Sentences with phrase «which enslave»

«Let us allow the dog to disappear from our brick and concrete jungles — from our firesides, from the leather nooses and metal chains by which we enslave it.»

In Christ we are liberated from powers and principalities which enslave us.

If the lowly were chosen, both in the teaching and the practice of the new community, then the hope of the new age lay with the poor and oppressed, because their liberation is a sign that the powers of death which enslave sinners and outcasts have been overthrown.

We know that the stars are physical bodies whose motions are controlled by the laws of the universe, and not demonic beings which enslave mankind to their service.

The dynamics are one and the same — CULT LIKE perversions and manipulation which enslave many to serve the Few.

If one accepts the root cause of the ills in the world today is the monetary system which enslaves the 99 % in debt while banks continue to accrue yet more wealth and power, an alternative system needs to be developed.

Not exact matches

Unlike some skeptics, Yoky Matsuoka believes that today's cutting - edge robots won't lead to a dystopian future in which machines enslave mankind.

In 1785, Jefferson and Adams, in negotiating with the ambassador of Tripoli to London, got this response from the ambassador which they conveyed to John Jay: «It was written in their Koran, that all nations which had not acknowledged the Prophet were sinners, whom it was the right and duty of the faithful to plunder and enslave; and that every muslim who was slain in this warfare was sure to go to paradise.

That scenario of injustice became systemic, social injustice in a wicked institution like slavery, in which the very opportunity of the enslaved to reflect the imago dei (image of God) was compromised by exploitation and violence.

How do we remember that time is a construct to which we must not become enslaved?

Many ways of reading Scripture, doing theology, and being the church have become enslaved to a religion which seeks to control God and control people.

I don't know that we can talk about freedom in the gospel without talking about freedom from the enslaving paradigms with which it is also framed and which are constitutive of it.

Christians persecuted and even enslaved other non-christians which can be found in history books from England, Europe, and Asia.

And rather than just set us free, Christ took prisoner that which had enslaved us!

That we may, and ought, to resist, and even make war against those rulers who leap the bounds prescribed them by the constitution, and attempt to oppress and enslave the subjects, is a principle on which alone the great revolutions which have taken place in our nation can be justified.»

And, on the other hand, it sickens and dies when it is enslaved by its past instead of being disciplined by the new beginning which it must always make in the Scriptures....

As a psychiatrist he strove to bring his patients to a freedom which liberated them from the enslaving gods that kept them trapped in the prison of their own fears.

But the resistance must come from the core belief that our enemies are not humans, but are powers and systems which have enslaved humans, and the one things these powers want is death and destruction.

He asserted that pagan philosophy only enslaves us to the world and it is the Christian gospel which liberates us to freedom.

First, Wilberforce did not abolish the West African slave trade because he came to a different view from Paul, but because he held the same view as Paul (not least as expressed in 1 Timothy 1:10, which forbids enslaving people), a point which is clear from his writings.

Centuries ago the wise men of India were struck by the enslaving and inescapable character of the environment in which human activities are conducted.

It is not the kind of obedience, however, which takes from him the need to think and make decisions, as it would be, perhaps, if he had become enslaved to a fellowman.

He wants us to be free and prosperous (not in the material sense), not enslaved by sin which destroys us and our relationship with Him.

When we remember that there are two kinds of forgiveness, one which is unconditional and freely given to all, and the other which grants release and deliverance from the enslaving power of sin, we see that this idea that God does not forgive ongoing adultery is false.

With the teaching that man is the highest essence for man, hence with the categoric imperative to overthrow all relations in which man is a debased, enslaved, abandoned, despicable essence.38

As a result mind (or reason) ends up being placed in a purely contingent relation to some finite set of naturalistic conditions to which it is fatalistically enslaved, thereby reducing the rational search for unity of structure to simple naturalistic needs, desires, or drives.

... 3that aged women likewise be reverent in demeanor, not slanderers nor enslaved to much wine, teachers of that which is good; 4that they may train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children, 5to be sober — minded, chaste, workers at home, kind, being in subjection to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed:...

I believe we have to allow ourselves to be defiant against that which would seek to control or enslave us if we are ever going to be able to enjoy real freedom.

Calvinists sometimes quote from Romans 7 as a text which teaches Total Depravity and total inability, for Paul seems to describe a lack of ability to do anything good (Romans 7:15, 19, 24), and refers to being captive and enslaved to sin (Romans 7:14, 23).

Titled after the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which freed the enslaved and prohibited slavery (unless as punishment for a crime), DuVernay focuses on the fact that the nation's prisons are disproportionately filled with black people.

Then 14 years after the Declaration of Independence, which proclaimed «all men are created equal and endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights,» the lie was embedded in the U.S. legal structure through the Naturalization Act of 1790, which barred the rights of citizenship from both free and enslaved black people.

The stories and rituals in which they were apprehended were the language of a consciousness enslaved to these unconscious meanings.

To build himself up into a person, man must unite and relate himself to others in the community, but at the same time not be swallowed or enslaved by the community which could very well become a power of oppression and enslavement.

Through His death on the cross, Jesus willingly submitted Himself to the violent death of ritualistic sacrifice as a way of exposing to humanity the sin to which humanity is enslaved.

Are you a Genesite or are you part of Death's March across the Universe enslaving life and that which has been created for the simple loathing that because like Death itself who can not create but only destroy that you loathe all those who can create and do create in such a manner because like your master your want all to worship you giving you power over all instead of empowering humanity to have power over Death?

It prohibited Korean ministers from reading the story of Exodus, the story of another enslaved people which rose up against another imperialist force; and from reading the book of Revelation, the story of passive resistance against the Roman Empire.

The great liberal hope, dramatized potently by Cameron, is that science will freely enslave itself to whim without will, which is love.

They are «powers» which have enslaved man and cut him off from communion with God.

Rollins concludes that «we are left then with the idea of orthodoxy and orthopraxis as two terms which refer to a loving engagement with the world that is mediated, though not enslaved by, our reading of the Bible.»

Not in the slightly unsettling way of his romances, in which human beings are mistaken for statues and shipwrecked magicians enslave monsters.

Their research finds that roughly 800 are enslaved in Canada's sex industry at any given time, the majority of which are young women between 12 and 25 years of age.

He once said that if he had rewritten Brave New World, he would have included a sane alternative, a society in which technology were used as though, like the Sabbath, it had been made for man, not as though man were to be adapted and enslaved by it.

The glorious freedom in which the early church rejoiced had by the Middle Ages been transformed into a new form of bondage, actually the resurgence of an ancient form of bondage, that in which man was enslaved to his own mythological world.

But until this week, I have never really grasped the degree to which people in the abortion industry are enslaved, corrupted, and abused by the culture of death.

«In the indeterminate and apparent freedom of an existence in which everything was possible but nothing made sense, he was enslaved by an illusory image of freedom: banished from his true self and unfree in an utter lack of relationship that was founded on being distanced from his own self, on separation from the truth of his own self.»

«Monks, I know of no other single thing by which a man's heart is so enslaved as by a woman.»

Her argument is that because American women are being unduly pressured to breast - feed their babies, they are becoming «enslaved» by the «little masters,» as Badinter describes nursing children, which in turn undermines the status of American women in general, leading to many negative social and economic outcomes.

On the eve of the Restoration he published The Ready and Easy Way to Establish a Free Commonwealth (1660), in which he presents monarchy as an enslaving form of government.

The only way you can resolve a conflict in a system which maintains positive rights is to give one Individual primacy over another, which is to subjugate and enslave the other.

They should look to challenge the free - market orthodoxies that led to the current crisis, and which leave people enslaved in an economy where materialism dictates ever longer hours worked in order that people can acquire more «stuff», even though it doesn't make them any happier.