Sentences with phrase «as profane»

Before even applying for new jobs, take the time to clean out your social media pages of items you wouldn't want a hiring manager to see, such as profane language or pics of your last out - of - control party.

The effect, if you give it much thought, is to shift your perspective from the high plane of fine art to the terrestrial level of sociology: from art as an inspirational secular religion to art as a profane and potentially soul - eroding business.

Within a Native American cultural and spiritual understanding of ancestral memory and generational knowledge, the thought of kids climbing and playing on the structure of a gallows struck many as profane.

If the plotline is perfunctory, but the pace is electric, and the action that includes explosions, deadly shipping crates, and Reynolds bare buttocks in a burning building, is as profane and yet insouciant as Deadpool himself, who engages in graceful acro - gymnastics amid the havoc he wreaks while cracking wise before, during, and after cracking heads.

Aged ladies swearing is always comedy gold, but there's no audience - sopping twinkle in Kirkland's fierceness as this profane mother who, in Buddy's words always was «hitting me too hard, or holding me too close.»

In reality, it's a terrific piece that gets most of its juice from director John Michael McDonagh's quip - packed script and Gleeson's sensational turn as a profane copper who's more intelligent than he appears.

Although Chabad's menorah campaign is making some headway in the courts, the majority of American Jews continue to oppose Lubavitch's efforts to raise Jewish consciousness by placing menorot in public places as both profane and dangerous to Jewish interests in this country.

It may be regarded as profane (secular) or offensive — but that is precisely why the original language was a skandalon!

Sony Xperia Z5 reinforces this point since it is quite difficult to open up for fixing, although not as much as the profaned Nexus 6P.

Not exact matches

Barry, a financial advisor most would perceive as conservative, caught me off - guard with his surprisingly profane rant about Curious George (which probably isn't fit for print).

He was an American original, in a way only an immigrant can be — a thick - accented, scientist - turned - businessman who spoke forcefully and wrote gracefully in English on topics as varied as his management philosophy, his battle with prostate cancer, and his story of coming to the U.S. Grove was famously profane, harsh, driven, and driving.

Everytime religious people post something about God or something out of their belief, there comes the Atheists storming it with their typical (hateful, profane, disrespectful but in - fairness articulate, itellect, scientific and logical) replies and name callings such as; «2000 years religious numbnuts», «oxymorons who keep asking of sky daddy's help», «idiots who was fooled by a magical being in the sky» and so on and so forth.

Any society, Christian or not, has both a sacred sphere and a profane sphere, a sphere in which love and obligation determine who gets what as against the sphere in which prudence and courage do so.

In Romans, Barth said that the Word of God can be uttered only when the predicate Deus revelatus has as its subject Deus absconditus31 The vast ocean of so - called reality that is the profane world of a completely autonomous mode of human existence has left the island of the sacred completely submerged.

In essence, Altizer views the proposals of the secular theologians as forms of theological reductionism, a sellout of the sacred to the profane.

(Isaiah 6:1 - 3) Such a God was not lightly to be approached; an inviolability not to be profaned lay deep in Isaiah's thought of the Eternal; but reverence had taken the place of dread as the corollary of holiness, majesty had displaced the former dangerousness of the deity, and the response demanded from man by the holiness of the Most High had become thoroughly ethical.

No doubt the total vision promised by an apocalyptic form of faith is not yet present upon our historical horizon; for, immersed as we are in a fully profane consciousness, we would seem to have lost the very possibility of apocalyptic vision.

If we conceive of the Word or Spirit as moving more and more fully into the body of the profane in response to the self - negation of God in Christ, then we can understand how the Christian God gradually becomes more alien and beyond, receding into a lifeless and oppressive form, until it finally appears as an empty and vacuous nothingness.

This, at any rate, is the way in which I approach the meaning and reality of the sacred and profane, and thus I would resist Father Heisig's point that I understand the profane as a passive element that evolves only through its association with the sacred.

While what we know and experience as the growth and enlargement of the profane is manifest to us as the diminution of the sacred, I would insist that faith apprehends this loss of the sacred as a metamorphosis or transformation of the sacred into the profane.

The death of God in Christ is an inevitable consequence of the movement of God into the world, of Spirit into flesh, and the actualization of the death of God in the totality of experience is a decisive sign of the continuing and forward movement of the divine process, as it continues to negate its particular and given expressions, by moving ever more fully into the depths of the profane.

Once we grasp the radical Christian truth that a radically profane history is the inevitable consummation of an actual movement of the sacred into the profane, then we can be liberated from every preincarnate form of Spirit, and accept our destiny as an occasion for the realization in the immediacy of experience of the self - emptying or self - annihilation of the transcendent and primordial God in the passion and death of Christ.

place, at sacred times, through sacred persons as distinct from a profane, «unholy» people, and the adoration of God in spirit and in truth is not, indeed abolished, but radically relativized.

Just as the apocalyptic New Aeon of primitive Christianity appears only in the context of the seeming triumph of the Old Aeon of darkness, a total act of faith in Christ demands a dialectical movement occasioned by the presence of the radical profane.

It is the clown, in fact, who juxtaposes the sacred and the profane, the sublime and the commonplace, as a mock prelude to collapsing the distinction.

For while the sacred may be seen as that which gives meaning and value to the profane sphere, at the same time it may by its separateness and elevation tend to empty the profane sphere of significance and worth.

But, one can certainly know this, that YHWH, the Creator, the true name, not Lord, or God «look it up» knows all, and allowed what the liars has done to this book to magnify Himself in His day of return, as He tells us in Isaiah 34 vs. 8 of the controversy of this whole thing, along with the profaning of His name in Ezekiel 36 vs. 22,23.

But in a way, the choice to depart from the novel and input an indefinite final image — one that signals ambiguity in the struggle between the profane and the sacred — serves as metaphor for Scorsese's own faith.

Those early years sent Scorsese on a journey, one he's remained on for much of his life: an exploration of the tension between the profane and the sacred as they intersect in humanity.

It is precisely this coincidentia of the opposing realms of the sacred and the profane that makes possible Christianity's celebration of the Incarnation as an actual and real event, an event that has occurred and does occur in concrete time and space, and an event effecting a real transformation of the world.

Christianity has named this rupture the «Fall,» and no religion has so profoundly emphasized the gulf between the sacred and the profane as Christianity.

Ps 23:3); blasphemy or any speech or conduct reflecting discredit upon him was said to profane his name (e.g., Lev 22:32); while reverence for him as holy.

Yet a primordial Beginning and a sacred «Center» are meaningful only insofar as a chasm lies between the sacred and the profane.

And as long as certain words are viewed as offensive, profane or taboo, Christians should make every effort to avoid speaking them.

He got along well with the despised customs officials (whom we probably translate inadequately as «tax collectors,» not to say «publicans») and the equally unwelcome centurion of the Roman army of occupation stationed at Capharnaum, who implored Jesus to heal his boy, pointing out that Jesus could do it by just giving a command without even having to profane himself by entering a gentile house.

Paradise appears in the religious consciousness as a dialectical inversion of the here and now of profane experience, whether symbolized in a spatial form as celestial transcendence or in a temporal form as the Beginning or the End.

Insofar as faith in its Christian expression moves through the factuality of estrangement and death, it can never accept a mere negation of the profane.

When the negative movement of religion is understood as being a reversal of the profane, there is a clear implication that religion acts by way of a backward movement or return, with the inevitable corollary that the sacred is an original or primordial Reality.

Insofar as the religious movement of negation is dialectical, its negation of the profane is at bottom an affirmation of the sacred.

Now the dualistic sin of the Christian church, its original heresy, is that of resurrecting Jesus into the heavens with God in glory and the designation of the church as Christ's mystical body on earth.15 In actuality this doctrinal pronouncement represents a reversal of God's kenotic movement into humanity in Christ's flesh and in his death, for contrary to the spirit of kenotic incarnation, the church has become ever more sacredly apart from the profane, and the resurrected Savior ever more transcendent of the world.

Whether we conceive of religion as a quest for original participation, or as a repetition of an unfallen Beginning which abolishes the opposites by negating the reality of the profane, it is clear that Christianity can not be judged in this sense to be a religion, or at the very least that the Christian faith is finally directed to a non-religious goal.

As opposed to this backward movement of the religious expressions of mysticism, a Christian repetition must move forward beyond the death of a primordial or original sacred to an eschatological coincidentia oppositorum that reconciles and unites the sacred and the profane.

Its use as an expletive does not «profane» or desecrate anything of value.

Those cultures in prolonged, intimate contact with it gradually lose the effectiveness of their sacred violence to act as an immunity to profane violence.

Still another, late to appear but seemingly as durable as the rest, is a kind of profane delight in logical clarity and «hard facts.»

If the religious life is to be accurately assessed as religious, it must be lived in the presence of «two realities» — the sacred and the profane, the holy and the secular, the supernatural and the natural.

But this man seems to truly believe what he is stating and he has every right to use his public status to proclaim his beliefs, as long as they are not racist or profane, or cruel.

The more we expand and generalize the words we apply to specifically human relationships — speaking of «pet parents,» or referring to our pets as our children or family members — the more we distort the ideas that undergird these terms, and the more we profane the real relationships those terms are supposed to cover.

The «Father» of the Nation, being the United States of America is quoted saying; «The General is sorry to be informed — , that the foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing, a vice heretofore little known in an American army, is growing into a fashion; — he hopes the officers will, by example as well as influence, endeavor to check it, and that both they and the men will reflect that we can have little hope of the blessing of Heaven on our arms, if we insult it by impiety and folly; added to this, it is a vice so mean and low, without any temptation, that every man of sense and character detests and despises it.»

It is just as true here as in the profane order that the disciple is martyr because he is a witness, not the inverse.