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Yet in my conversations with people who do not believe in God or who want nothing to do with Him, it seems that more often than not, the issue of His violence in the Bible is often mentioned in the first few minutes of the conversation about why they can not believe in the God of the Bible.

«When it comes to the larger issue of violence in our country and gun violence in video games, I think we're in a much better place today with people's universal understanding that this industry does not cause any of the violence that you see in our society,» Gallagher said.

Not exact matches

Only two days after entering office, he issued an executive order stating that prisoners «shall in all circumstances be treated humanely and shall not be subjected to violence to life and person (including murder of all kinds, mutilation, cruel treatment, and torture), nor to outrages upon personal dignity (including humiliating and degrading treatment).»

Mr. Schultz, one of the most visible chief executives in the country, has made Starbucks a vocal part of the national conversation on issues like gun violence, gay rights, race relations, veterans rights and student debt.

The discredited story was intended to call attention to the issue of sexual violence on college campuses, but it might have had the opposite effect by reinforcing the notion that rape allegations are often fictitious, a team from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism concluded in its critique.

In 2010, Bill 168 expanded the Occupational Health and Safety Act to include issues of workplace violence and harassment, specifically calling out domestic violence.

Second, facing issues of gender violence in your workplace is a good value for your company to hold.

Coles said it's made her consider not only issues of sexual violence, but all forms of harassment or silencing of voices that can happen in or be rooted in the workplace.

The guidelines say that while videos of violence and even death should be marked as disturbing, in many cases they do not have to be deleted because they can «help create awareness of issues such as mental illness,» and because Facebook doesn't want to «censor or punish people in distress.»

This month, Teen Vogue is dedicating its digital cover to rising voices in the gun control movement, young people who are working on the issue in different ways, all of them impacted by gun violence.

Then, in a response to a question about consumers that referenced the coarseness of the election and domestic violence issues in the NFL, Nooyi said «forget the Pepsi brand — how dare we talk about women that way?

But this year's speech comes as the issue of gun violence takes on new urgency after one of the deadliest school shootings in U.S. history.

They point to other issues, from violence in video games and movies to the supposed breakdown of the traditional family.

VICTORIA — B.C. New Democrat women's spokesperson Maurine Karagianis issued the following statement in recognition of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women:

There's a broader issue magnified by the intensity of reactions to the Parkland shooting: When it comes to gun violence, race and the unique needs of communities of color are still being overlooked in the national conversation.

The Parkland students have been facing many of these issues head - on, meeting with the survivors of the 2016 Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando, Florida, and now with the Chicago students, in an effort to build coalitions and expand their fight against gun violence.

VICTORIA — B.C. New Democrat Leader John Horgan and New Democrat women's spokesperson Maurine Karagianis issued the following statement in recognition of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women: «Violence against women continues to be a major concern...

The March for Our Lives is a direct response to the Parkland shooting, which inspired Gonzalez and other student survivors to launch a movement in hopes of convincing lawmakers to address the issue of gun violence and, in particular, school shootings.

VICTORIA — New Democrat spokesperson for women's issues Maurine Karagianis and Leader John Horgan issued the following statements in recognition of the National Day for Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women.

As the community mourns, lawmakers in Florida are responding with mixed ideas on what to do to address the recurring issue of gun violence in the state and the national trend of terrorists continually targeting schools.

No More Page 3 is uncompromising in its judgement of what some consider a British institution, condemning the messages The Sun gives out to children and explaining how jarring it looks next to stories about rape and domestic violence, which supposedly display a more supportive attitude towards women's issues.

The sky is not falling because other people live their lives differently from you and have joined their lives in marriage... Spend your time, energy and emotions on a topic that really matters - like world hunger, the pursuit of justice in the world, violence against women, natural disaster relief - these are issues that need your attention..

I realized the other day why I am having such a struggle writing this book on the violence of God in the Old Testament.The reason is because the process of grappling with this issue is requiring me to rethink, rewrite, and redo nearly all of my theology.

From a gang culture that has gone mainstream to the impact of drugs, from mental health issues to the exploitation of vulnerable children, there isn't one reason for the rise in violence and there's certainly not one solution.

«Sense and Psychedelics,» an editorial report appearing in the November 15, 1967, issue of The Christian Century, shows how widespread the temptation to violence is in Christian circles.

In so far as I firmly believe that faith in Jesus Christ requires action of a specific, unique, singular kind, I must admit that the counsels on violence issuing from the faith are addressed to faith, therefore can have no meaning for those who do not believe that Jesus Christ is LorIn so far as I firmly believe that faith in Jesus Christ requires action of a specific, unique, singular kind, I must admit that the counsels on violence issuing from the faith are addressed to faith, therefore can have no meaning for those who do not believe that Jesus Christ is Lorin Jesus Christ requires action of a specific, unique, singular kind, I must admit that the counsels on violence issuing from the faith are addressed to faith, therefore can have no meaning for those who do not believe that Jesus Christ is Lord.

Our remit: Understand issues pertaining to religious freedom and violence in India and take stock of the role of religion in social and economic development.

American society has still not adequately addressed the issue of domestic violence and abuse to protect persons from harm under church membership, as we saw with the Texas judge that beat his daughter, claiming that it was a part of his faith to discipline her in this manner; 4.

I think that there are many ways to introduce the issue of sexual violence in a church environment that is not very receptive to it.

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.

In early November the United Methodist Council of Bishops issued a statement observing that «violence in all its forms and expressions is contrary to God's purpose for the world.&raquIn early November the United Methodist Council of Bishops issued a statement observing that «violence in all its forms and expressions is contrary to God's purpose for the world.&raquin all its forms and expressions is contrary to God's purpose for the world.»

As Lederach argues in «The Challenge of Terror,» an essay that has gotten a good deal of attention within the peace community (and that was published in the October 2 issue of the Mennonite), massive bombing and other acts of violence simply «sustain..

The current furor, she told me in a recent e-mail, «distracts from real issues of class injustice, racial oppression, and continued discrimination and violence against women, Muslim and non-Muslim.»

I have been a Jesus follower for almost 55 years and recently have been reflecting on the issue of violence projected in the OT especially.

Unfortunately, as women, we have found it difficult to persuade the churches and the ecumenical movement that the issue of violence against women is as much an issue of ecclesiology as is complicity in political conflicts, because women have been silent for too long and the churches too have been complicit by their often silence, but also by their sometimes legitimization of the violence theologically.

The construction of our mosques is protested, our communities are profiled...» America's Muslim leaders have NOT issued a fatwa (official condemnation) of Osama bin - Laden as the Muslim leaders in Spain, etc. have and a USA Today poll shows that 5 % of American Muslims (120,000 people) feel that violence against the USA is justified.

Complex historical and literary issues are involved here, but a consensus exists for viewing the genocidal violence recounted in many of the stories in Joshua and Judges as the product of a royal period in which kings were attempting to justify their own nationalistic ideologies by appeal to divine favor.

Even today, when issues of sexual violence receive considerable media attention, surveys and studies indicate that the majority of ministers and seminary students know almost nothing about the dynamics of sexual and family violence and have little or no experience in dealing with it.

Cockburn combines social protest and faith while confronting issues of poverty and violence in developing nations and celebrating the world's diversity.

There is an earthquake going on right now in theology surrounding the issues of justification, the violence of God, the nature of the Kingdom of Heaven, and what it means to be the church — the people of God in this world.

The proposal outlined in this paper, asking for religiously affiliated people to work together to face the issues of terrorism, violence and injustice, in not meant to diminish the important role that all other human agencies, state sponsored or voluntary organizations, groups and movements, have to play.

Saul does not immediately recognize this voice — and when Jesus identifies himself he addresses the issue of violence again, this time in a statement rather than a question: «I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting.»

A familiar problem in the interpretation of the words of Jesus — a problem which has evoked interminable discussion and is basic to the most serious of all social issues — is the attitude of Jesus toward violence and hence toward war.

I have been reading and studying these issues for several years now, and this book is one of the two or three books I would highly recommend to anyone who wants to begin studying the atonement or the violence of God in the Bible in more detail.

In such cases, we can either settle the issue by violence, or we can set up some authority to decide the matter, in which case we get judicial authority, of which the paradigm is the court or the judgIn such cases, we can either settle the issue by violence, or we can set up some authority to decide the matter, in which case we get judicial authority, of which the paradigm is the court or the judgin which case we get judicial authority, of which the paradigm is the court or the judge.

Even newer than this development is the nascent discovery of sexual dimensions in issues that previously had not appeared to have sexual connections, such as social violence.

Church leaders are accused of fostering psychological violence against homosexual people by repeating certain myths or ignoring the important issues responsible for many problems that gay and lesbian people experience, both in churches and the wider society.

In the Middle Ages, when the papacy abused its power by waging the Crusades, selling indulgences, and issuing simony, church leaders had accommodated to a culture of greed and violence.

It is not overly technical and provides a good overview of some of the views, issues, and texts related to the topic of violence in Scripture.

CSW's Chief Executive, Mervyn Thomas, said: «CSW is urging the US government to raise the issue of widespread hate campaigns by state and non-state actors against religious minorities in talks with Prime Minister Modi, and to insist that justice is done for the victim - survivors of violence against religious minorities.»