Sentences with phrase «like pacifists»

The folks filing these lawsuits in protest of federal health reform — are they willing to go to prison for their beliefs like pacifists have done in the past - or are these lawsuits just «suit & tie» political foot - dragging?

Like the pacifists, it holds that the political sphere is under the jurisdiction of the gospel message, that all men are called to imitate the mercy and love of God, and to strive to be perfect as He is perfect.

Hauerwas and Sider, like all pacifists of the messianic community, are at pains to offer a strategy for making the world more peaceful.

These conservatives suggest that those opposed to torture argue like pacifists, but such conservatives have missed a critical point.

But I do want to be careful of using binary language here — like pacifist or non-pacifist.

A Rebel soldier, Diego Luna's Cassian Andor (a Star Wars name if we've even seen one) makes Han «Shot First» Solo look like a pacifist in his cavalier approach to human life.

Not exact matches

In a pair of particularly venomous columns National Journal editor and Washington Post columnist Michael Kelly not only derided antiwar protesters as those «unhappy people who like to yell about the awfulness of «Amerika» or international corporations or rich people or people who drive large cars,» but he also attacked pacifists as «liars,» «frauds» and «hypocrites,» whose views are «objectively pro-terrorist» and «evil.»

Not an insult, it's like wake up and quit being such a pacifist.

I call myself an «uneasy pacifist» and here's why: Like many evangelicals, like most North Americans, I grew up in healthy respect and reverence for our veterans and our militLike many evangelicals, like most North Americans, I grew up in healthy respect and reverence for our veterans and our militlike most North Americans, I grew up in healthy respect and reverence for our veterans and our military.

So I might as well start acting like it — with my friends, with my enemies, with Rob Bell, with John Piper, with Republicans, with Democrats, with pacifists, with soldiers, with gays and lesbians, with Westboro Baptist Church, with the poor, with the rich, with the Japanese who lost everything on Friday and, as hard as it is, with the red - faced evangelists who say they deserved it.

Like Harry Emerson Fosdick in the United States — himself an advocate of World War I but a pacifist during World War II — she shows that mature people can reverse earlier positions and remain models of responsible citizenship and ethical sensitivity.

Most Popular Comment (with 14 «likes») In response to «Rachel, The Very Worst Pacifist,» Scot Miller wrote: «Maybe the problem is how we think about pacifism.

But sometimes I get the idea that, particularly with the younger folks, it's become something of a fad - like, they've read one Shane Claiborne book, changed their Facebook profile to «Christ follower,» made a few protest signs, and called themselves pacifists, without really wrestling with some of the challenging implications of this position.

We must keep in mind that when pacifists of the messianic community give advice to just warriors, it is, from their point of view, like giving advice to prostitutes on how to practice their profession more justly.

Even pacifists like Frederick Douglass and Julia Ward Howe were gripped by the militaristic fervor, the latter celebrating northern rectitude by her «Battle Hymn of the Republic.»

First off, Gandhi wasn't the consistent pacifist that everyone likes to think he was.

I would like to briefly speak to the three «pacifists» that were used in your conversation.

«If we were pacifists, we would have been in the wrong jobs, because I don't think it's advisable to have pacifists in the White House, particularly for situations like 9/11.

Pacifists are to be commended, even admired — runs the familiar observation in mainline Protestant, Catholic and evangelical circles — but we who know what the world is really like can not share their naive optimism.

Ever since World War I, when the the likes of the UK Labour Party, the Australian Labor Party and the German Social Democratic Party split over the slaughter in the trenches, left - of - centre parties have been divided between a principled pacifist wing and what has normally been a majority prepared to back military force when considered necessary.

In a country like Germany, with low unemployment, high education standards, low patriotism and a generally pacifist mentality among the population, the military is just not an attractive employer.

With all the talk of freewill last night, it was beginning to look like Dexter might keep his pacifist streak going.»

The story's pacifist president (Jamie Foxx)-- a black president with a beautiful wife (Garcelle Beauvais) that looks remarkably like the First Lady Michelle Obama — is attempting to secure a peace settlement in the Middle East.

Tears of Gaza (Unrated) Pacifist documentary examining the fallout of modern warfare as visited upon women and children subsisting in bombed out homes without roofs or walls, and basic like food, water and electricity.

Anyway, here he's a caveman who gets kicked out of one warlike tribe and joins another, more pacifist group, which he teaches to fight and romances their hottest woman and ends up unifying the two tribes, or something like that.

What I thought New Mutants — and the larger X-Universe — needed was a new voice as the entire mutant franchise at that point was balanced between Charles Xavier, a pacifist who wanted to live among mankind, and Magneto, who was more like «we have to destroy them, they're the enemy.»

Hailed by the New York Times on its Paris release as «one of the great films in motion picture history,» Raymond Bernard's Wooden Crosses, France's answer to All Quiet on the Western Front, still stuns with its depiction of the travails of one French regiment during World War I. Using a masterful arsenal of film techniques, from haunting matte paintings to jarring documentary - like camerawork in the film's battle sequences, Bernard created a pacifist work of enormous empathy and chilling despair.

In the hand - crafted and beautiful world of Skyrim, you can essentially lead an entire fantasy life, playing the game in any way you see fit, whether that be as a morally questionable thief, a fire - wielding mage, a none - too - bright warrior, skilled blacksmith, deadly archer, or even a pacifist who likes to chase bunny rabbits around.

But if ever there were a fighting game even a pacifist player like me could get excited about, it's Mortal Kombat, the series that almost single - handedly jump started the ratings system movement with it's shockingly and awesomely violent «fatalities,» bloody finishing moves that, among other things, allowed you to snatch the spine clean «outta your opponent.

One character in particular is a pacifist of sorts, so he doesn't use guns and therefore makes it a challenge to face gun - toting foes, and has players crawl and take on foes one by one rather than having players play aggressively and blast through enemies like normal.

Shooting sections tend to be mechanically lifeless and contrast the pacifist leanings of the Andromeda Initiative's core principles so much so that I often wished the game was more like No Man's Sky in encouraging aimless cultivation.