Sentences with phrase «human violence so»

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«So long as human exchange and specialisation are allowed to thrive somewhere, then culture evolves whether leaders help it or hinder it, and the result is that prosperity spreads, technology progresses, poverty declines, disease retreats, fecundity falls, happiness increases, violence atrophies, freedom grows, knowledge flourishes, the environment improves and wilderness expands.»

The violence - prone masculine psyche drives us to racism, colonialism, imperialism and other types of oppression which are in fact extensions of the male - female pattern that lets us project the dark side of ourselves onto the other and so allows us to use / abuse other human beings for our own selfish ends.

In this novel Atwood does not abandon biblical history to those who have muted female testimony; instead, she imaginatively writes this testimony back into cultural contexts that would destroy it utterly and that fail to do so, even as she reveals the violence in any amputations of human stories and the historical vulnerability of all speech and silence.

So this is really promotional material for President Carter's new book: «A Call to Action: Women, Religion, Violence and Power» and the letter he sent seeking Papal «blessing» or endorsement for his campaign on human rights abuses against women.

So you find traveling to Africa and inciting violence against other humans acceptable because you think it's part of the human condition?

They deem the talk of God's judgment irreverent, but think nothing of entrusting judgment into human hands... And so violence thrives, secretly nourished by belief in a God who refuses to wield the sword.

you can have a court system that is supposed to deal non-violently with solutions to these dillimmas but mostely it is entertainment and laughable in it's core justice to begin with humans are human so how does the newer muslim prophet propose to become more than human in response to violence and as a tool for enactment for change — if necessary?

Vengeance in human hands issues only in violence, but, left to God, it judges evil and chaotic forces so that shalom may be restored to all.

He ultimately argues that there was an original act of violence which ultimately led to the possibility of the destruction of all people in the community, and so to avoid the ever - increasing cycles of violence, the community selected a ritual victim (a human or an animal) that would both carry the guilt of the community as well as the violent tendencies into death, thus satisfying the demands for revenge and the blood lust that comes with it.

The human and political effects of such explosions — the plight of victims and refugees, the political violence that spills over borders, the shifts in alliances and the emergence of extremist groups — are so catastrophic that they can not be ignored.

At times God appears violent, not because He is violent, but because, just as Jesus on the cross took the sin of the world upon Himself, so also God in human history, took the violence of humanity upon Himself.

(So why do some Christians continue to travel to other countries and incite violence against other human beings?)

So why do some Christians travel to other countries and incite violence against other human beings?

First, since human society always employs violence to enforce some set of standards, Christians» whom Christ called to live out a radically different form of community, one in which it is the crucified rather than his judges who is vindicated as God's Word» should simply take up the burden of civic order and abandon the Gospel where prudentially necessary because, you know, someone absolutely has to kill heretics, and so we should make sure the right heretics get killed.

The reason that God appears so violent in Scripture (and in nature) is not because He is violent, but because He allows human and natural violence to be attributed to His name for our own sake.

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As a human rights activist, I assume you know the extent of the problem we are up against: that violence against women around the world is now both so routine and so extreme that the UN has called for «femicide» to be a recognised crime.

«Princes had, so to speak, turned violence into a physical thing but our democratic republics have made it into something as intellectual as the human will it intends to restrict.

They both care so much; they have so much empathy towards the human race, even though they are both capable of committing horrific acts of violence,» he explains.

Cronenberg is also advancing not an idea so much as an impression of violence as something hovering over virtually all human interaction, like the air people breathe.

The practice of silence, in other way, nonviolence is particularly vital to human service organizations because their exposure to violence and the risks involved with caring for chronically traumatized, often violent people is so high.

So for example, a third grade student and a seventh grade student would be put in the same group if they both chose the issue of Human Rights / Water / Violence / Equity etc..

There are three kinds: the Corsai, vicious eating machines spawned by acts of violence; the Malchai, sly, vampirelike blood - drinkers created by murder; and the Sunai, so rare that, except for the fact that they look human, little is known about them.

And Nadia and Saeed try to remember the tender human impulses that brought them together, now fading amid so much violence and so many new beginnings.

At a young age, humans like dogs are very impressionable and so the use of violence towards the dog will only need to negative character traits as the dog gets older.

However, humans are naturally aggressive animals, so it's hardly surprising that violence in any form has this effect.

The striking game in UFC 3 is satisfying in that horrible, self - reflective way that makes you wonder why the human psyche gets so much glee out of participating in brutal violence.

The installation as a totality is a meditation on the incalculable loss of unrealized potential and hopelessness in the face of unfathomable human cruelty and a stark reminder that gender - based violence and subjugation, which is often underpinned by interpretations of religious doctrine, are all too present evils that will continue to persist so long as good people do nothing.

The work is not so much politically opinionated, but explorative — Kentridge asks questions about history and behaviour and pierces through the core of human nature to find our need for violence.

These human references, stripped of all clothes and accessories, are in fact posed ready to fire weapons or jump into action - they embody the violence so glorified by computer games, stripped back to its most naked humanity.

So now civil legal aid scarcely exists, save for a few domestic violence and human rights cases.