Sentences with phrase «less than evil»

Most of these habits are so normalized that we consider our dissipated hours and lives as something less than evil.

Not exact matches

Although they are much less powerful than the industrial models from Universal Robots, IOActive released a video of a test in which an otherwise cute NAO robot suddenly begins laughing in an evil and maniacal way and uses a screwdriver to repeatedly stab a tomato.

There were two main camps at the time: that represented by Jovinian, claiming that virgins, widows, and married women were all deserving of equal merit, and that represented by Jerome, which said that marriage was merely the lesser of two evils, rather than something positive in its own right.

Are they more evil or less Christian than you are for fighting to protect you (a perfect stranger)?

The evil desire to invalidate someone — to make them somehow less than me and therefore less able to share in the blessings of God — is the opposite of the wisdom that comes from heaven, which is full of mercy AND impartiality (James 3:16).

The pope indicated that an insurrection can not be condemned if the evils resulting from it are less grave than the evils it seeks to remedy (the same test as for a just war).

(The little boy next to me was significantly less afraid of the evil bear than I was, actually.)

Here then is a theology that either means nothing certainly identifiable (without supernatural grace or high genius in the art of reconnecting with experience concepts carefully divested of relation to it) or else means that the world might exactly as well not have existed, or as well have existed with far more evil or less good in it than it actually presents.

The last one that I feel like talking about right now is this: I told that other poster that it was scary that he or she could start justifying evil acts because that's less than a half - step away from being able to do those acts.

One can concede that the tendency of two - kingdoms theology to subordinate political concerns to a lesser realm made it easier than it should have been for Lutherans under Hitler to ignore or rationalize the regime's moral evils, but the Nazis» anti-Semitism and their exaltation of the State to idolatrous heights could find no justification in legitimate Lutheran doctrines of morality or church - state relations.

We're willing to say we're sinners — not evil, mind you, but habitually self - preoccupied and far less grateful than we should be as people who, although often and deeply hurt, have escaped untold catastrophes.

Eschewing the argument that one evil was lesser than the other, Courtois firmly asserted that both totalitarian regimes practiced «crimes against humanity» on a monumental scale.

Of course great inequities and injustices will persist, but they are a lesser evil than «Global Governance and Democracy within the Global State,» which is a formula for the despotism of a self - appointed elite.

I'm willing to bet that quite a few evangelicals are going to be less than thrilled with Santorum's calling protestants «evil».

With this clue we can see that, whatever we may make of particular «miracles», the miracle - stories as a whole are saying precisely this: that where Jesus was, there was some incalculable and unaccountable energy at work for the dispersal of evil forces and the total renewal of human life; and that this was nothing less than the creative energy of the living God.

It is the unity which includes all evil, even the kingdom of Satan; for it can accept nothing less than the whole.

Curtis Berger shocked his Columbia University Law School associates at a convocation for the opening of the school year by saying, «I do not assert that legal education makes our graduates evil, but I do believe that [it makes them] less feeling, less caring, less sensitive to the needs of others,... even less alarmed about the injustices of our society than they were when they entered law school.»

He fully recognized the evil of war, but judged it less evil than acquiescence to Nazi tyranny.

It is also important to add that philosophy is less than the totality of Christianity, so that any philosophical understanding of evil can not possibly be sufficient for anyone who suffers.

It changes the direction of a tendency whereby a greater good (or a lesser evil) may result than will be the case if the tendency persists in its evil ways.

To say that evil endures everlastingly as evil means that a present good is less valuable than it might have been if the past evil had been less evil.

Hidden in all this avoidance of evil is nothing less than a painless, suffering - free and, finally, immortal existence,» a goal he finds wrongheaded and dangerous.

I believe that sickness and biological death represent a lesser evil than those we human beings bring upon ourselves.

But if a choice between evils is to have any moral meaning at all, one evil will be judged less than another because it involves less destruction of some real good.

Since sin is located fundamentally in freedom, and freedom is connected with human self - transcendence, corporate evil is something less than sin.

Because they were concerned with their own impotence in good works and with the harm they were doing to others, they were not less altruistic than those who were concerned only with doing good, and inattentive to the evil consequences of many good works.

Accordingly, since it is always possible for such freedom to be used in less than the most appropriate manner, process theists deny that God could unilaterally have produced a world with no evil.

They uniformly maintain instead that God may have had to settle for far less than the best and thus that this world may well contain a great deal of genuine evil (GFE 29 - 44).

After all, I have admitted that a free - will theodicy will be inherently more «defensive» than the process theodicy — that a free - will theodicy will be at points less able than the process theodicy to offer explanations for evil that flow in a natural, intuitive sense from the theistic tenets on which it is built — and isn't it reasonable to assume that the theodicy which is least defensive in this sense should be considered most plausible?

The only one who can not is Lucifer because he do not want to, God heart is not made of iron, if there are evil people alive in this world it is only because God want them to repent to, there are most evil people who as a children or teenager was sweet but because of another being became evil, Only God know what it did make them change or their pain but only one things is sure as God he did have the first seat to see all their pain and live, and to my point of view as a Father it is by no means lesser than the pain he did feel for them or them victimes, like a electric chair.

The decision to create a soul surely places constraints on divine power no more and no less restrictive than the physical impossibility of creating a square circle, 87 wherefore «the supreme miracle of the divine power... consists in being able, through a deep - reaching and all - embracing influence, incessantly to integrate, on a higher plane, all good and all evil in the reality which that power builds up by means of secondary causes.»

God, they argued, will not `' pervert justice»; (Job 8:3) he never will «cast away a perfect man,» nor «uphold the evildoers»; (Job 8:20) the wicked man, therefore, «travaileth with pain all his days,» (Job 15:20) terrors «chase him at his heels,» (Job 18:11) and any triumph he may have «is short»; (Job 20:5) the just God allows trouble to fall exclusively on evil men, so that all trouble reveals the precedent wickedness of the sufferer, and to an afflicted person like Job the proper message is, «God exacteth of thee less than thine iniquity deserveth.»

On the other hand, God must so act in the interests of both the self and all others as thereby to establish the cosmic order of natural law that sets the optimal limits of all other action, where by «optimal limits» I mean limits such that, were they to be set otherwise than they are, the ratio between opportunities for good and risks of evil would be less rather than more favorable than it in fact is.

The man degraded to the level of a hog commits the evil of triviality by becoming less than what he could have become.

«Apparent» evil refers to prima facie evils which are ultimately judged to embody the best of all realistically possible alternatives; «genuine» evil refers to occurrences which embody those alternatives which are less than the best of all realistically possible occurrences.

You may be choosing nothing more than the lesser of two evils» a Beelzebub rather than a Lucifer» but in making the choice you are banding together with others of varying degrees of unanimity.

Or perhaps for unaccountably complex reasons men find it somehow less disastrous to ascribe the origin of evil to an inherent moral depravity than to an ignorance of our feelings and emotional needs, what Whitehead calls «conceptual prehension.»

It is because the world is radically, totally evil that nothing less would do than the gift of God's son.

These words are symbolic of the Yehudi's life and are the most fitting for its close; for of all of the characters in this novel, deeply religious though they are, it is only he who has declared God's oneness, only he who has refused to work for redemption with external means and who has refused to accept a division of the world between God and the devil or a redemption that is anything less than the redemption of all evil and the recognition of God as the only power in the universe.

Hasker claims that the amount of intervention possible for God compatible with the divine purposes would surely be «far less than would be needed to materially affect the overall balance of good and evil in the world.»

In fact, one might suspect that a world in which evil was somewhat less victorious than in our present one would evoke more moral qualities, since many people in the present world give up on the battle for goodness because it often seems so hopeless.

He argues that terrorists in our age threaten the destruction of democracy itself, with all the values that democracy embodies and protects, and that to combat this threat effectively, democracies may need to do acts that are evil in themselves but constitute a lesser evil than that posed by terrorism.

I didn't do polka dots as Helen (my less evil twin) made polka dots the very same day I made the first cake... we really do share the same brain cell some days (she seems to get it more than I do though:P).

«Spectacularly Evil» I say that only because for the last year and a half, I've lived a mostly «fat - free» lifestyle which has allowed me to turn my less - than - healthy vegan diet around and shed all the weight I'd gained in my efforts to go «cruelty - free» 4 years ago.

And secondly no matter how you call the true Arsenal fans who have decided to be less sentimental and face our issues the way they really are, evil, or draft this kind of well scripted article to defend Wenger and his philosophy, it will not change the fact that we have not won the EPL in over a decade and Wenger's approach has not worked and there nothing more factual than that.

Some see Weiner as «the lesser of two evils» in his mayoral race — guess a sexting politician is better than an «ideologue.»

This one poster (who tends to be less enlightened than most of the posters on there) started howling about how she had every right to do that, for the transgendered person to stop whining, and then started comparing it to everyone on the site who told her she was stupid / evil / poisoning her daughter by not breastfeeding.

He saw it as the better of two good things rather than the lesser of two evils.

Many governments which accuse North Korea have a less than perfect track record themselves, and they are willing to overlook despicable acts by their own allies, but even so the North Korean government is clearly evil.

The banning of cannabis was spearheaded by bigoted covert racists, who regarded the immoral strategems of Jim Crow laws as less evil than what they imagined to be the greater horrors of tolerance.