Not exact matches
Although
people who suffer from psychosis are usually not
violent, «there is a small subset of psychotic
people who are implicated in shootings.
«This
person,
who already sees their life as having no value, now feels it's even more worthless, and they look to express their rage in the most
violent way possible.»
Likewise, Swedish scientists have confirmed that
people who post
violent or pornographic material also tend to be psychopaths.
Nice - Matin also reported that he had been condemned to a suspended sentence of six months for committing a
violent crime with a weapon, but he was not under the surveillance of French authorities and was not listed as a
person who could pose a threat.
It allows arming some school staff at the discretion of school superintendents and sheriffs; provides $ 400 million for mental health and school safety programs and permits seizure of firearms from
people who make
violent threats to themselves or others.
The bill also creates a «risk protection order,» allowing police to confiscate guns of
people who are involuntarily committed under the Baker Act or
who pose a
violent threat to themselves or others.
Malcolm X, a
violent criminal, Ali, a guy
who made his living beating
people up, and Cat Stevens...
I don't see Christians as more honest, more faithful in marriage, less
violent, more giving, more polite, or more anything than the millions of
people who are indifferent to religion and
who only go to a church if there is a wedding or a funeral.
All I see is Muslims
who say that they are being sterotyped, but I do nt see those same
people complaining about sterotypes actually telling the «minority» they are wrong for being
violent.
Maybe the
violent loon
who shot those
people really was a Tea Party
person.
In the old testament God is an insane, vengeful, jealous, murdering entity that makes Christianity seem
violent, bloody and insane... just as the Muslim faith appears to
people who know nothing about it.
Often it is
people who live in middle - class or affluent neighborhoods that are relatively free of
violent crime
who insist on holding a «root - cause» seminar while
people are dying in the streets.
and those same
people who supported that war write on this site that muslims are
violent.
Dr Williams,
who is Chairman of Christian Aid which is providing humanitarian assistance in South Sudan, said: «The recent escalation of
violent conflict in Juba since July 7 has caused yet more appalling suffering for the
people of South Sudan
who have over the past two and a half years endured the terrible consequences of a return to war and the bitter disappointment of hopes denied or deferred.
He often echoes King's attitude that this generation not only must stand against the vitriolic words and
violent actions of the bad
people, but also must rebuke the appalling silence and indifference of the so - called good
people who enable social stagnation.
When I ask Carter to describe the kind of young
person who commits
violent crime, he says there are some recurring themes: «The common factors will be a broken family at home, someone
who isn't fully engaged in their education — absenteeism from school and truancy — and domestic abuse is a key factor as well.
Jesus says to the two
people on the road: can't you see that this had to happen — that the mechanisms of division, the self - deceptive and ferocious need to make ourselves out as innocent, the fear of a
violent god
who demands blood — how all that had to be undone?
Indeed those
people who are so afraid of exploring a new basis for sexual morality might well examine their own unconscious motivation, for fear frequently masks desire which is regarded as unacceptable; when the superstructure of repression is threatened that fear becomes
violent anger.
The capitalist
who, operating from his headquarters, exploits the mass of workers or colonial
peoples is just as
violent as the guerrilla; he must absolutely not assume the mantle of Christianity.
If a
person is
violent and / or adamantly refuses to accept help, it may be necessary for the family to call the police
who will transport him to a public psychiatric ward (in a county hospital) or to a mental hospital for observation, This is the least desirable method of getting the
person to treatment, but it sometimes becomes necessary as a last resort.
A church elder
who worked for UNICEF was one among a group of
people recently killed in a
violent ambush... More
How many
people do you know
who engage in ceaselessly
violent and brutal behaviour.
TIGGY SAID: «How many
people do you know
who engage in ceaselessly
violent and brutal behaviour.
I personally think the second number is slightly higher than the first —
people who would be
violent anyway, use religion as their excuse — God told them to kill gays, or abortion doctors, or
people of another religion, or atheists or whatever.
But if God truly does have a
violent and bloody side then Jesus was being deceptive, for nowhere in His life or ministry did He reveal God as someone
who goes to war against His enemies or commands the genocide of
people who do not love or obey Him.
Unless the
people who penned the Gospels failed to mention that Jesus, God with us, was
violent, then let's assume that the character of the God of the Old Testament and the character of the Jesus of Revelation must reflect the character of the earthly Jesus.
Personally, I'd say
people are
who they are, and if they're
violent, they'll just use religion as the excuse.
Actually Brehvik does not consider himself a christian in his words, «in the strictest sense», so the first part of your point is moot... Secondly I think a fairer statement would be that not «all» muslims are
violent extremists, as many
who don't live in western countries are, as their book does instruct them to kill any and all
who do not procalim allah as the one god and mohammed as his prophet... As far as having extreme passion for one's beliefs, if someone was truly to be an «extreme» christian that
person would be completely loving as this was Jesus» command to love both God and everyone... to take that to the extreme would mean «extreme» loving, like the radical kind of love that caused Jesus to endure the cross for the sins of us all... includinig the man
who committed this atrocity and yes any and all of the muslim's
who have committed similar things.
But this is a warning for everyone, especially for those
who want to use
violent portrayals of God in Scripture to defend and justify their own violence toward other
people.
As with the two - volume work, although I agree with nearly everything Greg writes in the book, I once again found myself disagreeing with the central idea... that God withdraws from Jesus on the cross, and therefore, in the
violent portions of the OT, God is withdrawing Himself from the
people and nations
who experience / suffer violence.
I realize it is very difficult to believe, with the morals that most
people grow up with that any religion can be so
violent and extreme, but, there are those
who have warped the Muslim faith and that is a tragedy.
In my book Jewish Renewal: A Path to Healing and Transformation, I point out that in the original Hebrew version the word for «the Lord» that calls Abraham to sacrifice his son is very different than the word for the angel of God (YHVH)
who tells Abraham to NOT GO THROUGH WITH IT, and that the reason we Jews celebrate Abraham as the father of our
people is NOT because of his faith in being willing to carry out this
violent and bloody act, but rather because he was able to hear the voice of God as a voice that allowed him (and through him all subsequent Jewish and Muslim believers) to NOT FOLLOW THE VOICE OF CRUETLY AS SOMEHOW THE VOICE OF GOD.
... 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.
There are those
who see the issue of God's violence / judgement differently: The Old Testament (and the thread of the Old Testament thought that carries over into the New Testament) version of God that sees an angry,
violent God
who destroys
people and tells his
people to destroy
people.
What about al - Qaeda terrorists,
who continue to plan
violent and disruptive attacks on innocent
people?
If a
person believes that God is not
violent and loves His enemies (like Jesus) then Jesus» statement in Luke 12:4 - 5 will make us stop and say, «
Who is Jesus talking about?
The
people who do do bad
violent things in the name of Christ aren't Christians!
Appleby's title leaves us wondering whether it is
people who choose between the
violent and the peaceful response to «the sacred,» or it is «the sacred» itself which is somehow ambivalent about violence.
The failure of this second group of
people to take stewardship seriously is a
violent plotting against the God
who planted and cares for this kingdom.
You know, the guys in fiction (and in life)
who can kick your tail seven ways but more
violent - minded
people wouldn't know it because these guys would rather let someone beat them up than to throw a punch and betray their principles.
We're told to just trust, but when we feel like our trust has been violated by those
who deliver the message, it's no longer that easy, and we have questions to ask that have no easy answers (or do have easy answers but the
people we ask have rather
violent reactions towards such questions).
The general consensus among many nonbelievers seems to me to be that the
violent God
who sent Israel to slaughter their enemies in Old Testament times continued to send his
people to slaughter all kinds of
people in the millennia following, continuing right up to our time.
The Quran was written by an opportunistic genius
who (mis --RRB- appropriated many of Jesus» teachings, then added his own (often - conflicting) views and, via an army and
violent tactics, forced
people to «believe» in him or pay a heavy tax, or die.
People who believe that God is vengeful and angry will often be
violent and unforgiving themselves.
Markos, all you are doing is taking these verses out of context.the four verses that you mention are constantly used by
people who hate islam to distort the true meaning.First of all, you need to post the entire chapter and it's interpretation to put it into context.You can't just take one verse out of a chapter with a couple of hundred verses and use it as proof that islam is a
violent religion.The quran was revealed in small segments during the life of prophet muhammad and wasn; t revealed all at once.There is a long story to these verses which could require an entire page to tell.look it up.EVERY RELIGIOUS BOOK HAS TEXTS THAT CAN BE TAKEN OUT OF CONTEXT.I am sure that if I look in the jewish torah, talmud or even the bible especially the old testament, i'll find many texts that I can take out of context.
So if Paul's concluding «Application» is that
people who were formerly at odds with one another (in an accusatory
violent way) can now live at peace by following the example of Jesus, it only makes sense that in the «Solution» section, Paul talks about how Jesus brought the warring groups together and showed us how to live in peace.
A
people like us» a
people who have convinced ourselves that myth never actually works» can not understand when real myth rises up in the world again in all its
violent, sacrificial, monstrous, and satanic glory.
ive been wrestling since i was 9 years old and when i went into high school i had to wrestle a girl... growing up learning to wrestle i had ended up having
violent style, i never was dirty or broke rules but i was taught to do anything in your power to win whehter it was to club down the head or grab the throat to gain position etc. unfortunately i was in the postion to wrestle a girl once and at the time i did nt care
who you were boy / girl, white / black / purple it did nt matter im was going to go out there bounce your head of the mat and bury you, so i went out there and wreslted the same way i always wrestled, 110 % and always to put your oppenents back through the mat i dditn change my style at all bc she was a girl i wrestled the same against everyone but after i pinned her in the first minute i did nt even realize that i broke her ribs when i power doubled through her, now after that for the rest of the tournament i was heckled and berated for forcefully beating a girl
ppl were telling my parents «hey, looks like you raised a wife beater» etc. etc.... ever since then i refused to wrestle girls and thank go i eventually grew out of the lower weights, moral of the story is that is great and all that girls are wrestling but they shouldnt wrestle boys even if they know what they are getting into because 1.
People who watch lots of movies about murder and violence, often become more
violent.
I hear
people who now live in America that are from the Middle East and are now Christians talk about how
violent the Muslim religion really is.