Sentences with phrase «not affront»

It could be argued that such a synthetic religion would provide a suitable acknowledgment of the Supreme Wisdom behind all observable phenomena, and while properly respecting the visions and ideals of religious founders, would not affront modern intelligence by retaining what is plainly irrational.

In fact, we might do better to point to the unknowability of God by using concepts that do not affront our common sense — and there are certainly enough unknowables (not lust unknowns, but unknowables) in the universe to do this.

This is not an affront to the Jewish religion or community.

(Here's Benjamin Franklin on the subject back in 1749: «If customers slight your goods... do not affront them: do not be pert in your answers, but with patience hear, and with meekness give an answer; for if you affront in a small matter, it may probably hinder you from a future good customer.»)

Oh, I know the whole «free will» stuff and all, but then again, if jumping out of an airplane with a parachute isn't an affront to God, why should giving birth in a hospital be?

(I know her well enough that she would be excited about this and not affronted or offended.)

Not exact matches

If there isn't a good business case, then offering them would be just as much an affront to shareholders as it would be to taxpayers.

If the new approach to defeating him succeeds, Trump said at rally Sunday that he would likely not deliver a concession speech — another affront to traditional campaign protocol.

And if the vituperative comments on my Facebook feed are any indication, people seem almost eager to be angry — as if we must all pick a side and take it as a personal affront when others don't share our views.

Despite my admitted stumble in the half - cycle since 2009, it's perplexing that the equity market is at the second greatest valuation extreme in the history of the United States, on what are objectively the most durably reliable valuation measures available, but it has somehow become an affront to suggest that this will not end well.

I will never understand why someone who does not believe in a God must always vehemently attack those who do, as if it were an affront to them as a human.

The very activity of preaching — the proclamation of a story that can not be known apart from such proclamation — is an affront to the ethos of freedom.

However, if you are determined to twist everything I write into a personal affront, there is really not much chance of our having an honest dialogue, is there?

The proof of the Arab leaders» true attitudes is in their behavior, and their behavior to date gives us no reason to believe that they do not mean what they say when they routinely insist that the existence of «the Zionist entity» is an intolerable affront to Arab honor.

It is only when descriptive science grows arrogant, and, not content with describing what lies within its province, makes naturalistic pronouncements which eliminate or belittle God and the human spirit, that Christian faith is affronted.

The Catholic Church wants preferential treatment claiming it an affront to Religious freedom when it isn't.

Yet this touches on what makes Ezekiel a prophet to begin with; he forces us to question whether our discomfort over God's judgment comes not so much from fear of taking sides, or of being found on the wrong side, but from feeling affronted.

For the Roman Church, the rise of state sovereignty was not simply an affront to the Church's temporal influence.

Nevertheless, precisely because moral acts are relative in this way, in all sexual relations certain promises are necessary if the parties involved are not to harm one another, affront one another's dignity, or illegitimately rob one another of their liberty.

Speaking on marginalisation, the Rt Rev Stephen Cottrell (above), the Bishop of Chelmsford said believers should not be surprised or downhearted when «the sheer beauty of the Gospel is a shock and an affront to a fallen world».

In interviews by e-mail, Heyman, now 68, said, «I personally doubt that Eshleman and I will be able to sort things out — wounds caused by backstabbing do not heal quickly, and the abuse of scripture perpetrated by [Campus Crusade] is an ongoing affront to the Word.»

Thus the war in Iraq, he claims, was justified not on prudential or moral grounds (Bowman is particularly dismissive of moral justifications for war) but because September 11 was an affront to our national honor and we had to hit back.

The angry Muslim confronted the merchant, who denied the charge; but as more and more people became involved in the argument, the Muslims of Bauchi came to suspect, not an indiscreet merchant's attempts at corner - cutting, but rather a deliberate affront to their faith» the sort of affront that would not happen if Nigeria were governed by Islamic law.

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?)

Evelyn wouldn't sit still for a second, she's at that 14 - month - old stage when being held is an absolute affront to her entire existence, so she squirms and hollers and thrashes but the second she's on the ground, she hollers to be picked up again.

In this is rooted their sense of sin, not simply as ordinary infraction of the moral standards of a primitive society, but as rebellion against God and an affront to his holiness.

If what is required affronts the Christian conscience of the worker, or if what is being produced in it is clearly not useful but harmful to society, one ought to look elsewhere for employment.

Once you begin to read [the Bible], if you're reading the prophets where they're talking about exchanging the poor for a pair of sandals, and what happens when you have a widening gap between the ruling wealthy elites and the poor masses who can't feed their kids, and how this is an affront to what it means to be human, if at that point you're like, «Well, is this inerrant?»

I get where you are coming from though, I read about metal axe heads floating on water, shadows moving while the sun is not, men running faster than horses and fifty armed soldiers falling dead when they come against one of Gods prophets, it goes on and on, an outrageous affront to any human intelligence, I mean come on!!

He is an affront to all christians and certainly should not associate himself as such.

The pacifist answer is not to say simply that tyranny is better than war, though some pacifists do believe that to live under Communism is less of an affront to human dignity and less of a lien on the future than to reduce a nation to a shambles in the attempt to «liberate» it, as was done in Korea.

To urge people to pray for Mitt is an affront to all people of good will, not to mention that this is insane.

Affront me not!

It was an affront to them to speak of the west as if there were not a godly people to be found there.

Please do not take my honesty as an affront; it is certainly not meant as one.)

But it is definitely not for the three other people in my house who see the existence of all things crimini, portobello and shiitake as a personal affront.

I wouldn't bet on it given he picked against the Warriors for years because he didn't like their new style of play and thought that it was an affront to basketball the way it was played in the 80's and 90's.

Doing so feels like an affront to all proper football sensibilities, but believe it or not the Jaguars won and could very well keep winning behind their Tebow - ass quarterback.

Both groups, as the NY Times article highlighted include moms across the spectrum so joining, like belonging to any club is not for the easily affronted.

«Definitely, whilst a serving judge, Your Lordship would have invoked this principle in the resolution of some cases, It is therefore expected that Your Lordship should not be a party to or consciously engage in or encourage an action that will amount to an affront to the authority and integrity of the court or stymie the efforts and capacity of the court to do justice in the pending case».

There are hard cases: advertising aimed at children, advertising that is an affront to decency and similar issues about advertising in a cultural context, but political advertising is not a hard case.

This is fully compatible with the intro to my answer: «In a nutshell, the European reaction to everything they don't like is to try to ban it or to exterminate its practitioners»... Europeans think Muslim women wearing the veil is an affront to feminism, so the first solution they come up with is to ban it.

While their ineffectiveness and poor strategic value for the cost are reasons why militaries don't tend to stock and deploy them, like any other overpriced ineffective weapon, it does not answer the question of why people have a phobia of chemical weapons to the point where slaughtering hundreds of thousands with conventional weapons is fairly unremarkable but merely a thousand with chemical weapons is a worldwide calamity and affront to the species as a whole.

«To me, it is an affront when a Peer says that he thought his peerage was a reward for his success as a composer and he did not expect to attend debates and vote on policy issues.

A policy which disproportionately affects ethnic minorities, LGBT people, women, the disabled and those living in less affluent areas is not only an affront to basic principles of fairness and social justice but also exacerbates the inequality crisis which continues to worsen across the UK.

In fact, when they aren't mentioned, that's also arguably somewhat of an affront to their memory.

Also, Capital NY notes that during that 1992 campaign, Rockefeller pledged not to run political ads, saying the 30 - and 60 - second spots were «an affront to voters» intelligence, an attempt to substitute emotion for reason.»

Sagay, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, stated that Buhari would not be cowed by the Senate's action, which he described as an affront to the Presidency.

«Knowing the role of the press, we felt that it was an affront and insult, not to you alone, but the generality of the society, because no society can exist without information.

I hope that it is not the case, as such a determination at this time would be disconcerting to say the least, and an affront to our State Constitution and a deeply vested public.