Sentences with phrase «as dehumanizing»

Through art, he counteracted what he saw as the dehumanizing forces of industrialization and consumerism.

Rebelling against what he saw as the dehumanizing forces of industrialization and consumerism, Merz preferred to work with everyday materials and organic matter, like earth, found objects, and neon tubing.

But, your response to this blog article exploring women's desire comes off as dehumanizing.

Readers will remember Eldridge Cleaver's graphic confession that in committing rape he was striking out against a repressive social order (though» later on Cleaver saw this crime as dehumanizing to both the perpetrator and the victim).

The hermaphroditic blasphemy is a generated or vegetated Christ and a virgin Eve — the orthodox image of Christ, for the Church castrated Jesus when it locked the memory of his generation in the image of a virgin birth, just as it dehumanized and falsely spiritualized his body in its belief in the ascension.

Such marriages are found in all segments of our society but may be more common among minority cultures where men are almost as dehumanized by the white male dominant culture as are women.

On the other hand, it is viewed, derisively, as a dehumanized dead - end of painting.

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For many, it feels as if this trend is just the latest in a corporate push toward cost reduction and a dehumanized work place.

For example, Facebook defines hate speech as a direct attack — dehumanizing speech, statements of inferiority or calls for exclusion or segregation — on people from protected groups.

There are borderline sexual assault scenarios that are viewed as standard procedure by much of the PUA crowd — this is clearly not the place to argue that but I feel it'd be wrong not to point out my disagreement with that point — but above and beyond all that are incredibly dehumanizing assumptions about both men and women that underly the process.

ironically, i think the very thing you say would be right to do * as a person * they would say is utterly dehumanizing for a person — and therefore not loving.

As I often say, as followers of Jesus, we have no choice but to move toward relationships with those who are marginalized, dehumanized and in need of lovAs I often say, as followers of Jesus, we have no choice but to move toward relationships with those who are marginalized, dehumanized and in need of lovas followers of Jesus, we have no choice but to move toward relationships with those who are marginalized, dehumanized and in need of love.

As our Facebook timelines, Twitter feeds, family reunions and conversations at the park fill up with political rhetoric, mudslinging and dehumanizing language, Christians have a choice.

A couple may also pay a woman — known in the dehumanizing industry parlance as a «gestational carrier» — to carry their baby.

It is understandable why the New York Times's Editorial Board would conclude that Christians view sinners as inferior — the tragic history of Christianity, even within our own country, offers many examples of Christians who have used sin as an excuse to dehumanize, discriminate, and hate others.

When maximum production and continually increasing economic growth, measured by income and expenditure figures, are taken as the measures of social well - being, then occupations and the educational preparation for them are dehumanized and made narrowly vocational; and persons are degraded into interchangeable parts in a giant social machine designed for generating and gratifying acquisitive hungers.

Perhaps, as John XXIII proposed, the Universal Declaration is a sign of a new world community in which the religious traditions will find common ground for resolutely resisting the dehumanizing forces of this age.

As a student of history, I am able to say that the tragedy of Punnappra - Vayalar struggle is a outcome of the inhuman power of the power - mongers and dehumanizing little powers.

That such possibilities continue to be offered is a reality that can not be derived from the historical situation as it now is, since it is that very situation, with all of its divisive and dehumanizing structures, that threatens to close off the alternative of service to the neighbor.

They rarely tell us who a person is, but often allow us to disregard or as you say «dehumanize» others.

So I don't LABEL myself Christian, just as I am NOT alcoholic or mentally ill or «Native» American (another convenient label that dehumanizes -RCB- or military veteran.

Insofar as modern life becomes dehumanizing and isolating, rock has sung about this, tried to carve out artistic refuge from it, or otherwise sought to explore how one must deal with it.

I think the true problem with these kinds of states is their elevation of an elite, their dehumanizing of large section of their population, and their need to label parts of their society as the enemy within.

Those unaware of the history of minstrelsy may miss the racially charged historical reference stitched into those bars: It's a callback to a racist and dehumanizing form of American entertainment from the 19th century that depicted black people as thick - headed buffoons who tap - danced for the enjoyment of white audiences.

Their concern was for the dehumanizing consequences of capitalism as seen through the prism of the gospel and Jesus» own way of life.

In short, the classical contexts of Christian theologies and theoria historically witnessed the recurrent betrayals of the Cross by the sword, Christianity by Christendom, as colonizations brought new peoples and lands into the orbit of the dehumanizing power games of Europe's so - called Christian cultures and nations.

I have suggested elsewhere that value - free technology, the military - industrial complex, and narrow nationalism might be modern examples of such principalities and powers.9 Hendrikus Berkhof suggests that human traditions, astrology, fixed religious rules, clans, public opinion, race, class, state, and Volk are among the powers.10 Walter Wink sees the powers as the inner aspects of institutions, their «spirituality,» the inner spirit or driving force that animates, legitimates, and regulates their outward manifestations.11 They are «the invisible forces that determine human existence «12 When such things dehumanize human life, thwart and distort the human spirit, block God's gift of shalom, the followers of Jesus are rallied for a new kind of holy war.

Bottom line is there is simply no other religion on earth that draws such sharp distinction between its own members and others, or spends as much time condemning and dehumanizing those who merely choose not to follow its dogma.

The fear is that in a technocracy persons may be dehumanized as they become cogs in the machinery in ways in which freedom, spontaneity, and feeling are sacrificed to the efficient operation of the system (The literature is immense.

Against tendencies to depersonalize and to dehumanize which are prevalent in society the Christian will want constantly to emphasize the importance of personal relationships... The development of the person in all his aspects, religious and moral, as well as physical and mental, is therefore a matter of the deepest importance to him.7

There is simply no other religion on earth as ISLAM that draws such sharp distinction between its own members and others, or spends as much time condemning and dehumanizing those who merely choose not to follow its dogma.

That kind of lifestyle wotmld reveal a dedication to the subversion of any and every pollution system that divides the world into the realms of the clean and the unclean, and disadvantages and dehumanizes those who are identified as the unclean.

To consider people of different beliefs as «evil» you dehumanize them and consequently justify all types of horrible retaliations.

(I know that the term «homeless» as an identifier can feel dehumanizing and that is not my intent in any way.

He can dehumanize as well as create.

The attempt to treat even some businesses as morally neutral is dehumanizing and destroys the necessary cultural context for virtue and freedom.

As technology makes jobs increasingly specialized, work is becoming meaningless, alienating and dehumanizing.

It has supported the patriarchal structure of human society in ways that have dehumanized women, treating them as instruments for the satisfaction of men's desires and as responsible for men's sins.

The «Cosmic Designer» has impressed modernity as a notoriously vague, suffocating and even dehumanizing ideal promulgated by a dying religiosity.

When I am trying to reach out to theists who demonize and dehumanize atheists, I talk about particular things that we have in common to which they have emotional attachments, attachments that are just as strong as their religious beliefs:

The rigor of Jesus» opposition to divorce can be interpreted as arising from his desire to defend women against the ravages of such dehumanizing treatment.

The principles of this study would judge such dehumanized sex, even within marriage, as a serious moral failing.

While some attention has been drawn to the Christian critique of sex and violence in television programming, the critique must also include other dehumanizing aspects such as consumerism, limited access for such groups as minorities and older people and the continuing exploitation of children and youth.

«Personally, I believe in the 21st Century, it's time to say there is no such thing as a witch and to decry the practice of using such a term to dehumanize vulnerable women,» he said.

You would be, as we say, dehumanized.»

The Lagos State Police Command has arrested a socialite, Mike Eze - Nwalie Nwogu popularly known as «Pretty Mike» for dehumanizing young girls by turning them into human puppies with chains round their necks.

«Cloning dehumanizes human procreation, treating new human life as a mere laboratory product made to specifications,» she said in a statement sent to LifeNews.com.

As Archbishop Desmond Tutu said, «when I dehumanize you, I am inexorably dehumanizing myself.»

love being dehumanized and used as a toy for entertainment, humiliation and sexual service.

Written by prison system therapist Jonathan Asser, STARRED UP is a merciless, uncompromising portrayal of a dehumanizing life behind bars, and the most accomplished film of David Mackenzie's career; as father and son, Mendelsohn and O'Connell give extraordinary performances, charting a path that resembles Greek tragedy.