Minute by minute, the existence of Israel mocks the pagan gods, the divine beings who
rise out of the consciousness of all peoples but which are gentile gods because they are deifications of humanity and the forces of nature rather than the true, living God of Abraham.
Not exact matches
Many among us — inside the walls
of faith, and
out — applaud this
rising moral
consciousness.
A similar judgment is tendered by William Seager, who points
out that if the psychological is supervenient upon the physical, it is so in a way that is crucially different from the way in which liquidity is supervenient upon certain molecular states, because we have no idea as to why the joint activity
of insentient neurons should give
rise to
consciousness (MC 179).
To repeat what I have already said, under these purely enforced conditions the center
of consciousness can not achieve its natural growth
rising out of the technical center
of social organization.
The emphasis
of this book so far has been largely on awarenesses, on attitudes important for counselors and ministers as they face the ethical and psychological issues growing
out of the
rising consciousness of women.
After all, if we «swallow the camel» by not challenging the notion that unplanned natural forces gave
rise to all living things, starting from nothing but nonliving chemicals, and «strain
out the gnat»
of man's
consciousness as the sole exception to an otherwise completely natural explanation, are we not allowing religious beliefs to interfere with scientific explanation?
While breastfeeding rates in the U.S. are on the
rise, most women are unable to reach their breastfeeding goals, and I can't help but hypothesize that keeping nursing
out of the public eye (and therefore removed from general public
consciousness) has a lot to do with that.