Sentences with phrase «take a human life on»

The Campaign to Stop Killer Robots fundamentally objects to permitting machines to take a human life on the battlefield or in policing, border control, and other circumstances.

Campaign to Stop Killer Robots coordinator Mary Wareham addressed the Munich AI panel, highlighting the multiple ethical, legal, operational, moral, proliferation, technical and other challenges raised by allowing machines to take a human life on the battlefield or in policing, border control, and other circumstances.

Not exact matches

Elon Musk's far - fetched plan not only to get humans to Mars, but to inhabit it, has evidently driven interest in the Red Planet: A team of NASA scientists will talk about the challenges of living on Earth's neighbor, while Lockheed Martin and NASA will combine to talk about the interplanetary travel systems that will take us there.

Ten years after «Night of the Living Dead,» Romero made «Dawn of the Dead,» where human survivors take refuge from the undead in a mall and then turn on each other as the zombies stumble around the shopping complex.

If humans have any hope of living forever, we should probably take a hint from the dozens of other animals on Earth that far outpace our measly 71 years.

If we are right, then we lived our lives to their fullest in intellectual honesty, without the fear of some tyrant getting their hands on us after we die, and without having taken some stupid stand against the validity of sound science, or basic human rights.

The German nation began as a metaphor of Schiller's ode to the spirit of human freedom and concluded with Hitler's spirit of life taking on a scale of unparalleled horror.

But if we put that matter aside, and if our main interest lies in protecting the lives of our people, why do the mavens on national security show no concern for the 1.2 million innocent human lives taken each year in abortion?

And while I'm grateful believers and unbelievers can agree that the taking of innocent human life is wrong, without a basis for this knowledge, this is a position can turn on a dime.

Let's see, a guy named god impregnated a woman with himself so that he could die for himself in a blood ritual so that he could redeem the human race and make them live forever because of a moral stain on the entire human race because a dirt man and rib woman took dietary advice from a talking snake.

So we see that a renaissance of marriage and family life based on natural law has taken place once already in Britain, serving the good of society and upholding the absolute sacredness of human life from the moment of conception to natural death.

But it is curious that nowhere does he mention or comment on Genesis 9:5 - 6, in which God Himself states that as part of the new (Noahide) covenant with humanity, human beings (and not God) have the responsibility of taking the life of a murderer.

While seemingly innocent at first glance, legalizing PAS will start us on a slippery slope that will not only take thousands of lives unnecessarily, but will exploit the poor, abuse the elderly and disabled, and ultimately devalue human life.

Faced with the absolute evil of the Nazi attack, first on Jewish life and ultimately on human life per se, Greenberg was tempted to take Richard Rubenstein's approach and concede that the God of Israel was indeed dead.

But when we miss out on trying new things and taking risks, we're missing out on what it looks like to live fully alive as humans made in the image of God.

In a society founded on the exaltation of freedom it is understandable that the desire to satisfy one's human appetites takes an ever firmer grip on individuals who live in an environment where they have considerable spending power and great encouragement to spend on pleasures and material goods.

The dropping of the atomic bomb, however, and the killing of birdlife by DDT, documented by Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, introduced a new problem: the presence of totally unpredicted (and probably unpredictable) harmful effects on the environment and on human life stemming from actions taken specifically to produce certain benefits.

It was only when He took our sin upon Himself on the cross, it was only when the crushing despair of being separated from God came upon Him, that He finally felt what we humans have lived with since we were born.

4:14) Although we may never agree on the point at which a developing life becomes a human person, we are compelled to take nascent life seriously and to ask when it is no longer morally acceptable to experiment on or discard human embryos.»

On the other hand, the same time it took for life to evolve is relatively really, really long compared to the lifespan of human.

As Lasch has observed elsewhere in his critique of Sheehy's book, negotiating the crises and «passages» of one's life simply by shedding old selves, not panicking, and taking on new interests denies the human need to grow to maturity through continuity with one's old selves and the people of the past.

On the question of taking a human life, for example, the church has always distinguished between killing and murder, murder being the morally condemned act, and killing the physical act which is not always wrong.

then there is no need of hell and heavens, no need of good and evil... every one will be a good one... but because of free will we have human doing wrong things to others in terms of preaching them to take them away from worshipping one God and so on... and also no will be accountable for others... its like you are on your own on that day and no counselor / helper... the only helper will be your good deeds that you have done in this earthly life...

That insight is nothing other than the understanding that while in one sense God is indeed unalterable in his faithfulness, his love, and his welcome to his human children, in another sense the opportunities offered to him to express just such an attitude depend to a very considerable degree upon the way in which what has taken place in the world provides for God precisely such an opening on the human side; and it is used by him to deepen his relationship and thereby enrich both himself and the life of those children.

He responded by relating the parable of the Good Samaritan, one of my personal favorites... bear traps are hidden, and often unseen till bear or human are caught in them... the traps are deliberately placed, they don't just suddenly appear... the answer to the question was the man who had compassion on the man taken by robbers... he was a social and spiritual outcast who had compassion on someone who in normal circumstances would have hated his guts... because his doctrine and «lifestyle» were not acceptable to the religious establishment... I have had life experiences that bear this out, experiencing love and compassion from people whom today's religious establishment demonizes and looks down upon... any reading of the Good Samaritan story should be followed up by a reading of 1 Corinthians 13....

To talk in that fashion is not to speak of a kind of meaningless re-enactment of what went on in the creation; it is to speak of a vital, living, and ongoing movement, where God knows and experiences (if that word is, as I believe, appropriate to the divine life) that which has taken place, but knows it and experiences it with a continuing freshness and delight — and, if what has taken place has been evil, with a continuing tinge of sadness and regret — such as must be proper to the chief creative and chief receptive agency who is worshiped and served by God's human children.

It is our hope that this new perspective will throw light on persistent human problems, and open the way to some new assessment of the forms which the spirit of love may be taking in contemporary life.

There have been many other theories of atonement, each picking out what a given generation took to be the worst possible human situation and going on to affirm that in the action of God in Jesus, God met us precisely at that point: slavery to demonic powers, from which we have been delivered; actual slavery to human masters, with manumission accomplished in Christ; guilt for wrongdoing, with Christ as the advocate who pleads for, and secures, our release; corruptibility and mortal death, met in Christ with healing and eternal life....

What I have particularly in mind is that while there is much talk about taking Jesus as a key to the interpretation of human nature, as it is often phrased, or to the meaning of human life, or to the point of man's existential situation, there is a lamentable tendency to stop there and not to go on to talk about «the world» — by which Miss Emmet meant, I assume, the totality of things including physical nature; in other words the cosmos in its basic structure and its chief dynamic energy.

The ability of biology to detail the organisation and constitution of life - forms, not just on a cellular level, but now also on a genetic and molecular level, and its description of how such factors canaffect the global behaviour of an organism, should be taken into account in the theological and philosophical discussion of free will, individual identity / personality, conscience, the soul, and other areas concerning human behaviour, especially in regard to morality.

In sum, because it treats belief as an atomistic decision taken piecemeal by individuals rather than a holistic response to family life, Nietzsche's madman and his offspring, secularization theory, appear to present an incomplete version of how some considerable portion of human beings actually come to think and behave about things religious — not one by one and all on their own, but rather mediated through the elemental connections of husband, wife, child, aunt, great - grandfather, and the rest.

However, inasmuch as my personal opposition to this practice is rooted in a sectarian (Catholic) religious belief in the sanctity of human life, I am unwilling to impose it on others who may, as a matter of conscience, take a different view.

The best known incarnations are Rama and Krishna, in whom Vishnu took on a fully human life, including conception, birth and a natural death.

The problem is when people start taking things that are fundamental to the Bible, like male / female duality and the preciousness of human life established in Genesis 1, and saying, «Eh, these things don't matter,» and then go on to support causes that contradict these foundational values (e.g., gay marriage, abortion).

It is after doing what is commanded, when everything has been done in the sphere of human decisions and means, when in terms of the relation to God every effort has been made to know the will of God and to obey it, when in the arena of life there has been full acceptance of all responsibilities and interpretations and commitments and conflicts, it is then and only then that the judgment takes on meaning: all this (that we had to do) is useless; all this we cast from us to put it in thy hands, O Lord; all this belongs no more to the human order but to the order of thy kingdom.

To Ken Margo: I am totally agree with you about this evil thing going around the earth... this evil minded people is there everywhere regardless of faith... that was not what i was trying to say... my point was to be able to recognize the One True God who is Unseen and who has no partners as He is not in need of any partners but we the creation is in need of Him... thats all... I wish I could do something to stop all these taking place around the earth... I think we human fear the fed laws more than we fear the laws of our Creator, for example not to associate any partner with Him, taking the life of others, drug dealing, human trafficking, believing in hereafter and so on... I remember a story that I was talking with one of my friends... I was telling him look we all obey the law of the land so much like for example when we drive and no one moves even an inch when there is a school bus stop to pick / drop kids as it is a fed laws but when it comes to the laws of our Creator, we don't care... like having physical relationship outside of marriage and many more... then he said something nice... he said that its because we see the consequence of breaking the law of the land but we do not see the punishment of hereafter even though it is mentioned very details in Quran, it even gives pictures of hereafter....

For Tanner, what is decisive about Jesus is that, through the Word taking on human nature in the Incarnation, humanity is itself purified from sin» and given what, by nature, is beyond it: participation in the life of God.

And that means that its life may be taken only for reasons that stand on the same plane as the reasons we would be obliged to give for taking any other human life.

Yes... this is the severist most ignorant form of human brotherhood... but Bill Nye, is taking the first step towards his goal, and the goal of many athiest activist... take the rights away from God believers... because... a hundred reasons... children will be hurt, holds back our country yada yada... be careful who you get suckered in by as you travel these few years we are given on this earth... allow your brother to be your brother... allow him to chose for his life and family... never cross the line of «knowing better.»

Orwell thinks that from Shakespeare's writings it would be difficult to know that he had any religion» whereas in fact the placing of truth in the mouths of babes is one aspect of the Christian respect for all human life; that same profound feeling is what inspires us to protest loudly when health authorities take a mental defective off dialysis machine because they consider his «quality of life» too low, in defiance of Christ's words in the Sermon on the Mount.

The abuse was to relativize the enormity of taking innocent human life by making it but one item on a long list of concerns in the service of human dignity.

Let us focus mainly on the crime of murder, the deliberate taking of innocent human life.

Generis: «For these reasons the Teaching Authority of the Church does not forbid that, in conformity with the present state of human sciences and sacred theology, research and discussions, on the part of men experienced in both fields, take place with regard to the doctrine of evolution, in as far as it inquires into the origin of the human body as coming from pre-existent and living matter - for the Catholic faith obliges us to hold that souls are immediately created by God» [italics added].

It is far more important that we should realize that we are seeing God living life on human terms; God, in Dorothy Sayers's memorable phrase, «taking His own medicine.»

On the surface, the issue of executing drug dealers and forced abortions aren't related, but they both have one element in common: They happen because the government has the power of taking human life.

This allows us to face the challenges of our time soberly, neither despairing of the possibilities of justice in public life and thus withdrawing, nor seeking to take command of history by embarking on grandiose ideological projects that encourage us to assume godlike powers over human affairs.

And when this limit, which is God's honor, is reached by man, there is a twofold temptation, either on the one side to pass the limit, to take up God's cause, to try to avenge God's honor oneself, to use political means in the service of the living God in order to do this, or on the other side to remain within the limit but to continue political action as though it did not exist, in other words, to separate the two kingdoms, to argue that while God's honor is there at the limit of politics, and I can do nothing about it, nevertheless in my own sphere I can still act like a shrewd and effective man, pursuing politics to save what can be saved by human means.

If Christians truly believe the ineffable» mystery of God» took on human flesh, became the definitive translation» living Word» of this mystery so beyond us, yet present to us in the living Word and» translation» of Jesus Christ, then our knowing or not knowing is never an endless seeking, but a finding not exhausted of its meaning during our time of earthly existence.

based on a fundamental presupposition that there is a metaphysical - moral realm that is real, transcendent to the empirical world, and simultaneously sufficiently present to human reflection and experience that it can be taken as the decisive point of reference for the understanding and guidance of empirical life and historical existence.

Peter Singer, for example, speaks plainly of abortion as the taking of human life and warns those who try to rest the «pro-choice» case on that denial that they are placing their (and his) cause in jeopardy.