Sentences with phrase «fear of human reason»

Screwtape's aversion to and fear of human reason and science is especially understandable when viewed in light of process thought.

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We may pause to ponder, that while these royal morons disported themselves in beastly passion in Antioch and Alexandria, a petty hill town of their domains, age - old Jerusalem, followed its Temple services that went their quiet way, day after day, year in and year out; and there, groups of thoughtful men reflected upon the nature of human life, reasoning that «The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom,» that «The law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul,» or fervently ejaculated, «Oh, how I love thy law!

Bonhoeffer fears that many do not follow for the wrong reasons; for instance, a human rather than the divine word is preached; offense is taken at the «superstructure of human, institutional, and doctrinal elements in our preaching «1 rather than at the Word of God.

Say: «Come, let me convey unto you what G - D has [really] forbidden to you: «Do not ascribe divinity, in any way, to anything (or anyone) beside HIM; and [do not offend against but, rather,] do good unto your parents; and do not kill your children (born or unborn) for fear of poverty --[for] it is WE who shall provide sustenance for you as well as for them; and do not commit any shameful deeds, be they open or secret; and do not take any human being's life -[the life] which G - D has declared to be sacred - otherwise than in [the pursuit of] justice: this has HE enjoined upon you so that you might use your reason; and do not touch the substance of an orphan — except to improve it - before he comes of age.»

The story of women being easily possessed by demons to distort God's message is totally unbiblical and must be stopped.If it were so, the woman who was sent by Jesus to herald the first resurrection Gospel, would have distorted.Yet Bible says, this same Magdalene was freed from bondage to demons.Anything that brings fear and bondage isn't the Gospel.The reason why the word seems not to be gaining ascendancy in some parts of the world is because of the coldness of the human heart.To blame it entirely on women is unscriptural.

I, being human, do understand it and know of no reason why I should, except on «faith», which itself can not be understood except that it depends on our more primitive instincts like fear of death.

I am struck with the observation that perhaps the reason Mark ended his Gospel on this strange note of fear was «to emphasize human inadequacy, lack of understanding, and weakness in the presence of supreme divine action and its meaning.»

The reasons that kangaroo meat was prohibited for human consumption for such a long time are not straightforward but an important element was a fear by producers of traditional red meats that kangaroo would become a significant competitor for beef and lamb.

Fear of predators isn't the only reason humans needed to sleep with their offspring.

For many people, the fear of a class of genetically enhanced people is reason enough not to tinker with the DNA of the human germline — eggs, sperm, embryos and the cells that give rise to eggs and sperm.

Most primates have good reason to fear humans, since the naked ape has a long history of hunting or poaching them or clear - cutting their habitats.

The big fear is this could open the door to scientists editing DNA in embryos for other reasons, and they could make some kind of mistake that would mess up the human gene pool.

For the same reasons that changing our educational system is difficult; culture, human nature — fear of change, fear of losing turf, fear of exposing lack of skills.

The reason for choosing such diets vary widely and may include fears due to pet food recalls in recent years, picky appetites of dogs and cats refusing to eat conventional commercially available diets, ethical beliefs, hot topics in human nutrition and medical necessity.

As sad as it may be, one of the reasons why human aggression was so guardedly bred out was so that the horrible people who fight the dogs against one another would never feel fear that the dog might turn on them.

The partisanship mostly is political for reasons you can put down to economic or fundamentalist religious fears (most of the wing - nut followers in the «anti-AGW» camp, who are effectively «hypochondriacs» in a sense, and who firmly believe the human race is a disease on the planet.

In practice, to the extent that you are in genuine fear for the safety of a human being from an intruder armed with a gun, in all likelihood you would be justified in using a deadly weapon in self - defense unless there was some reason that you could protect yourself completely without doing so, for example, by retreating into a panic room.

As we discussed in our recent piece «Robot, Esq.: Four Reasons Lawyers Shouldn't Fear AI and Automation Legal Tech», there are critical limitations on the ability of existing, non-general AI to replace human beings in legal practice — including the truly bespoke nature of certain tasks, the lack of sufficiently relevant and tailored data sets to train algorithms to handle even semi-bespoke tasks (given the complex cocktail of idiosyncratic considerations that good legal counsel comprises), and the non-empirical or data - driven aspects of the practice of law — involving emotional intelligence, communication, and persuasion — which I believe are core to providing effective legal services.

The main reasons: fear of retaliation and of not being believed, and a lack of consequences for the harassers, according to Newsweek's October 2017 article, How Human Resources Is Failing Women Victims Of Workplace Sexual Harassment (that, notably, cites an example from New Brunswick, Canadaof retaliation and of not being believed, and a lack of consequences for the harassers, according to Newsweek's October 2017 article, How Human Resources Is Failing Women Victims Of Workplace Sexual Harassment (that, notably, cites an example from New Brunswick, Canadaof not being believed, and a lack of consequences for the harassers, according to Newsweek's October 2017 article, How Human Resources Is Failing Women Victims Of Workplace Sexual Harassment (that, notably, cites an example from New Brunswick, Canadaof consequences for the harassers, according to Newsweek's October 2017 article, How Human Resources Is Failing Women Victims Of Workplace Sexual Harassment (that, notably, cites an example from New Brunswick, CanadaOf Workplace Sexual Harassment (that, notably, cites an example from New Brunswick, Canada).