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"sinful" Definitions
  1. morally wrong or evil

406 Sentences With "sinful"

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"Since my childhood I was told that LGBT people are sinful, being a homosexual is sinful but of course ... it doesn't mean you have to criminalize them," she said.
Furthermore, same-sex attraction itself is not understood to be sinful — the Catholic Catechism, the church's official teaching document, formally deems it "intrinsically disordered," but acting on that attraction is considered sinful.
It had to be sinful to interfere with people's destinies.
Many Christian sects regarded sex as sinful, impure, even dirty.
Some saw it as God's punishment for a sinful lifestyle.
After the Shah's government was overthrown, dance was declared sinful.
We must not celebrate or memorialize our nation's sinful past.
She disagreed, categorically; her church said that feminism was sinful.
Before, queer art was nonsense and sinful, now it's fashionable.
The Mormon Church, meanwhile, teaches that gay relationships are sinful.
Human beings are inherently sinful whereas God is morally perfect.
In a sense, what he considers sinful is nobody else's concern.
Harmonizing while singing hymns was considered sinful, and so was dancing.
Growing up in past generations, swearing was considered sinful and impolite.
Western ways, particularly in the realm of education, were deemed sinful.
"We do it because that talk is downright sinful," McPherson said.
The sinful fathers and the suffering sons are back on Broadway.
French filmmaker Jean Rollin was a master of sexy, sinful horror.
We're all hell-bound, sinful abominations Best Soundtrack: I have to thank the fire-and-brimstone preacher who lurked on the street corner near the trailer for repeatedly assuring us we're all hell-bound, sinful abominations.
Hell does not exist – what exists is the disappearance of sinful souls.
In other words, playing a game isn't sinful, but griefing might be.
That website showed what these sinful new snacks look like on Instagram.  
But Moore, a teetotaller, regards moderate drinking as merely unwise, not sinful.
As members of the Church of the Nazarene, they considered movies sinful.
I was 10 when I first understood that sexual desire was sinful.
And baby Jesus figurines are snatched from Nativity scenes with sinful frequency.
A shrinking proportion share their religious leaders' view of homosexual activity as sinful.
" Meanwhile, The High Sparrow (Jonathan Pryce) notes, cooly, that "We are sinful creatures.
The Church teaches that homosexual tendencies are not sinful but homosexual acts are.
No, clericalism is the abuse of the office of cleric for sinful purposes.
He said he does not believe that whites are more sinful than others.
He was asked repeatedly by interviewers whether he thought that gay sex was sinful.
The kind of sinful things that can taint entire lives and wreck whole families.
It is sinful for a priesthood holder to derive pleasure from the sex act.
"The Bible portrays all people as broken and confused, lost and sinful," he said.
Many foods were sinful, but all of it became forbidden fruit after 7 p.m.
I no longer define food as whole or clean or sinful or a cheat.
Colorado, they say, cannot compel Mr. Phillips to support something he regards as sinful.
"The sinful hands that carried out this crime will not escape punishment," said Bozom.
But some sectors of Israeli society, including the ultra-Orthodox, view homosexuality as sinful.
" Dolnick adds more names to the roster: "Kant proclaimed masturbation more sinful than suicide.
They regard any strategic territorial compromise entailing a withdrawal of Israeli sovereignty as sinful.
People who abstain from eating meat, drinking alcohol and sinful behavior will be blessed.
But the nuns and others say that this still makes them complicit in sinful behaviour.
It's also the good news that God has reconciled sinful human beings to one another.
The Church teaches that homosexual tendencies are not sinful in themselves, but homosexual acts are.
So I thought that if I was having anxiety, it was because I was sinful.
Even the scandalized chatter of the townspeople, who frown at this sinful setup, dies away.
When Toscanini was young, a night at the opera was an occasion for sinful fun.
" It is this same sort of compulsion that Thomas Jefferson famously called "sinful and tyrannical.
Earthly delights await a congregation for which "luxurious fare is sinful," as Philippa puts it.
Suicide is wrongly seen as a character or moral flaw — or even a sinful act.
Hawley's love for Loo is tender and pure, a reprieve from an otherwise sinful existence.
We had first gone to him to confess what we then considered our sinful relationship.
Zia ul-Haq in 1978, many forms of entertainment began to be perceived as sinful.
A Facebook user claimed the gang rape and murder of Ahok's supporters would not be sinful.
Flour's true crime was being used as an ingredient in decadent, delicious, and therefore sinful, foods.
He favoured a pan-African jihad to replace sinful secular regimes with the rule of God.
Not to his sins, exactly — Negan doesn't see killing people like Glenn and Abraham as sinful.
The resulting mix of high and low tech (and sinful ukulele playing) are a real treat.
My former boss would often state: "Waste is sinful," which I interpreted as time is wasted.
They banned all forms of public entertainment - from concerts to football matches - that they considered sinful.
She also recorded an album, "Songs I Taught My Mother: Silly, Sinful & Satiric Selections," in 225.
Did he have sinful desires that he was required to overcome when tempted by the devil?
If we didn't, other students would judge us, and would spread rumors of our sinful ways.
The Gospel is good news that God has reconciled the sinful human race to himself through Jesus.
Nigeria is evenly split between Islam and Christianity and much of the population views homosexuality as sinful.
Having sex with the "Sinful Messiah," Schacknow preached, was the only way one could achieve eternal salvation.
That program taught prisoners that masturbation, homosexuality, and premarital sex—not to mention Dungeons & Dragons—were sinful.
The virgin birth only becomes important if you have a theology in which sexuality is considered sinful.
The Church teaches that having homosexual urges is not sinful but people must not act on them.
Crowds posed beside placards claiming that it is sinful for Muslims to vote for a kafir, or infidel.
They make hitting snooze in the morning feel less sinful and gives you multiple chances to reinvent yourself.
Our society tells us that pleasure is bad and sinful, when in fact pleasure is healing and sustaining.
Cruz's rally featured Phil Robertson, star of the reality show "Duck Dynasty" who has condemned homosexuality as sinful.
But we are against proclaiming what according to the scripture and tradition is sinful, proclaiming it as norm.
There, I was exposed to a more liberal society -- one where being gay wasn't entirely sinful or shameful.
They closed schools, because Western education is sinful, and carried off young girls, because holy warriors need wives.
Let us make it clear that robbing people of their right to vote is sinful, shameful and unacceptable.
Christians are human and we are sinful people no matter how hard we try to not to sin.
Those jeans were a hair shirt: a reminder of my sinful inadequacy, somehow manifested as such shameful abundance.
It displayed her as an angel on the cover with wings, but the album's content was much more sinful.
But a sober patriarch committed to a moral code that, crucially, treats domestic violence as sinful can provide stability.
A prominent Saudi cleric has prohibited the use of filters on the popular Snapchat app claiming they are "sinful".
It is therefore as much to be forbidden as more obviously sinful activities like indulging in alcohol or gambling.
He helped them maintain faith in themselves as political actors in a troubled—what he termed a sinful—world.
And by racism -- the insidious and utterly sinful belief that some people are somehow born worth more than others.
Near the end of the film, Dusty rejects sinful pyrotechnics, and recommits himself to the path of musical righteousness.
I defend equality rights that she views as sinful, and I even cuss and have a beer on occasion.
The teacher then told the student that it was sinful for two men to live together, the father said.
Church never felt much more like virtue than drugs did, and drugs never felt much more sinful than church.
I admire Paul's devotion to the Sinful Gods of unfair play, even if I don't worship those gods myself.
At a time when several states still banned gay sex, many Americans saw AIDS as a punishment for sinful behaviour.
Muslims who commit themselves to a few of the faith's rigorous tenets, but largely lapse into measures of sinful living.
Apple's recent efforts in that department are downright sinful, while Google has produced something that's equal parts comfortable and functional.
Visitors will leave marvelling at—and, in some cases, maybe despairing of—entrancing, infuriating, perilous, comforting, sinful, sacred, seductive Italy.
Penelope recruited him to wander around Riverdale for a reign of terror while he killed those who they deemed sinful.
That quickly disappeared, however, when I met a German woman who was selling borderline-sinful chocolate cake at the market.
The tobacco and alcoholic beverages companies already push products that are age-regulated and seen by some people as sinful.
The Church teaches that homosexuality is not sinful but homosexual acts are, and that homosexuals should try to be chaste.
If he had broke the law then he would have been sinful and he would not have been our Messiah.
If He had broken the law, then He would have been sinful and He would not have been our Messiah.
If He had broken the law then He would have been sinful and He would not have been our Messiah.
Some religions, notably including the Catholic Church, believe sex is sinful if it precludes the possibility of producing a baby.
Was refusing her, as a divorced woman, the right to take communion -- and casting her as a sinful outsider -- moral?
The precepts of Social Christianity were simple: Individuals could be sinful, but so could systems — especially capitalism and white supremacy.
The church's teaching that gay sex is sinful has clearly coexisted with and encouraged powerful gay subcultures in the priesthood.
Raised Catholic, I internalized an obsession with the body — especially the female body, with all its sacred and sinful potential.
But my nosey curiosity has encouraged me pursue those who strayed from the path, and to ask about their sinful flirtations.
Some Protestants saw boozing as sinful, while others fretted about the social dangers of letting immigrants and the poor get drunk.
In the eyes of God, whether you're murdering someone or telling a white lie is roughly equivalent, because both are sinful.
The Church teaches that homosexual tendencies are not sinful but homosexual acts are, and that homosexuals should try to be chaste.
The twists and turns are, in this view, entirely sinful—what drives us from paradise, not what reminds us of it.
And although devoutly religious monotheists condemn amulets as superstitious and therefore sinful, talismans remain extremely common in homes of every faith.
Could we ignore the art of Shakespeare, Michelangelo and Mozart if we learned that these artists lived "ignoble" or "sinful" lives?
Afghanistan: Fights involving dogs, birds and camels feed the Afghan love of animal "sports," although religious leaders decry them as sinful.
Many are inclined to stick by the man they had long trusted, despite the sinful acts he has been accused of.
Not until 1969 did the Catholic Church's cease to identify her with the "sinful woman" who anoints Jesus' feet in Scripture.
The faith the Pences profess does, indeed, oppose equality for gay people and regard everything outside of heterosexuality aberrant and sinful.
Faced with these expectations, I really did question whether my habits were sinful: Was I being selfish by staying up late?
"They [the government] still say dance is sinful so you must not dance, unless you pay bribes, and then you can dance, but only in secret... Because it's sinful..." Dancers still have to keep their lessons secret from their families, teachers continue counting out the beat in silent rooms, and shoemakers remain few and far between.
Look out for more information about the Sinful Shine King Kylie Collection on the Kylie Cosmetics site (formerly the Kylie LipKit site).
"This gooey sandwich tastes like a sinful lunch, but you're still getting some veggies!" says the author of the Siriously Delicious cookbook.
It also misses a point that Mr Johnson understands very well: the thing about sinful behaviour is that it is often pleasurable.
He takes on her persona to kill the women he is attracted to, to punish them for making him feel sinful lust.
Trump did well in his Mexico trip, though he was not spiritually cleansed of his sinful, vitriolic rhetoric and immigrant fear-mongering.
"If you think that your sinful crime that you committed in Abbottabad has passed without punishment, then you thought wrong," he says.
Modern society is not innately more sinful than our grandparents; it's just that our grandparents didn't have access to as much sin.
Some religious groups objected, saying that providing the required notice still made them complicit in what they considered to be sinful conduct.
"This is a sinful nature," she said of homosexuality, still wearing her ruffled church clothes and high heels after church on Sunday.
The church teaches that gay tendencies are not sinful but that gay acts are, and that gays should try to be chaste.
All the top brands are up for grabs, including Essie (we highly recommend the new Summer collection), Sinful Colors, and Sally Hansen.
That is a basic tenet of Christianity — we know we are all deficient and sinful, and only God's grace can heal us.
There's something penetratingly sad about our need to be reassured that a "sinful" chocolate cake is not literally going to damn us.
Also that year, Rocco Buttiglione, an Italian nominee to become the justice and home affairs commissioner, acknowledged considering homosexuality to be sinful.
"I tried to read the Bible, and I prayed to change the sinful desires," Mr. Domen told a radio interviewer in 503.
"It was sinful in my mind what had happened," said Mr. Ruddy, the chairman of Newsmax, who visited Mr. Kerik in prison.
Hindus, Sikhs and Muslims Vaishnavism, the major branch of the Hindu faith, considers the killing of animals, especially cows, to be sinful.
Sick of being a pawn in the sinful story she was given, and motivated by her wits and pain, she disrupts her surroundings.
By contrast, the beliefs that homosexuality is sinful, or that women belong at home, just about lie within the sphere of legitimate discussion.
At a gathering at Jakarta's biggest mosque, several speakers claimed it was "haram", or sinful, for Muslims to vote for a non-believer.
Gay men were sacked from jobs in government and left to die in an epidemic many considered a punishment for their "sinful" behaviour.
" He also railed against compelling people "to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves is sinful and tyrannical.
He is both far closer than most novelists to sinful conduct, and more willing to speak the language of moral and religious judgment.
In it, humans are the sinful, screwed up characters, while the artificially intelligent robots are grappling with the essence of ethics and morality.
The text reflects the common Puritan belief that dancing is a sinful and promiscuous activity, one that increases the temptation to commit adultery.
Then, after ranking by individual sin, all seven were added up, creating a list of the most and least sinful cities in America.
In Chicago, the Reverend Otis Moss III has championed environmental causes and defended same-sex marriage when other black clergy deemed it sinful.
During this time, increasingly risque pop stars like Madonna, Cyndi Lauper, and Prince added to the idea of sinful youths ruining modern society.
So if I get all of this free of charge, why does it sound sinful for the company to find sources of financing?
The decision, delivered by President Dallin H. Oaks, stops short of ending the church's teaching that acting on same-sex attraction is sinful.
Even in pre-Code films (those made before censorship ruled Hollywood studios) like "Should Ladies Behave" (37), she was more curious than sinful.
Bearing a child outside of marriage was considered both sinful and shameful, and unmarried mothers and their children often suffered discrimination and abuse.
"I started with the notion that it was sinful (to be gay) and that those who practiced it were problematic at best," he said.
Not long ago, instead of being fashionable and cool, it was some kind of sinful thing, almost like you weren't getting the whole book.
"The nature of Zhao Liping's murder was sinful, the plot especially vile, the means especially cruel, the danger to society grave," the court said.
And while Hillsong does not list its belief that homosexuality is sinful clearly on its website, it is documented in its statement of faith.
But because poor people tend to spend a higher proportion of their income than others on things deemed sinful, such taxes hit them hardest.
Schoolteacher Eleanor Browning kept edging into the Mariposa and trying to talk the madam, Roslyn, and her staff into giving up their sinful ways.
"Greenleaf," a sudsy family saga with Oprah Winfrey as both an executive producer and a cast member, exposes sinful deeds in a Memphis megachurch.
Therefore, it is not a religious obligation to work towards a caliphate, nor is it sinful to live as a Muslim without a caliph.
All sex (except for heterosexual marital sex) is considered innately sinful and to be avoided, and participation in it corrupts and contaminates both participants.
It isn't necessary to think of these tendencies as being part of a sinful nature to understand that they are endemic to human life.
This year, the Mormon Church, which teaches that gay relationships are sinful, announced an end to its 105-year partnership with the Boy Scouts.
During an intense scene, Mary (the rich-voiced mezzo-soprano Sara Murphy) expresses abject shame over her sinful past and desperate longing for forgiveness.
" In 2007, Cathy told Forbes that he would probably fire an employee who "has been sinful or done something harmful to their family members.
According to the Catholic Catechism, games of chance are not considered inherently sinful, as anyone who has played Bingo in a church basement surely knows.
In Islam, there's something especially sinful about pretending your way through prayer, especially if you have the time and the able body to do it.
It's just that for someone not named Beyoncé Giselle Knowles-Carter to sing a song made famous (twice!) by Beyoncé Giselle Knowles-Carter, seems sinful.
Sometimes his gift is godly (such as Jim Carrey's omnipotence in "Bruce Almighty"), and sometimes sinful (as for Ricky Gervais in "The Invention of Lying").
On Thursday, House Republicans stood poised to overhaul the Affordable Care Act, including the pesky provision that protects terrible, sinful humans with pre-existing conditions.
" She points out that Americans have been puritanical eaters since the literal Puritan era, and we still tend to associate any pleasurable experience as "sinful.
The protesters shouted about the biblical cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, which the Bible says were destroyed by what it calls sinful acts, including sodomy.
"Le Villi," though, fascinated nonstop, from the scintillating introduction to the soprano's opening love song, through the obsessively self-lacerating aria for the sinful tenor.
He is also the author of the forthcoming book Food of Sinful Demons: Meat, Vegetarianism, and Limits of Buddhism in Tibet, coming out in 2017.
So when men who aren't divine, but harbor a bit of the divine spark, look back on their sinful lives, Jesus can sympathize with them.
We likewise deny that homosexuality, bisexuality, queer sexuality, trans identity, asexuality, or any other queer identity is sinful, distorted, or outside of God's created intent.
Roman Catholic catechism calls this tendency "the sinful condition," but here in the 21st century, it's more usefully known as being born a human being.
"To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical," Jefferson wrote.
The Little Sisters and dozens of other religious groups objected, saying the arrangements still made them complicit in what they believed to be sinful conduct.
Parade organizers long cited their Roman Catholic faith as a reason for excluding openly gay participants, as the Catholic Church teaches that homosexual conduct is sinful.
Yes, there was said to be a "sinful woman" who washed and anointed Jesus' feet, but nothing in Christian scripture suggests that Mary was this woman.
It all came back to sinful thoughts, sexual urges, and other unholy impulses — all of which, he believed could be amplified or curtailed by certain foods.
And they also had the same thoughts I did, that they were the only ones experiencing this, and it must be their fault, because they're sinful.
Interesting, isn't it, that generally speaking they want to let anyone and everyone come into the sinful United States but they have no interest in leaving.
It is what it is and this is how I bring it to you and it's going to be dark and it going to be sinful.
Though most now live modern lives, they, like the Amish, have traditionally kept themselves at a strict remove from the sinful world, and some still do.
I woke the next morning to find that, despite the previous night's hedonism, I wasn't careening back to my former life of sinful eating and living.
For the uninitiated, these are the most badass mashed potatoes that you could possibly imagine, made with a truly, truly sinful amount of butter and cheese.
If your religion claims that homosexuality is sinful, this logic goes, then why should you be required to bake a wedding cake for a lesbian couple?
Although the Catholic church teaches that same-sex relationships are sinful, growing pockets of the church have accepted openly gay parishioners, staff members and even priests.
Grace — Jesus's salvific forgiveness — provides an avenue by which the sinner can transcend the sinful human condition, something no human being can do on their own.
The affair has left some Catholics wondering if the pope is less stringent about artificial contraception than the Catholic catechism, which teaches that its use is sinful.
Before it left, the group, whose name means 'Western education is sinful' in the local Hausa language, also ransacked schools and the palace of Bama's traditional ruler.
Then, take your first bite and prepare to involuntarily moan with sinful pleasure at the synthesis of smoky bacon, crispy chicken, tangy pickles, and creamy, spicy spread.
In 2013, he gave an interview to GQ magazine in which he said homosexual behavior is sinful, which led to a brief suspension from the reality show.
In 2013, Robertson gave an interview to GQ magazine in which he said homosexual behavior is sinful, which led to a brief suspension from the reality show.
Granted, it may make me a sinful one, but if that's the case, it's just a drop in the ocean that God will sift through one day.
He implied that the people against him—Slobodan Milosevic, Saddam Hussein, the Taliban—were so radically evil that to hold back from challenging them was downright sinful.
Most sinful of all was a plate of twice-cooked pork, slices of pork belly with leeks and slightly caramelized bits of mild, sweet green Anaheim peppers.
That can be unsettling for those of us who grew up without those freedoms, and within systems of bigotry that assailed those freedoms as unnatural or sinful.
And Kate saves him not through any means so sinful and bodily as a pregnancy but by reminding him, tartly, that he is not a pagan god.
Except for those rare cases when an alias is used to keep private a noble deed, people use aliases when they are doing something criminal, shameful, or sinful.
Pinocchio must prove himself worthy of being a real boy when he falls into the clutches of Honest John who leads him astray to the sinful Pleasure Island.
"'Sinful and shameful' - Germany as a whole risks being damaged unless there are new elections in Thuringia," Sigmar Gabriel, a former SPD leader, said on Twitter on Thursday.
If the Black Hood's family was murdered, it could have been for a reason that the Black Hood considers sinful — like, say, to cover up a drug deal.
The Church teaches that, while homosexual tendencies are not sinful, homosexual acts are but it also says that the human dignity of homosexuals must be respected and defended.
Worse, they believe that unless they revolt to take control of countries and constitutions in the name of God, they are deeply sinful and will burn in hell.
Barring some religious groups—which called abortions "sinful" and symptomatic of a "low standard of sexual morality"—New Zealanders in general expressed a need to better support women.
ISIS often markets martyrdom not as a good death for unblemished men, but as a path to heaven for those who've led sinful lives in the group's eyes.
In the past, Ireland's strict Catholic morality made it deeply shameful to become pregnant before marriage, and women would be rejected by their families and society as sinful.
My behavior has been destructive and sinful," Crist wrote in his statement to Christian publication Charisma, after clarifying that he wasn't guilty of "everything [he's] been accused of.
Some people would consider it sinful to squander an hour dully observing a wash-and-spin cycle when all around lie the splendors of the City of Lights.
The interrogation log of the methods used on al-Qatani shows that music, which he thought of as "sinful," was used to agitate, annoy or keep him awake.
This happens, not too often, every couple of weeks and then not at all for a month or two, the sinful man who is proud of his sin.
Francis has not changed church doctrine that calls homosexual acts sinful, but he has shown a more merciful approach to people on the margins, including gays and lesbians.
For decades, they've accused Salvationsts of denying some services to same-sex couples, advocating against gay rights and adhering to a traditional theology that considers gay sex sinful.
Physical education programs don't exist in the kingdom's state-run girls schools, as many conservative clerics in Saudi Arabia believe allowing women to engage in sports would be sinful.
Mormon leaders have been laboring to create a welcoming atmosphere for all members -- gay or not -- even as they hold fast to doctrines that regard homosexual acts as sinful.
The next morning as I prayed, the message I needed to preach became clear: White supremacy, white nationalism, anti-Semitism, and all forms of racism are evil and sinful.
The exact shade is called Endless Blue from Sinful Colors, according to Harper's Bazaar (Nail artist Tom Bachiks shared a close-up of Gomez's perfect manicure on Instagram, below).
Justin Bieber must've felt holier than thou hugging it out with his pastor for 18 seconds ... but it didn't last, 'cause he became a sinful L.A. driver soon after.
Often, LGBTQ individuals are isolated from their friends and family at camps and conferences where they're coached into believing their gender identities and sexual orientations are unnatural or sinful.
On Monday, the Trump White House proposed "a bold new approach" to making it harder for the poorest Americans to waste taxpayer money on the sinful indulgence of eating.
Labeling travel as sinful will not put an end to planes and ships, but it will require vacationers to think twice about how far from home they will go.
"At the heart of this crisis is the painful, sinful and illegal harm done to children by those whom they should have been able to trust," the Very Rev.
"I was not allowed to dance as a child, because I was raised in a very religious household and dancing was considered somewhat sinful," Ms. Tyson said over dinner.
Now, Qadhi often prefaces his remarks about homosexuality by noting that "feelings and inclinations" are not themselves sinful, and that homosexual acts should not be singled out for special condemnation.
It was thought by many in the mainstream of America that birth control was sinful and would lead to promiscuity, it would lead to sex outside of marriage, premarital sex.
Its flag shows the head of a lion, a representation that would be considered haram or sinful by the most extreme fundamentalists who prohibit the depiction of any living thing.
The powerful, vibrating strokes of her electric guitar were a sinful hedonism, seen as a vulgar addition to the somber organ and the mellow piano notes of respectable Christian worship.
This was a rebellious sect—their name translates as "those who broke away or departed"—that split from the early Muslims and murdered their allegedly sinful brothers in the faith.
Goodfried worked to help Garcia with launching her toy company "Craft City" at Target, and  worked to help other clients with licensing deals with Too Faced, OGX, and Sinful Nails.
It's also forbidden for even married people to have sex during hajj, so I'm guessing that any premarital mixing, which Islam already sees as sinful, would be considered doubly bad!
"I have lived my whole life thinking that using marijuana was wrong and sinful, but now I cannot deny that God has used this for my good," he told me.
At a time when this country is at a crossroads, this will become an intersection where the sordid, sinful and divisive past meets an inclusive, hopeful vision for the future.
A GQ interview in which series star Phil Robertson stated that he found homosexuality "sinful" resulted in A&E suspending Robertson from the series for two weeks in December 2013.
They denounced abuse as "unquestionably sinful" and called on pastors and churches to speak out, to enforce safe spaces for women and children, and to alert civil authorities when necessary.
Buttons were just asking for trouble when the eyelet might expose a glimpse of sinful flesh beneath, while any evidence of a woman's waistline, however snugly clad, was downright wicked.
In the ultra-​Orthodox school I attended in ninth grade, I was taught to use the bathroom quickly, lest my exposed unmentionables lead me to sinful acts of self-examination.
And so if someone is placed in a highly influential position and he or she has a significantly sinful character, the potential for that person to harm others is tremendous.
The country also faces a smouldering insurrection in the oil-rich Delta and an insurgency in the north-east by jihadists under the banner of Boko Haram ("Western education is sinful").
Produced by none other than Alchemist for the second volume of his and Budgie's gospel-themed project The Good Book, new track "Brother Jedidiah" is a sinful sermon that's glorious nonetheless.
For all the works of man, which appear faultless when he considers them, feels, remembers, wills and understands them, are, if he does not refer them to God, corrupt and sinful.
The problems of the world, from climate change to mass shootings, stem not from what we might assume (carbon emissions, guns, etc.) but rather from the sinful, fallen nature of man.
Of course people commit sinful acts, because sin is part of the human condition, and of course people are victims of sin without God's grace to help free them of it.
The situation in Chechnya is made worse by a conservative majority-Muslim society where any expression of sexuality that is seen as outside traditional gender roles is considered sinful, Kirey said.
The list of sinful offenses seemed infinite: listening to secular music or watching secular television, saying "gosh" or "darn" or "jeez," questioning authorities, envying a friend's rainbow array of Izod shirts.
She protests too much that she's no longer interested in their sinful past but then arranges for a meeting so she can straddle her dear brother and give him a kiss goodbye.
There are four inseparable requirements for absolving sins: self-examination; regret for having done the sinful act; a frank confession of the guilt; and a strong commitment to act wisely in future.
Additionally, ex-members say Schacknow, who christened himself "the Sinful Messiah," arranged marriages between many of his followers, and forced himself on his female acolytes — even raping and sexually assaulting underage girls.
Some strains of religion see God as very remote: they correspondingly doubt whether any humanly fashioned artistic creation, the product of an incorrigibly sinful species, can be worthy of the Deity's attention.
If you believe this to be true, you're going to have your work cut out for you in trying to avoid sinful thoughts, because humans have sex on the brain a lot.
Using the seven deadly sins as a rubric, the real estate site has rounded up the most sinful — and saintly — cities in the U.S. How exactly do you rank cities by sin?
PiS has ended state funding for in-vitro fertilization (IVF), a procedure the Catholic Church says is sinful, and reinstated a prescription requirement for emergency contraception pills, also banned by the Church.
The religious leaders had said that the players were going naked, and being sinful, so the girls decided to show that they could be pious on the clerics' terms and also defiant.
Because both are equally judged to be "sinful," the reaction to the latter can take the form of demanding that the abuser repent without taking into account the seriousness of the crime.
Luke 22019: 37 A woman in that town who lived a sinful life learned that Jesus was eating at the Pharisee's house, so she came there with an alabaster jar of perfume.
" Estranged from his parents, who are still members and view his departure as sinful, he said Jehovah's Witnesses broke up families and "in the logic of the state, it presents a threat.
The most persuasively sinful moments are on the opener, "Meet Me in the Hallway," another soft musical moment that doesn't bother to find the hope that's on the other side of decay.
"Should we refrain from calling God our Father because some people have had sinful, oppressive fathers?" asked Vern S. Poythress, a professor of New Testament interpretation at Westminster Theological Seminary in Pennsylvania.
Nabonibo, a well-known singer who has released eight gospel songs since 2012, said he had been inundated with hate on social media, with people telling him he was "cursed" and "sinful".
As she confides to the audience in the opening scene, Philippa has resolved to deal with her burgeoning homosexuality by tamping down on such sinful feelings and concentrating on school and church.
The League is a secret society for children whose members wear badges and attend extra church services, and they're encouraged to inform on any adults they catch doing anything sinful or heretical.
Arguing that the mandate clashes with the catechism of the Catholic church—which teaches that the use of contraceptives is sinful—the sisters, with other plaintiffs, have pursued their case in the courts.
Google has so far refused to take down an app, already barred by Apple, Amazon and Microsoft, that aims to convince people that their same-sex sexual attractions are both sinful and changeable.
It's fine as a crutch for anyone fully habituated to touch interactions, but I consider it borderline sinful to get a camera as naturally intuitive as this and use it like a smartphone.
Similar to masturbation, using tampons became frowned upon or considered sinful in cultures all over the world, and it's still taboo in various Christian denominations and many strictly religious Jewish and Muslim households.
For one thing, as I've previously written, evangelical culture is often so concerned with sexual purity that it collapses the distinction between, say, consensual premarital (and thus "sinful") sex and nonconsensual sexual encounters.
" Without specifically mentioning Francis, he argued that a pope's authority was not "magical, but derives from his obedience to the Lord," and that the actions of a "heretical or sinful" pope were "void.
When it comes to the sinful travesty at the border, or to any other unacceptable ordeal, what we want is the truth—however a playwright, or a photographer, manages to get it across.
One such dance fiend is a wide receiver in the National Football League by the name of Odell Beckham Jr. His is a sinful dance, with no regard of his health and wellness.
Khatib, chairman of the General Entertainment Authority, said conservatives who denounced the opening of cinemas and entertainment events as sinful could simply opt to stay at home if they did not care for them.
"Moreover, Khalifa utilizes the term 'most of us' to introduce the audience to the same theme of sinful behaviour with the same expression" in a manner "distinctively original to Bennett's work," the complaint said.
Two protesters interrupted Buttigieg, who is openly gay, during a speech in Fort Dodge, Iowa, shouting about the two cities that the Bible says were destroyed by what it calls sinful acts, including sodomy.
In July 2017, he asked his superiors for a religious accommodation because training a woman would create "the appearance of sinful conduct" if he had to be alone in his patrol car with her.
Strange Fruit's desire to make big, albeit familiar, statements about America's sinful past and do justice to both the subject matter and history often comes at the expense of considerate or even dimensional characterization.
Thanks to new launches from YSL, Urban Decay, Sinful Colors, and more, rainbow mascara is quickly becoming the raddest trend you have to try before it fades into the shadows of history all over again.
Or even worse, women are forced to have induced, clandestine abortions, often resorting to painful and unsafe methods because abortions are haram (sinful) in Islam and only permitted when the woman's life is in danger.
When he comes out to his parents — saying elliptically, "I think about men" — he sees it as a sinful failing and is committed to somehow rectifying it and stepping back into the closet for good.
The Los Angeles Times reported back in 2004 that the minister claimed it's sinful for a woman with kids to take elected government positions because the job requires them to be away from their children.
"We congratulate the two big brothers (Hamdallah and Faraj) that they are safe after the sinful and despicable attack that was carried out against them by the Hamas movement in the Gaza Strip," Abbas said.
"My only virtue is that I'm full of defects," he claims, enumerating his own sinful thoughts on the way to boasting about them and lashing out at hypocrisy and mediocrity — accelerating all the way through.
An abortion after the period in which souls were considered to develop was considered sinful, and might or might not be criminal, depending on where one lived, though prosecutions in the Middle Ages were rare.
In 2012, as working nuns were becoming the quiet heroes of a crumbling church — advocating same-sex marriage and contraception, even as the Vatican continued to dismiss both as sinful — I wrote to Mother Lucia.
For the past 48 years, "traditionalists" have relied on a handful of Bible passages, not attributed to Jesus, that they believe condemn homosexuality and their belief that the church has always taught homosexuality is sinful.
As part of Danspace Project's Community Access program, this performance collective, with roots in the Indian classical dance form Kathak, presents the premiere of "We Sinful Women," a look at the universal repression of women.
Right-wing evangelists such as Lance Wallnau cited that tale in 2016 when they declared that Trump -- a profane and sinful man -- could nevertheless do God's work and was thus worthy of conservative Christian votes.
Why wouldn't she think that silencing them is a good thing, that it is the place of a virtuous woman to be silent, that by silencing June, she is helping a sinful woman to find redemption?
In comments to members of the American Jewish Committee during a visit to the Vatican, he also reiterated that it was sinful for Christians to hold anti-Semitic sentiments because they shared a heritage with Jews.
The Kleins serve gay customers but will not make them wedding cakes because they "do not believe that other types of interpersonal unions are marriages, and they believe it is sinful to celebrate them as such".
By the middle ages, she'd been conflated with another Mary (there are a lot of Marys in the gospels), the "sinful woman" or prostitute named in Luke who washed Jesus's feet with perfume and her hair.
Jimmy Fallon collaboration The Tonight Dough, caffeinated Coffee, Coffee BuzzBuzzBuzz, and fan favorite Cherry Garcia will all be getting sliced and dipped in chocolate for slightly less-sinful snacking (than downing a whole container, that is).
Conservative churches are exerting pressure on LGBT+ worshippers through a "welcoming but not affirming" stance that tells them their feelings are sinful, the Human Rights Law Center (HLRC) and La Trobe University said in a report.
It said while many conservative groups have turned their backs on overt conversion therapy, they have often absorbed similar doctrines into an "insidious" posture of welcoming LGBT+ people but warning them that their desires are sinful.
Jack Black's proggy opener, "Oh Hanukkah," is by turns creepy, sexy, boozy, schmaltzy, clever, slimy, catchy, and sinful—at once an introduction to the rituals of Chanukah and a bombastic reframing of a classic Jewish tune.
The extreme public controversies around abortion in America create the impression that a schism exists between the pro-choice movement and communities of faith: one side is denounced as sinful, the other written off as fanatics.
The case exposed how the church handles sexual abuse allegations, and was followed by news that a church member supervising missionaries in Puerto Rico was kicked out in 2014, after female missionaries reported "immoral and sinful" behavior.
At the heart of all theistic religions is the idea that the worship of, or excessive attachment to, anything or anyone other than God is something to be avoided: a sinful distraction at best, idolatry at worst.
My grandfather would preach a high drama sermon where he would shake his fist at the audience, shouting about the power of the Devil to tempt them through many attractive disguises like sinful movies and short skirts.
But for us Indigenous people he was a murderer, he was a wicked man, and he died a very sinful death which was witnessed by everybody, a story that has been passed down from generation to generation.
Here is Article 10 of the Nashville Statement, in its entirety: WE AFFIRM that it is sinful to approve of homosexual immorality or transgenderism and that such approval constitutes an essential departure from Christian faithfulness and witness.
" At church, where she played bass in the ensemble that performed at worship services, "I was told that they couldn't allow someone like me to represent the church — as if I'm doing something sinful, or I'm evil.
Tim Farron, the party's leader, spent far too much time discussing his views on gay sex (after a week or so of deliberations he decided it was not sinful) and abortion (which in 2007 he said was "wrong").
His understanding of Christianity is inextricable from social justice not just on the individual level — be a good person — but on the structural one: Some institutions and modes of governing (and commerce) are inherently more sinful than others.
Mr Laycock's brief empowers any American business owner to construe a customer's endeavours in a particular religious light—and to refuse service to people who undertake those endeavours, using his services or products, in ways he finds sinful.
They are less likely to believe homosexuality is sinful than their more traditionally religious counterparts, for instance, and more likely to believe abortion should be legal in most cases, even as conservatives call the practice murder and genocide.
"They'd think we add some particularly sinful ingredients to turn the grape into wine—so we'd simply explain them the fermentation process and how it is God that's behind it, not Assyrian witchcraft," Balci adds with a laugh.
I am Muslim — albeit a sinful one for most of the year, during which I'll overindulge without a second thought: eat and drink what and when I want, stay up all night, live the life of a heathen.
And while none of Murder By Death's lyrics read as overly violent or sexual, there's an underlying darkened saloon vibe running through their tales of outlaws and ne'er-do-wells that fosters sinful thoughts and nurtures bad habits.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, which owns BYU, teaches that attraction to someone of the same sex is not a sin, but acting upon those feelings, including being in a gay relationship, is sinful.
Yet the dubious facts of Sheeran's "confession" are folded into a uniquely meditative Martin Scorsese gangster epic, which slows the metabolism of films like "Goodfellas" and "Casino" to reflect on death and the consequences of a sinful life.
It picks up in New Orleans as Brockmire chases his career and sinful temptation under the protective eye of his roommate and producer, Charles (Tyrel Jackson Williams), leaving viewers to wonder who will set Brockmire right this season.
In his book, he sets out to make visible the "forces that rendered my blackness criminal, my black manhood vile, my black queerness sinful," he writes, but despite the cruelty he faced, he suffuses his memoir with humanity.
As Jon O'Brien, the president of the group Catholics for Choice, told Vox, "Abortion has been considered sinful in the church for a long time," and Francis's announcement does not mean this stance will be abandoned anytime soon.
The girls said they started documenting their ordeal a few months after the abduction, when Boko Haram - whose name loosely means 'Western education is sinful' in the local Hausa language - gave them exercise books to use during Koranic lessons.
RIYADH (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia will one day open cinemas and build a world-class opera house, the man spearheading the kingdom's entertainment reforms said on Thursday, playing down opposition by powerful religious authorities to changes they see as sinful.
With Flair, loss was always a built-in part of the narrative of predetermined sports entertainment, the satisfying, schadenfreude-sprinkled conclusion to all of the stylin' and profilin' sun of a gun's sinful hubris for the average wrestling fan.
To put it very simply, Gnostics tended to stress the idea that God could be "known" by those with special and privileged information, and tended to see the human body (as opposed to the spirit) as sinful and evil.
Boko Haram, whose name loosely means 'Western education is sinful', has killed more than 600 teachers and forced over 1,200 schools to close during its eight-year insurgency in Nigeria, Niger, Cameroon and Chad, according to the U.N. agency.
"But you cannot abuse the reputation of a Godly family who had been through hell because a son of theirs — one of their many children — did something evil and sinful that nobody is backing up and supporting," he said.
And conversely, it would be considered far too sinful and tempting a prospect for many of the Iranian male grapplers to even consider, never mind risk, training with a woman – especially given the physically intimate nature of the sport.
The alternative is putting our hope into someone like the Pope, who maintains that condoms are sinful—and the result is that millions of people in Africa will likely die from AIDS as a result because they contract HIV.
It's part of the human condition (through the idea of original sin, human beings are automatically inclined toward sinful acts, inheriting the guilt of Adam's first sin in which he ate the forbidden fruit in the garden of Eden).
Afghan blood sports of many kinds take place unchecked, despite the opposition of mullahs who denounce them as sinful, and growing criticism from an educated younger generation that finds them the distasteful domain of warlords and their armed followers.
But in a country where rigid public morality codes keep most public spaces segregated by gender and discourage women's sports as sinful, the new mixed-gender attraction is a rare opportunity for Saudis of all stripes to blow off steam.
But I rebelled against the church—the first thing I ever rebelled against, my mother told me, was when they asked us to take the Legion of Decency pledge, to pledge that we wouldn't see sinful movies condemned by the church.
Sin City is about to get a bit more sinful, as VR content platform VR Bangers and headset maker AuraVisor are teaming up to offer in-room adult experiences (via virtual reality) at hotels on the strip in Las Vegas.
Especially when we talk about the Abrahamic faiths (Christianity, Islam, and Judaism), defensive theology looks like six or seven scriptures that are consistently used to claim that LGBTQ+ folks are unholy or sinful, like the story of Sodom and Gomorrah.
But it is less forgivable to elide an obvious distinction: Mondrian and Calder were not operating shops open to the public and refusing to sell certain pieces of art to a class of people whose life rituals they deemed sinful.
In the sixth century, the Roman church opined that she was the same person as the unnamed sinful woman who, in another New Testament scene, wipes the feet of Jesus with tears and perfume (the Orthodox church never accepted this fusion).
Humans are sexual beings, and if sexual feeling is considered sinful by the state, the family, the mosque, and the community, the child who begins to think he is different from the other boys will be tormented by self-hatred.
Because getting rid of Wireless festival won't magically delete systemic problems with deprivation or wanting to drink so much you black out or women being reduced to inherently sinful body parts or language wielded as a weapon against marginalised communities.
If you're looking to show your support, you can pick up Baker's drugstore polish of choice — Sinful Colors Color Rebellious in Endless Blue — for $2 — which, might we add, is a cheaper (and more temporary) show of solidarity than a tattoo.
It might not be very scientific, but it's kind of fun to see the results: Hardly surprising to Mardi Gras revelers, New Orleans comes in at number one as the most sinful city, followed by Atlantic City, NJ, and then Philadelphia.
I grew up in an evangelical Christian minister's home during America's "Just Say No" era, which means I spent most of my life believing that marijuana was just one more sinful tool that the devil used to shred America's moral fabric.
But those standards may be less about preventing ourselves from becoming like our sinful ancestors, and more about maintaining the illusion of clean hands — while harsh punishment is still imposed, but out of sight, on souls and bodies not our own.
Yevhen Mahda, director of the Institute of World Policy, a research group, compared Ukraine's recruitment of people like Mr. Manafort to the medieval practice of paying the Catholic Church for "indulgences," which were supposed to reduce God's punishment for sinful behavior.
"When we read this list we are pained to think of the many lives that were impacted by the sinful and unlawful acts of those priests who committed them," Bishop Gerald Barnes said in a letter posted on the diocese's website.
Their little corner of Riverside—ranch houses, pickup trucks, the Sonic ("America's Drive-in") at the corner, the Macy's and Cheesecake Factory down by 230, certainly those self-involved, blithely sinful college students, with all their partying—had no clue.
" He was also opposed to the Gay Games coming to New York, saying it would lead to people being "infected with AIDS," and would teach children and young adults "that homosexuality is O.K., that it is not immoral or sinful behavior.
According to posts on the Facebook page, a small cluster of Roncalli students were invited last month to a lunch with Archbishop Charles C. Thompson of Indianapolis, only to have him stress that homosexuality is a disorder and its expression sinful.
It's past time that we evangelicals prayerfully — and in a biblically informed way — re-examine our position on lethal firepower and challenge the often sinful impulses that find expression through the false security and too-easy relief that a deadly weapon provides.
The couple says Colorado's civil-rights law requires businesses to serve gays and straights alike, while Jack Phillips, the baker, complains that this rule forces him to endorse what he believes to be sinful behaviour and to express a message he reviles.
Schacknow's unlikely rise to power, punctuated by the murder and dismemberment of his faithful "chief apostle," is the focus of the next episode of People Magazine Investigates: Cults: The Sinful Messiah, which airs on Investigation Discovery on Monday, June 24, at 8 p.m.
Broadcast TV delivered to our homes via coaxial cable or satellite or by decapitating a rabbit and scotch-taping its ears to your screen (I'm pretty sure that's how people used to do it, but I forget) still has plenty of sinful material.
Surveying the Specialty Food Association Summer Fancy Food Show at the Jacob K. Javits Center in Manhattan last week meant enjoying that inevitable sample slice of Iberico ham as well as the latest chocolate truffle (this year it must be healthy, not sinful).
If any mention or notion of God truly had been eradicated in Noah, or if the film's protagonist was just worried about the environment (rather than mankind's sinful destruction of all life, including human beings), this particular controversy may have had some legs.
During Islamic State rule, however, most classes ground to a halt, both because the group forbade the teaching of what it considered sinful or irrelevant subjects, like art and philosophy, and because professors and students were afraid to venture out of their homes.
When asked by the UK Channel Four in 2015 whether he thought homosexuality was a sin, he replied, "We are all sinners" (although, following a media backlash, he later clarified matters to say he did not, in fact, think gay sex was sinful).
A few highlights: In 2011, the New York Times interviewed a man who claimed the Salvation Army denied him and his boyfriend shelter in the '90s "unless we broke up and then left the 'sinful homosexual lifestyle' behind," the man, Bill Browning, said.
Or it could say they don't have to cover emergency contraception and IUDs, which anti-choice activists wrongly believe cause abortions, or it could leave the existing rules in place but let Catholic hospitals and universities opt out minus the sinful paperwork.
The story is set in the 16th century, when Pope Leo X, a member of the de Medici crime family, spent the church into bankruptcy in order to indulge his sinful pleasures, conduct that enraged Martin Luther and led directly to the Protestant Reformation.
"Will Byers, who was sort of trapped in the Upside Down for most of season 1, now has a much more sinful role, which we're really excited about," Duffer explained to the outlet at the Emmy Nominations for Outstanding Casting Cocktail Reception in Beverly Hills.
The Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy drama (based on a Michael Crighton film), which launched two weeks ago, is about the dawn of artificial consciousness and what happens when humans explore a world in which every human appetite (even if it's sinful) can be indulged.
Recently I began collecting them, fascinated by medieval preachers who considered wigs, painted faces, furs, and "wasteful sleeve-lengths, as well as womanly pride and passion" (as detailed by Christa Grössinger in her book Picturing Women in Late Medieval and Renaissance Art) to be sinful.
Although the party could still play an important role with Prime Minister Theresa May's Conservatives lacking an overall majority, Farron had been criticised for running a disappointing campaign and had faced repeated questions about his Christian beliefs, particularly whether he believed gay sex was sinful.
If you're young and you're growing up in an area where there's a lot of rhetoric about how it's sinful or how, as some pastors preach, there should be a death penalty for LGBTQ people... Ted Cruz campaigned with a pastor who said that.
Our favorites this week Get going with some of our most popular good news stories of the week That's a funny-lookin' bunny The Cadbury company, the chocolate makers behind those sinful cream-filled eggs, held a nationwide tryout to find the next Cadbury Bunny.
These leaders viewed payday lending as not only unfair but also sinful, and they had fought against it across Trump country — in deep-red South Dakota, on the same day Trump won the presidency, voters overwhelmingly approved a ballot measure effectively banning payday loans.
Although she seemed to be conventional in terms of her own behaviour and attitudes, the press found it useful to construct her as the 'virgin' to Knox's 'whore'—that binary, again, goes all the way back to the Virgin Mary, the antidote to sinful Eve.
DIK rarely addresses politics directly, but even only researching and describing alternative histories is quite subversive, because it fights against the mainstream narrative imposed by politicians: according to them, everything that is considered evil and sinful, including homosexuality, came to our "pure" country from outside.
In a way we are forever relegated to the outskirts of paradise if we buy this notion of who we are: fatally flawed, sinful, inheritors of someone else's mistake, always at least arm's length from paradise, at least until orgasm brings it within touching distance.
Gary Levox, Joe Don Rooney and DeMarcus returned to the Vegas strip this month for their second residency at The Joint at the Hard Rock Hotel, so we thought it was only appropriate to play a sinful version of "Never Have I Ever" with the guys.
Bill Paxton's directorial debut is a slow-building, flashback-filled gothic thriller about a crazed widower (Paxton) who's gripped with the belief that he's been instructed by angels to kill "sinful" strangers—and who recruits his two young sons to help him with his murder spree.
Under the guidance of creator Mike Schur (Parks and Recreation), The Good Place boasted sharp jokes and performances from Bell as Eleanor Shellstrop, the sinful interloper; Ted Danson as her earnest guide and heavenly city planner; William Jackson Harper as her stressed "soul mate" Chidi; and more.
He was no right-wing extremist, having fought bravely with the partisans against the fascists in the war; really he was an old-fashioned Catholic, the Vatican's favourite director for its own events, who accepted that his way of life was sinful but trusted in forgiveness.
"One of the things that we can do not only just in terms of trying to make up for a horrible, sinful thing that happened in our country in terms of slavery, but for our country to live up to who we think we are," she said.
Representations of Jews and Muslims, whom Christians believed sinful for denying Christ, were made monstrous with exaggerated or animalistic features and graceless bodies, such as the caricatured representations of Jews — identifiable by their pointed hats — who torture Christ in a thirteenth-century German Book of Hours.
But he is, at the end of the day, a straight white male who hasn't had to hear every day of his life — as I have for 63 years — someone somewhere telling him that he is unworthy, that he is an abomination, that he is sinful.
Located near the heart of Hamburg's red light district, not far from the raucous nightlife of the Reeperbahn (a street known to some as 'Die Sündigste Meile' or 'The Most Sinful Mile'), St. Pauli is a club which connects with its local community like no other.
Conservatives' insistence that the Bible proscribes homosexual acts and their claim that protecting gay rights infringes on their own religious liberty have depended on another assumption not found in Scripture: that homosexuality is not a biologically rooted identity but a sinful temptation, an addiction that one must control.
To put it simply: He believes bad things (destructive hurricanes, diseases) happen because God gets angry at humans' sinful actions, while also simultaneously subscribing to the notion that historical chaos is itself desirable insofar as it points to an ideal end: Christ's second coming and reign on earth.
They bully and cajole ordinary Muslims around the world with this narrative: Support us in our claims for a caliphate, oppose Muslim governments and the West, and if you don't, then you are sinful; if you speak against us, you are an apostate, and we will kill you.
"We are there to share the greatest news of all time, which is that sinful people can be saved, and they can be reconciled to God by faith in Jesus who died on the cross to save all sinners," Jeremy Chong, a sophomore at Wheaton College, told the newspaper.
The new Mother Divine was white, and although the Peace Mission regarded the idea of race as sinful, nearly three-quarters of the membership was black, and the sudden appearance of a white replacement came as a shock to the Peace Mission and to the black news media.
His film credits during this time included the lead role in "Sinful Davey" (1969), a John Huston film based on the autobiography of a 19th-century Scottish rogue; and "10 Rillington Place," a 1971 drama based on the crimes of a real-life London serial killer, John Christie.
This hip, club-inspired space houses a bookstore, a champagne bar, coffee and tea bars, a coworking space and a restaurant that has an art-filled main dining room, a conservatory with a retractable roof and a menu that includes everything from healthy kale scrambles to sinful Nutella babkas.
Were early Christians tapped to curate the fashion for the Met exhibition, they would showcase painfully coarse tunics that inspired reflection on and penitence for the sinful state of humanity; they would cover every inch of their model's body to inhibit viewers' sexual arousal; and they would highlight menswear.
And with interest rates near historical lows and growth stuck in a rut even as the recovery from the Great Recession moves into its eighth year this summer, even some veterans of Washington's budget wars are challenging the reigning fiscal orthodoxy that perceives the perennial budget gap as something inherently sinful.
" I imagine Bieber scanning Keller's immensely readable prose, drumming his fingers across one of his many Jesus tattoos, letting the grace of the lord fill his sinful heart, his eyes growing big and hopeful when Keller asserts that getting married is "part of the process of liberating the emerging 'new you.
"It is in fact a thing called haram to break your word to someone; it is sinful to break your word, and there is a much greater tradition of oral agreements than we would contemplate in our business life orientated west," Mr. Ahmed's lawyer Stephen Nathan said in his opening submissions.
Although Moore's stance on homosexuality reflected the wider SBC belief that gay sex is a sin, his outreach focused on how best to ensure LGBTQ teens in Christian families maintained links to their home and community, and how Christian churches could welcome its gay members without condoning what he saw as sinful actions.
It definitely makes sense that Gilead would go out of its way to find reasons to punish fertile woman so that it can turn them into Handmaids, so that even women who lived like nuns (minus the sinful Catholicism) could be in danger of getting turned into Handmaids if they could have children.
It's likely that the majority of those reminders will come from someone like my cousin Abdul, who regularly takes it upon himself to remind me—via WhatsApp, Facebook, and Twitter—that it is indeed Ramadan and that I should avoid all sinful acts, like talking to women or going to the bar.
Looking back at the examples of Ted Haggard or the administration at Oral Roberts, it's easy to see how some Christians think that a certain kind of legalism will protect them from ever engaging in sinful behavior — and how, in Haggard's case, they go to wild lengths to keep from being found out.
What he did do in 2016 was build a successful network of conservative evangelical surrogates who told parishioners to ignore his colorful, some might say sinful, life in favor of his promise to appoint judges that would promote conservative Christian principles over pluralistic ideals of religious freedom more in tune with mainstream America.
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"His sound bites are often incendiary, but his convictions — including the exclusivity of the gospel and the belief that homosexual behaviors are sinful — are clearly within the mainstream of American evangelicalism," R. Albert Mohler, a leading Southern Baptist, said in 2013, after former NFL quarterback Tim Tebow backed out of an event at Jeffress' church.
As public opinion -- and scientific understanding -- on sexuality has shifted with remarkable speed, many denominations, including Mormon leaders, have had to grapple with a difficult question: How do they maintain traditional doctrine that homosexual acts are sinful, while accepting and ministering to gay and lesbian Mormons who sincerely wish to remain part of their church?
" Among Return to Order's concerns are the series featuring an angel and a demon as close friends, "God is voiced by a woman," the antichrist is "portrayed as a normal kid that has special powers," and the "four riders of the Apocalypse, God's means of punishing sinful earth, are portrayed as a group of bikers.
The function of the world upside down imagery in Bach's Lutheranism, as in scripture, was not to foment earthly upheaval, but to inspire heavenly comfort: The hierarchies of this sinful world are a necessary injustice for the sake of order, but, in light of the equality that awaits the blessed in paradise, they are ephemeral.
These leftists believed they were putting into place a sophisticated neo-Marxist politics — they talked about the proletariat and the cultural revolution and quoted from Chairman Mao's "Little Red Book" — but their activity most clearly resembled that of 260th-century American Protestant sects who imagined themselves as congregations of visible saints in a sinful world.
But if you haven't gotten your hands on Kylie's products yet, or lipstick just isn't your thing, you can still get it on the action: Jenner's newest foray into beauty, a 20-piece nail polish collaboration with Sinful Colors, just launched (and is still available!), so your tips can be touched by King Kylie as well.
That I was subjected to brainwashing tactics that forced me to stare at an empty chair and yell at a father I was supposed to hate; that I was told my "urges" were sinful, hateful to God, an abomination; that I was forced to play sports in order to become more masculine: these seem impossible realities.
Much of Aaron's music draws directly on the pop-punk and emo he grew up on in Goshen, Indiana—first through the Tooth & Nail and Solid State bands that his Christian family permitted him to listen to, and then through their sinful equivalents that he found once he got on Myspace and out from under their watchful eye.
To distract himself from the urgency of this question, George accepts an invitation to Taylor's parents' beach house and spends a weekend looking tanned and expensive, beautiful and happy, and not at all like a poor boy from Chicago who once walked the streets pleading with the lost and the sinful to join him in the bosom of Christ.
Trump signed an executive order earlier this month instructing HHS and other departments to "address conscience-based objections" to the mandate, which faced strong opposition from groups and employers such as the Little Sisters of the Poor, who argue it violates Roman Catholic doctrine and puts them in a position of participating in something they considered sinful.
Rather, had I never gone to Cairo, I could see myself instead ending up at a hipster-approved NYC megachurch—one where the worship leaders wear queer-derived fashion while they wring their hands over their choir members' "sinful" gay relationships By the time I was 17, I had seen a pride parade, but never a communal Friday prayer.
But instead of setting a new norm, the pope simply offers a stronger invitation to generous pragmatism; he affirms that even in personal situations that seem improper or sinful according to the rule-book, people can be "living in God's grace" and "receiving the church's help"; and this help can include the church's sacramental rites, of which the Eucharist is the most important.
If the Israel Anti-Boycott Act would violate the free speech rights of a person who refuses to do business with Israelis because he or she believes Israel mistreats Palestinians, then the Colorado civil rights act violates the free speech rights of a baker who refuses to sell wedding cakes to same-sex couples because he believes that same-sex marriages are sinful.
The rigorously enforced silence about sex that leaves young girls vulnerably ignorant; the insistence on absolute obedience that empowers predators; the mind-set that grants men the power to dominate and women the duty to submit, and that excuses the indiscretions of men even as it blames girls for their sinful provocations — these are common to all forms of fundamentalist religions.
Constance: The scene where the Commander talks about June and Luke's affair really was fascinating: For the first time, he became clear to me as someone who probably sincerely believes that Offred is a sinful slutty adulteress for sleeping with a married man, and who also sincerely believes that repeatedly ritually raping a woman he owns in front of his wife just makes him an upstanding husband.
President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE's spiritual adviser Paula White said this week that Jesus would have been sinful and "would not have been our Messiah" if he had broken immigration laws.
While many missionaries travel to remote villages in Africa or South America to spread Christianity, Covell believes her calling—her mission field, if you will—is right here in Los Angeles, in an industry that many of her fellow Christians find immoral or even downright sinful, both for its onscreen depictions of sex and drugs and the real-life sex, drugs, and other temptations that exist behind-the-scenes.
Do we not see in somewhat less grotesque form the same lack of humanity in telling the unemployed that they are lazy, pregnant women that their bodies are not their own, black Americans that the first black president wasn't an American, gay people that their love is sinful and second rate, and helpless and traumatized victims of war that they are terrorists and that the great lady in New York Harbor is blind to them?

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