Sentences with phrase «freeing society from»

Royal debt jubilees thus freed society from debt bondage, but did not liberate slaves.

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His top piece of advice was that «2016 is the year to break free from mediocrity and society's «norms.»

You're living your free life and then suddenly isolated from the rest of the society.

Therefore, whether current households suffer from inter-generational inequity depends on whether one believes that the average size of houses is a free individual choice or, at least to some extent, is being imposed by the construction industry and society more generally.

Increased repression is a lesson from Gorbachev: you can't free up society while displaying the skeletons in the CCP's closet.

His second tip is that «2016 is the year to break free from mediocrity and society's norms.

Buffett added that, «we've got a rich society that can do that and a society that will benefit from free trade, and I think we oughta try to hit both objectives of making sure that there is no roadkill and, at the same time, that 320 million people get the benefits of free trade.»

the negation of ideology, the political secularization of the doctrine of original sin, the cautious sentiment tempered by prudence, the product of organic, local human organization observing and reforming its customs, the distaste for a priori principle disassociated from historical experience, the partaking of the mysteries of free will, divine guidance, and human agency by existing in but not of the confusions of modern society, no framework of action, no tenet, no theory, and no article of faith, a distrust of the systems and processes of the idol of self and of the lust for power and status, scorn to all approaches of ideology and meta - narrative.

Hope amidst suffering, hope when men know only defeat and despair, hope when death seems to smother out the shoots of life springing from the hearts of men, hope for our society, our world, our city, our schools, courts, prisons, legislatures, hope for our children, for our elderly, hope for all the millions of men and women over the face of this globe who simply want to live out their lives as free human beings not trampled down and stepped on by the overlords of this world.

Ben Whitnall from the the Bible Society's told Premier's Marcus Jones on the News Hour why they've launched a free app to help parents share a Bible story with their children at bedtime.

Perhaps it will help us to break free from mutual recriminations and to join together in reaffirming the elemental features of our shared faith that can generate and support the attitudinal changes that are so badly needed in the whole of society.

Religious liberty is plainly essential for the endurance of our free society and for the protection of the rights and freedoms of the many millions of Americans who dissent from the caustic Gnosticism that increasingly dominates our culture.

However, the realism indicated above means that, along with dreamers, we need doers who seek power in the real world of the present to free the oppressed from the tyranny of the dominating idols of our society.

Keith Barltrop's review of Alain de Botton's new book brings out the bankruptcy of an alternative, humanist approach, in which Christian ideas, cut free from their Christian roots, are appropriated by non-believers in their pursuit of an ideal secular society.

For instance, inasmuch as the founders» notion of free self - government rests on an essentially Lockean conception of freedom as power outside and prior to truth (however much God or truth imposes an extrinsic obligation to obey, and however reasonable it is to do so in view of future rewards and punishments), then American liberty will eventually erode the moral and cultural foundations of civil society inherited from Protestant Christianity.

I think anytime anyone challenges, confronts, or steps aside from old convictions or societies assumtions it can be extremely freeing yet terrifying but it leads to growth in areas you did not know existed.

One of the Yale ministers stated this point of view very well when he said: «Alcoholism is a sin only in the sense that it is a sin attributed to society, especially a Christian society — that we have been unable to bring about a world free from the tensions and conflicts of the present day.

It is love to obey God, and by having a swift death penalty we love the people in our society [many of whom are our enemies also] and offer them the best chance for a life free from fear and crime.

Not until society is cleansed from this garbage will we be truly free.

A redeemed society is one redeemed inwardly and outwardly, purged of personal sin and freed from the crippling and corrupting effects of social sin.

But the net result is this: All the way from the street gang of juvenile delinquents through the free - and - easy sex life of many adolescents and adults to the income tax evasion of many a «respectable» member of society — to do right is to do what one can get away with; to do wrong is to do what is not safe.

Jesus reveals a free God, who is uncoopted and uncontained by those identified with religion This God is free to hear the cry of the outcasts against the guardians of religious society This God is not under the power of Brahman but is free to hear ones against Brahmans and other upper castes and side with the Dalits, who are ousted from the Temples and who are denied the right to study the Scriptures.28

Yeah, just democratic capitalism, which has freed more people from slavery, oppression and poverty than any other system of civilized society in the history of mankind.

The conclusion to be drawn from Riezler's treatment of public opinion is that true community must be re-established in mass society if that society is to remain a free one which serves the people.

But even before they had freed themselves from the bonds of English society they had undertaken an «Agreement» in Cambridge, England, the year before and bound themselves to a new covenant with obligations both to God and one another.16 The «Agreement» of the Massachusetts Bay Colony was a beginning that contained its own principle, just as, as we have seen, the acts establishing the new republic did.

Spelled out in a lengthy lead editorial entitled «Evangelicals in the Social Struggle,» as well as in books such as Aspects of Christian Social Ethics, Henry's understanding of Christian social responsibility stressed (a) society's need for the spiritual regeneration of all men and women, (b) an interim social program of humanitarian care, ethical proclamation, and personal, structural application, and (c) a theory of limited government centering on certain «freedom rights,» e. g., the rights to public property, free speech, and so on.18 Though the shape of this social ethic thus closely parallels that of the present editorial position of Moody Monthly, it must be distinguished from its counterpart by the time period involved (it pushed others like Moody Monthly into a more active involvement in the social arena), by the intensity of its commitment to social responsibility, by the sophistication of its insight into political theory and practice, and by its willingness to offer structural critique on the American political system.

Also, they may hold that even Christians are not free from the effects of original sin, so that for them, too, the discipline of want, when they fail to perform their due service to society, is desirable.

This represents a refreshing and welcome change from the physicalist and «value free» programmes which abound in Western societies.

The question is being asked whether the price for the present pattern is not too high, whether we could not, without losing me many good things in our society, have a freer impulse life, a richer imaginative consciousness, be less alienated from our bodies, be capable of more profound intimacy with a few and more community with many others.

It seems we have passed from a society that allows legal access to these drugs and services to one that insists that they must be free,....

And liberation involves not mere personal repentance but, far more important, social revolution, freeing the downtrodden from the oppressive structures of society.

From your posts looks like you want society to be free from any form of ethics... which makes u the caveFrom your posts looks like you want society to be free from any form of ethics... which makes u the cavefrom any form of ethics... which makes u the caveman.

Griffin & Sherburne, New York: The Free Press, 1978, 104) The originality prevents us then from holding that in abstraction from its animal body an «entirely living» nexus is a society.

From the perspective of James Madison's observations about factions and freedom in Federalist No. 10, for example, the respect for tradition and the flourishing of faith is not a glitch but a feature of a free society, which encourages the development of a variety of human types.

How can it claim to bridge the divisions in human society — divisions between Greek and barbarian, bond and free, between white and black, Aryan and non-Aryan, employer and employed — if, when men are drawn into it, they find that another division has been added to the old ones — a division of Catholic from Evangelical, or Episcopalian from Presbyterian or Independent?

@Atheist, From a practical standpoint, if there is no free will then how do you, or society, hold individuals responsible for their own behavior?

Citizens who take part commonly explain their efforts as attempts to «give back» for all that they have received from the free society, or to meet the obligations of free citizens to think and act for themselves.

Each culture must be free to draw from its own tradition, but always in such a way as to direct it towards the needs of an ecologically sensitive global society.

The ancient dream of a society free from famine, disease, poverty, and despair is beginning to be fulfilled by the applications of science.

Geographically mobile and deriving prestige, power, and satisfaction from their work, those who wield the most influence in modern societies are, as Robert Rodes has observed, often «very free in adopting measures that undermine the geographical stability and delicate communities on which others depend for practical and emotional support.»

Our prevailing legal emphasis on the free, self - determining individual fits quite well with the series of economic and social changes that, by liberating so many of us from family and group ties, have dramatically affected the capacity of families to carry out all the tasks for which society continues to rely on them.

1) Charities spend their income on necessities, such as food and utilities, which ever - so - slightly re-orients our economy toward recession - resistant products, rather than luxuries 2) Charities spend their money quickly, but on independent schedules, making for a smoother stimulus effect on the economy 3) Charities make purchases tax - free, meaning that $ 1 spent by a charity generates a full $ 1 of private economic activity; furthermore, much of those tax revenues are recovered as income tax on the grocery stores, utility companies, etc. that might not have received that income otherwise 4) Charitable giving is by far the most democratic way to improve society; from birth control to bombers, government assuredly spends money on something you don't like, and charitable giving restores your say - so 5) Charitable donations are tax deductible, meaning you keep those tax dollars in your local community 6) Charitable donations provide the funds necessary for volunteers to serve the needy, thus giving «the average citizen» a chance to meet and interact with the needy, breaking down stereotypes

Furthermore, in individual circumstances, though not in society as a whole, there are situations so free from injustice that one may well «thank God and take courage.»

Society and morality, like nature, came to be understood as separate from God and thus freed from religion.

Founded in 1992 and run since 2000 by the Ethics and Public Policy Center, the Tertio Millennio Seminar on the Free Society brings two dozen young people from central and eastern Europe together with twelve or so of their American counterparts to explore the principles and prospects of building free and virtuous societFree Society brings two dozen young people from central and eastern Europe together with twelve or so of their American counterparts to explore the principles and prospects of building free and virtuous societfree and virtuous societies.

Imagine being free of society, free to bury oneself, to cut oneself off from technology and all the attendant chatter and hysteria.

Quite a few of us have stable relationships, raise healthy well - educated children, are free from addiction, vote, volunteer and donate to support causes that help make this society work, live in harmony with people who are different from us — I could go on, but you may get the idea that most of us do things most people would call good and have neither the inclination nor the time to do abominable things.

It is about a free society, but it's the religious that are trying to prevent it from being one.

This is your chance to be free from an entangled mass sheep society.

Breaking the gospel free from its European captivity is at one and the same time clothing it in new thought forms and relating it to the realities of Pacific societies.