Sentences with phrase «zealot when»

I have been known to be something of a zealot when it comes to my opinions on life insurance companies that treat their loyal customers poorly, but I am also a zealot when it comes to great BBQ.

APM's editors knew a radio - making zealot when they saw one.

Seems to me we use the word fanatic or zealot when we talk about some of the crazies who run around screaming about their particular religion all the time.

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It seems as if since the religious zealots God is unable to call down lightning as they think he should when they feel we have blasphemed him, the zealots enjoy taking matters into their own hands and attempt to bully and persecute and even murder atheists on their God's behalf.

It is no different from what when on in the middle east, when their uberlords realized it was much easier to control stupid zealots than intelligent, sentient beings.

When will all delusionary religious zealots realize that it was HUMANS (as in mortal men) who wrote ALL religious books, tomes, and manuscripts?!

It's always very funny to see the religious zealots scream about what they «know» their god wants, but when it's an uncomfortable contradiction then «oh god can't be understood» or «who are you to question god» (might makes right?).

Why is the Republican party Pro-Choice when it comes to letting organizations chose what benefits to provide, but anti-choice (incorrectly dubbed pro-life by zealots) on abortion?

When I see white - shirted zealots coming up onto my porch to try to barf Jesus crap on me, I become one rude SOB.

A few others to let the zealots know King is not one of the Borg: «When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, «Why god?

How can you expect agnostics and atheists to sit quietly when the zealots try to advance their religious - back beliefs on every from?

Frightening zealots is a strong term, but surely cause for discernment when voting.

And even when I am tired — so tired today — I am okay, joyful even, in my choices because of the company like Madeline L'Engle, Sesame Street, writers, mamas, believers and zealots, all of us just a bit tired in our thirties.

I'm nice to anyone who shows me the same respect and if religion never come up, no problem, but when it does and I get some type of zealot or another trying to preach I polietly excuse myself, and write that person off as a lost cause and remember to aviod them in the future.

In fact, when it comes to Christmas, the season more often puts us in the role of intolerant, overbearing zealots demanding that everyone else conform to our religious preferences and publicly reflect our inner convictions.

When my favorite Founding Father — Thomas Paine — was dying a Zealot broke into his room and and demanded to know if Ol' Tom accepted Jesus as his «savior».

New Testament Scholars tell us that there are only three historical facts that we can be certain of about Jesus: (a) Jesus was part of the Kingdom of God movement, the belief in the divine sovereignty of Israel, and the desire for the divine expulsion of the Romans, (b) when Jesus came to Jerusalem to advance this movement, he was crucified, a penalty reserved specifically for those who posed a political or financial threat to the Roman Peace, and (c) a sect of the Kingdom of God movement continued in Jesus» name and memory, which was active in Jerusalem, and which lasted until 70 CE when the city was sacked and all the many different Zealot sects there were put down.

And when you look at Jesus» ragamuffin group that included a tax collector and zealot, you can't help but approach this whole thing with a little more humility.

I long for the day when we rescue our government from the zealots and put science and humanism in their rightful places.

It truly is amazing how arrogant dishonest religius zealots like you can preach to others about humility and sacrifice when you have none at all.

Answer... How do you figure religious «zealots» have to put God in every argument when, if you read these comments, the ones who brought God into the argument are those who do NOT believer in Him.

The «christian» zealots of this country like to throw the fact that this country was «founded by moral, christian people» when in fact this country was founded as a way to make money..

At a time when secularists are doing all they can to drain the last drop of Christianity out of this country, I find it insulting that these same anti-religious zealots are becoming muslim apologists and arguing for the inclusion of muslim holidays in the NYC public school calendar.

You are welcome to your beliefs and I respect your right to have them, but when you claim authority from God and claim to know absolute truth, you become a zealot and a charlatan.

And if there were, we know eyewitness testimony is unreliable, especially when that testimony is from a zealot testifying on his obsession.

Faith is a very powerful thing — but it's the faith itself which holds the power — not necessarily what you believe in — especially when it's something zealots have fed to you.

Judging before obtaining all facts invariably results in error, especially when malicious organizations and people are interested in having you embrace their position — just think of all the zealots killing each other.

like when crazy religious zealots attacked the danish newspaper / reporters / cartoonists for printing a pic of Allah.

stop blaming each individual religion as a religion of hate when it is the zealots of any faith or philosophy that ruin it for the others who might find solace in the new experience of islam, christianity, buddhism, what have you.

Yet, we need to love the zealots because they know not what they do and when they do, they usually become suicidal.

This would be an incredible claim to make today, but in an age when mythology was rife and factual accuracy was not exactly valued by committed religious zealots, which the original authors clearly were, the chance that the gospels we have today accurately reflect the life of Jesus is virtually zero.

But if the early church could survive — and in fact, thrive amidst persecution — when it included both Jews and Gentiles, zealots and tax collectors, slaves and owners, men and women, those in support of circumcision and those against it, those staunchly opposed to eating food that had been sacrificed to idols and those who felt it necessary, then I think modern American Christianity can survive when it includes democrats and republicans, biblical literalists and biblical non-literalists, Calvinists and Arminians... so long as we're not rooting for one another's demise.

When in 6 A.D. the Syrian legate Quirinius took a census in Palestine, there was a revolt in Galilee, and the Judas before mentioned together with the Pharisee Zadok founded the party of the Zealots; religiously the Zealots belonged with the Pharisees, but they made their Messianic hope into a political program.

Perhaps these uptight religious zealots would do better to quit referring to a bunch of mythological BS when making their way through life.

These doomsdayers should all be sterilized so they can't reproduce.The brainwashing starts at an early age, passed down from generation to generation.It is programed into childrens psych and nurtured throught childhood.If the Bible is correct - noone will know the day or hour this will happen, It also says you can not add or take out of the scripture as well.It is totally laughable when you hear these nuts running around going against what their own textbook says.This (should) be a huge lesson for these zealots to keep their mouth shut, and stop trying to shove their doctorine down peoples throats - It's why most normal sane people laugh and think what a bunch of BS.

We had a chance to unite Libertarians with Republicans but that was all ruined when the zealots came in with their hair brained ideas.

When are you backwards in bred fairy tale believing religious zealot conservatives going to realize that it is only us on our planet?

-- When Jesus created disciples from different political persuasions — zealot and tax collector — I think that shows a life - style that welcomes all that follow Him and ignores politics;

Now figure out when we hear that voice from the new world messiah who would be speaking from space to all of the sane people of the earth who might give instructions to zealots and religious fanatics, we would see hysteria and social mayhem on a scale never witnessed before on this planet.

Do you really think any social program the governemnt could possibly administer will matter to you when you are surrounded by religous Zealots hell bent on punishing our «Evil» nation for its Crusades and crimes against Allah and are blowing themselves up at a mall, hospital, or airplane near you in exchange for a bevy of beautiful virgins?

Yes, and when that article is on CNN atheists will call him a fool and religious zealots will be forced to defend Obama.

Cumanus, who according to Josephus had been bribed by the Samaritans to remain inactive, did nothing about the incident, and when Jewish zealots took vengeance on the criminals he attacked them.

When you're dealing with a group of zealots who don't require plausible expanations or facts, anything becomes reasonable in their primitive minds.

I guess we are you backup plan for when the OTHER religious zealots retake the land you stole from them?

You remind me of a religious zealot that goes by «hating the sin and not the sinner», when you're really just hating the supposed sin and concern trolling the supposed sinner into submission.

Gosh, I only read Wikipedia for entertainment and it's worst abuses are when something has a cult following with endless zealots fighting for a cause who will undue every criticism of their cause.

Granny Zealot was «born» when I became a grandma in 1992.

Zealot et al. (2000) demonstrated this risk may decease by as much as 40 % when women with multiple cesareans have had a previous vaginal birth.

«[O] ur hearts sink when we see him listening too attentively to interest groups like anti-horse-carriage zealots and deep - pocketed taxi fleet owners.

NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton said Friday there's a «gang - up - on - police mentality» where zealots jump on Twitter every time there's a violent encounter involving cops — as they did when one of...