Sentences with phrase «not against violence»

He reminds us that the deepest presumption in Christian thought is not against violence, but in favor of protection of the weak and the innocent from unjust attack and oppression.

Not exact matches

«We voted on the first of October and now we have to defend our vote and defend our republic in the polling stations and this time they aren't going to use violence against us,» says Eduard Morell, an activist for the ERC in Terrassa.

That is defensible only if one is certain that the baseline level of possible robotic error in civilian protection exceeds that baseline level of human error... I, for one, would not bet against the possibility that for some military applications, we will some day come to see mere human judgment as guaranteeing an unacceptable level of indiscriminate and disproportionate violence.

Spotify noted its policy that «Illegal content or material that favors hatred or incites violence against race, religion, sexuality or the like is not tolerated by us.»

(The paper noted police didn't consider violence against real estate agents to be a significant issue in Toronto.)

Although these claims are not new, his repetition and vitriolic delivery has been a catalyst for increased violence against minority communities.

As a result, some top Chinese leaders have urged party officials «not to hesitate to show their sword» — a phrase that, in Chinese, means using violence against one's opponent.

«Because I care about Israel, I must stand up against violence, corruption, inequality, and abuse of power,» said Portman, defending her decision not to attend the Genesis Prize.

During the hearing, Vermont Senator Patrick Leahy brought up the company's role in the ongoing ethnic violence in Myanmar, citing one incident where death threats against a Muslim journalist did not violate the platform's rules.

i don't need a book of fairy tales to know that violence against women is unacceptable.

I once tweeted something like, «As a white man I'm not always sure how to respond to instances of police violence against black men.

This doesn't give me any more or less authority to speak to violence against women, but it does give me proximity.

It was my understanding that freedom of speech does not extend to advocating violence against other people, which is a crime no matter how unlikely such violence would be.

The sky is not falling because other people live their lives differently from you and have joined their lives in marriage... Spend your time, energy and emotions on a topic that really matters - like world hunger, the pursuit of justice in the world, violence against women, natural disaster relief - these are issues that need your attention..

«The violence against ideas and freedom and the dignity of the person — this is all modern, not medieval.

I maintain that all kinds of violence are the same the violence of the soldier who kills, the revolutionary who assassinates; it is true also of economic violence — the violence of the privileged proprietor against his workers, of the «haves» against the «have - nots»; the violence done in international economic relations between our societies and those of the third world; the violence done through powerful corporations, which exploit the resources of a country that is unable to defend itself [Violence (Seabury, 1969),violence are the same the violence of the soldier who kills, the revolutionary who assassinates; it is true also of economic violence — the violence of the privileged proprietor against his workers, of the «haves» against the «have - nots»; the violence done in international economic relations between our societies and those of the third world; the violence done through powerful corporations, which exploit the resources of a country that is unable to defend itself [Violence (Seabury, 1969),violence of the soldier who kills, the revolutionary who assassinates; it is true also of economic violence — the violence of the privileged proprietor against his workers, of the «haves» against the «have - nots»; the violence done in international economic relations between our societies and those of the third world; the violence done through powerful corporations, which exploit the resources of a country that is unable to defend itself [Violence (Seabury, 1969),violence — the violence of the privileged proprietor against his workers, of the «haves» against the «have - nots»; the violence done in international economic relations between our societies and those of the third world; the violence done through powerful corporations, which exploit the resources of a country that is unable to defend itself [Violence (Seabury, 1969),violence of the privileged proprietor against his workers, of the «haves» against the «have - nots»; the violence done in international economic relations between our societies and those of the third world; the violence done through powerful corporations, which exploit the resources of a country that is unable to defend itself [Violence (Seabury, 1969),violence done in international economic relations between our societies and those of the third world; the violence done through powerful corporations, which exploit the resources of a country that is unable to defend itself [Violence (Seabury, 1969),violence done through powerful corporations, which exploit the resources of a country that is unable to defend itself [Violence (Seabury, 1969),Violence (Seabury, 1969), p. 97].

• Although COINTELPRO came to light in 1971 — with its disregard of First Amendment freedoms and its massive violations of federal and state statutes against mail and wire fraud, incitement to violence, extortion, and sending obscene material through the mail — the Justice Department did not look into the program until 1974, and even then it uncovered no crimes.

Regardless, I do not advocate violence against or between the religious groups.

They saw that abortion was violence against women by a society who did not value women.

When danger of street violence prevented Arieh Klausner from sending Amos to the school attended by the professors» children, he chose an Orthodox religious institution» not because he wished to initiate his son in religious practice, but because of animus against the alternative socialist orientation.

We tend not to recognize, however, the amount of violence the national government is exercising in the war against crime and the war against drugs.

Yet the latest violence against Christians, for all its horror, is merely the most recent - not simply in the seven years since the U.S. - led invasion toppled Saddam Hussein's regime, but in the almost two thousand years of Christian presence in Iraq.

This means engaging the issue of gun control must be directed toward stopping violence today — not primarily toward defending against a potential future where certain freedoms might be more restricted.

Bonhoeffer's reluctant involvement in the conspiracy against Hitler certainly does not provide unambiguous Christian justification for resorting to violence and war.

Unless you're inciting violence against specific individuals, I don't see why it must not be anonymous.

But the opposite also holds, namely, that the revolutionary or the rioter can not protest when the government uses violence against him.

Doesn't anyone see what is coming — is it not obvious, war is coming, and it will be middle america against these religious groups, and they already love violence and know how to kil.

We should be the whistleblowers against violence, not the drum - beaters for it!

What I would like to see from the Mosque's Imam is a public, unequivocal statement that he does not tolerate violent teachings or attacks against Americans and issues a Fatwa forbidding any moral, monetary or logistical support for people planning or contemplating jihadist violence.

And this is true not only of physical violence — the violence of the soldier who kills, the policeman who bludgeons, the rebel who commits arson, the revolutionary who assassinates; it is true also of economic violence — the violence of the privileged proprietor against his workers, of the «haves» against the «have - nots»; the violence done in international economic relations between our own societies and those of the Third World; the violence done through powerful corporations which exploit the resources of a country that is unable to defend itself.

That would be a whole lot more convincing if the Quran was not so fraught with the advocacy of violence against many who do not accept it.

Their stories often suggest the appalling extent to which the church tends not simply to ignore sexual, physical, emotional and spiritual violence against women and children as a major crisis, but actually to provide theological justification for this violence in its teachings about male headship, women's subordination, and the sinful character of sexuality.

Whether violence was widespread or not, accusations of violence were a standard feature of Christian polemics against rival Christian groups.

Mantel's memoir, like the novels, is thick with smoldering grievances: against teachers («I don't know if there is a case on record of a child of seven murdering a schoolteacher, but I think there ought to be»); adults generally («In Hadfield, as everywhere in history of the world, violence without justification or apology was meted out by big people to small»); and above all, against the Catholic Church, which stood in judgment on her mother when Mantel was a child.

He may, or may not, have believed that there would also be some divine intervention in human history, but he did not support the use of violence against the status quo.

Much still needs to be said and written about violence perpetuated by Christians against each other, because an analysis of such violence will help us to understand whether or not Christianity has contributed to the nurturing and fostering of peace.

I don't because I know that many Muslim imams and organizations spoke out against the violence right after 9/11.

1 Corinthians 11:14 (Men should not have long hair) 1 Corinthians 14:34 - 35 (Women should remain silent in church) Deuteronomy 13:6 - 16 (Death penalty for Apostasy) Deuteronomy 20:10 - 14 (Attack city, kill all men, keep women, children as spoils of war) Deuteronomy 21:18 - 21 (Death penalty for a rebellious son) Deuteronomy 22:19 - 25 (Kill non - virgin / kill adulterers / rapists) Ecclesiastes 1:18 (Knowledge is bad) Exodus 21:1 - 7 (Rules for buying slaves) Exodus 35:2 (Death for working on the Sabbath) Ezekiel 9:5 - 6 (Murder women / children) Genesis 1:3,4,5,11,12,16 (God creates light, night and day, plants grow, before creating sun) Genesis 3:16 (Man shall rule over woman) Jeremiah 19:9 (Cannibalism) John 3:18 (He who believes in Jesus is saved, he that doesn't is condemned) John 5:46 - 47 (Jesus references Old Testament) Leviticus 3:1 - 17 (Procedure for animal sacrifice) Leviticus 19:19 (No mixed fabrics in clothing) Leviticus 19:27 (Don't trim hair or beard) Leviticus 19:28 (No tattoos) Leviticus 20:9 (Death for cursing father or mother) Leviticus 20:10 (Death for adultery) Leviticus 20:13 (Death for gay men) Leviticus 21:17 - 23 (Ugly people, lame, dwarfs, not welcome on altar) Leviticus 25:45 (Strangers can be bought as slaves) Luke 12:33 (Sell your possessions, and give to the poor) Luke 14:26 (You must hate your family and yourself to follow Jesus) Mark 10:11 - 12 (Leaving your spouse for another is adultery) Mark 10:21 - 22 (Sell your possessions and give to the poor) Mark 10:24 - 25 (Next to impossible for rich to get into heaven) Mark 16:15 - 16 (Those who hear the gospel and don't believe go to hell) Matthew 5:17 - 19 (Jesus says he has come to enforce the laws of the Old Testament) Matthew 6:5 - 6 (Pray in secret) Matthew 6:18 (Fast for Lent in secret) Matthew 9:12 (The healthy don't need a doctor, the sick do) Matthew 10:34 - 37 (Jesus comes with sword, turns families against each other, those that love family more than him are not worthy) Matthew 12:30 (If you're not with Jesus, you're against him) Matthew 15:4 (Death for not honouring your father and mother) Matthew 22:29 (Jesus references Old Testament) Matthew 24:37 (Jesus references Old Testament) Numbers 14:18 (Following generations blamed for the sins of previous ones) Psalms 137:9 (Violence against children) Revelation 6:13 (The stars fell to earth like figs) Revelation 21:8 (Unbelievers, among others, go to hell) 1 Timothy 2:11 - 12 (Women subordinate and must remain silent) 1 Timothy 5:8 (If you don't provide for your family, you are an infidel)

Don't be confused about what so - called «conservatives» are: American domestic history is the unbroken story of people having to fight against the right - wing for their most basic rights, usually in the face of violence.

And TR wasn't wrong to want to impose a kind of asethetic limit on our violence against nature, one that would, among other things, preserve the noble sport of hunting.

Poverty, hunger, homelessness, joblessness, the violence against one another, - not just being a victim of a robbery — I'm talking high school shootings, teens killing parents, or parents killing their families.

Some Haredi newspaper editorials, rabbis, and public activists have spoken out against the violence, calling it a violation of Torah, but others have not.

• Intentional physical violence of any kind against a person made in the image of God solely for entertainment and recreation can not be justified (some pro-lobbyists and Christians cite the Just War thesis, which is at best woefully naive).

But when it comes down to it, Jesus was against violence and bloodshed; the same can't be said for Muhammad.

Elsewhere, Schüssler Fiorenza explains: No biblical patriarchal text that perpetuates violence against women, children, or «slaves» should be accorded the status of divine revelation if we do not want to turn the God of the Bible into a God of violence.

Deliberate violence against opponents is not rewarded in rugby or American football.

It was clear that the women gathered often entered the struggle from different vantage points, they did not always agree with all that was spoken, but what could not be ignored was that there were some common issues that did draw them together — it was not accidental or designed that over one - third of the 4,000 workshops by different women's groups, from all regions of the world, focuses on the issue of violence against women — some of the best being organized by Indian women, What was at the heart of Huairou was the commitment of the women present to draw energy and support from each other — it was a consciousness that they were doing it all «for the common good.»

I would find it laughable if it weren't so disgusting that so many so - called «Christians» go out of their way to demonize gays, and incite violence and discrimination against gays, and yet when someone turns around and calls them bigots or explains why they think the «Christian» position is wrong, then they moan about how horribly they are being oppressed and discriminated against.

I don't remember Jesus» Disciples being allowed to use violence to defend themselves (or Jesus) against their opponents.

Not remembered as the greatest 200m final in Olympic memory (that accolade probably goes to Michael Johnson and his world record time of 19.32 at the Atlanta Games or Usain Bolt at 2016 Rio Olympics), this moment would be remembered for the events after the race: three athletes» protest against the violence, subjugation and oppression of racial injustice.