Sentences with phrase «if pacifism»

If pacifism rests on a trust that people have a natural capacity and an irrepressible tendency to resolve their differences justly and harmoniously, then pacifism is a delusion, and a dangerous one.

Now, it seems to me that, if pacifism of the messianic community is characterized by anything, it is characterized by a renunciation of all use of force, not simply «less violent alternatives.»

Therefore, if pacifism is defined simply as «opposition to war,» or is summarized by a declaration that all war is wrong, then such definitions are not part of a biblically accurate Christian faith.

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Even if the commitment of the Declaration is not to complete pacifism, it is a major challenge to the behavior of many nations.

If you have an ethical or religious commitment to pacifism, for example, you won't accept the utilitarian's willingness sometimes to kill.

All seemingly turned from God except Noah / God repents / and saves a core group to start over / trying to protect His children is a common theme in the OT / I don't know much of resistance or pacifism, but if you tried to harm my grandaughter I would probably respond with whatever it took.

Even if violence - employing radicals fail by not seeing the necessity of the corollary shared by pacifisms 1 and 2, do they not «have their hearts in the right place?»

If so, he should read Hartshorne's «Note» at the conclusion of Reality as Social Process, published in 1953.41 There he speaks of pacifism as error and afirms his conviction that the United States should not renounce the use either of strategic bombing or nuclear weapons in its «Cold War» with Russia.

If we try to go farther back, it is possible that we find forerunners of the Pharisees in the «Chasidim», or «pious», who in the time of Antiochus practised partial pacifism.

Pacifism covers a spectrum of views, including the belief that international disputes can and should be peacefully resolved, calls for the The real heart of the age - of - the - earth debate (if debate is the right word) is always radiometric dating.

It's almost a begrudging relationship — he's trying to write a book about pacifism and this lovely boy keeps knocking on his door and asking if he wants to go for a walk and can he think of a good name for a donkey...»

A lesson to explore what pacifism is, how it has been used in the past and if it is a reasonable attitude to take to war.

And if that weren't enough, he «narrowly avoided a court martial when his novel The Adventures of Wesley Jackson was seen as advocating pacifism!»