Sentences with phrase «20th century person»

Second, Dillard experiences her contemplative life very much as a late 20th century person, heir to the demythologizing that characterizes our time and culture.

Not exact matches

The Bahamian - American physician and special adviser to the Carter Center is one of the key individuals responsible for the eradication of smallpox — a truly terrifying disease that in the 20th century alone killed as many as 300 million people.

As a result, many people believe Carson is a flat - out mass murderer - not a hero who beautifully blended care for human health and nonhuman nature in one of the most important and challenging books of the 20th century.

«Capitalism wn the battle of the 20th Century, but it failed to caputre the minds of the intellectuals or the hearts of the people.»

«In the 19th and early 20th centuries, millions of people came and they went to the Prairies and we fed them,» she says.

No matter what you think of his company and how it changed the world, it took a special kind of vision to be able to see what the world would look like in the future, back when most people were still rooted in a 20th - century, analog mindset.

The saying apparently dates back to the Han Dynasty, but Chen attributed it to the person who popularized it in the 20th century: Mao Zedong.

By the 20th century, governments all over the world were engaged in an endless war on noisy people and things.

Diana was one of the most influential people in fashion in the 20th century.

Cambodia's second - largest city (home to around 250,000 people) doesn't feel at all like the capital, Phnom Penh; in fact, wandering around Battambang, I felt as if I had traveled back to the early 20th century.

The Boston Business Journal named Mr. Brooke one of Greater Boston's 100 most influential business people of the 20th century.

In a famous 1999 Fortune Magazine article, Buffet pointed out that the automotive industry was one of the most innovative developments of the 20th century, changing the daily life of millions of people.

No, over 180 million people have been killed by their own secular humanist governments in the 20th Century.

Stalin killed far more people in the name of atheism than anyone everyone else combined who killed in the name of a religion during the 20th century.

«He was simply asking the question «how do we express ourselves in the 20th century in ways that communicate with people living in the modern world, and a very secular world?»»

In the 20th century alone, more than 17 million people were killed as a result of atheistic movements (Stalin: 7 million; Hitler: 9 million; Khmer rouge: 1.2 million).

Many people are unaware of the Loving couple's story but this epic portrayal of love and racism in the 20th century is part of U.S. history.

The move from the potential «wars between nations» of the second half of the 20th century to the «wars among the people» at the beginning of the 21st century has a profound impact on defence industry.

Also, there was a far larger population in the 20th century, which means people were packed in closer together.

Even in the 20th century world in which people have disclaimed all sense of transcendence, Jung found in his experimental analysis a tendency for archetypes (symbols and myths) to reappear unconsciously in a person's life.

In the case of the creation story you must read it as if you were a hunter / gatherer (caveman) who did not have a concept of time (no watches, no calendars, most likely someone who didn't keep track of how old he was — think about indigenous peoples who had no contact with western civilization until the 20th century).

@Troy in Austin - more people were killed in the 20th century by atheistically - driven ideology than by all religious - driven killings in all of history.

Atheism / communism has murdered more people in the 20th century than ALL so called wars of religion.

When we think of 20th - century political dissidents who were people of faith, these are the names that spring to mind.

There's no evidence at all, that 300 to 500 million people dying from Smallpox in the 20th century, is for a greater good.

What we do has to make sense for the people of God in Chicago or New York or Springfield or wherever we are, in the late 20th century, with the themes of Pentecost VI or Advent I or whatever the occasion is, with all the resources that are available to us within the confines of our capabilities: old hymns, new hymns, music from various periods and of various styles, old translations, new translations, the same and different ways of doing things, etc..

300 to 500 million people died from Smallpox in the 20th century.

Can any 20th - century person recognize them when she sees them?

20th century Communist regimes have killed more people than any other regime type.

«However, I must say that one should not forget the fascist and atheist leaders of the 20th century whose leadership and governments led to the massacre of millions of people in their lifetime alone.»

The same kind of coordinated action could unite evangelicals with other Christians and concerned persons of goodwill to address the key social needs of the late 20th century — if not to solve them, at least to hold them before God responsibly in prayer to seek whatever measure of progress may be consistent with the church's task before the return of Christ.

because you are uncomfortable being aligned with an ideology that has killed over 100million people in the 20th century alone, I should ignore all that... and just declare it a coincidence..

Of course nor (not five people in the 20th century were on that level), but it is quite possible Bergson had that level of greatness in him and chose nor to pursue it, in spire of Lowe's groundless insinuations to the contrary.

All doctrines must be extracted from «the inward experience of Christian people,» wrote Friedrich Schleiermacher, 19th century progenitor of 20th century Protestant liberalism.

In the spirit of this thread let's remember the 8,000,000 people who died in the Belgian Congo / Congo Free State at the turn of the 20th century under their good Catholic King Leopold II of Belgium.

Absurd attempts to conflate atheism with despotic dictators eg:» Atheists have tortured and murdered more people in the last 100 years than were killed in all previous centuries» or slightly less inaccurately: «Atheists killed more than 100,000,000 people in the 20th century» The syllogism: — Communist despots ordered or failed to prevent the deaths of millions in the 20th century — Not believing in God is a tenet of communism — Therefore, atheists killed millions in the 20th century deliberately misrepresents atheism.

---------------- The ONLY atheists you can construe to being culpable for the deaths of ~ 100M people in the 20th century are despotic Communist autocrats, like Stalin and Mao and Pol - Pot.

Several tens of millions of people had their lives cut short under Communist rule in the 20th century.

The point of the Hitler v. Stalin v. Mao page is that the causes of excess deaths need to be understood before people go making claims like «atheists killed 100M people in the 20th century».

As a matter of fact, your fellow white people were creating empires and dominating and exploiting the world until the mid 20th century, and I don't hear you condemning them.

The accusation that people are using an inappropriare 20th / 21st - century mindset.

P.S. Humanists have murdered more people in the 20th century than all the people killed in «holy wars» for the last 2000 years.

Nations that have it at their forefront have abused more people in the 20th and 21st centuries than «Christian» nations.

To make the point succinctly, let me observe that at the beginning of the 20th century most people in New Zealand would have been offended if anyone had accused them of not being a Christian.

To any rational minded person he was spewing hatred that is not based on evidence dated within the 20th or 21st centuries.

we the 20th century are SICK of christian treating people like 2nd class citizens....

In the great journal of things happening under the sun, we, the American people, find our account running under the date of the 20th century of the Christian era.

These jokers try to convince people that our Founding Fathers were evangelical Christians even though the evangelical «born again» movement didn't gain momentum until the 20th century.

If we recall the identification of Christianity and the West in the minds of Occidentals and — hence — in the minds of the peoples of the East throughout the Victorian age and into the 20th century, we shall better understand the critical attitude towards Christianity which Professor Radhakrishnan's writings betray.

And it's hilarious how you dig back 1,000 years to reference fake «christian atrocities» while right here in the 20th century, atheism has killed millions of people... Mao's China, Hitler's Germany (eugenics, science, evolution... «building a better man»), Castro's Cuba, Kim's North Korea, Stalin's Russia... the «harm done by religion» pales in comparison to the harm done by atheism / godlessness...