Sentences with phrase «more than coercion»

This is the fallacy of contemporary left - wing politics: you kids want the «gravy» of fundamentally theological entities (right and wrong) without any of the «grief» of maintaining coherent theological narratives — you rely on little more than coercion and force, often enacted against children, in order to keep them on the «right path.»

who have to make their way through the theology and politics of persuasion more than coercion.

When one reads the tradition with this sensitivity, one also finds that many theologians have emphasized persuasion and the human responsibility persuasion calls into being, far more than coercion.

Not exact matches

Whenever Christians engage in coercion in the name of their faith and dogma, their actions somehow seem more reprehensible than those of other people doing the same thing.

«The politically correct left now relies far more on coercion than persuasion or moral appeal.

There are many cases in which persuasion is a far more effective and abiding form of control than is coercion.

But it is only for God that persuasion always has more worthwhile results than coercion (DR 154).

Thus, only God can insure that persuasion will be maximally effective, and only constant maximal persuasion is more effective than coercion.

It is in a sense prepolitical, but without it the state would be little more than a mechanism of coercion.

More than 70 percent of the world now lives with some form of religious coercion.

If some who object to abortion work to diminish the number of unwanted, inappropriate pregnancies, or to make bearing a child for adoption by persons able to be its loving foster parents more attractive than it now is, and do this with a minimum of coercion, all honor to them.

Not that it takes much coercion because I love them just as much as (probably more than) the next -LSB-...]

In more recent centuries it was held that there were other reasons as well, mainly that it placed limits on the use of coercion and police abuse, and forced courts to look at evidence more than possibly unreliable confessions.

«With less than three coercive controls on average per police authority, more needs to be done so that people can involve the police at an early stage before coercion turns into physical abuse.»

Your website, your information, and your products will feel more legitimate than they do when couched in mystery, fear, and coercion.

To succeed it requires more centralized coercion than is possible (or desirable) under our current political system and more coercive than organized educators will allow.

So, for example, we would prefer to find our teachers falling more on the side of freedom and equality than of censorship, coercion, and inequality.

In his 2004 publication Soft Power Joseph Nye asserts that, «Seduction is always more effective than coercion, and many values like democracy, human rights, and individual opportunities are deeply seductive.»

These proposals include coercion (the «Clean Power Plan») and increased taxpayer subsidies, which are required because the «renewables» Hillary favors are more expensive and less reliable than fossil fuel - generated electricity and would not be built without the coercion and subsidies.

If majoritarian bullying is a concern — and it should be — it seems obvious that the ability to limit free speech is a much more serious concern since it allows majoritarian bullying through coercion rather than simply speech.

This, said the court, does not necessarily carry a connotation of coercion and might represent no more than «a strong form of request».

By its question, the national court is asking, in essence, whether acts of sexual abuse of a 14 year old minor, sexual coercion and rape committed within the family constitute imperative grounds of public security which may justify the expulsion of a Union citizen who has lived for more than 10 years on the territory of the host Member State.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples have historically been subject to much more misdiagnosis, mistreatment, incarceration and coercion than other Australians in the hands of psychiatric institutions, psychiatrists and other mental health professionals.

Yes, supervised visitation, in its own subtle psycho - tyrannical manner, is more invalidating to the child victim than any other form of coercion.

Children and teenagers who experienced higher amounts of parental conflict (number of fights and / or intensity of arguments) were far more likely to have instances of anger, opposition, and anxiety than children who experienced low amounts of conflict, regardless of their involvement style (mediation or coercion).

Findings revealed that attachment anxiety appeared to be more consistently associated with being the victim of sexual coercion than attachment avoidance.