Sentences with phrase «culture of death»

Wesley J. Smith is a senior fellow at the Discovery Institute's Center on Human Exceptionalism and author of Culture of Death: The Age of «Do Harm» Medicine.

A revised and updated version of his award winning Culture of Death: The Assault on Medical Ethics in America will be released by Encounter Books next year.

I would like to set the record straight on a statement made by Richard Doerflinger in his review of Wesley J. Smith's book Culture of Death (August / September).

and apologies to all the pagans that had their spring fertility festival stolen by the christians with the blatantly copied story from other previous cultures of the death and 3 days later resurrection of their god character.

The human being, and various cultures of death created by him, have unrealistically sought to solve this paradox through an attack on the dignity of the body.

In a similar way, Catholic teaching today, as notably set forth by John Paul II, strongly encourages the fullest possible cooperation among Christians in contending for a culture of life and of truth against the encroaching culture of death and deceit.

«Unfortunately, the international safe motherhood initiative has accepted the current culture of death prevalent in obstetrics and gynaecology, as abortion is included as the solution to maternal health problems.

Peter Singer is one of the most subversive, pro culture of death advocates in the world, and he has been granted Australia's highest civic award.

Since the launch of ECT two decades ago, authentic Christian witness has become more — not less — difficult in a world marked by secularism, terrorism, and the dehumanizing forces in our contemporary cultures of death.

The hair - raising comments to the Kansas article (scroll down) also highlight why, despite my posts suggesting otherwise, the American culture of the death may never change.

An updated and revised edition of his award - winning Culture of Death: The Assault on Medical Ethics in America will be released by Encounter Books next spring.

Saunders once told me, in an interview for my book Culture of Death, that approving of assisted suicides for the terminally ill infringes on their inherent human dignity.

He added: «The mafia phenomenon, which is the expression of a culture of death, must be resisted and fought.»

While the film does not discuss this question, it is worth pondering whether the culture of death is the inevitable byproduct of democratic capitalism.

But he would not agree that Western democracies like America are inevitably headed towards the culture of death.

As I often say, the culture of death brooks no dissent.

He argues that democratic capitalism is solely the product of the Modern Enlightenment and thus necessarily leads to the culture of death.

In his encyclical, Evangelium Vitae, JPII discusses this problem in terms of the «culture of death.»

The culture of death we see clearly in the gang violence on our streets and in the perpetual war that has ravaged homes in Iraq is just as real, though often harder to see, in the self - centeredness of our shopping malls and the loneliness of our workspaces.

This is inescapably the case with respect to the conflict between the «culture of life» and the «culture of death» so powerfully described in, for example, the encyclical Evangelium Vitae.

But in the face of a society marked by unbelieving ideologies and the culture of death, we deem it all the more important to affirm together those foundational truths of historic Christian orthodoxy that we do hold in common.

One thing is certain to a pastor: the only parishioners fighting the old battles are old themselves, their felt banners frayed and their guitar strings broken, while a young battalion is rising, with no animus against the atrophied adolescence of their parents, and only eager to engage a real spiritual combat in a culture of death.

With murderous logic, Singer has ripped away all the respectable drapery from the culture of death; he has given us a frontal look at it in all its nakedness, without a fig leaf, the full monty.»

Are they man's best friend, or stalking horses for the culture of death?

The generation that has lost one out of five of its members to abortion in this country seems to be more poignantly aware than any other of the tragic cost of the culture of death as well as the ever - present urgency of the need to confront its lies courageously.

Joseph Bottum argues that since our society is infected by a culture of death, we should prudentially end (or postpone?)

I personally don't see it as killing a potential baby (or more generally to»em bracing a culture of death») to prevent ovulation!

««Culture of death» Owch!

Officiating at the baptism of ten children, the Pope exposed the lies of the culture of death, which makes the human being a «thing».

It is a close study of the thought and language of John Paul II, who taught the Church and the world to understand the contest of the culture of life versus the culture of death.

The Culture of Death awaits all of us and especially our young people.

The Gospel of life is hard to preach in a culture of death, but eliminating capital punishment is one thing that may help.

Living in the midst of a culture of death, the only teaching that these witnesses of the Third Millennium find «relevant» isdynamic fidelity to the Magisterium of the Catholic Church.

Toward that end, William Brennan, a social scientist at St. Louis University, has a new book from Sapientia Press, Confronting the Language Empowering the Culture of Death.

[1] The culture of death denies the fundamental dignity of the human person

Not to want to create betrays a lack of vitality which reflects or facilitates the culture of death

His most recent book is Culture of Death: The Age of «Do Harm» Medicine.

They bear a great resemblance to what Pope John Paul II called «the culture of death», with its downgrading of marriage, its advocating of euthanasia, abortion and contraception.

No doubt the efforts to make suicide acceptable are a symptom of the culture of death, which has grown with individualism.

His comprehensive pro-life perspective stirred every segment of the American Church, and the stark contrast he drew between the Culture of Life and a Culture of Death framed the great moral issues facing America in a way that still defines them today.

Obama has aligned himself with this culture of death that Christian must speak against because the babies can not speak for themselves.

God's act of justification by grace enables persons to switch worlds, to leave that culture of death and to enter a world always intended by God for people (the new creation), founded on the total and entirely free gift from God (justification by grace).

A friend of mine once remarked that, while the redefinition of marriage does have troubling consequences for the continuity of society, what John Paul II has rightly called the «culture of death» is far more sinister, another order of evil entirely.

That secularist, relativist, materialist late modernity is a seamless garment, and that our voluntarist culture of consumption and disposal is not merely accidentally associated with late modernity's «culture of death,» but rather belongs to it essentially, as the inevitable moral dimension of a single indissoluble spiritual grammar and moral metaphysics?

How are we to understand his teaching that resistance to the «culture of death» demands «disobedience» and even «conscientious objection» to unjust laws?

We are, the Pope says, in the midst of a great conflict between «the culture of life» and «the culture of death»: «We are all involved and we all share in it, with the inescapable responsibility of choosing to be unconditionally pro-life.»

Those of us who would resist the culture of death must join our voices with hers.

When Evangelium Vitae was issued, the Pope's warning that ours is becoming a «culture of death» grabbed the headlines» and rightly so.

The «culture of death» is well - advanced in our nation.

At a theoretical level, given technological drives and commercial interests, the juggernaut of «the culture of death» seems unstoppable, but there is a widespread and growing measure of intelligent anxiety.