Sentences with phrase «whose adherents»

Bannon once touted it as a «platform» for the alt - right, a small, far - right movement that seeks a whites - only state and whose adherents have espoused racist, anti-Semitic and sexist points of view.

But what is clear is the religious nature of the mcgw (man caused global warming movement): It is a set of conclusions that can not be falsified, and whose adherents are more dismissive of anything that obstructs the object of their faith.

Steven Kurutz of The New York Times gives good exposure to the small house movement, «whose adherents believe in minimizing one's footprint — structural as well as carbon — by living in spaces that are smaller than 1,000 square feet and, in some cases, smaller than 100.

His preference for natural settings in his later paintings perhaps reflects the belated influence of the American Pre-Raphaelite movement, whose adherents — many of them still - life painters — followed influential English art critic John Ruskin's teachings of fidelity to nature.

To save public education, we must defeat this self - centered and fanatical ideology whose adherents not so long ago were considered extremists on the fringes of American society.

It was Karl Popper who first identified what he called «the demarcation problem» of finding a criterion to distinguish between empirical science, such as the successful 1919 test of Einstein's general theory of relativity, and pseudoscience, such as Freud's theories, whose adherents sought only confirming evidence while ignoring disconfirming cases.

The Bible like any other religious book whose adherents worship the text must be brought down from its idolatrous pillar.

Empirical, speculative, and rationalistic process thinkers differ, we suspect, on the nature of this dimension of experience, the proper ways of analyzing it, and in their conclusions concerning what can be accomplished by referring to this level of experience While all turn to this depth dimension of life, it is not clear that the «deep empiricism» of the rationalists, which yields universal and necessary truths, is the same as that form of «radical empiricism» whose adherents focus on the particular and the contingent.

ponder a minute... the world is overflowing with religions, cults, churches, etc., whose adherents have lost their ability to think rationally and behave responsibly....

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Theologians influenced by positivism, whose adherents saw reality as strictly that which can be experienced through the senses and knowledge as that which can be obtained through a narrow definition of the scientific method, and linguistic analysis, which purported that the only proper function of philosophy is the study of the usage of words and sentences, also treated science and religion as separate realms, distinct «language games,» each with its own set of rules.

The most significant schism was undoubtedly Martin Luther's, but earlier ones had involved the Coptics and Eastern Orthodox; subsequent ones are too numerous to mention, but spectacularly include the Southern versions of the Baptists and Methodists, whose adherents of nearly 2 centuries ago were more persuaded by the Biblical passages endorsing slavery than by the COMPETING Biblical passages commanding love of one's fellow man.

Washington (CNN)-- Liberty University students and alumni are accusing the Christian school of violating its own teachings by asking Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter - day Saints whose adherents are called Mormons, to deliver its 2012 commencement address.

This anticlerical thinking gave rise to a theologically liberal brand of Protestantism, whose adherents were receptive to demands from atheists, liberals, and secular Jews for total separation.

The doctrine of Noahide law, in particular the doctrine of the universal prohibition of idolatry, gave Jewish thinkers the criterion they needed to judge the two religions among whose adherents they bad to live from late antiquity on: Christianity and Islam.

Not exact matches

All of this forms a complex, reinforcing network of content and actors whose goal is to leverage the power of the Internet to recruit new adherents.

Hitchens, too, had encountered religion, but found that it was «not for the weak» but, on the contrary, a religion whose god subjected its adherents to «permanent, unending, round - the - clock surveillance,» a «celestial North Korea.»

The Ottoman Turks were one of several peoples whose early home was in Central Asia and among whom Nestorian Christianity had formerly counted adherents.

«Adherents of the faith should leverage this festive moment to foster unity and continue to live up to the tenets through the acts of charity, peaceful co-existence with our neighbours, obedience to the injunctions of the Holy Qura»n and sacrifice as exemplified by Prophet Ibrahim whose spirit of obedience was demonstrated through his submission to the will of Allah even in very difficult situation.

We are also calling on the President of Ghana, H.E. Nana Akufo - Addo, who is also a known Human Rights adherent, Former Presidents of Ghana, the Speaker of Parliament, Ghana Peace Council, Ghana Bar Association, International Bar Association, Amnesty International and other International Human Rights bodies to intervene in this act of injustice perpetuated against Mr. Sosu, whose works in this country are quite obvious.

Alex Gibney profiles eight former members of the Church of Scientology, whose most prominent adherents include A-list Hollywood celebrities, shining a light on how the church cultivates true believers, including their experiences and what they are willing to do in the name of religion.

One can imagine movement conservatives opposing the expansion of school choice because it allows for the launch of charter schools whose politically - driven missions they will likely oppose (such as, say, Cesar Chavez in D.C. or the charter schools run by adherents of the Gulen Movement) as well as for the provision of vouchers that allow kids to attend Catholic schools.

This is a business whose model depends on the ongoing conscious avoidance of its adherents of the rules of the game.