We can judge particular statements, or series of statements, but please let
us not dehumanize individuals.
But we can't dehumanize each other in the process.
The Shoah should have taught us that we can't dehumanize others without dehumanizing ourselves; but too many still don't get it.
These hospital birth attendants have no idea what a birth looks like without all the interventions, a birth which is
not dehumanized.»
Not exact matches
Now, Uber can't even release an integration with Spotifywithout writers pointing out that the partnership «furthers the ongoing logistical process of
dehumanizing Uber drivers.»
That didn't just mean leveling Chechen cities and going after terrorists, it meant
dehumanizing the Chechens.
There are borderline sexual assault scenarios that are viewed as standard procedure by much of the PUA crowd — this is clearly
not the place to argue that but I feel it'd be wrong
not to point out my disagreement with that point — but above and beyond all that are incredibly
dehumanizing assumptions about both men and women that underly the process.
ironically, i think the very thing you say would be right to do * as a person * they would say is utterly
dehumanizing for a person — and therefore
not loving.
Atheists do
not feel insulted or
dehumanized by «creationists» you idiot!
BC doesn't think he's wielding a club, but using degrading and
dehumanizing language, making demeaning assumptions, and holding out the threat of eternal torture for honest disagreement — regardless of the source of such «wisdom» — is absolutely an example of club wielding.
The Jesus story is clear that it isn't a show of strength, but the display of what appears to be weakness that defeats the principalities and powers that
dehumanize people.
What is required, according to Public health theology, is
not the individual cure of conversion, but structural change in the political, economic and social systems that provide breeding grounds for the
dehumanizing viruses.
Sure, Mitt's statement wasn't the best, and it does give us a taste of the
dehumanizing that goes on in the corporate world.
These are
not pacifistic, meek, and mild responses where we allow ourselves to get trampled on, but are actually subversive and empowering forms of standing up for our humanity in the face of
dehumanizing evil.
Second, the holiness of life and the gratification of biological desire can
not be separated without
dehumanizing people.
Writing in The Christian Century nearly two decades ago, educator Richard Baer noted: «So far the church has
not sufficiently grasped the nature of the present [ecological] crisis, has
not understood how powerfully
dehumanizing is man's wanton exploitation of his natural environment, has
not appreciated the degree to which man - made ugliness and the fouling of natural beauty are corroding man's mind and spirit» («Land Misuse: A Theological Concern,» October 12, 1966, p. 1240).
That such possibilities continue to be offered is a reality that can
not be derived from the historical situation as it now is, since it is that very situation, with all of its divisive and
dehumanizing structures, that threatens to close off the alternative of service to the neighbor.
Stone quickly repeated that in the
dehumanized dark world of his activities, Hackett was
not a person but a military target.
So I don't LABEL myself Christian, just as I am
NOT alcoholic or mentally ill or «Native» American (another convenient label that
dehumanizes -RCB- or military veteran.
Just because the media are
dehumanizing in so many ways does
not mean that they must continue that way.
To a certain extent, Christianity could resist these kinds of evil structures; so it was
not a denial of other religions, but the denial of evil practices which were exploitative, oppressive and
dehumanizing.
How can you
not see that this is
dehumanizing to children?
When Paul called for the removal of the sinning man in 1 Cor., it wasn't about power or
dehumanizing him; it was about protection of the Body and the ultimate protection salvation of the man.
«
Dehumanize» is somewhat of a buzzword, but until its emergence I couldn't explain this hurt very well.
The blame must be placed in the right place, and the goals that Jesus taught are
not the right place because none
dehumanize man, but ultimatle lift mankind up.
It isn't the teachings of the
NT that provides the cruelty to demonize, but the mis - interpretation and quest for power that makes for cruel and
dehumanizing goals.
Bottom line is there is simply no other religion on earth that draws such sharp distinction between its own members and others, or spends as much time condemning and
dehumanizing those who merely choose
not to follow its dogma.
In this passage the animistic idea of «unclean spirits» that can invade individual human bodies and distort individual human spirits is
not in view; but the idea of demonic systems and structures that exert enormous power in the world, that can invade the body politic and other human corporeities and
dehumanize them, is what is at stake.
If the Christian continues to believe in the gracious and providential love of God after Auschwitz, then
not only is he once more denying the humanity of the Jew, but he is also inevitably denying the pain of all humanity, refusing the authentic or ultimate reality of a pain that can
not be relieved or assuaged by a dehistorized or
dehumanized God.
Now let me be clear: I believe the post exhibits homophobia,
not because of the author's conservative position on same - sex marriage, and
not because the author intended to be hateful, but because the post employs degrading, fear - based language to
dehumanize gay and lesbian people.
There is simply no other religion on earth as ISLAM that draws such sharp distinction between its own members and others, or spends as much time condemning and
dehumanizing those who merely choose
not to follow its dogma.
All over the world there are people who can
not stand by and see others exploited and
dehumanized, they themselves would never sit quietly under indignities, there are persons who have courage to call for justice and to deal justly with those they encounter, they are a sign of hope.
Not owning your own children in
dehumanizing.
Anyone who looks with sensitivity at the suffering of the poor and powerless, suffering that most of us do
not deliberately intend, has a sense that some kind of cunning evil that is too strong for us and
dehumanizes us has captured and controls the systems and structures in which we live.
(I know that the term «homeless» as an identifier can feel
dehumanizing and that is
not my intent in any way.
On the contrary, political and cultural efforts to rationally solve the problem of man and woman — and we are, to be frank, in the midst of such Utopian spasms — will almost certainly be harmful, even
dehumanizing — to man, to woman, and especially, to children —
not least because the matters are so delicate and private, and their deeper meanings inexpressible.
Using
dehumanizing language
not only affects our perceptions of the «enemy»; it also affects the «enemy's» perceptions of us.
It is true, of course, that the ultimate aim is human liberation,
not merely women's liberation; men are trapped in
dehumanizing expectations and stereotypes and are diminished by the roles they fill.
The showrunners don't seem to realize that Jessica's attitude towards Kilgrave's offspring is similarly
dehumanizing.
If you mean she
dehumanizes men, domineers and abuses the men in her life, and doesn't believe in equality when it comes to child custody cases — unfortunately you may still be right.
That's what true Christianity is: overcoming by the grace of God,
not laying down and allowing satan to make mockery and spectacle out of us, so he can boast himself before God how he has accomplished to degrade and
dehumanize those which He loves and has created in His own image.
WORLD: We have to be careful
not to
dehumanize groups of people in monolithic stereo types like we seem to do when we use the words Christains or gays or atheists or religious people.
Not surprising, it has taken the Church a long time to develop a critical and prophetic theology with which to confront the social evils and oppression which have condemned the majority of the human family to abject poverty and
dehumanizing life.
One purpose of this chapter has been to provide tools and techniques for helping people to become aware of and deal constructively with their anger —
not so that it will go away, but so that it can be used to bring about constructive changes in a
dehumanizing society.
And, more broadly, we can't be satisfied granting human dignity to some people while casually
dehumanizing others.
Skinner does
not provide an answer, but embraces Lewis's devious scientific «Controllers» who aim to change and
dehumanize the human race to fulfill their purposes more efficiently.
The
dehumanizing deeds, if they are done, will
not be done by obviously evil men and women.
Since the launch of ECT two decades ago, authentic Christian witness has become more —
not less — difficult in a world marked by secularism, terrorism, and the
dehumanizing forces in our contemporary cultures of death.
The standards of humanizing versus
dehumanizing sexuality can be applied equally to all, with proper nuancing for those who have chosen to bear and raise children and those who have
not.
Umm... I think the point is to
not demonize, or
dehumanize, anyone.