How To Use Apostate In A Sentence
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They were, inevitably, deposed from office, expelled from the order, and excommunicated - so becoming, ironically, apostates themselves.
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Furthermore she claims the Koran is a text that is 'violent, incendiary, and disrespectful' and says that barbarities such as brutalisation of women, the persecution of homosexuals, honour killings, the beheading of apostates and the stoning of adulterers come directly out of the Koran.
The Freethinker
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The apostate failed, and the once vibrant gods of Greece degenerated until they became mere rhetorical flourishes that permitted learned poets, like Milton, to ornament his verse with their euphonious names.
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The real man remains elusive, a confessant who never quite confesses, an apostate convert to the anti-war school who remains loyal to an American commitment gone wrong.
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The problem is compounded by the fact that pretty much all orthodox religious establishments tend to be well organised, lavishly funded, and take a robust line against dissenters and apostates.
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Then, as now, there were apostate religious leaders; adultery, divorce, falsehood, oppression and cruelty were rife.
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Additionally, it should be obvious that this passage is not commanding apostates be put to death by the fact that the early church obviously did not execute apostates.
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Some were maligned as apostates or heretics, and a few were imprisoned, allegedly for transgressing societal mores.
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And learn from the “main stream” Muslims and the apostates who know it from the inside.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Anti-Islam Bus Ads in Miami
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Those who didn't accept were considered apostates.
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Ancient traditions regarding this apostate leader show that he rebelled against God, and in so doing, created a worldwide apostasy.
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To all those who would curse me as an apostate, let me remind you of that ancient and revered lesser God, Khonsu, some of whose character is embodied in the MOON (Smile) and its wanderings.
Jhvh self destructs
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That said, however, I was not speaking of non-Christians or apostate Catholics in my blog.
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It clearly would cover any incitement of hatred by the religious against its heretics, apostates, or members of other faiths.
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When we say, the devil is continually busy with us, I mean not only some apostate spirit as one particular being, but that spirit of apostacy which is lodged in all men's natures; and this may seem particularly to be aimed at in this place, if we observe the context: -- as the scripture speaks of Christ not only as a particular person, but as a divine principle in holy souls.
Literary Remains, Volume 1
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A typical military entrepreneur of the 17th century, the Bohemian apostate Protestant Wallenstein is a complex and somewhat mysterious figure.
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I wonder, when the real two witnesses arrive, will they be disfellowshipped as Apostates?
In new membership survey, all mainline churches are declining | RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com
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The former wife of the deceased apostate is still living there.
Naguib Mahfouz – The Son of Two Civilizations
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The very name points at 'apostasy,' not so much that the devil was an apostate, as that this devil provoked and enticed people to apostatize:
From the Talmud and Hebraica
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The interpretation of this passage is that ben Azzai died prematurely, worn out by his activities in mystical and theosophic speculation; ben Zoma became demented thereby; Elisha, contemptuously referred to as Acher (the other), became an apostate; but Akiba was unaffected.
Pirke Avot Sayings of the Jewish Fathers
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As Rose writes of the professor, ‘He was drawn to schismatics, fiery heretics, apostates - the lunatics of history.’
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Pagan Emperor Julian the Apostate bemoaned that Christianity's popularity spread primarily through its charitable works: "It is [the Christians'] philanthropy toward strangers, the care they take of the graves of the dead, and the affected sanctity with which they conduct their lives that have done [the] most to spread their atheism.
Matt J. Rossano: The Christian Revolution
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Laws in many Nations have been enacted against those vile practices; those amongst the Jews and our own are notorious; such cases have often been determined near us by wise and reverend Judges, upon clear and convictive Evidence; and thousands of our own Nation have suffered death for their vile compacts with Apostate spirits.
Jerome Cardan A Biographical Study
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He was all in the wrong, no doubt -- a rebel against his king, and an apostate from the church of his country; but he was the same Richard with whom she had played all her childhood, whom her mother had loved, and between whom and herself had never fallen shadow before that cast by the sudden outblaze of the star of childish preference into the sun of youthful love.
St. George and St. Michael Volume II
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Career counselors, she argued, have to find ways to persuade unemployed Ph.D.'s to believe that the outside world is not evil and that they are not apostates if they do something besides teaching and research.
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As the delinquent desperately struggles to test set boundaries, so does the apostate or apostatizing church.
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There he was! to her idea, the embodied evil genius of her family! the sullen apostate from the finer part of love -- the victim of satiety, (as rumour said,) the selfish contemner of women's better feelings!
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845
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If the term ‘Christian’ is taken to include heretics, schismatics, and baptized apostates, it would still appear that most are damned.
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I see there are also websites run by ex-vegans, apostates as it were, who left the fold chiefly for health reasons.
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No member of the Serrataal had ever been permanently disincorporated, but the Wanderer resolved that the Apostate would be the first.
Reap the Whirlwind
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If a person has acted under compulsion he is not considered an apostate, his wife is not divorced and his lands are not forfeited.
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Jews and Christians may ostracise those who turn away from the religion, but Islam condemns apostates to death.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
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The importance of apostates and other religious dissidents is crucial.
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If the term ‘Christian’ is taken to include heretics, schismatics, and baptized apostates, it would still appear that most are damned.
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Any dog’s quantity of it visibly oozed out thickly from this dirty little blacking beetle for the very fourth snap the Tulloch – Turn-bull girl with her coldblood kodak shotted the as yet unre — muneranded national apostate, who was cowardly gun and camera shy, taking what he fondly thought was a short cut to Caer Fere,
Finnegans Wake
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Ancient traditions regarding this apostate leader show that he rebelled against God, and in so doing, created a worldwide apostasy.
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Apostate conceived the idea of falsifying the prediction of Jesus,
Fables of Infidelity and Facts of Faith Being an Examination of the Evidences of Infidelity
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In its message of violent global jihad, al-Qaida rails against U.S. support of Israel and what it calls apostate regimes in the Middle East.
Radical Islamists Try to Exploit Islamophobia
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A soldier, martyred at Antioch, Jan. 353, with Bonosus, a fellow soldier, of the Herculean cohort; they were standard-bearers, and refused to remove the chrismon (monogram of Christ) from the standard, as had been ordered by Julian the Apostate.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman
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Defectors and apostates can't be fined, flogged or banished.
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He was martyred in 362 under Julian the Apostate.
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I am deeply grateful for the legacy, albeit apostate from the church.
J. Michael Bishop - Autobiography
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Unalloyed enthusiasm for anything is bound to be a mistake, so thank goodness for the critics, the skeptics, the second-thought-havers, and even the outright apostates.
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They had charged him as a blasphemer of God, and an apostate from the church; therefore he shows that he is a son of Abraham, and values himself upon his being able to say, Our father Abraham, and that he is a faithful worshipper of the God of Abraham, whom therefore he here calls the God of glory.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
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If the term ‘Christian’ is taken to include heretics, schismatics, and baptized apostates, it would still appear that most are damned.
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Declaring that person an apostate is impossible and impermissible.
The Amman Message
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Elijah was a man of great austerity and mortification, zealous for God, bold in reproving sin, and active to reduce an apostate people to God and their duty; John Baptist was animated by the same spirit and power, and preached repentance and reformation, as Elias had done; and all held him for a prophet, as they did Elijah in his day, and that his baptism was from heaven, and not of men.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
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The early Reformers probably realized this but they felt the necessity of building up some sort of a Church which could bind together its members into a corporate body professing unity of belief and worship, and which, in contrast with the pope's Church, which they called apostate, could be called the true Church of God.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner
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What did it say about McCain's judgment and steadiness that he could careen between a liberal apostate he knew well and a frontier salvationist he knew hardly at all who's the opposite in most respects?
John & Sarah in St. Paul
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But is it reasonable, or just an article of faith in the marriage religion, that apostates must all be cynics or manipulators?
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It clearly would cover any incitement of hatred by the religious against its heretics, apostates, or members of other faiths.
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We still live in an age of martyrs and heroic saints, of apostates and world-weary skeptics.
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A denying Peter, a persecuting Paul, an adulterous cruel David, have been received; an apostate Solomon may be converted; no sin at all but impenitency, can give testimony of final reprobation.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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As C.S. Lewis once observed, ‘I am a converted pagan living among apostate Puritans.’
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The group urged Somali parents to let children learn how to handle weapons and fight what it calls the apostate government.
Undefined
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All of these have been proclaimed as a licence to kill infidels or apostates, or anyone who just gets in the way…
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Some years earlier, Julian the Apostate had recruited Franks as foederati to help defend the Rhine.
Superversive: Gondor, Byzantium, and Feudalism
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Apostate uses the very intellectual tools she criticizes, namely consequentialist arguments rather than arguments about truth or falsity.
The Apostate
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apostate" (as the Hebrew for "backsliding" is better rendered); Judah, not as yet utterly apostate, but treacherous or faithless. also -- herself also, like Israel.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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From this we note that the Guardian too does not regard support for sharia law – which involves of necessity subordinating English law and liberty to principles such as condign punishment for gays and adulterers, second class status and misery for women and the death sentence for apostates (including those to the Guardian’s favourite religion, atheism) -- as extreme.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
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They were, inevitably, deposed from office, expelled from the order, and excommunicated - so becoming, ironically, apostates themselves.
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We may earnestly believe that they're wrong - whether they're non-Christians, heretics, apostates, agnostics, atheists, or what have you.
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But once the Turks go in, you can rely on a large movement of the New-Old Iraqi Army up there to fight the Nato-linked, EU-corrupted apostate betrayers of the capital of the Caliphs.
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He is an apostate from Christianity.
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Unlike communism and socialism, trade unionism has rarely inspired published ‘second thoughts’ by embittered apostates.
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Religion is also uncertain; some of the Picts may have been Christian from an early date given the reference to 'apostate Picts', but Bridei had a 'mage' - presumably some sort of non-Christian priest or advisor?
Pictish female names
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At least until New Year's Eve and Day, which I will also probably use as an excuse, even though Lobster God New Year is actually celebrated on February 29th, or what crustacea apostates call "Leap Year.
Archive 2009-12-01
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One might ask why he wasn’t equally bent out of shape about the massacre of Muslims in Hama carried out by the apostate, Hafaz Assad, in 1982, which atrocity far over-matches anything carried out against the Palestinians by Israel.
Matthew Yglesias » ADL Hits Petraeus
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CAROLYN JESSOP: I was taught as a child that anyone who was not a member of the work of God was what we called a gentile, or if they had left the work of God, they ` re an apostate, and we looked at them as agents of the devil who wanted to destroy us because we were God ` s children.
CNN Transcript Apr 23, 2008