Sentences with phrase «symbol of a group of people»

To many of us, it's a symbol of a group of people who forced their beliefs on others on threat of death for a thousand years.

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It was an alias, maybe for a person, or for a group of people, but it is a symbol now.

Fundamentalism uses the culture, rituals, sacraments, texts, language, and metaphors and allusions and symbols (verbal, visual, musical, etc.) of religion in blind adherence to a dogma as defined and interpreted by a person or group who is self - aggregating and self - justifying raw personal power for the sole purpose of controlling the lives of others.

«Executive,» «laborer,» «Catholic,» «Southern Baptist,» «Jew,» «Democrat,» «Republican,» «Socialist,» for example, are proper designations of occupational, religious, or political affiliation, but may under undemocratic pressures become class symbols which divide people into comprehensive separate groups for other than occupational, religious, or political purposes.

The cross is a symbol of one religion, for one group of people, who is trying to relabel all the victim as christian.

Public culture is composed of ideas and symbols that are widely shared, found in major societal institutions, and do not depend on any one person or one group for their existence.

At the end of the year I concluded that a group of people can not regularly gather for what they feel to be religious purposes without developing a complex network of signals and symbols and conventions — in short, a subculture — that gains its own logic and then functions in a way peculiar to that group.

Try this: a massive rally takes place where people celebrate symbols and ideology that call for the total oppression and genocide of a group you belong to — like Christians.

It has its own distinctive message of salvation (political freedom), its own «set apart» people group (America and its allies), its own creed («we hold these truths to be self - evident»), its own distinctive enemies (all who resist freedom and who are against America), its own distinctive symbol (the flag), its own distinctive god (the national deity we are «under,» who favors our cause and helps us win our battles).

According to Paul Tillich, a simple key to the plurality and diversity of religions and ideologies throughout human history is the fact that almost any thing, event, person or social group can function as a symbol (and therefore revelation) of the ultimate.

Creedalism makes an idol of a fossilized description of religious experience, a set of verbal symbols which, at one period of history, were used to articulate the Christian experience of certain persons and groups.

The violation of this solemn place, the symbol of our liberty to have a government by the representatives of our people for our people by a group of mobsters and criminals can not simply be ignored.

Subtle differences in the genes of more than 2,000 people in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland reveal 17 distinct groups, represented by different symbols and colors on the map.

A group of people searching for a missing woman becomes possessed by a locust demon via a mystical symbol scrawled on the walls of an abandoned prison.

The (Red) Ribbon Project was created in 1991 by the Visual AIDS Artists Caucus, a group of artists who wished to create a visual symbol to demonstrate compassion for people living with AIDS and their caregivers.

Thus the classic Cubist interpenetration of forms becomes a symbol of the cohesion of people: of the family unit in Family Group and of the two «heroes» of Two Figures.

Again, we should argue from a position of reality but your comment does remind me of Seabiscuit... rejected by all those in racing except a small group of people who beleived he had potential, he went on to defeat War Admiral, retired racings all time money winner and more importantly became a symbol of hope for many during the great depression.

The HUD regulations prohibit the use of catchwords, phrases, symbols, photographs, and illustrations that convey dwellings are available or not available to a particular group of persons because of race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status, or national origin.