Sentences with phrase «not benevolent»

If they really wanted to practice what they preached, they would publically denounce all larger commissions and refuse to accept ANY, Until that day, they will be seen as hypocrites and could be seen as shameful opportunists, not the benevolent saviors that they claim to be.

Visual artist Hugo Dalton contends that Mother Nature is a Dominatrix, not a benevolent figure, through an exhibition of sculptural installations and wall drawings based on frescoes at Pompeii.

The Fairy Godmother (played brillaintly by Jennifer Saunders) is not a benevolent aid to our heroes, but a scheming, manipulative, power - hungry despot wanting to rule the kingdom through her son (not unlike Livia in I, Claudius).

These are not benevolent democrats, but Machiavellian calculators.

Corporations look after themselves and only themselves, they are not benevolent.

Rulers who are not benevolent and righteous do not deserve to rule, Only virtuous rulers deserve respect.

If he wants to remove evil, and can not, he is not omnipotent; If he can, but does not want to, he is not benevolent; If he neither can nor wants to, he is neither omnipotent nor benevolent; But if God can abolish evil and wants to, how does evil exist?

Dostoevsky's God is not the benevolent and venerable ancient depicted by the old masters, nor is he the gentle spirit....

If they can, but will not, than they are not benevolent.

America's civil religion is not all benevolent and approving, of course.

God is not benevolent.

«My brothers,» he said, «you are not a benevolent society, nor a political party... you are new soul in the heart of this nation to give it light by means of the Qur» an... to destroy the darkness of materialism.»

The Watchtower society Jehovah's Witnesses as an example is not benevolent and won't let you leave their organization in peace.

«TCCC aren't a benevolent society — they're tough people and they want their pound of flesh,» one source, who declined to be named, said.

But I have a VERY healthy respect for the fact that nature isn't some benevolent goddess.).

Bobby isn't some benevolent saint looking after the poor and downtrodden, nor is he the heavy that some — Mooney's mom Hailey, for one — want to make him out to be.

They aren't benevolent futurists out to save publishing from itself.

Not exact matches

Turn off your phone, check email at designated times each day, and when you get those requests from people who don't seem to get that you're really working (especially relevant if you work from home), let them know that your boss is benevolent but not a pushover.

The new EEOC guidelines are intended to bring to bear the weight of anti-discrimination law to prevent such practices, even when the actions are based on benevolent reasons, such as assuming that a working mother wouldn't want to move to another city, even if it would mean a promotion.

Prodding your people to be less conflict adverse can lead to real benefits, according to Thompson who cites recent research that shows, «brainstorming groups that engage in open debate, challenging each other in benevolent ways, perform better than groups that don't have any debate at all.

«It doesn't mean it's benevolent.

Barhydt went on to point out that these sorts of issues with decentralized governance have not necessarily existed on this scale in the past, using Linus Torvalds's benevolent dictatorship over Linux as an example of how things are usually operate in open - source software projects.

All of the destruction and misery that this supposedly omnipotent and benevolent god promotes and fosters is not in keeping with the type of universe I want to live in.

it cracks me up that people would be respectful to any god that would offer up their own son in blood scarifice, not a kind and benevolent, all knowing god, an evil and hateful god, we would be better off overing respects to santa clause, to my knowledge all he does is disappoint from time to time ive never known him to kill and destroy mankind by divers and sundry forms of cruel punishment.

We don't need any more rantings about how good christians are and how benevolent their god is.

Sorry, but this is not a fair or just system, and completely contradicts an omni - benevolent deity.

points is not the God whom you and I acknolege and adore, the Creator and benevolent governor of the world; but a daemon of malignant spirit.

So I do believe there is a «creator» or «being» other than those of us on earth, but I do not believe that he / she / it is benevolent.

We recognize the fruit of Spirit, but that fruit is not the Spirit itself — it is more like a benevolent shadow.

All that, plus they want to hide fact that all the premises of their religion around the divinity of Christ and the supposed benevolent nature of their rather horrid BOMITS and so on have zero support in evidence, and their bizarro ceremonies and smokescreens don't fool people quite as well as they did in pre-internet times.

• He is inherently malevolent — Logically flawed, just as a benevolent god would not unleash disease, pain, hunger and torment on his people, so would a malevolent god be loath to give us children, sunsets, and chocolate.

Truth is, Ford knew he didn't have to make a false choice between being a good businessman or a benevolent soul.

It is so sad that people believe an benevolent omnipotent creator can't figure out make the world work without murdering children.

This way, called evolutionary learning, is a benevolent system, but sometimes it doesn't feel so on our troublesome way to insight..

Just because I think your personal view of what you call science is a benevolent delusion, does not mean that solipsism reigns.

In short, Plantinga's response to Mackie is clearly not that evil is compatible with benevolent omnipotence because all evil is nongenuine.

Hence, only the first interpretation is meaningful, and it can not be used to deduce from the existence of (genuine) moral evil the nonexistence of benevolent omnipotence, since «whether the free men created by God would always do what is right would presumably be up to them» (GPE 271).

How many benevolent leaders gain support by threatening to torture to those who don't agree with them?

Kings do not have to, and usually do not, love their subjects or realms; at most, one hopes they will be benevolent.

Perhaps I am deluded to believe in an all — powerful benevolent God, but it's the best explanation I can think of for the life experiences I have had and rationally, for that reason unless and until something happens or someone shows me something to give my objective and indefatigable evidence to the contrary, I can't sanely not believe.

Personally, I do not require a 2,000 year old book of questionable meaning and source simply to understand how and why I should be a benevolent person and help others in need.

Don't worry, I'll be a BENEVOLENT one.

I think the point he was trying to make is that if an omnipotent, omniscient, benevolent being existed, he / she / it would not allow evil things to happen.

We aren't allowed to express such thoughts without a penalty of death from this religion, but I am a bit tired of hearing people project benevolent qualities upon Islam which do not exist.

Why not believe that a benevolent sky - fairy put the whole thing together in 60 seconds, with one man, one woman and a dancing bear.

And then He has to at least be benevolent and without evil since a bad god is really not a good idea at all.

I point out that an omnipotent being could smite me at any time and does not need to wait until I am vulnerable and that a benevolent being would not kill a few hundred just to get at me, but it doesn't seem to help.

The «christian view» goes something like this, «there is a benevolent sky daddy who made some arbitrary rules that include condoning slavery and stoning unruly children to death, and if I don't follow these rules, I burn in hell for all eternity... unless I ask for forgiveness at some point before I die, then all is forgiven and I live in heaven for all eternity, even if I'm a baby rapist!».

The foregoing principles of parent - child relationships — concern by the parents for the needs of the child and the obligation of the child to obey the parents, within the context of intelligent and benevolent authority — are the foundation for the right kind of education not only in homes but also in schools, which are established to aid and complete the family in its educative task.

It does not merely exist for the sake of humanity, but for its own sake and as witness to God and his benevolent activity of care.