The new testament acknowledges that there are
evil governments who should be feared, but there is no promotion for revenge, war, or punishment.
Not exact matches
Evil governments are a tool, God can an will use the devil as a tool, for those
who exalt themselves above God in the pride of life.
Some of us look forward with great eagerness and expectation for when Jesus will come again to throw off the
evil governments and set up His own righteous rule, but not before He slays our enemies, kills the wicked, bathes the world in bloodshed, burns away all those
who did not follow Him, and banishes the unrighteous into pits of never - ending fire to suffer and burn for all eternity.
This refuge once known will produce reaction on the happiness even of those
who remain there, by warning their task - masters that when the
evils of Egyptian oppression became heavier than those of the abandonment of country, another Canaan is open where their subjects will be received as brothers and secured against like oppression by a participation in the right of self -
government.
The high moral standard (love your enemy and do good to those
who do
evil to you) was unattainable (and obviously unacceptable as well) by Jefferson —
who was in fact in rebellion against a
government in which the Bible demands he should have been submissive and subject to.
He is violently opposed to concepts of God derived from autocratic forms of
government, at whose word everything began, whose rule is by divine fiat, and
who is ultimately responsible for all
evil and suffering.
Your husband will answer to God, and you must answer to God for how you respond to your husband, even when he causes you to suffer.Just as we are to obey
government in every ordinance, and servants are to obey their masters, even the ones
who are abusive and surly, «likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands»... You can freely call your husband «lord» when you know that you are addressing the one
who put him in charge and asked you to suffer at your husband's hands just as our Lord suffered at the hands of unjust authorities... When you endure
evil and railing without returning it, you receive a blessing, not just as a martyr, but as one
who worships God.»
don't forget the absolute
evil perpetrated by those
who so resolutely looked to push all religion our of their societies... the Nazi's, the Soviets, the Chinese Communists... I'm not really one to toss out numbers w / o some good backing, but I would venture a guess that those 3 20th century areligious
governments killed way more than the Catholics and Crusaders did.
In a statement issued on Tuesday, by the Governor's Special Assistant on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka, he described Lai Mohammed as «an embodiment of contradictions,
who speaks from several sides of his mouth, turning himself to a vegetable while struggling to defend a
government that has done more
evil than good to Nigeria and its people.»
Our laws if allowed to operate according to its spirit and letter, would have imposed legal limits on
government's authority by guarantee us certain rights and freedom when fighting against these
evil practices in our institutions but unfortunately for us, certain provisions and attitude of party apparatchiks make our leaders automatic dictators
who act without limitations.
The
government struck back as de Blasio vowed to take action against a city worker
who equated Albany with «Star Wars»
evil Empire on an official Web site.
Thanks to Tracy Connell
who recorded Nick Clegg's William Beveridge Memorial Lecture on «How Liberal Democrats in
Government are addressing Beveridge's «five giant
evils» (Want, Disease, Ignorance, Squalor and Idleness)»
The
government struck back Monday as Mayor de Blasio vowed to take action against a city worker
who equated Albany with «Star Wars»
evil Empire on an official Web site.
But I can't figure out why the
evil government agents
who abduct a clean - cut young software engineer named Thomas Anderson (Keanu Reeves) and melt his face early in the film also implant a creepy, crawly cyborg - scorpion in his tummy.
«He's an
evil genius, kind of like a Bond villain, but also a gourmet chef,» Gibson said, adding some extra descriptors to his role as an arms dealer looking to launch a weapon into space, to the obvious disagreement from the U.S.
government who hires Machete (Trejo) to stop him.
Like Cry Freedom, A World Apart dramatizes the
evils of Apartheid and the racist policies of the ruling
government through the story of white South Africans, in this case journalist and activist Diana Roth (Barbara Hershey) and her husband Gus (Jeroen Krabbé),
who is seen fleeing the country for his safety in the opening scenes.
INDEPENDENT & FOREIGN FILMS Good (Unrated) Viggo Mortensen stars in this adaptation of the C.P. Taylor play, set in Germany during the rise of Nazism, chronicling the plight of a previously decent college professor
who finds himself increasingly compromised after his novel advocating euthanasia is employed as propaganda to advance the
government's
evil agenda.
Apart from an infiltration of the Ministry of Magic, where the
evil Lord Voldemort (Ralph Fiennes), his Death Eaters, and other power - hungry bureaucrats (including Harry's old foe Dolores Umbridge (Imelda Staunton),
who fits in quite well as an inquisitor) have taken over the
government, printing propaganda pamphlets of the impurity of half - blood and muggle - born witches and wizards, the three are alone.
It seems this would have been better served as an intimate portrayal of these three aging men
who were willing to die for their country than as a giant political anti-war statement and an accusation of how
evil the
government is.
«Quantum of Solace» Year: 2008 Bond: Daniel Craig Girl: Olga Kurylenko as Camille Montes Song: «Another Way to Die» by Jack White and Alicia Keys Plot: An
evil international organization is destabilizing
governments and gobbling up environmental resources, and Bond is the only one
who can stop them.
Naturally the worlds
governments want to negotiate, but that wouldn't make for a very interesting game so a certain moustache powered General Bryant dramatically throws his medals on the table, gathers up four renegade soldiers
who like to drive like maniacs and goes out on a mission to stop the
evil Inferno and his nefarious plot.
I think the harmful «moral absolutism» is in fact coming from people with irrational beliefs that mainstream climate science must be wrong because A) it runs counter to their religious beliefs (the «God wouldn't let us screw things up» camp,
who like to say how we're too small and insignificant to actually affect Earth's climate) and / or B) it runs counter to their political beliefs (in that they think environmentalism = liberalism, and that liberalism = the
evil commies) and / or C) it runs counter to their fundamentalist belief in the transcendant wisdom of unregulated markets («get
government out of industry's way and everything will be allright!
I once favored a safe zone in the northwest, assuming Turkey's
government would be less - than -
evil about
who got through.
And it's a sick day in America when our
government punishes those
who expose
evil with a smartphone — while accommodating those
who perform it with a scalpel.»