Sentences with phrase «other than human life»

Griffin's point elucidates that, when a choice demonstrates preference for something other than human life, it is not simply a case of incommensurable alternatives, but that something deeper is at play.

Not exact matches

Kindness will take you further in life than any other human characteristic.

Empathic people trust that kindness will get them further in life than other human character trait.

While we thrive thanks to lightning speed Internet connections, cell phones that are smarter than the average human being and other neat gadgets that make our lives feel and seem easier, we are exhausting a number of non-renewable resources.

If humans were not designed by a higher authority, how can each individual's DNA be uniquely different among the human species, especially different than the other animals; how can the life sustaining elements be constantly available and exist in exact formulations: O, H, C etc. water is always 2 atoms of Hydrogen and one atom of Oxygen; sugar, fats, grains, and any bio-chemical products can be broken down to their simplest forms of elements, but can be re-constructed with specific (not by chance) formula.

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.

I see no more reason to spend my life placating your vengeful god than I do any other vengeful god (and there have been so very many created by humans).

humans are NO different than any other mamal or organism that lives on this planet.

My point being that no one human being is worth more than another or deserves more comfort in life than any other no matter where he lives.

«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.»

The gospel is nothing other than the proclamation of Jesus Christ himself, in the fullness of his historic human life among us, apprehended and declared as the definitive and focal operation of God in the affairs of men.

It appears natural to many that whites, males, the rich, and Christians are superior to other human beings, and that human beings are more valuable in all respects than other forms of life.

We experience estrangement from ourselves when we are other than what we could be as fulfilled human beings, experiencing life to the full.

This planet, the level of harm and exploitation, the fact that the suffering of other creatures is needed for carnivores (many humans) to live tells me that those consciousnesses are not any more interested in answering the prayers of humans than the symbiotic bacteria that help us get by in our bodies.

The other group sees human beings as part of the interconnected web of life, and it sees value in the whole rather than in its isolated parts.

It is not possible now to say whether or not the value of community will exert a more powerful persuasion in human life than other seemingly opposed values.

There are others who insist that human life is of no greater value than any other form of life, that all are equally to be respected.

And then there's the Judeo - Christian arrogance that God loves us more than all other life, which is for humans to do with as they please.

Because humans are flawed, some more than others, depending on what has been learned and experienced though out life; also the kinds of sin and wounds we have been exposed to, which determine gateways that give access for evil to dwell in us.

A historian of religion takes into account authentic factors of human life other than his historicality experienced in given point of time in history.

If valid, this view rightly gives Christians and others hope that respect for the integrity of creation is less alien to human life, and more attainable, than circumstances have often led us to believe.

In this case hell better exist because you are the POOREST rep for a good Christian and have no right EVER pretending to be better than ANYONE when you treat other humans so poorly... not that you really care about the living!

I mean the burning passion of lived awareness that we occupy a precarious existence on this planet together with the soil and its flowers, the water and its fishes, the air and its birds, the fire and energy sources; that our fellow human beings are truly brothers and sisters with whom it is better always to make love - justice than war; and that gentleness lasts longer and touches more deeply than other kinds of power.

Thus both history and the very nature of the sexual question have guaranteed that the church will be more involved in this area than in most other areas of human life.

Hence for centuries the Church has not been attuned to defend human life and human rights other than in its own interests.

That insight is nothing other than the understanding that while in one sense God is indeed unalterable in his faithfulness, his love, and his welcome to his human children, in another sense the opportunities offered to him to express just such an attitude depend to a very considerable degree upon the way in which what has taken place in the world provides for God precisely such an opening on the human side; and it is used by him to deepen his relationship and thereby enrich both himself and the life of those children.

When human beings are looking to each other as models of being, the pathway of life is a treadmill or squirrel cage rather than an actual road.

This movement, founded by Norwegian social critic Arne Naess, rejects as» anthropocentric» the notion that humans have greater inherent worth than other life forms.

The divine nature, like the divine activity, must then be grasped as nothing other than the «pure unbounded Love» which in Jesus was vividly manifested, as he has been responded to and as through him a vivid and decisive enabling of human life has been made possible.

In an empirical observation of human activity and life, a la Hobbes, desire seems to know no end other than death.

The gospel insists that human beings are the greatest good, and that everyone's needs are best met when we live in community, caring for each other rather than looking out for Number One.

Feminism challenges the legitimacy of sex roles Along with other social movements, feminism is rooted in the critique that a society so constructed that certain people and groups profit from inequalities — between men and women, rich and poor, black and white, etc. — is a society in which money is more highly valued than love, justice, and human life itself.

Even if we are fitter, and more intelligent than all other forms of life, what basis does this provide for human dignity?

But because this human life is shaped by human powers and capacities, it invites us to «think in terms of comparative degrees of human distinction or dignity — and of some as more dignified than others.»

Admittedly, in the area of religious faith and morals we have been rather slower to discard the old in favour of the new, for this is the aspect of human life in which conservatism has always been most strongly entrenched, for the very good reason that man looks to this area of life more than any other for his stability and security.

Although an omnipresent human experience, the resurrection meant death held no power for Christians and therefore, they lived and died differently than other people.

Hardly more than Sölle do they encourage thought of God as an agent alongside other agents, one who brings things about in the world or in human life.

In fact, some would say that there is no human value or goodness unless this value pattern is exemplified in our activities; that the capacity to realize this structure of relations in our lives (to a greater extent than can the other animals) is what largely constitutes our humanity.

While he maintains that every life and life - form contribute in some way to the Divine life, he also claims that our individual capacity for rational thought and moral sensitivity allows humans to contribute more to God than any other creatures.

While he maintains that every life and life form contributes in some way to the Divine life, he also claims that our individual capacity for rational thought allows humans to contribute more to God than other creatures.

Why is it different or better than any other animal or even mechanical «life» (once machines can begin calculating choices as fast as humans).

To Ken Margo: I am totally agree with you about this evil thing going around the earth... this evil minded people is there everywhere regardless of faith... that was not what i was trying to say... my point was to be able to recognize the One True God who is Unseen and who has no partners as He is not in need of any partners but we the creation is in need of Him... thats all... I wish I could do something to stop all these taking place around the earth... I think we human fear the fed laws more than we fear the laws of our Creator, for example not to associate any partner with Him, taking the life of others, drug dealing, human trafficking, believing in hereafter and so on... I remember a story that I was talking with one of my friends... I was telling him look we all obey the law of the land so much like for example when we drive and no one moves even an inch when there is a school bus stop to pick / drop kids as it is a fed laws but when it comes to the laws of our Creator, we don't care... like having physical relationship outside of marriage and many more... then he said something nice... he said that its because we see the consequence of breaking the law of the land but we do not see the punishment of hereafter even though it is mentioned very details in Quran, it even gives pictures of hereafter....

People do not need the God of Abraham to live a moral life, no more than the millions of religious zealots who use their interpretation of religious dogma to dominate, subjugate and kill other human beings.

If the Christian life is a better life than some others, then it must not be at the expense of human and earthly values.

Actually, the nature of life on Earth makes more sense with a group of malevolent gods who are in constant conflict with each other and don't really care about humans than it does with a single all - powerful loving God.

The foreword of the present book includes a 1965 letter from Ramsey to Fletcher: «[T] he candid issue between us is whether agape is expressed in acts only or in rules also, which question is generally begged; or else the structures in which human beings live are attributed to other than uniquely Christian sources of understanding (natural law, etc.) while Christians go about pretending to live in a world without principles.

Jesus Christ, is and it will be forever more the unique object lesson of living, the human being not ever, although we may be Christians we don't leave of to sin, for the very her writing she says Aerquémonos confiadamente at the throne of your handsomeness in order to reach forgiving in order to the perpetual help, in as much as not tenemos one God which not it can feel pity for of we, rather one which fué tempting all over, but without sin, according to the letter at the age of Hebrews, and the apostle John she says, whether various hubiere sin, solicitor tenemos in order to with the parent to Jesus Christ the that's right, not ever not any human being it will be the best object lesson not other than The Christ Jesus, nor Buddah bo Mahoma nor none, we don't follow to humanity rather at a God which fué tempting all over but without sin, not ever we owe put her scope in the humanity not other than in the.

Do not our congregations expect from their own ministers that they wrestle honestly and immediately with the Christian faith and the issues of human life, and preach from that inner encounter rather than give a digest of what other ministers have said?

FYI «children and other living things» are neither atheists nor theists, those false labels are created and imposed by adult humans in their desire to be seen as something other than what they are.

But if, on the other hand, we refuse to regard human socialization as anything more than a chance arrangement, a modus vivendi lacking all power of internal growth, then (excepting, at the most, a few elementary rules safeguarding the living - space of the individual) we find the whole structure of politico - economico - social relations reduced to an arbitrary system of conventional and temporary expedients.