Sentences with phrase «suffered agonizing deaths»

Apparently mythological Jesus completely forgot to resurrect starving children that are suffering agonizing deaths by the thousands all around the world.

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And though in the Fourth Gospel the notes of agonizing struggle, or even of ordinary human weakness and suffering, are muted, if not hushed, and the death is, as Vincent Taylor says, «no longer a (Greek word) but a shining stairway by which the Son of God ascends to his Father,» (The Atonement in New Testament Teaching, p. 215.

It is that crucial motif in Christianity that theologians have called the kenosis, the humiliation of God: The same God who has all power, who created this world and all possible worlds, has taken upon himself the form and the fate of an ordinary man, and indeed a man who suffered the most agonizing afflictions of betrayal, torture, despair, and death.

As the institutional church continues to suffer a slow and agonizing death, this is the sort of rhetoric we can expect to hear more of from those whose income and notoriety depend upon the institutional church.

Dear God, I pray that me, my wife, and my child become terminally ill and suffer a slow agonizing death.

It's not every director who can show three kids (including an infant wrapped in swaddling clothes) perforated by bullets without so much as flinching, but that's Cooper's M.O., refined over the three films since his relatively marshmallowy «Crazy Heart»: As in «Black Mass» before this, violence packs more punch if depicted matter - of - factly, which somehow registers as «realistic» these days (although one suspects that it would be far more horrifying if his victims suffered slow, agonizing deaths after being shot).