Sentences with phrase «by the contradictions in»

I am confused by the contradiction in the article «We are addressing the 50 million atheists in this nation,» Silverman said.

Obviously, the specific deity claimed to exist in Biblical texts is disproved automatically by the contradictions in the dogma.

Plagued by contradiction in her own mind over flattery and the assumption that she would be far too plain in physical appearance to love, Dickinson was a huge talent whose work was widely underappreciated thanks to the inherent sexism of her time.

One can come at these paintings only tentatively, by narratives and descriptions, by impressions, by repetitions and sonorities and by the contradictions in which they are so rich.

Somewhat puzzled by the contradictions in the official narrative, Lady Hale observed:

Not exact matches

In that same interview, he seems to be reaching to square these contradictions, by suggesting that the Fed's current model — targeting 2 % inflation, a Fed funds rate of ~ 3 %, and an unemployment rate of ~ 5 % — is not reliable and that they should maybe move to a different targeting regime, like price - level or nominal GDP targeting.

Religious believers are likely to get further in discourse with the current generation of secular academics by 1) continually demonstrating, as Posner himself seems to intuit, that only a moral theory founded on God can actually «work,» in the sense of bridging the gap between «is» and «ought»; and 2) demonstrating the inherent self «contradictions of the moral theories advocated by the «secular liberals.»

Yes, Christian Dems do exist, it is not a contradiction in terms, and they were joined by Christian Republicans, who voted Democratic, to ensure that a Mormon isn't in the White House come January.

If we also keep in mind Isaiah 45:7, this divergence in theology becomes explainable and the contradiction is exposed for what it probably is; a shift in the theology of the Hebrews, influenced by the dualistic Persian religion at the time of the Persian's conquest of Babylon in around 539 BCE.

In contradiction to this fear, scientific research has shown that, without exception, no one has ever contracted AIDS by mere casual contact.

The contradiction between producers and consumers is not inherent in the electronic media; on the contrary, it has to be artificially reinforced by economic and administrative measures.

The Bible in and of itself is a contradiction... read me the one about how a slaughtered goats blood odor is pleasing to god, or the one about how the guy who works on sunday should be put to death by the stone.

: Schools, published in December by Bishop Patrick O'Donoghue of Lancaster, the actual text of which many of you will already have acquired, the reaction to which, however, — both hostile and the reverse — needs also to be registered as part of its necessary import: for, there is not much point in being a Sign of Contradiction if nobody notices, and the secular reaction to a subversive religion like Catholicism is part of its authentic meaning.

When a person is displaced into a radically different culture, he suffers acute distress, and when cultural patterns deteriorate through internal contradictions in a society or by external forces, the persons concerned undergo disorientation and disintegration.

Finally, in the justly famous, but very obscure section of «Force and the Understanding» known as the «Inverted World,» the metaphysical distinction inherent in all designations such as inner - outer, intelligible - sensible, noumenal - phenomenal collapses, and with it the attempt of substance or «essence» metaphysics to evade contradiction by locating «contradictories» (or contraries) in ontologically disparate realms.

While this relativity can be interpreted to mean that values are wholly defined by the circumstances of culture and are merely expressions of cultural exigencies, the insistent pressures of the human conscience, oftentimes in contradiction to accepted cultural norms, render this interpretation doubtful.

From this contradiction they escaped in part by claiming that Jesus» divine nature or messiahship descended on him at his baptism and left him just before his death on the cross.

By opposing these things the Church is a «sign of contradiction'to the beliefs of the secular world, and other faiths, while acknowledging whatever is good, true and beautiful in other faith systems.

As a consequence, every true Christian family in our society is, by definition, a sign of contradiction.

But in pure logic it is not true that there is sheer contradiction between the joint admission of divine perfection of goodness and divine perfection of power, on the one hand, and the fact of real evil on the other, for the simple reason that the greatest possible power (which by definition is «perfect» power) may not be the same as «all the power that exists united into one individual power.»

Of course these are false contradictions, but a case can be made to support the observation that in the aftermath of Vatican II the Church was driven by competing factions, each emphasing an aspect of Christian formation at the expense of others.

Women also face a contradiction in how they are valued for their spiritual and intellectual capacities but are also judged by their bodies, in both appearance (modesty) and activity (sexual practices).

This very contradiction shows clearly that man and the Kingdom of God are not seen by Jesus in the light of a humanistic ideal of mankind, that man as such is not predestined for the Kingdom.

I expect he would be somewhat at a loss — as are we all — when faced by postmodernist interlocutors quite unembarrassed by being caught in self - contradiction.

In other words, he has avoided seeing the contradiction within his own desires by projecting the conflict on his wife.

-- Difficulties, Contradictions and Problems in the Crucifixion tale by Ibn Anwar

He refuted the attacks of Western scholars against Islam by showing that there is no contradiction between Islam and reason; rather, that for Islam reason is the key to faith in God.

One of these difficulties comes from his conviction that there is a very sharp contradiction between the despotic deity who as he thinks is dominant in the Old Testament literature and the picture of a loving God taught and revealed by Jesus.

Rather, his poetry and prose are merged and submerged in his purpose of carrying his reader to the place to which «the whole torrent of our love rushes,» the place of highly energized and pleasurable «rest» — «there,» where the apparent contradiction of rest and strongly felt pleasure coincide and can be communicated most adequately by Augustine's inardescimus et imus: we catch fire and we go.

The contradiction is not immediately obvious in Whitehead's characterization of creativity as «that ultimate principle by which the many, which are the universe disjunctively, become the one actual occasion, which is the universe conjunctively» (PR 31).

The difficulties raised by this aspect of Whitehead's terminology have been aptly presented by Robison B. James in «Is Whitehead's «Actual Entity» a Contradiction in Terms?»

In contrast, constitutional stipulations that are substantive contradict the provision for constitutional change because they falsely assert that they must be explicitly accepted by any political participant who seeks to change them democratically The contradiction becomes fully apparent if we recognize that the argument for permitting substantive constitutional prescriptions also permits an established religion.

However, I tell you that the QURAN is a preserved word of God and until you show that there are contradictions within that book or with SCIENCE, then you shouldn't keep uttering that it is a book made up by MEN (don't speak in that which you have no knowledge of!).

He argued that the constitution of the Federal Republic committed the state to uphold marriage and family and that by honoring a lesbian activist, the state was acting in contradiction to its own basis.

Hence Whitehead is involved in contradiction on two - sides: volitions are both self - determined and physically - determined; molecules are and are not determined by general physical laws (PW 234 / 259f).

But Scorsese, who was an altar boy at St. Patrick's Old Cathedral in New York City's Fashion District, wasn't bothered by these contradictions.

Here is what Whitehead said in 1911 about the theory of types: «All the contradictions can be avoided, and yet the use of classes and relations can be preserved as required by mathematics, and indeed by common sense, by a theory which denies to a class — or relation — existence or being in any sense in which the entities composing it — or related by it — exist» (MAT 293).

The crucial religious experiences of man do not take place in a sphere in which creative energy operates without contradiction, but in a sphere in which evil and good, despair and hope, the power of destruction and the power of rebirth, dwell side by side.

Thirdly, although Steve gave no examples in his article of any discrepancies, errors or contradictions in the Bible, those he gave in his February 2011 article on the subject have been refuted numerous times by evangelical scholars.

«Nay, it is a contradiction in terms, for a religion not invented by human policy must have pre-existed and been supported, before it was established by human policy.»

Such a creator is not the personalized one held by believers in this forum and can not be arrived at using said arguments due to contradiction with scripture.

This position that there is a Pauline self - contradiction is also taken by Paul Jewett in his book Man as Male and Female.

The apparent contradiction between verses 8 and 10 can be explained by seeing verse 8 as a refusal to go to the feast publicly; though it is possible to read it also as a refusal to «go up» at the time of the feast, in the sense of be lifted up, glorified, going up to the Father, as in 3:13, 6:62, 20:17.

Instead of leaving us in awe, it leaves us dumbfounded by all of the nonsense, contradictions and backwardness that it contains.

It is curious that in spite of the great optimism with which Fromm writes about man, he says in this book, «It is man's fate that his existence is beset by contradictions, which he has to solve without ever solving them» (p. 362).

But their actions contradict this denial and their attitude toward themselves and others makes that contradiction apparent, Even the person who decides to commit suicide, because he or she has been disappointed or frustrated or rejected, is really asserting a sense of value, if only in the implicit assumption that by ending life one can give it a meaning.

You're actually seeing the holes in your religion and saying to yourself «That doesn't make any sense,» but then you explain it away by attibuting the obvious contradictions to God's mysterious will.

By this I mean that although love will not use coercive measures, driving people to do what they will not do otherwise, making them (as the phrase has it) act in contradiction to their own freely chosen decision, love is the most powerful of all agencies in the world.

The contradiction is summed up by the presence of more than 100,000 Filipinas in Hong Kong, many of them women with university degrees, working as maids to strangers» children as a means of providing for their own back at home.

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