Sentences with phrase «in dehumanizing»

Jean David Nkot's work examines the human condition and its place in a dehumanizing period.

Europeans with a commercial interest in dehumanizing us created it.

«The craziest thing about blackness is that «black people» didn't create it, Europeans with a commercial interest in dehumanizing us created black people...» — Hank Willis Thomas, Gifted

A degree of reciprocity in honouring the laws of war is therefore a mitigating factor in the dehumanizing machinery of armed conflagrations.

This paradox — we confine the guilty in dehumanizing spaces, but then devote resources to softening the experience — reflects a deep cultural ambivalence about punishment.

One purpose of this chapter has been to provide tools and techniques for helping people to become aware of and deal constructively with their anger — not so that it will go away, but so that it can be used to bring about constructive changes in a dehumanizing society.

Print has already gone too far in dehumanizing the church.

It is true, of course, that the ultimate aim is human liberation, not merely women's liberation; men are trapped in dehumanizing expectations and stereotypes and are diminished by the roles they fill.

Not owning your own children in dehumanizing.

Even though they might have a common cause in the dehumanizing...

In 1995, the SBC formally apologized for its role in dehumanizing minorities.

Here Muchembled might find himself in the company of Charles Taylor, whose massive project to explain the secular age suggests that the creation of the disciplined, rule - governed, disengaged modern subject comes with the danger of imprisoning us in dehumanizing structures of rationalized control.

A couple may also pay a woman — known in the dehumanizing industry parlance as a «gestational carrier» — to carry their baby.

Stone quickly repeated that in the dehumanized dark world of his activities, Hackett was not a person but a military target.

The special office of the humane studies in the present day is to sustain the sense of meaning in a dehumanized machine world.

Not exact matches

Johnson is proposing a unique approach to combat the depressingly repetitive, dehumanizing experiences that black people and other people of color too frequently experience in retail spaces.

For many, it feels as if this trend is just the latest in a corporate push toward cost reduction and a dehumanized work place.

They seem robotic, even dehumanizing: stuff you'd expect to see for assembly line jobs, even if they're directed at candidates in strategic and uniquely skilled roles.

«At this point I was grossly offended embarrassed dehumanized and started Recording,» Walker, whose name on Facebook is Ernest Blackbatman, wrote in a post accompanying a video that he recorded.

While raids are often effective in rooting out deadly weapons, the participants said, they can leave inmates feeling dehumanized and demoralized.

Voters in AB, vote only callous, doublespeaking, remorseless, bait and switch, lying, conniving, shrewd, unethical, immoral, careless, deceiving, reckless, tough talking loud mouth psychopaths who casually dehumanize others and spin the truth to how it suits them the best.

however, the principalities and powers are also in a powerful conflict and competition for dominance over humanity, but sometimes resort to collusion, complicity, conspiracy and collaboration to achieve their dehumanizing ends.

Second, Muslim leaders around the world have countenanced the largely negative and dehumanizing teaching about non-Muslims that we find in authoritative Islamic texts.

As I often say, as followers of Jesus, we have no choice but to move toward relationships with those who are marginalized, dehumanized and in need of love.

But we can't dehumanize each other in the process.

Why am I locked in a dark cellar surrounded by things that degrade and dehumanize me?

Readers will remember Eldridge Cleaver's graphic confession that in committing rape he was striking out against a repressive social order (though» later on Cleaver saw this crime as dehumanizing to both the perpetrator and the victim).

Those Christians killing natives and mistreating them did so in part BECAUSE they were told it was okay by their pastors and priests, they were directly dehumanized from the pulpits that allowed their members to go about their murder and mistreatment without guilt or punishment.

What is required, according to Public health theology, is not the individual cure of conversion, but structural change in the political, economic and social systems that provide breeding grounds for the dehumanizing viruses.

I can only guess that black people embrace the religion which seemed to dehumanize them for the same reasons millions of women continue to embrace Christ though their «Biblical submission» to their husbands has resulted in great emotional and physical abuse.

They continue, in too many cases, to dehumanize the sensibilities and imaginations of those who study them.

Sure, Mitt's statement wasn't the best, and it does give us a taste of the dehumanizing that goes on in the corporate world.

This system was overthrown by the industrial revolution which, in its ruthless hunt for money and machine, dehumanized people into robots and automations and created filthy slums, destroying the pastoral poetry of the countryside and substituting, in pitiless ubiquity, grimy, heartless stys for sub-human habitation.

In the end these appetites are dehumanizing.

When maximum production and continually increasing economic growth, measured by income and expenditure figures, are taken as the measures of social well - being, then occupations and the educational preparation for them are dehumanized and made narrowly vocational; and persons are degraded into interchangeable parts in a giant social machine designed for generating and gratifying acquisitive hungers.

These are not pacifistic, meek, and mild responses where we allow ourselves to get trampled on, but are actually subversive and empowering forms of standing up for our humanity in the face of dehumanizing evil.

In addition to justifying greed, industrialization is dehumanizing to its employees, and it alienates society from the natural world.

You feel insulted and «dehumanized» when creationists say that people were created in the image and likeness of God, but you have no problem with the evolutionist claim that we all evolved from slime by a cosmic accident.

The hermaphroditic blasphemy is a generated or vegetated Christ and a virgin Eve — the orthodox image of Christ, for the Church castrated Jesus when it locked the memory of his generation in the image of a virgin birth, just as it dehumanized and falsely spiritualized his body in its belief in the ascension.

Feminist theology requires that we reflect on all that is dehumanizing and oppressive, everything that stands in the way of the liberation of all people.

Writing in The Christian Century nearly two decades ago, educator Richard Baer noted: «So far the church has not sufficiently grasped the nature of the present [ecological] crisis, has not understood how powerfully dehumanizing is man's wanton exploitation of his natural environment, has not appreciated the degree to which man - made ugliness and the fouling of natural beauty are corroding man's mind and spirit» («Land Misuse: A Theological Concern,» October 12, 1966, p. 1240).

Perhaps, as John XXIII proposed, the Universal Declaration is a sign of a new world community in which the religious traditions will find common ground for resolutely resisting the dehumanizing forces of this age.

Responding to Garrett Hardin's «lifeboat ethics,» for instance, such people would say it is better to take everyone on board and to let the boat sink rather than for those in the lifeboat to dehumanize themselves by keeping others out.

Trump's faith, «bigot - baiting» in Bakersfield, and the dehumanizing policies of Amnesty International are all on the agenda.

We need rather to oppose and to try to change those systems of both kinds which oppress and dehumanize, to recognize the strengths of the best systems of both kinds, and to help find ways to eliminate the inequities and ameliorate the injustices that exist in even the best of socialist and capitalist systems.

Just because the media are dehumanizing in so many ways does not mean that they must continue that way.

It is women who are taking the lead in this global struggle, because feminization of poverty, violence against women, dehumanizing treatment of women and all other forms of pains imposed on women drive them to fight back.

Moreover, if and when general war comes again, there will be need for a much larger minority than there was in 1914 to resist the inevitable war hysteria, the orthodox dehumanizing of the enemy, and the making of another nationalistic peace.

Burns is writing a dissertation that bears on many of the problems of a complex and globalizing economy — the kinds of issues that Greider addresses in a more straightforward way Are the massive forces of the global economy dehumanizing the workplace?

The sinful given is often imbedded in unjust or dehumanizing social structures, in prejudicial attitudes, in traditions of hostility or conflict or control.