Sentences with phrase «as an alien from»

James Poulos is not a foreigner, but he is nevertheless good casting for the part of a modern - day Tocqueville, as an alien from outer space.

Yep you are right, I moved down here in the state of Mississippi, north of Crystal Springs from Chicago when I was ten years old but still I visit once in a while, now it's twenty years and sad to not much has change, like the parts you said about non-whites discrimatory or rasicts at other non-whites, when I went to school here they treated me as a alien from another galaxy, they pick at my voice cause I didn't had that southern dialog, unlike them I said my words correctly, but not just me, they even hated at others who had better intelect I am not picking at them, It is what I went through all these years, Mississippi and mainly this small town of Crystal Springs see America in a crazy awful view, They don't like difference that even within they own race, ther not that politcal, when some one say God they got there vote, I don't to say much to waste your time, I still remember when I was ten years old I had a constanct back ground check on me to see were I really come from evn though I had the paper saying Chicago Illinois barely no jobs but a church on every street for a town barely under five Thousand, till this very day, they look at me like I am a alien, did you ever had that experiance down here damn my keybroad mess up,

The movie stars British actor Alex Pettyfer (once ranked number 21 on Glamour magazine's sexiest men list) as an alien from a decimated planet.

A sales manager threted me as an alien from the Moon, that his first place to visit was this particular deal

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The company, which has grown from five people to 45 since 2009, has made its name on simple mobile games such as Drag Racer, Cows vs Aliens and Powder Monkeys.

The law reflected the belief that unaccompanied children (not from Mexico or Canada) likely were the victims of alien traffickers, who might seek to exploit the children as slaves or prostitutes.

It was unclear how far the court would go to shield businesses and perhaps individuals as well from the human rights lawsuits under the 223 - year - old Alien Tort Statute.

The proposal to collect social media data is set out in a part of the draft regulation that describes expanding the content of so - called «Alien Files,» which serve as detailed profiles of individual immigrants, and are used by everyone from border agents to judges.

Synopsis: «Earth's mightiest heroes must come together and learn to fight as a team if they are going to stop the mischievous Loki and his alien army from enslaving humanity.»

Turns out those human aliens don't love Earth very much, as the off - world Settlement Defense Front decides to wage war against the third rock from the sun.

I see where Reid is coming from, I think, but it is a place quite alien to my experience (though, as an academic, I've seen it a lot).

Which things being without number in our mind itself, (the nature of which mind is incapable of being seen,) not to mention others, the very faith whereby we believe, or the thought whereby we know that we either believe any thing, or believe not, being as it is altogether alien from the sight of those eyes; what so naked, so clear, what so certain is there to the inner eyes of our minds?

An astronomer does not «see God» in science by finding some new and rare piece of data that proves God exists as if God were like an alien visiting from another planet, which would be a childish and materialistic understanding of what God is.

@Evangullible: There is just as much evidence that an alien from another planet did the things your suggest (in the idiotic time range you suggest), as there is that it was from the the god of Israel of Gullible's Travels.

Well at least my views aren't as crazy as those scientists who think we came from a fish or aliens!»

I have to admit, at first I thought Theo made up another definition but I did eventually find the definition of alien as «a creature from outerspace» though it was the 4th listed and was not found in the Merriam - Webster definition but is found on dictionary.com

There is only this caption, «The American River Ganges,» suggesting not only the foreign, but a land so distant from most Americans as to be wholly other, completely alien.

I could just as well claim the universe was created by aliens from another dimension who create new dimensions, then initiate a Big Bang needed to fill them with all the stuff we see around us, and we're just one of those universes they've created.

If and when it happens, we might even start baptizing people from alien backgrounds, as the early Christians did, and find our comfortable traditions shattered by the disconcerting presence of strangers in the faith — including Muslims, Buddhists or Hindus.

The other presupposition which seems just as alien to our modern world is that it is possible to know right from wrong.

The seer appears as an office long familiar and thoroughly at home among Israelites, quite conceivably dating from pre-Canaan times, but this earliest reference to contagious prophecy conveys the atmosphere of the alien.

because the Christian lives in the fully incarnate body of Christ, he acknowledges the totality of our experience as the consummation of the kenotic passion of the Word, and by giving himself to the Christ who is present to us he is liberated from the alien power of an emptied and darkened transcendence.

Moreover, I regard the Incarnation as a historical movement and process; it does not reveal the illusory opposition between God and the world, but rather effects an actual reconciliation between estranged and alienated opposites, between an alien and transcendent form of God that is estranged from the world and a fallen and broken form of the world that is estranged from God.

Such a contemporary appropriation of the symbol of the Kingdom of God can also make possible our realization of the gospel, or the «good news,» of the death of God: for the death of God does not propel man into an empty darkness, it liberates him from every alien and opposing other, and makes possible his transition into what Blake hailed as «The Great Humanity Divine,» or the final coming together of God and man.

So long as Christianity knows the Crucifixion as a vicarious sacrifice for a totally guilty humanity, as the innocent sacrifice of the eternal Son of God to a just but merciful Father, it can never celebrate the definitive victory of the Crucifixion; for such a redeemed humanity remains in bondage to the transcendent Judge, and must continue to be submissive to his distant and alien authority, ever pleading for mercy when it falls away from his absolute command.

Perhaps we can not yet name such an experience as the atoning body of Christ; but we can know it as the dead and alien body of God, and consequently we can not dissociate the alien body of the Antichrist from the Christ who is the embodiment of the self - negation of God.

There is no salvation in telling men that Jesus is an «intruder» from another world, who has not really shared our condition because, as an alien, he is not in fact one of us.

For example, only we are moral beings: As the philosopher Hans Jonas put it, «an «ought to» can issue only from man and is alien to everything outside him.»

The issue, rather, is the cultural hegemony that arises from living within an empire that rejects barbarians as alien and boasts of Roman cultural superiority.

One could just as easily say «aliens from outside the universe» did it.

Aliens created humans on this planet just as we are told from all ancient Civilizations around the world even the bible tells us from the book of Enoch, Ezekiel tells us they took him up into space in a ship does God need a ship?

It seems the most likely scenario is that he married his sister or less likely his niece.The reasoning is that Adam and Eve lived alot longer and continued to have sons and daughters GEN5: 4 aCTS 17:26 Paul tells us that the God who made the world hath made of one blood all nations of man to dwell on all the face of the earth.Cain did nt marry to another tribe or nation as every man and women was a relative and of the same bloodline of Adam and Eve.The importance of this is that sin entered through one man Adam and is past through the bloodline so redemption is only possible through the same bloodline.So for the formula to work the human genome had to stay the same no other tribes or nations just the descendents of Adam and Eve.It also solves another riddle in that satan at various times prior to the flood and after the flood tried to contaminate the bloodline by his angels having sexual relations with the women this created a type of alien in essence and would have not been able to have been redeemed by the blood of Jesus as it wasnt fully human.This is where the giants came from and why God wanted to destroy them as they had the potential to destroy the human race as they couldnt be redeemed by the blood of Jesus.Interesting?

Smith and Denton have an urgent message: stop defining adolescence as «a social problem» and adolescents as «alien creatures, strange and menacing beings, perhaps even monsters driven by raging hormones, visiting us from another planet.»

On the contrary the weight of authority was often in favour of a spirituality that abstained from critical issues of social and public life as being alien to, or a distraction from the deeper spiritual quest of union with God.

Gnosticism is here understood as that movement of the later Hellenistic world which sought salvation from the whole cosmos regarded as, in principle, an alien and evil power.

In a welcome departure from the past, evangelicals and Pentecostals who are making great advances in that part of the world were not excoriated as alien «sects» and tools of Yankee imperialism.

But with them there is no question of doing justice to human being as a part of nature — as Heidegger articulates the point, from their perspective human beings are «thrown» into an alien world.

Here's a quote from William Stringfellow's book, An Ethic for Christians and Other Aliens in a Strange Land: ``... the basic conflict among all principalities remains, though it be subdued or concealed for awhile, because the only morality governing each principality is its own survival as over against very other principality, as well as over against human beings and, indeed, the rest of Creation.

There is a widespread tendency in the West to see missions as destroyers of indigenous cultures or else as alien cultural agents from the West.

I have not seen the actual words before, but based upon the language quoted, seems to me that the «tongues» part means you'll learn foreign languages (as in not the one from the area you grew up in), not you'll make up gibberish or speak in some alien (as in not of this workd) language.

The new line is therefore simply to blame «the economy,» as if it were an alien force dropped in from the outside, with no connection to the President's policies.

The knowing which knows it knows not is not immediately possible with a text ingested from childhood or perceived as an alien cultural superego.

Panentheism, on the other hand, attempts to preserve the relative independence of the world - order, while at the same time it insists that God can not be envisaged as totally separated from or alien to that order.

When he was a party leader back in 2010, Kovind had remarked that «Islam and Christianity are alien to India» and said that they do not deserve the benefits and quotas assured to others from lowest castes, officially designated as «Scheduled Castes.»

Such a conception is in no sense, as compared with the viewpoint of these sayings of Jesus, further developed or more profound; rather it results from a wholly different premise, a wholly different conception of God and man; it is based on the concept of law, aesthetically applied, which is entirely alien to Judaism and to Jesus.

Schweitzer portrayed Jesus as an imperious first century apocalyptic fanatic, beckoning to us from his own age, as an alien in our own.

We remind ourselves, then, at this point that the route from text to proclamation is an old and difficult one, but not such as should discourage the preacher but rather should help him to see that interpretation is not an alien and abusive intrusion upon the Scriptures.

@Trank, «And actually, as comical as it sounds, we actually have MORE viable proof that we did come from aliens, than we do that we evolved from apes..»

That may not seem like much, but, as at the beginning of the first millennium so also at the beginning of the third, alien citizens know not to expect too much from the earthly city.

Is there anything to be learned from a religion as alien as Shinto?