Sentences with phrase «about human suffering»

Do we represent a wisdom tradition for the modern age — with something important to say about human suffering and human flourishing — or are we orthopedic surgeons of the psyche?

Leaving concern about human suffering aside, we Europeans have a very direct interest that the Belt becomes a region with at least somewhat stable states.

Eye - opening if you actually care about human suffering.

Ophuis is confronting the public with paintings about human suffering, from Nazi brutality to the Srebrenica massacre and crimes in Iraq.

-- a serious, socially responsible film about human suffering.

«It» also seems to care very little about or unable to do anything about human suffering or cruelty.

How many Christians, I wonder, are aware that in the Book of Job there is much discussion about God and about human suffering and wickedness but not a whisper about heaven or hell, or anything of the kind?

The well - known advocate of atheistic humanism, Corliss Lamont, was quick to argue that Whitehead's use of «God» in «nonsupernaturalistic ways» was both deceptive and incomprehensible.4 And Max Otto raged at the audacity of Whitehead's attempt to do metaphysics at a time when «the millions» are concerned about human suffering and need a restructuring of society.5

Wow... if anyone is happy about the human suffering that will take place, THEY are a monster.

People do not care enough about human suffering to turn from their rebellion against God and from their sins and turn back to God.

Then you might understand that Christian god as described in the bible is not loving, doesn't give a hoot about human suffering, and in fact does not exist.

Not exact matches

The common image of Calvinism — and I hear it portrayed in this way often, even by people who know some things about theology — is that the religion of John Calvin is a mean - spirited, narrow - minded perspective where a nasty God decides to save a few people while arbitrarily consigning the vast portion of the human race to eternal suffering.

I suffered a terrible car accident... during 3 weeks I almost died «many times»... Now I can read a beautiful article like this one and agree with it... Believe me... no matter your faith, your fortune or whatever you may be involved with... on the face of death if you are human you will only care about your loved ones... you will remember about the moments you were happy together and dream they happen again... you will remember your childhood like you were 7 again... you will ask forgiveness and try to show your love, no matter how hard you are... In the face of death we realize that nothing more then our family matters... For the professor, once his life of arrogance reaches an end, he will then understand what is the meaning of family...

How about to improve life on this planet and reduce as much human suffering as possible?

We can be very defensive about the stupidest of things while ignoring the real issues of the world (I.e. Human suffering).

And it's hard enough to cope with human suffering without worrying about the suffering of other animals.

I've written about some of my experiences before — meeting a six - year - old forced to memorize and recite the Westminster Confession at dinnertime, nearly losing my faith over the notion that God created the majority of the human population for no other purpose but to suffer in hell for eternity, and encountering the famed «Jonathan Edwards is My Homeboy» T - shirt in the midst of the so - called «Calvinist resurgence.»

Just this: that, far from being unconcerned about the human plight, the Church Fathers were motivated by their theology of salvation in upholding doctrines of divine immutability and impassibility (God's transcendence of human suffering and passions).

Although we are quite in the dark about the why of human disease and suffering, ordinary observation can show us that the result of their occurrence is by no means necessarily evil.

When we enter the tomb of suffering, we have about as much control over the logistics as when we hit the car brakes on black - ice — and if there's anything human nature craves, it's control.

Even if this made any sense, there would be plenty of better eays to get across a message about who is in contol (like creating humans who already understand that) without making a world in which people suffer now and can be sent into eternal punish, ent.

I hope I would remember to turn sincerely and expectantly to God for guidance as to how to do more — intelligently — to meet the immediate human needs of the multitude, but to take practical inspired steps for healing the fears, hates, misunderstanding, and cruelties that bring suffering to humanity» («Some Questions and Answers about Christian Science,» Christian Science Sentinel, September 2, 1985, pp. 1508 - 09).

Way to many humans have suffered and died because they have been told about some boggy man in the sky.

It is in suffering that the whole human question about God arises; for incomprehensible suffering calls the God of men and women in question.

Is it little wonder that the response in U.S. churches to global suffering is superficial when the theological tradition of those churches has emphasized human incapacity to do anything about the human condition?

As long as we cling to our own categories we can not hear the voices of our tradition that speak about the importance of poverty and silence, that talk about the benefits of unjust suffering, that understand self - knowledge in terms of internal bondage, that depict human struggle in terms of solitude and self - abnegation, that speak of freedom in terms of self - denial and asceticism, and that perceive wisdom in terms of detachment and transcendence.

After a time, however, some Jews began to speak about resurrection of the body, which to them meant the entire human personality; they did this because it was inconceivable that Jews who suffered death as martyrs in the time of the Maccabees should be «cast as rubbish to the void,» their faithfulness to Judaism unrewarded and their bravery denied enduring value.

New Age spirituality isn't really my cup of tea, and ever since I visited India I've been a bit skeptical about Eastern religions, as they seem to perpetuate a cultural indifference toward human suffering.

I think that the references to hell are talking about the practice that was once used of sacrificing humans by burning them, and if we were evil we might suffer the same fate as those human sacrifices

Human beings all suffer temptation; all sin; all lie about it.

The argument from suffering reaches beyond medicine's responsibility and competence; it extends into metaphysical questions about the nature of human happiness and what constitutes a meaningful life.

Systemic suffering and social malfunctioning, therefore, are caused by human greed, self - centeredness, an illusion about power and control, racism, sexism, imperialism, ethnocentrism, and other factors.

A review of a book about the mystery of human suffering, especially as it relates to Christ's suffering.

So if the catholic church was really serious about relieving human suffering they would promote family planning an help people have smaller families.

So where are the human rights they tell us about's when many suffer because of those in this world... it is only for those cases you see people become as good as the «Three Wise Monkeys»...?!

In the first place such education, now as always, is concerned with the nurture of men and women whose business in life it will be to help men to see their immediate perplexities, joys and sufferings in the light of an ultimate meaning, to live as citizens of the inclusive society of being, and to relate their present choices to first and last decisions made about them in the totality of human history by Sovereign Power.

We should try to cure all those who are suffering from this Syndrome which affects about 30 % of the human race.

Historically and theologically we are dealing here with devout yet aberrant forms of faith that are unable to illuminate the more profound problems of human existence, suffering, guilt and destiny or to answer questions about human history in its wholeness.

Also the bible talks about imperfect humans tendency to struggle for dominance, and this results in wars, oppression, and suffering.

They teach me so much about the complexity of human relationships — the beauty and the suffering.

At the same time, a persistent reflection on this central image may be able to explain, to some extent at least, why Christian theology has arrived at so many dead - ends in its ruminations about mystery, creation, suffering, and human freedom.

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The God of the Bible — the God of the Exodus, the God of the prophets, the God of Jesus — cares deeply about suffering and thus is passionately against that which is the source of unnecessary human social misery.

I bring the conversation up because it came to mind last week when I was reading about a Christian ethicist so passionately committed to defending the (unmistakably) exceptional nature of human beings that he thinks it necessary to forbid his children any sentimental solicitude for the suffering of beasts, and to disabuse them of the least trace of the dangerous fantasy or pathetic fallacy that animals experience anything analogous to human emotions, motives, or needs; they can not really, he insists, know anxiety, grief, regret, or disappointment, and so we should never allow them to divert our sympathies or ethical longings from their proper object.

It isn't about human rituals but about believing the Holy Messiah, Jesus Christ by name to the Christian community did bear the sufferings for our sins, so that we, by repentance (turning away from our sins) and following in the teachings of the Messiah to become the «new man in him» can be forgiven, and given the great mercy and grace that we all need, in order to be saved, and not destroyed with all that is evil.

The document from the Equality and Human Rights Commission follows the European Court of Human Rights judgment in four cases about religious rights in the workplace, one of which found that an employee suffered a breach of her right to religious freedom for being told not to wear a cross at work.

The Leftovers is at its most interesting when it is a reflection on human grief, suffering and confusion about the big questions, and when it causes us to ask of ourselves, what if...?

I'm a very human pastor in a world of unbearable suffering and I'm telling you about it.

Doctrine are those human lessons we've learned over time trying to live under Dogma, and are usually about the mistakes made along the way (doctrine only develops by human actions that caused additional suffering that didn't need to happen - doctrine is about teaching you NOT to do those things).

living a life of delusion is AWESOME until REALITY BIOTCH slaps you in the face and pops the sheltered bubble of the priveledged happy life you live and heaps misery onto you and your loved ones and all you can do / say / think is... god has a plan... yup a plan to make you suffer for a reason you can't understand... from my VAST knowledge of the world and human nature i know how to make choices that avoid MOST of the misery and suffering the rest of you shlubs endure, can't avoid everything, but instead of wasting time with religious b and s i think about avoiding misery and suffering... 35 years and so far sooooooo goooood...