Sentences with phrase «scapegoats on»

In casting around for scapegoats on whom to lay the blame for the «omnishambles», there are few more obvious candidates than George Osborne, the chancellor whose record of unforced errors in 2012 has rivalled that of England's football squad.

State employees are becoming scapegoats on this matter.

A common tick of the Bad Boss is to select an office scapegoat on whom he or she can dump any built up frustration / anger / aggression at whim.

«For a politician who doesn't want to admit that the electorate sent a message that they don't like politicians, it's far easier to scapegoat it on economic issues than it is to address the fundamental question: that there are voters in this country who no longer think their representatives represent them,» said a Democratic strategist involved in 2016.

Does this sound like scapegoating on Peter's part?

Sacks argues that in the history of the West, anti-Semitism is a key symptom of a culture in crisis, looking for a scapegoat on which to blame its troubles.

Without the benefit of modern psychology he was unable to see how the Jews simply became a scapegoat on to whom were projected every bitter emotion of misery and revenge.

Looking for a scapegoat on this goal, take your pick.

History will show whether Derby are a club leading the charge to bring transparency to the world of football transfers or simply trying to find a scapegoat on which to pin the blame for failures of corporate governance.

Reeling from an airstrike gone horribly wrong and a murdered station chief in Pakistan, CIA Director Andrew Lockhart (Tracy Letts) unfairly tries to make Carrie Mathison (Claire Danes) the scapegoat on Showtime's «Homeland.»

Not exact matches

When those seeking public office do so by scapegoating and casting blame on the powerless, they are unsuited to serve the people.

The tax reform law championed by Trump and Republican leaders on Capitol Hill also has been a scapegoat for Wall Street strategists trying to explain the market swings.

«I feel like legislating pedestrian distraction might give aggressive drivers a scapegoat to blame fatalities on the road with, and I'm not excited about that aspect.»

However, he did give them advice on what not to do: «Denigration, scapegoating, finger - pointing, and yelling.»

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.

When they mess up, the blame's always put on external factors or some poor scapegoat.

«Scapegoat» On Tuesday, the board of Cambridge Analytica suspended its Chief Executive Alexander Nix, who was caught in a secret recording boasting that his company played a decisive role in Trump's victory.

Kogan, who gathered the data by running a survey app on Facebook, also said he was being made a scapegoat by Facebook and Cambridge Analytica.

Authorities have found a new scapegoat to blame for the ongoing opioid drug epidemic going on in the United State: Bitcoin.

The tendency is to focus on concrete failure points that are easy to explain, such as differences between product features — or to scapegoat the salespeople who lost the deal.

If you want to be «real» and have substance, it starts with thinking on your own and taking responsibility for your actions, not allowing the sainted scarecrow / scapegoat to take it for you

How is it moral to cast off your sins, your responsibility on Jesus, who then becomes indistinguishable from a scapegoat?

Scapegoating is absurd to begin with and Christianity is based on it.

The whole scapegoat thing also came up many times before Christians borrowed it to hoist their own dead thing on a stick.

The Bible was not written primarily to reveal God to us, but was written to reveal the same thing that Jesus revealed on the cross, which is that we scapegoat people in the name of God.

I do not accept the concept of scapegoating — that we can pile all our transgressions on someone else and have them die for it.

Islam meaning is «Submission to One God» and that was Abrahams Religion on which all the Prophets before him and after him had followed until «Issa the Son of Mary» then as our Friend»» «gozar»» «mentioned that (God did not need a scapegoat story stolen from earlier fictions)... doesn't that look like a fine line of poetry that summarized the whole situation of the crime that took place against a prophet and messenger of God became a dead sin taker...??

This is especially seen when we consider that much of the scapegoat imagery is carried over into the New Testament and applied to Jesus Christ on the cross.

Could it be that the scapegoat imagery of Leviticus 16 that God wasn't just telling Israel that their sins were carried away into the wilderness by a goat, but that He Himself was bearing their sin on His own being, so that they might be delivered from the ever - increasing spiral of violence that threatened to consume them?

Without the scapegoat mechanism, inter-personal violence only continues to escalate on an ever - increasing spiral of retribution and destruction until society collapses upon itself.

The violent death of Jesus on the cross exposed the lie of scapegoating and sacrificial violence for what it was.

Kierkegaard had a unique perspective on the phenomenon of scapegoating as a result of what has become known as The Corsair Affair.

Wide - ranging and insightful, Marsden's essay touches on everything from original sin and scapegoating to American optimism and the «culture of «whatever»» while arguing with Reinhold Niebuhr, Alan Wolfe, Richard Rorty and others along the way.

But one reason I want to focus on here is that Jesus wanted to expose the lie of the scapegoat: the religious lie that an innocent victim must die for sin.

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.

He wasn't a scapegoat, cruelly put to death, without his consent, with no divine plan being in place that the whole Trinity didn't willingly agree on.

The ultimate crime of scapegoating, of course, is the crucifixion of Jesus, who, on the cross, gives the clearest revelation of scapegoating in history.

The death of Jesus on the cross «rescues us from sin» in that it reveals to us the scapegoating, blame - game mechanism behind most of our sin and violence.

And if you read the story of the good Samaritan with this in mind, you can easy see, that is not only a story about how to act but also a critique on the scapegoating what the Levit and the Priest was probably doing, when they let the poor guy rot to death («ya know, it would make me unclean to help, the guy probably had it coming, I better serve the Lord»).

After the scapegoat is released, the High Priest enters into the Tabernacle one more time, takes off his linen clothes, and puts back on his glorious clothes (Lev 16:23 - 24).

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.

This book reveals how terribly wrong this perspective is, and instead reveals to us that Jesus died on the cross to reveal to us what we have been doing to others (and to God) for all of human history, namely, we have been scapegoating them.

Some reading about logic might cure you of your backward supersti - tions, but there isn't much hope for that since you seem to have bought into the silly dead - guy - on - a-stick scapegoat story hook line and sinker.

[Note the scapegoating going on in Derek's statement.

Of course, as John goes on to explain, if we deny what Jesus reveals to us through His blood, and say that we are not guilty of sacred violence toward others, then we simply have not yet seen the truth about the blood of Jesus and have not owned up to our own duplicity and participation in human scapegoating and violence.

The institutional aspect of church might be in decline, but it is pure scapegoating to blame this on women.

Then the blame falls on the congregation and their «lack of faith» or some such scapegoat for the pastor's failed gaze into the crystal ball.

You can set up whatever scapegoat serves your vison and blame it on THEM — or blame it on the rain.

New York City Councilman Wendell Foster illustrated this scapegoating attitude when he suggested chaining addicts to trees so people could spit on them.

How does Jesus dying on the cross reveal to us the way of escape from our own sinful scapegoating tendencies?