Sentences with phrase «propagandic dehumanization»

'' [A] s technological progress allows the exchange of goods and ideas over longer distances and among larger groups of trading partners, other people become more valuable alive than dead, and they are less likely to become targets of demonization and dehumanization,» Pinker wrote.

The question, while appearing to seek the truth, aims at humiliation and dehumanization.

The gravitational pull of all organizations, gatherings and movements is towards the dehumanization of people.

The boy's lie is truthful, for in telling it he stands against the dehumanization.

And for those who don't have the privilege to regulate what they see, how can humanity survive the forces of dehumanization?

It is the church's enthrallment with power and power's parasitic, and, yes, symbiotic, relationship with our communities that too often concludes with the dehumanization of people.

But let's not pretend rivalries and dehumanization are anything new.

The Commission realized that western culture and science could not destroy the traditional idols but has also introduced into India new gods like Rationalism, Scientism, Individualism and Materialism which had no sense of the sacredness of human persons and was converting technology into a force for exploitation of the industrial workers and dehumanization of peoples» lives in the cities of India.

Cities have become agents of dehumanization as well as of denaturalization,

The protest is NOT against science and structure, rather, the protest is against the «dehumanization» of the human being by reducing him / her down to only matter and rules, and is against dismissing the «spirit & soul» which give every individual his / her unique «person.»

The resultant human carnage in such a case takes the form of a sophisticated psychological increment to a sustained, subtle process of essential dehumanization of a spouse or colleague or anyone in the array of personal relationships.

Quoting Henri de Lubac, he insisted that efforts to organize the world without God can only result in frustration and dehumanization.

A process of dehumanization and even criminalization of persons and societies is taking place on a world wide scale.

I don't care about a lot of theology that is going on out there, but if there is theology that validates and supports inequality, abuse and the dehumanization of people, I'm on it.

«Dehumanization» does not get past anyone, even the self - proclaimed atheist, and that's apparent in Frank Schaeffer's case.

Two components of both hostile and benevolent sexism — dehumanization and traditional gender roles — especially contribute to unhealthy attitudes surrounding rape and rape victims.

The realization of the crucial significance of relations between persons, and of the fundamentally social nature of reality is the necessary, saving corrective of the dominance of our age by the scientific way of thinking, the results of which, as we know, may involve us in universal destruction, and by the technical mastery of things, which threatens man with the no less serious fate of dehumanization.

Likewise, Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique (1963) was important and influential in its day, but today's reader is more likely to notice such eccentricities as an astonishing chapter arguing that the postwar suburban home was «a comfortable concentration camp» that aimed at the «progressive dehumanization» of women.

His pastoral rounds brought him into contact with the victims of the industrial dehumanization.

In Detroit Niebuhr discovered the real cost of industrialization: dehumanization of the worker, nervous tensions, unemployment without compensation, broken bodies, appalling working conditions in the factories, and naive gentlemen with a genius for mechanics deciding the lives and fortunes of hundreds of thousands.

Quite aside from hard - to - measure traumas such as the drawn - out anticipation of an impending catastrophe, the incarceration itself, the dehumanization, the sustained fear of death, I could point to some very tangible assaults upon my health in the concentration camp.

I've cooperated with this dehumanization in the past and have also been a victim of it.

Instead, liberation theologies have arisen as intellectual and religious responses to very concrete struggles for justice and love on the part of those committed to overcoming the dehumanizations and depersonalizations resulting from classism, sexism, racism, technocentrism, and militarism.

What was supposed to last 2 weeks had to be shut down in 5 days due to the escalating cruelty of the guards and the increasingly disturbing dehumanization of the prisoners.

It involves a far - reaching, dehumanization, or Verdinglichung (literally, «thingification») of human «life.

I have argued that theology and theological education must be conceived as a transformative discursive praxis that critically reflects on the concrete historical — political configurations and theological practices of Christian communities which have engendered and still engender the exclusion and dehumanization of «the others» of free born, educated and propertied men in Western society.

The most terrifying form of dehumanization is the denial of meaningful time to a person, denigrating their past and foreclosing their future.

The one is for killing; the other's for fun» makes the psychological connection between violence and sexual dehumanization of women clear.

This stance puts me in opposition to those humanists who regard religion as an illusion, who seek to negate the divine reality as the necessary precondition for affirming the humanist gospel of human freedom, and who interpret the history of religion as only an instrument of oppression and dehumanization.

«It's the same propaganda, it's the same character assassinations, it's the same dehumanization, it's the same de-contextualization.

It is the turning of man against his humanity with which we are concerned, the self - sought dehumanization manifest in so much individual and social pathology in our century.

Many of the ways people online step beyond criticism, to mockery and dehumanization, remind me of the way I was abused, and in fact seem preeeeeeetty darn close to verbal abuse.

My immediate thought is for the liberation of males from the dehumanization which oppresses them.

Altizer makes it quite clear in The Descent Into Hell that his view does not lead to a dehumanization of man.

But still, the gravitational pull of any human communal endeavor, even down to the local church level, is towards the systemic dehumanization of its members.

The technical progress, though it makes for dehumanization, involves the great hope of universalism, since it provides the means of making mankind physically one.

In fact, Dalits and Adivasis experienced systematic dehumanization, severe marginalization, and structural oppression through centuries of Indian history.

And this advocacy for resisting forces of dehumanization and for strengthening the potential for becoming the free and complete human beings that God created us to be was central to Jesus» life and teaching.

Even though the system's gravitational pull is towards the dehumanization of its members, I have seen moments of heroic advocacy on behalf of its members.

It begins to appear that a human being who habitually chose such a mode of behavior would, in a psychoanalytic translation of Whitehead's ideas, progressively undergo a pathological dehumanization of the self, by the self.

He asserted that humanization can be attained by the abolition of private property, the most important cause of dehumanization.

Most damning of all, America has become the very embodiment of that alienation, anomie, and dehumanization which is the curse of existence in a highly technological and urban society (Heidegger has remarked that, metaphysically speaking, America and Russia are the same, for here «time as history» has vanished from human life).

It is an inspiration for all people and especially religious communities which struggle against oppression and dehumanization.

In the words of former Guantanamo interrogator Jennifer Bryson, «The starting point for torture is the dehumanization of a detainee.

But as we survey the world situation today, the general feeling is that along with many benefits, many of the promises of technology stand betrayed and there is evidence of a lot of technology having become instruments of exploitation of peoples, destruction of cultures and dehumanization of persons and pose threat of destruction not only to the whole humanity through nuclear war but also to the whole community of life on the earth through the destruction of its ecological basis.

It is flatly inconceivable that anyone would invent a Son of God who was consigned by church and state alike to die the most extreme form of death by degradation and dehumanization known to the ancient world.

So canned and promiscuous a characterization does precisely what progressives such as Mrs. Clinton claim the bigots do: generalize and demonize others to the point of dehumanization.

This alienation between secular culture and the gospel led to the dehumanization of the forces of secular culture and has reduced Christianity to a kind of individualistic pietism or a spiritual cult to sanctify some self - centred communal existence.

The forces of destructiveness and the dehumanization which have become manifest from the late 19th century onwards have put a question mark on the secular modern culture.

Marxists have criticized capitalism for this dehumanization of workers.