There's NO excuse for taking innocent
human life of any kind; no matter what your perspective may be.
Not exact matches
«Any time you look at any
kind of real
life piece
of text or utterance that one
human wrote or said to another
human, it's filled with analogies, modal logic, belief, expectation, fear, nested modals, lots
of variables and quantifiers,» Lenat said.
I warned then that tricked traffic, vicarious visitors, and the
kind of morons attracted to the latest news on Momma whoever's new diet weren't worth reaching or pitching to in any case because they weren't buying anything worth selling — but at least we thought they were
living, breathing
human beings.I said:
It's the
kind of attitude that permeates Paradox Sports, the group Skelton and co-founder Timmy O'Neill launched to provide «inspiration, opportunities, and adaptive equipment to the disabled community, empowering their pursuit
of a
life of excellence through
human - powered outdoor sports.»
For people
living in rural areas, where wait times for driverless Uber or any
kind of public transit are completely unreasonable, yet don't have money to burn an extra $ 10k on their car to make it autonomous, will continue to buy old - fashioned
human - driven cars with gas pedals and steering wheels long into the future — and will not accept not being able to drive their cars into cities.
The connectivity between any
kind of object and
humans will reinvent
life in terms
of sustainable energy, smart
living and healthcare.
If you read the sentence, the words — who the child in the mother's womb will be — mean what his / her
life will lead him / her into becoming which
kind of human, that is, what
kind of temperament, attitudes, talents & gifts, and such that
human will have.
so, if God created
humans, they would all be perfectly formed, experience absolutely no health problems
of any
kind, and either
live forever, or evaporate into thin air upon reaching their 100th birthday?
These have been formulated in different ways, but a typical list would cite
life (including health, safety, and procreation); knowledge (including appreciation
of beauty); holiness or religion (in the sense
of harmony with ultimate reality); self - integration, justice, friendship (including marriage); and the
kind of exercise
of skill in work or play that enriches
human life.
Religious folks tend to think
humans have some
kind of divine character given to them by God whereas we tend consider ourselves as members
of the ancient primate family
of life.
«Whatever salvation is... it includes the total transformation
of human life, forgiveness
of sin, healing from infirmities, and release from any
kind of bondage.
But when, by contrast, parental love is grounded in the facts
of biological and historical bonding, the child
lives in a setting offering the
kind of acceptance
human beings need in order themselves to become capable
of adult commitment — a setting in which individuals who are separate but connected can grow and flourish.
Ours is indeed a consumeristic culture, the
kind that too often turns people into commodities, and I believe Christians can speak into that culture in a unique,
life - giving way — not only as it concerns sex - on - demand, but also as it concerns food - on - demand, celebrity - on - demand, stuff - on - demand, cheap - goods - on - demand, pornography - on - demand, entertainment - on - demand, comfort - on - demand, distraction - on - demand, information - on - demand, power - on - demand, energy - on - demand, and all those habits that tend to thrive at the expense
of the dignity and value
of our fellow
human beings or our planet.
We look to the Bible for insights about the nature
of God, the nature
of humans, the nature
of our relationship to God and the world and each other, and the
kind of life that is appropriate to these.
Whatever impulse his followers have had to labor for the amelioration
of human life in ministering to the sick, the weak and helpless, the ignorant, the poverty - stricken, the imprisoned by any
kind of chains, owes its primary origin to the love
of God for persons as this was manifest in Jesus.
Requiem for a Dream looked at
humans as the
kinds of beings who are driven by a desire for fulfillment and the good
life, no matter how delusional.
Dear brothers and sisters, Blessed John Paul II reminded us that «man is called to a fullness
of life which far exceeds the dimensions
of his earthly existence, because it consists in sharing the very
life of God».4 The sexual intimacy
of marriage, the most intimate
kind of human friendship, is a pathway to sharing in God's own
life.
God in His will through history had into reality seemingly illogical or cruel events to happen in our world, but no one is spared if the purpose is for the good
of humanity, wars pestilence even the holocust has a reason and purpose beyond our comprehension at our times but will be reveald in the future, The Phillipine catasthrophy for example is viewed by some as Gods punishment, we experienced the brunt
of natures punishing power but it also unveiled the true feelings and concern
of the whole world in helping us materially and spiiritually by aiding and consoling us that was unprecedented in history, The whole world had demostrated, to me, a
kind of humanitarian concern and love that trancends races and culture, A
kind of demonstration by higher being the we
humans is one with Him.The cost
of human lives and misery is nothing in history compared to its positve historical consequences
In their
life and reflection,
human beings possess various items
of knowledge which, though they lack the ultimate degree
of clarity, certainty and obligation
of a theoretical and moral
kind, yet are and must be valid for them, at least until they attain better insight.
His attitude was proper, granted his presuppositions, and, without the
kind of legalism his presuppositions represent, the conduct
of human affairs and the regular business
of living in family or community would rapidly become impossible.
Not only is the mutable world separated from its divine principle — the One — by intervals
of emanation that descend in ever greater alienation from their source, but because the highest truth is the secret identity between the
human mind and the One, the labor
of philosophy is one
of escape: all multiplicity, change, particularity, every feature
of the
living world, is not only accidental to this formless identity, but a
kind of falsehood, and to recover the truth that dwells within, one must detach oneself from what lies without, including the sundry incidentals
of one's individual existence; truth is oblivion
of the flesh, a pure nothingness, to attain which one must sacrifice the world.
Atheism takes for many something away that is essential to the fabric
of human life and we have to come to some decisions about what is true, what is lovely and what is just and
kind.
Pius XII, in a further clarification
of the standard argument, holds that when the State, acting by its ministerial power, uses the death penalty, it does not exercise dominion over
human life but only recognizes that the criminal, by a
kind of moral suicide, has deprived himself
of the right to
life.
Value is related to change as a
kind of dynamic element or tension in
human life.
In short, anyone who appreciates the rapid change in historical circumstances and does not flee from this into a ghetto; anyone who knows that there is and always has been a mutable,
human law
of the Church, and that this
kind of change has always been practised; anyone, moreover, who reflects that the Church not only has the right but the duty
of shaping its canon law in accordance with changes in the times, will not be surprised at the change in many legal regulations which he is
living through at the present time, but will recognize and accept this as a sign
of the vitality
of the Church and its pastoral care.
Orthodoxy is being able not only to repeat the same teachings but also to show their relevance to the new context.2 Other individuals, on the other hand, interpret religious beliefs as merely expressions
of the
human community's search for some
kind of meaning, an accumulated source
of information built up over the years as the community reflected on its
life and activities.
Because
humans are flawed, some more than others, depending on what has been learned and experienced though out
life; also the
kinds of sin and wounds we have been exposed to, which determine gateways that give access for evil to dwell in us.
Furthermore, despite the emphasis by such theologians as Augustine, Calvin, Jonathan Edwards, and Reinhold Niebuhr (with whom Schlesinger enjoyed a personal association) on the need to distinguish between divine and
human authority, it is a gross distortion
of all
of their views for Schlesinger to impute to them the
kind of relativism which makes the existence
of God and the reality
of revelation (the basis
of all western religious traditions) so utterly irrelevant for public
life.
The Spirit was Jesus as Thought who received actualization in the form
of a particular historical
human kind, «a
living being from clay».
In taking this sixth step, Christians affirm that the «tendency toward the
human and the humane (toward «Christ») in the ultimate nature
of things» which has existed since the beginning
of time «has become evident and clear only now in the new order
of relationships just coming into view» in the Christian community To be sure, «any community which becomes a vehicle in history
of more profoundly humane patterns
of life» can be a part
of this new order, but the events around Jesus have at least a
kind of priority as its first clear manifestation.
I mean the burning passion
of lived awareness that we occupy a precarious existence on this planet together with the soil and its flowers, the water and its fishes, the air and its birds, the fire and energy sources; that our fellow
human beings are truly brothers and sisters with whom it is better always to make love - justice than war; and that gentleness lasts longer and touches more deeply than other
kinds of power.
Yet his words were filled with power — the
kind of power that transforms
human life, crystallizing it into social and community action.
On the contrary, every time a biblical author sketches the eschaton,
humans are on earth using various
kinds of cultural goods, cooking meals,
living in houses, walking on roads, raising banners, blowing trumpets, using domesticated animals, sitting on chairs, reading books, and so on.
To talk in that fashion is not to speak
of a
kind of meaningless re-enactment
of what went on in the creation; it is to speak
of a vital,
living, and ongoing movement, where God knows and experiences (if that word is, as I believe, appropriate to the divine
life) that which has taken place, but knows it and experiences it with a continuing freshness and delight — and, if what has taken place has been evil, with a continuing tinge
of sadness and regret — such as must be proper to the chief creative and chief receptive agency who is worshiped and served by God's
human children.
But since
humans live on ground and fish
live in water, it is
kind of like fish are from a different world.
In these quite different ways, something is being said about a refreshment or enablement which is provided for
human existence; and something is also being said, even in a fashion which sometimes seems curiously negative (as in Indian religious thought and observance), about a relationship with a more ultimate and all - inclusive reality that establishes a
kind of companionship between our own little
life and the greater circumambient divine being.
The first
kind is founded on the principle
of organizing
life to insure maximum satisfaction
of human interests or claims.
(Gen. 6:3) The tyrannies and destructions
of our day are really the same in
kind as those that made
human life either a shambles or a prison house, or both, in the days
of Nero when this earliest Gospel was written.
But on the other hand, when in talking about sin one talks only
of such sins, it is so easily forgotten that in a way it may be all right, humanly speaking, with respect to all such things up to a certain point, and yet the whole
life may be sin, the well - known
kind of sin: glittering vices, willfulness, which either spiritlessly or impudently continues to be or wills to be unaware in what an infinitely deeper sense a
human self is morally under obligation to God with respect to every most secret wish and thought, with respect to quickness in comprehending and readiness to follow every hint
of God as to what His will is for this self.
Human dignity is «to be found in the
kind of life that honors and upholds the peculiar nature that is ours.»
To act and know that we are acting, to come into touch with reality and even to
live it,... such is the function
of human intelligence... From the ocean
of life, in which we are immersed, we are continually drawing something, and we feel that our being, or at least the intellect that guides it, has been formed therein by a
kind of local concentration.
If the church did not maintain a voice in the contemporary debate about the nature
of reality and the purpose
of human life, it could not hold or attract the
kind of leaders it needed for the future.
This narrative gives a
kind of «cavalcade»
of human life through many centuries, beginning in the cloudy realms
of myth and legend, and emerging into straightforward history.
Their act remains the
kind of bodily act — in fact, the only
kind of bodily act, «apt» for generating
human life.
Anarchy and license are not the
kind of liberty in which
human life is fulfilled.
We may recall that Christianity is in the first instance a gospel, a proclamation, in which it is declared that the eternal Reality whom men call God has crowned His endless work
of self - revelation to His
human children by a uniquely direct and immediate action: He has come to us in one
of our own
kind, the Man
of Nazareth, uniting to Himself the
life which, through His purpose, was conceived and born
of Mary, and through this
life in its wholeness establishing a new relationship to Himself into which the children
of men may enter.
Among other topics, Volf discusses faith in the public square, and asks what
kind of religious conviction will be able to give meaning to
human lives and help people seek the common good.
Added to the reasons already given to show how homosexual acts violate the nuptial meaning
of the body and the unity
of the
human person as a bodily being, respect for the health and
life of homosexual males ought to make one realize that anal sex, the characteristic
kind of homosexual male behavior, is morally bad.
The presence and operation
of power are not limited
of course to the
life of human -
kind.
Whenever this same
kind of communion that is revealed in the fellowship
of Jesus Christ rises to dominance over all other processes in
human life, we have recurring the eschatological event, to use the language
of Rudolf Bultmann.