Sentences with phrase «violent history of»

He also sided with a violent fringe group - the violent history of Operation Rescue is well known.

A series of statements about sick strawberries, bitter melons and the violent history of potatoes have been made with a collection of several gardens designed by artists and

A series of statements about sick strawberries, bitter melons and the violent history of potatoes have been made with a collection of several gardens designed by artists and planted throughout the grounds of Los Angeles County Art Museum.

All over the world, fossil fuel companies have a violent history of doing whatever it takes to reap their profits.

How else to explain the abrupt popping up of the Chapman brothers in an exhibition devoted to the sickening and violent history of iconoclasm in Britain?

Other works in the exhibition mine a vast swath of cultural and visual history, employing text and cartoonish figuration to explore the repressive, violent history of American cultural attitudes towards homosexuality.

Marshall's art draws from a rich layering of African language and culture, from the rhythms of Jazz and from the violent history of slavery, emancipation and the American civil rights movement.

Where The Unquiet Dead really soars is Khan's sensitive and intelligent portrayal of the violent history of the former Yugoslavia, which raises questions of responsibility, retribution and justice.

For a film that is tackling the sad and violent history of the U.S. versus Indians, its problematic when the Indian roles are either violent, mindless warriors or stoic victims.

Intent to Destroy uses a historic feature film production as a springboard to explore the violent history of the Armenian Genocide and legacy of Turkish suppression and denial over the past century.

Pluto's orbit, which used to seem weird, also showed us the violent history of how the big planets — the ones that get all the glory — got to where they are now.

MAUNA KEA, HI — A detailed study of the motions of different stellar populations in Andromeda galaxy by UC Santa Cruz scientists using W. M. Keck Observatory data has found striking differences from our own Milky Way, suggesting a more violent history of mergers with smaller galaxies in Andromeda's recent past.

Studying the craters on the moon offers a window into that violent history of the young solar system that is not nearly as accessible on Earth.

Writer Alwyn Scarth traces the violent history of Mount Vesuvius — from its destruction of Pompeii in A.D. 79 to its most recent eruption in 1944.

Not exact matches

Hollywood has a history of treading lightly with violent fare in the wake of real - life tragedies.

He also had a history of violent behavior on social media.

A more consistent feature of the shooters, Gold says, is that they tend to have «risk factors for perpetrating violent behavior» — that is, a history with law enforcement or violence, and especially domestic violence.

Anyone with a vague recollection of the history of Facebook will recognize the Cambridge Analytica situation as a violent symptom of something that's plagued Facebook and its users for years: apathy.

by We wholeheartedly endorse peaceful revolution, but unfortunately, history tells us that when tyrannies force the majority of the middle class into poverty in any country, violent revolution will result.

The Google employee who called on the company to disable President Trump's Android phone has a history of financially supporting affiliates of violent far - left Antifa groups and is a member of a prostitution and sex work social network.

«History records that the money changers have used every form of abuse, intrigue, deceit, and violent means possible to maintain their control over governments by controlling money and it's issuance.»

Indeed, given its short history of erratic, violent price swings, it remains questionable whether bitcoin can truly be considered a «store of value».

you know of incredibly violent, carnivorous really neadrathals that existed in history and fought back but still died out anyway?

You must be completely unaware of the violent and oppressive history of the Christian Church, HM8432.

B - Given the violent, patchy history of religion, SOMEBODY has had to be believing in the wrong God (s).

In something of an oblique way this article alludes to the 5th Crusade and the Sultan Malik s well as St. Francis Assisi and we must bear in mind (in all of this violent conflict) that the Mediterranean is actually the junction of three continents (Africa, Asia, Europe) and that powerful empires have been bumping into one another since the beginning of recorded history (Babylon, Egypt, Persian, Assyria, Alexander, Rome, Carthage, the Moors, Christian Crusaders, El Cid -LRB-!!)

One of the reasons that most religions some time in their history do despicable things is precisely because they stop reasoning and chock it up to this mysterious violent / uncaring god.

Gratitude to God requires that we live not by evading the real nature of existence, not by denying the violent character of nature and history, but by facing reality as best we can, finally affirming the whole of life in all its sorrow and pain as a great gift.

«Since the general civilization of mankind, I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power, than by violent and sudden usurpations; but, on a candid examination of history, we shall find that turbulence, violence, and abuse of power, by the majority trampling on the rights of the minority, have produced factions and commotions, which, in republics, have, more frequently than any other cause, produced despotism.

Human beings are complex and any doctrine which demands unquestioned authority and obedience of an ent.ity that is invisible into that mix will give you the volatile and oft unjust and violent history before you.

«doctrine which demands unquestioned authority and obedience of an ent.ity that is invisible into that mix will give you the volatile and oft unjust and violent history before you.»

Usually, not long after these rosy predictions of our future are made, humanity enters into one of the most violent and bloody eras of its history.

The effort of Gruntvig and his school to whip up the national pride of Denmark by recalling it to the Nordic sagas and its glorious history, Kierkegaard felt to be so much public flattery and a violent poison to the real individual need of the soul.

This essentially materialist approach — heroic valor, violent conquest, the clash of civilizations — gained increased academic standing from the neocolonial interpretation in René Grousset's three - volume Histoire des croisades et du royaume franc de Jérusalem (1934 — 1936) and the planned U.S. multivolume collaborative History of the Crusades devised in the 1940s by the group of Crusade historians that had gathered around Dana C. Munro (1866 — 1933) and later John La Monte (1902 — 1949).

Religious fanatics have a long history of violent, murderous behavior that continues to this day.

It's amazing how «logical» you sound when you defend your own faith... that has had quite a violent history and has left millions of corpses in its path!

Any student of the Græco - Roman world at the beginning of our era who tries to penetrate beneath the surface of the political, economic and military history of the period and discern what was going on in the minds of men, becomes aware of a widespread expectation of a turn for the better in human affairs, even the dawn of a golden age, after the violent convulsions which had disturbed society for a century or more.

The Way of Tea and Justice: Rescuing the World's Favorite Beverage From Its Violent History by Becca Stevens

There were many violent acts in the history of Christianity.

... History is replete with examples of Believers and the violent harm they do to, not only non-believers, but to people who simply believe differently than they.

«but you can not deny that forcible, violent conversion has been justified as righteous by some of the most influential theologians in the history of Christendom.»

I understand that your interpretation of scripture doesn't agree with Saint Augustine's, but you can not deny that forcible, violent conversion has been justified as righteous by some of the most influential theologians in the history of Christendom.

Consider some aspects of the American history of racial and ethnic relations: Systematic racial segregation emerged in the South after the failure of Reconstruction, while in the 1880s a growing California banned Chinese immigration and in the early twentieth century ethnic politics, often bitter and sometimes violent, dominated major American cities.

«It seems just as likely your Satan created your book, especially considering the violent destructive history» = > it is the way of man as atheists as well as believers have a destructive history.

It seems just as likely your Satan created your book, especially considering the violent destructive history that belief has generated, all of the confusion in translation... all traits one would expect from Satan.

It's one of the most vicious and violent books in the history of the world.

All you have said unfolds from the belief in an angry and violent God, a belief that weaponizes religion, making it a tool of oppression, a belief that has been manipulated throughout history to justify atrocities beyond count.

If this is indeed true, Francis has overlooked the history of a consistently violent government, one of the very few to have brought the world to the brink of nuclear annihilation, and the only one in Latin America to have sent troops to three continents and to have sponsored warfare and terrorism around the globe, and to have consistently called for the extermination of Israel.

«And although the view that Muslims have been the perpetual victims of Christian aggression down the ages rests on a falsification of history, I reject the equal and opposite fantasy»» promoted by biased and uninformed Christians» «that holds Islam to be a uniquely violent religion.

At times God appears violent, not because He is violent, but because, just as Jesus on the cross took the sin of the world upon Himself, so also God in human history, took the violence of humanity upon Himself.