Sentences with phrase «wage holy wars»

If, as a country, we didn't wage holy wars like we were on a Crusade, there'd be so much money available, the health care issue wouldn't be an issue at all.

This guy wants to wage a holy war against anything he thinks is different from what the Archbishop of Pittsburgh teaches him.

One particularly offensive story is found in I Samuel 15, in which God commands King Saul to wage a holy war, a crusade, against the Amalekites.

The key is Saul's disobedience to God's command to wage a holy war of complete annihilation.

The most well known of all Christian symbols, the cross has for centuries marked the graves of Christians, perched high on steeples, inspired soldiers to wage holy war, or rested silently on altars between two candles.

John is waging a holy war on a falsehood which could wreck the faith.

Not exact matches

The Merriam Webster dictionary defines the term as «1: a holy war waged on behalf of Islam as a religious duty; also: a personal struggle in devotion to Islam especially involving spiritual discipline» and «2: a crusade for a principle or belief.»

It would seem to me that before the news of «that day and hour» can be received that those who claim to represent the holy spirit and yet keep the chaos and division thriving would first have to be gathered into one place where war could be waged against them in order that they should be overcome by the very spirit they have claimed to represent.

It's a Holy War of another kind waged in our hearts, for sure.

Just because Wars had been waged in the name of religion doesn't make the point of it Wrong,,, otherwise why does it say (He who loves me, keeps my commandments) almost at the same time as it says (I give you a new commandment, love...) in short, Yes, Jesus is what matters, but to know Jesus I need His word, the Bible, I need a relationship with Him, I need to understand What He wants me to be Like (Be Holy as your Father in Heaven) which is not just an old testament quote, but a new Testament as well,,, at the end, if Religion was so pointless and to be hated, why Would God ask us to test the spirits, why does he tell us (by their fruits you would know them.)

all of the Holy Wars (not unlike what ISIS is currently waging in essentially the same part of the world) in Joshua and Judges?

But this is also a war: a war of self - defence that we wage internally through our development of an interior life, and a war of charity that we wage externally through the apostolate and the Holy Spirit - guided return of our prodigal brothers and sisters.

The game, as if you didn't already know, follows the adventures of Master Chief as he attempts to save the human race from certain doom via a holy war being waged by the Covenant, a particularly nasty group of badass aliens.

Curry gives that a free pass too, and accuses anyone of bringing that up of waging a «holy war» against skeptics.

It is no surprise that wars are waged over holy places like Jerusalem, historical places like Kosovo and oil rich places like Kuwait.