Sentences with phrase «many pacifists»

The film clips gathered in Syria's Torture Machine depict graphic acts of torture and the horrific injuries that result; powerful images capable of causing even the most ardent of pacifists to advocate force.

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.

The House of Commons is set to approve the measures with a big majority after the pacifist leader of the Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn, said he would allow his lawmakers a free vote, rather than impose a party whip.

«But I am not a pacifist.

As we've seen in recent seasons, it's caused Morgan to go from pacifist to vengeful killer and Daryl to someone similarly bent on revenge.

Iraq's liberation from Saddam Hussein and his criminal underlings by the coalition of the willing last year has breathed life into many Labor activists — including Federal Labor leader Mark Latham — who are afflicted by anti-Americanism and / or pacifist inclinations.

Japan has a pacifist constitution, however, and is governed by what Katagiri called a «defensive defense doctrine.»

Only in Quebec, with its «pacifist tradition,» are most people opposed to the war, Harper said.

Japan's Abe secures supermajority Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe won a landslide victory in last weekend's general election, opening the way for a push to amend the country's pacifist constitution.

While escaped the impositions of hurtful governments is a estimable goal, the crypto village should commend that it is implicitly unsuitable to stay pacifist while justification grows that

While escaped the impositions of hurtful governments is a estimable goal, the crypto village should commend that it is implicitly unsuitable to stay pacifist while justification grows that criminals and terrorists are exploiting the community's freedom.

Starting out as a liberal pacifist in World War II, Lefever's was a stormy path to the Niebuhrian «realism» that he staunchly defended during the Vietnam years and defends still today.

Many people believe along with the pacifists that war does indeed necessarily involve evil actions and so any attempt to impose a moral standard on our conduct is doomed from the start.

For this I blame the broad and unwitting acceptance of pacifist thinking, if not of pacifist conclusions.

I was raised in a Christian faith that considers itself mainstream, pacifist (when it's convenient, anyway), and dedicated to the love of God.

U.S. Episcopal Presiding Bishop Edmund Browning, commenting on Keshishian's speech, agreed with the analysis, and went on to declare the just war tradition dead: «If Augustine arid Aquinas were alive now, and had to contend with the smart bomb, they would be pacifists.»

The debate on the final statement concerning the war — which took nearly all the time allotted for discussion of public issues — saw the Assembly initially adopt a repudiation of the Christian moral tradition that justifies the use of force in «last resort» circumstances in favor of a pacifist approach.

• Anabaptists are passionate pacifists.

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

Who more than the Christian pacifist knows that Christians are in a war against war?

A UM Action fundraising letter from May this year reminded readers that twenty years ago a UMC hymnal committee attempted to drop «The Battle Hymn of the Republic» and «Onward, Christian Soldiers» as «too militarist to fit the church's current pacifist stance.»

It could be that despite his public stance, (1) Obama secretly believes that «war is not the answer» and privately relayed his true pacifist beliefs and commitment to unilateral military withdrawal from Afghanistan only to his «spiritual advisor,» Brian McLaren.

The intense debate over how best to interpret the past two decades of pacifist activity is both provocative and instructive.

The study is a critique of pacifism and pacifist organizations in recent agitations about war and peace.

The Mennonite center up the street sponsored a Sunday evening meeting on «Bosnia: The Pacifist Crisis.»

In contrast, I am suggesting that our preaching should presume that we are preaching to a Church in the midst of a war — a position you may find odd to be advocated by a pacifist.

I guess you got ta love death and war, it can even get a pacifist to imagine something as death incarnate as the atom bomb.

I am not necessarily taking one side vs the other in this instance, but it is all too convenient to portray Christ as a weak pacifist based on a single passage.

Similarly, I'm not a pacifist, but when it comes to voluntary military interventions, I believe in a two - war maximum.

Mormon's are not pacifists and on the contrary have a long record of supporting the military during conflicts.

Mormons are pacifists.

It's historical fact that Christianity was almost entirely led by pacifists for the first 300 years of its existence.

Where on earth did you get the idea that Mormons are pacifists?

«Pacifist» is one of those words that has so many meanings.

It's refreshing to be reminded that not everyone who met the zealous young advocate for life in community and the Sermon on the Mount was equally impressed — Hardy Arnold, son of the founder of the pacifist Bruderhof near Frankfurt, thought Bonhoeffer a bit of a dandy and a romantic when Bonhoeffer visited there in 1934.

They don't have to be pacifists, they don't have to be justice warriors; I just want them to think they've got a problem with war.

There's a distinction between Jesus and the cult leaders / murderers you cited: Jesus was a pacifist.

You see, I am a pacifist — not in the sense that I do not believe that the government has been given authority to wage war but that as a Christian, I do not believe I should every personally seek to kill anyone for any reason.

Based on our definition of pacifist, I would probably call myself one also.

The pacifist or the conspirator to kill Hitler?

But many pacifists think that governments should not go to war, and that our soldiers are perpetuating the worst evil on planet earth.

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.

Now here is the funny part: I have never been the recipient of more vitriol or hatred then when I say the words «I am a pacifist.»

They occupy the same position in regard to consumption and wealth that pacifists do in regard to violence.

Thomas's thought, wrote one biographer, was a mixture of Christianity, anarchism and Marxism (Bernard J. Johnpoll, Pacifist's Progress: Norman Thomas and the Decline of American Socialism, Quadrangle, 1970).

Jehovah's Witnesses can no longer practice their faith freely in Russia, where the Supreme Court on Thursday declared the pacifist religious organization an «extremist group» and banned all of its activity.

This creates a false dichotomy between a liberal, pacifist, feminist Jesus and a reactionary, violent, and patriarchal Judaism, a dichotomy that in turn sets the stage for new and modern anti «Judaism.

At Red Letter Christians, Marty Troyer wrote an excellent piece about The Hunger Games from a pacifist perspective.

Example: If I were in the military and decided I would be a pacifist for the next year, that would not bode well for my career path in the military or my existence in the respective branch.

Our Jesus has been black and white, gay and straight, a socialist and a capitalist, a pacifist and a warrior, a civil rights activist and a Ku Klux Klansman.