Sentences with phrase «such dehumanized»

The principles of this study would judge such dehumanized sex, even within marriage, as a serious moral failing.

The rigor of Jesus» opposition to divorce can be interpreted as arising from his desire to defend women against the ravages of such dehumanizing treatment.

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It's sad that a nation with such a wealth of human resources is so inclined to dehumanizing, totalitarian and draconian tendencies.

Moreover, such development requires a transcendent vision of the person, it needs God: without him, development is either denied, or entrusted exclusively to man, who falls into the trap of thinking he can bring about his own salvation, and ends up promoting a dehumanized form of development.

BC doesn't think he's wielding a club, but using degrading and dehumanizing language, making demeaning assumptions, and holding out the threat of eternal torture for honest disagreement — regardless of the source of such «wisdom» — is absolutely an example of club wielding.

Responding to Garrett Hardin's «lifeboat ethics,» for instance, such people would say it is better to take everyone on board and to let the boat sink rather than for those in the lifeboat to dehumanize themselves by keeping others out.

That such possibilities continue to be offered is a reality that can not be derived from the historical situation as it now is, since it is that very situation, with all of its divisive and dehumanizing structures, that threatens to close off the alternative of service to the neighbor.

I have suggested elsewhere that value - free technology, the military - industrial complex, and narrow nationalism might be modern examples of such principalities and powers.9 Hendrikus Berkhof suggests that human traditions, astrology, fixed religious rules, clans, public opinion, race, class, state, and Volk are among the powers.10 Walter Wink sees the powers as the inner aspects of institutions, their «spirituality,» the inner spirit or driving force that animates, legitimates, and regulates their outward manifestations.11 They are «the invisible forces that determine human existence «12 When such things dehumanize human life, thwart and distort the human spirit, block God's gift of shalom, the followers of Jesus are rallied for a new kind of holy war.

Bottom line is there is simply no other religion on earth that draws such sharp distinction between its own members and others, or spends as much time condemning and dehumanizing those who merely choose not to follow its dogma.

Such a future would be redirected away from the dehumanizing, dead end toward which technological society is moving us.

Such marriages are found in all segments of our society but may be more common among minority cultures where men are almost as dehumanized by the white male dominant culture as are women.

There is simply no other religion on earth as ISLAM that draws such sharp distinction between its own members and others, or spends as much time condemning and dehumanizing those who merely choose not to follow its dogma.

The costs of such heroics could be turned to what Midgley cares about, namely poverty, environmental depletion and other dehumanizing social conditions.

On the contrary, political and cultural efforts to rationally solve the problem of man and woman — and we are, to be frank, in the midst of such Utopian spasms — will almost certainly be harmful, even dehumanizing — to man, to woman, and especially, to children — not least because the matters are so delicate and private, and their deeper meanings inexpressible.

To remove the moral obstacles to such a course, leaders, both political and religious, euphemize killing and the weapons of destruction and dehumanize the potential victims in order to justify their extermination.

Such a violation of human ecology must be analyzed with regard to the domination of Korea by foreign powers and the divide - and - conquer strategies that continue to dehumanize the victimized people of the third world.

While some attention has been drawn to the Christian critique of sex and violence in television programming, the critique must also include other dehumanizing aspects such as consumerism, limited access for such groups as minorities and older people and the continuing exploitation of children and youth.

«Personally, I believe in the 21st Century, it's time to say there is no such thing as a witch and to decry the practice of using such a term to dehumanize vulnerable women,» he said.

In doing so, this array also offers an alternative point of view, with show - stopping pieces such modern masters as Georg Baselitz, Jean - Michel Basquiat, Andy Warhol, Joseph Beuys and Robert Rauschenberg, all of which confirm that, far from Orwell's grim and dehumanized vision, 1984 was in fact a year of dynamic and diverse individual creativity.

According to the artist, the cool detachment of these aerial views mirrors the perspective of modern methods of warfare, such as planes and drones, which essentially generalize and dehumanize those below.

A good therapist can also help couples address underlying issues such as establishing the meaning and personal significance of infertility, confronting the realities of fertility procedures (financial burden, dehumanizing effects, physical effects), or building support systems.