Moreover they argued that some species have been created for the purpose of being sacrificed and eaten by humans, that it is normal for animals to kill and eat other animals, that agriculture, too, inevitably leads to the death of many animals, that plants are living beings as well and must still be destroyed, that we unintentionally and unknowingly destroy life forms all the time, and that a hunted animal has a fair chance to survive by killing the hunter.

" 19: 7-8 Christ is represented throughout Revelation as “ the Lamb ,” symbolizing the giving of his life as an atoning sacrifice for the people of the world, just as lambs were sacrificed on the altar for the sins of Israel.

Often in these stories the limbs, hair, blood, bones or organs of the primeval being are somehow severed or sacrificed to transform into sky, earth, animal or plant life, and other worldly features.

Halman helps Frank Poole infect the monolith ( which it once served ) with a computer virus ; as the life-forms in Jupiter's clouds were sacrificed to make Jupiter into a sun to warm Europa, it is feared that humanity would in turn be sacrificed for the new life on Europa.

* Altruism, ultimately, denies an individual value and is therefore destructive both to society and its individual components, viewing life merely as a thing to be sacrificed.

Her life was sacrificed to the Haazareth Three ( a group of demons ) by Doctor Doom.

Many Christians of the Eastern Orthodox Church to this day typically dye their Easter eggs red, the color of blood, in recognition of the blood of the sacrificed Christ ( and, of the renewal of life in springtime ).

When they finally escape, at the expense of Obi-Wan's life ( sacrificed in a duel with Vader ), they take part in the Battle of Yavin, in which Luke destroys the Death Star in his X-wing fighter.

After the overthrow of the corrupt Vulcan High Command and the death of Admiral Maxwell Forrest, who sacrificed his life to save Soval from a terrorist attack, the attitudes of Soval, and Vulcan society in general, became more cordial and accepting towards humanity.

Sadao " Spud " Munemori ( Munemori Sadao, born August 17, 1922 – April 5, 1945 ) was a posthumous recipient of the Medal of Honor, after he sacrificed his life to save those of his fellow soldiers at Seravezza, Italy during the closing stages of World War II.

She also begins to realize how unhappy her marriage was, and that she sacrificed the life she wanted for the security of Gerald's paycheck by being a trophy wife without children.

Supergirl did not die as she did not yet exist, but Barry Allen sacrificed his life to save the universe.

* Sacrifice of people upon the death of a king, high priest or great leader ; the sacrificed were supposed to serve or accompany the deceased leader in the next life.

According to the commentators of the rabbinic Jewish tradition, Jepthah's daughter was not sacrificed, but was forbidden to marry and remained a spinster her entire life, fulfilling the vow that she would be devoted to the Lord.

The same saga also relates that Domalde's descendant king Aun sacrificed nine of his own sons to Odin in exchange for longer life, until the Swedes stopped him from sacrificing his last son, Egil.

According to the commentators of the rabbinic Jewish tradition, Jepthah's daughter was not sacrificed, but was forbidden to marry and remained a spinster her entire life, fulfilling the vow that she would be devoted to the Lord.

In an attempt to redeem himself after his actions as Parallax, Hal Jordan sacrificed his life reigniting the sun, whereupon Oa and the Central Power Battery were completely rebuilt by the physical manifestation of Jordan ’ s dying will channeled through his old friend and confidant Thomas Kalmaku.

The Apis bull is unique as he is the only Egyptian deity represented solely as an animal, and never as a human with an animal's head — perhaps, because from the earliest of Egyptian religious practices, they were animals sacrificed to the cow goddess and represented the resurrected, renewal of life ( Hapy and later Osiris ).

* Veer Surendra Sai ( died 1884 ), Indian freedom fighter who sacrificed his life fighting against the British

Kitsch was considered morally dubious and to have sacrificed aesthetic life to a pantomime of aesthetic life, usually, but not always, in the interest of signaling one's class status.

The public saw him as a tragic military hero and exemplary gentleman who sacrificed his life for his country.

In saving the girl's life, Bookman has willingly sacrificed his own ; he has now made that last great sales pitch-" one for the angels ", one that could persuade even Death, thus fulfilling the original agreement.

The wife is likely to be young, sophisticated, smart as a whip -- often a girl who has sacrificed a promising career for marriage.

Today a battle cry may seem an anachronism, for in the modern Army, esprit de corps has been sacrificed to organizational charts and tables.

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Among the Liberal rank and file, several Gladstonian candidates disowned the bill, reflecting fears at the constituency level that the interests of the working people were being sacrificed to finance a rescue operation for the landed elite.

Four thousand Whydahs, for example, were sacrificed when Dahomey conquered the Kingdom of Whydah in 1727.

Five hundred were sacrificed for Adanzu II in 1791.

From this time he became one of the most celebrated orators in Rome, but sacrificed his character by conducting accusations for the government.

Paul writes from Ephesus that " Christ our Pascha has been sacrificed for us ," although the Ephesian Christians were not the first to hear that Exodus 12 spoke about the death of Jesus.

All present view this as an opportunity to show that they accept the belief that Jesus Christ is the one who sacrificed himself in behalf of redemption for all mankind, becoming the only mediator between Jehovah God and mankind ( John 3: 16 ).

In short: " If Christ was sacrificed for your sake, be like him and be in submission to one another.

John, by contrast, puts the Temple incident very early in Jesus ' ministry, has several trips to Jerusalem, and puts the crucifixion immediately before the Passover holiday, on the day when the lambs for the Passover meal were being sacrificed in Temple.

However, according to some traditions, the announcement of the month of Aviv could also be postponed depending on the condition of roads used by families to come to Jerusalem for Passover, adequate numbers of lambs to be sacrificed at the Temple, and on the ripeness of the barley that was needed for the first fruits ceremony.

If the German people has again now sacrificed around 160, 000 dead in the eastern campaign, the originators of this bloody conflict will have to pay for it with their lives.

Typical of her aggressive style was her victory against GM Georgi Kacheishvili in which she sacrificed her queen for the attack.

Critics, including the Center of Biological Diversity and New Mexico Department of Game and Fish, were concerned the jaguar was being sacrificed for the government's new border fence, which is to be built along many of the cat's typical crossings between the United States and Mexico.

After Schumann's death, Brahms hurried to Düsseldorf and for the next two years lived in an apartment above the Schumann's house, and sacrificed his career and his art for Clara's sake.

Rawls argues that each of us would reject the utilitarian theory of justice that we should maximize welfare ( see below ) because of the risk that we might turn out to be someone whose own good is sacrificed for greater benefits for others.

Colbert once commented that she had sacrificed for the sake of her career.

Robert Graves adapted Frazer's concept of the dying king who is sacrificed for the good of the kingdom to the romantic idea of the poet's necessary suffering for the sake of his Muse-Goddess in his Frazer-esque book on poetry, rituals, and myths The White Goddess, which was published in 1948.

Nabokov's main criticism of Arndt's and other translations is that they sacrificed literalness and exactness for the sake of preserving the melody and rhyme.

In orbit, they had sacrificed some of their exercise time for the sake of carrying out their scientific work, and their bodies ' reactions to the prolonged weightlessness emphasised the importance of maintaining regular exercise.

During the greater part of his administration the alliance with France against Spain had been the pivot of Frederick Henry's foreign policy, but in his last years he sacrificed the French alliance for the sake of concluding a separate peace with Spain, by which the United Provinces obtained from that power all the advantages they had been seeking for eighty years.

Carmela has sometimes sacrificed her children's security for the sake of the luxuries Tony's career could provide, while defending her children when they did something wrong.

Therefore, she began to be headed into " that direction " that she was written in that episode for the sake of humor with some of her intelligence and dignity sacrificed.

Wallenrod was the hero who sacrificed his life and happiness for his own country's sake.

Once more, Jean sacrificed her own peace for the sake of her friends and the world.

The interests of society and of its development are sacrificed for the sake of the partisan struggle for power.

IMF economist Pau Rabanal argued that Trichet " maintained a relatively expansionary monetary policy ," but even " sacrificed the ECB's inflation target for the sake of greater economic growth and jobs creation, and not the other way round .” While straying from his mandate, he has however still kept interest rates under control and maintained greater price stability than the Deutsche Bundesbank did before the euro.

She even sacrificed seeing her family for the sake of the movement.

Thus, Garibaldi sacrificed republican hopes for the sake of Italian unity under a monarchy.

One of the most outspoken critics of AIU and CEC has been AIU's founder Steve Bostic, who alleged in 2005 that " CECO's Board has allowed management to lose sight of the Company's primary mission of providing quality education services ; under these directors, CECO management has sacrificed the quality of student programs, resulting in the severe escalation of student attrition-all for the sake of a ' top-line growth strategy ' that cannot be sustained.