The monstrosity of their assigned task —
killing human beings as they lie helpless in the snow — gives them nightmares, and the prospect of having to carry it out makes them plead illness just to escape it.
Not exact matches
An ever growing pile of studies shows that a lack of face to face time with your fellow
human beings will
kill you
as surely
as fast food or cigarettes.
That
was true since automobiles transformed our lifestyles while simultaneously
killing thousands a day, and it
's true in our current reality of mind - bending technological progress with entrepreneurs aiming rockets at Mars and envisioning artificial intelligence that makes
humans look about
as smart a house cat in comparison.
«Horrific mass
killings receive the most media attention, but
as can
be seen by the numbers, they only represent a small portion of the total costs -
human and medical - of gun injuries in the United States,» said David Hemenway, director of the Harvard Injury Control Research Center in Boston, who
was not involved with the study.
First, he would have to have existed, then
be reborn
as a
human, then
killed as a
human to pay some ransom price he set on our heads for the sin of eating his fruit from the tree he happened to plant right next to the hungry
humans he just made.
The law says we can
kill and eat animals
as long
as it
's done in a safe and humane way, it also says a fertilized egg isn't a
human until it reaches 24 weeks.
It
is not for me to interpret God's word
as carte blanche to
kill other
human beings.
If they would think of them selves
as humans first they may
be able to hold off on
killing for god.
As humans created in the image of God we
are capable of divine expression even in our pitiful fallen state; even the soldiers in World War 1 had a brief respite on Christmas and walked out of the trenches to greet each other only to return to the trenches the next day and resume
killing each other.
From a
human point of view it seems ridiculous that a
human being could torture, maim, and
kill others relentlessly during her lifetime or that he could sexually abuse child after child with no remorse and then upon a sincere deathbed confession of Jesus Christ
as Savior,
be granted eternal life, no questions asked.
It seems to me they have much bigger fish to fry like: The Taliban treating women
as less than
human, stoning people to death, 60 year old men marrying teenage girls, cutting off an 18 year old girl's nose because she left her abusive husband (see TIME magazine a month ago), destroying over 125 schools because girls attend, suicidal Islamic fanatical cowards on every continent
killing thousands of INNOCENT people, and these clowns
are worried about their precious Koran
being burned by a nutjob.
People burned
as witches, blacks lynched by Christians in this county, people
killed in
human sacrifices, servants
killed to accompany pharaohs on their journeys to the afterlife, untold numbers of people
killed in various cultures because they
were deemed to have offended God in some way, and so on.
I believe that
human actors who fail to give pride of place to moral boundaries that must never
be crossed, such
as the direct
killing of the innocent, and who instead
are ready to see their obligations in terms of moving beyond them in favor of «good results,» will
be harder put «to take seriously the role that divine authority plays in morality»; for they will to that extent lose a sense of the moral limits that remind us of our finitude and anticipate consideration of a law of our
being that
is not one of our making.
As is well known,
human soldiers make mistakes distinguishing between combatants and non-combatants and thus sometimes
kill the innocent.
The Syrian Observatory for
Human Rights and Kurdish officials say more than 40 of the ISIS fighters
were killed as Kurdish forces reclaimed the city over the weekend.
In deciding what food can
be eaten and what
is forbidden Muslim jurisprudence accepts
as guides the Qur» an, the Hadith, what the Prophet ordered to
be killed and what he forbade
killing, and the foods which
are abhorrent to
human feeling.
wants to
kill all the
human and they never win
as from the beginnin» until the end only the ordinary men
as well
as their families and they
be called the Lamb of God»
s children will carry on.
A civilization can not tolerate private executions,
as a civilization can not long survive the license to
kill unwanted
human beings.
As for what I apparantly do nt get, the thing I do nt get is how someone could kill a human life on purpose, as you said conception is the continuation of human
As for what I apparantly do nt get, the thing I do nt get
is how someone could
kill a
human life on purpose,
as you said conception is the continuation of human
as you said conception
is the continuation of
humans.
By saying it
is up to the parents then a parent could
kill a 6 month old and just say I diddnt see it
as a child /
human because of various reasons like he
is dependant on my income etc...
The same divine law which forbids the
killing of a
human being allows certain exceptions,
as when God authorizes
killing by a general law or when He gives an explicit commission to an individual for a limited time.
On this view,
human freedom extends to absolute mastery over one's life, a mastery which extends to
being killed or assisted in suicide so long
as these
are voluntary acts.»
How a
human life could
be considered so worthless
as to
kill it rather than allow someone else to care for and love the child
is beyond my comprehension.
Others believe that the
killing of other animals should
be viewed in much the same light
as the
killing of
human beings.
Holy schnikees
are they real, and really scary
as they have multiple high capacity guns and
are just salivating to use them to
kill another
human being just to prove how much they love their jeebus.
Religion however has tried to supersede our humanity and tell us it
's okay to
kill those other
humans because they aren't like you, they don't worship the same God
as you, they don't have the same hope for an afterlife, they aren't special and «chosen» by God like you... that
is the true face of evil on the planet, the one that tries to make you forget your humanity with bribes and extortion.
I just wonder why they
are not fighting just
as hard against other forms of «
killing humans» like the death penalty (no one can say no innocent people have died on death row) the poor and sick and many elderly
being allowed to starve and freeze because the religious right doesn't want to shoulder that burden through their taxes.
Unfortunately,
as a former Christian, well acquainted with sin and confession and the whole bloody business of sacrifice to appease Someone who thinks that shows «love,» I question the whole ancient story, all the animals
killed, all the trees cut down (for temples and churches and crosses and «holy books») and all the
human beings left to feel separated again and again from the universe, Nature, each other and their «gods.»
As with your thing about
killing animals, the Bible makes it clear that while animals should
be treated justly,
Humans rule over the animals.
«Today, Christianity has become the most persecuted religion, where out of five people
killed [for] religious reasons, four of them
are Christians,» Catholic News Agency (CNA) quoted Hungary's Minister for
Human Resources, Zoltan Balog,
as saying.
You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and
kill him
as a demon or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God, but let us not come with any patronising nonsense about his
being a great
human teacher.
But, what I really
am interested in finding out
is, of the four men
killed in that compound, which one of them used the woman
as a
human shield.
Adam, to suggest your SUPER inflated numbers (most
were killed due to conditionso f war, including by their own governments failure to to give two squirts of piss about them and using then
as human shields) somehow makes my country's actions in the war on terror equivalent to terrorism itself
is beyond offensive to me.
This would
be a good image to use on a gun range, where shooters can see the outline of a
human head with no
human features to disturb them
as they practice aiming to
kill.
A belief system which blames all of the
human sins on your kind... it labels women
as property... tells women they should
be silent and tells men that do what they wish to you including
killing you.
In the light of man's unrelenting attack on disease, some biologists believe that development of deadly germs
is a betrayal of the
human race
as well
as of the ideals of science; one - hundredth of an ounce of botulism toxin could
kill a million people, and its production seems to further neither scientific knowledge nor any peacetime applications.
Until we figure out that the only real truth out there
is that we
are all equally
human and treat each other
as we would want to
be treated
as a fellow
human being, we will continue to stupidly hate and
kill over myths and stories and eventually utterly destroy ourselves over who has the better imaginary friend.
If what you interpret Paul
as saying
is that before creating all the myriad galaxies and star systems God decided that They would put some
humans on the third planet from an insignificant star on a little arm of a middling galaxy and that the first hominids chosen role would
be to perform pretty much to spec and do something silly and rebellious (arguably without sufficient information
as to consequences for themselves and their off spring, oh, and for serpents) and cause affront to the tripartite godhead warranting separation of Gods grace from all their offspring; then we
are left with people
being chosen from way back before the Big Bang to do some terrible things like
killing babies or betraying Jesus who
was chosen on the same non date (time didn't exist before creation) to die in a fairly nasty fashion and thereby appease the righteous wrath of himself and his fellow Trinitarians by paying a penalty
as a substitute for all future sins (of believers?)
After demanding death for
being human and for behaving in ways that God apparently finds unacceptable, God sends Jesus to
be killed and to serve
as the sacrificial lamb for all of humankind.
And we've got a filicidal personality who purposely chooses to
kill his / her own child, ostensibly
as the propitiation for what
human beings (whom God created in the first place, mind you) do
as a result of
being human.
They reveal what the origins of bloodshed, and how sacrificial religion
is often at the root of bloodshed,
as human beings kills others in the name of God.
Say: «Come, let me convey unto you what G - D has [really] forbidden to you: «Do not ascribe divinity, in any way, to anything (or anyone) beside HIM; and [do not offend against but, rather,] do good unto your parents; and do not
kill your children (born or unborn) for fear of poverty --[for] it
is WE who shall provide sustenance for you
as well
as for them; and do not commit any shameful deeds,
be they open or secret; and do not take any
human being's life -[the life] which G - D has declared to
be sacred - otherwise than in [the pursuit of] justice: this has HE enjoined upon you so that you might use your reason; and do not touch the substance of an orphan — except to improve it - before he comes of age.»
Cardinal Dulles paraphrases the standard argument this way: «By giving the impression that
human beings sometimes have the right to
kill, [capital punishment] fosters a casual attitude toward evils such
as abortion, suicide, and euthanasia.»
Human nature comprises evil
as well
as good, and that has never
been shown to
be more obvious than in this century, when 6 million Jews
were killed by the most important, modern nation in the world, the most democratic, and the most intellectually and educationally advanced.
It rather represents the rule of the law over the
human being as long
as he or she doesn't believe in the Redeemer Jesus, the kind bridegroom, who
kills the bridegroom «law».
I find this
is not right
as a friend mentioned many Bald Eagles have
been killed by by the hands of
humans to use Windmills for energy, they save them why cant they
be used rather than murder a innocent bird souring in the freedom of the sky just saying theres got ta
be another way, why do they have to
kill them use the reserve the
humans have
killed from these windmills
«Protracted» means prolonged, dragged out; does that mean that nuclear weapons would
be fired
as long
as someone
were left alive to push the buttons, long after major cities had
been destroyed and millions of
humans killed?
Jeremy good message and quite relevant for today God
is still looking at our hearts and motives for serving him or
are we serving our own agenda
as Jonah
was.He did nt feel compassionate towards his enemies and who could blame him they had cruelly
killed many Jews it
was a question of life or death to his own people.The Jewish nation
was no more deserving of Gods grace than the other nations that
is revealed by sending Jonah to preach a message of hope and life.Ultimately God calls all by faith in him and
is willing to
be merciful to all nations and peoples that do not not deserve it just like us it
is by grace that we all
are forgiven.I
am pleased that God
is sovereign and knows whats best he
is merciful to us.Our
human nature
is that it
is better to
kill our enemies before they can
kill us and that
is essentially Jonahs message that
is why he struggled to
be obedient to Gods will.Gods message
is to forgive those that trespass against us and show mercy.Its complicated and it
is natural to protect ourselves and our families from those who would seek to destroy them but ultimately its about trusting God with everything easier said than done.If it comes to a choice we will have to trust God and ask for his strength because we cant do it in ours.
As Christ laid down his life for us
are we ready to lay our lives and the lives of our families
as a sacrifice for him.To me that
is where the story of Jonah
is leading to we have the choice to fight our enemies or to love them
as God loves them.brentnz
its never a «potential»
human as many of you say... a kidney
is a bodily organ and nothing more... thus to compare it to a fetus
is idiocy and a desperation to try to justify
killing the unborn
When the state of Rwanda decided that land on which elephants lived
was too valuable for elephants and
was needed for the cultivation of food for
humans, they did not
kill the elephants
as pests.