Sentences with phrase «are violent ones»

We humans are the violent ones; God is the one who rescues, redeems, restores, reconciles, and reverses the violence we commit, even when it is committed in His name.
The economic policies that drive millions of people off their land and out of their traditional villages are violent ones.
We were the violent ones, and Jesus submitted Himself to our violence to both expose it and neutralize it once and for all.
He depicts freakishly grotesque men and women caught in a world where old values have been replaced by new ones, country replaced by city, and where the struggle to know and to hold onto the truth is a violent one.

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Among the four nations, he noted, North Korea is the only one that can be assessed to have both capability and intent to take violent action.
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«You had a group on one side that was bad and you had a group on the other side that was also very violent,» the president said.
The weekend's protests had turned violent, and one person had been killed.
Yet there have been reams of reports, replete with one red flag after another, detailing Cruz's violent descent, events that were mostly dismissed, downplayed or filed away by many of those in society entrusted with recognizing the potential danger that he posed to his family and to his community.
† In 2009, Kentucky declined to raise CCA's per diem rate at one facility because the company's prison was twice as violent as its state - run counterpart and because a suicidal employee smuggled in a gun and shot herself in the warden's office.
«If one complains about someone streaming a violent video game and someone else calls law enforcement because they're nervous, does the police have the right to interrogate the gamer?
They remember Cruz as a quiet and helpful colleague — a far different portrait from the one painted by classmates, neighbors and teachers who were so concerned by his erratic and violent behavior and obession with guns.
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The typical gold bug's life is one of grievous woe, unending complaint, violent gnashing of teeth and dreadful wails of despair, interspersed with brief moments of glory.
Yet you refuse to accept that the doctrine that they follow — the Quran — is a violent religion even though it specifically calls for the destruction of any one who refuses to accept the prophet Mohammed.
@DaLe, how can you say no one commits acts of violence in the name of their religion when there are plenty of examples of Muslims not only shouting «Allahu Akbar» when committing their violent acts but also justifying those actions based on Islamic texts?
There is in fact an Abrahamic religion that has a very violent past, one ridden with; war, slavery, colonialism and intrusive missionaries - it is not Islam.
One mush make it clear that, those who claim to be moderate Muslims, HAD BETTER SHOW IT BY TALKING THEIR NOT SO MODERATE FELLOWS into stopping their violent acts, rather than banging on the Western democracies door making demands.
Stories beyond those of the «violent wrath» of God take up a much larger percentage of the Bible than those that do, and each one gives testament to a benevolent being.
Yes indeed, God created the entire universe, yet one of his chief concerns seems to be whether a bunch of violent apes on a speck of dust orbiting an ordinary middle - aged star in an unremarkable galaxy are touching themselves.
by kill or be killed I mean according to darwinism we came about by lots of species fighting amongst each other, and the most violent ones overwelming others.
One stops to think of actual countries of sand, which include more than a few particularly violent locales, places where people are not as willing as Mary Oliver to concede the comfy and common received idea of liberal Christianity that we all worship the same deity by «whatever name.»
In something of an oblique way this article alludes to the 5th Crusade and the Sultan Malik s well as St. Francis Assisi and we must bear in mind (in all of this violent conflict) that the Mediterranean is actually the junction of three continents (Africa, Asia, Europe) and that powerful empires have been bumping into one another since the beginning of recorded history (Babylon, Egypt, Persian, Assyria, Alexander, Rome, Carthage, the Moors, Christian Crusaders, El Cid -LRB-!!)
Oh, but you say, the violent ones aren't * really * Christian?
One of the reasons that most religions some time in their history do despicable things is precisely because they stop reasoning and chock it up to this mysterious violent / uncaring god.
Kids today are one google search away from violent, sexually explicit video content online.
While I do not consider myself an expert on all the religious writings of all of the main religions in the world, I have read most of the main religious texts for most of the main world religions, and while it is not uncommon to find violent events being described in these other religious books, no other set of religious writings comes even close to describing the violence and bloodshed that one finds within the pages of the Hebrew Scriptures.
The one we see today is absolutely critical for understanding why God appears so violent at various places in the Bible.
On the night before his violent death, Jesus said, «By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another» Could the disciples have known on Thursday night of Passover week that on another day, «one another» would include followers of Jesus in every nation on earth?
I believe that one of the reasons God chose to have Jesus fulfill the Hebrew Scriptures is because they are the most violent Scriptures.
Flannery O'Connor's novel The Violent Bear It Away does suggest a more satisfactory relation for human beings between the ordinary and the transcendent though it is, on the face of it, a very strange one indeed.19 Her novel is about a fourteen - year - old boy, Francis Tarwater, who, after the death of his great - uncle, a self - proclaimed prophet, goes to his uncle Rayber in order to fulfill the Lord's «call» that he, Tarwater, baptize Rayber's young idiot son.
At the moment, Snow suggests, the most powerful people in Turkey are fanatics like Sunay and Blue, and the one thing that unites them is their violent resistance to the values that the West holds most dear.
Interpretations of such passages vary, but one thing is clear to Matthew: in those critical hours the violent authorities only seem to be in control.
One view of how to understand a violent God in the Old Testament is by making Yahweh refer to both Satan and Jesus.
At the same time one says that The Violent Bear It Away is a religious novel with a vengeance, and that the supernatural appears to be everywhere evident in it, one must also say that it is thoroughly parabolic — the supernatural never obtrudes.
On television screens and on the covers of newsmagazines the picture is a constant one: innocent people fleeing their homes to escape the terror of violent and inhuman authorities.
Jehu is one of those hyper - violent Old Testament characters who make Christians uncomfortable.
Miller and Hoffmann said that only one other gender difference is similar to the one involving religion: females are far less likely than males to commit violent crimes.
A church elder who worked for UNICEF was one among a group of people recently killed in a violent ambush... More
Certainly it is a fact that the relation between classes is one of violent competition for positions of power in the nation, for «a bigger slice of the cake» — that is, of the national revenue.
Usually, not long after these rosy predictions of our future are made, humanity enters into one of the most violent and bloody eras of its history.
You can't just take one example out of context and say that I was arguing all human beings to be ceaselessly violent and brutal.
once he had defeated all his enemies his later sura were quite violent against all non believers., under the doctrine of abrogation, when there are conflicting sura, the one written last is the one that is valid.
If one person decides not to throw a punch, kick, shoot... whatever would be deemed «violent» and it is due to their faith... then yes, religion stops violence.
We are not the violent ones.
Billions of Christians would reject that piece of Biblical law just as billions of Muslims are able to see the 50 peace - promoting passages of the Qur «an for every 1 violent one as indicative of their religious duties in life being peaceful ones.
'' if even one person in the whole world stops for a moment from being violent due to their faith... then YES, religion can stop violence.»
If one truly believes that people are only saved through one's version of god, then wouldn't any action, no matter how violent, be justified in «saving» those people?
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