Sentences with phrase «perverted forms»

Walter Armbrust, in his examination of talkshow host Taufiq «Ukasha, argued that in moments of liminality, «tricksters» like Ukasha thrive, producing perverted forms of social knowledge, in this case, becoming key to the organisation of counterrevolutionary provocations.

One reason that the spirit of gratitude has become so rare in our culture is that it has been mistaken for its perverted forms.

He also examines how the human being who denies these moral truths steeps himself ever deeper in perverted forms of remorse, confession, atonement, reconciliation, and justification, all in the vain attempt to convince himself and others that evil is really good.

Obviously here is the problem with this nonsensical illogic that is Christianity, which a perverted form of a Jewish heresy tainted by Greco Roman religion and culture.

What the term is meant to designate is indicated rather indirectly by the character of modern church architecture and by the perverted form in which the idea occurs.

It would be better to call it «suppressed knowledge» such as blossoms forth in a perverted form in mysticism and idealism.

The God of Moses, on the other hand, was a critique of that perverted form of the sacred.

Fantasy, by contrast, is a perverted form of freedom.

See II Kings 1:2, Beelzebul must be the name of a demon, perhaps in purposely perverted form.

In Canada, today's political and business leaders want to privatize profits and socialize losses, all the while chanting the shortsighted mantra that civic spending is, if not evil, some perverted form of socialism.

Not exact matches

Religion, in its purest form, has been perverted by man.

In his book In Praise of Play, Robert Neale discusses in detail these perversions of play: when peace is «inaction»; when freedom is bondage to one need in our psyche which is dominant; when delight is turned into a work agenda; when illusion is maintained at the expense of other needs and is a form of mental illness; when the story is believed, the time limits ignored, and pretending becomes pretension; when a game is played at the expense of others, breaking the rules; when the risk of adventure is perverted and the gamble removed or fatalistically accepted; or when play is done in secret.

In those days, not least in the thinking of men like St. Thomas Aquinas, the material world was regarded as a good thing, although wrongdoing of various sorts had distorted and perverted it in the forms in which actually we experience it.

State and society in their specific, imperfect, unjust, inhuman form produce in human beings a reversed or perverted consciousness, corresponding to human being's perversion, i.e., religious consciousness.

This article is arguably hypocritical as well as stomach - churning, since it begins with the suggestion that «Because of the amazingly diverse multicultural contexts in which pastoral ministers are called upon to work today, it is impossible to prescribe one liturgical model that will be always and everywhere appropriate»: this flexible and open - minded liturgist then proceeded to argue in The Tablet that only the Mass of Paul VI is always and everywhere appropriate and that its very existence automatically abrogated all previous liturgies for ever: presumably those who prefer the older form are not to be given the dignity of a group or «culture» to be catered for by his free and easy multicultural ways, but are to be simply dismissed as a bunch of liturgical perverts.

[2] Smith holds that the perverted faculty argument, in at least some form, is a part of any coherent argument against contraception, [3] but claims that her argument is more than the classical version of the perverted faculty argument because it dwells on more than the physical end of the faculty.

This perverted psychiatric identity, elevated to the status of a mutant «life form» in order to safeguard polite society against its disgusting depravities, swallowed up the entire character of the afflicted: «Nothing that went into [the homosexual's] total composition was unaffected by his sexuality.

Yes Gary; Jesus is in you as your savour as He is the savour of the world: In Adam all die even so in Christ is All made alive: But I have seen in the past couple days your words and they are not my Lords at all: Christ is not divided or Bi-Polar: He does not cuss like a sailor one day and then minister to the masses the next: No; Christ is consistent, He is Grounded in His word; those that waver are not stable in anything, even as is written: I truly know now the you truly do have a mocking spirit in you, because again Christ is not Bi-polar: Go re-read you other post and see if they are the words of my Lord, then ask if anyone will be willing to follow you even as you are of Christ: The false Christ comes up along side of the truth Christ to pervert everything that is of God: That is how all these sects are again formed, many started of in the truth, but went out from the Word of our Lord even through Paul now to become their own god: You are now an example of what I speak: Thank - you Gary; In Jesus Name Alexandria:

In the case of Harpur's theory (that Jesus didn't exist, and that deliberate efforts have been made to choose to make the myths interpreted literally), his evidence is not as convincing or as extensive as the evidence for Jesus having been a real person, on whom a certain religious and political systems have been formed and which have embellished, perverted, and developed certain aspects, with intentions both deliberate and unintentional.

While the script is structured around the»40s scandal that threatened to engulf the comic — when regulators accused Marston of perverting young minds by filling the pages with S&M imagery — Marston's ménage - à - trois forms the emotional stitching.

«In a Different Light,» University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA, January 11 — April 9, 1995; catalogue «Articulations: Forms of Language,» Whitney Museum of American Art (organizer), Fisher Landau Center, Long Island City, NY, May 13 — June 30, 1995; brochure «Telling Tales,» The Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, September 14 — October 28, 1995 «Face Forward: Self Portraiture in Contemporary Art,» John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI, 1995 «In the Flesh,» Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT, 1995; catalogue «25 Americans: Painting in the 90's,» Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI; catalogue «Boxer,» Walsall Museum and Art Gallery, Walsall, UK, 1995; catalogue «XI Mostra da Gravura Cidade de Curitiba / Mostra America,» Curitiba, Brazil, 1995; catalogue «Configura 2: Dialog de Kulturen,» Erfurt, Germany, 1995; catalogue «Mirage: Enigmas of Race,» Difference and Desire, Institute of Contemporary Art, London, UK, 1995; catalogue «Glenn Ligon, Gary Simmons,» The Fabric Workshop, Philadelphia, PA, and Beaver College Art Gallery, Glenside, PA, 1995 «Word for Word,» Beaver College Art Gallery, Glenside, PA, 1995 «Pervert,» University Museum, University of California at Irvine, Irvine, CA, 1995; catalogue «fag - o - sites,» Gallery 400, School of Art and Design, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, 1995

Rather than invent new words, though there are some in leet, leetspeakers (who really write more than speak) pervert the spelling or form of current words, which is why the really good Wikipedia article on it calls leet a cipher.