I'm not sure how far we should take this analogy, but Ron Paul is to the Republicans of 2008 as Howard Dean was to the Democrats of 2004: the one candidate speaking out prominently
against the war when his colleagues... Read More
But many of the Democrats, who put on a stiff upper lip and supported LBJ, suddenly turned
against the war when Nixon was in charge.
Not exact matches
But he said CUP owes most of its identity to Catalonia's own history of workers and leftist movements, including 1930s radicals from pre-dictatorship Catalonia —
when anarchists, communists and militant workers unions were among those who fought a losing 1936 - 39
war against Francisco Franco's fascist forces.
In view of this, it is puzzling that these countries complained about «currency
wars,» alleging that the «monetary tsunami» unleashed by the U.S. and the euro area was threatening their competitive positions by pulling up their currencies,
when, in fact, the real and the rupeewere falling
against the dollar and the euro.
But these forces were not used at that time and were instead sent to northern Mexico to conduct operations
against drug trafficking
when the Mexican government started to work more closely with the United States to fight the so - called
war on drugs.
This brings us to today,
when radical Muslims are fighting a terrorist
war against the West, and radical Westerners are looking to fight fire with fire.
But
when the tide of the Civil
War started going
against the South, he found that his loyalty to the Southern cause was greater than his dedication to the Hippocratic Oath.
And
when you declare
war on a top competitor, any successful strike
against it will fuel your company forward.
The leadership contestants intend this sabre - thrusting to hearken back to Alberta's pre-NDP glory days,
when former premier Peter Lougheed declared unholy
war against a different Trudeau's National Energy Program, and throttled oil shipments to eastern Canada; and
when Ralph Klein routinely clashed with Ottawa and other provinces, including on same - sex marriage and limits to private health care.
A trade
war is
when two countries pursue tit - for - tat protectionism
against each other — they take turns blocking the other country's exports with tools like tariffs (border taxes) and quotas (caps on imports).
Presidential candidate Donald Trump said, «Hillary Clinton unleashed a trade
war against the American worker
when she supported one terrible trade deal after another — from NAFTA to China to South Korea.»
Earlier this week, he said exactly what anonymous Ministry of Defense sources said a few weeks ago,
when they asserted that Iron Dome was under threat of a procurement freeze as part of their eternal
war against the Ministry of Finance officials over the defense budget.
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When you go out to
war against your enemies and the LORD, your God, delivers them into your hand, so that you take captives, if you see a comely woman among the captives and become so enamored of her that you wish to have her as wife, you may take her home to your house.
And remember,
when a Christian starts a
war in the name of Christ, it is
against everything what Christ taught.
Muslims are taking advantage of civilization's relatively short memory and spinning a fantasy that The Crusades were a genocidal
war waged
against them,
when it was only to save Jerusalem from the invading warlords of Mohammad who stole it in the first place.
But until we come to the end of ourselves then we are going to do and say what we want, even as it was with me: It's one thing to be a heathen, even as I was, but a whole other ball game to set our hearts on God and His truth; yet, that can only come
when we are sick and tired of being sick and tired of our own lives and we just give up, we know then who has given up by the one they advocate for, even has given place to: Paul said; with my heart I want to do what is right, but my flesh does what I hate: This is
when God's grace is sufficient, because our hearts are right with God, but our flesh is not: There is a
war going on within these temples, therefore; even as our flesh wins out to do what we hate, our hearts are set on God and His ways which has been established in the Word of Truth, which then causes us to stand and speak forth what we believe, even as this causes a rending to happen within us, for Christ to be formed in us this needs to be, as we come up in His glories even for a better resurrection for them who believe: The heart
wars against our flesh, even as Christ
wars against the man of sin within: For out of the abundance of our hearts our mouth doth speak, therefore; if we speak not the Wholesome Words of our Lord, Then our hearts are still wicked: But to advocate for wickedness instead of Christ, one has become a teacher of lawlessness, he then advocates for the man of sin: Many who have come out of religion has done this, as they went from one mountain top «from the extreme right» of self exaltation (Religion) to the other mountain top «to the extreme left» of the (Heathen) and missed the valley in - between that is takes to humble us: One extreme to the other, and missed Jesus: Jesus is taking ones through the valley's to strip us down of all who we are before exalting us to be just as He, even as the Christ in us overcomes that man of sin (Adam) through theses valleys of contrast that cause a rending to happen within; and
when we are rent in two, we stand on His word of truth, so we too can become one with Him, even as Jesus is with our Father: This is how Christ is formed in us: Thank - you Father; in Jesus Name Alexandria
True, Muhammad called for the use of the sword in his
war against opposing tribes — Christian, Jewish and others — in Arabia,
when he was building his state.
According to Chauncey, a more negative view of homosexuality developed after World
War II,
when sexual deviance was viewed as an offense
against The Great American Way of Life that was then uncritically celebrated.
Deut 20:12 - 16 And if it will make no peace with thee, but will make
war against thee, then thou shalt besiege it: And
when the LORD thy God hath delivered it into thine hands, thou shalt smite every male thereof with the edge of the sword
We know from our own troubled
War against Terror, how easy it is, when facing a murderous enemy, to slide from just war principles, into acts of abuse and immorali
War against Terror, how easy it is,
when facing a murderous enemy, to slide from just
war principles, into acts of abuse and immorali
war principles, into acts of abuse and immorality.
In other words, this text is not about how to go to heaven
when you die, but rather about how to go from slavery to death in this world as we
war against others (Eph 2:1 - 3), to unity and peace with others as we live in the family of God (Eph 2:11 - 22).
If the spiritual forces that are at
war with God were driven back in the creation event, then God Himself is driven back by these chaotic forces
when they conscript mankind to fight for their evil cause
against God.
The American
war over Vietnam continues to this day, as President Bush found out last fall
when he used the Vietnam analogy to warn
against the likely consequences of a precipitous U.S. withdrawal from Iraq.
@garbagemouth... A little inspired clarification for you.As far as Jesus telling His disciples «this generation shall not pass away» He meant the generation of humanity from the Flood to the Second Coming.There will be three judgements
against sin and its author, Satan.The first was the Flood, the second at the
war of Armageddon, and finally at the end of the Thousand years
when the evil one is released for a short season... I pity the unbelievers who doubt the Word
when the books of judgement are opened.
When, in February, I wrote a piece about Anna Foa's research in my Catholic Herald blog, I added that I was still mystified by the hardening of Jewish opinion
against Pius XII in the aftermath of Hochhuth's play Der Stellvertreter, which had depicted him virtually as a Nazi collaborator, given that the universal feeling expressed by Jews immediately after the
war was one of gratitude and warmth towards Pope Pius.
The verses which call for
war against unbelievers were revealed
when pagans were still putting obstacles in the way of the activities of Muhammad even after opportunities for reconciliation had been given.
Is our grasp on history so faint that we have forgotten the last time we intervened in Afghanistan to support the Mujaheddin in their
war against the Soviets and then left
when we thought the battle was won?
Back in the 1940's,
when Reinhold Niebuhr started Christianity in Crisis to support the
war against Nazism, he abandoned his earlier pacifism, and his earlier too - simply pious way of wishing evil away, and called for a new tough - minded Christian realism.
(Deuteronomy 21:10 - 14 NAB) «
When you go out to
war against your enemies and the LORD, your God, delivers them into your hand, so that you take captives, if you see a comely woman among the captives and become so enamored of her that you wish to have her as wife, you may take her home to your house.
It is the same today
when Christian leaders tell us that God wants us to go to
war against the Muslims (or whomever).
Not too many years later,
when I was pastor of a black parish in Brooklyn, I came to know Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, and we formed a fast friendship, first in shared activism
against the Vietnam
War and later in countless hours of intense theological and philosophical conversation» usually in his smoke - filled office (he with his cigar and I with my pipe) high in the tower of Jewish Theological Seminary up on Morningside Heights.
In 2007, on the hundredth anniversary of Pius X's anti-Modernist encyclical Pascendi Dominici Gregis, Peter Steinfels used his column in the New York Times to suggest that the encyclical was a «revival of the battle
against liberalism that the papacy and much of the church had been waging throughout the nineteenth century — and tragically the purge the encyclical started crippled those very elements in European Catholicism that might have resisted the Church's sympathy for authoritarian regimes after World
War I,
when liberal parliamentary governments were besieged by rising totalitarianism.»
True Christians were not permitted to serve in the military or otherwise participate in
war or even commit violent acts until the concept of the «just
war» — fighting only
when doing so was required to protect the innocent
against an aggressor — was developed hundreds of years after the death of Christ.
Finally, and much as I appreciate rhetorical high spirits, I hope Professor Griffiths will permit me the observation that it really doesn't advance the ongoing debate to suggest that James Turner Johnson is blowing smoke
when he explains how James Childress» seminal 1978 article on prima facie duties and the just
war tradition jump - started the «presumption
against war» trope.
The description of Catholic just
war teaching as beginning with a presumption
against war and ending with criteria whose function is to say
when, if ever, that presumption can be overridden is faithful to neither of these Catholic traditions, that of the religious life or that of just
war.
However, I sometimes wonder if on Judgment Day we will be as proud
when we learn about atrocities our nation has committed
against Muslim nations in the form of economics, or unjustified
wars, or price manipulation of crops and technology, or who knows what else?
When Christians go to
war against their enemies in the name of Jesus Christ, we are not worshipping the God who told us to love our enemies, but are worshipping the demonic being who loves nothing more than to get us to do his bidding while blaming it on God.
Islam at the beginning held the sword only
when it was necessary to survive the
wars launched
against it by the Pagans of Mecca beside the Persians who then were worshipping fire... Any way remember that we never came closer to the West until the launched their first attacks
against Muslims by the crusaders that came from the west towards Jerusalem... Such acts has drove Islam to adopt the policy that says «Attack is the best means of defense» to push the crusaders further back.
Obama may have wanted to go to
war with Syria but specifically asked congress for their take and listened
when the voting majority was
against it... do you see the distinction?
Indeed, it was Fosdick's influence, along with that of Walter Rauschenbusch and other advocates of the social gospel, that led me to experience considerable alienation from the evangelical community during my years of graduate study on secular campuses in the 1960s,
when I joined protests
against racial injustice and marched
against the Vietnam
war.
Granted, President Bush did make a public relations misstep in the days immediately following the 9/11 attacks
when he called the coming U.S - led
war against global terrorism a «crusade» and promised that terrorists would face the «full wrath» of the U.S. «A lot of people think that America is out to get Islam, anyway,» Joshua Salaam, director of the Council on American - Islamic Relations, warned at the time.
When the allegedly sinful group was external to the society, the dialectic of saint and sinner could fuse with the notions of chosen people and holy
war to justify extraordinary hostility and aggression
against the despised group.
Also,
when I discuss «if
war is wrong...» by «is wrong» I mean is an act that is evil / sinful /
against God's ways (right now I'm using those three all as synonymous for these purposes; though we could discuss the theological distinctions between them, they are generally the same enough
when trying to explain what I mean by «is wrong»).
All other religions teach tolerance, forgiveness and love and Kuran teaches «kill non-muslims (Quafirs)», «declare
war against non-muslims (Jihad)»... If this is your religious book teaches, no wonder so many muslims are terrorists... and others stay quiet
when their brothers bomb our cities and infrastructures.
The ICC, based in The Hague, tries cases of crimes
against humanity,
war crimes, and genocide
when a country's own courts fail to prosecute.
When you besiege a city for a long time, making
war against it in order to take it, you shall not destroy its trees by wielding an axe
against them.
What if we were just as much
against colonization, imperialism, and
war, as you are, and that
when we told people about Jesus and His love for them, we let them maintain their culture, their identity, and who they were as people?
The glory days of feature film animation were amidst World
Wars,
when propaganda on both sides was simple: Allies versus fascists, right takes on wrong, world defenders
against world destroyers.
but the woman or our society keep the
war against Rome going for 1000 years then another 1000
when England took over the assault, their valiant struggle did not end until Christendom put are woman to the subservient side of the coin, and the dark ages followed, my point is your right men and woman can not do the same things men destroy, women create.
Ah yes, the good old days of the 20th century...
when blacks were unjustly discriminated
against, and Nazism rose to create world
war and exterminate millions of Jews — all justified by their so - called Christian proponents.