Sentences with phrase «liberal thought whether»

The reasons are, first, that traditional religious thought has often assumed that sin is about all we need to be delivered from, and second, modern liberal thought whether religious or psychological has often made sin too marginal a concept.

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The point about all these pontifications, I thought at the time, whether over the airwaves or in the print media, either by secular commentators or by the kind of Catholics the liberal media like to give a platform to because their views on the Catholic tradition are so similar to their own (it seemed by the beginning of the conclave that it had all been going on for ever) was — or so I reflected then in my simple way — that this wonderful free - for - all was the only chance for many of them to be heard at all on this subject.

Good god, did you really think someone is employed by CNN to read every post and decide whether or not it measures up to some liberal standard?

The same is true of many media reform efforts: by attempting to get people excited about liberal bias in the news, or nudity or profanity in a particular program, or the ideological bent of a certain series, or whether a network is «Christian,» concerned leaders have diverted the attention of viewers from the most important problem, the basic point, namely, that the whole process - of - television is providing us with a worldview which not only determines what we think, but also how we think and who we are.

The only other reason I can think of is that she is intentionally being deceptive because she knows that the typical On Faith reader (secular, liberal, atheistic) isn't going to know any better, much less care whether she is accurately conveying Jesus» meaning.

Demopolis is a stimulating and even provocative thought experiment that successfully highlights the value of democracy, whether or not rule by the people is fused with a liberal order.

And Santorum whether you believe in his view points or not is not crazy... the left just wants to paint that picture for people that can't think for themselves... it's funny how they don't do that with liberals.

And it does not matter much whether such churches think of themselves as conservative or liberal — or whether they join the «Beyondists» (David Frum) in claiming that they are beyond such conventional categories.

Whether you are a Christian who is interested in politics or a Liberal Democrat who is seeking an insight into Christian thinking, I commend this collection to you.»

However, the best predictor of whether former Labour or Liberal Democrat voters will switch to the Tories is whether or not they think the Conservatives have the best approach to the economy.

«It is not a manifesto because it is not for a political party — it is for people whether they are in the Labour party, Conservative party, Liberal Democrats, wherever, who can see the way politics is developing in the country and who think there must be a better set of policy ideas for the future.»

At a Democratic candidates forum hosted by the Village Independent Democrats (VID), a Democratic club, on Tuesday night, Scott Caplan, police misconduct and corruption officer for the Jim Owles Liberal Democratic Club, asked Nixon to state in her own words whether she thinks de Blasio and the NYPD can do better in the areas of mass incarceration, marijuana, police accountability and police discipline.

Voters in these seats were evenly divided as to whether the coalition represents «the beginning of a new type of politics», though small majorities thought so on the Conservative - Liberal Democrat battleground.

However, asked whether they think the Liberal Democrats would do better at the next election if they keep Clegg or replace him only 18 % think they'd do better with Clegg, compared to 53 % who think they would do better if they changed.

When we have vegans out there eating these plant - based - saturated fats, in such liberal quantities, i think it is important for Dr. Gregor to address whether or not the detrimental effects of saturated fats talked about in this video, as well as other videos, applies to plant based saturated fats as well.

I think that by singling out business owners rather than focusing on high - income earners in general, regardless of whether they are business owners or not, the proposed tax changes miss the mark if the Liberals truly want wealthy Canadians to pay more.

To categorize think tanks as liberal or conservative, 19 experts (14 faculty members and 5 graduate students from U.S. political science departments) judged the political orientation of an initial set of 36 think tanks listed as liberal or conservative on Wikipedia's List of think tanks in the United States in October, 2009.1 Experts indicated whether or not they felt knowledgeable enough to judge each think tank, and if so, rated its political orientation (1 = mainly Liberal / Democrat; 5 = mainly Conservative / Republiberal or conservative, 19 experts (14 faculty members and 5 graduate students from U.S. political science departments) judged the political orientation of an initial set of 36 think tanks listed as liberal or conservative on Wikipedia's List of think tanks in the United States in October, 2009.1 Experts indicated whether or not they felt knowledgeable enough to judge each think tank, and if so, rated its political orientation (1 = mainly Liberal / Democrat; 5 = mainly Conservative / Republiberal or conservative on Wikipedia's List of think tanks in the United States in October, 2009.1 Experts indicated whether or not they felt knowledgeable enough to judge each think tank, and if so, rated its political orientation (1 = mainly Liberal / Democrat; 5 = mainly Conservative / RepubLiberal / Democrat; 5 = mainly Conservative / Republican).

Sure, you may not have the right to the best possible attorney if the state foots the bill, but I think that most of us, conservative or liberal, would agree that when you spend your own money, you should be able to retain whatever attorney you want, whether he or she is the conventional choice or not.

Whether or not you think it should do so, rather than deciding cases about race discrimination as matters of constitutional principle, the practice of filing a «Brandeis brief» has a long and venerable heritage, much of it supplied by liberals.

I suppose the question would then become whether a coalition of conservatives who don't want to give the liberal bloc another vote, «proceduralists» (or whatever you want to call people like me who don't think results - oriented conservatives are much better than results - oriented liberals), and liberals fuming over executive power and the torture memo would take down the nomination.