Yes, there is an agenda to treat gay and bisexual people as
full human beings with equal rights, and to establish that what consenting adults do sexually is their own business; just as you have an agenda to poke your nose into other people's bedrooms, and treat them as lesser beings if they do things there that you disapprove of.
All that Catholics need believe is that Man (as in
full human beings with a soul) were a special creation of God and that at some point the first Man and Woman sinned against God.
Not exact matches
For Lloyds, the German capital's appeal
is that it already has the bank's main European hub
with a
full management team in place, including the finance, risk and
human resources staff required of a
full subsidiary.
He argued that while Nvidia
is interested in «
full blown Level 5» self - driving cars that don't require any
human monitoring, the company's mapping and sensor tools can also
be used to support cars
with lower levels of autonomy.
In October 2016, Tesla announced that all vehicles in production, as well as the forthcoming Model 3, will
be built
with an updated hardware suite, equipping each Tesla
with the hardware needed for
full self - driving capability at a safety level substantially greater than that of a
human driver.
His apparent assumption that the debate
is over — «Vehicles that we
're producing
are capable of
full autonomy,» he said —
is a little scary, considering how much still needs to
be learned about the functioning of fully autonomous cars, and about the interaction of autonomous systems
with humans in the cockpit.
Like all
humans, they
are as
full of hypocrisy as the rest of us, why don't they just go to church if it pleases them, or not, and let the rest of us deal
with our own spirituality.
But believe anything that can give u
with full eveidence ex: science
with evidences All religious books
are just a «bully» only to common people to believe for not doing any bad things & live as a
human only (not as animals).
The Bible
is full of stories of God interacting
with His people in particular, and the
human race in general.
The
human voice remains
full, but
with texture and detail that
is obscured by the Gold.
All
human beings can reach God, if they have a true Guru (for christians Christ; Krishna, Rama, etc for Hindus), and follow their teaching faithfully
with full devotion to God.
In this world, so
full of fictitious forms of freedom that destroy the environment and the
human being, let us learn true freedom by the power of the Holy Spirit; to build the school of freedom; to show others by our lives that we
are free and how beautiful it
is to
be truly free
with the true freedom of God's children.»
It helps manage the disappointment when the cool new group you find yourself
with is eventually revealed to
be full of flawed and fallible
human beings, and it helps to free you from the initial desire to rationalize shitty behavior within a group merely for the sake of identity politics.»
If it
is true that Jesus did not know the day or the hour of the kingdom's consummation, that would
be because in his
full assumption of our fallen state he has assumed the limits of
human knowledge that go along
with it.
The Resurrection made it possible to look back upon that
human life
with fresh insight, so that in later years St. John could write a Gospel in which, though the subject
is still the events which took place in Galilee and Jerusalem, the deeds and words of Jesus
are reinterpreted in the
full light of his risen glory.
When we
are dealing in general
with the gradual development of the noosphere into planetary consciousness we must of course do
full justice to the great, the essential part played by the other sections of the
human race in bringing about the eventual plenitude of the earth.
Still, we do know and we can see in retrospect that those energies
are in fact pregnant
with a potential that does produce the
full panoply of life on earth and the masterpiece of neural engineering that
is the
human brain.
The parable of the two brothers
is full of the ambiguity of
human life; its ending
is not the happy ending which closes for ever the issues
with which it deals.
«In CV, however, you will never find a statement of religious origin without an accompanying
human and rational justification, upon the condition, quite naturally, that reason complies in
full with its duty and that the sciences do not let themselves
be guided by ideologies.
In wildly ecstatic ways, and
with all the impreciseness and lack of logical consistency which goes
with that kind of unbelievably good news, the New Testament wants to say to us that here
is man's chance to become free and to achieve his
full human potential.
«To speak of God's Kingdom,» says Wright, «
is thus to invoke God as the sovereign one who has the right, the duty, and the power to deal appropriately
with evil in the world, in Israel, and in
human beings, and thereupon to remake the world, Israel, and
human beings... When
full allowance
is made for the striking differences of genre and emphasis within scripture, we may propose that Israel's sacred writings
were the place where, and the means by which, Israel discovered again and again who the true God
was, and how his Kingdom - purposes
were being taken forward... Through scripture, God
was equipping his people to serve his purposes.»
Upon careful analysis, at least ten such points become apparent: (1) Blake alone among Christian artists has created a whole mythology; (2) he
was the first to discover the final loss of paradise, the first to acknowledge that innocence has
been wholly swallowed up by experience; (3) no other Christian artist or seer has so fully directed his vision to history and experience; (4) to this day his
is the only Christian vision that has openly or consistently accepted a totally fallen time and space as the paradoxical presence of eternity; (5) he stands alone among Christian artists in identifying the actual passion of sex as the most immediate epiphany of either a demonic or a redemptive «Energy,» just as he
is the only Christian visionary who has envisioned the universal role of the female as both a redemptive and a destructive power; (6) his
is the only Christian vision of the total kenotic movement of God or the Godhead; (7) he
was the first Christian «atheist,» the first to unveil God as Satan; (8) he
is the most Christocentric of Christian seers and artists; (9) only Blake has created a Christian vision of the
full identity of Jesus
with the individual
human being (the «minute particular»); and (10) as the sole creator of a post-biblical Christian apocalypse, he has given Christendom its only vision of a total cosmic reversal of history.
It
's only several months into the term that fetuses actually morph into
full - fledge
humans with feelings and consciousness.
It
is in the integrity of a
full humanity, and in every range of it, that God's action
is to
be found — God energizes in this man, in his total and genuine personhood, not in some special part of that personhood or by replacing
with deity some particular area of
human nature.
In some,
human spirit
is suppressed and buried; in some, it matures in readiness for
full relation; in some, the relation takes place and
with it fresh expansion of
being.
Human potentiality is not toward becoming divine, but toward so responding to the divine initiative that the Self - Expressive Activity of God would have what Athanasius styled an organon — a personal instrument open to employment by God but with full human freedom retained — adequate for the divine pur
Human potentiality
is not toward becoming divine, but toward so responding to the divine initiative that the Self - Expressive Activity of God would have what Athanasius styled an organon — a personal instrument open to employment by God but
with full human freedom retained — adequate for the divine pur
human freedom retained — adequate for the divine purpose.
The Bible
is full of fairy tales and should only
be taken as a piece of literature of great importance just as the Odyssey
is, but it shouldn't
be used to govern one's life, much less to help build a relationship
with the biggest fictional and ever - changing character in
human history.
I
'm sure he realizes
full well, as does anyone
with a functional brain, that
is was human beings that crafted every word, in every version, of the bible.
It
is here that
human emotion, repressed at some points by the austerity of the doctrine of God as developed in theology, has its
full outlet — a warm
human emotion which the peasant can share
with the mystic.
Thus, for instance, Paul's apparent support of slavery lost its authority for us only after eighteen centuries and seventy or so generations, as the
full implications of Jesus» message of the worth of each
human being finally sank in and became authoritative instead (at least
with regard to slavery).
But even as Christians must acknowledge the
full reality of
human sin, continued Dawson, Christianity itself should never
be identified
with the rejection of history or the wholesale condemnation of culture:
Starting
with full rich
human experience, imagine what it
is that
is lost when we descend to the level of apes, then rabbits, then beetles, then amoebae, then viruses.
But this brings Thomas
full circle to the contradiction of a wholly necessary
being making a contingent decision to create its own objects of knowledge — only now there
is the further problem of reconciling God's causative knowledge
with human free will.
what Hartshorne accomplished, even when others do not agree
with his form of theism,
is to hold the prism of the
human intellect up to the divine light, the better to display the
full spectrum of responsible thinking about God.
What we need to do in order to grasp its meaning
is to give
full recognition to both elements, and the divine message will shine through
with greater richness and power if we understand something of the channels of
human fallibility mixed
with high insights through which the message comes.
The two intolerable positions
are: first, one which deals irresponsibly
with the given structures of society, as if some ultimate perfection could
be secured by
human effort; and, second, one which merely says the world
is full of evils.
Scripture must
be compared
with Scripture to get the
full picture; it doesn't need
human finite input.
The matrix of this
human relationship
with the risen Jesus, which
is thereby
full of Divinity,
is the sacramental life.
In brief, social change — this rapid, turbulent, accelerating scene —
is more than a professional challenge; it
is a total
human challenge, and to deal
with it as
human beings,
be we professionals or nonprofessionals, we must unashamedly call upon the
full range of our
human capacities and interests — scientific, artistic, and religious.
That God's love, manifest in diverse ways throughout the duration of the universe, might come to a
full and unsurpassable self - expression in an individual
human being who lived and died in the Middle East almost two thousand years ago does not seem incongruous
with what we now understand about the nature of an evolving universe, especially if we regard religion as a phenomenon emergent from the universe rather than just something done on the earth by cosmically homeless
human subjects.
But, also, any
human with common sense knows that at this time, all religions and creeds known to men -
are full of crap and instill separatism among groups of
humans as if one
is more valuable to God - they guy who supposedly made everyone and everything - separatistic ideas as «my book» my god» «my people»
are the most beloved by God
are wrong, will
be always wrong and all religions
are wrong and will always
be wrong.
There
is a mounting insistence among women (including many who reject the methods of militant liberationists) that they
be treated as
full human beings,
with freedom to choose and to develop their personal gifts and abilities.
Those who
were more concerned
with the biblical story, and those whose theology required Jesus»
full humanity, insisted that Jesus
was not lacking in any
human feature.
And [in all your dealings] give
full measure and weight,
with equity: [however,] WE do not burden any
human being with more than he
is well able to bear; and when you voice an opinion;
be just, even though it
be [against] one near relative.
Mary's womb, a
human vessel of life, has
been made
full, and not just
with a new life, but
with the very source of light and life (John 1:4).
But she might still
be left
with a minor, less psychologically disorienting barrier to her acceptance into the
full range of
human rituals — the fact that she dropped in from another planet.
The consequence of these reflections
is the
full recognition that to have
been created in God's image means, for
human beings, that we
are created in the image of God as Love.134 That has all - encompassing implications for the way in which we
are invited to exercise power in our relationships
with one another and
with all of creation on our home planet.
Regardless of whether your church allows women to preach and teach, does it speak respectfully of them, as
full human beings made in the image of God, and
with as much of a role to play in his mission as men?
If you
are absolutely convinced a fetus
is truly the
full moral equivalent of an extant
human baby, then any political or ideological qualms you have about helping out
with things like birth control and child care, or including se - x education in school classrooms.
With that in mind, I have noticed that many, if not most new converts can have, in all appearances, a genuine spiritual experience before any high doctrine of «scriptural authority ever enters their head.Now, some may say that just how it works, first you crawl, then you walk... baby food, then the meat, but this
is my point... the world
is full of «spiritual meatheads»... there
are so many believers who wdn't know an original thought, unless of course, they cd find the chapter and verse to unequivocally support it.
Is it so difficult to comprehend how a collection of ancient documents may not
be the final, complete and indisputable Word of God, but mere
human artifacts, sometimes godly, sometimes not, sometimes helping, sometimes hindering.?