Sentences with phrase «than it supports christians»

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And I would much rather have someone in office who is not a biblical Christian but holds biblical values than a man who claims to be a Christian but who supports the values of the devil (i.e., Obama).

Studies have shown, repeatedly, that it is the Christians in this country who volunteer, support and give financially far more than non-Christians.

A U.S. - based group called Christians United for Israel, meanwhile, this week organized a campaign of more than 45,000 e-mails of support to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

There is no more support for this claim than for so many other Christian claims.

Michael «As a gay man I appreciate there efforts and support, but I think putting up this sign isn't really the best way to get through to people, all it does is create more hate, intolerance, and separation, I am not a christian but I am very spiritual, and putting up this sign implies that all gay people are atheists which is the furthest thing from the truth, I have no problem with religion, I have a problem with those who use there religions to control and hate others, same applies with atheism, if you don't want to believe in anything than fine, just don't push your non beliefs on me.»

I know you are pretty much supporting my comment, and I don't mean to be rude, but I think Baden's exclusion of the Islamic approach is much more egregious than his non-mention of the Christian approach — seeing as half of the conflict he is discussing is driven mainly by Islamic people and Islamically - oriented ideology.

As a gay man I appreciate there efforts and support, but I think putting up this sign isn't really the best way to get through to people, all it does is create more hate, intolerance, and separation, I am not a christian but I am very spiritual, and putting up this sign implies that all gay people are atheists which is the furthest thing from the truth, I have no problem with religion, I have a problem with those who use there religions to control and hate others, same applies with atheism, if you don't want to believe in anything than fine, just don't push your non beliefs on me.

Look at the conservative Christian group who have decided that their bigotry for Obama is stronger than their believe in the Trinity, that they are willing to support a man that does not believe in the trinity to satisfy their hatred.

The biggest mistake that most atheists make is painting with the broadest of brushes: rather than use words like «some» or «many» or «most» re Christians, most atheists simply paint the entirety of U.S. Christianity as a monolithic group that supports everything the so - called «Christian right» (which, like the Moral Majority before it, is neither) lobbies for.

@ Phist - The christians you are referring to will more than likely continue to support abortion and attend planned - parenthood agancies for years to come... possibly until their very death.

The abduction of more than 250 young women in Nigeria has inspired a worldwide campaign for their release, supported by Christians around the globe.

However it may be with respect to Aristotle and Kant, I feel fairly confident the genetic analysis I have been describing will support rather than undermine such standard interpretations of Whitehead as those of Ivor Leclerc and William Christian.

This year, Hillary Clinton has better policy proposals to help improve the lives of women, children, and families than Donald Trump, whose pro-life convictions are lukewarm at best, and whose mass deportation plan would rip hundreds of thousands of families apart, whose contempt for Latinos, Muslims, refugees and people with disabilities would further marginalized the «least of these» among us, and whose support for torture and targeting civilians in war call into question whether Christians who support him are truly pro-life or simply anti-abortion.

Though Protestant ethics supports marriage for clergy, still celibacy must not be despised any more than marriage by any Christian body.

Rather than writing about this myself, I thought I'd open the floor to some Christian brothers and sisters who can explain what evangelical support of Phil Robertson communicates to them.

The stark reality is that most white Christians, including more than 80 percent of white evangelical Christians, supported Donald Trump for president, despite his evident immorality, bigotry, and disregard for the dignity of women, (not to mention complete lack of qualification or competency).

You are quoting the Quran out of context, which is no better than the Christians who quote the Bible out of context to support any one of a number of hate - driven agendas.

I assume this is enough, or more than enough, to show how and why Christians have appealed to their tradition to justify imperial policies and to affirm the sorts of value systems that support empire.

It's because it shines a light on the fact that a lot of christians use the bible out of context to support their positions or to degrade the positions of others, and rather than using that lesson to make themselves better people, they get defensive.

It is the weaknesses endemic to narrative that may cause some to question its sufficiency: the rejection of the philosophical supports needed to sustain Christian truth, an emphasis on divine agency entailing a disdain for apologetics, and a turn to intratextual (rather than correspondence) theories of truth.

It was far harder to rally Christian sentiment in support of worker violence than in favor of the application of nonviolent love.

I would state that probably less than 100,000 christians and god believers in the US can logically support their theism, and that it is merely an extension of their childhood training and a vestige of that immature comfort from ignorance.

But Bishop John did say he would support some sort of military action on the ground: «My own preference would be for a UN force because that would have less of an inflammatory dimension than a force that could be perceived as Western Christian.»

My parents, who, though we don't always agree on all the political or theological details, have modeled Christian compassion and grace better than anyone I know and who have supported me through every «evolution» of faith

For one thing, more atheists support universal government healthcare than do christians.

I've got some great guests lined up, including a Christian universalist (who supports the view that one day God will reconcile all people to himself through Christ), a traditionalist / exclusivist (who supports the view that only Christians are saved and the lost suffer in an eternal hell), and a conditionalist (who supports the view that immortality is conditional upon belief in Jesus Christ, so the unsaved will ultimately be destroyed and cease to exist rather than suffer eternally in hell).

Of course there is much more to Christian orthodoxy than these four pillars, but they do support a system of thought which, within the cultural context of its time, was both impressive and convincing.

Yes, in the sense that many of us support our clubs more in hope than in expectation, but also in the way that many of our oldest and proudest football clubs were created by Christians as a direct outworking of their religious convictions.

The phenomenon is that the huge numbers of Protestants in the United States support almost no distinctively Christian program in higher education other than theological seminaries.

A Christian Labour MP has received support from more than 100 MPs from across the political parties backing... More

Of course, that was before far left «christians» began supporting enabling social welfare programs that required no responsibility from the recipients rather than empowering programs that closed the socioeconomicl advantage gap between the poor and the middle class.

Dr. Phill, it appears your goal is simply to get Libtards foaming at the mouth rather than create any kind of effective argument that supports your claims of a Christian gods existence.

Now, as he wages an uphill battle for the Republican nomination, Perry is emphasizing his Christian commitment even more than in the past, trying to line up support from conservative Christian leaders and religious voters nationwide.

the program would afford an unparalleled opportunity to dramatize the interest of the Christian Church in the creative process in the arts, would encourage the production of films and programs of the highest standards, would give public support to those individuals in the film and broadcast industries who are striving to lift the general level of production, would present the Church in a positive rather than a negative stance in relation to these media, and would provide the opportunity for the Church in general and the B.F.C. and its members in particular to enter into significant conversations with the entertainment industry on standards, values, and goals.

Yeah right RD Christians are sympathetic, that's why they take every opportunity to put people down and act all holier than everyone else and support an ignorant and non caring bunch of elitists like the Republican party who think anyone who isn't rich should be a slave and if they get sick, don't provide health care, just tell them to die quickly so they don't run up health costs for the rich bigots.

About 13 percent of evangelicals say they support BLM, less than half the share of practicing Christians (28 %) or those who attended church in the past week (30 %) who also do so.

Almost 1 in 4 evangelicals (23 %) say they do not support the BLM movement, more than practicing Christians (13 %) or those who attended church in the past week (14 %).

That turned into a years upon years of finding a church which supported my reasonable belief that there is more to a Christian lifestyle than the Bible.

The basic implications of the changes are a greater freedom of the church from party and state on the one hand and a wider range of political options for Catholics than support of the Christian Democratic party, options that include support of more vigorously reformist or radical parties of the left.

That appraisal would have been supported by the fact that geographically Christianity was confined to a smaller proportion of the earth's surface than it had been at the close of the fifth century and that the cultures into which it had entered were held by fewer of civilized mankind than had been true at the close of the preceding height of the Christian tide.

Many Christians support the State of Israel for reasons far more profound than mere politics.

I am (a) A victim of child molestation (b) A r.ape victim trying to recover (c) A mental patient with paranoid delusions (d) A Christian The only discipline known to often cause people to kill others they have never met and / or to commit suicide in its furtherance is: (a) Architecture; (b) Philosophy; (c) Archeology; or (d) Religion What is it that most differentiates science and all other intellectual disciplines from religion: (a) Religion tells people not only what they should believe, but what they are morally obliged to believe on pain of divine retribution, whereas science, economics, medicine etc. has no «sacred cows» in terms of doctrine and go where the evidence leads them; (b) Religion can make a statement, such as «there is a composite god comprised of God the Father, Jesus and the Holy Spirit», and be totally immune from experimentation and challenge, whereas science can only make factual assertions when supported by considerable evidence; (c) Science and the scientific method is universal and consistent all over the World whereas religion is regional and a person's religious conviction, no matter how deeply held, is clearly nothing more than an accident of birth; or (d) All of the above.

American late night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel has criticised US President Donald Trump and Christians who support the National Rifle Association (NRA) for doing «worse than nothing» over gun violence.

In such a world and encompassed by these attitudes Christian folk have found difficulty in reaching out to new enterprises, and often have been less than half hearted in supporting activities and organizations which their hopeful fathers brought into existence.

The Orthodox church in Greece protested loudly against the removal of religion from the ID - card, and yet I can not find any rational argument supporting their actions other than trying to hang on to the privileged position of that church and its followers in the Greek state - effectively hanging on to the ability to treat non Christian Orthodox citizens as lesser citizens.

He further has said that science and faith pose no conflict for most religious people, including more than 12,000 Christian leaders who have signed the Clergy Letter Project in support of teaching evolution.

She suggested that he develop relationships with other Christian men for support, rather than seek out women for emotional comfort.

Winning Academy Awards for supporting actor and actress, Christian Bale and Melissa Leo, as well as a host of other known and unknown actors like Mark Wahlberg and Amy Adams, turn in easily the best ensemble performance of the year in this unique boxing flick which is more about the relationships than the fight.

The film is set to be released on 20 December 2013 in the USA, and has already been generating critical acclaim during the upcoming awards season, being nominated for no less than 7 Golden Globes including, Best Motion Picture, Best Actor — Christian Bale, Best Actress — Amy Adams, Best Supporting Actress — Jennifer Lawrence, Best Supporting Actor — Bradley Cooper and two nominations for director David O'Russell with Best Screenplay and Best Director.

«Living in, practicing, condoning, or supporting sexual immorality, including but not limited to, sex outside of marriage, homosexual acts, bi-sexual acts; gender identity different than the birth sex at the chromosomal level; promoting such practices; or otherwise the inability to support the moral principles of the school (Leviticus, 20:13 a, Romans 1:27, Matthew 19:4 - 6),» are all grounds for expulsion or the denial of admission to Liberty Christian Academy.