Sentences with phrase «of lesser violence»

She is a theater fan as well as reader of history, mysteries, and fiction of lesser violence.

Not exact matches

A roundup of gun control and violence studies by writer German Lopez at Vox shows Americans represent less than 5 % of the world population but possess nearly 50 % of the world's civilian - owned guns, police are about three times more likely to be killed in states with high gun ownership, countries with more guns see more gun deaths, and states with tighter gun control laws see fewer gun - related deaths, among other sobering statistics.

«Of course that doesn't mean violence has disappeared, just that it occurs at lesser rates than it used to.»

Perhaps that's one reason the Sinaloa cartel has the reputation for being focused more on the business of drug trafficking and less on violence than rival cartels.

They put a spotlight not just on mass shootings, but also more common types of gun violence that are less likely to make national front pages.

Republicans and Democrats Agree Arming Teachers don't make schools safer TALLAHASSEE — Less than two weeks after the Parkland shooting, Florida Republicans are playing politics with public safety and embracing one of Donald Trump's most widely derided proposals to reduce gun violence.

In the UK, where calls for equality are admittedly met with less resistance, in general, than in the gender minefield that is US evangelical culture, Christian advocates for equality have also been active, with the launch of gender - based violence charity Restored in 2010 and the publication of Jenny Baker's Equals (SPCK) this year, which talks about the practical outworking of equality in family life, work, and church.

It was written by many people over the span of hundreds of years, it is tribal rules from the infancy of our development and arguably is not a good book at all but full of hatred, spite and unspeakable violence, and you arent allowed to use «faith» as your proof of existence... faith is nothing less than the throwing away of reason i.e. belief without evidence.

To exclude violence completely, especially from God's expressions of love, would be to make his care for us less passionate than our own parents, who disapline us for our own good, and protect us as needs be.

I think rather that what he is saying is this: Revolutionary violence is to such a degree the only possible expression of the Christian faith that, if I suspect that my faith is leading me to become less violent, I am mistaken about the content of the faith and must abandon it; because, having decided for violence, I am sure that I am in the true Christian succession.

Do not doubt for a second that if more of us left our bubbles, abandoned culture wars, locked up our guns safe behind our legal right to own them and brought the physical presence of Christ into the communities stricken by violence, we would see dramatically less devastation — by gun or otherwise.

For the sake of simplicity the generally accepted Arabic spelling of names and technical terms has been followed, although in a few cases it seemed to do less violence to follow a form which has gained wide acceptance in a particular Muslim country.

But the book is less than half - way finished... and if I can not prove the thesis to my satisfaction, I see no way out of the dilemma about how to reconcile the love of Jesus with the violence of Yahweh other than to say that in some way or another, the Old Testament is wrong in its portrayal of God.

I'm answering to the question of religion preventing violence in terms of the sum total of violence — is there more or less violence with religion.

Putting the kibosh /» google» on all religion and its lack of relevance to preventling violence in less than ten seconds: Priceless!!!

They commit acts of violence in the name of God (nutjob anti-abortion groups), commit acts of fraud in the name of God, use God's name for political gain, and then turn their backs on the core principles of Jesus — caring for one another, compassion, helping those less fortunate, giving of yourself to do good, to make things better.

If, as I think orthodox Christianity ultimately teaches, and as Solzhenitsyn's «Father Severyan» plainly teaches in November 1916 (excerpted here), that humans are inherently prone to violence (and that the lesser evil of state - derived war is the price we pay for living not in anarchy but in «sword - bearing» states), then not only is 1) contrary to the New Testament's real teaching, but 2) is impossible and 3) requires a coercion that will bring with it very deleterious consequences.

Looking at this side of the ambiguity, we see a church in which many first - world Christians of our day could feel comfortable and undisturbed: a church that lives without question or resistance in a state founded on violence and made prosperous by the exploitation of less fortunate nations; a church that accepts various perquisites from that state as its due; a church where changing jobs for the sake of peace and justice is seldom considered; a church that constantly speaks in the language of war; a church given to eloquent invective in its internal disputes and against outside opponents; a church quite sure that God will punish the wicked.

(He was, after all, born less than a century after the dawn of the Reformation and undoubtedly knew the religious violence that saturated Europe in the early 17th century.)

I might be ecelectic, but what makes me consistent is my belief is something that combines the belief of Scripture with that of Englightenment philosophy: nurturing life is goodness, simply, and helping others to see a model that thinking for ourselves can help heal the world of all past injustices - so that we all learn to WANT to be good... within reason and by our own choice...: you have a society like that, you'll have less injustices, less violence, less money - grubbing by people who hold themselves as representatives of «authority» -(which side are you on, by the way, if you see the world as so divided in such a bipolar reality...?)

While some focus on its potential to inspire a bloody «cycle of violence,» the most potent critique of anger is actually made by those less concerned with drawing attention to its negative political consequences.

Online, there is less danger of actual violence (though threats of violence are depressingly common), but the mentality is the same: an enemy or victim has been identified and we egg each other on to more intense, more creative, more extreme expressions of communal anger and hate.

There are just too many Muslims who take their freakin» koran literally... and too many other «not - muslim - enough» muslims who couldn't care less about the violence done in the name of their cult ideology called Islam... hence the problem on both ends!

We would no less need an analogous social order that was perfect in its own way but that, at a minimum, did not kill us by war and violence or spoil life by meanness and other forms of private misery.

This chapter looks at one side of the Bible's ambiguity where we see a church in which many first - world Christians of our day could feel comfortable and undisturbed: a church that lives without question or resistance in a state founded on violence and made prosperous by the exploitation of less fortunate nations.

Noting «increasing signs of intellectual incoherence» in constitutional decisions, H. Jefferson Powell of Duke concludes that Supreme Court pronouncements are less an expression of reason than a manifestation of «violence [that is] increasingly wayward, increasingly brutal.»

There is far less day - to - day casual violence in middle - class society than when I was a teenager — and there are far more incidents of cold, senseless mass murder.

While we may sometimes wish to carry out such a process, let us recognize that it is always a process which does violence, to a greater or lesser degree, to the intent of the historical Jesus.

The nature of the violence is different (it's shifted to the spiritual realm since the mission of establishing a Bride has been accomplished via the triumph of the Cross), but it's no less real.

The politicians, bankers, and realtors, Levine and Harmon claim, believed that Jews would put up less resistance to this incursion of blacks, and that the violence associated with the later busing of blacks into the Irish area of south Boston could be avoided.

In many developing countries, wages are much less, and as journalists Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn have noted in their widely - acclaimed book Half the Sky, the empowerment and employment of women can have a direct and profound effect in curbing poverty, infant mortality, maternal mortality, and violence.

If we truly want to respond to violence in the way that Christ did (i.e., without resorting to still more violence), we will have to begin to think more in terms of witness and less in terms of solution.

A person could be born with a predisposition for violence, and once they commit a violent act, it is no less a crime or sin because of their genetic state.

And after viewing depictions of sexual violence, subjects in simulated court cases are more likely to blame victims and less likely to convict offenders.

For, make no mistake, the risks can be no less catastrophic than the original crisis: the further spread of violence and instability, an increase in the number of refugees and other victims.

It merely points out that within the framework of traditional theism it is difficult to say which of the two options would do less violence to that premise.

To wit, if God authorizes the magistrate to employ an instrument of death for «the good,» then God authorizes lesser exercises of state violence against criminals as well.

Ambivalent, half - hearted war making may seem better than the determined and ferocious use of force to achieve clear ends because it foretells less violence, less killing.

Again, some middle axioms, statements that are less than fundamental principles but more than day - by - day strategies, may prove helpful as guidelines in considering what actions to take in response to the problem of media violence:

But few of us would endorse those elements of tradition that baptize patriarchal oppression, endorse violence against women, oppress lesbians and gays, exalt perpetual virginity as the superior state, or declare that heterosexual rape is a lesser sin than masturbation (on the view that the latter act contradicts nature while the former act, while also sinful, is in accordance with nature) The postbiblical tradition, like Scripture itself, does not provide one coherent, consistent sexual ethic.

The ox remains the subject in 22:1; but it is well to follow the chapter division because the theme of physical violence, dominant down to chapter 22, here gives way in the main to regulations of a broader and less personal character.

Less then a month ago, fans of the four most popular clubs — AEK, PAOK, Olympiakos and Panathinaikos — were banned from away games after recurring violence.

These children are also less likely to witness the breakup of their family, or be subject to poverty, teen pregnancy, violence or abuse.

It means parenting without violence, relying instead on respectful communication and seeking to see your child not as someone lesser or weaker than you who you can and should control, but rather as a partner in your life and a source of potential joy and loving interaction.»

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The research, carried out in countries including Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Chile, Croatia, Democratic Republic of Congo, India, Mexico, and Rwanda, also found that men with more equitable attitudes were significantly more likely to participate in household tasks and less likely to use violence against a partner.

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Although many might think that the disintegration of Narc was less important than the periods of electoral violence, it had a profound effect on public attitudes towards elections and their leaders.

In theories of protest and revolution, the question whether violence is justified is premissed on the idea that it is probable.On the other hand, as is often observed, much modern social and political theory more or less eclipsed war within or between states, taking the socialising and civilising forces of historical progress for granted.

Scores more were wounded in the second outbreak of deadly violence in the border area in less than a month.