Sentences with phrase «as a civilization in»

Modernism is an American characteristic, and it was prominent during the days of Mordecai Kaplan's intellectual debut, especially the publication of Judaism as a Civilization in 1934.

America redefined as a civilization in sharp decline and on the verge of collapse because of the very greedy's systematic elimination of class mobility from the society.

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Back in 2011, Google CEO Eric Schmidt said that «every two days we create as much information as we did from the dawn of civilization up until 2003».

He has also been vocal about the potential dangers of artificial intelligence — even describing AI as «the greatest risk we face as a civilization» while engaging in a war of words with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg over their disagreement on the subject.

THE whole picture of industry, business, and amusements, then, may be summed up by repeating that while there are certain industries which Jews dominate and certain industries in which Jewish participation is considerable there are also vast industrial fields, generally reckoned as the most typical of our civilization, in which they play a part so inconsiderable as not to count in the total picture.

After Rep. Steve King [R - Iowa] said, «we can't restore our civilization with somebody else's babies,» Mendelson posted that his grandmother had arrived as a child at Ellis Island in 1894.

As he writes in this book's portentous final paragraph, «it undermines civilization itself.»

His biography contains elements of an epic novel: growing up the son of a jailed Trotskyist labor leader in whose Chicago home he met Rosa Luxembourg's and Karl Liebknecht's colleagues; serving as a young balance of payments analyst for David Rockefeller whose Chase Manhattan Bank was calculating how much interest the bank could extract on loans to South American countries; touring America on Vatican - sponsored economics lectures; turning after a riot at a UN Third World debt meeting in Mexico to the study of ancient debt cancellation practices through Harvard's Babylonian Archeology department; authoring many books about finance from Super Imperialism: The Economic Strategy of American Empire [1972] to J is For Junk Economics: A Guide to Reality in an Age of Deception [2017]; and lately, among many other ventures, commuting from his Queens home to lecture at Peking University in Beijing where he hopes to convince the Chinese to avoid the debt - fuelled economic model off which Western big bankers feast and apply lessons he and his colleagues have learned about the debt relief practices of the ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia.

Hopefully the time is coming where the ride will be over for this group - there is a huge space for public broadcasting and presentation of centered debates and discussions in this country - and it can only be through a public space lens - the next election will hopefully bring people such as yourself back into such space so that we can get on with having some notion of civilization.

Rather, it is to remind you that the next time you are tempted to buy into something that promises emotional excitement and rapid payoffs, to over-leverage yourself or take more risk than you should; consider, instead, looking to one of the 50 or 100 incredible businesses that are as close to sure long - term bets as anything in human civilization.

Every major civilization in history has recognized hemp as # 1 on its list of important plants.

Read Rodney Stark's «The Rise of Christianity» to get a realistic view of the radical changes Christianity brought about in the Roman Empire... many of which are * assumed * as rights in modern Western Civilization.

It was the Burkean conservatives, such as Daniel Webster, who retorted that slavery was far too deeply embedded in society's fabric to uproot» hadn't it existed since the beginning of civilization?

Islamic civilization flourished in what is sometimes referred to as the «Islamic Golden Age».

I believe, truly believe, that sometime in the future, as civilization continues to collapse into an intellectual and moral vacuum, other voices will take up Fray Luis» refrain: «As we were saying yesterday.&raquas civilization continues to collapse into an intellectual and moral vacuum, other voices will take up Fray Luis» refrain: «As we were saying yesterday.&raquAs we were saying yesterday.»

In regards to your comment «the fact that you even know about Euhemerus is a product of Christian learning and appreciation of alternate views», we should, indeed, be thankful for early Christian monks who helped preserve the knowledge of prior centuries, but perhaps you are unaware of the contribution of Greek civilization to Western culture and the «Age of Enlightenment» in late 17th century Europe with figures such as Denis Diderot, Jean le Rond d'Alembert, Voltaire, Baruch Spinoza, etcIn regards to your comment «the fact that you even know about Euhemerus is a product of Christian learning and appreciation of alternate views», we should, indeed, be thankful for early Christian monks who helped preserve the knowledge of prior centuries, but perhaps you are unaware of the contribution of Greek civilization to Western culture and the «Age of Enlightenment» in late 17th century Europe with figures such as Denis Diderot, Jean le Rond d'Alembert, Voltaire, Baruch Spinoza, etcin late 17th century Europe with figures such as Denis Diderot, Jean le Rond d'Alembert, Voltaire, Baruch Spinoza, etc..

it is only useful as a history of the hebrews, (old testament) when taken in context with the writings of the other early civilizations in the middle east some of which have only recently been deciphered.

@flash Millions of people over thousands of years give witness to the Truth!I'll go with the numbers, thank you, sufficient evidence or proof for all but you, and a few additional self deluded.You have no position and no authority, in short the facts remain you have lied to yourself and are trying to drag civilization down with you.You are exposed as a fraud and a liar and will stand before God as such unless you change.God bless

As Pope Benedict XVI made clear in his 2008 address at the Collège des Bernardins, Benedictine monasticism (for example) generated many of the glories of later western Christian civilization as a secondary result because its primary aim was quaerere Deum, seeking GoAs Pope Benedict XVI made clear in his 2008 address at the Collège des Bernardins, Benedictine monasticism (for example) generated many of the glories of later western Christian civilization as a secondary result because its primary aim was quaerere Deum, seeking Goas a secondary result because its primary aim was quaerere Deum, seeking God.

What would have become of Judaism in civilizations whose character was shaped by religions such as Hinduism or Buddhism, which themselves had no original connection with Judaism at all?

They envision a Gaullist synthesis, revised to emphasize Catholicism as the basis and guiding principle of French civilization, in reference to which even its most liberal, secular dimensions must be understood and justified.

Furthermore, there is certainly enough evidence in the discrepant personalities of the OT v. NT deity to indicate a «changing nature,» i.e., one who sees no other option but to destroy humanity and then later destroy entire civilizations as opposed to one who prefers the option of alleged self - sacrifice coupled to a merciful «grace» for those who are willing to just believe in the sacrifice.

An entire people was mesmerized by the rupture of a culture and a tradition that were entitled to be called the best in Western civilization but that ended up as the worst ever in Western civilization.

Certain commands and customs overlap as sense of right and wrong and convenience in life are similar among civilizations but nothing so systematic, profound, deep, meaningful, glorious and complex like the Bible exist on earth.

It saw itself as part of a larger civilization, one that transcended the absolute Germanness proclaimed by Hitler, and it saw that wider civilization in terms of the ultimate relationship with God.

But as David Bentley Hart has written so eloquently, such a society will participate, however imperfectly, in the heavenly civilization of love.

Muchembled also resists a Western triumphalist narrative by suggesting that the taming of domestic violence was not simply the result of a progressive civilizing process» marking European civilization as the height of human evolution» but came at the price of colonial conquest on other continents and terribly destructive wars among nations in Europe.

As my friend Pastor Richard John Neuhaus has so eloquently put it, «the Holocaust is in modern consciousness the icon of barbarity by contrast with which civilization is defined.»

BTW, although governments give religions certain tax breaks (because they provide services that the government otherwise would have to provide, as well as promote overall stability that contribute to the stability of civilization), the LDS Church (the one headquartered in Salt Lake City) pays many taxes that it is not legally required to pay.

In the case of the creation story you must read it as if you were a hunter / gatherer (caveman) who did not have a concept of time (no watches, no calendars, most likely someone who didn't keep track of how old he was — think about indigenous peoples who had no contact with western civilization until the 20th century).

Evidence of the prehistoric practice of etiquette — such as communal eating and ceremonial burying of the dead — has served to define civilization in its earliest manifestations.

mandarax Or, as Hitchens pointed out, sentient man existed for about 200000 years before God supposedly stepped in and offered him spiritual aid, and then in the backwaters of the world and not in one of the civilizations, like China or even Egypt.

It is not hard to see the result, in America and Western civilization generally, as the embattled simplicities of a life - affirming libertinism and a life - denying asceticism complicate all attempts to answer the question whether it is safer to choose abundance than scarcity.

Some Iraqi church leaders and politicians such as Prime Minister Nuri al - Maliki have been discouraging Iraqi Christians, one of the oldest Christian civilizations in the world, from leaving.

It surfaced during the challenges presented to the role of the Church during the Age of Enlightenment in the 17th century; it makes strides upon the publication of The Origin of The Species by Charles Darwin in the 19th century; its has gathered force in the 21st century as the role of science in Western civilization is being presented with its own challenges... of still yet unanswered questions.

Congregationalists conceived of their task as bringing the gospel and education to the masses; so they insisted on sending only fully educated pastors who represented not only the gospel but also the best in Christian civilization.

But in most civilizations state - authorized murder destabilizes the society, which is detrimental to the people as a whole.

The very fact, therefore, that the Hebrews conquered Palestine, settled in towns, developed private property in land, broke up into economically unequal classes, chose various crafts and businesses, and, as the centuries passed, became part of the diversified international civilization of their day, meant of necessity the gradual diminution of the old tribal cohesion and its associated ideas.

Sir Sayyid urged the Muslims to develop a new science of dialectics to counter the atheistic trends produced by Western civilization, and in 1292 (A.D. 1875) he wrote a commentary on the Qur» an in which he rejected the conception of Islam as a code of rules and regulations which, he said, can not stand the test of scientific scrutiny.

It is historically correct to say that Christianity has never been a saving force in civilization when it has been looked upon as a set of noble precepts which men may observe in isolation.

Because there is so much in Western civilization that is good, 1 and that can be and ought to be made better, it would be fatal to withdraw in isolation from it or condemn it as wholly evil.

In his State of the Union message in 1985, Ronald Reagan proclaimed, «As the family goes, so goes our civilization.&raquIn his State of the Union message in 1985, Ronald Reagan proclaimed, «As the family goes, so goes our civilization.&raquin 1985, Ronald Reagan proclaimed, «As the family goes, so goes our civilization.»

Islamic civilization was at it's peak when the West was still in the dark ages but what has turned the table upside down and made sure that Islamic civilization would never to come back to the peak but to slide back to darker ages as it is?

If we are to speak truly to our age, therefore, we can assume, not (1) the complete ignorance of Christian principles, such as existed in the decaying civilization of early Greece and Rome; (2) the thoroughgoing knowledge and acceptance of Christian principles, such as existed in the time of most of our grandparents; or (3) the vigorous antagonism to the gospel, such as now exists among those who accept either the Marxist or the Fascist interpretation of history; but (4) a vague and tenuous residuum of Christian piety, devoid of any intention of doing anything about it.

Ranade agreed that «the Christian civilization which came to India from the West was the main instrument of renewal» of India which finds expression in the new love of municipal freedom and civil virtues, aptitude for mechanical skill and love of science and research, chivalrous respect of womanhood etc.; and it is interesting that his lecture on his new concept of «Indian Theism» (a redefinition of Visishtadvaita in the light of Protestant Christian thought) as the basis of national renewal of India was delivered in the chapel of the Wilson College Bombay.

In literature, scenarios of the future are typified by Orwell's 1984 and Huxley's Brave New World — both outlining horrifying prospects as the destiny of technological civilization.

(Of course, as we all know, they will say that they do not want to be realists, for to be so would mean acquiescing in the very things they reject in our rationalistic civilization.)

Now, then, reason as part of the macrocosmic process is likewise in process, that is, it is still undergoing development as is manifested in the development of culture and civilization; the very constitution of history itself is the evolution of rational consciousness.

«In time we will rediscover prayer as the invisible centre and foundation of culture... and from that centre will be born a new civilization... a Christendom, but distinguished from the old Christendom not least by the fact that it will be shaped by many religious traditions.»

Teilhard relates this movement towards the planetary unity of civilizations with what he describes as the increasing convergence of men in a consciousness which is super-individual and with the passing years more and more super-national; and he has some specifically Christian things to say about that movement and its meaning.