Politics becomes a way of ensuring your interests, and your spiritual worldview can't be separated
from your political point of view on the issues;
On the one hand, there were the Christians who affirmed the validity of violence
from a political point of view, as a way of fighting tyranny and bringing in a republican form of government or insuring submission to a «constitution.»
From a political point of view I also think this may be the time for Brown to move.
Half - jokingly, he said, «
From a political point of view, he probably should have dragged it out and not done them all in the first six months.»
I do understand that some people would have liked to see things done a bit faster, but one has to understand that that was the rhythm that was sustainable
from a political point of view.
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from a political point of view -LCB- adv -RCB- aus politischer Sichtpol.
From a political point of view, the standards, to some, represent the age - old struggle between federal overreach and states» rights.
But...
from a political point of view, if there was a decade - long downturn in temperature, and all the attribution analyses showed it to be a temporary downswing with more warming expected later... no - one would listen — William]-RSB-
From a political point of view, I don't * need * to do anything to stop progress, because there * is * no progress.
Of course I respect that some individual scientists disagree with that, but
from a political point of view, that should not carry too much weight.
From a political point of view, conservatism is the safest path.
According to Bloomberg, it's because «mayors don't have the luxury of talking and not achieving,» which is actually true
from a political point of view: their term is usually four years, and lack of results translates in lack of votes.
(By the way, logic would dictate that Judge Martin would likely be replaced with a judge who's expected to respect the Guidelines
from a political point of view and perhaps being a new judge, only recognizes a world in which Guidelines sentences exist....
Not exact matches
He said he would be inviting «leading conservatives» and people
from all across the
political spectrum to talk with him and share their
points of view about the issues raised by the Gizmodo story.
But he blasted House Republicans» efforts,
pointing to a «scathingly
political statement»
from Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney the day after the attack.
In their chart, SocGen lumped together broader
political risk,
pointing to the numerous upcoming European elections, potential spillover
from policy uncertainty in the EU, and «significant uncertainty» regarding future US policy.
Many people
point to the National Flood Insurance Program, which was created to boost financial resilience in flood zones, but has been criticized
from just about every
political and technical vantage
point as too often working to subsidize, instead of mitigate, vulnerability.
But
from the vantage
point of Thiel's philosopher - capitalist persona, there isn't much of substance in Trumpism to praise: His
political agenda is mostly a posture, an attitude of defiance.
On Sept. 5 of this year, the Dow dropped 234
points amid a series of potentially volatile
political events, including the debate over raising the debt ceiling, a possible government shutdown, and threats
from Trump over trade policy with China.
By that
point, of course, CA had already gotten the bulk of its user data
from Facebook users — most notably
from their profile pages, where user interests and likes provided the company with the building blocks of personality profiles it created to help determine whether users would be susceptible to different kinds of
political messaging.
Shareholder resolutions related to corporations»
political activities accounts for just over 25 percent of the total, down 4 percentage
points from last year's mid-February tally, Proxy Preview notes.
Exuberance in markets, surging debt in China and
political flash
points —
from Brexit to North Korea — are all risks.
«We'd prefer to just be helping people get
from point A to
point B, but when the company starts to succeed, in a city, or in a country, or around the world, you start to get brought into more and more of these
political debates.»
Efforts to salvage CETA will undoubtedly continue, but my Globe and Mail column
points out that the underlying problem with the agreement is not the complicated European
political system that requires support
from all member states.
The
point is that when individuals
from opposite sides of the
political spectrum come to a similar conclusion, then chances are that conclusion contains an element of truth.
It adds: «With respect to the existence and the
political choices of the State of Israel, they must be seen
from a
point of view that is not in itself religious but based on general considerations of international law.»
Sometimes the coverage emerges
from a particular
political vantage
point: The humanities are dying because they have been corrupted by leftist ideologues.
Today much of our debate about marriage comes
from a similar hope to score
political points.
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.
(Unfortunately, I must say that the studies in various issues of Frères du Monde (
from which these quotations are taken) seem to me very weak
from a
political and sociological
point of view.)
He had a
point; and if we then ask about the «progress»
from Grant to Nixon, we would have to acknowledge something like stasis in our
political morality.
Solzhenitsyn attempts to rewrite the Russian people's history
from the
point of view of those banished
from it — the
political prisoners and victims of the totalitarian state.
After all, he wrote at the time, their
political views had once proceeded
from «the same
point of departure.»
Here's the pattern at hand: a) discouragement or disgust with radical politics or the undeniable impact of some conservatism - friendly facts, results in a move away
from political statements and activism, a retreat, into counter-culturalism, self - discovery, and artistry - for - artistry's sake, b) shifts in the
political situation, or disgust at «apathy,» provoke a passionate recommittment to the leftist cause or a new articulation of it, and then, at some
point, the rock - bohemian returns back to a).
Thus the philologist would ascertain the meaning of a passage of the Indian Atharva - Veda; the historian would assign it to a period in the cultural,
political, and religious development of the Hindu; the psychologist would concentrate on its origin and significance as an expression of feeling and thought; and the anthropologist would deal with it
from a folkloristic
point of view.
Again the historian, the sociologist, and
political scientist lend him material for the examination of historical societies and civilizations
from the
point of view of his interest.
Jared has clarified his critique of evangelicals, which seems to be a sociological critique that, regardless of what we say at the end of the day, our orientation reveals that the
political has in fact become an idol.I think it's worth bringing up at this
point Joe's post
from way back....
And in exploring the wide implications of it all, he noted «the risk of an alliance between democracy and ethical relativism, which would remove any sure moral reference
point from political and social life, and on a deeper level make the acknowledgement of truth impossible» (VS 101) and warned us, as he had done in an earlier encyclical, that «As history demonstrates, a democracy without values easily turns into open or thinly disguised totalitarianism».
To view
political theology as one branch of theology alongside others would be,
from his
point of view, to miss the
point.
Barth's theology marked a complete break with the adjustments to modem culture and Prussian
political order that Bonhoeffer had learned
from his mentors in Berlin, and it provided the staffing
point for the Confessing Church, which absorbed Bonhoeffer's pastoral energies after Hitler's ascendancy made it impossible for him to continue university teaching.
Locke is unambiguous on this
point: All
political authority comes
from God.
At the same time, constitutional scholars
from all
points on the
political spectrum acknowledge an escalating irrationality in the constitutional conversation.
While I commend Beck for advocating charity (even if he does it mostly to make
political points), if people like Beck and Santorum are such devout, outspoken Christians, why were they not vocal in support of the long - standing Vatican and Christian position that the War in Iraq violated Christian Just War Criteria
from the beginning, and vociferously denounce the draft - dodging, war profiteers and religious hypocrites who started it?
Cavanaugh
points out that the Fall had been dropped
from early Modern thought not for any scientific reasons but for
political expediency — to protect civil authority
from interference by the Church.
By the end of the Assembly, as Kenneth Slack
pointed out, «most of the members felt that there was more danger
from undue stress on the evangelism of individuals than the other way round, despite widely expressed anxiety, given expression by Stott, that liberation in
political, social and economic sense was in danger of replacing salvation
from sin at the heart of the redeeming gospel».73 There was no doubt that, despite the narrowing of the range of disagreements, important differences continued, especially with regard to the meaning of salvation and the program of dialogue with people of other faiths.
As to the inconsistent
political stance of Falwell in l980, Frances FitzGerald
points out that Falwell represents a bridging of southern pietistic withdrawal
from society with the economic success story of the New South.
Canadians at one
point in Ontario were thinking about having a Canadian Revolution, but, luckily, the British
political leaders learned
from their horrible failing in their treatment of Americans and they gave Canada a lot of
political and economic rights — more than they gave the Americans, and they then gave us our own country.
Unfortunately
from the
point of view of Orthodox outside Russia, the concessions that seem most important to Aleksi are not theological but
political, such as the West's tacit acceptance of secular laws designed to help the Moscow Patriarchate suppress its competitors within Russia.
An account of evil can be given
from many
points of view — medical, psychological, and
political — but an account of the evil called sin implies belief in man's spiritual freedom and therefore in his guilt.
the «fantastical» — may well be that they are trying to shield themselves
from the devastating criticism of sociologists and
political philosophers, who
point out the sociocultural rootage and relativity of many of our religious symbols.