Post-Christian paganism has succeeded in capturing, for its own trivial and narrow ends, some of that wholehearted Christian devotion which ought to be given to God alone.The idolatrous worship of
organized human power is the fatal error which is common to all the varieties of our postwar paganism.
One form is the worship of
organized human power.
Not exact matches
For centuries, and perhaps dating back to our earliest civilizations,
humans have taken to
organizing around a central authority or
power.
We can admit that to say «love thy neighbor, but
organize him» poses difficulties; but we do not need to surrender the conviction that the responsible organization of
power for the ends of
human justice and freedom is a true expression of Christian love.
Therefore while keeping love as the essence of humanness and, therefore, the criterion and goal of all
human endeavor,
human society today has to eschew utopianism and
organize itself as
power - structures based on a sense of the moral law of structural justice and utilize even the coercive legal sanctions of the state to preserve social peace and protect the weaker sections of society in a balance of order, freedom and justice.
Therefore while keeping love as the essence of humanness and therefore the criterion and goal of all
human endeavour,
human society today has to eschew utopianism and
organize itself as
power - structures based on a sense of the moral law of structural justice and utilize even the coercive legal sanctions of the State to preserve social peace and protect the weaker sections of society in a balance of order.
Concern for
human freedom thus requires us to think about how to
organize power in and at work.
During the 1980s he helped
organize new competitions for
human -
powered vehicles — one notable bicycle built for two, called Vector, cruised a 40 - mile stretch of freeway at nearly the speed limit, averaging better than 50 mph.
As Paul wrote, «Science may provide the most useful way to
organize empirical, reproducible data, but its
power to do so is predicated on its inability to grasp the most central aspects of
human...
«
Humans don't
organize the space; space is meant to
organize the
human, which is another way of acknowledging the
power of the desert landscape directly outside,» Alan Gilbert wrote for Art Agenda.
With an incisiveness akin to Blake's, Shaw offers sharp insights into the complexities of global politics, economics, urban and environmental turmoil, the
powers of
organized faith, and
human bondage.
It is clear from the above that the climate change disinformation campaign is only one element in an
organized effort of corporations and free market fundamentalists foundations to limit the
power of citizen movements to protect
human health and the environment when these movements threaten corporate profits or unregulated markets.