Sentences with phrase «very real evils»

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If, as I think orthodox Christianity ultimately teaches, and as Solzhenitsyn's «Father Severyan» plainly teaches in November 1916 (excerpted here), that humans are inherently prone to violence (and that the lesser evil of state - derived war is the price we pay for living not in anarchy but in «sword - bearing» states), then not only is 1) contrary to the New Testament's real teaching, but 2) is impossible and 3) requires a coercion that will bring with it very deleterious consequences.

As Canon Andrew White (aka the vicar of Baghdad) affirms in his interview with us, real evil is very much alive in the world today.

There is a very real difference between good and evil actions and this difference is not only in how these affect others.

Just as when armies crash against each other, the victory is that of superior power, so also the victory of love and grace against the very real force of evil, is a victory of a real superior force.

In fact, it is the consideration of evil which constrains us to make this new move; now, with the consideration of evil, it is the very question, of freedom, of the real freedom evoked by the postulates of the Critique of Practical Reason, which returns; the problematic of evil requires us to tie, more directly than we have so far been able to do, the actual reality of freedom to the regeneration which is the very content of hope.

Theists quite properly see the hand of God at work in major evolutionary changes such as the origin of life, but also in such everyday occurrences as the development of a fertilized egg into a cocker pup, and too in the social turmoil — including very real moral and physical evil — that accompanies economic, technological, and intellectual change.

So it's a very real possibility that someone going off to college does some stuff that they were raised to believe was wrong / sinful / evil, and it makes them call into question those beliefs.

The problem with such an argument is that while it offers a very helpful insight into the question of why we suffer and endure hardship, it says nothing about real evil.

Lets get real, Bachman represents the very worst that America has to offer, Zionism, terrorism, evil and stupidity, all in one package.

Yet Satan himself is a very real figure, and he is the measure of that insight into our human plight which is afforded by the conflict of Christ with the powers of evil.

Night Shyamalan's film, Devil, his latest installment in his series of mythopoeic movies, gives the viewer the opportunity to glimpse ever so briefly the reification of a theosophical speculation that may have its roots in Boehme, where evil is rendered by a very real demon grimly determined....

Hasker's real position, in other words, seems to be that although at one level the prima facie evils of this world are gratuitous evils, they at another level are not, because their very gratuitousness is intended by God to evoke our moral efforts to overcome them.

My intention is not to be arguementitive or «start something», I am just very curious as to how the consumption of something so evil (starch, supposedly) could give such positive «real world» results.

«And if you're raised in an environment of good and evil, a very real hell, moral consequences, that stays with you your whole life.»

What they don't realize is that in the mid-90's, the Illuminati and Freemasons secretly conspired to disburse hints as to their very evil and dastardly plans for world domination and racial purity by inserting vague references to the Mayans and the Gestapo in colorful murals throughout the airport, converting an ill - designed baggage system into a very real headquarter for a New World Order, and then — contrary to what one may think a secret organization would want to do — leave their signature on a prominently displayed monument, all within the confines of a hard - to - reach, nominally international airport in the middle of the plains leading to the Rocky Mountains.

We all know what it feels like to be the hero of legend, the only one who can rise up to defeat evil in the face of adversity and come out on top, but what about when failure has very real consequences?

Obsidian Entertainment have just announced that Versus Evil will publish their upcoming RPG Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire, the sequel to their very well received crowdfunded RPG made as an update to the classic «Real - Time with Pause» PC RPGs such as Baldur's Gate.

If anyone remembers the very first Resident Evil for the original PlayStation back in 1996, they should recollect a lot of the scenes used real - life actors.

I had no real interest in Metal Gear Solid but bought it nonetheless just so that I could get my hands on the Silent Hill demo; that was when I realised that Silent Hill was a very different creature than Resident Evil and, since having played that demo, I've never looked back.