Sentences with phrase «even as a society»

Those of us who believe same - sex marriage to be a moral impossibility now face a very daunting challenge — how to live in a society that is moving so rapidly against our moral worldview, even as the society shared that worldview for over 2,000 years.

Just being honest, but — to me, that says a lot about where we are as a league, and even as a society.

Even as society becomes more accepting of different cultures and types of people, the fear of judgment can make dating seem like a stressful activity (instead of a fun one) for crossdressing singles.

Even as society becomes more accepting of different cultures and types of people, the fear of judgment can make dating seem like a stressful.

A quick photographic Earth Day note: Even as societies ponder how to smooth the human journey on a finite planet at the global scale, it doesn't hurt to try to get things reasonably right in our own neighborhoods.

Not exact matches

Our screen - driven existence actually makes our love of real things, i.e. vinyl records, paper, and film photography even more important, refined and focused as a human society.

«There was a clear pattern in the findings - the more literary fiction authors that participants recognized, the better they tended to perform on the emotional recognition test, and this association held even after statistically accounting for the influence of other factors that might be connected to both emotion skills and reading more literary fiction, such as past educational attainment, gender and age,» reports the British Psychological Society Research Digest blog, summing up the results.

It's the biggest chasm we've created as a society: perhaps bigger than gender, sexual orientation, or even color.

This fall, with the support of his investors and employees, he even reincorporated the company as a public benefit corporation, which legally requires it to prioritize its effects on society as much as its profitability.

Even if your job isn't as exciting as a NASCAR star, it most likely serves a vital function in our society.

But even as Musk pronounced a future where robots will take our jobs, he predicted that this increased automation will help create abundance in our society.

Robert went on to win lifetime achievement awards, such as Winemaker of the Year by the American Wine Society, was inducted into the California Hall of Fame and even carried the Olympic torch in 1996 at age of 83.

When Singapore was part of Malaysia, Lee's belief in an egalitarian society had aroused the suspicions of Malay politicians who believed Lee spoke loftily about multiracialism even as he canvassed for Chinese votes.

That as a society we are okay with the idea that you can't purchase a television, we're okay with the idea that you can't purchase a nice couch, but we're not okay with the idea on some fundamental level that you get cancer and you can't pay for care, or even lower than that, that you break your leg and you can't get it put in a cast by a reputable doctor.

After all, we live in a society of spin doctors and slanted bias where a taking person at their word is not failsafe, where even longstanding institutions lose our trust as we uncover their darker activities.

That number astounds even the Chinese government, who now faces a society with many more males and many females and is trying to get people to keep a girl as their one child.

The assumptions and techniques of psychology and therapy have found their way into business, schools, families, popular entertainment, and even the courts» so much so that it has become common to speak of our society as a «therapeutic culture.»

Even now I will not put an atheist sticker on my car because I don't want to be killed or have my rights violated because of my risky behavior in a religiously oppressive society such as the one we have always had in this country.

Even though that religion has promoted ethics in human societies, which has served humanity fairly well, the above hypothesis has created problematic culture in human societies, which is harmful to animals, environment, and humanity as a whole.

He asserts that «homosexual relationships, even in their current, somewhat eclectic form, may contain features that could nourish the broader society as well.»

It's just a shame that we haven't come to the point in society where it should be required that those who make decisions must meet certain, more highly regulated, fool proof, corruption resistant criteria proving their intellect and open mindedness as well as weeding out individuals with preconceived notions, racist, sexist or religiously or other discriminative views (even if they themselves don't believe they are discriminative in their beliefs... this happens more than many people realize) and overall ignorant minds.

Our laws, as an inclusive secular society; not sanctioning any one religion over another, took precedence in making polygamy unlawful even though their religion said otherwise.

These scholars even eliminate elements, like the tolerance of slavery, as society changes.

And to live in society and even just have friends one must prove he or she is a «moral» person, this morality is just a morality that lacks gods, such as a belief that what is good is what brings about the most happiness or freedom or whatever your ethical system supports.

His fingerprints can be seen even in the dirtiest of us at times and in those moments we appear «good» (as our society defines good).

Among the Poles who saw it as a good step toward returning a frazzled and overworked society to a more traditional lifestyle was 76 - year - old Barbara Olszewska, who did some last - minute shopping Saturday evening in Warsaw.

When a video of Stephen Fry angrily denouncing God as an «evil, capricious, monstrous maniac» went viral online, it was proof that the subject of religion still stirs strong emotion, even in a largely secular society.

Only here, therefore, does he win full release from the quasi-entitative model of societies espoused by Whiteheadians generally, even those who like Sherburne and Gallagher want to give greater attention to the role of the nonsocial nexus of entirely living occasions as the necessary infrastructure for the soul or society of presiding occasions.

Thus university theology is characteristically in search of the very possibility of theology as such and tends, on the one hand, rarely to advance beyond prolegomena, programmatic probings, or an apologetic natural theology — unless it turns, on the other hand, with no little relief, to the very respectable study of the history of theology (as demonstrated, for instance, by the Bonhoeffer Society, the 19th Century Working Group of the AAR, the Tillich Working Group, or even the recently founded Karl Barth Society).

After all, many believe it is our job to be the moral compass of society, even for those who do not believe in Jesus as Lord.

Accordingly, the occasions constituting the regnant society or soul were diagrammed as contiguous with one another even though, as noted above, Whitehead himself seems to have allowed for them to be noncontiguous.

Thus, even though actual occasions are «the final real things of which the world is made up» (PR 18/27), societies as the progressive «layers of social order» into which they are organized are clearly of equal importance for the self - constitution of the universe from moment to moment.

Bad as the actions of the APS were, they were far better than those of most other scientific societies, which refused to even reconsider extreme statements on climate.

Now, realize that in today's society you are still just as hated, shunned and looked down upon for declaring that same differing belief... or even non-belief — just because people are still too hung up on their precious religious dogma to realize that, though the outcome is obviously less drastic than in the past, they are still doing the same thing that religious people did in the past?

Even as the formalized creed of a society, the ideology is the basis of praxis — it serves as a principle which calls on individual sacrifice on behalf of something other and greater than oneself.

He will say: «Generations to come will surely be surprised that we failed as a society, and sometimes even as Christians, to actively propose and defend marriage as it came from the hands of the Creator.

That most theologians, even those whose social location in the white North American middle class, verbally support efforts to achieve the changes needed in our society to make some minimum of justice possible elsewhere, such as in Latin America, is already a testimony to the power of the gospel.

Further, they often tend to revel in taking positions that cut against the grain of contemporary society and are even doomed to failure (as Rod has said his opposition of SSM is).»

The Bible says the same kinds of things about people who don't worship the one true god... it even tells you you to kill people who try to convert you... the difference is that we have grown as a society and we no longer murder people for what they believe... islam hasn't caught up with the rest of us... it's a problem and threat to the civilized word.

And there is a case to be made that homosexual behaviors hurts individuals and society as a whole even secularly..

@Dunk, Morality doesn't have meaning beyond how if effects people, the rules we agree on and accept as a society will mean nothing when catastrophic even or the sun expanding wipes us off the star map; but why isn't it's effect on mankind enough?

If we are seeking a system of true fairness then situations such as those described above need to be resolved to ensure that people can live as harmoniously as possible in our society even when we disagree, as Luke and I do.

What availed as the common wisdom of mankind until the day before yesterday — for example, that man, woman, mother, and father name natural realities as well as social roles, that children issue naturally from their union, that the marital union of man and woman is the foundation of human society and provides the optimal home for the flourishing of children — all this is now regarded by many as obsolete and even hopelessly bigoted, as court after court, demonstrating that this revolution has profoundly transformed even the meaning of reason itself, has declared that this bygone wisdom now fails even to pass the minimum legal threshold of rational cogency.

Even crucifixion has nothing on what some societies in our not so distant past dished out as capital punishment.I don't wish to depict those methods here because if you desire you can look them up for yourself and be sick as a dog if you want.

Even that, thought Gregory, was exemplary because it showed the sensitivity of David — the low influence partner — to the importance of maintaining order in society, that very order which had been abused but nonetheless remained necessary and tolerable even in its abuse.30 The parishioner who has relatively less influence may need similar counsel: Do not prematurely seek to grab more influence, as if that were the only solutEven that, thought Gregory, was exemplary because it showed the sensitivity of David — the low influence partner — to the importance of maintaining order in society, that very order which had been abused but nonetheless remained necessary and tolerable even in its abuse.30 The parishioner who has relatively less influence may need similar counsel: Do not prematurely seek to grab more influence, as if that were the only soluteven in its abuse.30 The parishioner who has relatively less influence may need similar counsel: Do not prematurely seek to grab more influence, as if that were the only solution.

Primarily because of the Converts Clubs, many converts continue to regard the Corps where they were «saved» as their spiritual home, even after they have become reestablished in society.

Yet even as conservatives in the last two decades have made notable strides in access to influential cultural institutions in entertainment and the media, the influence of civil society and nonpolitical leaders on public opinion is still underappreciated.

As Benedict XVI has reminded us, even in the most just societies there will always be a need for charity.

Reading between the lines, they could see that Jesus» origins were beneath even the lowest echelons of respectable society, and the stories surrounding it appeared as lazy lies designed to cover up a scandal.

So even though trying to live faithfully as part of an affluent society, with all the temptations this entails, is in some ways more difficult and more uncomfortable than living the radical response, it does have several important advantages: