Sentences with phrase «other cultures because»

I no longer buy Native American prints (as much as gorgeous they are) or prints from other cultures because I refuse to contribute to racism and cultural appropriation.

This is why I say there would be an epidemic of deficiencies in other cultures because all beans contain these antinutrients unless cooked.

Not exact matches

«We don't tend to bond together like other expat groups do, and that's exacerbated in the U.S. because it's such a similar culture.

Adam Neumann, co-founder and CEO of WeWork, commented that the two companies were drawn to each other because of their similar cultures.

It can not focus on the quality of its team, or its platform, or the platform of the other parties, or the future, because its past, its toxic culture, and its undemocratic nature keep getting in the way.

The funny thing about people saying their faith isn't shaken is that these are the same people who will often look at other natural disasters in foreign countries and say God is punishing these people, or that something bad happened because of some aspect of the culture that God disapproves of.

If we are creating a culture in which we get noticed because of our flirting or our looks, it means that others are not getting noticed because they are deemed less «fun» or good - looking.

According to Tracy Lambert and her fellow researchers («Pluralistic Ignorance and Hooking Up,» 2003), there is a phenomenon of «pluralistic ignorance» surrounding hookup culture, in which «most students believe others [hookup] primarily because they enjoy doing so, while they see themselves engaging in these behaviors primarily due to peer pressure.»

the astronaut theory comes about because every culture and every civilization speaks about «Chariots of fire» among many other things.for those that are non Christians this can be interesting and fascinating..

Hierarchical thinking and action, says Mary Louise Pratt, is «historically as well as morally distortive» because it divides everything into privileged and unprivileged groupings, condemning some ideas, texts, and persons to the margins of a culture while exalting others to positions of primacy.

I find that most of my Christian friends who talk about homosexuality are either determined to not think about the issue because of tradition and fear or are on the other end and choose not to think about the issue because the pressure of contemporary culture (in our part of the world) is to equate my sexuality with the colour of my skin which is, in light of history, a silly equation but we should just adjust our understanding to accomodate.

Cannibalism isn't needed here because fortunately food is pleantiful (for some of us) I'm sure cannibalism has been / still practiced by cultures in other parts of the world (Thankfully)

The truth is, evangelical Christians have already «lost» the culture wars.And it's not because the «other side» won or because evangelicals have failed to protect our own religious liberties.

Many of the ones who didn't initially die from exposure, or kill themselves because they were permanetly cut off from their friends, family and culture, turned to drugs to numb the pain, and died in many other horrific ways.

We talk about culture and real - life issues that other faith - based magazines might shy away from, because we believe it's important to address the gritty stuff of life — even when it makes us uncomfortable.

Let me take the instance of India to illustrate Operation Recolonization Limited, not because of idolatory of geography but because, if India, itself a great country in its own right with a socialistic public sector and intellectual culture were to be dominated, other countries, including even the Asian Tigers and China, may face the same doom tomorrow or the day after.

The Jewish scholar Joseph Klausner, for example, holds that the Pharisees and Sadducees were justified in their attacks on Jesus because he imperiled Jewish culture at its foundations, and that by ignoring everything that belongs to wholesome social life he undercut the work of centuries.2 Others within the Christian tradition have felt considerable uneasiness lest the words of Jesus about nonresistance imperil the civil power of the State, or his words about having no anxiety for food or drink or other material possessions curtail an economic motivation essential to society.

And I think this must be even more intensive within the church and its leadership because the church, like any other human institution, is prime culture for deception, abuse, bondage and slavery.

As Hatch has noted elsewhere, because many evangelicals «have abandoned the university, the arts, and other realms of «high culture» «they are often «least capable of winning the right to be heard by twentieth - century intellectuals.»

We've isolated and condemned homosexuality as an especially egregious sin because 1) it's a sexual thing (and we're obsessed with sex), 2) it's relatively easy to identify and name, (unlike gossip and materialism and greed, which are condemned more often in the Bible and are more pervasive in our culture), and 3) it is «other,» (when you're straight, and in no danger of committing homosexual acts yourself, it's easy to call it an abomination because it's easier to remove specks from others people's eyes.)

It is clear that this is precisely what Paul's statement is about; but because he was expressing a vision of reality that he himself was unable to spell out in a practical application to his own culture, we also have continued to stumble around in the slavery of the old law regarding relationships, catching the vision in some areas — in theory, at least — and ignoring it in others.

The story quotes others who have dealt with the problem and say that «churches are the perfect environment for sexual predators, because they have large numbers of children's programs, a shortage of workers to lead them, and a culture of trust that is the essence of the organization.»

Because every culture prior — Egyptian, Chinese, Greek, Indian — was controlled by a dominant religion that invariably described the world as a mashup of multiple deities nitpicking with each other.

The term «nation» on the other hand is a more positive word, because it denotes people with identifiable religious, social and political cultures whom God has created and loves in their ethnic particularity.

Because the very meaning of representing an object with a sign in a certain respect is a function of the larger culture, one can not speak of true or false interpretations except insofar as those interpretations are embedded in some culture or other.

We now come closer to understanding other cultures and our own distant past on their own terms precisely because we recognize that their own terms differ from ours.

Because culture is a problem, the process of the reallocation of lands and populations would have to include other provisions, for example, that all the whites in New Zealand to be settled by Bengalis, with just provision made for the Maoris living there.

I am not implying that Islam does this (though celebrating suicide bombers does make me wonder), just pointing out that just because a group of people «believes» something does not mean it is acceptable to an entire culture, in this case the American culture, nor that that culture should be required to adapt to that set of beliefs vice the other way around.

I love NYC because people like to preserve the good things about their own cultures, and there are many ethnic enclaves here, but we all seem to borrow the good things from the other cultures, and there are many.

No, because the end justify s the means and you have already made up your mind that you are right about Jesus and there can be no other truth, and it's never about learning more about different people and cultures and religions, it's about making sure anyone who is different knows you are a Christian which is the only sensible way to live and anyone who is not like you is either converted, attacked, pitied or dismissed as a fool who awaits eternal damnation.

The primary reason apostles were so important in the early church is because they did not have an accurate account of the life of Jesus which they were to follow, or reliable examples of what other local churches were doing, or precise guidance from teachers on how to live and apply the life of Jesus to their lives in their cultures.

The attempt to understand what others believe is noble and enlightening, particularly because with it comes the understanding that other cultures are beautiful too.

The Bible is unique because it suggests as no other book can that God has engaged in history with living human beings, who were inspired to convey their knowledge of God to others, actively expressing themselves in their given historical epochs and cultures.

Whether because of pressure from culture, or an honest re-reading of scripture, we're susceptible to changing our minds on other doctrines that previous generations of Christians have held dear.

musims are persecuted because they ARE ignorant as well of other cultures...

Yes because as we all know no other culture ever names their children after religious figures (Jesus, Peter, Paul, Joseph, Mary, etc...).

From personal experience i was in a church who has the whole congregation pray for 1/2 hour in tongues.The people in this church were leaders from Africa.A place who sees more supernatural then us because we feel the need to analyze the thing to death.When we did the atmosphere shifted lives were changed.When i was on a mission trip to Mexico i felt lead to go pray with the women who in that culture are outcasts one of ladies who came with me started singing in the spirit as i was we stopped each other in shock when we realized we were sing the same song the needs of the women were met with out an interrupter.

While some social critics accuse youth of being lazy, indulgent, and narcissistic, others see cultural attitudes about work changing because of a transition from an industrial to a service culture.

Because of their long participation in a pluralistic culture and their friendly relations with the Jewish people and with Protestants, they were perhaps better equipped than Roman Catholics from any other part of the world to understand the significance and the importance of these two issues.

«Our thinness hysteria is unique, no doubt, because it is inseparable from our unique brand of radical and radically self - defeating «individualism,» but some features of our current behavior are duplicated in other cultures, for instance in the famous potlatch of the American Northwest.

I have no problem with religion being taught in schools, in fact, I think it's important everyone have an understanding of different world religions because it will help people understand other cultures as well as see what leads some people to do the things they do.

Their love for Syriac was not because of nationalism or cultural insensitivity to other cultures.

That's because our universities and other organs of culture in the West attack all historical modes of elevating transcendence.

In «Abortion in the Tides of Culture» (December 2002), Frederica Mathewes «Green considers mainstream society's increasingly intolerant attitude toward drunkenness and speculates that our society may analogously reject abortion and the other aspects of the sexual revolution eventually as well, not so much as a result of our preaching, but simply because people may eventually realize that the assumptions and lifestyle of the sexual revolution do not in fact lead to happiness.

The fact that, in spite of its early association with that world and of the antagonism felt because of this seeming alliance, Christianity won some adherents from other cultures is evidence of the striking universality and vigor of the impulse which created it.

Many Jews disdain religion in general, and Judaism in particular, yet consider themselves to be authentically Jewish because they are strongly attached to other Jews and to Israel, or deeply identify with Jewish culture and history.

Because of the wide individual differences which are seen in any culture, these destructive attributes are focused with greater force on some than on others.

From Hannah: An assertion I see frequently online is that being a Mormon living in Utah is very different to living in other areas of the US, obviously because of the high population, but also because of the culture it has created and the pressure on members to live up to certain standards, «keep up with the Joneses» etc..

Peter Kreeft, Michael O'Brien, Richard John Neuhaus and others have eloquently addressed these «key beliefs» of modernity in terms of the «Culture Wars» that are more evident in North America because there are more Christians there willing to engage in the discussion with confidence.

Because it is a cultured food, tempeh is fairly easy to digest, thus representing a great alternative for people who have problems digesting any other vegetable protein like beans and soy itself.