Sentences with phrase «believe human conflict»

«We believe human conflict has much of the same visual signifiers as nature and the cosmos,» they explain.

If all religion never existed, I believe human conflict would not have been much different.

Not exact matches

First, people often kill other human beings because they believe that the creator of the universe wants them to do it... Second, far greater numbers of people fall into conflict with one another because they define their moral com.munity on the basis of their religious affiliation...»

Belloc believed, with Cardinal Manning, that all human conflicts were ultimately theological, and that the conflict between Protestantism and Catholicism in particular was a disagreement about the importance of definition.

You say our values are in conflict and yet I believe murder to be wrong and bad for human society as is any violence against other humans and I would bet you likely feel the same way.

Hence it is drawn into the conflicts of human life to such a degree that it can no longer speak with that authority or objectivity which ought to be expected of those who believe in God.

The nonpacifist is more likely than the pacifist to believe that God participates in human conflict, using stern measures and even if necessary the awful destructiveness of war, to protect a State against its enemies and to enable a State to protect the helpless against aggression.

The first position appeals to reasonable (not simply conformist and hypocritical) Christians who believe that, after all, every period of human history has its values: that it is better to try to Christianize a given situation than to enter into conflict with it; and that one can not sweep the whole socia1 and cultural edifice into outer darkness.

Daniel Van Allmen of Switzerland in his paper, «The Kingdom of God and Human Struggles» asked the question: If we believe in the Lordship of God, and if we hope for the coming of His kingdom, what are we to think of the struggles and conflicts in our world?

I no longer believe that there is any inherent conflict between the Scriptures and the scientific account of human origins, by which of course I mean evolution.

Among them were pantheism and the positions that human reason is the sole arbiter of truth and falsehood and good and evil; that Christian faith contradicts reason; that Christ is a myth; that philosophy must be treated without reference to supernatural revelation; that every man is free to embrace the religion which, guided by the light of reason, he believes to be true; that Protestantism is another form of the Christian religion in which it is possible to be as pleasing to God as in the Catholic Church; that the civil power can determine the limits within which the Catholic Church may exercise authority; that Roman Pontiffs and Ecumenical Councils have erred in defining matters of faith and morals; that the Church does not have direct or indirect temporal power or the right to invoke force; that in a conflict between Church and State the civil law should prevail; that the civil power has the right to appoint and depose bishops; that the entire direction of public schools in which the youth of Christian states are educated must be by the civil power; that the Church should be separated from the State and the State from the Church; that moral laws do not need divine sanction; that it is permissible to rebel against legitimate princes; that a civil contract may among Christians constitute true marriage; that the Catholic religion should no longer be the religion of the State to the exclusion of all other forms of worship; and «that the Roman Pontiff can and should reconcile himself to and agree with progress, liberalism and modern civilization.»

Particularly as the Minister with responsibility for the United Nations, The International Criminal Court and Human Rights I believe our approach in relation to the current conflict is neither consistent with our values, specifically our commitment to the rule of law and our long history of support for International Justice.

While Joffe has deeply conflicted feelings about disturbing human remains, he says he's come to believe — as many rabbis also have — that the historical value of limited investigations like those at the Reinhard camps helps outweigh the drawbacks.

«I didn't think we'd see conflict signals, because there had been other studies explicitly looking for signals like these but didn't end up finding them,» Platt said, adding that as a result, scientists had started to believe that the activation might be part of what makes people uniquely human.

The best thing is that he is a conflicted character, one that kind of believes that the dinosaurs should stop living in the shadows, and rise up against the humans.

Kevin Bacon's Sebastian Shaw, a mutant who possesses the remarkable ability to harness kinetic energy and transform that power into brute strength, intends to use this impending American / Russian conflict to create a nuclear holocaust; an environment which he believes would favour mutant domination over the powerless humans.

He believed that rational law could resolve all human conflict, and was a social engineer at heart.

Creating a school climate in which all kids believe they have worth, are capable human beings, are expected to serve and can resolve conflicts nonviolently; 3.

I believe that the human condition and many stages of our life cycle presents challenges and conflict.