Sentences with phrase «at the evil so»

I hope others wake up and take a look at the evil so we can all move in the direction of good.

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At the end of the ten hours, I came in and he made me give him two pennies which was my contribution to the social security and he gave me two one Dollar bills and a long lecture about the evils of Democrats and the welfare state and the lack of self - reliance and it went on and on and on, so I had the right antecedents too.

The fear of the great nothing is too much for my mind to bear, and I can sleep at night by convincing myself that the absolute nothing we all face one day will instead be full of happy choirs of angels, reward for any suffering I've endured, punishment of the wicked and evil (it pains me to think those who cause so much evil will not suffer for eternity, so hell is a great comfort too), and that I'll get to see all those I currently miss since the death of friends and family are so painful.

I was filled with an overwhelming sense of hatred of evil and anger at our indifferent world that so allows its children to be abused.

But let us not forget the evil at the bottom of this whole contretemps, and the cause of the Obama administration's disregard (so far) for the rights of conscience.

Well it is true that some people seek sorcerers to implement Jinn that are satanic demons into mankind or his house or his business to finish him or make his life miserable or to stop flow of his business income... In such case it is either you are religious enough and say your prayers often then it becomes hard for this to harm you or otherwise you need to find some one who practice exorcism to remove this evil... But many are just pretending to be good at it and help you not but squeeze money out of you with tales and stories... There is another type of possessions and that is not through a sorcerer but directly by coincidence what man is at his weakest moments and those weakest moments for a possessions are when you come through a great fear or when cry or laugh loudly in hysteria, or during a certain moment of mating... or even when sneezing loudly... That's why there are prayers to be said on daily basis to guard you from such things and specially if passing haunted places such as deserted houses but most evil ones are residents of public toilets and market places... Some of them even would claim that you have made a wrong action by which you have killed a dear one to them and for that they have possessed you and that is mostly night time such as throwing a cigaret butt to a dark place or stepping killing an insect or even an animal at night which could have been one of them or possessed by one of them... So this is true thing happening to many who suffer unexplainable illnesses or sufferings which could look like mental illness that comes and goes as pleased...

Any so - called «God» who allows the level of suffering that we've seen on this earth is, at best, impotent and, at worst, evil or indifferent.

So we're cleaner but we're also doing so much more evil as a collective you could look at a society of apes and might actually find it more beautiful than some disgusting ones that are around noSo we're cleaner but we're also doing so much more evil as a collective you could look at a society of apes and might actually find it more beautiful than some disgusting ones that are around noso much more evil as a collective you could look at a society of apes and might actually find it more beautiful than some disgusting ones that are around now.

your so right, it is so sad to see people criticising God and at the end of the day God Exists and always will regardless of the evil that is said against Him.

When evil rules the majority, then those laws will gradually be changed so that behavior gradually becomes more inclined to selfish gratification at the expense of others, wickedness then becomes expected, then it becomes normal, then it becomes the law.

And while you are at it, please explain why a supposedly (perfectly) good God can be so darn evil when he wants to be.

First, at no point did I claim that «any» atheist who commits evil does so «because» of their atheism.

Oh yes, let's look at the oh so evil life I lead....

They were so wicked, that the pregnant women and babies were doomed to suffer at the hands of evil.

At baptism, we are anointed with the Holy Spirit so that we may be soldiers of Christ in the world, so that we may fight the forces of sin and evil.

to ascribe anything but evil intent to the Pope's motives make one suspect that it is not one decision that is the real problem: it is really about the fact that the nature of Catholicism and the role of the Pope have at their core a claim so audacious as to provoke outrage.

And that's why the teaching that looks at the cross as a penal substitution is so wrong (or should I say evil?)

So I find this law at work: Although I want to do good, evil is right there with me.

But I think there is some risk that it might be misconstrued so as to obscure certain truths which I believe to be fundamental: that the Passion is the moment at which that complete oneness with the Father which is the unique and all - pervading characteristic of the life of Jesus is paradoxically manifested; that it is at that moment, above all, that Jesus discloses to us God himself in action; that the judgement passed on Jesus and the testing brought to bear upon him are a judgement and a testing exercised (of course, within the permissive will of God) by evil men, or, to use mythological language, by the devil; and that the judgement of God pronounced at Calvary is that which Christ's accepting love passes upon those men, and upon ourselves as sharers in their sinfulness, by showing up their sin in all its hatefulness.

At the same time, some Christians have so spiritualized redemption as the promised reward of the individual in the next world, that they have ignored the suffering and evil of human life in this world.

Lem me see here, according to your holy book your God personally ordered more infant killings than all American abortion doctors combined, ordered the annihilation of half a dozen civilizations, routinely taunted and tortured humanity, introduced evil into the world then blamed the things he created for it (even though he's supposed to be omniscient and omnipotent), then abandoned humanity for at least a couple thousand years while making plans to come back and slaughter 2/3 of Earth's inhabitants so that he can judge them and throw most of them into a torturous hell for all of eternity... for not being able to overcome the nature your book says he gave them... Just so he can have non-free will - having cloud gnomes sing his praises for eternity.

So, when a kid gets older, does she yell at Santa, wonder if Santa hates her, think of Santa as evil, or just realize Santa was a made up story.

For instance, it speaks of the earth and heaven, Lord - men, Hell and heaven, 3 good deeds and by implication its opposite the bad deeds, righteous soul and by implication the unrighteous soul, at the judgment day4; Light - darkness, believers - unbelievers; 5 God - creation; 6 servant - master; 7 Good - evil.8 There also the repetitive emphasis on the otherness of God as in the notions of «the Lord of the Throne of Glory Supreme», 9 «Lord of the Throne of Honor; «10 emphasis on His power «Lord of Power; «11 His reach «The Lord of the two Easts and Two Wests, «12 and so on.

He takes so seriously the injunction to love God and his neighbor that he can not be at ease before injustice, evil - doing, or the suffering of others.

We will look at this verse in more detail when we discuss the Calvinistic idea of Limited Atonement, but for now, it is enough to note that even if the whole world lies under the control of the wicked one, Jesus has done what is necessary to liberate the whole world from the evil one so that they can respond to the gospel and believe in Jesus for eternal life (cf. 1 John 5:7 - 13).

So we're at the place where we can say a couple - four things from the existential side of the problem of evil: [1] from the perspective that pain exists, and we perceive it, we as human beings (you could say «people») have an urge to do something about it when we see it.

@brad: Yes, let's laugh at Planned Parenthood that provides cheap or free healthcare to women in need while we try to defund them so women are left without breast exams, and yearly checkups in a country where the idea of having comprehensive healthcare for every man, woman and child is considered an evil encroachment on freedom.

Just as it is gravely wrong to take from individuals what they can accomplish by their own initiative and industry and give it to the community, so also it is an injustice and at the same time a grave evil and disturbance of right order to assign to a greater and higher association what lesser and subordinate organizations can do.

I think at least one of the reasons you see this more in relgious discussions is because christianity has integrated into it the idea that the «world» is «evil» and so persecution is seen as a validation of their beliefs.

Whether he did it for the money, or to force Jesus into a situation where he could display his divine power and so bring in the kingdom by force, or out of personal disappointment at the apparent failure of the mission, or because he was evil from the beginning (but then why did Jesus call him in the first place?)

Voltaire in Candide went so far as to say that to be engaged fully was the way to keep the three great evils of boredom, vice and need at bay.

I felt so alienated from the evangelical culture at that moment, so frustrated by the way the very essence of the gospel was cast aside for the seductive temptation of «ridding the world of evil,» one dead terrorist at a time.

Why are they so often found behind pulpits and in administrative positions at these little evangelical colleges sharing with young people the fruits of their knowledge of good and evil?

At a time when Israel is isolated and anti-Semitism is again on the march, and when so many other communities are under threat, Sir Martin's life is a reminder that defeat is not inevitable, that evil need not triumph, and that hope can still bear witness to what's sacred in this life — even as we await for God's perfect love and justice in the next.

Basically, what has happened with CST is comparable to what has happened with marriage and family: We spend a lot of time talking about contraception and abortion and bioethical dilemmas, and unfortunately we must do so, given the gravity of these evils and the obsessions of our day — but as a result we can fail to see, or at least fail to communicate to others, the profound truth of the sacrament of matrimony, which is the foundation of all the rules and prohibitions.

And when we observe the church, the so called Savior center, we see, at least according to Scott Peck, a far greater concentration of evil.

As we are both saints and sinners, so our social institutions embody both good and evil - at the same time.

Even when our enemies are so corrupt and evil that there is no discernible sign of good in any of them, we can at least recognize that they are fellow human beings and children of God — however much they have violated His commands — and love and pray for them on that basis alone.

Now if for instance I was standing at the top of the roof, looking down at pedestrians, and tossed the brick so that it hit the man in the head killing him... is that evil?

From the blind ambition of Wilson to the revolutionary zeal of the starry - eyed Upton Sinclair (who at one point muses, «by removing Capitalism we therefore remove evil»), the characters are so self - assured that they are psychologically, morally, and spiritually unprepared for the demonic storm that is brewing within their midst.

I have argued this case at length in my dissertation, «Evil and Theism: An Analytical - Constructive Resolution of the So - called Problem of Evil,» Southern Methodist University, 1977.

«My impression is that so much of the literature that has really dominated our thinking about the church derives from generalized abstractions about what the church ought to be or about what the evils of the church are by theologians who are at best uncomfortable in trying to apply that to particular congregations.

At one time, it is true, Christian transcendentalism, like Christian Platonism, incorporated a substantial core of the Christian view of man and evil, so as to constitute a valid version of Christian theology.

I lean towards the third view... but I admit it is the most difficult of the three views... Christ's priorities appear to be «love in motion» flowing in almost unpredictable directions as dictated by the greatest need: — He heals a slave rather than rebukes slavery; — He heals a man at a pool, then leads the man to belief, then says «cease from sinning»; — He heals many others and says «go and sin no more» to but a few; — He shares money with the poor but establishes no long - term aid; — He touches lepers; He converses with seeking Pharisees; He debates with other Pharisees; He lives with Samaritan outcasts for two days; — He acknowledges the five «marriages» of the Samaritan woman as «marriages»... and then remarks about her current co-habitation... but then moves to higher priorities; — He seems so very focused on internal holiness and not on external holiness; — He violates the Sabbath; He says He is Lord of the Sabbath; He even says that the Sabbath was created to assist man, rather than man created to serve the Sabbath... thus turning the entire concept of the Law into one of assistance rather than being chained to obedience; — He insists on impartiality in the way we bless others, even if we call them «evil» or «good».

At the beginning, Yahweh is pictured, not only as indignant at man's eating of the «tree of the knowledge of good and evil» (Genesis 2:9) and so becoming conscious of sin, but as being anxious lest man should «take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever,» and, in order to guard against this event, man is driven from Eden and its gates are guarded by «the flame of a sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.&raquAt the beginning, Yahweh is pictured, not only as indignant at man's eating of the «tree of the knowledge of good and evil» (Genesis 2:9) and so becoming conscious of sin, but as being anxious lest man should «take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever,» and, in order to guard against this event, man is driven from Eden and its gates are guarded by «the flame of a sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.&raquat man's eating of the «tree of the knowledge of good and evil» (Genesis 2:9) and so becoming conscious of sin, but as being anxious lest man should «take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever,» and, in order to guard against this event, man is driven from Eden and its gates are guarded by «the flame of a sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.»

Obviously, then as now, the only way in which one could find virtue and prosperity, sin and adversity, so exactly conjoined would be by looking at the facts through the foregone conviction that the sufferer must have been evil and the successful man virtuous, no matter what appearances might indicate.

He was so bad at creation that some people are evil.

Since there's so much bible quote dumping going in here, let's take a look at some of the typical nasty stuff that the evil Christian sky fairy is demanding in there:

Under primitive conditions man was so at the mercy of wind and storm, heat and cold, drought and rain, mysterious diseases and unpredictable disasters, that the first, natural explanation of his good or evil fortune was sought in the will of superhuman forces.

God, they argued, will not `' pervert justice»; (Job 8:3) he never will «cast away a perfect man,» nor «uphold the evildoers»; (Job 8:20) the wicked man, therefore, «travaileth with pain all his days,» (Job 15:20) terrors «chase him at his heels,» (Job 18:11) and any triumph he may have «is short»; (Job 20:5) the just God allows trouble to fall exclusively on evil men, so that all trouble reveals the precedent wickedness of the sufferer, and to an afflicted person like Job the proper message is, «God exacteth of thee less than thine iniquity deserveth.»