timothy Dolan, were invited to a lunch at the governor's mansion to try to persuade legislators who have not signed on to theChurch, which runs hundreds of schools in the state, back the measure, and church leaders, including Cardinal Timothy Dolan, were invited to a lunch at the governor's mansion to try to persuade legislators who have not signed on to thechurch leaders, including Cardinal Timothy Dolan, were invited to a lunch at the governor's mansion to try to persuade legislators who have not signed on to the bill.

By noon on Sunday, three churches along a single two - mile stretch of Bedford - Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, had played host to three of New York State's more prominent elected officials: the state's attorney general and comptroller, both of whom are running for statewide office, and the mayor of New York State's more prominent elected officials: the state's attorney general and comptroller, both of whom are running for statewide office, and the mayor of New York state's attorney general and comptroller, both of whom are running for statewide office, and the mayor of New York City.

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It sits on the campus of a formerly religious, now state - run, university, and the school wants to close it in the name of church - state separation.

In the U.K., for example, whether it's a Church of England school or a nonsectarian, state - run school that's not performing well doesn't matter, since both are government - supported.

Since Jewish synagogues, Catholic and Anglican churches (and now Islamic mosques) all run state schools, the rights of the property owners can get complicated.

Only in October of my freshman year at Northwest College did I learn that my decision to major in church ministry ran afoul of the state constitution's ban on public support for religious instruction.

The extent of private schooling stems in large part from the Catholic Church's decision in the 19th century to build an alternative system of education wherever they were unable to control the state - run system.

Nineteenth - century Catholic doctrine strongly opposed Catholic attendance at state - run schools that were not controlled by the Church.

He concluded that though the San Miguel model «meets a clear and urgent secular need,» it was an open question whether «a faith - based group of competent, licensed educators» could run a publicly funded school without crossing the church / state line.