Sentences with phrase «defined human civilization»

As such, it is a land steeped in a history that has defined human civilization the world over.

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For human sacrifice was precisely what defined the advanced civilizations — not only in America but also in the Middle East.

And concepts of good and evil can easily be defined as human (or hominid) created concepts that are necessary for forming civilizations.

Among them were pantheism and the positions that human reason is the sole arbiter of truth and falsehood and good and evil; that Christian faith contradicts reason; that Christ is a myth; that philosophy must be treated without reference to supernatural revelation; that every man is free to embrace the religion which, guided by the light of reason, he believes to be true; that Protestantism is another form of the Christian religion in which it is possible to be as pleasing to God as in the Catholic Church; that the civil power can determine the limits within which the Catholic Church may exercise authority; that Roman Pontiffs and Ecumenical Councils have erred in defining matters of faith and morals; that the Church does not have direct or indirect temporal power or the right to invoke force; that in a conflict between Church and State the civil law should prevail; that the civil power has the right to appoint and depose bishops; that the entire direction of public schools in which the youth of Christian states are educated must be by the civil power; that the Church should be separated from the State and the State from the Church; that moral laws do not need divine sanction; that it is permissible to rebel against legitimate princes; that a civil contract may among Christians constitute true marriage; that the Catholic religion should no longer be the religion of the State to the exclusion of all other forms of worship; and «that the Roman Pontiff can and should reconcile himself to and agree with progress, liberalism and modern civilization.»

It's sad they define the world we live in... Think about how much further we would progress as a HUMAN civilization without this simple minded thinking and beliefs getting in our way.

Places wild down the Amazonian forest which are extremely remote to any human civilization, yet the whole Amazonian forest is traversed by well defined borders and claimed by countries.

Jeffrey Tayler's latest book is a masterful guide to the divisions that define so much of human civilization.

Rather, we need to create a new clean energy economy in the same way we created our information economy: by identifying a set of well - defined technical problems and mobilizing the human resources of our technologically advanced civilization — our scientists, laboratories, universities, and engineers — to solve them.