The Pope's letter or encyclical addressed to all people, regardless of religion, is the Vatican's most dramatic foray yet into the climate change debate and how
human action not prayers will fix it.
He sees the meaning of
human action not in the development toward an ideal of man which is founded on the human spirit; nor in the realization of an ideal human society through human action.
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Human actions not only are emitting greenhouse gases based on our own activities, but also are causing plants and animals and microbes to be net emitters of greenhouse gases as well,» said Anna Michalak, a co-author of the study with the Carnegie Institution for Science in Stanford, Calif..
Not exact matches
Make it abundantly clear through words and
actions that you are devoted to the community, and most likely you'll be amazed at the rash of new clients that will be willing to work with you because
not only are they interested in your product, they like and respect you as a
human being.
Drawdown makes sure to empower ordinary
human beings with
actions each of us can contribute, even if we aren't specialized in offshore wind farms or solar storage technology.
Leaders who are guided by faith,
not fear, demonstrate through their
actions,
not mere words, what their core values are as a
human being.
DORSEY: It's
not the most
human action to wave a device at another device and wait for a beep.
In his view, forecasting methods
not fundamentally based upon principles of
human action are unlikely to be reliable over time.
SA: As an Austrian school economist, I do
not think we can make accurate timeline predictions in matters of
human action.
Immigration advocates are accusing the San Diego - area Border Patrol of politicizing two
human - smuggling arrests by publicizing the suspects» participation in the Deferred
Action for Childhood Arrivals program — even though one of the arrestees was
not actively enrolled in DACA.
Aer you saying that you don't believe that a god is monitoring every thought, word, and
action of every
human for the purpose of judgement when life ends?
@In Santa we trust - «Are you saying that you don't believe that a god is monitoring every thought, word, and
action of every
human for the purpose of judgement when life ends?»
After all, we are
human and we all make mistakes (
not that this justifies their
actions).
«We must never forget that the evil comes
not from the
actions of «subhuman vermin» but from the heart of a fallen, sacred yet degraded,
human being,» I wrote.
Are you saying that you don't believe that a god is monitoring every thought, word, and
action of every
human for the purpose of judgement when life ends?
This is part of what it means to think politically, because politics is about
action in a realm of uncertainty; politics is about
human choice, but these choices are
not infinite.
We can assume that all the Justices sitting on the Court today, like other
humans, have their own preferences and biases about religion, but the judicial opinions of one of them, Justice John Paul Stevens, raise more than a slight suspicion that some of his
actions on the bench stem from animosity, if
not to animal sacrifice, at least to certain less exotic religious beliefs and practices.
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.
Being a whole
human journey,
not just adhesion to a creed, we need to see the evidence of inner transformation reflected in our thoughts, attitudes, words and
actions.
nobody has a right to mock about others, you are judged by your
actions and deeds, it's
not possible to know about every faith in this world, but how ignorant can
human mankind be especially after innocent Sikhs killed in Oak creek Wisconsin which was very widely covered.
The loss of traditional, collective, and ritualistic forms of life and the loss of a transcendent horizon are accompanied by the loss of spontaneous and contingent forms of
human action» what we might call freedom, if the word had
not been so severely abused.
Free will is required to be like God, and God will
not intervene to control
human action.
Most Western Christians, especially fundamentalists, define what it means to be
human by the Original Sin,
not the Original Blessing — which is
not only unbiblical, but puts the emphasis on the
human rather than Divine
action.
no being gay is
not a seperate race TP, still a
human with
actions.
This co-operative activity does
not make the
action of God remote but rather as direct and immediate as communion between God and
human nature can be.
My point is simply this: it's
not fair to conclude that religion is evil based on
human action.
But it is
not an entirely satisfactory way for
human beings, for, as I mentioned earlier, the
action of the transcendent is largely external, and little reformation through moral choice and persuasive grace takes place.
Biblical prophecy would
not be possible, unless events and
human actions were predetermined and there is no free will.
In a way, this does
not constitute an exception: it is still the physical
action of a
human that brings about a physical result.
everything is made up of atoms (don't believe me do some research) its the different variables of heat and light and things like that that cause different reactions to make different things and these things when they interact can create something completely different and you and slowly the process of mitosis or miosis starts to work and form stuff hell i learnt that in high school and it was a catholic one at that a millions of years ago i bet the universe was completely different and had things in it that our minds cant even imagine that have since changed over time from
action and reaction to what we have today and in another million years who knows with all the different gases we pump into the air and the weather getting more intense on both ends of the scale life as we know it will be different the
human race will have to evolve to survive and will probibly form into a slightly different species hell maybe well evolve into 2 different species like in the movie time machine
There are two aspects to the Sunnah: legislation given by the Prophet on matters
not specifically detailed in the Qur» an, and traditions based on the
actions and utterances of Muhammad as a
human being.
The Quranic texts do
not give in detail the code of laws regulating dealings —
human actions — but they give the general principles which guide people to perfection, to a life of harmony — to an inner harmony between man's appetites and his spiritual desires, to harmony between man and the natural world, and to a harmony between individuals as well as a harmony with the society in which men live.
Ministers are
not trained to reflect upon
human action and events, to interpret them theologically, and to regard such reflection as important as the study of books.
We are only
human, fallible, and once our children grow up we can
not be there 24 hours a day constraining their every
action.
He makes a world where a majority of
humans who have ever lived could
not have possibly heard of Jesus Christ no matter what their
actions were.
Otherwise they will be like indolent workmen who find no spur to
action in a task to be achieved; or else, if a healthy
human instinct overrides their hesitancies or the fallacies they derive from a misunderstanding of religion, they will still be a prey to a fundamental division and frustration within themselves, and it will be said that the sons of heaven can
not, on the
human level, compete with true conviction and therefore on equal terms with the children of this world.
But the Dalai Lama's camp responded almost immediately, claiming this was
not at all the gist of his remarks, emphasizing his appeal for us to distinguish between «the
action» and «the actor» and stressing that, as a fellow
human being, even bin Laden deserves our compassion and forgiveness.
More important and more basic than that, it is because God's own purpose of self - expression does
not there expect and provide for such adequacy as was achieved by him once for all in
human regard, when by his prevenient preparation, his concomitant grace, and his effectual
action he was «made flesh» in the person of Jesus Christ.
However,
human dignity is
not based simply on our feelings but is linked to our radical capacity rationally to direct our
actions.
-LSB-...] charity is placed as a key link: divine charity works through
human action, as a theological virtue -LSB-...] Man is
not considered only as the object of a process, but as the subject of this process.
Animals are
not humans and I've never read a scripture of Jesus» pertaining to animals having a soul or being responsible for their
actions.
Jesus» language in all its vigorous overstatement still reflects a sense of divine fury over the failure of the divine purpose to work itself out in the
actions of
human beings that does
not compute with our urbane, 20th - century middle - class liberal Christianity.
It does
not necessarily mean observing the rules or codes recognized in any
human society, except insofar as these represent the attempt of that society to make
actions express the nearest thing to full realization of affected interests which is possible to the average
human being.
As in the
human example,
not only must the nature of the event be appropriate in order to have a special act of God, God's intention must also have a sufficiently large influence in determining the nature of the
action.
Just as the primary meaning of
human action does
not refer to a public, historical act, the primary meaning of God's
action does
not refer to any act in history.23 However, since the relation of the world to God is analogous to that of the body to the self, then in the secondary sense of God's
action, every event is to an extent an act of God.
For Jesus» language in all its vigorous overstatement still reflects a sense of divine fury over the failure of the divine purpose to work itself out in the
actions of
human beings that does
not compute with our urbane, 20th - century middle - class liberal Christianity.
1) That in no way addresses my post 2) I don't believe in sin 3) Eternal condemnation for a finitie «sin» is an unjust and immoral system, as is eternal reward for holding a specific belief instead of a totality of
actions taken, and the innermost part of a
humans morality.
The religious intellectuals of India wanted to relieve
human suffering, and this could even lead to governmental
action, but they did
not envision fundamentally different ways of organizing society.
Yet the basic certainties stand sure; they concern the dynamic reality who is God, God's pervasive
action in the world, God's self - manifestation through the whole range of creation, God's focal self - expression in Jesus Christ, the effecting of God's purpose through loving activity in the world and in
human existence, and the assurance that our
human life is
not an end in itself but finds its fulfillment through reception into the divine life.
If the Greek translation is correct, it would appear that forgiveness is
not completely an
action done by God alone but requires some sort of
human participation.