Sentences with phrase «about the violence of»

After a nearly six month break, I am finally starting back up on my series about the violence of God in the Old Testament.

Why are some Christians upset that the cast of Exodus was mostly «white» people, but not too upset about the violence of God in the movie?

«Do not tell me about the violence of the ravisher, about the persuasiveness of a mother, about the authority of a father, about the influence of relatives, about the intrigues and insolence of servants, or about household [financial] losses.

A large number of these God memes are about the violence of God in the Bible.

As I write about the violence of God in the Bible and have conversations about this with various people I interact with during the week, I often tell people that one of the reasons this is such an important topic is because Christians need a better answer to provide the world than the ones we have always given.

And regardless of what you believe about the violence of God in Scripture, these books will present you with a new way of looking at things so that you no longer have to choose between accepting that God is violent or writing off the Bible as hopelessly full of error.

Could it be that in using the scapegoat imagery, God was not only giving Israel a way of escape for their own violent tendencies, but was also revealing to them (and us) what He Himself was doing about the violence of Israel, and indeed, the violence of the whole world?

I have been posting some pretty heavy stuff recently about the violence of God in the Old Testament.

I have been posting some pretty heavy stuff recently about the violence of God.

This is a summary post from much of what I have been writing over the past two weeks or so about the violence of God in the Old Testament.

As I continue to research and write about the violence of God in the Old Testament, a reader of my blog told me to read Girard.

I have questions about the violence of God, so I write about it.

Okay... after a nearly six month break, I am finally starting back up on my series about the violence of God in the Old Testament.

Because I am struggling with how to present my view about the violence of God in the Old Testament in a way that makes sense and in a way that does not get me branded as a heretic.

I was thinking a bit more about the violence of God and the source of evil today (as these topics are consuming my thoughts recently), and I remembered a paper I wrote back in 1999 while at Denver Seminary for a class I had with Douglas Groothuis.

And this actually reveals the primary problem with all other theories about the violence of God in the Old Testament.

I was recently talking with someone about the violence of God in the Bible and I pointed out that we Christians have no problem condemning the violence that Allah commands Muslims to carry out in his name... why is it okay for God to tell His people to carry out that same sort of violence?

The fans that don't like him now are the ones that complain about the violence of football, or are invested in Dupree and / or Tomlin, or percieve the Steelers as a sort of street gang / mafia as in for life or blood out when the reality is it's just another large corporation that you and I happen to love.

«Buy Me a Gun» Review: A Precocious and Arresting Fable About the Violence of Mexico's Drug Cartels — Cannes 2018

Somewhere in - between David Bowie, Lady Gaga, Freddy Mercury and Oscar Wilde, in the transgressive space of pop culture and dressed up as a high school comedy with wit, heart and a dazzling cast, Freak Show is about the violence of conformity and the power of self - determination.»

An emotionally charged, deeply affecting drama about the violence of modern life, and the intensity and courage to be found in the closeness of death.

From O. Henry Prize — winning author Emily Ruskovich comes a stunning debut novel about love and forgiveness, about the violence of memory and the equal violence of its loss.

He speaks about the violence of the imagery in his paintings, but I often see a delicate sense of touch and quiet palette that has more in common with Giorgio Morandi than, say, Chaim Soutine.

Not exact matches

The protest started Wednesday morning, after Rep. John Lewis of Georgia made a number of remarks about how little Congress has done to limit gun violence.

Forty - two percent of respondents said they were either somewhat worried or very worried about being the victim of gun violence.

They learn about using the media to look like the victims of state violence, and about police tactics such as the use of «pain compliance» — holds that cause pain without causing injury that could result in an assault charge.

Police used water hoses in below - freezing temperatures to keep about 400 protesters at bay, a move criticized by activist groups, the American Civil Liberties Union and elected officials concerned about freedom of expression and the escalation of violence.

While the vast majority of firearms fatalities are still suicides, which make up about two - thirds of gun deaths, gun homicides ballooned from 9,600 in 2015 to 11,000 in 2016 due to increased gun violence in Chicago and certain other cities, according to the CDC.

Finch's death also says something about the dangers of police violence.

«I moved to Canada at a time when there was a lot of violence and insecurity in Colombia, and whenever I thought about the conflict, the trouble always seemed to stem from the inequality between the rich and the poor,» she says.

Police and politicians have attributed the violence to the alcohol served at about 70 % of locations in the U.S..

As Confederate statues and memorials are being removed across the U.S. following the violence at a weekend rally by white nationalists in Charlottesville, Va., President Donald Trump took to Twitter Thursday morning to complain about the actions, calling it «sad» and saying the «culture of our great country [is] being ripped apart.»

In practice, «Far Cry 5» is a ham - fisted mess of American stereotypes and wink - wink, nudge - nudge jokes about gun violence.

I hope to convince J.D. that while I grew up with very liberal, Jewish parents (dad from South America) in California, and in a nuclear family without alcohol or violence, I experienced surprisingly similar parallels to many of J.D.'s societal views — even if we may have drawn moderately different conclusions about the underlying solutions.

Assaults by firearm kill about 11,000 people in the US each year, which translates to a roughly 1 - in - 370 lifetime chance of death from gun violence.

None of that's actually true — employment numbers are up and violent crime is down — but that Trump believes misogyny and sexual violence are «a distraction» implies he doesn't know all that much about real America after all.

Despite a years - long political and economic deterioration and months of violence, Maduro has maintained about 20 % support among Venezuelans, but his constituent assembly has been rejected by an overwhelming majority of the country and drawn international rebuke.

And then he watched in awe and horror as students began posting intimate and often offensive remarks about their peers — including sexual histories, accusations of drug use, and threats of violence.

A roundup of gun control and violence studies by writer German Lopez at Vox shows Americans represent less than 5 % of the world population but possess nearly 50 % of the world's civilian - owned guns, police are about three times more likely to be killed in states with high gun ownership, countries with more guns see more gun deaths, and states with tighter gun control laws see fewer gun - related deaths, among other sobering statistics.

And now an international effort designed to reduce violence by disarming and de-radicalizing Taliban militants is about to run out of cash.

DiGiorno Is Really, Really Sorry About Its Tweet Accidentally Making Light of Domestic Violence @scoopit http://t.co/4HV1ohr2Fg

The racists are out and rearing their ugly heads with lots of fake tweets about violence at #BlackPanther screenings.

«The United States is deeply concerned about today's escalation of violence over Israel's border and strongly supports Israel's sovereign right to defend itself,» State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert said on Saturday.

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson declined to say if President Trump embodied American values when asked Sunday about the implications of his rhetoric following the recent violence in Charlottesville, Va..

Statements within the guidelines about violence towards women, for example — such as «To snap a bitch's neck, make sure to apply all your pressure to the middle of her throat» — are considered okay because they are not specific threats.

Outlined in the documents are rules about what kinds of statements are considered too offensive to allow, how much violence the site allows in videos — including Facebook Live, which has been the subject of significant controversy recently — and what to do with sexually suggestive imagery.

Their thoughts need to be about meaningful policy changes that could prevent another murder, another death, another heartbreaking act of violence.

Students will march, make signs, observe moments of silence, hand out orange ribbons to symbolize gun violence awareness, and read poems and essays about the personal scars gun violence has left behind.

Finally, in 2018, there appears to be a greater appetite for learning about consent and holding those who commit acts of sexual violence accountable.

After Trump made equivocal comments about who was to blame for violence at rallies held by white supremacists and neo-Nazis in Charlottesville over the weekend, Ken Frazier, the chief executive of pharmaceutical giant Merck, resigned from Trump's manufacturing council Monday.