if any preacher preaches the truth
without fear of people being angry with them then that is where the standard starts.
Not exact matches
«Creating a space in which
people can feel vulnerable means a
person can walk into their boss's office to admit a mistake
without fear of losing their job.
People need to be able to share their ideas and speak openly
without fear of repercussion.
Darling likes to put together a survey at Surveymonkey.com every two years so these
people can give her honest thoughts
without fear of offending her.
«After many years
of taking down Tweets and Facebook posts after inadvertently offending someone in my network and having to censor myself constantly, I wanted to create a place where
people could have frank conversations
without fear of social backlash.
And various academic research has found Obamacare may actually lead to an increase in entrepreneurship, by providing an impetus for
people to leave their jobs and start businesses
without fear of losing health care coverage.
I am passionate about providing a place where
people are free to explore their own faith, discover their own spiritual path, and to do that with the benefit
of community
without fear of judgment, both locally and online.
I think religion is a very personal thing, and
people (including we atheists) should be free to hold and practice their own beliefs
without fear of persecution.
Every
person must have right to leave and or join the Catholic Church
without any
fear of persecution.
I like how in you're very first sentence, you yourself lash out at a group
of people who's perspective you don't understand,
without defending your religion at all, then in the very next sentence say you'll «stop here for
fear of retaliation for defending your religion».
One
of the values
of nakedpastor is that
people can express themselves
without fear of censure or censor.
I value sacred spaces where
people are allowed to seek freely
without fear of negative repercussions.
GET THIS CARTOON I value sacred spaces where
people are allowed to seek freely
without fear of negative repercussions.
I build places where
people can share their own interpretation
of events and give voice to their own sufferings
without fear of discipline.
An awareness
of change and development within Christianity can give
people the freedom to negotiate the differences
without fear, aware that so things were from the start, when Paul told the Corinthians that they had to develop the capacity to maturely think through the complex issues
of life together.
The church can help
people remain stable in the midst
of crises by providing a place for
people to simply name their thoughts, feelings and
fears without having to defend them.
But I've also received a lot
of messages from
people thankful that there is a safe space for
people to process their anger
without fear of being edited or censored or even blocked.
As long as they are humble and open, and as long as there are
people around them that can speak honestly into their lives
without fear of retaliation.
Some who actually took there scarves off from the
fear... I believe this show is wonderful it is making a statement that none
of us are perfect, that we all strive to be better
people, that we all want to raise our children
without hatred.
That order is made up
of priests who have left the Catholic Church behind and now live ordinary lives just ministering to the
people without judgment and
without inflicting
fear upon them.
Last Sunday I invited
people to please speak their minds
without fear of repercussion.
In my role as a «public Christian» who leads a church and who values spirited discourse about the issues
of our time, I want to nurture environments where
people can openly wrestle with their beliefs — but
without the
fear of being caricatured, labeled or demonized.
Can
people not promote goodness and character and morality,
without doing so only out
of fear of the adult santa claus?
You dream
of society
without christianity, that society will be a very wicked society, where kids are killed before they are born, murder and robbery will be on the rise because when
people do not
fear God, they certainly will not
fear the law... and lets not forget the rise in diseases that result from such unnatural behaviours.
One
person would say: A home is God's best gift, the place where love is purest and dearest and deepest, where life's shocks are cushioned by unfailing friendliness, where we are best known and yet best loved and trusted, where we can be ourselves
without fearing to be misunderstood, and where the years deepen the tested loyalty
of those whom we love better than ourselves.
He added that he had often been a customer
of the café and the city was «used to living in a peaceful, tolerant and secure society in which
people may enter a café and order a hot chocolate
without fear».
I believe that
people deserve the right to practice whatever religion they want
without fear of consequences, but I still think religion is harmful.
people should be able to say anything they want
without fear of violence against them.
After all that I forgot even what I thought I did in the first place, And I tell myself that if I am doing all
of that then I care about it, and then I think about it and that it's possible to just go on with my life
without stressing about all
of this... and then when I die I'll go to hell and burn forever... and then at the same time I don't want to constantly freak out about it and live my entire life in
fear of going to hell... My Parents are Atheists and say that I should just live my life
without worrying about it and being nice to
people and being an overall good
person, and I'm not old enough to go to church, so I just repent quietly in my room, Perhaps when I was younger I have sworn to god on things that may or may not have been true, and then I repeat those things in my head, and I would get scared.
I generally put this down to very religious
people (who have been raised with the concept that God is personally invested in them and is a central force in their life) experiencing the thought
of a
person without a religious belief system as being close to someone soul-less:
without morals and
without any
fear of punishment (hell), so obviously less trustworthy than religious
people who have a spiritual Big Brother and religious community watching their every move.
Following Bonhoeffer's exposition
of the Sermon on the Mount, he gives an exposition
of Matthew 9:35 - 10:42.39 Short vignettes are drawn
of the harvest (the
people are
without a shepherd,
without relief, deliverance, and forgiveness) for which one must pray for laborers; the call
of the apostles (who are given power stronger than Satan's and are bound together only by their choice and call); the work (fulfilling their commission to preach, traveling as messengers
of the King, living in «royal poverty,» warning men
of the urgency
of the times); the suffering
of the messengers (as Jesus was persecuted so the messengers will be, but they are forewarned; because Christ will return the disciples are not to
fear man, or to be gullible in thinking that «there is good in every man «40); the decision (man's eternal destiny is determined by his decision on earth for the devil or for Christ); and the fruit (the disciples are fellow workers having as their goal the «salvation
of the Church»).41
People should be free to choose the individuals and groups with whom they wish to associate or stop associating with
without fear of reprisals.
These
people can lie
without any guilt or
fear of accountability or retribution.
«Our prayer,» the letter reads in part, «is that these young
people would be allowed to continue contributing to our society
without fear of deportation.»
What I absolutely detest is the divisive nature
of religious mind control that makes good
people do horrible things
without question based on
fear.
And all
of this... is being attempted by virtue
of the fact
of the very things you claimed to hate earlier in your posting where you said:» What I absolutely detest is the divisive nature
of religious mind control that makes good
people do horrible things
without question based on
fear.
There is a link to an mp3 audio (in a previous comment I made) to show that a church can be open and the
people can question and discuss matters
of the Christian faith
without fear of reprisal.
People fear displeasing their pastor, since his is «the man
of God,» and so often do what he says
without question, because he speaks for God and knows what God wants better than they do themselves.
It is that one social gathering where
people can go and have a sense
of community
without fear of rejection as long as you play along with it.
The Church needs to be the place where truth can be looked in the eye
without fear and
without a
person being pigeon - holed or stereotyped because
of what they might, or indeed might not, feel.
try reality for once and you might be happier
without all that guilt and
fear of imaginary
people.
Two
people can live in the same house for decades
without ever being present for each other,
without ever experiencing a joining or linking
of thoughts and feelings, longings and
fears, dreams and delights.
I am still terrified
of stairs
without railings, but this does not mean that I am a better or worse
person because
of fear of falling.
It is overtly obvious that the Framers wanted there to be separation
of Church and State as they valued freedom... it is the act
of protecting those types
of freedoms that makes our country so great today where
people of ALL religions (or lack thereof) can come to the US and work to make it the best country on Earth
without fear of being persecuted for their beliefs.
Come on Laura, nobody really cared, and most
people think as I d that his reply was just skirting the question because he didn't want to give a direct answer to the question in
fear of criticism from the Mormon Church
of which he is a member, because
without much doubt he probably would be participating in the celebration and drinking a beer also.
The
person who knows joy and awe in God's presence is beginning to grasp the concept
of «God,» whereas the
person who talks glibly about God
without awe,
fear or joy has failed to grasp something basic.
I agree, it should be called «the Atheist Blog» I DO find it very comforting that more and more
people of reason are commenting on here every month, (because the anonymity
of the internet allows us to do so
without fear of being murdered by a xstian) We «nones» are growing in number each day.
While comedians may not experience nerves in the way
people expect, no gag merchant is
without fear of widespread disdain or disinterest.
Vanier offers his experience
of the L'Arche community where
people live by the heart rather than in
fear to show that living
without barriers and in trust is possible and to demonstrate that God loves us for who we are and not for what we can do.
If it was up to me I would have them all killed so the Christian and Jewish
people could live
without fear of persecution.