Sentences with phrase «by human men»

There are millions and millions of books available, but so many believe in this one book, a book that, despite being edited many, many times by human men, is called the «word of god».

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The Wing, a women - only coworking space and social club that has three locations in New York City and one in Washington D.C., is under investigation by the New York City Commission on Human Rights due to its strict no - men - allowed club rules — possibly violating the city's Human Rights Law, Jezebel reported.
For black men, though, the challenges of the corporate life are daunting at least in part because they are sometimes hard to pin down — influenced as much by age - old prejudice as by cultural preconceptions, the subtleties of psychology, and the weight of human history (more on that soon).
While the trucks are autonomous, the company says they will be manned by human drivers (since, after all, someone has to unload the beer once it reaches its destination).
The honorees will include Joanne Smith, the Chief Human Resources Officer for Delta Air Lines (No. 98 on this year's list), for helping the airline to build a more inclusive workplace by pushing it to commit to the White House Equal Pay Pledge, which encourages U.S. companies to take action to advance equal pay among men and women.
For example, he is actively promoting AI and man - machine integration by founding the company «Neuralink» in March 2017 for the direct connection of the human brain with machines and artificial intelligence — but at the same time since 2014 is warning that humanity could face doom through the rise of robots equipped with artificial intelligence:
In 1990, ground breaking evidence and research on Human Growth Hormone by Daniel Rudman, M.D. shook the medical world (Published in the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine) with the announcement that 12 men, aged 61 to 81 had received human growth hormone treatment and had reversed up to the equivalent of 20 years of aging in only six months with human growth hormone injectHuman Growth Hormone by Daniel Rudman, M.D. shook the medical world (Published in the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine) with the announcement that 12 men, aged 61 to 81 had received human growth hormone treatment and had reversed up to the equivalent of 20 years of aging in only six months with human growth hormone injecthuman growth hormone treatment and had reversed up to the equivalent of 20 years of aging in only six months with human growth hormone injecthuman growth hormone injections.
Reports of job discrimination and bad behavior by men were ignored by human resources, some female employees say.
According to a Harvard Business Review study, women in emerging markets reinvest 90 % of every dollar earned into «human resources» — their families» education, health and nutrition — compared to only 30 to 40 % of every dollar earned by men.2 In other words, Kiva's loans have helped countless families and communities in over 80 countries escape a vicious cycle of poverty.
«Human nature desires quick results, there is a particular zest in making money quickly, and remoter gains are discounted by the average man at a very high rate» John Maynard Keynes
From Big Bang to Big Mystery: Human Origins in the Light of Creation and Evolution by Brendan Purcell New City Press, 370 pages, $ 34.95 Benjamin Disraeli famously asked whether man is «an ape or an angel» and answered that he himself stood «on the side of the angels.»
see what religion does... all in the name of some imaginary sky - daddy, who is nothing but just one of the thousands of «gods» invented by man over the course of human history.
What you're giving up is your freedom to think for yourself by accepting this fantasy man - in - the - sky BS that has somehow managed to propagate throughout the centuries of modern human existence.
But the end result is the same: By its nature, human erotic love is ordered to creating and raising new life, and to the mutual joy and support of a man and woman vowed in a covenant of love.
Please, any Christian, honestly answer the following: The completely absurd theory that all 7,000,000,000 human beings are simultaneously being supervised 24 hours a day, every day of their lives by an immortal, invisible being for the purposes of reward or punishment in the «afterlife» comes from the field of: (a) Astronomy; (b) Medicine; (c) Economics; or (d) Christianity You are about 70 % likely to believe the entire Universe began less than 10,000 years ago with only one man, one woman and a talking snake if you are a: (a) historian; (b) geologist; (c) NASA astronomer; or (d) Christian I have convinced myself that gay $ ex is a choice and not genetic, but then have no explanation as to why only gay people have ho.mo $ exual urges.
He refused to believe that the false ideas of the human person and human history embodied in communism could divide Europe indefinitely; and by igniting a revolution of conscience behind the iron curtain, the man the last president of the Soviet Union called «the world's greatest moral authority» became an agent of liberation for his Slavic brethren and the precursor of new possibilities in international affairs.
It seems to me they have much bigger fish to fry like: The Taliban treating women as less than human, stoning people to death, 60 year old men marrying teenage girls, cutting off an 18 year old girl's nose because she left her abusive husband (see TIME magazine a month ago), destroying over 125 schools because girls attend, suicidal Islamic fanatical cowards on every continent killing thousands of INNOCENT people, and these clowns are worried about their precious Koran being burned by a nutjob.
1) Men and nations are governed by moral laws; and those laws have their origin in a wisdom that is more than human — in divine justice.
Does the Machiavellian version of «necessity is all there is» create an unbounded or at least unjustified confidence in the malleability of human nature by the free or astute man.
As a participant in that 1998 Ramsey Colloquium, a longtime supporter of the cautious use of rights language, and a frequent critic of its misuses, I was moved by Reno's arguments to ponder whether the noble post — World War II universal human - rights idea has finally been so manipulated and politicized as to justify its abandonment by men and women of good will.
Or Heidelberg Man which was built from a jawbone that was conceded by many to be human?
Forasmuch as each man is a part of the human race, and human nature is something social, and has for a great and natural good, the power also of friendship; on this account God willed to create all men out of one, in order that they might be held in their society not only by likeness of kind, but also by bond of kindred.
He starts off the treatise by stating that marriage is an unequivocally good thing, that God willed to create man and woman in friendship, and that the first natural bond of human society is man and wife:
Obviously, that biblical law was written by ignorant men, and because humans are changeable, we have «evolved» our beliefs on such things and do not recognize what the biblical laws require — because they are immoral.
Reviewing a book titled The Son of Man written by François Mauriac (a French Roman Catholic who wrote about the problems of good and evil in human nature and in the world), Flannery O'Connor writes: He proposes in the place of that anguish that Gide called the Catholic's «cramp....
Hope amidst suffering, hope when men know only defeat and despair, hope when death seems to smother out the shoots of life springing from the hearts of men, hope for our society, our world, our city, our schools, courts, prisons, legislatures, hope for our children, for our elderly, hope for all the millions of men and women over the face of this globe who simply want to live out their lives as free human beings not trampled down and stepped on by the overlords of this world.
Rather, specifically human existence is, in Whitehead's term, a «personal society,» i.e., a temporal sequence of occasions which share, by virtue of inheritance from the earlier to the later, a defining characteristic that makes the man or woman in question just this individual and not some other.
During the second ritual month of the Aztec year, Tlacaxipehualiztli (Flaying of Men), the priests killed human victims by removing their hearts.
With regard to others, it is our duty to cultivate within ourselves respect for the sacred and to show the face of the revealed God — the God who has compassion for the poor and the weak, for widows and orphans, for the foreigner; the God who is so human that he himself became man, a man who suffered, and who by his suffering with us gave dignity and hope to our pain.
Perhaps John of Salisbury would remind us today that the only laws in conformity with equity are those that protect the sacredness of human life and reject the licitness of abortion, euthanasia and bold genetic experimentation, those laws that respect the dignity of marriage between a man and a woman, that are inspired by a correct secularism of the State, a secularism that always entails the safeguard of religious freedom and that pursues subsidiarity and solidarity at both the national and the international level.
God is infallible, and He has irrevocably entered the human realm by becoming man.
But in the very moment of the rejection of God by man, Christ - who is both fully human and fully divine — accepts the rejection and turns to God praying for the forgiveness of humanity «Father, forgive them, they know not what they do.»
This disbelief in the value of the human body was epitomised by Thomas Hobbes, who wrote: «Man is in the condition of mere nature, which is a condition of war, as private appetite is the measure of good and evil».
Redemption is the healing of the damage caused to human nature by sin and the restoration of man's lost relationship with God.
I love the way CS Lewis explained that ``... He (God) sent the human race what I call good dreams; I mean those queer stories scattered all through the heathen religions about god who dies and comes to life again and, by his dead, has somehow given new life to men
The bible that was written by man, is the ultimate tool for the orchestrated, professional manipulation of the human race, by playing on man's deepest fears and superstitions.
Acts 17:24 - 28 «24 The God who made the world and all things in it, since He is Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in temples made with hands; 25 nor is He served by human hands, as though He needed anything, since He Himself gives to all people life and breath and all things; 26 and He made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined their appointed times and the boundaries of their habitation, 27 that they would seek God, if perhaps they might grope for Him and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us; 28 for in Him we live and move and exist, as even some of your own poets have said, «For we also are His children.»»
Finally, in the «sadness» category, I am disheartened that there's an almost universal disparaging in this thread of those who happen to be published authors and / or speakers, as though this by default makes us The Man and incapable of basic human compassion.
While Tillich provides a system to overcome the subject - object dilemma of Cartesianism, he denies that Being - itself is actually increased or decreased by events, i.e., it is not in process, and, therefore, does not share in human adventures.5 Camus» position implies that if there is a God, such a God would be tolerable only if God is involved in the struggle of man's existence.
It can be shown, on the contrary, that just as the natural sciences yield a comprehensive view of man, so the picture of human nature provided by the social sciences is that of a three-fold integration of body, mind, and spirit.
If one considers, however briefly, what conditions will make possible the flowering in the human heart of this new universal love, so often vainly dreamed of but now at last leaving the realm of the utopian and declaring itself as both possible and necessary, one notices this: that if men on earth, all over the earth, are ever to love one another it is not enough for them to recognize in one another the elements of a single something; they must also, by developing a «planetary» consciousness, become aware of the fact that without loss of their individual identities they are becoming a single somebody.
His range of experience was restricted by the kind of man he was; and this in itself raises certain difficulties if he is held up as an example to all human beings everywhere and at all times, for it is at least in some measure unreal to present a first - century Galilean as a model for the conduct of Western or African or Asian men in a twentieth - century industrial society.
And as if this were not enough Good News for human beings to accept, they know now, by the acted parable of the Ascension of Christ, that God and man are eternally inseparable.
Some think to make you more lovable in my eyes by praising almost exclusively the charm and the kindness of your human face as men saw it long ago on earth.
Rollo May has put us particularly in his debt by his insistence that an «ontology of human existence» is required even with the strict limits of psychological theory.16 But now we go beyond the general doctrine of man to the Christian answer to the religious question.
There would be no need to «make» God share in man's adventure or be affected by human actions according to Whitehead, for such is the nature of God: «Decay, Transition, Loss, Displacement belong to the essence of Creative Advance» (Al 368 - 69).
Let us admit this frankly, once and for all: what most discredits faith in progress in the eyes of men today, over and above its reticences and its helplessness in meeting the cry of the «last days of the human species», is the unfortunate tendency still shown by its adepts to distort into pitiful millenarianisms all that is most valid and most noble in our now permanently awakened expectation of the future appearance of some form of «ultra-humanity».
Man - made environments vary according to the particular life - histories of the human groups that live by them.
The particular mechanisms employed depend on circumstances of history, geography, and culture, and decisions about them can be made responsibly only by taking account of man's acquisitive propensities, his need for rational order, his longing for freedom, and his sense of justice — in short, by relying on an integral rather than a truncated conception of human nature.
He condemned and cursed the self - appointed religious leaders who perpetuated the perverted Judaism of the day through their promotion of the Talmud and Rabbinic Halachal above the Mosaic Law given by God; those who added to the Scriptures (the Pharisees) and those who subtracted from the Scriptures (the Sadducees) and anyone else who changed the commandments of God because of their own human desires for acceptance and the honor of men.
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