Sentences with phrase «with general society»

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«Considering that «histrionic personality disorder» is still in the DSM - 5, and that women in general are more likely to be diagnosed with anxiety, depression, and some other mental illnesses by clinicians, I'd say he's stoking the flames of a much larger problem about how our society seems to view women — as having excessive emotional needs that need to nearly constantly be managed or controlled rather than taken seriously.

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«We've reached a tipping point with regard to this issue [of gun control] in the general society and companies that are worth their salt — and CEOs specifically — are constantly trying to read the tea leaves,» Klepper said.

They feel Christianity isn't being given the same respect as other faiths, that the media, the way laws are interpreted, the general hesitancy of businesses and public bodies to constructively engage with them as Christians is pushing them to the edge of society.

Well, if there are HUGE moral issues in the bible that we do not agree with as a society in general, you have cherry - picked something to ignore.

I'm familiar with the problems which occur in Israel when Haredi and non-Haredi groups meet; they do not, in general, bleed into the wider society.

They contribute nearly nothing to society in general, since they are waiting to die to be with Jesus.

A 2005 study by Gregory S. Paul published in the Journal of Religion and Society stated that, «In general, higher rates of belief in and worship of a creator correlate with higher rates of homicide, juvenile and early adult mortality, STD infection rates, teen pregnancy, and abortion in the prosperous democracies,» and «In all secular developing democracies, a centuries long - term trend has seen homicide rates drop to historical lows» with the exceptions being the United States (with a high religiosity level) and «theistic» Portugal.

Camille, who is of Swiss and Lebanese origin, grew up in the Lebanon with a father who was a pastor and the general director of Bible Society in the Lebanon and Syria.

Could it be that the millennial generation (and our society in general) has too many «things / stuff» and not enough «time» to get involved with church?

But this means that the environment, together with the society in question, must form a larger society in respect to some more general characters than those defining the society from which we started.

They are going too far with their attacks on people of faith and our society in general.

By making, each of us, a revolutionary rupture with a society based on injustice, and by paralyzing the death mechanisms of the money system — if necessary, by a well - planned general strike.

The Quranic texts do not give in detail the code of laws regulating dealings — human actions — but they give the general principles which guide people to perfection, to a life of harmony — to an inner harmony between man's appetites and his spiritual desires, to harmony between man and the natural world, and to a harmony between individuals as well as a harmony with the society in which men live.

The American Association for the Advancement of Science, the world's largest general scientific society with more than 130,000 members and over 262 affiliated societies and academies of science including over 10 million individuals, has made several statements and issued several press releases in support of evolution.

He identified with a regime much more Jewish than the broader Polish society, and demographically overwhelmed by the millions of Catholic Poles, who were anti-Russian in a general way and also, perhaps in their majority, anti-Semitic» some intensely so, most less actively.

They may, however, feel less of a sense of personal security than they once did with mom on the home front — but this situation is prevalent within society In general and certainly helps ministers and their families to understand the problems others face.

The general secularization of our society with its multitude of competing claims crowds religion to the wall.

The scholars who study Islamic culture today point out that the chief factors which have influenced contemporary Arab Muslim society are: the Western ideas which penetrated Arab society through education and increased contact with the West, socialist concepts which have spread throughout the world, communist doctrines which challenge religion in general, the expansion of university education, the admission of Muslim women to higher education, the study of ancient and modern philosophy in the universities, and the modern Muslim movements which have been so influential.

Yet the general principle that applies to almost every method of execution is that the process be fairly simple, brutal and blood - curdling in order to impress the victims — and more important, would - be criminals — with the severity of the infraction and the depth of society's righteous anger.

My black colleagues in NCBC and the Society for the Study of Black Religion (SSBR) helped me to realize more clearly that theology is not black merely because of its identification with a general concept of freedom.

UN observer Lorne Gunter comments: «Rather than the People's Assembly being comprised of members or deputies from around the world, elected by and accountable to the people they represent [as is at least theoretically the case with the General Assembly], it would likely be made up of the heads of civil society NGOs, and, under most scenarios, only those NGOs accredited by the UN.

The two civil religions correspond in a general way with the ambivalent character of the state in American society.

Campuses are much like society in general — there are a few serious faith practitioners sprinkled among people with moderate religious proclivities.

Particularly because Christianity in Asia has been closely associated with the Western powers, colonial and neo-colonial, and because Asian Christianity in general has tended to be associated with the powerful in Asian societies, this question is critically important.

It's society in general that is obsessed with sex.

The technology of modern medicine, oriented to treating gross pathology and trauma by surgery, powerful drugs, and space - age technology, has little to do with either the degree of wellness of individuals or the general level of wellness in society.

«If you believe that government has the responsibility to promote the common good and general welfare and moral good of the society and it's ordained by God to do that, then for me, I would probably want someone with character and is interested in those questions at least,» he said.

That costs in general in an oil dependent society will rise is certainly a problem, but the most critical problem comes with those things that are essential to life.

In his opening address to the World Conference on Church and Society, Visser» t Hooft, General Secretary of the World Council of Churches, said, «We do not speak because we want to have a say in the affairs of the world, but because we can not live with God, with other fellowmen, with ourselves, if we keep silent».

The world students» design - science revolution may possibly result in a general reorientation of world society's awareness, common sense, and intelligence which, just «in the nick of time,» will bring mankind into conscious promulgation of the do - more - with - lessing invention revolution to be applied directly to gaining man's living advantage, which can accomplish the 100 percent physical success of all humanity in less than one - half the time it would take to occur only as the inadvertent by - product of further weapons detouring of human initiative.

Education, «civilization,» even leisure, seem to Whitehead to be necessary» before either individuals or society can operate upon sufficiently general (i.e., non-selfish) criteria to make world consciousness a possibility.24 However, as we have already seen, world consciousness in Whitehead is the basis of social ethics and in close affinity with what he would want to designate as the fundamental religious impulse, the maximization of value.

Americans» fascination with guns is a grave sickness of its society, as is it's fascination with violence in general.

The general view of polygamy is that it is an institution alien to American culture and generally incompatible with modern society.

It would certainly be welcome, not only with respect to the interests of science, but to those of society in general, if scientists of all stripes began truly to respect the limits of their own enterprise.

This admixture appears based upon the conjunction of revealed religion with the natural law as set in creation by its Creator, at the head of which is the mind of man — law which defines nature's constitution from the physical to the structure of human society, including the general moral precepts by which it must be governed.

Readers are gently led into considering their own spiritual life, challenged into being honest with their current efforts to evangelise, and invited to analyse the general culture of society.

The consensus that will emerge embraces both practical education and general education, with the goals of the latter characterized as giving the student «the values, attitudes, and skills that will equip him to live rightly and well in a free society.»

When he discusses «the hierarchy of societies composing our present epoch,» he says he is «deserting metaphysical generality» and only «considering the more special possibilities of explanation consistent with our general cosmological doctrine, but not necessitated by it» (PR 147).

My whole problem with religion is when people start putting their beliefs into the laws for general society.

Just as, in general, good works are distinct from faith and not to be identified with it, and yet are also demanded by faith and not to be separated from it, so justice in its political meaning as right structures of society and culture is both distinct from faith and demanded by it, and hence neither identifiable with faith nor separable from it.

The Church's responsibility to God for human societies doubtless varies with its own and the nations» changing positions, but it may be described in a general fashion by reference to the apostolic, the pastoral and the pioneering functions of the Christian community.

Like the Society of Jesus as a whole, he threw himself into the Great Reform, which didn't seek any particular goals so much as pursue a general, utopian vision, a hoped - for fusion of the Spirit of Christ with Liberation, with New Being, with the Eternal Now.

Our concern has been simply to indicate what process - thought in a general way has to tell us about God, the world, the nature of man and society, coupled with some discussion of its references to the historical figure of Jesus and its way of envisaging the destiny of man both in and beyond his present mortal existence.

Their Statement makes a strong contrast with the speech of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland when she told them there was no such thing as «society», only individuals, families and government.

There is nothing essentially sinful in Hindu society any more than there is anything essentially pure in the Christian society - for that is what the church amounts to - so that one should hasten from the one to the other... So long as the believer's testimony for Christ is open and as long as his attitude towards Hindu society in general is critical, and towards social and religious practices inconsistent with the spirit of Christ is protestant and practically protestant, I would allow him to struggle his way to the light with failure here and failure there, but with progress and success on the whole.

Unless the general public — not just the highly educated leaders of church and society, but the general public — knows about these problem with all their pros and cons, and are able to weigh and consider alternatives and solutions from every standpoint — left, right and center — unless that happens, our nation will never be able to fight its way back toward solutions that will build us up, strengthen our resolve, and re-create the nation I used to love and I now would love to reform.

In this, they join a general society in which 90 percent of fetuses diagnosed with conditions such as Down syndrome or dwarfism never make it to birth.

Indeed, he creates a virtual phantasmagoria of suffering from actual instances of human barbarity that he has read about in Russian newspapers: Turkish soldiers cutting babies from their mother's wombs and throwing them in the air in order to impale them on their bayonets; enlightened parents stuffing their five - year - old daughter's mouth with excrement and locking her in a freezing privy all night for having wet the bed, while they themselves sleep soundly; Genevan Christians teaching a naive peasant to bless the good God even as the poor dolt is beheaded for thefts and murders that his ostensibly Christian society caused him to commit; a Russian general, offended at an eight - year - old boy for accidentally hurting the paw of the officer's dog, inciting his wolfhounds to tear the child to pieces; a lady and gentleman flogging their eight - year - old daughter with a birch - rod until she collapses while crying for mercy, «Papa, papa, dear papa.»

I believe we are experiencing in the West right now an upheaval comparable to that which the fourth century produced, with the end of the Roman order and the general spread of Christianity: the moment when the ancient world was plunged into another world, another society, another conception of the universe.