Sentences with phrase «war with faith»

Science is not waging war with faith.

Being told evolution was a lie and that science was at war with faith.

Not exact matches

These days I believe the Christians like to call it «justified killing»; previously it was things like «purifying the faith» (as with the various Inquisitions), «Holy War» and «Crusade.»

That is exactly what the book deals with, the «nature» of Christ and the religious wars, both political and physical, that shaped their doctrine of faith.

One thing I found really interesting is that one conclusion the book came to is that these «faith wars» had a direct impact on the fall of the Roman Empire because the gov» t had to deal with the internal struggle and the external enemies had to take a back seat in importance or at least drastically distracted the leadership.

«Rasputin was a man of peace, a man with an innate antipathy to bloodshed whose devout Christian faith taught him that war was a sin.»

As Obama said, we are not at war with Islam, so by provifing OBL a burial in accordance with the Muslim faith (though I suspect sea burials are not common) we have made it clear that we are not out to offend Muslims.

Over the ensuing years, I saw faith marching us to war, with George W Bush, a president who claimed to get his marching orders from God, and the subsequent disastrous invasion of Iraq.

Have faith, believe, and love, but stop supporting war mongers and rapists with too much bling already.

more than 2000 years men from all nations to search and found faith, american atheist just kids try to make war with these long developed civilizations.

Most so called» religious wars» were nothing more than atheistic leaders trying in vain to use God for there immmoral purposes and had nothing to do with True faith at all.

Such aims might appear paradoxical to those who were taught that the emergence in the 17th century of secular liberalism, with its privatization of faith, rescued the West from «wars of religion.»

Just as the emphasis on spiritual experience moves a person beyond differences of ritual and belief, so the urgency of the need to end war and violence and injustice, to bring relief to the hungry, to stand with those who are exploited and to seek to protect the environment unites Christians with people of other faiths.

The Arabs completed the conquest of the Levant within a few years of the death of the Prophet, their surprising success made possible by the inspiration of their new faith which filled their souls with confidence, and by the decline of the power of Persia and Byzantium as a result of their perpetual wars against each other.

Brooks warns contemporary Christians that when we try to engage in public life, we are perceived as prosecuting a «culture war,» one that has «alienated large parts of three generations» of Americans, turning «a rich, complex, and beautiful faith into a public obsession with sex.»

It will insist that any version of Christian faith that does not grapple with war and peace, human equality, hunger, civil liberties, the hard decisions posed by medical technology, and a host of other social challenges is not a version of faith worth the time of either pulpit or pew.

In a post — Cold War, post-9 / 11 world strewn with conflicts involving competing religious postures and contradictory global views, where supposed divisions on lines of race, culture, and faith are loudly promoted and violently exploited, the example of past wars fought in pursuit of religious idealism has proved seductive for some seeking false assurance from continuity with history.

Whereas challenges to biblical faith, world war, the decline of conventional morality, economic depression, and growing expectation of another great war undermined liberal optimism, that scenario made the dispensationalist interpretation of scripture, with its predictions of a downward spiral preceding the second coming of Christ, increasingly plausible.

Paul takes the combative call of the culture wars and replaces it with something better — the exemplary, meek faith of martyrs.

The third root of the U.S. bishops» recasting of the Catholic conception of just war as beginning with a presumption against war was the pragmatic need to find a compromise between proponents of traditional Catholic just war theory and those Catholics who, under a variety of influences, had come to regard their faith as opposing war altogether.

10 / 10... Atheist... Where faith begins, common sense ends... Religion is good for only one thing... TO START WARS... Who says you need a «God» to be a good person with morals and common sense????... Get a grip... Who said He is everywhere??

takes the combative call of the culture wars and replaces it with something better — the exemplary, meek faith of martyrs.

His logic and his faith begin to war with one another, so he begins to sink.

While the editors struggled with the notion of progress because of the war, they did not lose their faith in its importance as a driving force within history.

The honeymoon, that is, between the now enfeebled and increasingly remote souls who for over a quarter of a century had carped and sneered at Pope John Paul II (and by the same token at «PanzerCardinal» Joseph Ratzinger) but who had nevertheless hoped against hope for a Pope who would be somehow reborn if not as a fully paid - up liberal, as a Pope at least who would go easy on all that counter-cultural JPII stuff about being «signs of contradiction» and about continuity with the pre-conciliar Church and who had breathlessly found (so they thought) that, lo, it was even so, in the wonders of Deus Caritas Est. «On his election last spring,» carolled The Tablet, «the former CardinalRatzinger was widely assumed to have as his papal agenda the hammering of heretics and a war on secularist relativism, subjects with which he was associated as head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.»

Some atheist activists are trying to seize the holidays as a time to build bridges with faith groups, while other active unbelievers increasingly see Christmas as a central front in the war on religious faith.

He learned from the social sciences how to «read» the environment of Faith Church, all the way from discovering the social networks and patterns in downtown Metro City to learning how such configurations connect with the wars, poverty, political oppression, and inflationary economies that mark the globe.

The faith - group programs, representing Protestant, Catholics, and Jews, have consistently provided documentaries, dramas, and discussions which dealt with issues almost never touched by commercial broadcasting: the economic factors behind nuclear armaments; the issues behind draft evasion (during the Vietnam War); the real causes of worldwide starvation; and the problems of people who are ignored almost completely by the media, such as the aging who can not live on their pensions, unwed mothers, farm workers who have no homes, undocumented aliens whom we wish to employ but not pay, and refugees we are sending back to certain death in their own countries.

This is such a huge subject that I must beg indulgence, therefore, if I give my space to but a small fraction of the historic faith — namely its main emphases on God, Christ, the Church, and eternal life — and consider only these in our modem context, in the effort to discover what values they may have for men and women who are tossed about in an unsettled world, with an uncertain future, and doomed — almost certainly it seems — to a doubtful truce of arms, at worst to a war which threatens to annihilate man as we have known him and in any event to leave us a bare existence such as we can eke out on a totally devastated planet.

Whenever I'm struggling with doubts about God or questioning my faith, I make sure to avoid my most notorious faith crisis trigger: war movies.

With what secular faith do we match the zeal of militant Islam and combat the enmity of the impoverished peoples of the earth to whom the choice between war and peace presents itself as a choice of no significance?

But the following decade saw this European «bible belt» disappear as an unprecedented wave of prosperity would combine with the spiritual exhaustion that had set in after two world wars to produce a nihilistic consumerism largely indifferent, if not altogether hostile, to the traditional faiths.

The Pax Romana, which was established under Augustus and which for about two centuries, with the exception of some severe, localized rebellions, banished war to the borders of the realm, was of great advantage to the expansion of a faith whose spirit flourishes best in time of peace.

As I've said before, I believe the first step in moving away from a culture war mentality regarding sexuality in the Church is to stop talking about LGBT folks and start talking with LGBT folks, particularly those with whom we share a common faith.

Most recently, they have sought to wrestle — together with people of other faiths — with the awful issues everyone must confront today - nuclear war, hunger, disease, the despoiling of the ecosphere — and to reach into the various traditions as possible sources of values and visions for facing such horrors.

Maybe if more Christians did more to WALK like Jesus instead of endorsing their faith with mere bumper stickers and jewelry while behaving like those they believe are condemned, there wouldn't be a «War on Christianity».

There are many distinctions noted between the various Sufi orders — as to whether they observed seemliness or extravagance in their exercises, whether they were urban or rural, whether they tried to propagate the faith among non-Muslims or wandered about with no particular mission, whether they set up new dynasties dedicated to holy war or the extirpation of heresy, and the like.

The key question facing Protestants, he once wrote, is «whether the original Catholic doctrine concerning the Church, as it stood in universal authority through all ages before the Reformation, is to be received and held still as a necessary part of the Christian faith, or deliberately rejected and refused as an error dangerous to men's souls at war with the Bible?»

Most gay Christians have been deeply scarred by the culture war, and most of us barely held onto our faith (many barely remained alive), so we're pretty understanding of one another's need for a lot of space and grace as we grow in our understanding of what it means to honor the Lord with the whole of our lives (including our sexuality).

The New Testament is in itself all that is necessary as a basis for Christian faith, but much light is thrown upon God's dealings with man in the story of Israel's halting and gradual discovery of the true nature of God as universal, not national; as law - abiding, not capricious; as a God of peace, not war; as a God of justice, love and mercy rather than of wrath, and vengeance.

Changes to competition laws (milk wars discussion and recommendations relating to MMP (introduce effects test), predatory pricing (recommend Minister direct ACCC to investigate Coles for breach of s 46 relating to predatory pricing), unconscionable conduct (suggest it be defined), statutory duty of good faith, unfair contract terms (seeks «recognition of the competitive disadvantage faced by farmers» and extension of unfair contract terms protection to small business), collective bargaining (seeks relaxation of public interest test for boycott approvals in agriculture markets, increase «ability for peak bodies to commence and progress collective bargaining and boycott applications» on behalf of members - and further dairy specific recommendations, ACCC divestiture power (wants ACCC to have similar divestiture powers to Comp Commission in UK - «simpler process of divestiture», ACCC monitoring powers (wants Minister to direct ACCC to use price monitoring powers to «monitor prices, costs and profits relating to the supply of drinking milk») and mandatory code of conduct (wants mandatory code and «Ombudsman with teeth to ensure compliance»)-RRB-.

While Jaime was getting his hand chopped off in war, Cersei slept with her cousin Lancel, who later found religion and ratted Cersei out to the Faith Militant, who imprisoned Cersei despite her position as the Queen Mother.

OrganicMania was included in Nielsen Online's Power Mom 50 «mamaste» category of «mom bloggers who stretch beyond their spheres to explore going green, travel and spirituality,» along with fellow Green Mom carnival member Sommer Poquette of Green and Clean Mom and several other bloggers I'll have to get to know: Traveling Mamas, Mormon Mommy Wars, Travel Savvy Mom, More than Words, Mom of Faith, and Happy, Healthy Hip.

Jeremy Corbyn is plunged into fresh civil war with Labour MPs after their backbench chief accused him of acting in bad faith during failed peace talks.

With the civil war over, Syria will become a model democracy, with tolerance for people of all faiths and respect for the rule of With the civil war over, Syria will become a model democracy, with tolerance for people of all faiths and respect for the rule of with tolerance for people of all faiths and respect for the rule of law.

With this darkly comedic war film Warner Bros. took a big risk, and a leap of faith on Russell.

Then his local priest (Tom Wilkinson) encourages Pepper to believe that with enough faith, he may be able to alter the course of the war.

Fresh off her Oscar for Fargo, Frances McDormand seems intensely uncomfortable in the role of a Russian Jew, while Pauline Collins, Juliana Marguiles, and Jennifer Ehle do their best with one - dimensional war - film constructs (the religious one of quiet faith, the brassy American, the girl pinning her hopes on her flyboy boyfriend).

Faith of Our Fathers (PG - 13 for brief violence) Christian - oriented drama about two strangers (Kevin Downes and David A.R. White) who bond while driving from Mississippi to Washington, DC with plans to locate where their killed - in - action dads» names were engraved in the Vietnam War Memorial.

The true story of seven French Trappist monks who were kidnapped from their monastery in Tibhirine and killed during the Algerian Civil War, Of Gods and Men surpasses the tragically topical by focusing on the monks» faith and their spiritual commonality with their Muslim neighbors.