Sentences with phrase «making pacifist»

But it does show how much Biblical interpretation has changed, because the scriptural point that made them pacifist was «thou shalt not kill», which they felt applied to war.

Does that make me a pacifist?

Littered with low points — lame comedy, dubious history, fumbling drama and a love story so inept as to make a pacifist long for war.

Not exact matches

Abe has made reviving the economy his top priority, a big shift from his first term when his main agenda was to loosen the limits of Japan's pacifist constitution on the military and restore national pride and patriotism.

So maybe not all of us come out saying we're pacifists; maybe some of us simply make more deliberate moves toward non-violence.

The story illustrates Hauerwas's insistence that Christian pacifists ought not think that being nonviolent will make the world safer; it might well make it more violent.

Circa late 1969, the Airplane seems to sense that the generalized radical community needs some encouragement, a pep rally of sorts to get them past all the spirit - draining confusions that had been piling up, and all the minor divisions radicals had made between one another in the course of late -»60s intensity, you know, naturalist communalists v. wired hipsters, pacifists v. biker gangs, Hare Krishnas v. Shamans, old - school SDS - ers v. the new Weathermen - types, angry feminists v. «Ramblin» Man» swingers, Black Panthers v. white hippies, Maoists v. anarchists, health - foodies v. druggies, etc., etc., and to focus instead on the big divide between all of them and the Establishment.

J. Denny Weaver, professor of religion at Bluffton College (a Mennonite college in Ohio), puts it this way in his article «Pacifist Response to 9 - 11»: «It is unfair to assume that pacifists, who did not create the situation in the first place... can now be parachuted into the middle of [the crisis] with a ready - made solution.»

I'm sure many people would consider themselves pacifists but say that this is too extreme a definition, one might say for example that pacifism means «attempting to promote peace and making it a goal, but accepting that war is necessary in some cases to prevent greater evils,» however the way violence vs. following Jesus is being discussed in this context doesn't allow such concessions.

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.

As a result, Prof. Cole makes Yoder's pacifism appear to be constituted by individual pacifists in enclaves of the similarly minded, rather than the presence of a global community of followers of Jesus opposed to the use of force on behalf of, or in opposition to, particular nations precisely because it is transnational.

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

I did not mean to imply that pacifists of the messianic community have consciously built upon liberal — humanistic pacifism (though my sentence can be so read — mea culpa), but only to point out what should be obvious to all: that the inroads pacifists of the messianic community have made in Roman Catholic and Protestant mainline circles can be traced to a prior acceptance of liberal — humanistic pacifism by many in those circles.

Against this background of militant feminism, which did not hesitate to advocate counterviolence — at least in self - defense — to male violence against women, pacifists in the women's movement were made to feel isolated and defensive.

I have set my feet on the path to find out how to live active peace - making, to identify boldly as a pacifist.

The pacifist puts the primary stress on love, but does not ordinarily make this disjunction between love and justice.

5:44), is not the sole prerogative of either, but to the pacifist it makes participation in war an act of disobedience to the call of God.

I would single out five prominent arguments to which pacifists, if they are to make their own position cogent and realistic, must respond.

A case certainly can be made for him as a precursor of Blue Labour in one respect — his faith — but it was this very faith that made him such a dogmatic pacifist and thus sundered him completely from working class patriotism.

His ideology coalesced soon after visiting the ruins of Nagasaki, just weeks after the devastation of the atomic bomb in 1945; the event which made him an instant 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.

It's not hard to see why; when you're telling a single - player espionage story with overt pacifist themes, you're not going to pour the time and resources needed to make a successful multiplayer mode.

Black people, especially, are expected to take on the pacifist, peace - making and non-violence route to the extent that self - defense becomes radicalized.

Seeing how army medic and conscientious objector Desmond Doss managed to be both hero and pacifist under such fire makes for a powerful movie, especially in its second half.

That she is as caring as she is courageous, not to mention that said compassion ultimately proves to be her most formidable weapon of all, makes Miyazaki's pacifist, conservationist message all the more powerful.

The team is made up of the boss Richard (Tim McInnerny), sexy girl Maggie (Laura Harris), stoner Steve (Danny Dyer), optimistic morale booster Gordon (Andy Nyman), smart guy Billy (Babou Ceesay), pacifist Jill (Claudie Blakley), and handsome Harris (Toby Stevens).

Are they four - legged pacifists making a statement about stereotypes?

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.

This EarthBound / Mother series - inspired game does a lot of interesting things with narrative, gameplay mechanics, playing with expectations, and most notably, making it possible to beat the game without killing anybody in what is known as a «pacifist run.»

There are no difficulty settings for the Run «n Guns, but players can choose to make them easier by actually using their finger gun to shoot enemies, or ramp up the difficulty by taking the pacifist approach and not firing at any enemies in these levels.