Sentences with phrase «as tyrant»

But it wasn't as drop - in - and - play friendly as Tyrant, so I could put that off.

This antithetical balance reflects a dual tradition: the medieval view of Dante and Chaucer condemning Brutus and Cassius as conspirators, and the Renaissance view of Sir Philip Sidney and Ben Johnson condemning Caesar as tyrant.

http://russellblake.com/everything-youve-read-about-hachette-vs-amazon-is-wrong/ He refers to Amazon as a tyrant and companies like Hatchette as defenders of literature against the unruly hordes (us.)

It follows this learning journey: - Defining the key terms «fate» and «free will», and establishing their relevance within the play; - Reading and interpreting Act 5 Scene 8, and establishing how Macbeth's death was set in motion long before the battlefield; - Mapping Macbeth's demise, from his early success as a brave and respected warrior, to his death as a tyrant king; - Understanding and analysing how the key themes of ambition, power, and his belief in fate contributed to his downfall; - Peer / self evaluating the learning in the lesson.

And if God's impassibility is interpreted as being emblematic of an imperious rule that is finally indifferent to the effect it has on the opinion of the governed — as in, for example, the classical doctrine of predestination — God appears as a tyrant who must be resisted in the name of human freedom.

it claims to have dominion over me, according to you, as a tyrant, believe in me or else.

What slave in chains is as unfree as a tyrant!

The god of the bible always to me struck me as a tyrant requiring sycophantic praise to fill his egomania lest he kill the «sinners».

However, too many judges act as tyrants, prosecutors in robes, or mere pushers of dockets, rather than people committed to their oath that includes upholding the Constitution...

Not exact matches

Others, however, such as angel investor and entrepreneur Naval Ravikant, have praised cryptocurrency as a means of escaping the oppression «from oligarchs and tyrants.»

Yieldify CEO Jay Radia said the company does not comment on ongoing legal cases, but slammed Bounce Exchange as a «tyrant» and asserted that Yieldify «will not get bullied by any organisation that brings forward frivolous and unfair claims and misuse legal systems for their advantage.»

But as the situation described in the Information piece makes clear, holding an entire company to the whims of a product - focused tyrant doesn't always benefit a business.

Often, even when threatened with being tried as war criminals, tyrants have already committed massive crimes and have little added punishment to fear from committing more, as was the case in Yugoslavia in the 1990s.

But Salam Al - Marayati, president of the Muslim Public Affairs Council, which consulted on «Tyrant» scripts, said the show doesn't present Islam or the Middle East as a monolith.

This scene is relevant to current issues, as is the tyrant's reaction to the faithfulness of a true Israelite: «The king became enraged and treated him even worse than the others, since he bitterly resented the boy's contempt» (2 Mac 7:39).

God is not a tyrant, or spoilsport, but a loving Father, who adopts us as His OWN sons and daughters, that we might dwell with him and share in the inheritance of Jesus Christ.

«Do unto others as you would have them do unto you» is a notoriously foolhardy principle, and empowers the tyrant and the criminal.

snowboarder — you say there is no absolute truth, yet you accept tyrants as being wrong?

I do however attack the so called good god with his loving morality, as a way to point out to believers that they are in fact looking up to an absolute tyrant.

This is not just true of impoverished people, addicts, prostitutes, and those we normally think of, but dignity extended to those who have been terribly wounded by the impossible standards of traditional religion can work wonders in showing people that God is not a tyrant whose expectaions we can never live up to, but a loving Father who takes us as we are.

But there remains the nagging question that never seems to go away when you are faced, as Bonhoeffer was, with a tyrant in your own backyard (not thousands of miles away) intent on destroying the world and annihilating all those who stand in his way.

Again, we may notice that the model used to picture God in much popular religious talk, and in some theological talk too, was borrowed, as Whitehead noted in his Modes of Thought (Free Press, 1968, p. 49), from «the characteristics of the touchy, vain, imperious tyrants who ruled the empires of the world.»

(Religions act on their principles regardless of how the opposition responds) This implies that ISIS is nothing more than a business run by egocentric tyrants that happen to identify with a particular religion... thus tainting that religion with their insecurity as they attempt to use it as a platform to try and convince their selves of control and eliminate any challenge to their personal views... All because their figurative pee pees can't handle it.

Here he sums it up again: «You know that among the Gentiles those whom they recognize as their rulers lord it over them, and their great ones are tyrants over them.

Nearly half a century on, in his wittily entitled Omnipotence and Other Theological Mistakes (1984), Hartshorne reviewed two meanings of «all - powerful»: the traditional, of course — the (benevolent) tyrant ideal of absolute, all determining, irresistible power18 — and what he previously had identified as the greatest possible power in a universe of multiple centers of power: «The only livable doctrine of divine power is that it influences all that happens but determines nothing in its concrete particularity.»

Atheist Hunter The atheist leaders, as you call them, had followers that participated in crimes against humanity that were ordered by these tyrant leaders no doubt.

There has been talk of God as a moral tyrant, ready to descend with punishment upon those who violate what is supposed to be divine law.

Process thinkers have rebelled against images of God that depict the divine as a despotic tyrant or as a cosmic puppeteer pulling the strings on the creaturely puppets.

The universe itself, as described by science, may be seen as our Mother but it can also be a capricious Tyrant who could destroy all of us in the blink of an eye and with less effort at any moment (supernova, asteroid, etc).

think what you like, sit in the corner and complain but NEVER think you and the religious right can force folks to do as you think is correct because once you are allowed to do that your faction becomes no different than the list of tyrants throughout history.

Theology may be, as the medieval church called it, the queen of the sciences,» but this queen is not a tyrant.

Closed minded petty tyrants such as Mr. Nye have successfully pushed G - d out of the public school and thus created a generation populated with teenage berserkers.

Anyone who * Requires * obedience to do good is a tyrant and obedience to a tyrant is nothing to be proud of As for accountability, we hold ourselves accountable to our fellow man in the here and now.

Determinists grossly beg the question against theism; theologians who treat deity as the cosmic tyrant who timelessly decides the details of the temporal cosmos are not friends of religion at its best.5

Tyrants have always viewed other religions as threats and tried to eradicate them.

as your examples of how all» @Chuckles: Tyrants have always viewed other religions as threats and tried to eradicate them.

======= @Chuckles «I do like also that you at least accepted the fact that these empires had the same idea as the ones you gave which means check and mate my friend and finally getting you to admit that tyrants trying to abolish the religion of the indigenous are not just atheists.

'' @Chuckles: Tyrants have always viewed other religions as threats and tried to eradicate them.

I do like also that you at least accepted the fact that these empires had the same idea as the ones you gave which means check and mate my friend and finally getting you to admit that tyrants trying to abolish the religion of the indigenous are not just atheists.

All of these considerations do not change the fact that for a long time American society has been organized around the image of the successful white Anglo - Saxon man, nor assuage the bitterness of those excluded from the central rewards of the society because of the fact of sex or race or age.22 Plato long ago pointed out that the tyrant who can gratify every whim is the greatest slave of all, because he is completely at the mercy of his own desires, but he did not mean that argument as an excuse for tyrants.

Worse, he was coming to see God as a loveless tyrant who demanded perfection and gave nothing but punishment.

Process thinkers have rebelled against images of God that depict the divine as a despotic tyrant or as a cosmic puppeteer pulling the strings on creaturely puppets.

As Green observes, «The book is unique in being the only ethic written by a Lutheran theologian while engaged in a conspiracy to topple a tyrant.»

That image of the philosopher - king's perfect freedom as philosopher and as king is the tyrant's dream of perfect freedom from who he is by nature.

If Job is true, the god described therein is a tyrant, as capricious and cruel as any the Hebrews had ever seen.

I view him as a sinister tyrant.

Dala... Ever notice how once the tyrant is overturned that all of those that followed his cruel orders often go running back to their respective religions; the churches reopen and goodness and love return to their hearts as if the attempted genocides never happened.

But the moment you conscientiously give your free will and free thought to that tyrant, you yourself are just as guilty.

And NO, the terrible crimes of tyrants such as Stalin and Mao do NOT represent atheism.

An example would be the fictional sermon on hell that James Joyce recounts in his Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man This kind of preaching fosters an image of God as an unloving and cruel tyrant, and in some cases leads to a complete denial of hell or even to atheism.