Sentences with phrase «than the church establishment»

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For more than a millennium the Catholic Church has been intertwined with other establishment institutions in the West.

It was prophecied in Jeremiah 16 that a greater work than that of Moses would occur — that of gathering of the house of Israel — and one fulfillment of that prophecy is the establishment and missionary effort of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter - Day Saints.

And especially after the Noachian Flood, did false religion take a leap, with false religious doctrines and practices such as the trinity, immortality of the soul, that God torments people in a «hellfire», the establishment of a clergy class, the teaching of «personal salvation» as more important than the sanctification of God's name of Jehovah (Matt 6:9), the sitting in a church while a religious leader preaches a sermon, but the «flock» is not required to do anything more, except put money when the basket is passed.

The growth rate, the meaningful statistic in making future plans, is down now to slightly less than per cent per year, and it seems likely that the RLDS church will continue as a modest but important ecclesiastical establishment, providing Latter Day Saints with an alternative to Utah Mormonism.

The convention authorized the establishment of a «Central University» provided that no less than half the required million dollars were in hand, and named the members of its Board of Trust, who were to function under supervision of the bishops of the church.

As Christian churches developed in America — and many more kinds of them with the establishment first of religious toleration and then of religious freedom — the ordained minister tended to become more dependent on his relations with his local congregation than was true in Britain or on the Continent.

This is occurring not because the churches are weaker than they once were, but because a pluralistic society can not and will not tolerate a single religious establishment.

In the Warta district members of the hierarchy were brutally beaten, the clergy were decimated in a frightful manner, seminars, numerous establishments of religious orders and all Catholic schools and associations were abolished, ecclesiastical property was expropriated, sisters were driven - from their convents, churches in large part were closed, wayside crosses and shrines were destroyed, Polish inscriptions on gravestones were effaced and loyalty to religion was made extremely difficult and was ridiculed in every conceivable manner and more than three million Polish Catholics were left completely outside the pale of the law and were at the mercy of the despotic whims of the National Socialists.

Wherever and whenever there has been intense intellectual activity in the Church a theological school has arisen, while institutions possessing the external appearance of such schools but devoid of reflective life have quickly revealed themselves as training establishments for the habituation of apprentices in the skills of a clerical trade rather than as theological schools.

Responding to claims that the removal of the bishops would amount to disestablishment of the Church, Anne McGuire, Labour MP for Stirling, commented that «if the establishment of the Church of England depends on 12 bishops sitting in the House of Lords, it is in a worse state than the Archbishop of Canterbury thinks it is.»

So is it fair to say that, as far as funding is concerned, the Blaine Amendments require stricter church - state separation than the Establishment Clause requires?

So some Blaine Amendments do not appear to require stricter church - state separation than the Establishment Clause requires.

Generally, though, we can't say whether, as far as funding is concerned, the Blaine Amendments provide stricter church - state separation than the Establishment Clause provides because many state courts have not answered this question.

And the state constitutional prohibitions against church - state cooperation or governmental aid to religion were generally less rigorous than the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment.