Sentences with phrase «people as scapegoats»

But the structures of MacArthur's consciousness — which was built over a long period of his life with guns and swords — were full of ruling ideologies, which wrongfully justified using the oppressed people as scapegoats for what he supposed to be justice, peace, and order.

The sacrifice of one person as a scapegoat discharges the pending acts of retribution.

Not exact matches

Flood the TV with images of White and Black together... thats fine... as long as we continue the theme of scapegoating brown people.

God knew this in the Old Testament (and even today), and so allows people to blame Him for the most horrendous actions, not because He has done these things, and not because He has commanded that such things be done, but because He knows that if He does not act as the scapegoat, we will destroy ourselves.

Terrorists or dictatorships who persecute innocent people because they claim it's part of faith are not welcomed — their use of Islam as a scapegoat, does not make Islam what they portray it to be, in fact those false persecutors will be punished themselves by God, «God is the only judge.

In contrast, the people I see in divorce keep scapegoating each other because they don't see the marriage as a separate thing that must be protected.»

I do see «dead people,» but I do not rejoice in their destruction, and I clearly do not see them (all) as the result of human scapegoating.

If the Scriptures are to be believed, then the actions that follow do come as a result of God's command, not people «scapegoating.»

But as usually happens in such situations, people started looking for someone to blame, and in this town, because the Jewish people were seen as «outsiders under the curse of God,» they became the scapegoats.

People and governments sometimes scapegoat religion or use it as additional motivation for the massive, but that is not religion's fault and generally not an accepted part of many religious doctrines.

And Dave, Hitler used the Jewish people (conveniently organized in the form of Judaism) as a scapegoat for Germany's loss in WWI, at least that was the initial delusion before people just started generalizing Jewish people as being sub-human.

In Scripture, as in 1 John, sin is primarily the activity and actions that lead to and involve accusing and scapegoating other people.

Actually, I tend to think about all of the people who use the religion as a scapegoat for everything that they believe is wrong with the world and how it convenient politically acceptable way to allow themselves to avoid real solutions to problems.

It's kind of like we as a Western people have said to God, «Okay, we'll take it from here» and, when things go wrong, He becomes our scapegoat.

Arteta's top quality people just use him as one of the scapegoats in the team because the team as a whole wasn't doing their defensive duties it not just Le Coq who's improved the team.

All injuries do is offer people scapegoats as to y there team got foot in ass or what have u..

Instead of scapegoating individuals (such as the Eastern Europeans noted by Smith) to keep votes out of the hands of Ukip, we need to deploy our energies to constructing a serious plan for addressing the concerns that people bring to us on the doorstep.

We believe that British society is being transformed into something bitter, paranoid and hateful - as all societies will be when they allow their baser instincts to prevail and scapegoat whole groups of people on the basis of their race or nationality.

As a historian I am only too aware that during times of economic crisis people, scared about their precarious situation, are happy to be given a scapegoat for their predicament.

He cites himself as a scapegoat because people have created a fake account in his name and image and despite reports to the Police, the page is not being taken down as it continues to portray him.

City Councilman Corey Johnson said he thought transgender people were being used as «scapegoats» to distract from Trump's failures in office like not yet being able to repeal the ACA.

Actually, Dr. McDougall thinks the recomendation from the medical estalishment to lower salt intake to decrease blood pressure and to improve heart disease, is used as a «scapegoat» to avoid revealing the real culprit of disease — high dietary fat intake, which most people seem incapable of doing (almost universally).

But it wrongfully scapegoats escapism as a reason why people do not care.

When a movie's title and trailers constantly reference a period of time when people were afraid of witchcraft and constantly used religion as an excuse to seek out scapegoats for their problems, audiences will come to expect a magic - filled, action - packed thriller.

In short, it looks as if the people responsible are far more interested in making scapegoats out of the cats than they are in any rigorous scientific inquiry.

«The most active period of the witchcraft trials coincides with a period of lower than average temperature known to climatologists as the «little ice age»... In a time period when the reasons for changes in weather were largely a mystery, people would have searched for a scapegoat in the face of deadly changes in weather patterns.

Scapegoating surged as people blamed other people for their misfortunes.

And such a comparison, in the hands of a thoughtful person like Rosenbaum, may be enlightening, just as a comparison of the rise of environmentalism with the rise of other eccentric political movements appealing to people's anxieties and seeking scapegoats to blame may be enlightening.

Because when I see the storms that we're all heading into, the scarcity and instability and violence, and I see what those with wealth and power are prepared to do to hold onto that wealth and power — when I see my country scapegoating entire classes of people and closing its doors to desperate refugees — I know it matters all the more what kind of a government, what kind of a democracy, what kind of a society we have, what kind of a people we will be, as we head into that future.

When asked if he had fired anyone for the Cambridge Analytica scandal, in which an outside data firm collected profile data on as many as 87 million people without their permission, Zuckerberg said he isn't looking for a scapegoat.