Sentences with phrase «culture of a people only»

On the one hand, to ignore the religion and culture of a people only serves to alienate them from the liberation struggle being waged on their behalf; how can they participate if they do not understand the language in which the struggle is being articulated?

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For this reason, take steps to ensure that you only employ people who genuinely enjoy interacting with those around them and help foster a culture of transparency and directness in the process.

CEO Jack Griffin's 18 - month redo, post - Tribune split from its mothership, Tribune Company, in mid-2014 was only the latest twist since Sam Zell took control of the company in late December, 2007, performing a clean sweep of top Tribune management, installing his own people and then entering the famed five - year bankruptcy from hell (David Carr's 2010 nail - in - the - coffin column: «At Flagging Tribune, Tales of a Bankrupt Culture»).

In fact, the Tanach is very clear to the Jews that the only covenant they have (and will ever have) is the one pounded out between G - d and the Jews on Mt. Sinai (which, if you read the fine print AND the NT is allowed to be understood / interpreted by designated leaders in the Jewish society; Jesus believed those people to be the Pharisees and told his JEWISH followers to adhere to Pharisee teachings... the Pharisees were the honorable, compassionate end of the theology spectrum in the first century instead of the bad rap they get from a mis - reading of the NT (done generally with no comprehension of Jewish culture or history).

Institutions offering separate women - only swim hours demonstrate that they seek to include in their community people from many different cultures, faiths, and traditions, representing a range of values, beliefs, and experiences.

In fact, in the past 9 years there have only been 3 topics people discussed, regardless of their race, religion (even atheists), culture, gender, or primary language: they only spoke of (1) God, (2) family, and (3) relationships with other people & regrets / joy for those relationships.

The moment that I set myself up as the «victim» of «journalism shaming,» not only do I take something away from people who have truly been victimized, but I add to the momentum of false victimhood culture while ignoring the words of Jesus about turning the other cheek.

# 8 The ability to not just tolerate but enjoy diversity in every form — cultures, peoples, expressions of faith — there will be no one box — only one Lord and Savior.

Ours is indeed a consumeristic culture, the kind that too often turns people into commodities, and I believe Christians can speak into that culture in a unique, life - giving way — not only as it concerns sex - on - demand, but also as it concerns food - on - demand, celebrity - on - demand, stuff - on - demand, cheap - goods - on - demand, pornography - on - demand, entertainment - on - demand, comfort - on - demand, distraction - on - demand, information - on - demand, power - on - demand, energy - on - demand, and all those habits that tend to thrive at the expense of the dignity and value of our fellow human beings or our planet.

This kind of event is breaking news to only two kinds of people: those who have no inkling whatsoever of historic Christian theology, and those who expect religious conviction always to yield to pop culture.

Reason consolidates itself in terms of techniques, e.g., hunting, fishing, farming, handed down by the tribe to the next generation, evolving still more in terms of greater and more refined techniques and in terms of greater area of human activity; it unifies itself through the compilation of human experience not only in technique and art but in organized bodies of knowledge, the sciences, and all these achievements of reason resulting in a culture which in turn unify groups of people into cultural groups, civilizations, etc..

With its concern for historical truth and invocation of the need to facilitate the cultivation of the human person and society, «Mapping» at this point comes tantalizingly close to this vision only to fall back into statements that «the fundamental sources of value in a culture are neither necessary nor universal.»

They both are inventions of a race and culture that justified their indiscretions and Inhumanities with the excuse that skin color is a factor in intelligence and superiority... Only white people could achieve such a status..

John Senior, in The Restoration of Christian Culture, explains the phrase this way — «the lover is the only one who really sees the truth about a person... we can only love what we know because we have first touched, tasted, smelled, heard and seen.»

Finally, we must remember that although some of the Islamic people of the Arab and African countries have attained their independence, only after all of them have become free can they proceed to the next stage of security, peace, and prosperity which is so necessary for the growth of Islamic culture.

I choose to pray for the souls of all manner of people not only those who commit crimes, but also those whom misfortune has twisted to refuse to see virtue past their own narrow group, and they are to be found among people of all cultures and traditions.

While external legislation and laws are important, are we not a people who really believe it is only the inward change brought about by the power of the gospel that really transforms lives and culture for eternity?

Anyone with their wits about them who reads scripture and prays and is genuinely humble will see that many of the issues which push people into «camps» - especially but not only in the U.S. - are distortions in both directions caused by trying to get a quick fix on a doctrinal or ethical issue, squashing it into the small categories of one particular culture.

I suppose unless I'm already a believer I will need to pay a believer a nice sum of money in order and take a class in order to understand why a covenant that carries the penalty of death if this god is not worshipped is changed because, help me here (well of course unless god can speak for himself - I guess I have to ask those who have studied his word that he gave only once 2000 years ago to another culture), so after this covenant he came down and became a man in order to give people grace so he doesn't kill them if they don't worship him?

As long as the model of husband over wife, male over female, continues to be confirmed as the one level where dominance may not only be tolerated but must be honored, oppression of peoples will be continued on every other level of culture.

Part of the answer, it would seem, is the reduced defensiveness of a clericalist culture and a greater involvement of lay people not only in advisory roles but in actual decision - making.

Factors such as trade routes, the order of military encampment, property divisions, farming practices, building practices, economics and technology, and social stratification» not to mention a vast array of ritual processions and gatherings that might have only a tenuous connection to the type of conscious and coherent cosmology that Msgr. Mannion presupposes to have existed in these cultures» all coexisted with whichever form of religious devotion was particular to a given place and people.

Additionally, it has been well documented that a monotheistic conception of ultimate reality is indigenous to almost all of traditional African culture, and that it is highly probable that traditional African theism, like Judeo - Christian and Islamic theism, has its historical genesis in the monotheism of a black pharaoh of ancient Egypt — Iknaton ---- who was the first person known to have popularized the religious conviction that there is one, and only one, god.

It would be foolish to predict so far into the future, but it seems unlikely that any will equal the King James Version not only in terms of longevity, but in its capacity to shape the language and culture of the English - speaking peoples.

The position taken in this book is that such a democracy is inherently self - defeating, in part because the unrestrained pursuit of satisfaction tends to breed conflict rather than harmony, but more importantly because human nature is such that persons and cultures do not grow in beauty, strength, and virtue when people strive only to get what they want.

Most people outside the fold only react to the shallowness of pop culture rock»n roll religion (see any TV broadcast «ministry»).

Not only land, people and culture has transformed into raw - materials, labour and tourist souvenirs, but all symbols that provided meaning to life has turned into commodities Those realities that refused to assume itself in the form of a thing (commodity) have rendered valueless.

«43 The time, care, and enormous intelligence expended on the process of producing the Constitution expressed not only the traditional culture of a covenant - and compact - making people, perhaps unique in that respect in human history, but also a sense of the meaning of their act on the world stage.

Since freedom of propagation and conversion involves not only matters of religion, but also of culture and political ideas, any restriction at this point will affect the fundamental rights of the human person in general.

It is only when a culture becomes sufficiently imbued with these principles that it will be able to recognise the direction of Revelation towards the revelation of God in person.

While Orthodoxy has rejected the idea that the Church in any specific location should include only members of a particular culture or nation, it has asserted that the Church can so penetrate the inner moral and spiritual life of a people that all of them in some sense belong to the Church.

Whereas, earlier, it had been believed that the Aryans found only peoples of relatively undeveloped culture, now it is known that at least some of these early Indians had developed the arts to a high degree, that they even had a kind of hieroglyphic writing, not yet deciphered, and probably an equally well developed religion which, suppressed for a time, gradually reasserted itself and greatly modified Vedic religion, gradually transforming it into the Hinduism as practiced in India today.

It weakens, he argues, only those religions that are minimally differentiated from the secular culture, but it actually facilitates the gathering of critical masses of people with distinctive religious views who are motivated to create and maintain strong group ties.

A push toward a scientific sovereignty in which the empirical world was the only world, a mechanization of life through the emerging structures of technology and mass industry, a cultivation of persons along the lines of immediate gratification and fulfillment of base impulses, and the use of mass culture by dictatorial regimes to shape a people.

Only a few years ago people never used the word «culture» in the way we do today, and never thought of themselves as belonging to a particular culture.

Empirical science gave rise to modern technology, and this has been not only a justified source of pride but also welcomed by people in many different cultures.

Add to this mix a handful of international students, most likely from a Middle Eastern, Islamic culture or from an Asian society in which people deem it strange to share any religious conviction, and we have an assembly that we could address only if the miracle of Pentecost touched our tongues.

But we also need to study the Bible with the people of our culture and age, so that we not only ask their questions, but also speak their language.

God is said to «build a church here,» with certain walls and certain windows, among certain people, but this, it becomes clear, is only an elusive attempt by the poet at explaining a bewildering fact of culture.

But in a pluralistic culture, there is only one way to convince people of the truth: fruits, i.e. deeds that prove the words to be faithful to reality and faithful to the words uttered.

Only a narrow political persuasion convinces people of any national culture today that they are the representatives of the only true humanOnly a narrow political persuasion convinces people of any national culture today that they are the representatives of the only true humanonly true humanity.

Now, thankfully we do not see people beating each other up at the grocery store for the last package of Oreos on a regular basis (only on Black Friday sales for cheap TVs), but we can see in our movies, television shows, books, and overarching culture that violence is still seen as a somewhat legitimate — often glamorous — method for achieving one's goals, whether it be overt or covert in nature.

But on the other hand, to ignore the sociopolitical factors in order to accent religion and culture only serves to make the latter the opiate of the people.

To the credit of the authorities, and in part because of the international sympathy aroused by an unusual amount of publicity, significant steps were taken to, ameliorate the plight of the victimized women; nevertheless, the incident clearly dramatizes not only the vulnerability of women to this particular form of violence but also the injustice of a culture, sanctioned by religion, which regards the woman's sexual integrity as primarily the concern of husbands and male relatives whose honor is at stake: bluntly, she is property, not a full person in her own right.

This is the fact that the Church was designed by God to be inclusive enough to embrace not only the people of all parts of the earth, but also persons of every race, color, nation, economic or social class, age, sex, culture, language, and station in life.

Our very Constitution binds us, that is to say, the very breath of our political nostrils binds us, to disown all distinctions among men, to disregard persons, to disallow privilege the most established and sacred, to legislate only for the common good, no longer for those accidents of birth or wealth or culture which spiritually individualize man from his kind, but only for those great common features of social want and dependence which naturally unite him with his kind, and inexorably demand the organization of such unity....

But as we survey the world situation today, the general feeling is that along with many benefits, many of the promises of technology stand betrayed and there is evidence of a lot of technology having become instruments of exploitation of peoples, destruction of cultures and dehumanization of persons and pose threat of destruction not only to the whole humanity through nuclear war but also to the whole community of life on the earth through the destruction of its ecological basis.

Although people use those terms for a variety of reasons, I do know those who think those books tell stories of the religion and culture of the ancient Jews, and as such are only history.

In a world of a thousand tribes, the only way to reach it is to empower people who are already part of these cultures to take the Gospel to them.

and so it's easy to fall into this kind of thinking for anyone, and (2) Christian culture is so pervasive even our people get bitten by it — we live in an odd time where you can be exposed to other church's preachers on the radio, podcasts, Christian books, etc. and so the church you go to is not going to be the only influence on how you think and approach God & Christianity.