Sentences with phrase «from scapegoating»

I hope that Mayor Harp and other area representatives start asking NHPS management hard questions about what they are really doing, aside from scapegoating teachers, to improve our school learning environments.

How is it moral to cast off your sins, your responsibility on Jesus, who then becomes indistinguishable from a scapegoat?

His miraculous turnaround — from scapegoat during the David Moyes era, to outplaying and displacing # 59.7 million Angel di Maria while securing a # 120k a week contract at the start of the season — certainly deserves to be rewarded.

Leonardo Bonucci blossomed from the scapegoat of the awful 2010 - 11 season to the best center back in the world over his seven years at Juventus.

Emphasis and resources should be taken away from all scapegoat activities and purely focused on helping people with problems before they snap and do something like this.

Not exact matches

«From a public perception point of view, I think he ended up as a bit of a scapegoat.»

In addition, Leatherbarrow said the best sources out there have yet to be translated from Russian — including the accounts of senior managers, state - run media reports, and a book by an engineer who's been blamed for the disaster, but insists he was scapegoated by the government.

Valleywag points out that this whole situation is really weird: «So, our elected officials, in their effort to find a scapegoat for crimes against sex workers like the murder of Julissa Brisman, have taken a site that never made a dime from the hookups it helped set up, and turned it into a full - time, for - profit sex money machine.»

Realizing that Jews have been the scapegoats of all Western history, that they have been made to bear responsibility for everything from the Black Death to the economic ills of the Germans, these observers fear that the enormous increase in Jewish numbers in America will lead to charges that the Jews have monopolized the opportunities for economic advance and that these charges will pave the way for Fascism here as they paved the way for Hitler in Germany.

As employment goes from stagnating to collapsing, technology and automation will become scapegoats in the way immigrants and globalization are now.

In the Philippines, a bank that has been blamed for being used to steal $ 81 million from Bangladesh's central bank has accused monetary officials there for covering up their negligence and making the bank a scapegoat.

Years from now when someone decides to use Athiests as the scapegoat what will you do???? Will you look back and say hey I tried to be civil or I tried to stop the hatred before it escalated into uncontrollable proportions or I tried to find a way to coincide?

Throughout history jews have been made the scapegoat and banished from their lands, or killed.

I have a friend from Egypt who lives in an upscale neighborhood, and he said that he hatred spewed from the mosques against Christians and Jews is appalling, and that if it is that bad in his neighborhood, he could just imagine the things said in the more rural and poorer areas where Christians and Jews are made the scapegoats for all problems.

You favorite scapegoat inherited massive debt from his predecessor, in addition to the recession that he caused.

There is simply not a whit of verified, or even verifiable, evidence that any such transformation from the Jesus - as - scapegoat actually occurred or will occur.

Obviously, Jews who do not believe Jesus was the messiah do not believe what Christians believe about him: that Jesus became the scapegoat and the Passover «lamb of God» to atone for our sins, thus separating sins from sinners and enabling God and us to love sinners while hating sins.

Rainer, how come your god needed a scapegoat story stolen from earlier fictions to get rid of sin?

By being the scapegoat for natural and human violence, God thereby rescues, redeems, and delivers mankind from the disastrous consequences of owning up to what is truly in our hearts.

Islam meaning is «Submission to One God» and that was Abrahams Religion on which all the Prophets before him and after him had followed until «Issa the Son of Mary» then as our Friend»» «gozar»» «mentioned that (God did not need a scapegoat story stolen from earlier fictions)... doesn't that look like a fine line of poetry that summarized the whole situation of the crime that took place against a prophet and messenger of God became a dead sin taker...??

A theology of the Old Testament revelation that does not specifically deal with this grave and somber fact misses from the very start one of the most central questions...» (Must There be Scapegoats?

Could it be that the scapegoat imagery of Leviticus 16 that God wasn't just telling Israel that their sins were carried away into the wilderness by a goat, but that He Himself was bearing their sin on His own being, so that they might be delivered from the ever - increasing spiral of violence that threatened to consume them?

From the point of view which we have been developing it becomes apparent that the citizens of the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. need each other in order to play out their despair; they need to have a scapegoat against which to battle in order to fortify their precarious sphere of existence.

From him we can learn that the «social crisis» which is resolved through the «scapegoat mechanism» is in reality the crisis of human existence before God, the crisis of creation.

Jesus is telling His disciples that through His blood, that is, through His violent death as a sacrificial scapegoat, they will gain deliverance and release from the sin that has enslaved humanity since the foundation of the world.

The Cross as Revelation Girard speaks of the Gospels as texts which reveal the scapegoat mechanism, because they are written from the point of view of the victim, not of the persecuting crowd.

And when you live this way, you will break free from the sin of violent, bloody, sacrificial scapegoating that has plagued humanity since the very beginning.»

Wide - ranging and insightful, Marsden's essay touches on everything from original sin and scapegoating to American optimism and the «culture of «whatever»» while arguing with Reinhold Niebuhr, Alan Wolfe, Richard Rorty and others along the way.

And Jesus didn't just enter into scapegoating violence to show us it was bad, but to destroy it from the inside (which, as the only truly innocent victim in history, only He was able to do).

We wound others to prevent our flesh from being wounded; we scapegoat to protect our reputations; we become aggressive in guarding our comforts.

It takes away the attention from the root cause of the problem by trying to find a handful of scapegoats while letting this disease continue untreated in the rest of society!

«Others become scapegoats,» writes Miroslav Volf in Exclusion and Embrace: A Theological Exploration of Identity, Otherness and Reconciliation, «concocted from our own shadows as repositories for our sins and weaknesses [and fears] so we can relish the illusion of our sinlessness and strength.»

Jesus said the writings all decsribe me yet it seems God did show us evil scapegoating from Adam onward.

The death of Jesus on the cross «rescues us from sin» in that it reveals to us the scapegoating, blame - game mechanism behind most of our sin and violence.

I believe that is a «theory of everything» and that all people, no matter what field or profession they are in, can benefit from understanding mimetic rivalry and the scapegoating mechanism.

An institution that treats people unjustly in order to deflect criticism from itself is engaged in scapegoating.

Though I have not read them yet, I expect that «Things Hidden from the Foundation of the World» and «The Scapegoat» will prove to be more reader - friendly.

Cf. Rene Girard's treatment of the «violent unammity» with which the scapegoat, prirnarily Oedipus himself, is destroyed by the society that benefits from his departure (Girard, Violence, 68 - 88).

God is a divine scapegoat, allowing us to blame Him for our violence, so that He can carry our violence away and rescue us from violence.

Yes, John says that «sin is lawlessness» (1 John 3:4) but the laws were only given to keep us from accusing, condemning, scapegoating, and killing others in God's name.

Details of the postexilic observance wanting here may be filled in from the tractate «Yoma» in the Mishnah, where the prayer of the priest, pronounced with his two hands upon the scapegoat, is given as follows:

He sees himself as the scapegoat of high - level politicians who never asked for amnesty from the TRC.

How does Jesus dying on the cross reveal to us the way of escape from our own sinful scapegoating tendencies?

When militant Islamists become scapegoats for violence, the Mubarak regime gains brownie points from U.S. supporters for helping the fight against terrorism.

Children in such families are often willing to take on any role — the perfectionist, the pleaser, the clown, the mascot, the scapegoat — to deflect the family tensions and keep the uneasy peace from shattering.

We have been released from our addiction to scapegoating others in God's name.

From there, he turned to anthropology, holding in Violence and the Sacred that the myths of ancient cultures invariably show themselves to be based on sacrificial violence against a scapegoat.

And that task is to prevent» by war, aid, diplomacy, and example» a new culture from being founded on the mythological value of the blood of six thousand dead American scapegoats.

Increasingly it seemed to him that, far from being a source of strength and encouragement for living, God was a convenient scapegoat whom he blamed for the state of his life.

It's kind of like we as a Western people have said to God, «Okay, we'll take it from here» and, when things go wrong, He becomes our scapegoat.