Sentences with phrase «about violence as»

Following on this descriptive research, FrameWorks has tested potential reframes to communicate about violence as part of a core story of early child development in Brazil.

Hotline Miami isn't so much a game about violence as it is a game about walking back to your car, wading through the bodies of those you killed for no other reason than that someone told you to.

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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.

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.»

When Philando Castile was shot by police during a routine roadside stop in Minneapolis, and his death was filmed by his girlfriend Lavish Reynolds as her daughter sat in the back seat, the footage helped galvanize protests about police violence against blacks in the U.S.

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.

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.

Mark Gonzalez has announced a new bureau to handle domestic violence cases after sharing data about the conviction rate involving those cases during his first year as Nueces County District Attorney.

Take, for instance, Florida's gun laws: A new report from the Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence, a gun control nonprofit formerly known as the Legal Community Against Violence, issued a report this month about the astronomical economic cost of Florida's awful gun violenViolence, a gun control nonprofit formerly known as the Legal Community Against Violence, issued a report this month about the astronomical economic cost of Florida's awful gun violenViolence, issued a report this month about the astronomical economic cost of Florida's awful gun violenceviolence laws.

Surviving students at the school quickly spoke out on social media and to news cameras about the violence and, more broadly, about political leadership that they saw as having let them down.

Congress banned the guns for a decade in 1994, but they let that expire in 2004 as partisanship on guns hardened and in response to inconclusive evidence about whether it reduced mass violence.

So here we are as a country, grieving again, and debating what to do about gun violence again, and with no agreed - upon solution again.

But fired up as I was about porn culture and sexual violence, and questioning attitudes towards women in the Church, I felt bombarded by messages about conservative «biblical womanhood» that I couldn't identify with and that didn't seem to do anything to challenge the injustice I saw.

The campaign hopes to raise awareness about gender - based violence as a human rights issue at the local, national, regional and international level.

It's almost as if this is an 85 - minute movie about the mob and a 30 - minute story about racial violence north of the Mason - Dixon line are just smashed together.

Drew Dixon writes about how video games waste the power of violence and how it can be better used as an art form.

The case was actually about domestic violence, not about the names as the parents and media would have you believe.

You, personally, may not force your beliefs on other people, but your fellow - believers have never been shy about imposing their opinions on others who do not believe as they do, very often my violence.

Although he sympathized with the civil rights movement and actively opposed the Vietnam War» he was (with Richard John Neuhaus) a member of the steering committee of Clergy and Laymen Concerned about Vietnam» he felt increasingly alarmed at the radicalism of the Movement, which reminded him of the street violence he had witnessed as a child in Nazi Germany.

By cherry - picking texts out of the Bible to reveal the goodness, and love, and mercy, and grace, and acceptance of God, while at the same time, soundly rejecting and denying the texts which talk about a bloodthirsty god of violence, we have seen that both Jesus and Paul are saying what we can loudly proclaim today as well: «God is not like that!

Highlighting the Church's concern about the increase in violence against parishioners, he described the situation in his archdiocese as «difficult and dangerous».

As Piereson usefully reminds us, they followed the lead of a mainstream media that bathed Kennedy's assassination and Oswald's subsequent murder in a torrent of introspection about an America fearful of the world, terrified of social change, and addicted to violence.

Unfortunately, the writings of these Christian proponents of violence raise suspicion as to their professions about the poor.

This self love is sin.God never forced chaos on us.we gave in to satan's lies about evil being an inherent necessity.Jesus said he was the way, the truth and life.He was the life (love) that everyone craves for, he is the truth which meant that his love was our only need and he exposed the lies of satan that we could attain bliss on subordinating people to our cravings.Sinning people don't accept a God who requires us to renounce ourselves because they are not convinced of God's love being enough for them and they are afraid to destroy their identity and live for the Glory of God.So, upon death, these souls realize that the physical world was just a shadow of God's love (the nature, food etc) and their own lies (violence, self love etc) and realize that love is their only need.They pursue it from other soul beings but are hurt that there's only hate and self love.They are afraid to approach the light because they don't want to renounce their identity as they have not recognized God's love before.

And I have the same feelings about such organizations as the KKK, the Aryan Nation, and other groups who use violence to push their beliefs.

As debate continues over President Obama's assertion about the religious nature (or lack thereof) of the Islamic State (ISIS) terrorist group, a new Pew Research Center study finds that more Americans across the board believe that Islam encourages violence more than other religions.

Their stories often suggest the appalling extent to which the church tends not simply to ignore sexual, physical, emotional and spiritual violence against women and children as a major crisis, but actually to provide theological justification for this violence in its teachings about male headship, women's subordination, and the sinful character of sexuality.

As he summarized some of what he taught in that sermon back in July, I thought to myself, «Hmmm... this sounds surprisingly similar to what I have been writing about in my recent series on how to understand the violence of God in the Old Testament and especially in relation to what Jesus did on the cross.»

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.

As for what Jesus taught, he said some pretty disturbing things about God's wrath upon the earth, and then in his ascended state, he told John the graphic horrific violence that would come at the end of days.

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.

But sometimes people use religion as the excuse not to deal with violence — praying for god to take care of the violent people, rather than doing something about it themselves.

As it happens, Clare's fund - raising efforts set wheels of violence and tragedy in motion, stirring up the dust on the graves of four long - dead children and reviving old questions about their father's sudden disappearance.

Profanity abounds, there is cop - show violence, and episodes three and four contain sex scenes with some nudity — though in the true artistic spirit of communist propaganda, they are about as erotic as a medical textbook's illustrations of venereal disease.

We can use these stories as evidence for our need for God: a bigger picture way of thinking about them, which allows us not to get too hung up on the swearing and violence they might contain.

As a U.S. policymaker, Lancaster probably felt some pressure to keep quiet about her country's aid to unsavory African regimes, whose brutality lives on in the violence and disorder of states like Liberia, Somalia, Sudan and Congo - Kinshasa.

«We need to bring back public discussion of AIDS as a «gay» disease, pederasty as [sic] major subculture of male hom.ose.xuality, mental health problems and domestic violence as major problems associated with lesbianism, the increasing recruitment of children into a hom.ose.xual ident.ity through experimentation with «gay» se.x, etc. — all the truths we stopped telling because the other side screamed so loudly about them.»

Just as the revelation of a loving Father is central to all of what Jesus said and did, so also, this truth about the violence that resides in the hearts of mankind also lurks beneath the surface in much of what Jesus teaches.

As it happens, when we ask about God's role in violence, later revelation in Scripture makes it pretty clear that God's only activity was to rescue us from our own violence, redeem us from the consequences of violence, and reconcile us to Himself and to one another from the schisms caused by violence.

«We are fed up with police violence, racism, intolerance and injustice that passed down from generation to generation,» it posted as part of a post about the march for Freddie Gray.

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.

And honestly, it's like saying well, if you are fanatic about peace, that's just as bad as being fanatic about violence.

Best of all, this book closed with several chapters on pertinent theological questions for today, such as how to reconcile the Bible and science, how to understand the violence of God in the Old Testament, and how to make sense of what the Bible teaches about women, homosexuality, and the fate of those who have never heard the gospel.

Objectivism as the best alternative to violence: both Rorty and Palmer ignore this important truth about the epistemological tradition they criticize, though they do so for different reasons.

Of course, as John goes on to explain, if we deny what Jesus reveals to us through His blood, and say that we are not guilty of sacred violence toward others, then we simply have not yet seen the truth about the blood of Jesus and have not owned up to our own duplicity and participation in human scapegoating and violence.

Therefore pride is as a chain about their neck; Violence covereth them as a garment.

People acting as if non-violence is not an answer — but I am not saying we don't get involved — let's not pass into the idea of how much violence we will use — because that's dangerous «evil» territory — allow a little in and soon we are talking about how much gunshots fired into a person is «normal»?

Or we could give ourselves permission to engage in the violence of electricity production by saying (in the manner of Reinhold Niebuhr) that the kingdom that Christ's life makes visible is an «impossible possibility» which stands at the edge of history as its judge rather than being the truth about history.

The story of Sodom in Genesis 18 was about violence and domination, the same type of event that takes place in prisons and occupied countries, but it was NOT the reason for God's decision to destroy the city, and to use this story as a basis for prejudice against ho mose xuality in general is like comparing ra pe to marriage.

They suggested that the author of Revelation, John of Patmos, wrote his visionary text to shake the complacency of the churches in Asia about the cult of Caesar as well as about Rome's economic exploitation, violence and arrogance.