Sexual union is sacred — so much so, that God has bound to it the of co-creation
of new human life.
The generation
of new human life in this way has sometimes been regarded as a form of immortality.
Persons of the same sex can not marry because they can not do what married couples can, i.e., consummate their union by a bodily act in which they become the common subjects of an act that, precisely as human behavior, is eminently fit both for the communication of spousal love and for the generation
of new human life.
Not exact matches
Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a raft
of new nuclear weapons systems at his State
of the Nation address on March 1 — and one demonstrates Russia's apparent disregard for
human life.
If a
new technology is developed in the next few years that radically extends the
life expectancy
of human beings, odds are good that it will come out
of a company backed by Peter Thiel.
I warned then that tricked traffic, vicarious visitors, and the kind
of morons attracted to the latest news on Momma whoever's
new diet weren't worth reaching or pitching to in any case because they weren't buying anything worth selling — but at least we thought they were
living, breathing
human beings.I said:
The Secret
Life of the Grown - Up Brain: The Surprising Talents
of the Middle - Aged Mind (Viking) is a roundup
of the most recent science on how the
human brain ages, as well as a guide to «toning up your brain circuits» to better weather the onset
of age — which is itself a relatively
new problem for humankind, writes author Barbara Strauch, The New York Times «s deputy science and health and medical science editor, whose earlier book, The Primal Teen, considered the teenage bra
new problem for humankind, writes author Barbara Strauch, The
New York Times «s deputy science and health and medical science editor, whose earlier book, The Primal Teen, considered the teenage bra
New York Times «s deputy science and health and medical science editor, whose earlier book, The Primal Teen, considered the teenage brain.
Your company has invented and brought to market countless amazing things:
life - changing medicines,
new technologies that make virtually every aspect
of our daily
lives easier to manage, and even tools to probe the great mysteries
of nature and
human life.
We are entering a
new cognitive age where AI agents, like IPsoft's Amelia, can overcome the limits
of human - powered
live chat and be programmed to deliver superior performance.
The company relies on
human labor, and Airbnb Trips, he argues, is technology in the service
of bringing people together, to experience
new things in real
life, not on screens.
Its
human nature to always be on the lookout for something
newer and better, and unfortunately we have a tendency to associate the two together in our thinking that technology can provide the perfect answer to all
of life's problems.
Such a
new ecclesiastical body is designed to allow these pathetic
human beings, who are so deeply locked into a world that no longer exists, to form a community in which they can continue to hate gay people, distort gay people with their hopeless rhetoric and to be part
of a religious fellowship in which they can continue to feel justified in their homophobic prejudices for the rest
of their tortured
lives.
Sure, you can randomly shake up things and form a
new instance, like throwing a bucket
of sand to the ground and find a form
of a
human, but you won't find the form actually
live and breathe.
Brand
New New fossils bringing «Hobbit
humans» to
life New bones attributed to Ho - mo floresiensis — aka the «Hobbit
Human» — along with other recent findings, are helping to reveal what members
of this species looked like, how they behaved and their origins.
Robert Reilly provides a relentlessly unsparing examination
of the ways in which a radically
new, and certainly destructive, understanding
of human life and morality has been legitimated under the banner
of gay rights.
But the end result is the same: By its nature,
human erotic love is ordered to creating and raising
new life, and to the mutual joy and support
of a man and woman vowed in a covenant
of love.
I do not know
of a single adult
human being that has given their
life to the Tooth Fairy, seen the Tooth Fairy, thinks there is a Tooth Fairy, prays to the Tooth Fairy, given
new life by the Tooth Fairy, given hope by the Tooth Fairy,
lived by the law
of the Tooth Fairy, fought wars with a Fairy banner held high and last but not least Stalin, Mao and Poll Pot felt no need to eliminate and persecute those who held tight to the Tooth Fairy.
In yesterday's
New York Times Book Review Will Saletan reviewed Embryo: A Defense
of Human Life.
When we use contraception, we orient ourselves against the good
of life itself ¯ and, in the same way, when we use IVF to create a
new human being, we treat that being solely as a means to our own purposes.
No different than my rambling post agreeing with him and providing even more real
life human scenarios that can evoke strong emotions, that can easily cause someone to either A: Seek out religion, even if it's only for some semblance
of accepttion and / or explanation
of the unknown, or B: If they already have a religion, re-embracing it with
new enthusiasm.
But I would like to highlight one crucial aspect
of Nat's body
of work that obituary writers in the
New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Associated Press, and other mainstream media outlets (though not First Things) woefully downplayed: Nat stood steadfastly — sometimes at great professional and personal cost — for the sanctity and equality
of human life from conception to natural death.
One must rather conceive
of another entire determinate natural order which would neither imply the present evils, nor imply any similar or
new evils, but still imply the goods that make
human life possible.
In recent years there has risen a
new type
of the same concern in that the advancement
of human ability to control and manipulate the natural forces by means
of science and technology has created
life threatening situation in terms
of the pollution, nuclear weapons, and intervention
of the natural process with the unforseen consequences.
That
human beings can not
live without transcendent points
of spiritual and moral reference is nicely illustrated by the fact that, as liberal mainline Protestantism was collapsing, those who previously might have been expected to have been among its staunch adherents found a
new god: the earth.
Third, even when traditionally religious forms
of human life seem to fade in some contexts,
new and alternative forms
of life often appear in their place that engage the sacred, spiritual, transcendent, and liturgical needs
of human beings.
A degree
of kinship between
human beings and the rest
of physical creation has always been clear to an extent, but the depth and detail
of our interrelationship with the rest
of life on the planet is being confirmed over and over again in breathtaking detail by
new scientific advances such as genetic studies and molecular biology.
We can see that in
human beings and many other creatures, the power to bring about
new life has been divided into two collaborating halves — the male which prompts the gift
of life, and the female which receives, actively responds, nurtures and brings forth the fruit
of life itself.
Rabbi Neuberger asserted that «it's really important that one accepts that...
new scientific research has taught us... that the
human embryo is not as unique as we thought before... We do have to think differently about the «unique quality
of human embryos» in the way that Peter Saunders is saying... The miracle
of creation... may have to be explained somewhat differently... Our
human brains are given to us by God... to better the
life of other
human beings... and if this technology can do it..., and I don't believe that anybody is going to research beyond fourteen days, then so be it, lets do it.»
But it is curious that nowhere does he mention or comment on Genesis 9:5 - 6, in which God Himself states that as part
of the
new (Noahide) covenant with humanity,
human beings (and not God) have the responsibility
of taking the
life of a murderer.
As Alves has declared, we need «a
new paradigm for understanding the conditions
of human life.
Dialogue between these competing theological options challenges one to take a fresh look at the biblical record in the hope
of uncovering
new insights concerning the shape God intended
human life to take.
A third, a physician in
New York City, praised the Catholic tradition for its emphasis on
human dignity and social justice, but added: «I am troubled by the fact that I find greater acceptance
of myself as a whole person in my professional community as a physician, than I do in the official hierarchy
of the church
of my family, my childhood, and my
life.»
And now, through a gushing forth
of vitality in the reverse direction, this
life infused by the
human mind into the greatest material mass with which we have contact tends to flow back into us under a
new guise.
For Keen, the dis - eased person as Homo Faber is the individual who has destroyed both
human wholeness and the possibility for
new life by denying the «feminine» in favor
of the «masculine.»
New exciting possibilities appear as men begin to understand that the purpose
of God's descent to the
human level is to enable them to rise and
live as sons
of God.
This was the Incarnation: Et Verbum caro factum est. 20 And from this first, basic contact
of God with our
human race, and precisely by virtue
of this penetration
of the divine into our
human nature, a
new life was born: that unforeseeable aggrandizement and «obediential ’21 extension
of our natural capacities which we call «grace».
But when we miss out on trying
new things and taking risks, we're missing out on what it looks like to
live fully alive as
humans made in the image
of God.
But God has been speaking in secular ways to men and women through the ages; he has led them into more
of the truth about the structure and functioning
of the world in which they
live; he is at work in the areas
of human study, explorations research, and enquiry, which have given us this «
new» world.
The Commission realized that western culture and science could not destroy the traditional idols but has also introduced into India
new gods like Rationalism, Scientism, Individualism and Materialism which had no sense
of the sacredness
of human persons and was converting technology into a force for exploitation
of the industrial workers and dehumanization
of peoples»
lives in the cities
of India.
What needs to be asked is how men and women can
live in this culture filled with sexual symbols, sharing in the
new freedom, and discover the creativity and satisfaction
of authentic
human love.
To take cognizance
of new insights into
human sexuality from the
life sciences is not, as some critics suggest, to contribute to the breakdown
of morality.
Some
of the ancients knew that to honour marriage was to affirm the goodness
of the body,
of embodied love and
new human life.
Sexual intercourse is the way
of procreation, and even where for reasons
of natural circumstances or
human intervention
new life is not begotten, the act is never wholly separated from this meaning.
Then, and only then, will the Church be able to inspire and inform those
new patterns
of international culture that must emerge if the
new energies
of human life are to be constructively deployed.
Above all, Heidegger's existentialist analysis
of the ontological structure
of being would seem to be no more than a secularized, philosophical version
of the
New Testament view
of human life.
We ought, Singer writes, to replace the old dictum that all
human life has equal worth with a First
New Commandment: Recognize that the worth
of human life varies.
What is happening is that deeper levels
of human experience and
new styles
of personal
life are given public expression.
Some
of them were
of the bones
of the hand, others
of coins and keys photographed through the opaque walls
of a leather pocket - book, all clearly demonstrating that he had found some strange
new rays which had the amazing property
of penetrating as opaque an object as the
human body and revealing on a photographic plate the skeleton
of a
living person.
Paul makes some qualifications concerning the adequacy
of human judgment, even his own, in specific cases; but we see that commitment to the spirit
of love as an alternative to legal obedience requires responsible
living and the honouring
of authentic forms
of behaviour appropriate to the
new life.
What did the
new life mean for the first Christians in the realms
of human desire, passion, creativity, knowledge, and love?