Sentences with phrase «if societies like»
If societies like the United Kingdom, Canada, Sweden, Luxembourg, France, United States, and New Zealand are known in advance to be (1) highly complex, (2) highly developed legally, and (3) religiously plural, it is not much of a test to determine if legal development and societal complexity are strongly related in religiously plural societies.
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«That set of rules and those thought processes are so ingrained in society today that it's hard to communicate exactly what the vision is, and I think «Reinventing Organizations» does a better job than any other book on communicating that vision and communicating that this is not just a hypothetical like, «Oh, wouldn't it be cool if we did this,»» Bunch said.
Then the question comes if you've managed to do that, you as a society, then the next question is about things like purpose and those kind of higher level questions, which I think are very interesting things to think about.
If we are living in a time of with massive economic change or a big shift in society's preferences, someone who invests like Buffett will get caught off guard.
But then imagine that you're allowed to join society, hold a job, and say things like «If they don't fire Andy Reid I'm gonna kill someone!»
If we add in reductions of inequality, doing things like guaranteeing everyone in society (like the young) some base level of health insurance — am against single - payer FTR — along with other basic things, we can easily hit an economy of ~ $ 50 trillion.
In like manner, if I could not continue to unite with any smaller society, church, or body of Christians, without committing sin, without lying and hypocrisy, without preaching to other doctrines which I did not myself believe, I should be under an absolute necessity of separating from that society.
A society that says — you're free... to be like me... or be different, but just do it somewhere far away... and don't remind us of it... and if you do, we'll come after you and demonize you.
We live in a society that says nothing is wrong; everything you do is O.K. and if you have a problem like an unwanted pregnancy just ignore it / make it go away.
Society would no doubt make a great Jew, if guys like you keep pushing him away someday he may decide to join us, but we don't seek converts.
Like, if someone kills someone else, they should be punished to the extend that their crime harmed the other person and society?
You said, «We live in a society that says nothing is wrong; everything you do is O.K. and if you have a problem like an unwanted pregnancy just ignore it / make it go away.»
Dalahäst So, like I said, you are actually a product of our modern, more liberal, egalitarian society, but you are insisting on giving credit for this to «Christianity», as if Christianity has always lined up with your beliefs.
Don't you really mean below, cause if you are reading messages newest to oldest (like the rest of civilized society) you would not know what people are planning to say!
If what society really is for, ultimately, is making sure everyone can shop as he likes, then the gun dealer has to sell.
(http://outcampaign.org/) If it ever comes to fruition, real life being what it is, I'd like to try and show that people with no faith can still have a normal positive impact on local society.
Yet, given this new understanding of Whiteheadian societies, Wolf has trouble imagining presiding occasions within structured societies if they simply occupy one small space within the society just like all the subordinate occasions.
If work in America is as destructive as it is portrayed in this book, and if the quality of work in any society is indicative of the true nature of that society, then life in America in some substantive sense must be destructive, like work in America..If work in America is as destructive as it is portrayed in this book, and if the quality of work in any society is indicative of the true nature of that society, then life in America in some substantive sense must be destructive, like work in America..if the quality of work in any society is indicative of the true nature of that society, then life in America in some substantive sense must be destructive, like work in America....
I guess if we lived in a «Bible-less» society like Abraham's, the job of bailiff might be more «interesting»: «Please step up to the bench, Miss Jones, and place your right hand under my thigh, and repeat after me, I solemnly swear... OOOO!
I like your way if thinking coz clearely the bilbds r for show n gve the impression of attacking christians, thre are many ways to inpact people n society @ large without trashing other peiplez blvz
I've gone through such a difficult, isolated time as the Christians around me believe things that make me so angry — like gays are sinning and that homosexuality is the worst thing for our society and is accelerating us towards the end times and that if we support gay people we are deeply deceived and can fall away from the faith.
The people who hate and despise homosexuals would be infuriated if society sanctioned their existence and suggested that they were just like everybody else, by giving them the right to marry.
angelis If the kids won't encounter these words in school (where they are supposed to get basic learning / guidance on society & culture), I wonder how it'll be like for them someday if they hear / read these «banned» words elsewherIf the kids won't encounter these words in school (where they are supposed to get basic learning / guidance on society & culture), I wonder how it'll be like for them someday if they hear / read these «banned» words elsewherif they hear / read these «banned» words elsewhere?
The church, into which one is born (like the medieval Catholic Church), is distinguished by an ethic of conservation and compromise in its relationship with the surrounding society; the sect, which one must join as an adult (like the Anabaptists), rejects the surrounding society and has an ethic of rigor, perfection and transformation; the mystic is primarily a subjectively religious person who is not linked to any particular religious body (or, if linked to one, does not find it very important).
There is also a practical benefit to Reno's ecumenism, in that anyone speaking of «Christian society» in this day and age invites being tarred with words like «theocracy» and «inquisition,» as if Christian society necessitated those forms.
On a macro level however, if you can convince enough people to be more like you and do acts of compassion and good, doesn't that help society as a whole, even if those acts are returned in kind?
If philosophers are persuaded that they must give an account of human nature, and, ultimately, responsible human action, in terms of Whiteheadian actual entities, societies, and the like, I am sure they will produce some ingenious constructions.
If he wants to be respected and well like in society, he needs to hang out with different people.
I might be ecelectic, but what makes me consistent is my belief is something that combines the belief of Scripture with that of Englightenment philosophy: nurturing life is goodness, simply, and helping others to see a model that thinking for ourselves can help heal the world of all past injustices - so that we all learn to WANT to be good... within reason and by our own choice...: you have a society like that, you'll have less injustices, less violence, less money - grubbing by people who hold themselves as representatives of «authority» -(which side are you on, by the way, if you see the world as so divided in such a bipolar reality...?)
If you only believe whatever it is that you feel like believeing, whatever «feels right» — then your beliefs no longer have the ability to change your behavior — and changing behavior is a good thing for your self and society when those changes are positive.
Now if someone were to say «I don't want all these different partial descriptions of New York City, I want the real New York City,» the proper answer would be the real New York City is in all the different partial descriptions put together, like a mosaic — an inlay of different colored stones (the different perspectives of the weatherman, the society columnist, etc.) that make a total picture when put together.
This article is an excellent example and the the very reason that I claim that «I'm spiritual, but not religious»: bigots like the author pushing their beliefs unto me, under threats of eternal damnation; arguing that if I do not follow them, I am a rotten human being destroying society.
What if someone feels like they are invisible in society, and then actually begins to think they are invisible.
If we implant our own structures, it is like the thief that knows what society says, because «they» say it, but it is not his.
1) The implicit charge is that I should not declare others to be wrong, that I was — if you like — WRONG for declaring Society to be in the wrong, and I was so in quite the unequivocal manner (judging from the heatedness of his reply).
If the recognized pillars of society can not enter the kingdom, they thought, what hope can there be for poor people like us?
We ask if these characteristics, rather than being somehow connected in a particular way to Jesuits, are not rather widespread ills of priestly and religious life in this age, to which the Society of Jesus, like many other orders, is not immune.
There're only a couple of way the retarded religious right will return the USA to a 50s like society: with guns (as hinted at by Glenn Beck) and / or if they propogate like rabbits (to produce children they can indoctrinate into their cult because they are not attracting many new members).
If we do not «pray without ceasing» for a better society and seize every opportunity however slight to act on the side of the ends we pray for, the power of God is apt to sound like melodious words and the resources of men seem wholly inadequate to cope with the difficulties.
if we are unfit to survive something will wipe us out (right now looks like ourselves and the crazy lunatic fringe societies steadily encroaching on american leadership) and we will no longer exist.
Funny I never thought of Jesus as having a hercules style body... Just average build... He did work as a capenter and the carpenters I know have good muscle tone... by are not body builder status, Hercules built to excess... They are just like a average farmer, strong and even in muscle tone... Jesus's whole life was about being humble and coming from the low end of the society... he was born with the animals in a very humble place... I do not see him as a super strong human... but then being the son of God, he would have had super powers if he wanted them... he just did not need them...
If yet society makes laws, which condem certain misbehaviours like theft, murder, fraud, etc., then we can not blame God for making commandments.
If language, like labor, is a socially responsible expression of self, then English has to be regarded as a functional language in a multilingual society.11 We have to gain cultural freedom by going through the experience of cultural bondage.
It presents the Kerala model as something from which the Union Government and other Indian states like UP and Bihar have to learn their lesson that without a basis in social development like literacy, health and women's education and social security there can be no participatory economic expansion which is necessary if economic growth has to serve society.
If they do not like American society and culture, they are free to leave.
For too long North American Christians have assumed that questions of church formation and survival were unimportant because our whole society was, if not like the church, at least a helpful prop for the church.
Leaving aside the evidence that arrives each day from Eastern Europe which seems to show that the opposite is the case, that socialism there has in some sense «frozen» traditional ways of life, there is a more important issue: one wonders if tradition, when purchased and consumed like a commodity, can really play the role which some conservatives believe it must in any healthy society.
True Friend, I as an atheist and human being like you, would not want (and do not want to see) a system of government, culture, society, religion, or authority where if I were to wave a careless hand with unthinking anger, the deaths of anyone would be encompassed, much less the deaths of billions of human beings of any belief?
He once said that if he had rewritten Brave New World, he would have included a sane alternative, a society in which technology were used as though, like the Sabbath, it had been made for man, not as though man were to be adapted and enslaved by it.
But, furthermore, Luther's solution to the problem of how to reform the Church was that the rulers of society, itself God - given like everything else, should take on the task of reform if the Church authorities themselves would not do it.