Sentences with phrase «own attacks upon»

Moisture in the aircraft's Port Transducer Units during air data calibration distorted the information in the bomber's air data system, causing the flight control computers to calculate an inaccurate airspeed and a negative angle of attack upon takeoff.

«Beyond Good and Evil» and «Twilight of the Idols» deserve to be approached as radical attacks upon dualism and mentalism.

They very often fail to debate their views without personal attacks upon those of us who disagree with them... So, this Christmas Season, please just shut up...

in just the first 3 pages of comments, i woul estimate that at least 80 % were bigotted and vile attacks upon catholics and the catholic church.

In March 2017 the Bishop of Burnley announced the withdrawal of his nomination to become Bishop of Sheffield, referring to «the highly individualised nature of the attacks upon him».

9/11 wasn't an attack upon Christianity; it was an attack against freedom.

Draz Yet, if prominent atheists were to call upon fellow non-believers to vote for a non-believing candidate wouldn't you expect some to call that an attack upon religious freedom?

Unfortunately, Plantinga, himself, has not explicitly acknowledged the fact that his analysis of the relationship between divine sovereignty and human freedom is basically an attack upon, not a defense of, the view of omnipotence that most classical theists seem to hold; moreover, many such classical theists seem not yet to have perceived this tension for themselves.

The irony here is that this bill would have actually increased attacks upon religion, as many gays and lesbians, as well as their supporters and those who are not biased towards them, are actually also members of churches, albeit more liberal ones.

It is a question if the last two really belong to the controversy series: they are more like attacks upon the scribes than controversies with them, and the question of the Davidic sonship seems more like a debate within the church than a controversy with the scribes, though its form reminds us of number 8:

Written in Latin to guarantee the readership of the «cultural elite» he intends to engage, probably around 1317, it offers a ringing attack upon the hierocratic position so urgently put forward by many after Pope Gregory VII.

When one reads the many critics who discuss Camus» «atheism,» or his «new humanism,» or his Lack of «eternal values,» or even Camus» own attacks upon the Christian God, it is astonishing to read what he states to be his «rebel's» true intention: «He is seeking, without knowing it, morality or the sacred.

A second type of response to Camus is to den)» that his attack upon God really hits the mark.

There is an old saying that history is but a series attacks upon the Word of God, like a blacksmith hammering away with great force against the anvil, there are times when it looks as though the church will not survive another strike.

The attack upon traditional Western theism is especially clear in Whitehead's famous antitheses:

Christ's apparently merciless attacks upon complacency were no more than the initial stage of the work of God's Spirit upon the personalities of the men behind the façade.

I have already discussed the concerted attack upon reasonable argument.

Attacking Christianity We can say of many of the secondary lines of attack upon Christian dogma drawn from the modern sciences and modern critique that the interpretations offered of the evidence is never necessary, and that frequently the evidence itself is too scrappy and too little evaluated as fact to be worth considering.

But there is also an attack upon story, or perhaps it is less an attack than a trivializing of story.

I was shameless in my attacks upon you and I apologize.

Nevertheless, quite apart from the ill informed attacks upon something which never was the Christian Faith, there are some legitimate criticisms, made by sane and thoughtful people, which must be considered.

Implied in much of the new religious emphasis is an attack upon reason.

The resurgence of religion is linked with an attack upon reason.

Only in the light of this his central task can Kierkegaard's attacks upon the philosophical speculation of Hegel or upon the social, political and ecclesiastical life of his day be understood.

In fact., from one perspective, Home from the War constitutes nothing less than a direct attack upon the medical model as the organizing center of the psychiatric profession.

In the memoirs of Asian and African leaders who were graduates from these schools it has become almost obligatory, as part of an attack upon white Christian colonialism, to express bitterness and recrimination about the loss of native roots that came as a by - product of missionary education and of imperialist schools both in the mission field and in the home country.

This insight explains the vehemence of his attack upon the German quest for the historical Jesus, just as it illuminates his behavior» during his first years at Lambaréné, when he ransacked the intellectual storehouses of the world's religions in order to find some way to conceive of an affirmation of the world that was not merely mindless hedonism, a way that could motivate a powerful urge toward human betterment, toward perfection within the structures of natural existence.

The Basingers believe «that most influential classical theists — e.g., Augustine, Aquinas, Luther, Calvin — have affirmed I - omnipotence»; they go on to say that «unfortunately, Plantinga, himself, has not explicitly acknowledged the fact that his analysis of the relation between divine sovereignty and human freedom is basically an attack upon, not a defense of, the view of omnipotence that most classical theists seem to hold.»

I find it odd that aetheists feel so directly personally offended by Christian symbols... they are not offered as an «attack», unless you see the sharing of beliefs as an attack upon your own beliefs, in which case I think there is a deeper problem... This billboard IS a direct attack, and as many others have pointed out there is a better way to share your belief as an aetheist.

However, I don't take them as a personal attack upon me.

Instead of joining in a hue and cry against a churchman for engaging in this system in which every one of us is implicated, from which even the bishop's salary is derived, or hiding our Christian faces in shame because his hypocritical enemies hold him up as a «horrible example,» the clear call of Christ is that his followers should make a frontal attack upon the pagan system itself, and demand that our economic order shall give way to an economic order embodying the principles of the kingdom of God (July 17, 1929).

So a Christian who was a fan of this book (and the author) commented that this was the stupidest review they had ever read... Another Christian weighed in and said that the commenter was stupid as well for just using cut - and - paste attacks upon people who write critical reviews.

That, however, was considered an attack upon the their belief system that must be defended.

If you see the difficulty in this, you can appreciate the reaction of persons of faith to attacks upon that faith.

I view them as an attack upon my beliefs.

And the attacks upon religion and religious people by CNN opinion writers ramps up again.

In his Attack upon «Christendom» Soren Kierkegaard suggested that «the illusion of a Christian nation is due... to the power which number exercises over the imagination... It is said, that [an innkeeper] sold his beer by the bottle for a cent less than he paid for it; and when a certain man said to him, «How does that balance the account?

, and in the essays published in English as Kierkegaard's Attack Upon Christendom.

, 176, where he speaks of his generation's effort to defend itself against Christ; and Kierkegaard's Attack Upon Christendom, 160 - 161, where he critiques the Christian Church in history for trying to defend itself against the possibility of following Christ as the Pattern.

They still occassionally suffer from violent attacks upon them — like other children in this country unfortunately do when at school — but they are allowed to live as they please — and probably would have no trouble getting a passport and yes — they might have that they are a quaker on their headstones — but if they were a christian quaker — they could say that too.

The question was remitted to the Council of Jerusalem (c. A.D. 49), where Peter, convinced by Paul's attack upon his conduct at Antioch, took Paul's side (Gal.

It is a complete distortion if this often - quoted passage is taken as some sort of vulgar atheism or as a rejection of religion per se, or even as an attack upon religion.

In the light of John Deighan's engaging overview of the inexorable political attack upon the family (Nov. 2007) your readers might be interested to learn of the British People's Alliance.

«There is a tremendous personal claim involved in the fact that Jesus answered an attack upon his conduct with a parable concerned with what God does!

This is the basis of Barth's attack upon nineteenth century religion and upon all self - centred, self - conscious pietistic religion.

A third attack upon the coherence of process theology comes from within the circle of leading process thinkers.

• It acknowledges that we live in an age in which Catholic teaching is increasingly disputed, that attacks upon it often go unchallenged, and that this undermines Catholic life.

Bishop Paulose says that it would be a complete distortion if this oft - quoted passage from Marx is taken as some sort of vulgar atheism or as a rejection of religion per se or even as an attack upon religion.

This time the attack upon the American people would be blamed on Iran and result in greatly expand war.

War is more complex, because the soldier may be personally innocent but collectively guilty in a military attack upon a country.