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.
But the biggest problem with being fed lies about how great we are is that people won't be prepared for
how evil this government has already been and therefore can be again.
Not exact matches
>> > «For all their bellowing about
how evil «Big
Government» is and
how it wants to tyrannize us, the conservatives are always at the forefront of telling everyone
how they must behave.»
The war between right and wrong, good and
evil, the old self and new self in Christ rages on, and so to look for instructions and fulfillment on
how to live better lives is like looking to a country in the midst of civil war for instructions on
how to set up a functioning
government.
I imagine the crowd wanted Jesus to teach about the
evils of the Roman
government, the wasteful ways they spent their money on luxury and wars, and
how Jewish tax - collectors were traitors of the Jews, traitors of God, and condemned to suffer for eternity in hell.
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.»
When I later left city
government to go to Goldman Sachs, that was an incredibly gutsy thing to do, because when you really care about making cities better,
how could you go work for this «
evil empire»?
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)»
It asked a number of questions about
how the
government reviews potential «dual - use research of concern» (DURC) that might be used for good or
evil.
How does she expect to get the monsters» corpses away from the
government without every other
evil scientist on the planet harvesting samples from the wreckage as well?
A group of workers want to know
how their everyday toil is fulfilling, and potential revolutionaries want Mustafa to confirm their belief that the members of the local
government are
evil.
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!
The main question, which bounces out of this ever - growing cause of privacy concern, is that if law bodies and
government officials were to weaken the system of encryption in order to open backdoor snooping to the good guys,
how can we be sure the
evil ones won't figure a way to snoop in as well?