These are much better than the biblical commandments and they don't involve an arrogant god demanding worship: TEN COMMANDMENTS FOR A GLOBAL HUMANISM (Dr. Rodrigue TREMBLAY) 1 - Proclaim the natural dignity and inherent
worth of all human beings.
Hence, this love manifests an implicit openness to
the worth of every human being.
But unless we have to a far greater degree than at present the ordering of society on the basis of the supreme
worth of every human being, we shall have repeated outbursts of world tragedy.
Yet their insight may lead us to arrogance, if we make
the worth of a human being entirely dependent on rationality.
Thus, for instance, Paul's apparent support of slavery lost its authority for us only after eighteen centuries and seventy or so generations, as the full implications of Jesus» message of
the worth of each human being finally sank in and became authoritative instead (at least with regard to slavery).
In sum, we can and we must adopt solutions that reflect the dignity and
worth of every human being and that embody understanding of the community's shared responsibility for creating policies that are truly prowoman and prochild.
Not exact matches
I warned then that tricked traffic, vicarious visitors, and the kind
of morons attracted to the latest news on Momma whoever
's new diet weren't
worth reaching or pitching to in any case because they weren't buying anything
worth selling — but at least we thought they
were living, breathing
human beings.I said:
It
's worth the 10 seconds
of human effort, to keep the end - user experience easy but the internal data correct.
Assuming the letter you've received doesn't paint the whole picture for you, calling this number will
be well
worth it as talking to a person not only helps you understand the nuances
of the situation but there
's comfort in knowing that a
human being with a name and a face at the IRS
is there to help you figure things out.
Still, the Telluride program
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Right now, the
human worker who does, say, $ 50,000
worth of work in a factory, that income
is taxed and you get income tax, social security tax, all those things.
It will take at least a couple
of years for Theralase Technologies Inc.'s cancer treatment technology to become regulated (and at least a year before we know how well it works on
humans), but the healthcare tech they have under development
is worth talking about.
It usually requires an explanation on the order
of infinite retention («yes, our sales and marketing costs
are really high and our annual profit margins per user
are thin, but we
're going to keep the customer forever»), a massive reduction in costs («we
're going to replace all our
human labor with robots»), a claim that eventually the company can stop buying users («we acquire users for more than they
're worth for now just to get the flywheel spinning»), or something even less plausible.
At a $ 131 billion net
worth, Bezos
is the richest
human on the planet, averaging annual compensation
of $ 6.5 billion a year in the 20 years since Amazon debuted on the public markets — that maths out to 230,000 times the median pay
of Amazon workers.
However often one shaves, there can
be no doubt the qualities
of fine grooming carry over into many other facets
of human interaction and indeed one's self -
worth.
Caryn, your barking example
is the kind
of thing one often hears, as if
human speech
was completely unintelligible and hardly communicates anything
worth considering.
As for
human rights, my inclination
is to say that a concept
of human rights properly understood
is still well
worth promoting, and need not detract from the political responsibilities that Reno rightly says have
been neglected.
It does not describe said individuals and their posterity, ancient or modern, as
of less
worth, or value as
human beings than any other group.
Innocent women burned at the stake, gays ridiculed and denied rights,
human beings turn themselves into living bombs: all in the name
of some «god», undefined, unproven, undistinguished but always
worth killing for.
And yet what
is equally true
is that we
are each made in the Image
of God, which means (among many other things) that our
worth as
humans is never diminished by our actions.
Or
is the
human species the only one in the cosmos that has rights, the only creature that has intrinsic
worth, goodness and integrity in the eyes
of God?
That would
be «speciesism,» the fallacy
of thinking that there
is any material reason why a
human being of any age or kind, simply because he
is a
human being, has more
worth than, say, a pig or, for that matter, a cockroach.
The maternal face consequently becomes the material manifestation
of the infinite longing for each
human person, the visible reminder
of each
human person's
being wanted and desired,
of each person's infinite value and
worth regardless
of output or production.
It
is so obvious that: a) those held in slavery
were human beings (a biological category); b) all
humans are by nature persons (a philosophic category), that
is,
beings with inviolable
worth that ought never
be treated as means to an end; and c) the evil practice
of slavery
was not a private matter - the whole community
is harmed because we
are all communal
beings by nature, in solidarity with those who
are treated unjustly.
It
is always
worth keeping in mind that it
is the little ones who must first pay the price
of the cultural rejection
of «
human nature».
And we
are forced to witness to our conviction that not only
human beings but also all things, especially all living things,
are of worth both to themselves and to God regardless
of whether they
are of worth to
human beings.
Today,
human beings are increasingly ranked by a «quality
of life» index, and some lives
are deemed not
worth living (the contemporary equivalent
of the Nazi lebensunwertes Leben - life unworthy
of life).
If all mankind catalyze world opinion in support
of human dignity and the
worth of personhood, together with all the wealth
of rights and values already part
of U.N. instruments and international jurisprudence, there
is hope.
The
human link between them
is obviously the person
of Naaman, and if these acts
are all petty, insignificant, and
of no evident
worth, it
is because God respects the independence
of Naaman just as he does that
of each
of the other characters in the story.
-- Those that need «power» (reaffirmation
of their personal self -
worth among billions
of humans) go to a preacher that preaches the Baptism
of the Holy Spirit, special «gifts
of the spirit» just for the unique you, a purpose - driven life, or a progressive gospel that
is «the answer for our times».
can find us where we
are and push us to find each other, to show someone in our periphery that they
are a loved, seen
human being of inherent
worth, no matter what anyone tells them — this
is the kind
of small revolution that steadily changes the world and keeps the prospect
of a real Gilead at bay.
By way
of contrast, the
worth of a man for Jesus
is not determined by his
human quality or the character
of his spiritual life, but simply by the decision the man makes in the here - and - now
of his present life.
Nevertheless, the Christian faith in immortality has an important connection with the idea
of man's dignity and
worth, for according to the Christian outlook every
human soul has a value great enough to
be appropriately thought imperishable.
If he
were to mean by this that God finally wraps up all the determinations
of meaning that we have brought into existence by our
human activity, that would
be a proposal
worth pursuing.
(It may
be worth noting here that the whole point
of real Christianity lies not in interference with the
human power to choose but in producing a willing consent to choose good rather than evil.)
Outside the rarified environs
of the high academy and the fever swamps
of animal rights advocacy, most people in the West believe that the lives
of all
human beings — not just the «normal» ones —
are worth more than animals», simply because they
are human.
The concerns
of those who
are more informed should at least prompt us to stay mindful
of our reliance on technology and how developments could end up undermining the
worth, purpose and safety
of human beings, who have
been created in God's image.
We believe «pro-life»
is more than a bumper - sticker slogan; it
's an ethic rooted in the biblical idea that all
human beings are created in the image
of God, and
are, therefore,
of immeasurable and equal
worth in the eyes
of their Creator.
The Declaration «affirms the
worth, dignity and autonomy
of the individual and the right
of every
human being to the greatest possible freedom compatible with the rights
of others».
To honor the God - knowing leaders
of the past may indeed
be worth while, but why, in so doing, should you sacrifice the supreme experience
of human existence: finding God for yourselves and knowing him in your own souls?
It may
be worth emphasizing that the substantive principle
of justice in a teleological ethic (or, for that matter, any ethic at all)
is invalid unless it consistently implies the formative
human rights
of communicative respect.
It will insist that any version
of Christian faith that does not grapple with war and peace,
human equality, hunger, civil liberties, the hard decisions posed by medical technology, and a host
of other social challenges
is not a version
of faith
worth the time
of either pulpit or pew.
The paper says it
is «an affront to
human dignity and
worth» to produce a class
of individuals to serve as disposable soldiers.
So even if the earth
is only 6000 years old (a super conservative estimate), the Bible
is missing roughly 4000 years
worth of human history.
Every moment
of human life has
been given over to the laborious processes
of calculation, contract, and consent at the expense
of the natural compensations that have made life
worth living.
They try to show that, at least with respect to
human beings, life
is permeated with a
worth that evokes respect, dedication to enhance life and constraints that limit the wanton use
of power.
so sad you people
are so shallow on value and
worth of human life... potential?
We
are indebted to the Enlightenment for many things, but our charter for
human rights
is in the prophet's insight that each person, including the weak and oppressed,
is the subject
of infinite
worth and divine love.
The original UM document called one body
of mainline Protestants to affirm at the most basic level that all forms
of human life
are worth incalculably more than their industrial, market, scientific or even therapeutic use value.
It
is obvious that at the very time when life beyond death
is no longer a matter
of vital importance, there
is an increasing emphasis on the
worth of human personality.