Sentences with phrase «many social ills»

Our social ills resemble those of April 3, 1968, when King stated that if given the opportunity to live in any period in history, he would have chosen that time, because «only when it is dark enough, can you see the stars.»

You can't plausibly take aim at a hundred different social ills and presume to find the cause of them all in the single word «greed.»

Rich founders are being profiled as eligible bachelors in the New York Times, young people increasingly claim they aspire to be entrepreneurs and the entrepreneurial mindset is being hailed as the cure for many of the social ills that ail us.

An influx of gentrification can lead to costly social ills.

The «morality» taught in the Bible advocates violence, slavery, misogyny, and a host of other social ills.

It is they who are reminding voters that casinos redistribute wealth from the poorest in society up the ladder towards the most affluent, make no contribution to long term economic growth, and cause social ills in the communities where they are built.

The Law is a means of coping with the affects / symptoms of our broken relationship with God [broken on the human, not the Divine side] and not the cure of mankind's individual and social ills.

The Enlightenment belief that logical thinking and education alone, without any consideration of other factors apart from ignorance such as the survival instinct and clinical cognitive dysfunction in the formation of behavior patterns, can solve all of our individual and social ills is the fundamental heresy of the Enlightenment philosophy.

You can't just justify some of the social ills and say God is okay with those actions.

Gary, Sabio claims that his beliefs are based on reason and objectivity and yet he totally ignores the objective historical evidence from the failure of atheistic Communism to usher in an earthly Utopia that the cause of man (kind)'s individual and social ills is theistic beliefs.

Living a life worth living would solve so many of our social ills that legal prohibitions don't begin to to cure.

Oh wait... their economy is kicking our butt, their social ills have always been far less than ours.

Turn on the news of an evening or pick up a newspaper and we are assaulted by the plethora of social ills that afflict our society.

In part because although liberation rhetoric has increased in the form of statements, resolutions, protests, pickets and boycotts, church - people are not effectively engaged with social ills or with the poor.

Bases of the Social Concept of the Russian Orthodox Church, the Russian Orthodox Church's official document outlining its position on social issues, calls grave social ills, such as alcoholism and drug addiction, «a retribution for the ideology of consumerism, for the cult of material prosperity, for the lack of spirituality, and the loss of authentic ideals.»

We are forced to conclude that a major reason that clergymen high on doctrinalism are so unlikely to preach about the problems of race, war and poverty is that they see such problems as mundane in contrast to the joys of the world to come, and besides, they believe these social ills would take care of themselves if enough men were brought to Christ.

However, the lack of «morality» has a direct correlation to most social ills in any country.

The social ills Brooks suggests we address are worsened by the aggressions of our opponents; they can not be combatted if we lay down our arms.

This industrialization has backfired, resulting in air and water pollution, almost total destruction of the island's agriculture and a host of social ills — such as crime and drug addiction — typical of industrial societies.

Churches began feeding the poor and fighting against other social ills.

Indeed, numerous studies prove atheists and agnostics to be less prone to crime and divorce and other social ills, as well as being more compassionate (less supportive of torture, capital punishment and so forth).

Christianity... and the Pope,,, are not against Capitalism, only the social ills that can result from unbridled greed... when money becomes a false god... or «the Precious» (Lord of the Rings).

Yet it depended on selective attention to the social ills in the United States and ignorance of the complex relations between religion and culture in other parts of the world.

They attribute social ills such as «widespread family breakdown, immorality and social integration» to the fact that «the nation has largely turned her back on Jesus and embraced alternative ideas such as secular humanism, moral relativism and sexual licence».

But despite the real gains in social morality that came in the wake of the abolition of the slave trade, despite the rise in the status of women, despite the benefits that came from the enactment of child - labor laws and the establishment of the welfare state, did not the nineteenth century also bequeath to us those proposed «solutions» to social ills that led to mass starvation in Russia and China, to the utopian nightmares of communism and fascism, to wars unending, and ¯ in those societies that actually managed to abolish most social evils ¯ to a hedonism that is undermining society from within?

Then the article turns to theology, with the argument that warfare resembles other social ills (e.g., «suffering, poverty, and disease») which have released forces both good and evil.

I agree; alchohol is universally accepted while it is the source of so many social ills and suffering (especially by children - as a teacher I see how much they go through); it is marketed to all, available and destructive.

To claim freedom means becoming intentional about eradicating the social ills which mitigate against the inherent freedom which is ours.

Until the left owns up to its mistakes, Genovese argued, it will lack credibility in addressing current social ills.

If we respond positively to this new sense of humanity, then we will work with intentionality toward the realization of genuine social pluralism — the type of pluralism which avoids racism, sexism, and other social ills which perpetuate forms of social injustice.

Experience of suffering, poverty, political disfranchisement, economic exploitation, racism, sexism, and other social ills create a different context for appropriating process metaphysics.

My supposition is that the individualization of sin is the trivialization of sin, and given the systematic connection between our understanding of sin and our understanding of God as the one who addresses us in our human plight, the trivialization of sin has an inexorable affect upon two areas: the doctrine of God, and the sense of individual and corporate responsibility for social ills.

The issue, then, is this: most contemporary analyses of sin begin with the personal, and transfer it to the social, but individual analysis seems hard - pressed to account for the gravity of social ills confronting us.

Khaled tasked youth to pitch charity plans and formulate solutions to region - wide social ills such as unemployment and poverty.

There is widespread disillusionment both with the characteristic reliance of liberals on government and of conservatives on the market to combat social ills.

comparative studies on people with religiosity and various social ills has shown higher rates of belief in a creator correlate with higher rates of homicide, juvenile and early adult mortality, STD infection rates, teen pregnancy and abortion.

But Sunday also was aware of the social ills of his day.

Liberals, conservatives, communitarians and libertarians all came together under the theory that many social ills would radically diminish if more people had the responsibility of home ownership.

Reich's core argument is that human beings are fundamentally sexual beings — one might perhaps say «nothing more than sexual beings» — and that all social ills can be traced back to the repression of their sexual instincts.

That thinking led to slavery, racism, and many other social ills.

Bishop, thinking that fixing our dysfunctional political system rather than trusting God's Grace to heal humanity's social ills is not only heretical, it is also apostate, IMO.

As a matter of fact, some social ills like obesity, teen pregnancy, incest, and divorce are more prevalent in more religious (red) states.

We might look first at the actual situation of our civil polities on the ground, at diagnoses of our global political situation coming from different cultural standpoints, and at the new social and political movements springing up to meet our social ills.

As such, it provides a language for talking about social ills without attributing them to the economic system itself.

And no matter how acerbically the writers skewer human pretensions and social ills, «there's a kindly spirit about the show,» wrote M. S. Mason.

It's the same mentality that causes ultra conservative sects to think that with their right doctrine and right living they can weed out all moral and social ills.

A great number of social ills of our times can be laid at the door of capitalism and nationalism, and at the door of the church for failing to teach how to be critiques of capitalism and nationalism.

The strategies differed as well, with Graham and company focusing on the conversionism that had been central to evangelical awakenings as the means to transform society and the liberal Protestants rallying behind an all - out assault on social ills.

The sinking of the Titanic in 1912 was symbolic of the death of all those rosy hopes that gradually social ills would be overcome and prosperity and justice would reign everywhere.

«If one purges the Judaism of the Prophets and Christianity as Jesus taught it of all subsequent additions, especially those of the priests, one is left with a teaching which is capable of curing all the social ills of humanity.»