Sentences with phrase «other civilizations only»

The West has forgotten they were allowed to change other civilizations only because of its far superior Christian tradition.

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it is only useful as a history of the hebrews, (old testament) when taken in context with the writings of the other early civilizations in the middle east some of which have only recently been deciphered.

You're right, but wouldn't it be more beneficial if people focused on helping each other and the advancement of our civilizations as apposed to reading folklore's and choosing to believe that only their religion goes to heaven.

American individualism — the willful project of our modern founding — has so infected every nook and cranny of our country that the only thing to do is to flee to the beautiful buildings and other fading reminders of what was the authentically Christian civilization of Europe.

Once The Quest of the Historical Jesus is set in the context of his other writings, and once we begin to discern the fundamental concerns that weighed upon Schweitzer's mind during those years; we can only marvel at his prescience — for we too are finally coming to realize that «the suicide of civilization» is imminent.

Other civilizations of the Old World were all derived from this cultural center or were strongly influenced by it; only the New World was entirely independent.»

The emergence, in the course of history, of the ability to think of the other as another subject and to appreciate the moral demand that this lays upon one — to treat the other as an end and not only as a means — is an achievement of civilization that most of us are not willing to abandon.

While some cultural leaders (such as John Dewey and Sidney Hook) were saying that the open - minded attitudes of liberal, secular science were the only was to build a civilization free from prejudice and irrational intolerance, many other prominent spokesmen were saying that Christianity and the Judeo - Christian tradition could provide the best basis for a truly tolerant and liberal civilization.

When people stop worrying about the «after - life» and an invisible guy in the sky, we can advance more as a civilization and reach new heights and maybe even GET ALONG with each other, more people will live their life knowing this is the only life you get.

But, as Pope Paul said on his visit to India in 1964, Christians also have «the duty of knowing better» the hundreds of millions of fellow human beings who are Moslems, Hindus, Buddhists, or followers of other faiths, «recognizing all the good they possess, not only in their history and civilization, but also in the heritage of moral and religious values which they possess and preserve.

We need to make sure that we are in control over the things that affects us.Anytime there is flood and people loose their life, most of the blame goes to sitting presidents.I am not saying that the central government does not have responsibility to ensure that enabling environment is created.They have a great work to do but as citizens what is our quota?When you move around Accra, sometimes i becomes angry within myself because i am in doubt as to whether our sanitation laws exit.People because of the tax they claim they pay waits for zoom lion workers to come and clean the choked gutters before our houses and shops either than that, it will remain like that.Is it modernity or civilization that has turned us to forget our traditional values or duties of ensuring that our environments is clean?Everybody in our Ghanaian setting knows the responsibility of men and women in making sure that our environments are clean not waiting for flood to occur and we start blaming sitting presidents.To the media, though your responsibility is to keep governments on it toes, you equally have a mandate in educating the public of what we are expected to do as citizens in other to ensure that our dear nation is a better ecosystem for all of us to live.The attention of the media should be shifted from making politicians popular to making us aware as citizens of our responsibilities.I sometimes get confused to hear journalists calling opponents to comment on issues concerning the sitting governments and the only thing that comes to my mind is what do the journalist want to hear from the political opponents?Nothing.They will end up criticizing without giving an alternative.The media should rather resort in questioning people directly to where the problems are coming from.Let us build our institutions.When it comes to energy issues.Citifm will call Hon.KT Hammond who was a deputy minister living who he worked under (His boss at that time) and I always become confused because what can we expect from him?nothing.

It may just take some time, says Nye, after all «[w] e've only been listening for other civilizations for 50 years, 70 years.»

The Planetary Society is the only organization now that does optical searches, so we have a telescope that looks, if you will, for laser signals from other civilizations, and you might say that sounds crazy.

Decepticons are based off of a superiority as they are faction of the Transformers race that believed only the strong should survive and in peace through perfect accord (simular to communism), whereas the Autobots believe in a ideal of freedom and prosperity through unity with other civilizations.

Pay attention rather than tromping over here with the pre-formed notion there are only two sides to this great clash of civilizations, and likewise assuming that I am on the other side of whatever foolishly reductive scenario you have imagined in your head.

This would be a wilderness adventure, we were told — no showers, no civilization (we saw only a few fishermen, two other kayaking groups and a lone tour boat all week), and we would carry a week's worth of supplies in our kayaks.

In the company of experts in Mayan civilization explore the ancient ruins learning about the temples and other structures, only recently partly uncovered in the rain forest.

Even though Battlefield 1 secured the most nominations, only one other game was able to collect more than a single award, and that was Civilization VI, which was named «Best PC Game» and «Best Strategy Game.»

In fact, Cuoghi had created a new slaughterhouse, or an approximation of Hitchcock's The Birds, only with dozens of crabs, crab fragments, and other monstrous creatures of an unidentifiable past civilization, some skewered to an iron pole that ran horizontally across the room.

Secondly, while there are indeed lots of other unsustainable human impacts on ecosystems and the Earth's biosphere generally, the rapidly escalating effects of anthropogenic global warming threaten to overwhelm all of those other problems in the very near future, with devastating impacts not only for human civilization and the human species, but for all life on Earth, for a long, long time.

It amazes me that he (and so many others) are eager to accuse AGW advocates of «intellectual pride,» «antipathy to modern technological civilization,» and other crimes against truth, but gives the impression that contrarians (like Lindzen) are only doing it because of the purest concern for the good of mankind.

It's the only thing that I believe has the power to fundamentally end the march of civilization as we know it, and make a lot of the other efforts that we're making irrelevant and impossible».»

This is reflected in other, related parts of civilization: following the attacks on the World Trade Centers in 2001, the global air transport industry underwent a mini-collapse; the BSE outbreak in the UK in the early 1990s caused not only a temporary halt in the sale of UK beef, but also a significant drop in global beef sales.

As digital technology has pervaded every aspect of our civilization, it has set forth a revolution not only in how we store and transmit recorded knowledge, historical records, and a host of other kinds of communication but also in how we seek and gain access to these materials.»