Sentences with phrase «power over another human»

They want to get rid of the trappings of religion but hold on to the belief in a benign deity with some degree of loving power over human affairs.

And the fact is that two Catholic priests, Gregor Mendel, O.S.A., and Georges Lemaitre, were pivotal figures in creating two of the most important scientific enterprises of the twenty - first century: modern genetics, which is giving humanity previously unimaginable powers over the human future; and modern cosmology, which is giving us glimpses of the universe in the first moments of its existence.

Increasingly the matter comes to the fore as the Scriptures become the sacred text upon which a person's position may be used to maintain rank or power over another human being.

This allows us to face the challenges of our time soberly, neither despairing of the possibilities of justice in public life and thus withdrawing, nor seeking to take command of history by embarking on grandiose ideological projects that encourage us to assume godlike powers over human affairs.

The experts say that rape is more about power over another human being than about love or affection or even pleasure.

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Yet, just months ago, a Jokowi victory appeared almost a sure thing — holding an almost 40 % lead over Prabowo, a candidate not allowed in the U.S. for past human rights violations and who, as the former son - in - law of Suharto, the Indonesian dictator overthrown 16 years ago, is certainly among the nation's entrenched powers.

The statement on Thursday comes amid a growing debate over the use of powerful new gene editing tools in human eggs, sperm and embryos, which have the power to change the DNA of unborn children.

In addition to suing over Clean Power Plan regulations, Pruitt has argued that climate activists should be prosecuted, and that debate over whether climate change is human - made should be encouraged in classrooms and Congress — despite overwhelming scientific evidence that the debate is settled.

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This challenge led to a finger - wagging review by Hitchens in The Atlantic and a series of punch - counterpunch exchanges in various transatlantic venues, all of which obscured both the thoughtfulness of Amis» meditations on grief and his discovery of the depths of human depravity: «Hitler - Stalin tells us this, among other things: given total power over another, the human being will find his thoughts turn to torture.»

People today are so preoccupied with making it illegal to even roll your eye's at the thought of gay marriage meanwhile over the last 10 years the powers that be have removed some of the most basic human rights that even Muslim countries have!

It is instead of just another human institution with all the same tendencies as every other institution that is built by to give an elite few power over others for monetary gain.

In the Book of Genesis, God creates human beings and blesses them with power: «Rule over the earth...» God tells them (Genesis 1:26 - 28).

It says more about the power of the human mind over the human body than it does about prayer itself.

While over 90 % of humans believe in a higher power, no God has even 1/3 of humans believing in it.

Rather, abusers commit abuse in order to exert power and control over another human being.

No human hands (he means) prepare the weapon by which the power of evil in the world will ultimately be overthrown: it is the act of God alone, whose kingdom will then be effective over all creation.

power / control is one of my favorite topics as well — i see one of Jesus» three wilderness temptations as being about that — and of course He rejected satan's offer of worldly power — i've written several blogs about power / control http://www.diospsytrek.wordpress.com — scott peck saw the desire for one human to exert control over another as the essential human evil — blessing on your work.

The notion of women's autonomy» including absolute control over our own bodies» leaves us with an unrealistic sense of human power and an exaggerated sense of independence from the consequences of our attitudes and actions.

In population control, euthanasia, abortion, and eugenics, the human person is treated as an object or product to be used or eliminated according to the purposes of those who have power over others.

So last night our own Peter Lawler debated leading Darwinian Conservative Larry Arnhart here at RIT over the explanatory power of Darwinian evolution to capture to the totality of human experience in general and American political experience in particular.

i'm an avid believer in the power of the human mind to over come most problems whether they are man vs. nature, man vs. man or man vs. the supernatural... we can conquer most obsticules placed in our path.

«1 But despite Plato's insight that power is involved in both the ability to affect and the ability to be affected (with its implication that reality and value might involve both), there has been a persistent tendency to favor what Bernard Loomer has called unilateral power — the ability to affect while remaining unaffected.2 Although this tendency is evident in every field of human thought, it will be appropriate to examine it first in the philosophical tradition, where it goes hand in hand with the valuation of being over becoming.

For «providence» is a word which tells us of the conviction that God exercises a never - failing and personal control over, even as he unfailingly works within, the events and circumstances of life, molding them and molding us in such a way that his grace and power are manifested in human history and in personal experience.

What power is it that is prepared to trust that a human will choose the latter, infinitely less plausible interpretation, and then graciously cover over the vulnerability of his bride - to - be and allow the sign to flourish?

Purpose of post is to make hindu secular, ignorant self centered human to realize power of truth, nothing can over power truth, nor can deviate from truth in life, because truth absolute rules the world, their is none other but truth absolute LORD GOD of the world.

Pius XII, in a further clarification of the standard argument, holds that when the State, acting by its ministerial power, uses the death penalty, it does not exercise dominion over human life but only recognizes that the criminal, by a kind of moral suicide, has deprived himself of the right to life.

The more power and authority a human has over another person (or an animal) the more compassion they are required to show.

This is a human aspiration and humans will use whatever ideologies are at their disposal to exercise power over others to attain that goal.

I've heard these very things said by those who are on the other end of the people who use religion and politics to enrich themselves, give them power and authority over their fellow human beings and draw attention to themselves rather than to God.

This eternal significance, this meaning which transcends all human meanings, is the sovereign act of creation through which God speaks to us and brings us into being, an act which is completely «over our heads» — beyond our powers of rational understanding.

«Jesus chose the power of God's weakness over against the ultimate weakness of coercive human power.

Make no mistake about it, he has the key of David and power over every living human being as I found out.

They can't see the basic human psychology in stories about a being (or beings) who have power over good and evil, who has the ability to give ot take life, to forgive or to condemn, to create heaven or hell.

And this scares you more than it would if the person with the power over extinction was someone who believed that human life was an accident representible by the 0.000000000000000000000000001 % chance that some chemicals could combine in just the right way, at just the right time, with just the right frequency to eventually give rise to sentience.

Evil is test of human choice, HE has power over hindu Lucifer ism, filthy secular ism of every thing, but HE honors HIS promise to human of their authority, HE will like human to defeat hinduism denial of truth absolute by himself.

Over the course of cultural evolution, due to an impotence at the heart of the will and to recurrent failures in ever - renewed struggles for ascendency, human will to power lost its good cheer and creatively turned against itself.

Referring to C. S. Lewis's much - cited claim in The Abolition of Man, Kass writes that if «man's so - called power over nature is, in truth, always a power exercised by some over others with knowledge of nature as their instrument, can it really be liberating to exchange the rule of nature for the role of arbitrary human will?»

But we must acknowledge that God's work itself is always something more than our works; and in its full depth and power and wholeness stands in judgment over our human working.

Its principal features are: a three - storied universe consisting of heaven, earth, and underworld; the intervention of natural and supernatural powers in human life; the dominion of evil spirits and Satan over that life and also over the external realm of nature; the imminent end in time of this present world - æon.

God's power «is the power that prevails over the chaos, that sets limits to the onslaught of the forces of destruction and ensures the conditions needed for human life and prosperity... God's power is his «justice» in action,» as exemplified particularly in the Magnificat.48

By enabling new flows of money, information and power on a world scale, the multinationals have succeeded in insulating themselves from both political and social constraints on their economic power, and thus have become an embodiment of the supreme value of economic efficiency over human values.

Humans crave order and power over their environment and their fellow creatures and what better way than to threaten them with unprovable stories and then kill them when the don't acquiesce — because YOU are right an god is on YOUR side.

Turning away from orthodox Christianity because of the emotional excesses of frontier evangelism, he found it easier as a young man to accept what was called the Doctrine of Necessity, which he defined as the belief â $ ˜that the human mind is impelled to action, or held in rest by some power, over which the mind itself has no control.â $ ™ Later, he frequently quoted to his partner, William H. Herndon, the lines for Hamlet: â $ ˜Thereâ $ ™ s a divinity that shapes our ends, rough â $ «hew them how he will.â $ ™ â $ œFrom Lincolnâ $ ™ s fatalism derived some of his most lovable traits: his compassion, his tolerance, his willingness to overlook mistakes.

see what you have to understand about living in a real world — a world where god is just a story and not real — its a world based on scientific and physical laws that are proven to exist and their effects are measurable... us as humans, mere animals, hold no real power or control aside thru ingenuity which allows us to change our environment to suit us... stay with me here... at this point in human history we ceased to change to suit our environment and started changing it to suit us — thats destruction of the earth to suit one species — that should go over well...

The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour.

Power over the forces of nature and over human and animal behavior.

To the extent that to know God's name is to have power over him through an invocation whereby the god invoked becomes a manipulatable thing, the name confided to Moses is that of a being whom human beings can not really name; that is, hold within the discretion of their language.

If God's power is perceived to be all controlling, dominating, impositional, so will humans aspire to be controlling and dominating over others in God's name, imposing their own will on others on the understanding that they are only fulfilling their God - given destiny.

10 Certain recent discussions of environmental ethics, dealing with «respect for nature» (where nature is not necessarily limited to the realm of living things), reflect some affinities with Hall's ideas on «deference» and seem to pose a challenge to my suggestion that the pursuit of power over nature should be criticized primarily in terms of its negative effects on human values and experiences.