Sentences with phrase «as culture wars»

Such insistence framed debates around careers as wide ranging as Robert Mapplethorpe and Kara Walker, even as the culture wars of the 1990s further conflated black bodies with either sexual excess or moral danger.

Then we can focus on the religious «nonsense» this article labels as culture wars.

But framing this as a culture war between Christians and LGBT people suggests that they have to choose and further marginalizes LGBT Christians by denying them their very identity.

Fran Barlow: «It's hard to escape the conclusion that much of the contrarian position simply reflects the desire to fight what they see as a culture war against anything that smacks of human (as opposed to «market») control over policy.»

Quotes me:» It's hard to escape the conclusion that much of the contrarian position simply reflects the desire to fight what they see as a culture war against anything that smacks of human (as opposed to «market») control over policy.»

«It's hard to escape the conclusion that much of the contrarian position simply reflects the desire to fight what they see as a culture war against anything that smacks of human (as opposed to «market») control over policy.»

Not exact matches

This could take the form an actual agreement with Vivid, or it could be an extraordinarily progressive attitude — Lucas might consider a porn parody as another step toward his goal of total pop culture domination with Star Wars.

One: books about how the financial crash happened and why (Making it Happen, The Alchemists, The Unwinding, The Billionaire's Apprentice, After the Music Stopped) and two: books about the business and culture of technology (The Everything Store, Smarter Than You Think, as well as Hatching Twitter, by Nick Bilton and Dogfight: How Apple and Google Went to War and Started a Revolution, by Fred Vogelstein.)

At the same time as CJNG's pseudo-insurgency and violence between self - defense groups, the UN Human Rights Council has found that the drug war's disruptions to Mexican society have deepened a culture of lawlessness and impunity.

The civil rights division has been a recurring culture - war battleground as it passed between Democratic and Republican administrations.

In many ways, Pence was on the same doomed trajectory as the conservative - Christian movement he'd long championed — once a political force to be reckoned with, now a battered relic of the culture wars.

It wasn't that McCain had a deep objection to culture war campaigns as such.

There have been concerted efforts in fundamentalist circles to become the dominant religious voice in our military as a means of ensuring their «victory» in a «culture war.»

CNN: In culture war skirmishes, Georgetown becomes political football In the latest round of culture wars over contraception and religious liberty, most Americans would probably identify places like the White House and Congress as key battlefields.

Rehabilitation here means not that of individual criminals but of entire societies that have suffered war or dictatorship, as when supporters of international tribunals describe punishment as «overcoming a culture of impunity.»

The culture of death we see clearly in the gang violence on our streets and in the perpetual war that has ravaged homes in Iraq is just as real, though often harder to see, in the self - centeredness of our shopping malls and the loneliness of our workspaces.

Those who make the latter choice, argues Horton, are likely to produce better results also in terms of cultural change than are Christians who take the culture wars as their primary task.

This has many evangelicals very worried because they view the Supreme Court as the decisive field of battle in the culture war.

Schickel's work» represented here by 175 full - color photographs» brings us face - to - face with the concerns of our own culture war, especially as it is manifested in clashes between traditionalists and liberals in the Church over the past three decades.

With the exam oriented toward Western civilization and theistic as well as secular perspectives, it calls to mind the Culture Wars of the 1980s.

Such divergent responses to the crisis are unintelligible unless one sees them as part of the deeper issue of what might be called American Catholicism's «culture wars.»

The prestige media is generally blind to its own belligerency in the culture war; it champions as courageous the exercise of free speech that is vituperative and slanderous while simultaneously calling for civility, and condemning as uncivil even the measured responses of those who are slandered.

What will it mean for both sides in this debate — at least as it takes place among believers, in and for the church — to move beyond political ideologies and culture wars and stand together under God's word of law and gospel?

How well do they address problems raised by the clerical sexual - abuse crisis, as well as by the polarization of the Catholic culture wars?

While culture war issues make headlines galore, an exhaustive study of Americans» religious attitudes shows the public as a whole might not find the debate so enticing.

That's how I hope Christians today see it as well — not as a lightning rod of the culture wars, to be avoided or embraced as some sort of statement, but as a pleasurable gift of a good God, who made water, yeast, barley and hops, and human beings with the creative capacity to brew up something wonderful.

Obama's success among some religious demographics also illustrated how economic issues, as opposed to culture war concerns, dominated the election cycle.

With the Great War as backdrop, the great culture warrior for the social gospel utilized his understanding of historicism as a method to discuss how religion and patriotism should be rightly understood in a genuine democracy.

It really inspires me to think that maybe my generation will be the one to sever the marriage between evangelicalism and politics, end the culture wars, and redirect our efforts toward feeding the hungry, helping the homeless, advocating for the helpless, pursuing racial reconciliation, supporting single moms, rejecting the seductive pull of power and violence, and earning a repuation as peacemakers.

* worship God, who has never been, at any time for any reason, a capricious God of death, war, murder, destruction, violence, abuse, vengeance, hate, fear, lies, slavery, systemic injustice, oppression, conditional acceptance, exclusion, segregation, discrimination, shunning, ostracism, eternal condemnation, eternal punishment, retribution, sacrifices, patriarchy, matriarchy, empire, nationalism, only one culture, only one race or portion of the population, parochialism, sectarianism, dogma, creeds, pledges, oaths or censorship — and who has never behaved as a Greco - Roman or narcissistic deity.

If conservative Christians continue to treat LGBT people as second - class citizens and cry persecution every time they don't get their way, they will lose far more than the culture wars.

So the firing of a conservative columnist from a left - of - center magazine won't register as high on the culture - war scale as did the firings of Brendan Eich (from Mozilla) or James Damore (from Google).

As legislators grow weary of culture wars along with their constituents, «you're going to see the states respond to it whether the feds are going to or not.»

God in His will through history had into reality seemingly illogical or cruel events to happen in our world, but no one is spared if the purpose is for the good of humanity, wars pestilence even the holocust has a reason and purpose beyond our comprehension at our times but will be reveald in the future, The Phillipine catasthrophy for example is viewed by some as Gods punishment, we experienced the brunt of natures punishing power but it also unveiled the true feelings and concern of the whole world in helping us materially and spiiritually by aiding and consoling us that was unprecedented in history, The whole world had demostrated, to me, a kind of humanitarian concern and love that trancends races and culture, A kind of demonstration by higher being the we humans is one with Him.The cost of human lives and misery is nothing in history compared to its positve historical consequences

If I were harrassed by these hypocritical, war - promoting anti-abortionista's, I'd merely sue them on «relgious - hate - crimes» grounds, as my pagan belief leaves ALL failed culture war issues up to me!

My second observation is simply that, in light of the fact that the «gay community» is not separate from the «Christian community» and that there are many like Justin who identify as both Christian and gay, we have to move past the culture war mentality that pits these two groups against one another.

In one of those moments that remind us that there's a culture war going on, National Public Radio decided in 1994 to hire Mumia Abu - Jamal» serving time for the 1982 murder of Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner» as a political commentator on its program All Things Considered.

Brooks warns contemporary Christians that when we try to engage in public life, we are perceived as prosecuting a «culture war,» one that has «alienated large parts of three generations» of Americans, turning «a rich, complex, and beautiful faith into a public obsession with sex.»

The evidence for this phenomenon is incontestable: the influx of non «SBC evangelical scholars into Baptist seminaries; the changing of the name of the Baptist Sunday School Board to the more generic LifeWay Christian Resources; the presence and high profile of non «Baptist leaders on SBC platforms, e.g., the closing message at the 1998 SBC delivered by Dr. James Dobson, a Nazarene; the aggressive participation of the SBC's Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission as an advocate for the conservative side of the culture wars conflict; new patterns of cooperation between SBC mission boards and evangelical ministries such as Promise Keepers, Campus Crusade for Christ, the National Association of Evangelicals, Prison Fellowship, and World Vision.

For Douthat, however, our present identity as a «nation of heretics» marks a departure from earlier periods, in particular the post «World War II era of America's Greatest Generation, when Roman Catholic orthodoxy and the mainline Protestant denominations ruled the culture in ways that were truly Christian and faithful.

We need to contemplate the Concordat Analogy, I think, rather than dismiss it as cheap culture - war rhetoric.

Anyway, the only culture war that exists is on TV which considering overall TV viewership as a % is at an all - time low I find quite funny.

I agree that polemicists in the culture wars are often as careless with historical facts and epidemiological data about children as they are with facts generally.

Don't think this religious / atheistic culture war thing is quite as pronounced where I come from....

Some how it's felt that values, morals, virtues are not there in a secular world only faceless solid lifeless laws of men rather than what has been relayed by Holy books that calls for good deeds and reject bad deeds and to build a faithful societies, communities, nations since communications among nations or even among the nations of mixed cultures and beliefs... Laws or God and universe are to be prepared by some thing that is equivalent to UN but built on nations beliefs to achieve the code of understanding among nations but as can see now it is build on groundless bases if not of words of God to faiths... in addition to those non spiritual secular beliefs to make decisions of faith but at the moment the secular world make and take the decisions while the beliefs and faiths has to pay for it when it becomes a war between all faiths or religions outside your world, it would become back into your inside among the mixed culture and beliefs of the nation or nations under one country flag...!

As these Christians spread across the Mediterranean world they were not belligerent, did not even think of culture wars, did not demand their rights and had no opportunity to live in a protected Christian sub-culture.

Keel carries no weapons in the culture war, and he figures that his people, hardly stereotypical evangelicals, vote Democratic or Green as often as Republican.

It may be that the culture war is better thought of as an effort to move forward, to a yet - to - really - arrive fourth stage, one in which real effort to practice postmodern conservatism will be made by society, doing its best to partially revive lost things, informed by many decades of experiencing the awful consequences of full modernity.

This article is good at showing where a potential «culture war» can occur, as is evident through the various responses so far.

The subject is our much «discussed «culture war,» which, Himmelfarb notes, is to be taken as a metaphor but a painfully appropriate metaphor.