Sentences with phrase «deaths than all of human»

I'd also point out to the enlightened atheists who want to bash Christianity because of what it did during the Dark Ages, that atheism, in an age of enlightenment in the 20th century, probably resulted in more mass deaths than all of human history combined.

Not exact matches

To ignore this advice and plunk ourselves down longer and more often than the human body was designed for is to tempt both a host of unpleasant health effects and early death.

It's a tribute to the human spirit in a time of war that potentially had no consequences other than death for the harboring family.

It has been estimated that in less than the past 100 years, governments under the banner of communism have caused the death of somewhere between 40,472,000 to 259,432,000 human lives.

Bridgestone Tires: The Beaver in «Sigh of Relief» What could possibly be more entertaining than future road kill bonding with a human over their respective near - death experiences.

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.

He paid the price of a bitter death, rather than weaken the intimacy of his relationship with the human lot, with all its suffering and failure.

Worse than just the threat of «extinction», this threatens the eternal frustration of human nature - spiritual as well as physical death.

It is more than the denial of death; it is a «part of compelling, life - enhancing imagery, through which each of us perceives his connection with all of human history.»

For we shall then be all too likely to dismiss death as a mere incident, to think of judgment without due seriousness, and to regard heaven and hell (our possible human destiny, for good or for ill) as nothing more than «fairy - tale» talk.

In an empirical observation of human activity and life, a la Hobbes, desire seems to know no end other than death.

He argues that birth, breeding, and death are the features of life that most offend this sense of dignity, and as such are the central battlegrounds for those attempting to help us become more than human.

Furthermore, the doctrinal structure of faith is much more than the «grammar of the Church's narrative»: it is the reality of communion with the Trinity through the life, death and Resurrection of Jesus Christ, the Son of God made Man and the centre of all human history.

The death - of - God myth symbolically articulates, from within the Christian perspective which is my religious framework, my own inability any longer to affirm anything more in the way of grace and love than the human faces and voices and bodies around me, those persons with whom I enter into relationships of various kinds and intensities and patterns of communion and brokenness.

Some Jewish scholars maintain that empirical evidence shows a deterioration of the human condition since the death of Christ, rather than an improvement.

The chief points of change are, first, that the scene has been transferred from the supernatural world of the gods to the earthly sphere of human history; secondly, that It is not a god who experiences the renewal of life (for the God of Israel is not himself subject to death and resurrection, but on the contrary initiates and controls these events) but the people of Israel, who look in hope for restoration when their existence is threatened; and thirdly, that this hope is expressed as a metaphor describing the historical future, rather than as a myth of cosmic renewal.

Human beings are terrified of their own deaths and we see the various religious beliefs that try to «wish it away,» such as reincarnation, living happily ever after in Heaven with Jesus, having your own Mormon planet etc. as nothing more than childish stories for the more näive, timid minds among us.

Acroyear wrote that «NOTHING in all of human history, with perhaps exception the Bubonic plague -LSB-,] has caused more death than organized religion.»

The ONLY REAL SOLUTION to the overcrowding of areas like Gaza that does not result in war or death occuring is the colonization of planetary bodies like the Moon and Mercury both of which have more than ample supplies of water to create habitats for humans.

Imagine the power, serenity and spaciousness of someone who, because he is not driven by fear of death, is able to undergo an absolutely typical lynch death at human hands and to do so deliberately — and by doing so show that rather than death being definitive and powerful, it is no more than a frightening mirage.

And I'm also pretty sure that Acroyear's comment about organized religion being the cause of more human deaths than any other reason is absolutely correct (Bubonic plague included).

Human beings are terrified of their own deaths and we see the various religious beliefs that try to «wish it away» such as reincarnation, living happily ever after in Heaven with Jesus, having your own Mormon planet etc. as nothing more than childish stories for the more naive, timid minds among us.

Jeremy good message and quite relevant for today God is still looking at our hearts and motives for serving him or are we serving our own agenda as Jonah was.He did nt feel compassionate towards his enemies and who could blame him they had cruelly killed many Jews it was a question of life or death to his own people.The Jewish nation was no more deserving of Gods grace than the other nations that is revealed by sending Jonah to preach a message of hope and life.Ultimately God calls all by faith in him and is willing to be merciful to all nations and peoples that do not not deserve it just like us it is by grace that we all are forgiven.I am pleased that God is sovereign and knows whats best he is merciful to us.Our human nature is that it is better to kill our enemies before they can kill us and that is essentially Jonahs message that is why he struggled to be obedient to Gods will.Gods message is to forgive those that trespass against us and show mercy.Its complicated and it is natural to protect ourselves and our families from those who would seek to destroy them but ultimately its about trusting God with everything easier said than done.If it comes to a choice we will have to trust God and ask for his strength because we cant do it in ours.As Christ laid down his life for us are we ready to lay our lives and the lives of our families as a sacrifice for him.To me that is where the story of Jonah is leading to we have the choice to fight our enemies or to love them as God loves them.brentnz

But Macquarrie, like many theologians writing today, would be far clearer than Kübler - Ross that death, whatever else it is, is a part of the human condition of sinfulness.

What he opposes most stridently in this book is not religious doubt itself or attempts to understand religion as a human construct or a biological phenomenon, but rather what he sees as a very artificial and incomplete view of human nature and its purpose: the very presumption that religion can be explained away as unnecessary and that such materialistic perspectives could be definitive or anywhere near ultimately satisfactory for beings who are obviously designed to crave so much more than mere birth, death, and extinction.

It offers more than human fulfilment and takes more than human sacrifice because it rests in and draws life from the love of God who lives us unto death and into eternal life.

Griffin lists the similarities between Open free will theists and process free will theists as agreements that (a) the criteria for judging theological positions are broadly biblically based, rationally consistent, and consistent with the best knowledge of the contemporary world, (b) God is the supreme power and is perfect in power, (c) God created our universe, (d) God is active in nature and human history, (e) God is a personal, purposive being involving temporality and response to the world, (f) God is essentially love rather than power, and (g) there is salvation after death (10 - 14).

I think one goes on because life is stronger than death: it is the most common universal value of being human.

But love is stronger in death, and the love of God is stronger than any human love.

And even if you think those things do constitute re-homing, death, or abandonment, I strongly believe that an animal's quality of life shouldn't be of less importance than a human's.

This was done due to the shocking numbers of tragic, senseless deaths of so many babies who had been fed food other than human milk

10 There is no animal model of SIDS and it has never been observed to occur naturally in any species other than humans.2 While the standardization of a SIDS diagnosis has been and continues to be elusive and / or inconsistent, it is most often applied to situations in which an otherwise healthy infant between the ages of 8 - 16 weeks, especially, but up to 12 months, dies suddenly and unexpectedly presumably during its sleep and upon postmortem examination no apparent internal causal factor (s) explaining the death can be identified.11, 12

Many hospitals in the country now have AI units to stanch the tide, and with good reason: Of the 141 human bird flu cases in Indonesia reported to the WHO, 115 people have died, a death rate of more than 80 percenOf the 141 human bird flu cases in Indonesia reported to the WHO, 115 people have died, a death rate of more than 80 percenof more than 80 percent.

The long, slow death of the baiji was caused by overfishing, construction of the Three Gorges Dam and other changes in the vicinity of the Yangtze River (where more than 10 percent of humanity makes its home), rather than hunting or other direct human impacts.

More than two million deaths occur worldwide each year as a direct result of human - caused outdoor air pollution, a new study has found.

Researchers estimate that worldwide, more than two million deaths occur each year as a direct result of human - caused outdoor air pollution.

The study, conducted by Rose and an international team of researchers, focused on rotavirus, a pathogen found in human sewage, which is suspected of causing more than 450,000 deaths globally each year.

But the report concludes that many pathologists violated the Human Tissue Act of 1961 that demanded a family's consent to remove tissue for reasons other than determining the cause of death.

Worldwide, they cause more than 18 million deaths a year — one - third of all human deaths.

As the scare widens, so does the probe: The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) says it is considering regulatory changes to tighten controls and is investigating whether any of the contaminated wheat gluten — which is implicated in more than 100 animal deaths — made it into food consumed by humans.

MANY of the cells in the human body are teetering much closer to the brink of death than scientists had realised.

To drive this point home, Talbott quotes Denis Goulet in The Barefoot Expert: «It is discomforting for a sophisticated technical expert from a rich country to learn that men who live on the margin of subsistence and daily flirt with death and insecurity are sometimes capable of greater happiness, wisdom, and human communion than he is, notwithstanding his knowledge, wealth, and technical superiority.»

Chiu pointed to a number of serious and unexpected animal - to - human disease transmissions over the last 10 years, including SARS in 2003, the H1N1 influenza in 2009, and the current outbreak of H7N9 avian influenza, which already has resulted in more than 20 deaths in China.

Antimicrobial resistance threatens many aspects of human activity including medicine and agriculture and could lead to more deaths than cancer.

A dying worm experiences rigor mortis early in the death process, rather than after the main event as it is for humans, according to a new study by an international team of scientists at UCL and Washington University.

Instead, human bias seems to have led a small number of counties to become far more likely than others to follow through on a death sentence.

«Remember that for humans, the biggest cause of death is cold in winter, far bigger than heat in summer.

In a 2008 presentation, Dunn stated «I assert that warm is good for human health and that global warming, even the most extreme estimates, will not create heat illness or death increases and certainly no changes that are more important than the basic public health measures of vector control, water, nutrition, sewage and water quality, and housing quality.»

After twenty - three years of intense research into the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), together with the accumulated experience of more than twenty million deaths from the in - fection worldwide, there is still no prospect of a vaccine to prevent AIDS.

A large scale human study called the Rotterdam Study showed that people with the highest dietary intake of vitamin K2 had a 50 % reduced risk of aortic calcification and cardiovascular death than those with the lowest dietary intake.