Sentences with phrase «world is violent»

To say the world is violent, and hostile, is an understatement.

Face it, the world IS violent, thats just a fact of fallen man, And as far as the OT violence goes, there were very evil people with very evil practices surrounding The Israelites.

The world is violent enough, and it is not cool or God honoring regardless of what you have been taught, Billy Madison.

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The Search for Common Ground, a non-profit which aims to reduce the number of violent conflicts being fought around the world, even lists the re-phrasing skill as an essential ingredient in non-violent conflict resolution.

Is it better to live in this way because at least we know more about what is going on around us, and we get a tangible sense of the violent state of the worlIs it better to live in this way because at least we know more about what is going on around us, and we get a tangible sense of the violent state of the worlis going on around us, and we get a tangible sense of the violent state of the world?

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Since 2012, Acapulco, which has been called «Guerrero's Iraq,» has been the most violent city in Mexico, and among the most violent cities in the world, with homicide rates above 100 per 100,000 people each year.

The article cited a study that reported these businesspeople have the same clinical diagnosis as the Ted Bundy's of the world, but aren't violent.

The real dilemmas have to do not with the fact that there are brutal dictatorships in the world, but with the fact that the governments of the world are spread along a spectrum, from fair and democratic to violent and totalitarian.

However, scammers in the crypto world should be watching their backs because if they bamboozled people out of their hard earned crypto it might get violent.

This conclusion is especially poignant in light of the past century, when violent suffering has taken on the proportion of two world wars, the Holocaust, Cambodia, Rwanda, Bangladesh, Sudan, Congo, Hiroshima, the partition of India, the massacres of 1965 in Indonesia, Stalin's Russia, Armenia, Timor - Leste, Bosnia, and the global practice of abortion.

Understand that elder copies are being burnt in order to introduce a new manipulated versions that are supposed to be more peaceful not containing verses that were considered violent or extreme... unfortunately already such books are being printed in some Arabic country under the name of Quran and Furqan for distribution to the Islamic world to please some powers...!

In a speech earlier this year, Archbishop Francis Chullikatt, permanent observer of the Holy See to the United Nations and former apostolic nuncio to Iraq and Jordan, challenged Americans to protect religious freedom in their country: «While nobody would confuse the marginalization of religion with the actual killing of Christians in other parts of the world, it is through this marginalizing that violent persecution is born.»

What the world needs is not peace but revolution — not violent revolution but fundamental change in economic relationships between the poor and the rich.

In light of my series this past week about the Bible, in which I said that the Bible is the most violent religious text in the world, someone sent this picture to me.

While I do not consider myself an expert on all the religious writings of all of the main religions in the world, I have read most of the main religious texts for most of the main world religions, and while it is not uncommon to find violent events being described in these other religious books, no other set of religious writings comes even close to describing the violence and bloodshed that one finds within the pages of the Hebrew Scriptures.

We can trust that even in this violent, unjust and despairing world, God's word of hope is true, and we will sing it «from generation to generation.»

God wants humanity to understand that nothing and nobody is beyond the scope of His redemptive purposes, and so by sending Jesus as the fulfillment of the most violent of religious texts, God not only revealed Himself by way of a stark contrast to that violence, but also showed how to reinterpret and understand those violent events in light of the self - sacrificial God dying on the cross for the sins of the whole world.

The third reason the Hebrew Scriptures are unique among all religious writings in the world is that they are the most violent religious writings in history.

In Part 1 and Part 2 of this 3 - Part series on how Satan casts out Satan, we learned that Satan uses violent religion to attack and kill the messengers of God, and thus, appear to be «casting out Satan» while in reality, he is only solidifying his own power and influence in the world.

In a violent world, each of us is the young disciple in need of such intense washing.

We can trust that even in this violent, unjust and despairing world, God's word of hope is true.

This light is not the superficial colouring that a crude hedonism might discern; nor is it the violent glare that annihilates objects and blinds the eyes; it is the tranquil, mighty radiance born of the synthesis, in Jesus, of all the elements of the world.

In light of my series on the violence of God in the Bible, in which I said that the Bible is the most violent religious text in the world, someone sent this picture to me.

When God looks violent in the Old Testament, it is not because He is violent, but because He is taking the sins of the world upon Himself, just as Jesus did on the cross.

When I read you say this as your possible resolution: «When God looks violent in the Old Testament, it is not because He is violent, but because He is taking the sins of the world upon Himself, just as Jesus did on the cross.»

I think they mean that most people in the world aren't thinking too much about whether or not God is violent.

Noah and his family were spared because they seemed like decent folks caught up in a violent world they did not create.

I guess this is directed more at violent anti-abortionists and less towards you that is of the «live and let live» mindset, but what if with all the evil thats in the world, god is giving us an out by providing us with the cure and we're misinterpreting this and digging ourselves a deeper hole?

This type of analysis is very much a part of current concerns about how media manipulate, for example encouraging us to become more active consumers, creating unrealistic perceptions of a more violent world, and imposing American culture on media audiences throughout the globe.

But world opinion is against her, and in the United States itself there is strong opposition (though American opinion on Vietnam is not as violent as French opinion on Algeria was in 1960).

The story illustrates Hauerwas's insistence that Christian pacifists ought not think that being nonviolent will make the world safer; it might well make it more violent.

Keep loving your heritage and keep witnessing to others that there is a better way than a war torn, violent, wicked, socialist, new world order.

The violent portions of Scripture are to be understood as the times when God withdrew from sinful humanity and a sinful world.

Could it be that in using the scapegoat imagery, God was not only giving Israel a way of escape for their own violent tendencies, but was also revealing to them (and us) what He Himself was doing about the violence of Israel, and indeed, the violence of the whole world?

'' if even one person in the whole world stops for a moment from being violent due to their faith... then YES, religion can stop violence.»

Anyone who believes in the Judaeo - Christian values of tolerance, mutual respect and peaceful coexistence can't help but be extraordinarily distressed that the world has taken such a violent turn.

Today around the world, the Church is alive and flourishing in places like North Korea, Sudan, Pakistan, Eritrea, Nigeria, Vietnam, Kenya, India, Ethiopia, China and more — despite restrictive and even oppressive violent government policies and practices against Christians.

But if even one person in the whole world stops for a moment from being violent due to their faith... then YES, religion can stop violence.

And as Christians around the world awaken to the reality of how we have maligned the gospel and blasphemed the name of Jesus by using Him to defend our violent causes, we too are beginning to see our place in the world.

While religion rules in muslim countries, they are the most violent countries in the world.

Jesus is telling His disciples that through His blood, that is, through His violent death as a sacrificial scapegoat, they will gain deliverance and release from the sin that has enslaved humanity since the foundation of the world.

Christianity has the most barbaric and violent track record in world history, any body that says otherwise is in denial.

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.

Once again Islam is proven to be the most intolerant, oppressive, and violent religion in the world.

The report continues: «Lenin the Man was a violent sociopath, catalyst for wholesale slaughter across half the world.

Even after his birth, flight, conspiracy, treachery and violent rage were the constant background to the One who was coming into the world.

On the cross, Jesus showed us once and for all that God is not violent, but, quite to the contrary, has been taking upon Himself the violence of the whole world.

Having faced such violent persecution at the militant atheist hands of the Communist regime, it is a blessing to see the growth of the Church in Russia, especially in an era when religion is becoming less and less relevant in the Western part of the world.

He concludes that the ways in which men will deal with conflict are not determined; and human intelligence and control may make possible a world order which can prevent the terrible destruction of violent warfare.22