He echoes Mason by taking his defense from the Old Testament, presenting the English — typically — as the put - upon underdog in
a crusade against Evil:
Before advisers decided the word was incendiary, Bush even promised
a crusade against evil.
But Willard it is; for the blissfully uninitiated, Willard concerns the travails of a lonesome weirdo who makes friends with a bunch of rats, Phenomena - style (Argento not Travolta, which brings us back to The Devil's Rain, curiously), and sends them on
a crusade against an evil boss who wants to buy Willard's house.
Not exact matches
«The story about «spreading the faith by the sword» is an
evil legend, one of the myths that grew up in Europe during the great wars
against the Muslims — the reconquista of Spain by the Christians, the
Crusades and the repulsion of the Turks, who almost conquered Vienna.
This was followed by five subsequent phases of development in a regular pattern of succession: (1) the organization of home and foreign mission societies to channel new leadership into church planting or into the field; (2) the production and distribution of Christian literature; (3) the renewal and extension of Christian educational institutions; (4) attempts at «the reformation of manners» — i.e., the reassertion of Christian moral standards in a decadent society; and (5) the great humanitarian
crusades against social
evils like slavery, war and intemperance.
Do you really think any social program the governemnt could possibly administer will matter to you when you are surrounded by religous Zealots hell bent on punishing our «
Evil» nation for its
Crusades and crimes
against Allah and are blowing themselves up at a mall, hospital, or airplane near you in exchange for a bevy of beautiful virgins?
Rather than divide the world into camps — Muslim versus Christian, East versus West, good versus
evil — Kathleen studied Islam in college, andafter 9/11 she read about the oil trade, the Afghan fight
against Sovietoccupation in the 1980s, the roots of Osama bin Laden's terrorist organization.After Don died, his children talked about the
Crusades and colonialism, and, Kathleen says, «very early on it became clear that — you know what?
Join the
crusade against Death itself and face ultimate
evil in the definitive Diablo experience.