Sentences with phrase «very human reasons»

More than just avoiding probate or reducing taxes, there's the very human reasons listed in this article to benefit those you love.

Oil prices were high for very human reasons.

High - profile murders like Ramsey's often provoke gawking, callous media treatment, turning us all into rubberneckers, but Casting JonBenet vigorously works against that tendency, fascinated by our psychological need to judge other people's lives, but also deeply mournful, even respectful, of the very human reasons why we do so.

Not exact matches

Steve Mitchell, whose Fox 2 / Mitchell poll in Michigan found Clinton with an identical 5 - point lead heading into Election Day, chalked up his miss to a very specific reason: Human error.

I see no more reason to spend my life placating your vengeful god than I do any other vengeful god (and there have been so very many created by humans).

Religion in this case was people hearing the very real loving voices of other people, inspired to love one another for whatever reasons they might think they have, and attaching themselves to that love in order to deal emotionally with the struggles we face just by being human.

Your mistrust of a fellow human being based on your perceived superior position is the reason that religion is the most destructive force against the very thing you, as a Christian, hold dear.

LOL: The Christian perspective is that God does indeed exist, and because of that, all human beings (including the ones who deny His very existence) are still endowed with some of the gifts He's given us — such as some capacity to reason, create, and love, though all imperfectly.

I believe this dominance has held humans back as a race and is the very reason for all the problems in the world today.

Looking at society from a modern perspective, there seems to be very little reason not to maximize human happiness, as long as it hurts no one.

Like Christ himself and in imitation of him it becomes universal, dynamic and, for that very reason, fully human.

The difference is that he never forgot that politics is one way in which very imperfect human beings can enact projects based on moral reasoning; that politics is a theater of both comedy and tragedy, relentless in the teaching of humility.

The great St John Paul said that religious freedom is «the basis of all other freedoms and is inseparably tied to them by reason of that very dignity which is the human person» (letter to the Secretary General of the United Nations, 1978).

Although I am very far from subscribing to the doctrine of the total depravity of man, it does seem to me to have been proved within my own lifetime that the problem of human evil is not much affected by better education, better housing, higher wages, holidays with pay, and the National Health Service — desirable as all these things may be for other good reasons.

When, for example, at first in the 19th century down to Pius XII the Church adopted a very reserved attitude to any inclusion of the human bios in the idea of evolution, that was motivated, and rightly so, by a fundamental conception of the nature of man which for good reasons required to be defended.

In my opinion, the only reason the male bastion of the clergy holds the scriptural position that it does is to protect the power base, a very human trait for a very human group, and quite unChirstian — but I'm just sayin»

Admittedly, in the area of religious faith and morals we have been rather slower to discard the old in favour of the new, for this is the aspect of human life in which conservatism has always been most strongly entrenched, for the very good reason that man looks to this area of life more than any other for his stability and security.

An account of the transcendental conditions of human life looks very much like the «deliverances of unsituated reason» which Taylor elsewhere terms an «illusion.»

Whereas «human reason and knowledge» was called very important by 96 percent of UU congregational leaders who took part in the multi-denominational Faith Communities Today (FACT) survey released early this year, the Bible was termed only «somewhat important» by 50 percent and had little or no importance to 48 percent as a source for worship and teaching.

Very roughly, «body» refers to material things perceptible to the senses, «mind» refers to the processes of perception, reasoning, and learning, and «spirit» refers to human self - awareness and freedom of choice.

They recovered the classical experience of reason as the potential infinity of human questions, showing how this dynamic «ratio» as a desire for understanding is healed and transformed by the paschal - metanoetic experience of faith in the Sophia - Cod of compassion and love.4 Aquinas, for example, understood God as «intimately present within everything that exists since God is existence» and that Cod's omnipotence — Aquinas wrote very little about it — regards not actualities but possibilities, and is best manifested in forgiveness and compassionate mercy.5

It is the Reason of Plato at work, freeing us from old, stale habits of thought in the expectation that out of the resulting conversation, from the very turmoil and confusion of interpretations at war with one another, can emerge in good time a better understanding and a better practice of what it is to become and be within human communities.

This article is an excellent example and the the very reason that I claim that «I'm spiritual, but not religious»: bigots like the author pushing their beliefs unto me, under threats of eternal damnation; arguing that if I do not follow them, I am a rotten human being destroying society.

There is a very tangible, human reason why people who describe themselves as spiritual have rising numbers.

Very slick Jp just a smooth lie and human reasoning.

In this sense, true evil appears only in the very field where religion is produced, namely, in the field of contradictions and conflicts determined, on the one hand, by the demand for totalization which constitutes reason, both theoretical and practical, and, on the other hand, by the illusion which misleads thought, the subtle hedonism which vitiates moral motivation, and finally by the malice which corrupts the great human enterprises of totalization.

The cynic who discounts the moral potentialities of human nature seems always to verify his critical appraisal of human nature for the reason that his very skepticism lowers the moral potentialities of the individuals and groups with which he deals.

Nothing gets «proven» as it does in the hard sciences (and there is good reason to say that science doesn't actually «prove» nor does it claim to), but in more complicated systems, such as social, human ones, proof is very difficult (why should we not expect it to be so in theology also?).

The great majority of Muslim learned men hold, with good reason, that the Prophet's teachings follow either the directive of divine, though nontextual, inspiration or, if it was a personal, purely human effort, he applied the very essence or spirit of the law of the Qur» an.

And, by very reason of the elements involved, the process can not achieve stability until, over the entire globe, the human quantum has not merely closed the circle upon itself (as it is doing at this moment, in a penultimate phase) but has become organically totalized.

And it is for that very reason that a man must accept the blood and sweat and tears of the human situation.

A second reason that humans, especially modern ones, have done so much damage is that they have not understood that their very being is constituted by relations that ultimately connect them to everything in the universe.

The human capacity for reason and freedom, embraced in the «transgressive» rise to humanhood and embodied in the enlarged cranium, comes at heavy bodily cost to the woman, indeed, often, with risk to her very life.

After all, theological «truths» are usually sought after by very fallible human beings, whose reasoning can be warped by all the misapprehensions, distortions and prejudices fostered by their egos.

In fact, for the very reasons you suggest, Chromosome 2's fusion argues against the literal view of a genetically perfect Adam / Eve who only suffered mutation after the fall, that is, an overnight fixation of this fusion throughout the entire human population.

you can find examples of this pathetic god and its very human traits... its all thru out the bible, and it even makes excuses for why god seems so human — two possible reasons for this — either those who wrote the bible screwed up and forgot to make god seem godlike because its all a lie... a fabrication of man... or god isn't a god but rather a petty, hateful alien with a napoleon complex (not sure they have a napoleon in the alien form... godzilla — lol, but godzilla at least is a true possibility... god and those who believe are living in a fantasy world!!

In fact, as human beings, we are distinctly unqualified to do so for the very same reason you are not qualified to criticize Him.

The reason I was absent in Aurora, as well as World War I, World War II, the Holocaust and every single man made or natural disaster in human history is very simple.

Partly again because very able theologians are studying and teaching in this field, partly because critical, historical scholarship is being combined with existential awareness of that human dilemma and of that divine grace with which the New Testament writings are concerned, partly for other reasons, vital interest in the meaning of the New Testament is increasing.

The reason is simple: Sandy is a warm, friendly, honest, intelligent human being, one of the finest human beings I have ever known, but the truth is he was never very colorful.

For many reasons... some of the important ones include the need for your baby to keep up your milk supply and the need for your baby to get cuddles and comfort (human babies are born very prematurely compared to other mammals).

But «my ability» is subject to human reasoning and interpretation, which by its very nature is limited.

They are revered for setting up a country that would address the very reasons they had the revolution (unlike many other revolutions that just changed the powers that be), and authoring a document that has become a blueprint for human rights and equality.

But I have indicated a very developed country for a reason: many indicators (both economical and more related to human nature) indicate an evolved society.

The reason why this topic is lesser known, he said, is that security professionals become very focused on the technological side of responding to attacks and lack the social psychology background to analyze and understand the human being on the other side of that attack.

In the situation of sort of reassurance, one of the reasons for watching this very closely is because of the potential for passing the virus back from pigs to humans.

It is very effective in portraying some of the unanswered questions about consciousness in machines and our own reactions to machines, including the way those reactions are conditioned on our built - in response to the human form — a really good reason not to build humanoid robots!

The reason, of course, is that human and dog descended from a common ancestor, the skeletal structure of which was preserved in its essentials in both lineages, while being repurposed in its details to cope with very different ways of life.

«The regular study section is risk averse for a very simple, perfectly human reason: It's just easier to see how an incremental improvement in existing knowledge and an experiment which is very, very obviously feasible is a better use of the money to the average study section member than something which requires any kind of leap of faith or which is insufficiently justified, in their view.

Of course there are very good reasons why human beings — including scientists — have for the most part steered clear of these most remote areas of our planet: they are extremely cold, or hot, or wet, or dry, or oxygen - deprived, not to mention hard to get to.