Sentences with phrase «by human violence»

All distortions of creation, compounded by human violence, disobedience and greed, will have to be redeemed in Christ (Rev. 8:13 - 28).

Not exact matches

Earlier announcements by the Shi'ite militias that they will be involved in the offensive on Mosul, Islamic State's last major stronghold in Iraq, triggered warnings from human rights groups of sectarian violence in the mainly Sunni province.

Sponsored by the Human Rights Foundation, PutinCon was the first event of its kind — a meeting of dissidents and journalists; of people who've been robbed by the Kremlin; of former soldiers who've seen too much; of prosecutors and politicians who know too much; of Russians and Europeans and Americans (North and South) who had enough of Putin's interference and violence.

«A large part of the violence has taken place in this part of the country... is generated by the production of opium poppies,» Roberto Campa, the deputy interior minister for human rights, told AFP in February.

Facebook's failure to quash hateful rhetoric, whether by enabling advertisers to reach «Jew haters» or neglecting to crack down on inflammatory posts that contributed to violence in Sri Lanka, led Bee compare it to a robot that eats human skin.

For decades, the diamond industry has been tainted by the fact that the quest for diamonds has often led to violence, warfare, and human suffering.

At the same time, it kept silence about numerous acts of religiously motivated violence, which the recent report by the Brussels - based International Partnership for Human Rights called «crimes against humanity.»

How about a Catholic Father of two girls to get on and: 1) Agree that any violence against any human of any age is wrng an punisghable regardless after (at least in my country (the US) one is proven guilty by a court of law.

Muchembled also resists a Western triumphalist narrative by suggesting that the taming of domestic violence was not simply the result of a progressive civilizing process» marking European civilization as the height of human evolution» but came at the price of colonial conquest on other continents and terribly destructive wars among nations in Europe.

I personally don't think Steve was «fair» with all of the biblical accounts of violence, since he often cuts off quotations in mid-sentence, but with all the clear «unfairness» in Scripture where actual human lives are getting «cut off» by God, it's hard to quibble over minor details like that.

Humans have brought the pain and suffering of sickness, violence, and starvation upon themselves by their willful, sinful acts against God.

Religion was necessary in the development of human evolution to control violence by imputing guilt onto the scapegoat.

That's because Piper and many in the fundamentalist neo-Reformed movement are working off of a perversion of the doctrine of total depravity that not only teaches that human beings are depraved — that is, that our humanity is marred by sin — but that this depravity renders the world's men, women, and children into valueless objects of god's wrath, worthy of nothing more than eternal torture, pain, violence, and abuse.

I think the whole thing can be amended by asking «Could religion realistically stop violence», adn the answer there is obviously no, because we're all still humans, and a good many humans suck.

The great issues of our time are moral: the uses of power; wealth and poverty; human rights; the moral quality and character of society; loss of the sense of the common good in tandem with the pampering of private interests; domestic violence; outrageous legal and medical costs in a system of maldistributed services; unprecedented developments in biotechnologies which portend good but risk evil; the violation of public trust by high elected officials and their appointees; the growing militarization of many societies; continued racism; the persistence of hunger and malnutrition; a still exploding population in societies hard put to increase jobs and resources; abortion; euthanasia; care for the environment; the claims of future generations.

By being the scapegoat for natural and human violence, God thereby rescues, redeems, and delivers mankind from the disastrous consequences of owning up to what is truly in our hearts.

They deem the talk of God's judgment irreverent, but think nothing of entrusting judgment into human hands... And so violence thrives, secretly nourished by belief in a God who refuses to wield the sword.

The central point of the preceding criticisms is that it is not possible to understand human violence without acknowledging that human beings are addressed by the Word of God, and live their lives in reaction to this Word.

From the Bali Declaration, Asian Regional Meeting on Violence Against Women held in Bali, Indonesia, organized by WCC, the Christian Conference of Asia and the Asian Women's Human Rights Commission, 1 - 6 August 1993.

The murder of Abel by Cain represents the fratricidal, murderous violence upon which all human civilization is built.

The classification system provided an excuse for exploitation of significant human emotions, trivializing sexuality in the name of freedom and making violence attractive when, by definition, it is ugly.

fosters an insatiable avarice, generates false values and needs by its global culture, kills humans due to poverty, malnutrition and violence, exploits women and children, denies to many the basic human right to life and the means of living a decent human life.

In only a few short paragraphs, Alison provides a compelling account of analogy as God's way of subverting the human story of violence from within» analogy depends on God's refusal to be rejected by his creation.

The claim of Christian belief is not first and foremost that it offers the only accurate system of thought, as against all other competitors; it is that, by standing in the place of Christ, it is possible to live in such intimacy with God that no fear or failure can ever break God's commitment to us, and to live in such a degree of mutual gift and understanding that no human conflict or division need bring us to uncontrollable violence and mutual damage.

«People do not wish to know that the whole human culture is based on the mythic process of conjuring away man's violence by endlessly projecting it upon new victims» (Girard, Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World, 164).

On the one hand the «bourgeois spirit» in its essence, and on the other the true «toilers of the Earth», those of whom we may safely predict that, without violence or hatred, simply by biological predominance, they will tomorrow constitute the human race.

Ask these our forebears if God countenances violence; surely they will counter with the question: How can human institutions be cleansed except by violence?

This abuse of mass media, which suggests that the normal solution of human conflict is violence and even cruelty, is called by Haseldon «the most monstrous obscenity of our time.»

A steady stream of refugees fleeing the violence in Lybia are attempting to reach Europe by crossing the Mediterranean Sea, often traveling in unstable boats operated by human traffickers...

In this sense, the strange violence of electricity production is once again alienating human beings from their landscapes by making those landscapes uninhabitable.

«Reports of violence and human rights atrocities from North Korea are pervasive, while the situation faced by Christians in Afghanistan may be underestimated.

These Christian partisans of violence are not at all inhibited by the thought of the suffering that this violence will inflict on thousands and hundreds of thousands of human beings.

Even without religion, human history would still be defined by just as many wars and events marked by violence.

We list some of the most conspicuous etiologies: pain of childbirth, 3:16; the relative position of man and woman in society, 3:16; the intractability of man's natural environment and the consequent necessity of his hard labor, 3:17 - 19; man's irrevocable consignment to death, 3:19; the antipathy between the nomad and the agriculturalist and perhaps also the origin of violence in human relationships in the Brothers, 4:1 - 16; and the frustrating fact in the human situation of fundamental communication thwarted by plurality of speech and wide geographical dispersion, 11:1 - 9.

Berrigan's complaint, in short, is that the reestablishment of a Jewish state (a justifiable goal) has come at a tremendous cost in human suffering, armed violence and moral decay; that the course of the new state has been a betrayal of everything the term «Israel» has stood for — justice, compassion, succoring the humiliated and injured; that a «settler state» was established through the expropriation of the people of the land, followed by an imperialist venture, based on the subjugation and exploitation of the conquered; and that, to add moral insult to physical and spiritual injury, the spokesmen of and for the state claim for it a special virtue and glorious achievement which may not be criticized.

The human race has within it the dreadful power to bring about its own self - destruction, and this is dramatically brought home by means of the legend of the great flood, where man was all but annihilated, because he had filled the earth with his violence and corruption.

«violent force and nonviolent force» must be replaced by a definition that sees violence as «the imposition of one's will upon another» and that recognizes violence as «an inescapable feature of the human condition.»

The real question posed by the conflictual nature of human existence is, What is the norm by which we judge our use of violence?

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[2] Rather such practice often masks the extensive human rights abuses committed by the Ugandan army during the war by accentuating only the «local» dynamics of violence and redirects popular understanding of the conflict away from the structural inequalities held up by the Ugandan state and its foreign backers.

Whereas, New York State is a leading voice for women's equality and has raised that voice in action through such significant achievements as passage of the historic «Women's Equality Agenda» in 2015 - eight laws that advance women's equality in New York State by helping to achieve pay equity, strengthen human trafficking laws and protections for domestic violence victims, and ending pregnancy discrimination in all workplaces; other measures further safeguard and promote women's interests and help improve their status in settings where they live and work; and

The detached statistical world of counter-terrorism and the angry grandstanding world of politics have little in common with the human experiences of those who've actually been affected by political violence.

The warnings by NGOs, such as Human Rights Watch in a coalition of 47 organizations in June that the UN was not sufficiently prepared for the elections and lacks «adequate and appropriate resources to protect civilians... and to avert election - related violence» (HRW 2011) were not acted upon.

«Council reaffirms the strong condemnation by the AU of all act of violence, committed by whomsoever, as well as of human rights abuses, including killings, extra-judicial executions, violations of the physical integrity of persons, acts of torture and other cruel, inhuman and / or degrading treatment, and arbitrary arrests and illegal detentions, violations of the freedom of the press and freedom of expression and the prevalence of impunity,» the AU said.

A talk organised yesterday by the Queen Mary Atheism, Secularism and Humanism Society on «Sharia Law and Human Rights» had to be cancelled after threats of violence.

Ponet's tenure was also marred by increasing violence and scrutiny by human rights groups and federal officials at Rikers Island.

There is no evidence that the BTA has used or advocated violence during the recent protests and the NASUWT believes that their arrest and detention is a deliberate attempt by the authorities to undermine the ability of a legitimate trade union to organise and a contravention of international human rights law.

If she had, she could have been placed in one of the city's shelters for domestic violence victims, which are managed by the Human Resources Administration.

He writes, «If the losers are unwilling to accept the results of elections and work within the democratic system toward the next election, then the alternative taught by human history is violence.

As a law enforcement professional who has seen the human pain and suffering caused by gun violence up close and personal, I join every clear thinking individual who shares the same concerns we all have.