Sentences with phrase «of taking human life»

Although that embryo may only contain four or five cells, some religious leaders say that destroying it is the equivalent of taking a human life.

On the surface, the issue of executing drug dealers and forced abortions aren't related, but they both have one element in common: They happen because the government has the power of taking human life.

On the question of taking a human life, for example, the church has always distinguished between killing and murder, murder being the morally condemned act, and killing the physical act which is not always wrong.

The newspaper also reported that like other heroes, Morris had never talked much about his military service, «out of respect for the gravity of taking a human life.»

Not exact matches

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The show, which takes place in a world in which animals are interchangeable with humans, tells the story of a talking horse, BoJack, who used to have a sitcom and now lives a pathetic life in Los Angeles.

Ten years after «Night of the Living Dead,» Romero made «Dawn of the Dead,» where human survivors take refuge from the undead in a mall and then turn on each other as the zombies stumble around the shopping complex.

If humans have any hope of living forever, we should probably take a hint from the dozens of other animals on Earth that far outpace our measly 71 years.

Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.»

Anytime one religion interferes with another religion, or the life of humans, I tend to take it a little more seriously, not because I believe in their beliefs, but because their beliefs can cause me death.

Now, none other than the controversial academic Stanley Fish claims that doctors and nurses who don't wish to take human life as part of their medical work should just get over it.

He Himself would live a human life in the person of Jesus Christ, yet a completely sinless life, and take all the wrath of God upon Himself, dying the death that those who believe in Him and confess Him as Lord and Savior would have had to die.

Even if antebellum Evangelicals did not create the idea of a living Constitution, it could be said that by rejecting the continuity of human moral experience, they took a first necessary step towards it.

If we are right, then we lived our lives to their fullest in intellectual honesty, without the fear of some tyrant getting their hands on us after we die, and without having taken some stupid stand against the validity of sound science, or basic human rights.

The German nation began as a metaphor of Schiller's ode to the spirit of human freedom and concluded with Hitler's spirit of life taking on a scale of unparalleled horror.

Richard Dawkins merely states in unvarnished form doctrines that other scientific metaphysicians take for granted: In the beginning were the particles and the impersonal laws of physics; life evolved by a mindless, non-teleological process in which God played no part; and human beings are just another animal species.

So we Christians do not oppose nuclear weapons because they threaten to destroy «mother earth,» but because the God we serve would not have one life unjustly taken even if such a killing would insure the survival of the human species.

But if we put that matter aside, and if our main interest lies in protecting the lives of our people, why do the mavens on national security show no concern for the 1.2 million innocent human lives taken each year in abortion?

And while I'm grateful believers and unbelievers can agree that the taking of innocent human life is wrong, without a basis for this knowledge, this is a position can turn on a dime.

The Church, however, has consistently taught over the centuries that the direct and intentional taking of innocent human life, as in abortion, is a grave and intrinsic evil.

Believe it or not, a true Muslim (the one who surrenders to the Will of his Creator) would rather die but not to keep silent about the disrespect of God's Words which take place at a country that had enough of disrespect to human life for more than a decade of aggression and atrocities.

'' wonder what would happen if there was this much moral and global outrage over the needless taking of human life.»

It is a very helpful guide to the formation of conscience with respect to questions raised in voting and other political activity if, in fidelity to the Church's teaching, one recognizes the «intrinsic evil» of taking innocent human life in abortion.

Instead work hard at your job, take care of aging parents, volunteer at a soup kitchen, donate to charities and the poor and continue to follow the proper rules of living as gracious and good human beings.

The Catholic Church, to take one prominent institution devoted to the defense of human life from conception until natural death, makes no «theological» argument about the nature of the life in the womb.

Let's see, a guy named god impregnated a woman with himself so that he could die for himself in a blood ritual so that he could redeem the human race and make them live forever because of a moral stain on the entire human race because a dirt man and rib woman took dietary advice from a talking snake.

It is a way of faith that does not challenge the status quo, for it does not take the elements of human life seriously.

Of course the sequencing is not quite right, because the poem was written / inspired (take your pick) before science did its work.But the intuitive observer could see a clear evolution form plants to animals to human life, with continuities and differentiations.

These it takes as the conditions for nurturing «qualities of mind and character» (ICC 25) that have enabled and should again serve to enable «generations of men and women to grasp a vision of the good life, a life of responsible citizenship and human decency» (ICC 6).

He took into account the audience's ability to perceive in the ultimate sense — by flinging aside his deity and becoming the Word, one of us, living in our cramped planet within the limitations of a human body.

Should we take religion to be in some way an innate, instinctive, or otherwise inevitable aspect of human life?

So we see that a renaissance of marriage and family life based on natural law has taken place once already in Britain, serving the good of society and upholding the absolute sacredness of human life from the moment of conception to natural death.

[4] «cf. Meilaender, Gilbert, The Giving and Taking of Organs, First Things, March 2008, where he emphasises that humans are called to live their bodily life as a personal gift to others and that «presumed consent... does go a long way toward treating persons as handy repositories of interchangeable parts to others.»

History is indeed a moral order, in which judgements of the living God take effect; but this view can not be fully verified upon the plane of history as we know it, since there is an irreducible element of tragedy in human affairs.

For a guide I would suggest Benedict XVI, who understood deeply that the quest for the truth of God which takes a living form in monasticism must lie at the foundation of any social order that is finally human and any political order that is truly free (See here and here).

The Magi represent forever for all of us the wisdom that recognizes human life to be a journey taken in search of One who calls us beyond ourselves into faithful service.

24:17] «If anyone takes the life of a human being, he must be put to death»

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.

It really takes that miracle of something more, something outside of us to transform human life and give it true depth.

While seemingly innocent at first glance, legalizing PAS will start us on a slippery slope that will not only take thousands of lives unnecessarily, but will exploit the poor, abuse the elderly and disabled, and ultimately devalue human life.

Francis argues that, today, we understand that any taking of human life is contrary to the dignity of life, and therefore we can now say that it is contrary to the Gospel.

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.

Faced with the absolute evil of the Nazi attack, first on Jewish life and ultimately on human life per se, Greenberg was tempted to take Richard Rubenstein's approach and concede that the God of Israel was indeed dead.

It is rather that in the incarnation of the Word of God humanity has been taken into unity with God; human life has been sanctified; and a way has been opened for all men in every century and in all circumstances to enter into their right relationship to the Creator (the relationship of sons to their Father) through God's gracious approach to them in Christ and the response of trust and obedience which God in Christ evokes from them.

Take your Pills ladies, wear your condoms guys (or have a vasectomy) and save yourself a lot of money and grief because if you don't, you could be making a very, very difficult decision to end the life of a growing human.

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.

The Resurrection made it possible to look back upon that human life with fresh insight, so that in later years St. John could write a Gospel in which, though the subject is still the events which took place in Galilee and Jerusalem, the deeds and words of Jesus are reinterpreted in the full light of his risen glory.

In a society founded on the exaltation of freedom it is understandable that the desire to satisfy one's human appetites takes an ever firmer grip on individuals who live in an environment where they have considerable spending power and great encouragement to spend on pleasures and material goods.