Sentences with phrase «evil practice of»

It is so obvious that: a) those held in slavery were human beings (a biological category); b) all humans are by nature persons (a philosophic category), that is, beings with inviolable worth that ought never be treated as means to an end; and c) the evil practice of slavery was not a private matter - the whole community is harmed because we are all communal beings by nature, in solidarity with those who are treated unjustly.

An all - too - common approach to agency selection is the slightly evil practice of asking candidates for speculative creative work.

Not exact matches

Well it is true that some people seek sorcerers to implement Jinn that are satanic demons into mankind or his house or his business to finish him or make his life miserable or to stop flow of his business income... In such case it is either you are religious enough and say your prayers often then it becomes hard for this to harm you or otherwise you need to find some one who practice exorcism to remove this evil... But many are just pretending to be good at it and help you not but squeeze money out of you with tales and stories... There is another type of possessions and that is not through a sorcerer but directly by coincidence what man is at his weakest moments and those weakest moments for a possessions are when you come through a great fear or when cry or laugh loudly in hysteria, or during a certain moment of mating... or even when sneezing loudly... That's why there are prayers to be said on daily basis to guard you from such things and specially if passing haunted places such as deserted houses but most evil ones are residents of public toilets and market places... Some of them even would claim that you have made a wrong action by which you have killed a dear one to them and for that they have possessed you and that is mostly night time such as throwing a cigaret butt to a dark place or stepping killing an insect or even an animal at night which could have been one of them or possessed by one of them... So this is true thing happening to many who suffer unexplainable illnesses or sufferings which could look like mental illness that comes and goes as pleased...

Among his companions from the scriptures are the pseudochristoi who, Christ says, will come «in my name» and will «lead you astray» -» the lawless one» (2 Thessalonians 2:10) who, by the power of Satan, will impress the faithful with false signs and wonders, offering «a strong delusion» to tempt «those who are perishing»; «Gog and Magog» who, under Satan's command, will gather the nations for the final battle with Christ (Revelation 20:2 - 10); the «beasts» of Revelation (16, 17, 19) that harken back to the «beasts» of Daniel (7); «the sons of Belial» (Deuteronomy 13:13 and passim) who are «base» or «worthless,» who practice idolatry, drunkenness, disrespect, evil speech, who are «empty men» (2 Chronicles 13:7); and the conspiring nations and rulers who take counsel against the Lord (Psalms 2:1 - 3).

using your argument we would had civil rights in this country just because goverments make certain practices illegal does tat mean that what the goverrmet s doing is moral and just, The fact s the goverment attempted to use Christaniaity to bolster it claim to power through this we have the start of the Roman Catholic Church one of the most insidious evil organzations on this planet which as doe more to oppose ad kill true follewers of Christ then ay group o this planet.

If that what you say is true (islamic scholars say this practice is acceptable) and based on this one practice alone, I would condemn islam as a very barbaric and evil religion, neccesary of immediate reform.

Americans no longer quest for the truth and proper moral education but seek for meaningless co-existence of any and every evil practices and comforts of any types.

Traditional Buddhist stories abound of meditators being taken over by evil spirits, and contemporary psychological studies of mindfulness practice going back to the 1970s include patients who experienced hallucinations, psychotic episodes, depression and other mental trauma, as well as nerve pain and similar physical impacts.

Face it, the world IS violent, thats just a fact of fallen man, And as far as the OT violence goes, there were very evil people with very evil practices surrounding The Israelites.

Since love is unmotivated, unselfish, creative, and always seeks the good of others, those who practice non-violence will return good for evil and forgiveness for hate.

We observe that evil has no boundaries — the very existence of torture, and the fact that human rights organisations believe that over 80 % of the world's governments practice some form of it, shows that humans are not just content to be a little bit evil, but are most willing to be CREATIVELY evil, concocting new ways to inflict pain and suffering onto others.

(ENTIRE BOOK) This book is addressed to both believers and unbelievers and examines a number of areas of religious thought and practice including an approach to intelligible religion, the fundamentals of religious experience, the existence and nature of God, the problem of good and evil, the meaning of the supernatural and of future life, the significance of Christ, the Church, the Bible, miracles and prayer.

Remember, Jesus practiced and observed the religion of Judaism, and so it can not be evil and corrupt, but was a holy, righteous, and good way to live.

Still, the case against teleological ethics may here offer this response: Granting the difference between direct and indirect applications, this yields only the familiar distinction between «act - teleology» and «rule - teleology, «3 is problematic for the following reason: Social practices or patterns of social cooperation can not be validated teleologically without a comparative assessment of the good and evil consequences differing possible systems of rules or norms (for instance, differing sets of rights) are likely, if adopted, to produce.

* By enthusiastically and persistently advocating justice as restoration as a universal response to evil and compassion as a community norm and the practice of hospitality and generosity as a personal norm.

To ward off these evil spirits, the magicians also made a fortune off of amulets, charms, and certain religious practices.

Ideas can only become evil through the practices of humans; however, our concepts of evil greatly differ across the world.

Referring to the tendency of converts to resort to non-Christian practices to ward off the «evil» effects of «former gods,» Bishop Hodges wrote, «The Pulayas are often found to be uncertain and foolish as children, and easily led away.

(2) These children would have likely grown up as adherents to the evil religions and practices of their parents.

He is especially sensitive to those that call evil, good — such as the practice of praxiology thelogy, and what you do.

To a certain extent, Christianity could resist these kinds of evil structures; so it was not a denial of other religions, but the denial of evil practices which were exploitative, oppressive and dehumanizing.

He recognizes that the doctrine of retribution (so central to the wisdom tradition), in which the righteous are rewarded and the evil punished, does not always work out in practice.

Mark adds an explanation: «From the inside, out of a man's heart, come evil thoughts [and a whole catalogue of violent and criminal practices].

There are many good practicing Muslums who don't subscribe to the evil portrayal of Islam in Iran here in this country, and all over the world.

Acceptance or accommodation of evil as practiced by many people is an unrighteous attribute of Satan.

I think that the references to hell are talking about the practice that was once used of sacrificing humans by burning them, and if we were evil we might suffer the same fate as those human sacrifices

The real question is, are there individuals in every ideological sphere who practice stupidity and evil, of which such practice has no bearing on the falsity or truthfulness of the ideology?

«The preaching and teaching of Christ,» writes Marcellinus, «is in no way compatible with the practices of the state, since, as many say, it is clear that it is his commandment that we should repay no one with evil for evil, that we should offer the other cheek to one who strikes us.»

The existence of religious health resorts since antiquity, the expulsion of «evil spirits» in the Gospel, sacramental prayer over the sick — those practices signify far more than a surpassed stage in the history of medicine.

When the wandering Jewish exorcists try to improve their practice by calling on the name of Jesus preached by Paul to expel an evil spirit from a tormented man, the spirit answers by saying: «Jesus I know and Paul I know, but who are you?»

Mine, for example is a play on the 1950's movie «Attack of the 50 foot Woman» while taking a poke at the Mormon practice of wearing «magic undergarments» to protect them from evil.

Jesus is indignant that the scribes and Pharisees (1) will not enter the kingdom of heaven themselves and stand in the way of others entering it as well; (2) will do almost anything to win a proselyte only to make that proselyte twice as much a child of hell as they are; (3) confuse people by senseless oaths, telling them that if they swear by the Temple, their oath is not binding, but if they swear by the gold of the Temple, it is binding - the fools ought to realize, Jesus says, that the Temple includes all that is in it; (4) tithe some of their money but neglect justice and mercy and faith, which are weightier moral matters, when they ought both to tithe and perform these greater acts of righteousness as well; (5) are careful about outward cleanliness but careless about the inward disposition, so that they are filled with extortion and greed; (6) appear righteous but really are hypocrites, because their appearance hides all manner of iniquity inside; (7) pretend to revere the prophets of history whom their parents killed but continue to practice the evil of their parents by rejecting those whom God sends to them now (Matt.

We ought to seek a fuller understanding of the Church's teaching on sex and marriage, particularly why practices such as contraception, abortion and IVF go against the dignity of the human being and are therefore morally and intrinsically evil.

Leonardo da Vinci suppressed his plans for a submarine: «This I do not divulge on account of the evil nature of men who would practice assassinations at the bottom of the sea by breaking ships in their lowest parts and sinking them.»

The only way a person more ethically advanced than Saddam Hussein can approve of this grotesquely evil practice is by assuming, as Southern leaders once did about slaves, that there is no human victim involved.

The story of Jesus, he writes, is «the story of God's kingdom being launched on earth as it is in heaven, generating a new state of affairs in which the power of evil has been decisively defeated, the new creation has been decisively launched, and Jesus» followers have been commissioned and equipped to put that victory and that inaugurated new world into practice.»

Furthermore, since they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, he gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done... [T] hey invent ways of doing evil... [A] lthough they know God's righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them.

Rom 1:28 And just as they did not see fit to acknowledge God any longer, God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do those things which are not proper, Rom 1:29 being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, greed, evil; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malice; they are gossips, Rom 1:30 slanderers, haters of God, insolent, arrogant, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, Rom 1:31 without understanding, untrustworthy, unloving, unmerciful; Rom 1:32 and although they know the ordinance of God, that those who practice such things are worthy of death, they not only do the same, but also give hearty approval to those who practice them.

All three of our soft - core atheists are absolutely certain that the creeds, ideals and practices of religion are essentially evil.

«Again, respect of persons, in uncovering the head and bowing the knee or body in salutation, was a practice I had been much in the use of; and this, being one of the vain customs of the world, introduced by the spirit of the world, instead of the true honor which this is a false representation of, and used in deceit as a token of respect by persons one to another, who bear no real respect one to another; and besides this, being a type and a proper emblem of that divine honor which all ought to pay to Almighty God, and which all of all sorts, who take upon them the Christian name, appear in when they offer their prayers to him, and therefore should not be given to men; - I found this to be one of those evils which I had been too long doing; therefore I was now required to put it away and cease from it.

So once again... if you deny that you engage in this basic human practice of accusing, condemning, and scapegoating others... if you think that the people you call «monsters» and «heretics» truly are guilty of everything you accuse them of... if you think that some people truly deserve to burn in hell for all eternity... if you think that war is righteous and good and we need to bomb some groups of evil people off the face of the planet... then you are calling God a liar, and you have not understood the first thing about God and what He taught through Jesus (cf. 1 John 4:7 - 11).

28 And just as they did not see fit [u] to acknowledge God any longer, God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do those things which are not proper, 29 being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, greed, evil; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malice; they are gossips, 30 slanderers, [v] haters of God, insolent, arrogant, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, 31 without understanding, untrustworthy, unloving, unmerciful; 32 and although they know the ordinance of God, that those who practice such things are worthy of death, they not only do the same, but also give hearty approval to those who practice them.

Rom 1:28 And just as they did not see fit to acknowledge God any longer, God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do those things which are not proper, Rom 1:29 being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, greed, evil; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malice; they are gossips, Rom 1:30 slanderers, haters of God, insolent, arrogant, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, Rom 1:31 without understanding, untrustworthy, unloving, unmerciful; Rom 1:32 and although they know the ordinance of God, that those who practice such things are worthy of death, they not only do the same, but also give hearty

They seem to believe that if states in their practice are often self - consciously defensive and militaristic, the new international machinery will rid them of this archaism of an earlier, more evil age.

Instead, I'm interested in knowing what actions the Mormon church practices as of now that makes it so evil.

Corollaries to these notions were that embodied human beings are intrinsically evil and must undertake severe ascetical practices to «free» the soul from its carnal prison; that marriage and the getting of children is evil; and that the Catholic Church, with its bodily sacraments and its doctrines of «the resurrection of the flesh,» not to mention its rich and worldly ways, is a principle of evil.

But if we interpret such texts in their appropriate context and with due regard for their cultural setting, and if we regard the argument from natural law as lacking content (even if Aquinas» generalized summary of that law as «doing good, not evil» is formally true), we must acknowledge the goodness of homosexuality when and as it is practiced with due regard for the genuine moral norms, to which I shall refer at the end of this chapter.

The civil ruler «does not bear the sword for nothing; for it is a minister of God, an avenger who brings wrath on the one who practices evil.»

In a black church the folks held in slavery by the evil folks are, not illogically, compared to the history of blacks in the USA.I mean who are the evil folks to be compared to?Wright just wants them to repent and stop their evil.If in the Catholic Church 80 % of the folks do nt practice what the Priest says (Or agree apparently) but still attend why would you think that a protestant would take every thing his pastor says as «Gospel»?

There have been notable successes over the years, and the steady growth of the Order reveals a need within the pro-life cause that had perhaps not earlier been recognised: a practical understanding that this is a spiritual matter, that the widespread practice of abortion in western society really is an evil to be countered with a total commitment to Christ.