Sentences with phrase «human evil»

Yet such love has its reflections in our human experience at the point where men offer loyal understanding and care to one another in the midst of human evil.

Your reason for not believing in human evil is your own, limited, finite, subjective experience.

For there is an all - too - human evil at work in that part of the world, and the brown tide is only a by - product of its plan.

Made all the worse by the fact that it is a purely human evil.

This character is a study in the possibility that the depths of human evil may lay dormant just below the surface.

The result is something that takes a slightly different direction from the first game, putting the themes of human evil from The Dark Descent into a global perspective with very disturbing results.

However, combine this with the irrefutable observation of humanity that would see human evil as universal in its scope, and combine this with the fact that the VAST majority of human beings disagreed with your interpretation of essential human goodness, and the force of the conviction steels itself.

I don't * really * see the relevance in you defending your disbelief, unless you DO N'T believe in human evil BECAUSE you're an unbeliever?

Understanding humans as connected inextricably to nature makes it very hard to distinguish human evil from natural evil, because we can not distinguish the human from the natural.

Fromm's understanding of human evil provides an approach that can help human potentials approaches to education and therapy avoid superficial optimism.

You don't KNOW my mind, you don't KNOW that people do just as many good things as bad things, and you don't KNOW that the vast majority of human beings are certainly wrong about human evil.

He contends, rather, that if human theoretical beliefs are central to the human experience of evil, then the effort to overcome human evil can not omit the theoretical dimension of the problem» (OPE 16).

Whitehead envisions that in the divine life, far more than in the human, there is a redemption of the evil of the world, a redemption which does not remove its evil, but which includes it within a whole to which even human evil can make some positive contribution, however limited.

Hey David, I have just started «People of the Lie, The Hope for Healing Human Evil» by M. Scott Peck and he addresses this in such an interesting way.

Niebuhr's antipathy toward any form of inherited sin reflected his fear that it would mitigate responsibility; hence he writes: «the theory of an inherited second nature is as clearly destructive of the idea of responsibility for sin as rationalistic and dualistic theories which attribute human evil to the inertia of nature» (NDM 262).

Nothing among the archetypes and iconography of human evil expresses this mass insanity better than the crowd baying for the blood of Jesus.

But when the Holocaust is interpreted as an act so monstrous that it is separate and distinct from all other human evil; when the victims are understood as a special case among all other victims of oppression; when the men who did this deed are differentiated from all other men as being singularly demonic and non-human — then there is no connection between those criminals and ourselves, no possible continuum between our sin and Nazi sin.

The book is a probing into human evil on a vast scale, demonstrating the power of twisted ideas to wreak monumental horror when ruthlessness is deemed the supreme virtue.

Of course, if you've seen the film, you'll know that he's not all he's cracked up to be, but when the Nazis are later found out to be the face of pure human evil, there would be a bit of backlash at seeing a relatively normal portrayal.

Artists Kader Attia and Jean - Jacques Lebel's transcultural and transgenerational collaborative exhibition attempts to face down and recover from human evil through the superfluity of artistic imagination.

Famously, Steven Spielberg grew up in the public eye, maturing from good - versus - Nazis blockbusters into a more nuanced engagement with human evil.

This juxtaposition of human evil with the innocent child may be a reaction to Japan's rigid social conventions.

Human evil has killed the innocent cruelly, Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby said in response to the terror attacks in Nice.

In speaking of horror films, I referred specifically to supernatural thrillers, drawing a bright line between the depiction of human evil and supernatural evil.

Feeding on God's Word truly and successfully combats every and any kind of human evil.

He confronted the depths of human evil and yet he died with words of forgiveness on his lips.

We need a much more realistic approach to the problem of human evil, and I am perfectly certain that no really effective way of dealing with it will be found apart from the rediscovery of true religion.

Human evil is obvious, but is a tsunami or an earthquake, even while causing terrible effects, evil?

Human evil is natural evil.

While traditional theology separated «human evil» from «natural evil,» I would venture to guess that for most Americans, the category of natural evil is a strange one.

Although I am very far from subscribing to the doctrine of the total depravity of man, it does seem to me to have been proved within my own lifetime that the problem of human evil is not much affected by better education, better housing, higher wages, holidays with pay, and the National Health Service — desirable as all these things may be for other good reasons.

It seems to have been proved within out time that the problem of human evil is not much affected by better education, better housing, higher wages, and holidays with pay — desirable as all these things may be for other good reasons.

Indeed, any cursory study of literature is essentially a study of human evil.

To the contrary, I'm saying that human evil is universal in its effect and consistency.

I necessarily had to take a step back and defend my overall worldview, but not for the sake of apologetics, but to explain why I hold to the theology of human evil that I do.

-- No disrespect intended, but the story of human evil is far broader than your 51 years of life, your hurt feelings, your stolen items and your bruised head.

I was using the news headlines (and other similar resources, such as charity reports and the like) to make the valid observation that human evil is universal in its effect and nature.

Buddhism has some good ethics but no salvation or structured strength to fight back the human evil.

I'm NOT just talking about «bible believers» (yes, Christians and Jews believe in human evil, but so do a wide variety of religions, AND philosophical systems, AND political systems, AND individual thinkers), and you and I both know that we're not just talking about «millions», but BILLIONS — the number of those who believe in human evil FAR outnumber you.

Quoting A.C. Grayling from «The God Argument: The Case Against Religion and for Humanism,» saying that natural evil (read: disaster and disease) is a response from a god to human evil is to make an incoherent argument.

The Reformation slogan «by faith alone» poses a challenge to our own response to human evil.