Jesus seems to be asking us to be godly in our manner
of treating other people with respect.
Not exact matches
Going on a witch - hunt because someone says «Bless you» to another employee that sneezed (real example) creates an environment
of paranoia and stifled self - expression, without improving how
people treat each
other.
Buari's Ryderz still costs $ 50, but instead
of being
treated like cattle, rides are in a clean minivan with only four
other people.
All transgender
people considered for service are subject to the same entry standards as any
other candidate, and are
treated as an individual
of their acquired gender, according to the British Army's website.
Why have we made more progress on certain diseases while
other mass - scale killers, like chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), are largely off
of people's radars and so difficult to
treat in an age
of therapies which can resemble magic?
5 is a «Best Place to Work» for one simple reason: Our steadfast commitment to hire the right
people,
treat them as fully - formed adults, and point them toward a common vision
of helping
others.
The value
of the market has been buoyed by
people increasingly choosing more expensive
treats, but volume has been weighed down by the popularity
of other alternatives.
With patience we
treat other people with a sense
of decency, which in turn increases the possibility they will respond in kind.
Most don't make a scene over it; they just make a note
of it and take their business elsewhere, while telling a dozen
other people about being
treated poorly.
Kaplan acknowledges that while we can't technically mistreat artificial intelligence programs in the same way we are capable
of mistreating
other people, how we
treat AI programs may impact how we
treat people.
This could actually be a list
of one, as most
of the
other items noted below relate to
treating people like numbers on a spreadsheet instead
of humans who have unique goals and needs.
Instead
of ignoring reporters» questions about the price increase
of the drug, which is used to
treat people with toxoplasmosis, Shkreli embraced the publicity, speaking with The New York Times and
other media outlets, and arguing that the price
of $ 750 per pill was necessary and good business.
Here is a far better set
of test: Which community has beliefs tat lead its members to
treat persons in
other communities with love and respect - to serve them and meet their needs?
Christ would never
treat people this way and I don't believe he'd approve
of others discriminating in his name.
«Common values,» I found in my interviews, is a phrase that stands in for one
of two things:
treating other people with respect or giving back to the community.
For me, those are the
people who go to church and make a loud show
of prayer and
other worship to be seen, but
treat others badly.
Here is a far better set
of test: Which community has beliefs tat lead its members to
treat persons in
other communities with love and respect — to serve them and meet their needs?
It doesn't so much matter when the first
people were named Adam and Eve; what matters is that all humans are children
of one God and ought to
treat each
other well.
It is also true that later
people used (and still use) his teachings to oppress
others, but many (perhaps most) Christians today look to the example
of Jesus for guidance in how to
treat others, not to the Old Testament.
Slavery is ownership
of another
person as property and the Bible «
treats» it as acceptable by addressing it directly and determining the «acceptable» way to own
other people.
Nope look at Pol Potts, etc for your answers and there are positives
of treating some disabled
people sufficiently like volunteer rides or volunteer civic participation or
other things even be it forseful and looking for excessive tax cuts.
I have yet to see anywhere in the Bible a condemnation
of owning
other people, which seems obviously wrong to most
people today, regardless
of how well slaves are
treated they are still property.
As an atheist who believes in «Choice» (I dislike the idea
of abortion but see the need for
people to be able to opt for it) and polygamy (marriage should be for any number
of consenting adults regardless
of gender) and believes that the idea
of draconian anti-gun measures is anathema as it takes away an individual's right to live the way he wants to live, I think that if believing in a deity makes a
person treat other people nicer then we should leave that
person and his beliefs alone.
fail to understand the rich vocabulary
of symbolism provided by etiquette, which enables
people to recognize essential attributes or intentions
of others, such as that a man wearing a tie is
treating the occasion seriously.
And they reduce them to slavery,
treating them with afflictions they would scarcely use with brute animals... Therefore, We... noting that the Indians themselves indeed are true men... by our Apostolic Authority decree and declare by these present letters that the same Indians and all
other peoples — even though theyare outside the faith... should not be deprived
of their liberty or their
other possessions... and are not to be reduced to slavery, and that whatever happens to the contrary is to be considered null and void.»
[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.»
It is identical to racial issues: civil and church laws need to protect the truth about the equal dignity
of all races because that truth allows us to
treat others as
persons.
«Whatever insults human dignity, such as subhuman living conditions, arbitrary imprisonment, deportation, slavery... the selling
of women and children; as well as disgraceful working conditions, where men are
treated as mere tools for profit, rather than as free and responsible
persons; all these things and
others of their like are infamies indeed... they are a supreme dishonour to the Creator.»
In a recent Ethics Daily post, Dennis Atwood wrote that the «ongoing process
of «knowing» God should make a real difference in the way we live, make decisions, and
treat other people.»
In population control, euthanasia, abortion, and eugenics, the human
person is
treated as an object or product to be used or eliminated according to the purposes
of those who have power over
others.
Any value Jesus had was in the universality
of his message about how all
people should
treat all
other people.
The alternative would be to make a tactical retreat, hand over our schools gradually to the state, and insist on the right
of Catholic pupils in state education to be
treated with the same consideration as
people of other faiths.
These
people can say what they want,
treat others in the most despicable, cruel and out right evil ways, and their supporters, (friends and
other leaders) will justify the wrong doing without any regard to the word
of God.
These (most)
People just use it as a diversion to distract people away from how they truely are, and ya know what, it works really well on «fellow Christians;» they stick together like glue, like a heard of stupid sheep and baaaaaa baaaa each other, while they go around and treat honest and truthful «evil heathens» like dog crap on the bottom of their
People just use it as a diversion to distract
people away from how they truely are, and ya know what, it works really well on «fellow Christians;» they stick together like glue, like a heard of stupid sheep and baaaaaa baaaa each other, while they go around and treat honest and truthful «evil heathens» like dog crap on the bottom of their
people away from how they truely are, and ya know what, it works really well on «fellow Christians;» they stick together like glue, like a heard
of stupid sheep and baaaaaa baaaa each
other, while they go around and
treat honest and truthful «evil heathens» like dog crap on the bottom
of their shoe.
Islam believes Jews and Christians are
people of the book and should be
treated with respect as well as
other religions.
The categorical imperative to «
treat humanity, whether in thine own
person or in that
of any
other, in every case as an end withal, never as means only» (46) was, for Kant, the «universal law
of nature» (38) and his understanding
of it is the most radical conception
of natural law in its modern sense.
On Apel's account, these rights articulate the valid meaning that can be given to the second formulation
of Kant's categorical imperative: «So act as to
treat humanity, whether in thine own
person or in that
of any
other, in every case as an end withal, never as means only» (46).
I also like Matthew Vines's work — full
of scriptural stuff — if you have to take the Bible literally enough to
treat other people like dirt, that may help you.
To «do unto
others as you would have
others do unto you» implies that
people are all alike, and that one proceeds by projecting one's own preferences upon the rest
of humanity, then
treating everyone else as a replica
of oneself.
But maybe that set apartness is supposed to be more in the way we show grace for
people we dislike, or the way we
treat others, not in what aspects
of modern culture we eschew.
The best way to bring the sinfulness
of such sins home to us is to point toward the places where humans in fact act wrongly: in home, school, business, contacts with
others, and the like, where by pride, self - seeking, neglect
of our neighbors, ugliness
of behavior in our homes, and so much else, we often behave in a reprehensible manner or we subtly and insidiously
treat other persons as mere «things.»
There in the closed room, where one probed and
treated the isolated psyche according to the inclination
of the self - encapsulated patient, the patient was referred to ever - deeper levels
of his inwardness as to his proper world; here outside, in the immediacy
of human standing over against each
other, the encapsulation must and can be broken through, and a transformed, healed relationship must and can be opened to the sick
person in his relations to otherness — to the world
of the
other which he can not remove into his soul.
Kant's categorical imperatives, «Act always on such a maxim as thou canst at the same time will to be a universal law» and «So act as to
treat humanity, whether in thine own
person or in that
of any
other, in every case as an end withal, never as means only,» are actually in one sense imposed from without.
Persons who are initially grouped together according to some particular feature come to be
treated as interchangeable units and thus are driven into identification with each
other and into similar patterns
of life which extend the range
of likenesses.
«There is never any doubt in the Bible that we are to
treat others properly and New World form
of slavery where the
person was the property
of another was against the law
of God.»
Thus there is very little disagreement with Kant's famous dictum: «So act as to
treat humanity, whether in thine own
person or in that
of any
other, in every case as an end withal, never as a means only.»
The improvement
of moral character individually and collectively requires each
person to be
treated with and to
treat others with dignity and to have enough to be able to become functioning members
of the communion
of the faithful.
The Christian extreme bias that a
person is evil simply because they don't think Jesus was any more than a good example
of how humanity should
treat each
other, is a position non-believers know too well.
Some have told us they have enough sandwiches, crackers and some
of the
other things that are frequently given to them, but they need more
people who
treat them as
people.
Ancient literature, like modern fairy tales, is full
of narratives in which gods and
other supernatural beings disguise themselves as human beings, sometimes as the lowest
of the low, and roam throughout the world to see how
people will
treat them.