Sentences with phrase «as ultimate evil»

Keep in mind a good part of the population understands the would - be pompous «angels» in our society as the ultimate evil.

«Bison has appeared as the ultimate evil man in the Street Fighter community.

Either it is fighting against or beside them, these baddies are remembered for their uniqueness and their personas as the ultimate evil in their respective franchises.

It's a shame, slum landlords used to exist for good reason... Now politicians have co-opted the taxpayer as the ultimate evil landlord!

But then you'd miss the joy of watching Michael Cera get a phonecall from the legend that is Jason Schwartzman, here appearing as ultimate Evil Ex nemesis Gideon Gordon Graves, with some rather upsetting news.

The cosmic «I» no longer sees the perpetual perishing of worlds or universes, or even itself, as ultimate evil, but instead cries out in adoration to its creator: «It is enough to have been created, to have embodied for a moment the infinite and tumultuously creative spirit.

When death came to be understood as the ultimate evil rather than as a stage on the way to eternal life, utilitarian philosophers such as Jeremy Bentham found it easy to dismiss capital punishment as «useless annihilation.»

We tend to see death as the ultimate evil thing that can happen and any death as the failure of God to preserve life.

Not exact matches

As others were getting sick, the traditional village healers, sometimes called the «secret societies» by outsiders, would attempt to dispel the evil spirits that seemed to cause these hellish symptoms, keeping both the illness and the ultimate deaths shrouded from the rest of the world.

If he is regarded as «the foundation of the metaphysical situation with its ultimate activity,... there can be no alternative except to discern in Him the origin of all evil as well as of all good....

More sophisticated theologians have qualified this outrageous notion by saying that God can do nothing which is irrational, such as make square circles, or which is contrary to God's own nature and purpose, which are assumed to be good in some ultimate sense, and therefore that God can not engage in genuinely evil acts.

Ideas such as the Kingdom of God are expressions of confidence in the ultimate triumph of community, i.e., in the long - run victory of good over evil, or the final establishment of progress.

The crucifixion, viewed simply as an historical event, is the ultimate evil: the betrayal, denial, unjust and cowardly condemnation, blaspheming and brutalising, flogging, public humiliation and torturing to death of the Son of God himself.

In Moses (1944) we find a new emphasis on the demonic, one which in no way conflicts, however, with the conception of God as the ultimate source of both good and evil.

His affirmation of the oneness of God and the ultimate oneness of God and the world has deepened in its paradoxical quality as he has taken more and more realistic cognizance of the evil of the world, but it has not wavered or weakened.

He will not see the Church as an armed camp standing opposed to the camp of the evil one, both on an equal footing and equally powerful and equally absolute, both simply comprised within the unrevealed will of a God who fundamentally has remained silent about the ultimate meaning of this drama.

Ely complains that even if God triumphs over the evil of «perpetual perishing» (which is the «ultimate evil in the actual world»), the ultimate evil is still ultimate for us humans because we do perish as individuals.

To eschatological faiths such as Judaism and Christianity, the triumph of good over evil is an ultimate ideal.

In the New Thought setting of ultimate oneness, and the conviction that «God is all there is,» evil is regarded not as a fundamental part of the universal order, but as the byproduct of a human consciousness of separation.

On the same page with the above statement, Whitehead also refers to the ultimate tragic element in the temporal world as evil.

«18 Hick has characterized this as an Irenaean type of theodicy which «accepts God's ultimate omni - responsibility and seeks to show for what good and justifying reason He has created a universe in which evil was inevitable.

The two intolerable positions are: first, one which deals irresponsibly with the given structures of society, as if some ultimate perfection could be secured by human effort; and, second, one which merely says the world is full of evils.

What the biblical understanding of creation rules out is not any scientific account, but other interpretive statements, such as «God is nature» (pantheism), «the world is essentially unreal» (Hinduism), «matter is ultimate» (materialism), or «the world is evil» (Schopenhauer — and some forms of existentialism).

Holy Mother Church has never had any doubts about the ultimate origin of evil, so it is here, in this new context that we must look for a possible reason why, as we now know, some degree of «groaning» was built into God's chosen method of creation from the start.

They admirably avoid the fundamental question that haunts Christian theology: if God who wills to be involved has created a world in which not even he can act in perfect blamelessness, how can God avoid the accusation of guilt — ultimate, primordial culpability for human suffering; culpability for that which we experience as evil?

You think that it is possible to talk meaningfully about «good and evil» «right and wrong» when criticizing the sins of Christians while simultaneously subscribing to the notion that neither sin nor good and evil exist as ultimate categories but only as personal and social constructs.

Plato saw evil as overcome in the ultimate immortality of the soul.

As protest against all false claims upon the conscience it offers the ultimate basis for Christian ethics, and it leads to action against concrete evils.

You might refer to that self - destruction as sin, or evil, or illness, but regardless, that ultimate takeaway bestows Annihilation with a weight of responsibility.

If the term «apparent evil» applied simply to that prima facie evil which, from an ultimate perspective, contributes to a better future, then the term would be so broad as to include every historical evil.

Whether God's victory is thought of as coming within or beyond this world, God's actual ultimate triumph over evil is a tenacious note which Christians refuse to surrender.

His ultimate moral philosophy lay in such propositions as that «from within, out of the heart of men, evil thoughts proceed,» (Mark 7:21.)

But where the spiritual self is involved evil is seen as more radical, as based on alienation from God or the ultimate ground of being.

It is significant that Vatican II (and also the Uppsala Assembly of the World Council of Churches) defines the church as the sacramental sign of the unity of all humanity, and also speaks of the presence of the Paschal Mystery among all peoples (see Decree on the Church, and the document on the Pastoral Constitution of the Church in the Modern World) This approach assumes that in Christianity, acknowledgment of Salvation (understood as the transcendent ultimate destiny of human beings) finds expression and witness in the universal struggle for Humanization (understood as the penultimate human destiny) in world history which is shaped not only by the forces of goodness and life, but also by the forces of evil and death.

The whole Jesus mythology isn't as pure as you think it is, condemning most of humanity to an eternal torture zone is more evil than anything anyone could conceive, making your god the ultimate evil!

My hope is not so much for the ultimate destruction of evil as its redemption.

The book of Genesis does not give an ultimate explanation of the origin of evil, for evil is at its heart not explicable or intelligible, just as darkness is by its nature not visible.

But just as one candle may become light itself and illuminate the entire universe, a glimpse of uncertainty may unlock menace on the face of every passerby, ultimate evil in the particular way the door over there stands ajar.

On these terms, salvation (the Christian end) may differ not only from conditions humans generally regard as evil or destructive but also from those that specific religious traditions regard as most desirable and ultimate.

which is the ultimate source and cradle of all existence and the «uncreated and ineffable Supreme»... At is beyond time and space, beyond form or any experiential differentiation, and beyond polarities such as good and evil, light and darkness, stability and motion, and agony and ecstasy.

As the forces of evil seek the key to ultimate power, Earth's last chance for survival rest in the hands of young Sam Witwicky.

Toby Kebbell (Rocknrolla) has joined the cast of Disney's The Sorcerer's Apprentice as Drake Stone, a celebrity illusionist, not unlike Chriss Angel, who joins forces with an evil sorcerer named Horvath (Alfred Molina), to «gain ultimate powers.»

The energy drains, and the movie begins to lose some of its moral drive, as the movie subtly shifts from a battle against ultimate evil to a battle against negative thought and politically incorrect ideology.

The movie promises to be the culmination of ten years worth of Marvel movies that have taken audiences on a journey as we discover the six Infinity stones and their power, and introduced us to the good guys, the bad guys, and the ultimate evil, Thanos.

But it's Hepburn and Arkin's dynamics that ultimately steal the show, with his flamboyant, never quite over the top performance as the embodiment of pure evil and her passionate, fully dedicated interpretation of a seemingly helpless woman in ultimate peril finding the inner strength to come out victorious in the end.

The overall effect is somewhat unsettling, which works as a lead in to the two final movies — the sense of destabilization and vulnerability is palpable — but by the same token, doesn't allow for a massive build to propel the audience into the ultimate showdown between good and evil that awaits in the final film (split into two installments currently being filmed).

It stars Bruce Willis as a cab driver living in New York City in the 23rd century who falls in love with the «perfect being», a woman who turns out to be the ultimate weapon to save the universe from pure darkness / evil.

As the children come through the wardrobe into Narnia, they find themselves as the most savored pawns in a war for supremacy between the noble lion Aslan (voiced by Liam Neeson, Batman Begins) and the White Witch, in the ultimate battle between good and eviAs the children come through the wardrobe into Narnia, they find themselves as the most savored pawns in a war for supremacy between the noble lion Aslan (voiced by Liam Neeson, Batman Begins) and the White Witch, in the ultimate battle between good and evias the most savored pawns in a war for supremacy between the noble lion Aslan (voiced by Liam Neeson, Batman Begins) and the White Witch, in the ultimate battle between good and evil.

It's a runaway train of epic surprises, as these two unlikely heroes must learn to work together before the ultimate showdown between good and evil explodes.

Still, perhaps the most exciting moment in the film features the full appearance of Thanos, who continues to be positioned as the Marvel Studios» ultimate evil.