Pretend for a moment that they aren't part of
an evil empire of disinformation and think how best to explain the error in an inoffensive way.
Shawn: Honestly, as much as I wish Medal of Honor would beat the evil empire's (imagine that, EA is no longer
the evil empire of publishers) Call of Duty this year, I just don't find it likely.
Worth Reading: «Decrying
the evil empire of publishing while piloting one of its battle cruisers?»
If that sounds like a juicy op for Stone to go apeshit on
the evil empire of surveillance, don't get your hopes up.
Robot lions which could combine into a giant robot dude to fight space monster - robots in a galaxy run by
an evil empire of purple guys.
Vela and Theo had a quick run out, and they can see how they reacted and perhaps have another bash on Tuesday before meeting
the Evil Empire of the KGB next weekend.
And he was right from the start in exposing the sham of Western apologists for
the evil empire of the Soviet Union.
But in the century past that sense of mission has also been dramatically vindicated, notably in the defeat of Hitler and of what now almost everybody agrees was
the evil empire of Soviet communism (never forgetting that, when Ronald Reagan spoke of the evil empire, the bien - pensant establishment was unanimous in condemning his reckless offense against the dream of «peaceful coexistence»).
This is what we are going to learn about today, as we see how God brought the violent and
evil empire of Assyria to its knees in sorrow and repentance.
Not exact matches
While the company amassed an army
of fanboy followers over much
of its history as the underdog in the epic struggle against the «
evil empire» (Microsoft), it's perhaps understandable that haters are now popping out
of the woodwork.
As a Silicon Valley guy, Elop once thought Bill Gates's
evil empire couldn't innovate its way out
of a paper bag.
But it was her turn as the tough - talking princess who defies the
Evil Empire in «Star Wars» two years later that rocketed her into fame and turned her into a feminist icon at the tender age
of 19.
Luke then overcomes a series
of challenges not only to rescue the princess, but also to save the rebels from the
evil empire.
It was the new
Evil Empire versus the new Kings
of Moneyball.
But Malone isn't one
of those executives, and he proved it by drawing the now - pervasive comparison between Amazon and the Death Star, the
evil Empire's battle station in the «Star Wars» franchise that had the power to destroy entire planets.
The film is also clear that JPII did not see the Cold War in terms
of Evil Empire A v.
Evil Empire B; instead, he sided with the Americans over the Soviets.
The cult he leads is still infested with pedophiles and is the most corrupt
of all
evil empires.
In the Huntington scenario, Islam is the force most hostile to U.S. interests — a point
of view that fits well with the «
evil empire» rhetoric and the Antichrist scenarios found among the Christian Zionists.
So
of course I want to name the
empire for what it is: crippling and soul - sucking, dehumanizing and
evil.
If you want to defeat
evil, if you want to beat an
evil empire, the best way is to follow the way
of God, which is also the way
of Jesus.
Which means I've been shopping at Wal Mart a lot lately — buying Wal Mart brand food, using Wal Mart brand cosmetics, and suffering from Wal Mart brand guilt as I begrudgingly support the
evils of cheap, consumer - driven «
Empire.»
To view the collapse
of the
evil empire solely from a Russian point
of view is therefore misleading.
Our Father Abraham: Jewish Roots
of the Christian Faith by Marvin R. Wilson, Jewish Spirituality: A Brief Introduction for Christians by Lawrence Kushner, The Myth
of a Christian Nation by Greg Boyd, The Politics
of Jesus by John Howard Yoder, Decision Making and the Will
of God by Gary Friesen, Satan and the Problem
of Evil by Greg Boyd, A Concise History
of the Crusades by Thomas Madden, and Manifest Destiny: American Expansion and the
Empire of Right by Anders Stephanson.
The new combat against «the
evil empire» - the most complete human slavery from Von Hayek's point
of view - strengthens inevitably the power
of attraction
of Neo-liberalism as political current.
It may seem absurd that right - wing ideologues would work to push a nation into the clutches
of the «
evil empire» they despise.
@HotAirAce «I forgot — you can't read and comprehend... Post the breakup
of The
Evil Empire — since December 26, 1991.»
Chad, it's been about 25 years since the fall
of the
Evil Empire.
In fact, Pius overruled the objections
of the American isolationists and those who objected that the Soviet Union was an
evil empire.
And, again like John Paul II, Reagan understood that the Soviet Union was ideologically vulnerable: that a steady, fact - based, morally - driven critique
of communism's abominable human rights record would rattle the men in Moscow, expose cracks in the Soviet system, encourage brave dissidents to exploit those cracks, and hasten the end
of what Reagan called, perhaps undiplomatically but certainly truthfully, an «
Evil Empire.»
With breathtaking audacity, John blasts the greed, violence and arrogance
of an
empire that matched any
evil we see on CNN.
In The Gulag Archipelago and other writings he entrenched a standard by which even the most deluded
of the deluded could no longer deny the
evil of the
evil empire.
Lifting up an aspect
of the
evil empire that had escaped general notice, he pointed out that «In every country the Communists have taken over, the first thing they do is outlaw cockfighting.»
The celebrated «greatest generation»
of World War II produced the architects
of Cold War «containment,» who were vindicated almost a half century later with the end
of «the
evil empire.»
The Cold War was a period
of moral clarity when the other side really was an
evil empire, and when armed resolve for once succeeded in defeating the expansion
of evil in the world.
Now almost everybody says that
of course communism was an
evil empire and socialism is a dumb idea.
Those are staggering and exceedingly impressive realities, reminding us that we are not to locate the «
evil empire» only somewhere else; we must first
of all see it within ourselves.
was addressed to his fellow Poles and others behind what was then called the Iron Curtain, and it marked the beginning
of the end for what it is no longer «controversial» to call the
Evil Empire.
Convinced
of the
evil and destructiveness
of war, he refused to use violent means to hold his
empire together, and, as a result, during his time it began to crumble.
Similarly, the destruction
of humankind would be no accident; the virus - cancer -
evil empire view
of reality, coupled with the admonition that Scripture and Jesus Christ authorize us to destroy those so characterized, are but an initial part
of a definitional process leading to destruction.
The images
of Russia as the
evil empire and
of communism as a virus and a cancer encourage us to take severe measures against them.
Some ugly and foolish thoughts expressed in slovenly language were put forth by President Ronald Reagan when, during a 1982 conference with some eastern Carribean leaders, he called Marxism a «virus»; when, in 1983, he labeled the Soviet Union an «
evil empire,» telling the assembled National Association
of Evangelicals in Orlando, Florida, that communism «is the focus
of evil in the modern world» and that «we are enjoined by Scripture and the Lord Jesus to oppose it with all our might»; and when, while conferring in 1984 with 19 conservative and religious leaders, he vowed to fight the «communist cancer.»
The Christian call to peacemaking has been co-opted, the group said, when «a «theology
of war» is emanating from the highest circles
of American government; the language
of «righteous
empire» is employed... [and] the roles
of God, church and nation are confused by talk
of an American «mission» and «divine appointment» to «rid the world
of evil.»»
Supremacy
of the «Master Race» in Germany, the «white man «s burden» in Africa and Asia, the «manifest destiny»
of settlers over the Indians in America, the «
evil empire»
of the Soviet Union — these and other myths are powerfully motivate and support various public policies and actions today.
But to say that human society is not a proper object for religious worship does not,
of course, mean that the tribe or the state or the nation or the world
empire are
evil in themselves.
The Prophet
of the Lord (PL) is commissioned to warn the Most
Evil Empire (MEE)
of its impending destruction.
The Soviet «
evil empire» has certainly not come into the kingdom, but the Christian presence in Russia and in China, the example
of Billy Graham, the late moves
of their hero Ronald Reagan in the age
of glasnost, the prospect
of government dialogue with the Palestine Liberation Organization (Israel being a favorite
of this camp), will surely alter the evangelicals» public stance.
The betting public seems to like the combination
of home field advantage and momentum that the Yankees have built, as 77 %
of all moneyline bets have been coming in on the «
Evil Empire» despite a pitching matchup that would appear to favor Detroit.
It seems upsettingly fitting that in 2017, the
Evil Empire has trampled a team in five battles and is now marching towards an ever - increasing chance
of winning the whole dang war.
Empire is not a synonym
of evil despite some bad historical connotations, especially from the colonial era.
According to them, in 1980's Soviet younger generations idealized the West and thought that simply by dismantling the «
evil empire» and switching to capitalism would bring an era
of prosperity.