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He depicts freakishly grotesque men and women caught in a world where old values have been replaced by new ones, country replaced by city, and where the struggle to know and to hold onto the truth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.
Not exact matches
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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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one particularly
violent scene.
«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?