Sentences with phrase «about humanity at»

Both pictures, though, are about humanity at its best.

Not exact matches

Social entrepreneur Melinda Gates spoke about the importance of making ethical choices and leaving a mark on humanity during her 2013 commencement speech at Duke University.

It might seem odd that Elon Musk would sponsor AI development at all, since he's been vocal about the threat he thinks the technology poses to humanity.

After reading Genesis again, I arrived at the same conclusion as you did... he mentions he creates humanity, then goes on to explain to us how He went about creating them.

Humanism, however, in whatever guise it presents itself, is about the sovereignty of humanity and its imagined needs, and not about the demands of God at all.

At the same time, it kept silence about numerous acts of religiously motivated violence, which the recent report by the Brussels - based International Partnership for Human Rights called «crimes against humanity.»

I cintend that the bible also calls us to do the same thing — it calls us to action and then says when we have donr everything we can and there is nothing else we are to stand in faith that it will work out — of course i paraphrase — but wht do people think all christians do is sit on their butts and pray and look pie eyed at the sky - this christian worked her butt of on the streets - and look at Mother Thresa - and other christians working for humanity all over the world - i think athiests have the wrong idea about chtistians...

You cut through the modern politics and hand waving and what you have is that for at LEAST 200 years and probably more (longer than we've been around as a country) Christians were «held in contempt» to the point that for about 10 of those years several emperors pursued active policies of extermination (that's what the «actually persecuting» statement refers to - think holocaust type policies) that included some of the worst type of tortures known to humanity.

As a result of the Thomson / Yamanaka breakthroughs, it is, all of a sudden, respectable to speak about the humanity not only of fetuses on the verge of becoming babies but of the embryo at the very beginning of life.

If practical theologians devote their energies to explaining how modern people can believe anything at all, they may lose sight of the specific claims about God and humanity that characterize Christian faith and distinguish one form of Christianity from another.

With my imagination captivated by humanity's flawed attempts at Eden, and my head lost in philosophy, I couldn't understand why anyone was thinking about «theories.»

He revealed to us in the clown's inimitable way certain truths about ourselves; he poked fun at our pride and pretension and reconciled us to one another and to a common humanity.

Charlie revealed to us in the clown's inimitable way certain truths about ourselves; he poked fun at our pride and pretension and reconciled us to one another and to a common humanity.

In other words, John 3:3 is not a verse at all about humanity's total inability to understand, comprehend, or even see anything related to the kingdom of God, but is rather a statement about humanity's inability to enter into or experience the rule and reign of God in the life (which is what the kingdom of God is) unless they have first been born again (BAGD, 221).

If you understood the purpose of what Jesus preached about and I mean all of it, you might at least admire Jesus or him wanting do something right for humanity.

It is, at least, apparent that the debates about humanitarian intervention by military force in the last decade, about the creation of international criminal tribunals in a number of cases, about the idea of a state's «universal jurisdiction» in cases of violations of the Genocide Convention or other «crimes against humanity,» about how far the global war on terror may proceed without violating the rights of states, and most recently, about the United - States - led use of force against the Saddam Hussein regime in Iraq, have all raised important points of positive and customary international law, and that in every one of these cases the outcome remains unsettled.

But I will only hope that you truly try to gain some knowledge about the world, humanity, and try common sense and tolerance while you're at it.

Second, the Christian vision of reality includes implications not only about God, humanity, and the world, but also about a particular historical tradition, with Jesus at its center.

Learn about them if you want, but know that God is gracious with us in our humanity, and knows that we can not understand Him or His ways all at once, and so He works with us where we are at.

But beyond all of its memorable visuals, huge set pieces and bold creative choices (it's four hours long and takes some liberties with the text), The Ten Commandments is at its core a compelling story about a man's calling from God and his struggles with his own humanity.

This is about the spiritual condition of humanity in its fallen state, and our need to be cleansed from sin and re-connected to our Source, who is God, through the sacrifice and atonement completed at the cross by Jesus Christ.

Republicans should be happy to learn this Truth that has brought America to the state of Light for Obama to pick on it.One thing good about American Democracy is it is «truly participating» and lasting with lessons for others to follow in modernity to tap blue horizons of life.Those blue horizons just do not end in economics that has many minds to tap the financial barometer of the country self educative in working of its affluent class and ordinary class both domestically and internationally relating to perfection with budgeting of money in economic plans that have been existing and are in the process to move charismatically with a tide over where bipartisan element also comes into play well integrated to test the mettle of the top leader of the country who has to stand over the continuous democratic element evolving of the country both in economic as well as inherently in spiritual terms for the good of the people at large mixing with the culture of exchange that has humanity behind it to survive??

That you see the world in the scope that you do says more about you, than it does humanity at large.

Sadly these misunderstandings about nature and grace distort people's understanding of Christian life, raising questions such as: Is grace at odds with our humanity?

Shielded neither by statistical and programmatic facades of self - description nor by normative proclamations about what the church should be, we look at our finite, culture - bound symbolisms and find in them our idiomatic expression, but also structures wrought by the imaginative labor of all humanity.

At the ontological level, the level of efficient causality, divine persuasion is not operative; «forbearance would mean non-existence...» But once humanity is created and God resolves to relate himself to humankind in terms of persuasion and not coercion, God «would have to be uncertain about a number of details of the future... and in some respects unable to accomplish his will at all.&raquAt the ontological level, the level of efficient causality, divine persuasion is not operative; «forbearance would mean non-existence...» But once humanity is created and God resolves to relate himself to humankind in terms of persuasion and not coercion, God «would have to be uncertain about a number of details of the future... and in some respects unable to accomplish his will at all.&raquat all.»

In a previous episode, we looked at Genesis 3:6, and learned a foundational truth about humanity.

My world is being driven through Port au Prince, at break neck speeds, in chaotic traffic, in the heat, and the dust, and the crush of humanity and wisdom and grace, and so yes, suppose it is just about right that my world is a bit shaken up tonight.

From looking at the world, it's pretty clear that if he ever really existed, he could care less about humanity.

Now, let us even assume that the 25 % of you are truly blessed, and we are not, let us look at how much harm these 25 % have caused to humanity — often in the name of God (need I talk about Crusades, witch hunts, child molestation by church, oppression of females etc etc).

At its root the basic issue is not about «them,» but about us all: What is the nature of that humanity toward which God is pressing us, and what does it mean to be a woman or a man in Jesus Christ.

Why am I not seeing other people talking about their Gods trying to save all humanity at this blog?

So the cry of Jesus on the cross about His own forsakenness is not the cry of Jesus the man being forsaken by God, but the cry of Jesus the God finally feeling the despair of humanity at not sensing the presence of God.

There is a notion in the air about us that religion is probably only an anachronism, a case of «survival,» an atavistic relapse into a mode of thought which humanity in its more enlightened examples has outgrown; and this notion our religious anthropologists at present do little to counteract.

If Christianity was about zombies, blood drinking and throwing hate at half of humanity I'd have signed up decades ago.

At the time the 100 km line was established, humanity could barely get anything into orbit, let alone doing anything about the satellite once it was there.

Read The Times report: http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/education/article3807588.ece Read the CofE's press release: http://www.churchofengland.org/media-centre/news/2013/07/secretary-of-state-for-education-calls-for-continuing-partnership-with-cofe.aspx Listen to Michael Gove's comments at the event: http://www.archbishopofcanterbury.org/data/files/resources/5093/130703-Lambeth-Education-seminar.mp3 Read more about the BHA's campaigns work on «faith» schools: http://www.humanism.org.uk/campaigns/religion-and-schools/faith-schools View the BHA's table of types of school with a religious character: http://www.humanism.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/schools-with-a-religious-character.pdf The British Humanist Association is the national charity working on behalf of non-religious people who seek to live ethical and fulfilling lives on the basis of reason and humanity.

The BHA has put the data in a spreadsheet for convenience - attached to this email and online at http://humanism.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/List-of-proposed-Free-Schools.xlsx Read the previous BHA press release, «Landmark Freedom of Information victory for BHA vs Department for Education», 15 January 2013: http://humanism.org.uk/2013/01/15/landmark-freedom-of-information-victory-for-bha-vs-department-for-education/ Read the Information Tribunal's decision: http://humanism.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/20130115-Decision-EA20120136-0166-0167.pdf Read more about the BHA's campaigns work on «faith» schools: http://www.humanism.org.uk/campaigns/religion-and-schools/faith-schools The British Humanist Association is the national charity working on behalf of non-religious people who seek to live ethical and fulfilling lives on the basis of reason and humanity.

I determined at that moment that having played a small role in bringing it about, I would go all out in helping to make it become a positive factor for humanity.»

In this episode, journalist Alan Weisman, Laureate Associate Professor in Journalism and Latin American Studies at the University of Arizona, discusses his new book «The World Without Us,» a massive thought experiment about the aftermath of humanity's sudden disappearance.

At a time when «disturbing thoughts were beginning to dawn in the public mind about the nature of humanity in the scheme of things,» as he says, wild animals and mutants gave Victorians something to stare at in safety while asking themselves the big and suddenly urgent question: What, if anything, makes me different from thaAt a time when «disturbing thoughts were beginning to dawn in the public mind about the nature of humanity in the scheme of things,» as he says, wild animals and mutants gave Victorians something to stare at in safety while asking themselves the big and suddenly urgent question: What, if anything, makes me different from thaat in safety while asking themselves the big and suddenly urgent question: What, if anything, makes me different from that?

Seen from ~ 500 miles above the Earth's surface, you can see what he is talking about: a sprawling network of humanity stretching inward from coastlines, following rivers, tracing old trade routes, and in some cases ending abruptly at borders (who said there are no borders from space?).

If [humanity's fastest - moving spacecraft] Voyager had left our planet when humans first left Africa, travelling at 11 miles a second, it would be arriving at Alpha Centauri just about now.»

With less than four weeks remaining before NASA's New Horizons spacecraft speeds through the Pluto system for humanity's first - ever close - up reconnaissance of the distant planet and its assortage of moons, speculation runs rampant among scientists and the general public alike about what these mysterious worlds at the outer reaches of the Solar System might look like up close.

But I am sure at the start when this expo is being introduced its framed as being about bringing the best scientists and engineers in the world together to work for the betterment of humanity (or something like that).

Lincoln walks a lot and utters long speeches about humanity, but Day - Lewis — who at first turned down the role — captivates us as he embodies Lincoln physically, which makes it almost impossible to ignore what he's saying and doing at the same time.

Gillespie smartly uses the known and builds upon it with context and some style, using «modern day» Tonya, Jeff and LaVona among others as interview subjects for a documentary of sorts that frames the film, but also has the characters speak into the camera in non-interview segments to help give Tonya some humanity, or at least make sure you have a better idea about all of her story and life coming out and you did going in.

At its core, The Hospital is about how even the most human of moments fails to satisfy a deep urge to connect with our own humanity.

At the time, Gomez commented about his film and its central characters, «I wanted to explore them as people on the fringe of society and show their humanity....

This was, at long last, the Year of the Woman, and seven of my top 10 are passionate stories about women both strong and frail... stories of humanity through the female lens.