Sentences with phrase «dehumanized for»

Birth in our country has become dehumanized for many.

Our very physical form is disparaged and people are simply exploited, ignored, dehumanized for no other reason than that they are black.

however, * by * his own Church's standards, it would have ultimately been dehumanizing for her if she received communion on false pretenses.

ironically, i think the very thing you say would be right to do * as a person * they would say is utterly dehumanizing for a person — and therefore not loving.

You know I will continue to stand with you against those who would seek to dehumanize you for being the person God created you to be.

I can only guess that black people embrace the religion which seemed to dehumanize them for the same reasons millions of women continue to embrace Christ though their «Biblical submission» to their husbands has resulted in great emotional and physical abuse.

Oppression is also dehumanizing for the oppressor.

In addition, those adults using peer influence solely for behavior management purposes continue a process that is both discouraging and dehumanizing for adolescents.

Not exact matches

For many, it feels as if this trend is just the latest in a corporate push toward cost reduction and a dehumanized work place.

They seem robotic, even dehumanizing: stuff you'd expect to see for assembly line jobs, even if they're directed at candidates in strategic and uniquely skilled roles.

For example, Facebook defines hate speech as a direct attack — dehumanizing speech, statements of inferiority or calls for exclusion or segregation — on people from protected grouFor example, Facebook defines hate speech as a direct attack — dehumanizing speech, statements of inferiority or calls for exclusion or segregation — on people from protected groufor exclusion or segregation — on people from protected groups.

however, the principalities and powers are also in a powerful conflict and competition for dominance over humanity, but sometimes resort to collusion, complicity, conspiracy and collaboration to achieve their dehumanizing ends.

In 1995, the SBC formally apologized for its role in dehumanizing minorities.

BC doesn't think he's wielding a club, but using degrading and dehumanizing language, making demeaning assumptions, and holding out the threat of eternal torture for honest disagreement — regardless of the source of such «wisdom» — is absolutely an example of club wielding.

What is required, according to Public health theology, is not the individual cure of conversion, but structural change in the political, economic and social systems that provide breeding grounds for the dehumanizing viruses.

So of course I want to name the empire for what it is: crippling and soul - sucking, dehumanizing and evil.

To the extent that it promotes theist - humanist values, religion supplies moral qualities that capitalism needs for survival and that counter its dehumanizing tendencies.

This system was overthrown by the industrial revolution which, in its ruthless hunt for money and machine, dehumanized people into robots and automations and created filthy slums, destroying the pastoral poetry of the countryside and substituting, in pitiless ubiquity, grimy, heartless stys for sub-human habitation.

When maximum production and continually increasing economic growth, measured by income and expenditure figures, are taken as the measures of social well - being, then occupations and the educational preparation for them are dehumanized and made narrowly vocational; and persons are degraded into interchangeable parts in a giant social machine designed for generating and gratifying acquisitive hungers.

When the state dehumanizes people for the enforcement of its laws it loses its legitimacy to govern.

These are not pacifistic, meek, and mild responses where we allow ourselves to get trampled on, but are actually subversive and empowering forms of standing up for our humanity in the face of dehumanizing evil.

The hermaphroditic blasphemy is a generated or vegetated Christ and a virgin Eve — the orthodox image of Christ, for the Church castrated Jesus when it locked the memory of his generation in the image of a virgin birth, just as it dehumanized and falsely spiritualized his body in its belief in the ascension.

Perhaps, as John XXIII proposed, the Universal Declaration is a sign of a new world community in which the religious traditions will find common ground for resolutely resisting the dehumanizing forces of this age.

Responding to Garrett Hardin's «lifeboat ethics,» for instance, such people would say it is better to take everyone on board and to let the boat sink rather than for those in the lifeboat to dehumanize themselves by keeping others out.

Atheists would never dehumanize someone for power or finances.

The line of chastiity is crossed when one partner dehumanizes the other into a mere object for self gratification.

Moreover, if and when general war comes again, there will be need for a much larger minority than there was in 1914 to resist the inevitable war hysteria, the orthodox dehumanizing of the enemy, and the making of another nationalistic peace.

Those unaware of the history of minstrelsy may miss the racially charged historical reference stitched into those bars: It's a callback to a racist and dehumanizing form of American entertainment from the 19th century that depicted black people as thick - headed buffoons who tap - danced for the enjoyment of white audiences.

Their concern was for the dehumanizing consequences of capitalism as seen through the prism of the gospel and Jesus» own way of life.

I think it's actually incredibly dehumanizing to kind of create a cemented, permanent identity for somebody — both for the Africans and for the Americans.»

These acts are dehumanizing and soul - sucking for all participants.

When Paul called for the removal of the sinning man in 1 Cor., it wasn't about power or dehumanizing him; it was about protection of the Body and the ultimate protection salvation of the man.

It isn't the teachings of the NT that provides the cruelty to demonize, but the mis - interpretation and quest for power that makes for cruel and dehumanizing goals.

I have suggested elsewhere that value - free technology, the military - industrial complex, and narrow nationalism might be modern examples of such principalities and powers.9 Hendrikus Berkhof suggests that human traditions, astrology, fixed religious rules, clans, public opinion, race, class, state, and Volk are among the powers.10 Walter Wink sees the powers as the inner aspects of institutions, their «spirituality,» the inner spirit or driving force that animates, legitimates, and regulates their outward manifestations.11 They are «the invisible forces that determine human existence «12 When such things dehumanize human life, thwart and distort the human spirit, block God's gift of shalom, the followers of Jesus are rallied for a new kind of holy war.

All over the world there are people who can not stand by and see others exploited and dehumanized, they themselves would never sit quietly under indignities, there are persons who have courage to call for justice and to deal justly with those they encounter, they are a sign of hope.

Anyone who looks with sensitivity at the suffering of the poor and powerless, suffering that most of us do not deliberately intend, has a sense that some kind of cunning evil that is too strong for us and dehumanizes us has captured and controls the systems and structures in which we live.

The attempt to treat even some businesses as morally neutral is dehumanizing and destroys the necessary cultural context for virtue and freedom.

Linguistically, the president's metaphors for defining the «enemy» are frightfully similar to the Nazis» dehumanizing terms for Jews, communists and other «un-Germans.»

For too long now since 9/11, the promoters of fear of a clash of civilizations have monopolized our thinking in their attempt to degrade, dishonor and dehumanize the Muslim people in general and the Islamic culture and heritage in particular.

It has supported the patriarchal structure of human society in ways that have dehumanized women, treating them as instruments for the satisfaction of men's desires and as responsible for men's sins.

The foreign debt continues to be an issue and new voices have began to sound the need to look for ways to face it; (ii) At the national level two questions are concentrating increasing attention: one is the reassessment of the necessary role of the state to correct the distortions of a runaway market (currently discussed in Europe and in the discussions about the role the initiatives of «an active state has played in the economic development of Asian countries); the other is the need for a «participative democracy over against a purely representative formal democracy: in this sense the need to strengthen civil society with its intermediate organizations becomes an important concern; (iii) the struggle for collective and personal identity in a society in which forced immigration, dehumanizing conditions in urban marginal situations, and foreign cultural aggression and massification in many forms produce a degrading type of poverty where communal, family and personal identity are eroded and even destroyed.

One purpose of this chapter has been to provide tools and techniques for helping people to become aware of and deal constructively with their anger — not so that it will go away, but so that it can be used to bring about constructive changes in a dehumanizing society.

It is important for an affirmation of the human soul congruent with our best contemporary knowledge to be introduced to challenge these implicitly dehumanizing ideas.

In it, he is calling for the reaffirmation of God in order to rally the forces of the spirit against the dehumanizing society and mentality that oppress us.

The natural next question for me was, «How can I claim to live like Christ if I continue to buy into labor practices that exploit and dehumanize the poor?»

The standards of humanizing versus dehumanizing sexuality can be applied equally to all, with proper nuancing for those who have chosen to bear and raise children and those who have not.

While some attention has been drawn to the Christian critique of sex and violence in television programming, the critique must also include other dehumanizing aspects such as consumerism, limited access for such groups as minorities and older people and the continuing exploitation of children and youth.

Remember that one of the most powerful things that the Interhamwe did in the lead - up to the Rwandan genocide was to use propaganda (for example, via the Milles Collines radio station) to insult them, degrade them, accuse them of crimes they had not committed, and generally, to blame everything on them and dehumanize them in the process.

It needs to pass because it is the right thing to do for those who have been subjected to dehumanizing conduct.

The Lagos State Police Command has arrested a socialite, Mike Eze - Nwalie Nwogu popularly known as «Pretty Mike» for dehumanizing young girls by turning them into human puppies with chains round their necks.