Sentences with phrase «scapegoats because»

Stop looking for scapegoats because it will not solve our problems.

But looking at buybacks as a scapegoat because, and there's so much misinformation.

We don't need a scapegoat because we have a pure and spotless Lamb.

It is sort of confusing because the practice of «scapegoating» humans predates the scapegoat sacrifice, but we call it scapegoating because of the sacrifice.

We Americans like to scapegoat because it's easier than looking for the truth.

He's been made the scapegoat because he's an easy target.

I'm tired of seeing him scapegoated because his game isn't predicated on the characteristics of an English (and thus American) footballer — meaning what you lack in technical ability you make up for with hard work, hard work, hard work.

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.

There's no way to know if PS Plus actually hurts Indie sales, or if the people weren't going to buy the games any way and are just scapegoating because they want more Retail titles.

Not exact matches

We've seen over and over — in Venezuela, in Argentina, and in Brazil — that populists can cling to power even when the economy is doing badly because they can blame their performance on scapegoats.

It ended disastrously because his government allowed Big Oil to make the government the scapegoat when oil prices dropped in response to global market forces.

BEcause your blood contains sin, and God has become the scapegoat for the evil hatred we carry.

Jeremy might even say that accounts of the enemy attacking the US were all made up lies, because whenever someone accuses someone of something, it's impossible that there's any validity to it, they MUST be scapegoating.

And because René Girard was right: There is always a scapegoat; it's just a question of who.

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.

A priest who is accused of even one incident» even if it was no more than a misunderstood hug, and even if that was twenty or thirty years ago» and has given his life in faithful service to the people of God ever since, is rudely thrown out, not because he poses a credible threat to anyone but because he is a convenient scapegoat for bishops who, after years of laxity, now want to look tough.

The Cross as Revelation Girard speaks of the Gospels as texts which reveal the scapegoat mechanism, because they are written from the point of view of the victim, not of the persecuting crowd.

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.»

Jesus went willingly to the cross, not because a blood sacrifice was necessary to pay the penalty for sin, but because going to the cross unmasked the scapegoat mechanism, revealed the violence inherent within the heart of men, exposed the myth of redemptive violence, and brought an end to the war that men had waged on God for centuries.

There were all these innocent cultures that surrounded them, singing Kumbaya around the camp fire, and the Israelites just felt like killing some people because they were bored, or because they wanted to «scapegoat.»

Because of their vulnerable status, it has become common to scapegoat and hurl insults at them without regard to the fact that they are human beings created in the image of God.

And if you read the story of the good samaritan with this in mind, you'll see, that when the Levite and the Priest don't help the poor guy, it could have to do a lot with scapegoating, because, ya know, he is a samaritan, he had it comming...

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.

And because of the revelation of Jesus Christ on the cross, we have become quite good at recognizing this scapegoat mechanism when we read about it in historical documents.

Because we need a scapegoat to blame for our own sin, and the «other,» the «outsider,» the «one who is not like us,» is always the person who gets chosen to be the scapegoat.

I don't like one person having that much power, mostly because then the pres is an easy scapegoat to blame.

So lying and stealing are sinful, but only because they are part of the actions and behaviors that lead us to accuse, condemn, and scapegoat others.

Maybe this is partly because the Hebrew people have so often been the scapegoats...

Because the dynamic of Jesus» passion has made it impossible to be unconscious of scapegoats or to mystify them in myths, Christian persecutors have put them in plain sight.

God is willing to die for us, to bear our sin in this particular way, because we desperately need deliverance from the sin of scapegoating.

The good / bad tension is there first because of the frank description of the sacrificial, scapegoating violence that has existed from the foundation of the world.

Jesus died in our place, because it is literally true that any one of us, in the right circumstances, can be the scapegoat.

We can hardly deny that Jesus bears our sin of scapegoating, precisely because of its collective and ubiquitous character.

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.

Wenger may think it is simply the Press making a scapegoat out of Ospina, and Wenger as well because he has bought one of the best most experienced keepers in the Premier League, and then left him on the bench!

Arsenal like to keep Wenger around because they need him as a scapegoat.

Balotelli did it this season for Liverpool and because he is the scapegoat and the reason Liverpool all the other Liverpool players were poor, he got mashed for swapping shirts..

They will not fire Wenger, because they need a scapegoat, and Wenger is happy to be a rich scapegoat.

Ozil himself has said before that he has been made a scapegoat for some of the Gunners» poor performances, but does he deserve more criticism that our other players simply because of his price tag?

he is not the scapegoat, the truth is that he is not the striker for big club like arsenal... And also it's because when we win, we are pretending that he is good enough... The truth is also that he have probably one of the best midfield line behind him, and he fail time after time... They all served to him like he is king... The term «striker» CF its little bit changed nowadays, i was thinking that they score goals, now they hold the ball...

Giroud was a scapegoat last season because he had the expectation that every goal was to be scored by him when Walcott and Rambo were injured, remember we had 5 midifelders compared to 1 striker — a little phenomenon called diffusion of responsibility present concerning our everchanging midfielders.

We will always scapegoat players / managers because overall we want to get the best out of our beloved club.

It's the leadership of Marine Le Pen that moved the party away from anti-semitism because she realised that after the holocaust this trope would no longer have any traction in the wider European community and other scapegoats would have to be found.

Asked about the state's response to the mass shooting at Broward County's Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, DeSantis said he would have approached a school - safety bill, which included new restrictions on gun sales, «differently because I think it scapegoated law - abiding citizens in terms of their Second Amendment rights.»

Can't figure out the love affair with Cox unless he's there because he makes a great scapegoat for why the Republican party is deteriorating, generally, in NY.

Your electric bill is headed up yet again — because Gov. Cuomo needs a scapegoat for the subway's woes and a piggy bank for repair bills, and he knows...

«People love [the conclusions] because finding a nefarious element in the food supply gives them a single scapegoat for all of their ills.»

The writing felt full of scapegoats; that being ideas that are entirely too obvious but are used because someone simply couldn't come up with something better.

Because each scenario has a limited number of units and you can't build more of them along the way - like in games inspired by Advance Wars - each unit counts and each unit can become the hero or the scapegoat (yes, looking at you my lovely tanker who couldn't hit a German unit if it was looking down your barrel).