Sentences with phrase «absolute evil in»

The problem with this «end justifies the means» argument — where the means involved is the abhorrent use of a pejorative descriptor to devalue the arguers of alternative points of view rather than their arguments at the political and social level — is that it is as close to absolute evil in social and public discourse as it is possible to get.

In the design document for Metal Gear Solid 2, written in the months following MGS's success, there is a section explaining the concept of «Absolute Evil in MGS2.»

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While all evidence, logic and reasoning point to a Creator and absolute truth, you prefer to hide behind relativism and a theory of evolution which does not, in fact, describe the creation of the universe at all, or why concepts of good and evil or morality exist.

As a man of Faith, I can tell you that I believe in Satan a much as I believe in God — for the very simple reason that I have encountered evil — utter, absolute, and in my face — but the spiritual dimension can not be taught — at all.

If we know that totalitarian mass murder is evil, and that those who acquiesced in it deserve damnation, then we know something about that absolute evaluator as well.

In such cases, the only culturally available icon of absolute evil — a precious thing for any culture to possess — is dangerously debased.

Buber's philosophy of dialogue has made possible a new understanding of the problem of evil because it has reaffirmed the basic significance of the personal relation between the Absolute, the world, and man as against the tendency to submerge man in a mechanistic universe or to reduce God to an impersonal and indirect first cause, an abstract monistic absolute, or an immanent vitaAbsolute, the world, and man as against the tendency to submerge man in a mechanistic universe or to reduce God to an impersonal and indirect first cause, an abstract monistic absolute, or an immanent vitaabsolute, or an immanent vital force.

Absolute, arbitrary, manipulative authority — power over others — is an evil thing; it belongs neither in the state nor in the family.

Does this new emphasis on a «radical» and «substantive» evil mean that we can no longer place Buber in that middle position which regards evil as real but redeemable, thus refusing to ascribe to it an absolute and independent reality?

The absolute affirmation of the self in the second stage of evil is an extreme form of man's hiding from the «signs» which address him.

But he has never considered evil an absolute, nor has he lost faith in its possible redemption.

Based upon the absolute belief in the primacy of the spirit, it taught that only spirit is truly real; consequently such things as evil and pain really do not exist.

Moreover, in situations where one faces relative rather than absolute evil, nonviolent resistance is the most promising instrument of success.

Precisely because this God continues to direct and command through his Word alone; because he never constrains in an absolute manner, and because he takes into account everything humankind does, including evil.

Provine blamed the scientific establishment itself for misleading the public about the absolute incompatibility of contemporary Darwinism with any belief in God, designing forces, or absolute standards of good and evil.

Since the nature of God is absolute good, and everything is God - Substance, there can be no evil in reality.»

Communist evil, Niebuhr said, resulted from its monopoly of power (absolute power over other men producing evils worse than injustice), its utopianism (attribution of the source of evil to something outside man — private property), its faith in revolution (a substitute religion), and its dogmatism (ideology masquerading as science).

Authors in this camp clearly establish the view that the power of evil is limited, and that the power of good (or God) is the absolute authority which sets the limits.

2.9 - Il), in which evil, disease, and discord should diminish to a vanishing point in a «heaven and earth» which are essentially «new» (cf., Rev. 21: 1), or a «final ramification» in which evil grows beside good, its equally capacitated shadow side in the evolutionary advance, until the ultimate paroxysm in which the good receives absolute vindication and the evil is self - excluded from Omega's consummation (PM 288; cf. Matt.

«The doctrine of absolute non-resistance to evil is not enunciated here: the issue is one of individual conduct in specific circumstances» (Hill, p. 127).

So far did this Calvin of the Old Testament carry his rigorous logic that he denied the possibility of inheriting evil's consequence and asserted that absolute justice is done to all individuals here and now in this present world.

Assuming the omnibenevolence of Whitehead's God (that God wills the best for each actual occasion), in order for all evil to be merely apparent, there has to be an absolute conformity between God's will and what transpires in the actual world.3 For if the actual world fails to conform to God's aim, then actualizations will have occurred in the place of which other actualizations would have been better.

Atheists overstate the case when they accuse organized religion of all or the bulk of humanity's true mass evils, but organized religion forms a natural class with other fanatical belief systems that demand unwavering faith in absolutes.

Hence, the dominance of destructive discord, but not destructive discord in itself, is evil in an absolute or unequivocal sense.

Thus, the idea that evil, in an absolute sense, is required and justified in Whitehead's cosmology is mistaken.

Without casting Enlightenment rationalism as categorically evil, Wright details some of the problematic consequences of Enlightenment assumptions regarding the biblical text: false claims to absolute objectivity, the elevation of «reason» («not as an insistence that exegesis must make sense with an overall view of God and the wider world,» Wright notes, «but as a separate «source» in its own right»), reductive and skeptical readings of scripture that cast Christianity as out - of - date and irrelevant, a human - based eschatology that fosters a «we - know - better - now» attitude toward the text, a reframing of the problem of evil as a mere failure to be rational, the reduction of the act of God in Jesus Christ to a mere moral teacher, etc..

But it may also be the case, perversely enough, that it was in part the inexpungible stain of his involvement in such absolute evil that forced him to contemplate the nihilism of his age with such untiring persistence.

Married 29 years — I am Christian and have never had a problem in the passion department — never felt guilty for returning to the Garden of Eden with my husband as a respite from this evil world — I've always found absolute joy and satisfaction with him — and I still think he's the hottest guy around — thank You Jesus for giving me this awesome blessing

Since God is embodied in the world, there is no absolute but only relative evil.

Eschewing CG entirely, in favour of sticky, stretchy, horrendously grubby practical effects and enough blood to drown on, Evil Dead 2013 is an absolute carnival of slaughter.

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Ms. Rowling is capable of remarkable shifts in tone, gliding from comic observations of daily life at Hogwarts to tremors of absolute evil with a sure, deft touch.

As Sister Bridget, the head nun, Geraldine McEwan gives a very memorable and chilling performance that's reminiscent of Louise Fletcher's Nurse Ratched from «One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest» in it's absolute personification of evil and Eileen Walsh is heart - breakingly compelling as the naive, downtrodden and religiously devoted Crispina.

The sequel to 2009's Africa - set Resident Evil 5 is an absolute beast of a game, offering one of the largest single player campaigns in recent memory.

Kalypso Media unleashes absolute evil once again with the first of three new Dungeons 3 DLC packs — the first of which arrives in February to a

Given the absolute rock - solid stance of «everybody» on this site that scientific research is by definition good, I'm amazed at how «everybody» is not saying, but blindly screaming (ie, it's emotional in such an extreme that the mind becomes impervious to logic) that studying GE is evil, evil, EVILLLLLLL.....

«Reservations to Human Rights Treaties: Not an Absolute Evil... «in U Fastenrath, R Geiger, D E Khan, A Paulus, S von Schorlemer et Ch Vedder (eds), From Bilateralism to Community Interest: Essays in Honour of Bruno Simma, 2011