Sentences with phrase «when evil acts»

At a time when evil acts — beheadings, suicide bombings, torture chambers — dominate headlines, John Kekes» evocation of elementary decency is salutary.

Not exact matches

Ohhhh, it's all powerful when we need it to be, yet acts like any evil person would when it's trying to get a point across.

It's only by convincing his followers that his immoral acts are moral that you come to believe that we are somehow misunderstanding gods evil acts and that if we only read the bible again we'd somehow see that when he killed all the first born of egypt, or impregnated a married woman and left her with a kid or that he's fine with slavery under certain conditions as good things.

That was a very interesting read many comments caught my attention I've recently been diagnosed with Bipolar I have hallucinations and hear voices in my ear's when I hallucinate it's likes they are trying to get me thousands of them I can only describe them as dark shadows and they are trying to get me just as they are about to get me a brilliant white light surrounds me and there's three entities humanly shaped but like this brilliant white light they are also glowing this brilliant whiteness I can't understand what they are saying the only way I can explain it is emotions comfort joy love is what I feel emanating from these entities the voices I hear aren't evil telling me to do bad things to people when I get put into a mode of fear I live in a rough area of Scotland and everytime I've got into a fight something possesses me I know this for a fact as I can't control myself I'm an observer watching my family / Friends say I change they say my eyes change and I look evil I personally do think possibly through my own personal experience I» am possessed as I act out of character I've lost interest in many things I've recently I decided it's time for change I've lost my faith I've been trying to connect with God and feel his love which I used to feel the presence of the holy spirit everytime I try connect I get a feeling of abandonment I just think if I am possessed could these entities stop me connecting with «God» I can say from my heart of hearts «JESUS CHRIST HAS COME IN THE FLESH» I think it's more to do with the persons own personal fears which I have noticed my fears have changed if I had to be truthfully with myself I fear God which I know I'm not supposed to just I can't explain it I guess if you ever need a test subject I'm up for the challenge like I said I'm on journey to find myself and my travels have brought me hear I'm going to hang around for a wee while there's lots of good information to be plundered loll

believing a higher power forgives you when you act evil is the most dangerous idea in the world.

If you, as I, do not accept any of these ways of rejecting much of Scripture, then you can reasonably conclude that violence and even killing itself is not sinful when used to prevent evil acts and punish evil natures.

When Adam and Eve take the fruit, they do not make a decision between good and evil but rather imagine possibilities of action and then act almost without knowing it, sunk in «a strange, dreamlike kind of contemplation.»

Also, when I discuss «if war is wrong...» by «is wrong» I mean is an act that is evil / sinful / against God's ways (right now I'm using those three all as synonymous for these purposes; though we could discuss the theological distinctions between them, they are generally the same enough when trying to explain what I mean by «is wrong»).

When anger is allowed to consume the soul» to drive a man or a community beyond the bounds of justice to acts of indiscriminate violence or cruelty» it can certainly be a force for evil in the world.

IMO, it is a messed up theology when «incorrect» words or thoughts are considered as «evil» as certain atrocious physical acts.

Jesus is indignant that the scribes and Pharisees (1) will not enter the kingdom of heaven themselves and stand in the way of others entering it as well; (2) will do almost anything to win a proselyte only to make that proselyte twice as much a child of hell as they are; (3) confuse people by senseless oaths, telling them that if they swear by the Temple, their oath is not binding, but if they swear by the gold of the Temple, it is binding - the fools ought to realize, Jesus says, that the Temple includes all that is in it; (4) tithe some of their money but neglect justice and mercy and faith, which are weightier moral matters, when they ought both to tithe and perform these greater acts of righteousness as well; (5) are careful about outward cleanliness but careless about the inward disposition, so that they are filled with extortion and greed; (6) appear righteous but really are hypocrites, because their appearance hides all manner of iniquity inside; (7) pretend to revere the prophets of history whom their parents killed but continue to practice the evil of their parents by rejecting those whom God sends to them now (Matt.

When man acts, his action is always evil.

Finally, we wonder what Prof. Cole can possibly mean when he says that it is «a sad fact that Christians are always going to have to use violence» and yet also maintain that when just warriors use force justly, «such acts bear no stain of evil.»

All we mean when we call an act wrong or evil, is that God does not allow it?

In sum, the Muslim community surely does not respect and be sensitive to other groups» belief / faith, yet they demand other to respect them by the mean of threatening in an evil act of violate, when they do not get their way.

But when the Holocaust is interpreted as an act so monstrous that it is separate and distinct from all other human evil; when the victims are understood as a special case among all other victims of oppression; when the men who did this deed are differentiated from all other men as being singularly demonic and non-human — then there is no connection between those criminals and ourselves, no possible continuum between our sin and Nazi sin.

How could these terrorists invoke God's mercifulness and compassion when they had, through their evil act, put to shame the entire history of this great religion and its culture of toleration?»

Why ist it Christians can call people so many names and tell them evil things but when someone responds back they act in anger like only they can say things.

Our laws if allowed to operate according to its spirit and letter, would have imposed legal limits on government's authority by guarantee us certain rights and freedom when fighting against these evil practices in our institutions but unfortunately for us, certain provisions and attitude of party apparatchiks make our leaders automatic dictators who act without limitations.

«When it comes to genocide, we like to think that the perpetrators are irredeemably evil, but they are not — they are psychologically normal people who are acting this way under social circumstances,» Nyseth Brehm said.

But it also pointed the way forward for Marvel, which was going to start seriously questioning its heroes» plans and power — at least until the third act, when everything would turn into yet another battle between good and evil.

Perhaps the unutterably evil Agent Smith (a good role for the sardonic acting style of Hugo Weaving) is closer to the mark when he says, «Human beings are a cancer on this planet.

When Cindy is summoned to have her body digitized at the centre of operations (an arresting sequence, and not just because Dey doffs in her clothes in what has become a ritualized act of rebellion for former child stars), Dr. Larry tags along and gets a fifty - cent tour of the facilities from evil R&D head Jennifer Long (Leigh Taylor - Young, still lovely, still Spock - browed).

But when Alice decides to integrate a Ouija board into their act and young Doris is possessed by an evil spirit, they enlist the help of a local priest (Henry Thomas) to save her.

An unlikely beginning to the most evil act ever committed, but Thanos has ever been one to play the long game when needed.

When the Resident Evil remake was re-released earlier this year, one modder had a specific change in mind: bring back the cringeworthy voice acting.

While a lot of the voice acting is sub par, thankfully Prospero's is tremendous, and I was constantly excited when I heard him narrate the nature of the evils he's used to facing.

In «Experiencing the Banality of Evil in «Papers, Please»», Scott Juster mentions how moments like these in Papers, Please are meant to reinforce the idea that, in real life, and often in the most tragic circumstances, immoral acts are committed when morality falls to the whims of bureaucracy.

When the Resident Evil remake was re-released earlier this year, one modder had a specific change in mind: bring back the cringeworthy voice acting.

On August 8th, 1988 at 8:08 am I was but an infant when one of the most terrible acts of evil was attempted.