Sentences with phrase «when religious leaders»

«There may come a time when religious leaders and faith - based organizations generate more interest in protecting the environment and more willingness to demand action, but we haven't seen it yet.»

When the religious leaders were offended by Him hanging around «disreputable sinners» (as one version puts it), He replied that the sick need a doctor.

That's what happens when religious leaders collude with government, as Christian leaders began to do in the Fourth Century.

So when the religious leaders question Jesus» authority, Jesus made a political statement by reminding them that it was John who had first recognized his authority.

God will be more visible and present in our lives when religious leaders show more moral leadership and try to deal with the problems of the world.

When the religious leaders challenged his disciples, «Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?»

When religious leaders deplore the spread of alien philosophies, why do they not have any serious interest in graduate education?

DO NOT accept it when religious leaders tell you it is wrong to question, doubt or think for yourself.

When religious leaders like the Ayatollah Khomeini or Meir Kahane propose to run a country strictly by what they understand to be God's revealed word, and hence to do so undemocratically, most American believers become deeply troubled.

Also, when the religious leaders brought in a woman to be stoned, Jesus wrote something in the dirt.

When religious leaders hold one view (strongly), and the grassroots hold another, it's a recipe for religious scorn.

Now all of a sudden, when religious leaders cry for gun control, they are all of a sudden important to everyone.

when religious leaders enter the political arena that is when they should have started taxing them.

It's a fascinating portrait of what happens when a religious leader's tries to reconcile the demands of faith with the messy world of church politics.

I am also very uncomfortable at church when the religious leader says things I know in my heart are wrong.

Not exact matches

While it's rare to see CEOs here take a public stand (witness the silence of Toronto's business leaders when the Rob Ford scandals unfolded), a growing number of American executives are stepping into the public spotlight, taking stands on issues like religious freedom, gay marriage and gun control.

«I don't want the IRS looming over our faith leaders in the community as they express their religious freedom,» said Texas Rep. Kevin Brady, the highest - ranking Republican working on the bill, told reporters when the bill was introduced.

Either way, the severe Twitter backlash to Lakewood's closure suggests that, when it comes to our religious leaders, thoughts and prayers are no longer enough.

If memory serves me correctly, the bible reports quite often when Christ was on Earth that he sat and ate with those condemned as sinners and he quite often, and openly, criticized the closed minded religious leaders of his day.

I actually agree with you about Jesus showing love to the religious leaders when harshly addressing them.

But there will probably come a point when red lines get crossed and Catholic and other religious leaders declare: Contempt for immigrants, even illegal immigrants, is not a moral option.

No one wants to acknowledge that our leaders have feet of clay, but it seems that when our political or religious goals are at stake, we're not just oblivious.

The very fact that many people believed shortly after events occurred, especially when they could have so easily been disproven by the religious leaders and political leaders of the time, only strengthens my faith.

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 religious leaders of Jesus's day probably considered Jesus rough when He called them a brood of vipers.

And when a fan in the audience — one of a dozen or so selected by the singer's team for a question - andanswer session — asked if he had any advice on how to get through a romantic break up, he demurred, flashing a bit of the humility that every religious leader knows is crucial in establishing a bond with one's flock.»

Although comfortable about rescuing a farm animal on the Sabbath, the religious leader has trouble rejoicing when a bound woman is freed.

I was involved with the Children of God in my late teens - in Texas — me and my ex was married and exploring a lot of religious groups — but I could see how wicked they were when they started separating the wives from their husbands and drinking and the leaders using drugs - so I left abruptly after 2 weeks - if I didn't know the WORD of GOD I would have been a fool of fools.

The Air you breath is One of the HOLYSPIRIT forms so ALL you have done in secret saying no one can see or hear me, HE has and HE is also known as the SPIRIT of TRUTH, all you religious leaders had time to repent for your sins against JESUS since 2005 you know when GOD THE FATHER exposed HIM in the flesh on Earth, the door is shut.

Once, when he came upon a drunken scene, probably in connection with the temple sacrifices, where priests and prophets, as he says, reeled with wine and staggered with strong drink until the tables were full of «vomit and filthiness,» he was greeted with the intoxicated jeers of the people's religious leaders: «Whom will he teach knowledge?

He did the same thing when, much to the chagrin of the religious leaders, he dined with tax collectors and prostitutes and told his more well - to - do hosts that «when you give a banquet, invite the crippled, the lame, the blind, and you will be blessed.»

When the funeral is over, the religious leader has the task of reconciling the bereaved to his loss.

When the mass insecurities fostered by a society in rapid transition reinforce the feeling of vulnerability derived from personal autonomy, people tend to «escape from freedom»; they lose their anxiety but also their freedom by overidentifying with some authoritarian ideology, leader, or system, political or religious.

You pull a number of religious deaths for all known history and compare that to a 47 year period when atheist leaders killed 285 million?

When I was growing up my parents and religious leaders taught me that lying was a sin.

and then they are excommunicated and the fight is over... this is a hopeless fight especially when religion is involved... they either fight for rights and lose it all (and essentially go to hell) or give in and listen to their religious leaders... I do not believe in what they do and could care less really but they are in a no win situation and they as nuns should not be worried about birth control or anything of the such... they took the vows..

At a time when their colleagues who spoke for the church were conspicuously incapable of giving the faith a good account in the eyes of the learned, the Vanderbilt academics preferred to dissociate themselves from their religious leaders rather than take up their cause as allies and persuade them that sound scholarship was God's good servant too.

Soon, when HUGE disasters happen, the politicians will unite w / THE world religious leader to get EVERYBODY on their side.

When one of the religious leaders asked Jesus how he could have eternal life, Jesus told him to love God and love his neighbor as himself.

When we found the dead sea scrolls in the 1940s, great scholars and religious leaders poured over them and found lots of mistakes with our current bibles, king james version included.

When the secular Zionist leader Vladimir Jabotinsky toured Poland in the late 1930s begging Jews to get out while they still could, he found little support from religious leaders.

The only other time that Jesus specifically mentioned tithing was when He contrasted a self - righteous and legalistic religious leader with a humble and repentant tax - collector (Luke 18:11 - 12).

So when can we expect the GOP to let a Hindu, Buddhist, or (if they really wanted to show some class) a Sikh religious leader speak at one of these events?

And though Stalin executed priests and other clergy that he perceived as a threat to his power, later when he, like many political leaders, saw benefit to be gained by using religious beliefs to enhance his own power, he made an alliance with the Russian Orthodox Church, just as Putin has done today.

When Jesus spoke about praying quietly, He was referencing the hypocrisy of the religious leaders, and those who did not practice what the preached.

So when Jesus quotes the law in Mark 7:10 about putting children to death for cursing their parents, He is not necessarily quoting it with approval, but is instead pointing out how the religious leaders were using the law to do the exact opposite of what the law said.

No wonder the # 1 group that Jesus Himself grilled when He was physically here on earth was the religious leaders (read Matthew 23).

(CNN)-- Who can people call when religious doubts arise, but they're afraid to talk to their faith leaders or families?

Since mainstream religions don't control language, their religious authorities simply can't exercise the degree of power over membership that cult leaders can when they make an active effort to reduce the critical capacities of their adherents.

Jeremy — earlier, you wrote — Dave, Just to riff on the United States example a bit more... When we went to war with Iraq, many of our nation's religious leaders said that this was God's will, and that we needed to bomb Iraq back into the dark ages.