Sentences with phrase «make liberals think»

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One would think that these proposals would make Schultz a natural standard bearer of the Very Important Liberal Ideas.

Co-founder and CEO Eli Pariser, whose site first staked a reputation for re-packaging liberal stories, says the move to partner with a traditional network (and MSNBC in particular) is one that makes sense for both companies: «We had a meeting with NBCU and realized that we were thinking about a bunch of the same things, and that it would be fun to collaborate on a project,» he says, by «bringing together what we learned from curating a lot of video for purpose - driven millennials, and what they know about visual video storytelling,» he tells Inc. exclusively.

The B.C. Liberal leader made the announcement Wednesday at a paper products company in Surrey while campaigning for the May 9 provincial election, saying an impasse over softwood lumber «gives us the freedom to do what I think is unquestionably the right thing.»

If we lose the fight to stop these pipelines then I would think the next line of attack would be to both make sure the liberals have such a bad image in people's minds they will not be re-elected, and more needs to be done to convince those believing oil and gas are a good thing that there are better alternatives.

«The point of my going was that I wanted to be a songwriter for a living, and I thought that it would make me a better songwriter to have a solid liberal arts and humanities basis,» he said.

«Changing America», man it makes me sick that the liberal news media thinks conservatives got their clocks cleaned in the latest election and need to re-adjust their position.

These essays make no concession to «the modern mind,» but being intelligent and literate they present liberal Jews with a bracing challenge» and Christians with a window on how classical Jewish thought is applied to contemporary problems.

Right wing conservative types have a Jesus who is against gay marraige, is anti-abortion, thinks there should be prayer in school, and teaches the prosperity stuff and so on... Left wing liberal Christians quote the verses about giving up possessions, feeding and clothing the poor... inner city Christians often have a Jesus who is about social justice... we were made in His image?

I think Liberal educators in the West suceeded to make the citizens hate Christianity.

In any case, I wish to make clear that both terms are used here in a broader sense, such that the liberal view of interest (or self - interest, or happiness) is simply one of the alternatives.2 In speaking of a private view of self - interest, I mean that human community is thought to be solely instrumental to, i.e., not constitutive of, happiness.

In his previous, more historical studies, Walsh explored overlooked sources, often outside the liberal canon, that made the value of personal experience central to modern political thought.

A person can, no doubt, make an idol out of an ideology, but the mere possibility does not establish, as Koyzis seems to think, that Christian liberals, Christian conservatives, etc., have committed themselves to an essentially idolatrous project.

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.

If the early church could hold together communities made up of Jews and Greeks, slaves and free, men and women, circumcised and uncircumcised, tax collectors and zealots, prostitutes and Pharisees, kosher believers and non-kosher believers, those who ate food sacrificed to idols and those who refused, I guess this evolution - accepting, hell - questioning, liberal - leaning feminist can worship Jesus alongside a Tea Party complementarian who thinks the earth is 6,000 years old and that Ghandi and Anne Frank are in hell.

The liberals want to make us White people think that everything important was made by a black man, and that if your White unless you sleep with a black person you are a raciest.

I think that is true — well, if you assume Judaism and Christianity are making «truth claims» but if you are a liberal in those faiths, you don't care.

TC, what makes you think that all liberals and Democrats are lazy and on government support?

The Canadian version of political correctness under the long - running Liberal regime makes the thought police in the U.S. appear libertarian by comparison.

The only question that I thought was hard was number 10, because with the Surpreme Court you never really know what the decision is unless you know the breakdown of liberals to conservatives when the decision was made.

And classical music has been driven out by rock music, whose explicit sexual themes lead to rebellion against parental authority and to ruin of the youthful imagination, making «it very difficult for them to have a passionate relationship to the art and thought that are the substance of liberal education» (p. 79).

I think it is possible to make some calculated guesses based upon current tendencies within the liberal church.

In the heyday of the liberal social gospel which occurred at the same time that form criticism and other important New Testament studies were making a fresh impact on Christian thought, the kingdom was considerably explored.

It was a great shock to liberal Protestant theology of the turn of the century when men like Albert Schweitzer (1875 - 1965) and Johannes Weiss (1863 - 19I4) drew attention to the eschatological character of the New Testament and made it clear that Jesus, his apostles, and the early churches, all lived and spoke in a thought - world which, in important respects, is completely foreign to us.

«One of the effects of modern liberal Protestantism has been gradually to turn religion into poetry and therapy, to make truth vaguer and vaguer and more and more relative, to banish intellectual distinctions, to depend on feeling instead of thought, and gradually to come to believe that God has no power, that he can not communicate with us, can not reveal himself to us, indeed has not done so and that religion is our own sweet invention» (p. 479).

I think it is appropriate in our liberal democracy for Christians, along with adherents of other religions, to make decisions about political issues on the basis of whatever considerations they find true and relevant.

What makes you think someone can not be liberal and believe that, especially when Jesus himself was a liberal?

Turning conventional thinking upside down, Berger makes a persuasive case that the family, both historically and at present, is the producer and protector of liberal values.

AND And teaches us to say yes And allows us to be both - and And keeps us from either - or And teaches us to be patient and long suffering And is willing to wait for insight and integration And keeps us from dualistic thinking And does not divide the field of the moment And helps us to live in the always imperfect now And keeps us inclusive and compassionate toward everything And demands that our contemplation become action And insists that our action is also contemplative And heals our racism, our sexism, heterosexism, and our classism And keeps us from the false choice of liberal or conservative And allows us to critique both sides of things And allows us to enjoy both sides of things And is far beyond any one nation or political party And helps us face and accept our own dark side And allows us to ask for forgiveness and to apologize And is the mystery of paradox in all things And is the way of mercy And makes daily, practical love possible And does not trust love if it is not also justice And does not trust justice if it is not also love And is far beyond my religion versus your religion And allows us to be both distinct and yet united And is the very Mystery of Trinity

There, in a nutshell, is the line of thinking that made Lasch such a blister to many liberals and conservatives: his condemnation of corporate and governmental power grabs, his attachment to a robust vision of democratic citizenship, and his conviction that the social work establishment, educators, therapists, and other semi-skilled technocrats had undermined the competence of the middle class, while subjecting the poor to «new controls sincerely disguised as benevolence.»

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With the ecological crisis, the threat of nuclear war, and international monetary problems, everyone is thinking in apocalyptic terms — except the liberal, contented church, which long ago made its peace with the present and trusted in tomorrow.

I will outline his opinion of Rachel Held Evans, demonstrate why he believes this makes her a liberal and therefore not Christian, and then offer my own thoughts on what this means for the church.

I am very liberal about religion, and understand and agree with the point you are trying to make with irony here, but the statement above is also, I think, sadly, a legitimate way to interpret the gospels.

That some of us are crazy ass liberals, who think that women should be able to make decisions for themselves, and some of us are more conservative with our beliefs (that might be a lie, I think we're all left - leaning hippies).

And he, much to the shock of vegetarians, liberals, animal - rights activists and grocery - store shoppers everywhere, makes an enthusiastic and palpable argument (palpable in that it is entertaining and well thought - out, albeit full of name - calling like «tofu breath») for the supposed ecological, physical and familial benefits of killing your own food (including growing your own veggies).

If the Republicans champion sensible solutions on schools, taxes and electoral reform, they'll be well on their way to becoming a real alternative to the liberal group - think that often stops progressive New York from actually making progress.

He has also made a real effort to court the party's economically liberal «Orange Bookers», contributing to that controversial book's sequel and speaking at conference events organised by free market think - tanks.

What makes you think downstate New Yorkers — even all those «Democrats» — are as Liberal, Left and gay as you are???

During the Bush Jr. years when the Democratic Party suffered great losses politically it was proposed that Democrats start to use the term «progressive,» instead of liberal because it made people think of FDR and Truman, and the days when the Democratic Party actually gave a damn and helped people and its members where moral people, the majority of whom believed in God.

I draw his attention to section 21 of the coalition agreement, which says in respect of the incident to which I think he is referring, that «arrangements will be made to enable Liberal Democrat MPs to abstain in any vote.»

There is the memorable quote that Johnson's beliefs are» very liberal on the way people should lead their lives», and the reader is made aware that Purnell thinks that is just as well.

Even Democratic allies have complained of Mr. de Blasio's high - handedness — not everyone thought it was a moral obligation to make mayoral control permanent — and Ms. Wolfe will need to figure out how to keep securing wins in an environment that can be hostile for a big city liberal mayor.

So you thought Vince Cable had run out of headline - making steam at the Liberal Democrat conference...

The next election will see a big turnout by Labour and Conservative supporters and where Liberal Democrat MP's do survive it will be solely due to tactical voting, UKIP could even make a breakthrough in a couple of seats but I think Labour will still win, so it will be more strongly toward a 2 party system but with the strongest 4th party performance in UK history.

Almost half of voters expressing a preference think the Liberal Democrat Treasury spokesman Vince Cable, would make a better Chancellor than his Labour or Tory counterparts.

David Caplan, a Liberal Member of Provincial Parliament, has brought forward a private member's bill that will hopefully force universities to think things through a little more before increasing tuition, and make them more accountable to students.

The picture and that title kind of makes you think or hope that Barbara Stanwyck is going to play some kind of freewheeling gal with some liberal views on life and love, right?

Of course I fully agree with many of the more accepted goals of the liberal variants of critical pedagogy whose arch-categories include the following — to foment dialogue, to deepen our appreciation of public life, to create spaces of respect and appreciation for diversity, to encourage critical thinking, to build culturally sensitive curricula, to create a vibrant democratic public sphere, to try to change the hardened hearts and minds of our increasingly parasitic financial aristocracy, to build knowledge from the experiences and the histories of students themselves, to make knowledge relevant to the lives of students, and to encourage students to theorize and make sense of their experiences in order to break free from the systems of mediation that limit their understanding of the world and their capacity to transform it, to challenge racism, sexism, homophobia, ableism, to fight against white supremacy, etc..

Shanker thought of himself as a liberal, indeed a Socialist; but for many liberals he seemed a racist conservative, as he maintained his fierce anti-Communist stance, supported American military power in defense of democracy, and insisted on the primacy of the trade - union movement in making a better society.

«It would be nice to think that they make all the right decisions,» Reiss, a liberal Democrat, said, «but with the way the power structure works, that's not the case.»