How about a Catholic Father of two girls to get on and: 1) Agree that
any violence against any human of any age is wrng an punisghable regardless after (at least in my country (the US) one is proven guilty by a court of law.
One atheistic author has written an entire book about these many thousands of passages in the Bible in which God blesses, causes, commands, or sanctions
violence against human beings (Steve Wells, Drunk with Blood: God's Killings in the Bible).
Show me one place in the Gospels where Jesus encouraged
violence against another human being.
She is also the author of over 100 articles on the topics of vegetarianism and veganism, animal advocacy, domestic violence and sexual abuse, with a focus on the interconnections between forms of
violence against humans and against other animals.
The «link» between
violence against humans and animals is clear.
Kara Holmquist, director of advocacy for the MSPCA - Angell states, «Research has consistently shown a link between animal cruelty and
violence against humans.
Several attempts to increase protection for animals in Ohio have failed in recent legislative sessions because they raised penalties for animal cruelty to a level equal to or above penalties for domestic
violence against humans, shifted the burden of proof from the government to the accused animal owner, failed to provide for humane agent training, and did not exempt traditional and humane animal husbandry practices from the definition of cruelty.
PEGI (the rating system used in Europe) has rated the game PEGI 7 for minor «non-realistic
violence against human like and fantastical characters.»
Not exact matches
That is defensible only if one is certain that the baseline level of possible robotic error in civilian protection exceeds that baseline level of
human error... I, for one, would not bet
against the possibility that for some military applications, we will some day come to see mere
human judgment as guaranteeing an unacceptable level of indiscriminate and disproportionate
violence.
«Together we can send the unambiguous message that the women of UBC have supporters everywhere who will stand
against sexual
violence — that the rape chants that students at the Sauder School were participating in are deplorable and must be properly dealt with as a violation of women's
human rights; that repeated sexual attacks on young women on campus are a crisis with which we should all be concerned.
At the same time, it kept silence about numerous acts of religiously motivated
violence, which the recent report by the Brussels - based International Partnership for
Human Rights called «crimes
against humanity.»
So this is really promotional material for President Carter's new book: «A Call to Action: Women, Religion,
Violence and Power» and the letter he sent seeking Papal «blessing» or endorsement for his campaign on
human rights abuses
against women.
Humans have brought the pain and suffering of sickness,
violence, and starvation upon themselves by their willful, sinful acts
against God.
He must struggle
against violence precisely because, apart from Christ,
violence is the form that
human relations normally and necessarily take.
In April 2014, John Dayal, a leading
human - rights activist in India and one of our travel companions, testified before the U.S. Congress that 153 cases of
violence against Christians took place in the twelve months before the BJP swept parliament.
Human rights groups within and outside your neighborhood protest
against the
violence.
He may, or may not, have believed that there would also be some divine intervention in
human history, but he did not support the use of
violence against the status quo.
So you find traveling to Africa and inciting
violence against other
humans acceptable because you think it's part of the
human condition?
Thus the annual
Human Rights Report of the U.S. State Department, mute the previous decade on discrimination and the occasional acts of
violence against Christians, included in its January 1990 report the observation that «Christians have had difficulty in getting permission to build new churches» and that «Christians complain that there are barriers to Christians rising to high positions in public service, public corporations, universities and the military.»
You say our values are in conflict and yet I believe murder to be wrong and bad for
human society as is any
violence against other
humans and I would bet you likely feel the same way.
From the Bali Declaration, Asian Regional Meeting on
Violence Against Women held in Bali, Indonesia, organized by WCC, the Christian Conference of Asia and the Asian Women's
Human Rights Commission, 1 - 6 August 1993.
Raiser said the
violence was resulting in «grave and serious
human rights violations and crimes
against humanity.
In fact, his biggest fights with
humans have been over their habit of reacting in fear and
violence against other life forms and possibilities.
The claim of Christian belief is not first and foremost that it offers the only accurate system of thought, as
against all other competitors; it is that, by standing in the place of Christ, it is possible to live in such intimacy with God that no fear or failure can ever break God's commitment to us, and to live in such a degree of mutual gift and understanding that no
human conflict or division need bring us to uncontrollable
violence and mutual damage.
The unifying rationale is the necessity of killing a sacrificial victim to protect
human beings
against their own inevitable escalation of retributive
violence.
Commit this Advent season to educating yourself (or your faith community) about a particular pervasive injustice — mass incarceration,
human trafficking, child brides, infant & maternal mortality,
violence against women, etc..
Broken People: Caste
Violence Against India's «Untouchables» (New York:
Human Rights Watch, 1999) 1 - 2.
Bibi's death sentence sparked outrage among
human rights groups, who condemned Pakistan's blasphemy law as a source of
violence and persecution
against religious minorities.
A Christian community has the responsibility to work for peace in freedom and justice in
human society,
against hatred and
violence.
He acts in
violence against his brother and in judgment suffers alienation not only from his lost brother and from the
human community, but from Yahweh as well (4:14).
The joint declaration also asks for international pressure on the UN
Human Rights Council — of which Nigeria is a member — to form a commission of inquiry «to investigate the atrocities committed
against civilians in general, and
against Christians in particular in northern Nigeria, including bringing the perpetrators of
violence to justice.»
(So why do some Christians continue to travel to other countries and incite
violence against other
human beings?)
So why do some Christians travel to other countries and incite
violence against other
human beings?
(5) Although the history of Christianity is replete with instances of the use of
violence, and although this
violence has often been employed for destruction of the enemy rather than reconciliation, dominant Christian teaching has nevertheless encouraged respect for the
human integrity and worth of all people and has viewed
violence against persons as undesirable.
But legal systems as such do not produce anything that corresponds to the biblical sensitivity which forcefully enjoins
against the source of all
violence, namely, the realm of thought and contemplation, the intangible but critically powerful world of
human imagination.
Whatever one thinks about its legality, abortion has nothing to do with advancing
human «health,» and a large number of Americans regard it as a gravely wrong act of
violence, not only
against unborn children but also
against women.
He added that, the United Kingdom (UK) committed to fighting
against all forms of
human right violations, and pledged his country's support in fighting
against gender based
violence in Ghana.
As a
human rights activist, I assume you know the extent of the problem we are up
against: that
violence against women around the world is now both so routine and so extreme that the UN has called for «femicide» to be a recognised crime.
These encompass basic security for all — including the protection of women
against sexual
violence...... that means a military that is effective and respects
human rights...... it means a police force that people run towards not away from...... and it means a justice system that is fair, dependable and accessible to all who need it.
Baroness Helena Kennedy; Camila Batmanghelidjh of Kid's Company; Eve Ensler, founder of V - Day, a global movement to stop
violence against women and girls; Lisa Jardine, Professor of Renaissance Studies at Queen Mary College and chair of the
Human Fertilisation and Embryology Foundation; the barrister Rupert Grey, the environmental campaigner George Monbiot and; to stop things getting dull, the comedians Jeremy Hardy and Sue Perkins.
In addition to addressing issues of pregnancy discrimination and sexual harassment, the plan includes further protections for domestic
violence victims, stronger laws
against human trafficking, and, what has become a controversial part of the agenda, the Reproductive Health Act.
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The prospect that fighting
human - looking characters can provoke more aggression than unleashing
violence against characters with no real - world counterparts could have implications for debates over gaming, especially as video games become more sophisticated and immersive, Farrar says.
Due to the politically, ethically, culturally, and religiously sensitive nature of
human remains resulting from mass
violence, genocide, or crimes
against humanity, research access is often limited or non-existent.
In addition to writing regularly for Love Magazine, Anita seeks opportunities to address international women's rights issues such as
human trafficking,
violence against women, and economic empowerment as a sustainable solution.
Schwarzenegger is presented as a lumbering slab of dumb, destructive strength — the image is more geological than
human — and Cameron plays his crushing weightiness
against the strangely light, almost graceful
violence of the gunplay directed
against him.
Gamer (R for nudity, sexuality, profanity and pervasive graphic
violence) Sci - fi thriller, set in the near future, revolving around the attempt of a
human gladiator (Gerard Butler) to free himself from the clutches of a deadly mind - control game invented by a voyeuristic, reclusive billionaire (Michael C. Hall) which pits people
against each other.
Kubrick is clearly anti-conflict and anit -
violence but he is also
against any system of over regulation that reduces
humans to virtual automations.
Violence: Violent depictions and slapstick antics are pervasive in this film where a group of animals fight
against humans to protect their home.
Rise of the Planet of the Apes (PG - 13 for frightening images and intense
violence) Prequel to the ever - popular «Gorillas Gone Wild» franchise, set in San Francisco, pits primates
against people after a scientist's (James Franco) test of an experimental cure for Alzheimer's leaves millions of chimps with
human - like intelligence.