Sentences with phrase «in human violence»

We are committed to creating a ripple effect in the community in hopes that through ANIMAL RESCUE and ANIMAL WELFARE EDUCATION a positive change will occur, with a decrease in human violence, animal cruelty, and ACS shelter intake.

The huge decrease in human violence, the great risk of cyber attacks, and the paralyzing fear of pandemic disease.

-- there are a couple things in the text which helps us understand God's involvement in human violence.

Not exact matches

«The miracles of technology cause us to live in a hectic, clockwork world that does violence to human biology, enabling us to do nothing but pursue the future faster and faster... Specialization in verbiage, classification, and mechanized thinking has put man out of touch with many of the marvelous powers of «instinct» which govern his body.

Earlier announcements by the Shi'ite militias that they will be involved in the offensive on Mosul, Islamic State's last major stronghold in Iraq, triggered warnings from human rights groups of sectarian violence in the mainly Sunni province.

That is defensible only if one is certain that the baseline level of possible robotic error in civilian protection exceeds that baseline level of human error... I, for one, would not bet against the possibility that for some military applications, we will some day come to see mere human judgment as guaranteeing an unacceptable level of indiscriminate and disproportionate violence.

[Pinker] argues that violence in human society is decreasing at a rapid rate, and our tolerance of violence is decreasing even faster.

It was, ironically, the ghastly violence and horrible human toll of the World War I that first inspired such assertive calls, calls that characterized gay rights movements around the world in the 20th century.

This is the root of sexual violence: The idea that women aren't autonomous human beings with the right and ability to say yes to sexual interactions we want and no to those we don't, but that we're receptacles for male sexual desire, that our bodies are up for grabs (literally, in this case).

«A large part of the violence has taken place in this part of the country... is generated by the production of opium poppies,» Roberto Campa, the deputy interior minister for human rights, told AFP in February.

Mexico - Daniela Rea, a Mexican journalist known for her searing chronicles of the violence gripping her country, was awarded the first edition of the Breach - Valdez Prize in journalism and human rights on Thursday.

Facebook's failure to quash hateful rhetoric, whether by enabling advertisers to reach «Jew haters» or neglecting to crack down on inflammatory posts that contributed to violence in Sri Lanka, led Bee compare it to a robot that eats human skin.

«Together we can send the unambiguous message that the women of UBC have supporters everywhere who will stand against sexual violence — that the rape chants that students at the Sauder School were participating in are deplorable and must be properly dealt with as a violation of women's human rights; that repeated sexual attacks on young women on campus are a crisis with which we should all be concerned.

Featured The Satoshi Revolution: A Revolution of Rising Expectations.Section 2: The Moral Imperative of PrivacyChapter 6: Privacy is a Prerequisite of Human Rightsby Wendy McElroy (Crypto) Privacy Prevents Violence and Crime (Chapter 6, Segment 1) Unlike the communities traditionally associated with the word «anarchy», in a crypto - anarchy the government is not temporarily destroyed but permanently forbidden and permanently unnecessary.

It does not prohibit violence, because, violence is in human nature.

Since atheists and agnostics are just as prone to human frailties as the religious, I don't doubt that there * are * evil people who are athiests... but facts and numbers show that these «evil atheists» are a bunch of pikers compared to the violence and viciousness of those who promote hatred and violence in the name of their God.

In the political realm, this encompasses the commitments of the liberal peace to human rights and even accountability for war criminals, but it also includes the redress of the wide range of wounds that tyrannical violence inflicts through a correspondingly wide range of practices that bring a measure of restoration to victims as well as perpetrators.

How about a Catholic Father of two girls to get on and: 1) Agree that any violence against any human of any age is wrng an punisghable regardless after (at least in my country (the US) one is proven guilty by a court of law.

It asks respondents about a wide variety of human - interest topics, from their participation in religious services and religious beliefs, to questions about their attitudes regarding marriage, divorce, cohabitation, and other family forms, to specifics about sexual behavior and experience of abuse and domestic violence.

Muchembled also resists a Western triumphalist narrative by suggesting that the taming of domestic violence was not simply the result of a progressive civilizing process» marking European civilization as the height of human evolution» but came at the price of colonial conquest on other continents and terribly destructive wars among nations in Europe.

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.

One atheistic author has written an entire book about these many thousands of passages in the Bible in which God blesses, causes, commands, or sanctions violence against human beings (Steve Wells, Drunk with Blood: God's Killings in the Bible).

First of all, its ignorant to think that religon is the sole cause of violence in humans.

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 silencIn 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 silencin any amputations of human stories and the historical vulnerability of all speech and silence.

In this episode, I briefly discuss these three ways out of violence and turmoil, and explain from Genesis 4:13 - 15 which of these three approaches humans usually choose.

I personally don't think Steve was «fair» with all of the biblical accounts of violence, since he often cuts off quotations in mid-sentence, but with all the clear «unfairness» in Scripture where actual human lives are getting «cut off» by God, it's hard to quibble over minor details like that.

God appears violent in the Bible because humans would rather blame God for our violence than admit that we ourselves are violent.

Which God promises, to restore the earth in to a global paradise, and eliminating, death, diseases, violence, and to give everlasting life to humans?

The situation existing in Guatemala, Father Melville writes, is exactly the kind of situation which, the encyclical admits, is the exception that justifies recourse to violence: a situation «of obvious and prolonged tyranny which gravely violates the basic human rights of the human person.»

Thus to stress human means — usually including violence — is in effect to stake everything on those means.

(ENTIRE BOOK) The truth is found in the violence of love, that is, in «Spiritual Violence:» It rejects all human means of winning a victory or registering violence of love, that is, in «Spiritual Violence:» It rejects all human means of winning a victory or registering Violence:» It rejects all human means of winning a victory or registering effects.

Religion was necessary in the development of human evolution to control violence by imputing guilt onto the scapegoat.

The mystical exaltation of violence at the hands of Hitler and of all modern revolutionaries makes people forget that violence means bloodshed, means human beings screaming in pain and fear.

In April 2014, John Dayal, a leading human - rights activist in India and one of our travel companions, testified before the U.S. Congress that 153 cases of violence against Christians took place in the twelve months before the BJP swept parliamenIn April 2014, John Dayal, a leading human - rights activist in India and one of our travel companions, testified before the U.S. Congress that 153 cases of violence against Christians took place in the twelve months before the BJP swept parliamenin India and one of our travel companions, testified before the U.S. Congress that 153 cases of violence against Christians took place in the twelve months before the BJP swept parliamenin the twelve months before the BJP swept parliament.

Show me one place in the Gospels where Jesus encouraged violence against another human being.

That's because Piper and many in the fundamentalist neo-Reformed movement are working off of a perversion of the doctrine of total depravity that not only teaches that human beings are depraved — that is, that our humanity is marred by sin — but that this depravity renders the world's men, women, and children into valueless objects of god's wrath, worthy of nothing more than eternal torture, pain, violence, and abuse.

He may, or may not, have believed that there would also be some divine intervention in human history, but he did not support the use of violence against the status quo.

The great issues of our time are moral: the uses of power; wealth and poverty; human rights; the moral quality and character of society; loss of the sense of the common good in tandem with the pampering of private interests; domestic violence; outrageous legal and medical costs in a system of maldistributed services; unprecedented developments in biotechnologies which portend good but risk evil; the violation of public trust by high elected officials and their appointees; the growing militarization of many societies; continued racism; the persistence of hunger and malnutrition; a still exploding population in societies hard put to increase jobs and resources; abortion; euthanasia; care for the environment; the claims of future generations.

@maff, svs's comment isn't dismissing that some morals are taught in childhood, but the essential and core morals such as refraining from violence is a product of the evolution of the human race.

By being the scapegoat for natural and human violence, God thereby rescues, redeems, and delivers mankind from the disastrous consequences of owning up to what is truly in our hearts.

Well over 419,000 Americans die each year from causes attributable to smoking, and tobacco is responsible for more deaths in the United States than alcohol consumption, illicit drug use, violence, automobile crashes and the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) combined!

Almost always in human history, when the persecuted rise up in violence to overthrow the persecutors, it did not take long before the persecuted become the persecutors.

«If that is the case,» responded Borden Spears, a senior editor at the Toronto Star, Canada's largest newspaper, «the news media are seriously distorting reality; the proportion of violence in human experience, which the press claims to reflect, is not that high.»

One of the great lies of Satan is in how he uses human institutions such as religion and politics to make it look like God uses violence to defeat violence.

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.

... in a world of violence we are faced with an inescapable alternative: either God's violence or human violence.

Thus the annual Human Rights Report of the U.S. State Department, mute the previous decade on discrimination and the occasional acts of violence against Christians, included in its January 1990 report the observation that «Christians have had difficulty in getting permission to build new churches» and that «Christians complain that there are barriers to Christians rising to high positions in public service, public corporations, universities and the military.»

If, as I think orthodox Christianity ultimately teaches, and as Solzhenitsyn's «Father Severyan» plainly teaches in November 1916 (excerpted here), that humans are inherently prone to violence (and that the lesser evil of state - derived war is the price we pay for living not in anarchy but in «sword - bearing» states), then not only is 1) contrary to the New Testament's real teaching, but 2) is impossible and 3) requires a coercion that will bring with it very deleterious consequences.

The fundamental moral concern to protect innocent human life is not, however, overridden, even in the face of such violence.

The result is violence, anarchy, barbarism, decadence, gossip, rumor, and an apathetic envy that becomes the standard in human relations.