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“It is perfectly acceptable to have a physical problem in our culture, but people tend to shy away from anything that has to do with the emotions.”

People Problem Culture Emotion Shy Acceptable

Book:Healing Back Pain: The Mind-Body Connection

Source: Healing Back Pain: The Mind-Body Connection

“...we see God working in terms of Jewish culture to reach Jews, yet, refusing to impose Jewish customs on Gentiles. Instead non-Jews are to come to God and relate to Him in terms of their own cultural vehicles. We see the Bible endorsing, then, a doctrine we call biblical sociocultural adequacy in which each culture is taken seriously but none advocated exclusively as the only one acceptable to God.”

Culture Term Taken Notes Jew Doctrine Relate Customs Acceptable Vehicle Biblical Gentiles Adequacy Endorsing Jewish Culture

Book:Anthropology for Christian Witness

Source: Anthropology for Christian Witness

“I will not perform in this city as long as the blatant targeting of black culture and minorities congregating is acceptable common practice.”

Long Culture Black Common Cities Practice Minorities Acceptable Black Culture

Author:Illmaculate

“Centuries from now our great-great-great-grandchildren will look back at us with amazement at how we could allow such a precious achievement of human culture as the telling of a story to be shattered into smithereens by commercials, the same amazement we feel today when we look at our ancestors for whom slavery, capital punishment, burning of witches, and the inquisition were acceptable everyday events.”

“Ultimately, of course, there is no excuse for being fat in this culture. It's the one last prejudice we allow ourselves, the final frontier of acceptable segregation. Our political correctness is positively Californian when it comes to race, creed, origin, and orientation. But we still condemn ourselves and others for this last intolerable offense in an annoyingly tolerant society.”

“This Western culture of ours tends to sacrifice the full range of experience to a lower common denominator that's acceptable to more people; we end up with McDonald's instead of real food, Holiday Inns instead of homes, and USA Today instead of news and cultural analysis. And we do that with the rest of our lives.”

People Real Ends Home Today Culture Common Our Lives Sacrifice News Western Range Analysis Usa Holiday Mediocrity Acceptable Mcdonalds Common Denominator Western Culture Inns Real Food

Author:Kate Bornstein

“Making an honest mistake is acceptable. Failing to fix it is not.”

Culture Mistake Failing Honest Acceptable Service Culture

Author:Ron Kaufman

“Pride is one of the socially acceptable sins in some corners of the evangelical culture. Its just straight-out ego gratification - how important I am; whether my name gets on the building or on the TV program or in the magazine article.”

Important Culture Names Sin Building Tvs Pride Ego Program Corners Magazines Articles Acceptable Gratification Evangelical

Author:Richard J. Foster