Sentences with phrase «modern war on»

The Museum has worked with Turner prize winning artist Jeremy Deller to present the destroyed vehicle, a major new acquisition which serves as evidence of the impact of modern war on civilians.

I do think that our modern war on Muslim countries is somewhat similar.

Not exact matches

let's forget the ancient history of war driven religion; let's focus on modern history we see everyday.

It's the kind of faith that has people believing God will ensure victory in war and leads to the death of people who rely on faith healing instead modern medicine.

In the years after World War I, Christians felt keenly the difference between both of these modern forms of Christology on the one hand and the historic faith of the church on the other.

Nevermind just the rhetoric of war, I think there is a common refrain amongst modern evangelicals that «God is on our side, so who can stand against us?»

In our post-Nietzschean age of AIDS and rampant venereal disease, the remark now carries with it a certain unintentional irony, but one finishes reading Bloom's book not entirely sure why erotic relations nowadays are so dreary: Is it because of the relentless reductionism of Freud and Kinsey or because, as Nietzsche held, Eros and Institution will always be at war — and Christianity, with its rigorous stress on monogamy, now symbolizes for modern society the institution of marriage par excellence?

Biblical literalism is a powerful force today; it tends to imprison people in attitudes that were suitable enough when science and technology were little dreamt of but which fail to illuminate a society in which, for instance, it is desirable, because of the effects of modern hygiene on death rates, for women to bear, on the average, perhaps a third as many infants as were appropriate two or three thousand or even two hundred years ago, a society in which war might mean something like the end of the species, or at least vastly closer to that than any war of the past could be.

Another deluded» war on Christianity» poster — why do modern faux Christians leap at every opportunity, no matter how tenuous the connection,.

While the United States bishops focused on nuclear war, a more general judgment about modern war as inherently unjust had been present in Catholic thought since at least 1870, the year when a group of bishops, in a Postulata addressed to Pope Pius XI and the First Vatican Council, excoriated the expense of «huge standing and conscript armies» and the prospect of «illegal and unjust wars, or rather hideous massacres spreading far and wide.»

Throughout its modern history, just war has been premised on the concept that war is a conflict among states; yet in this «war» the primary conflict (at least initially) is with al - Qaeda, a nonstate actor.

Although space will not permit exploration of the point here, it is important to note that Christian thought about just war predated the rise of the modern state system in the 17th century, and rests on fundamental moral principles not essentially tied to that system.

Additionally, most wars in the modern era are philosophically founded on the just war doctrine.

(On Thermonuclear War [Princeton University Press, 1961]-RRB- The use of this final unthinkably horrible product of modern ingenuity would obviously cut off any possible future development of history.

But take a look at the carnage in the Thirty Years War, a war between two groups of Christians who were horrified that anyone dared to believe other than the way they did, and tell me with a straight face that the religious zealots who waged that war wouldn't have used ANY technological advantage they might have gotten their hands on and didn't kill with modern bombs not because of self restraint but because of lack of availabiliWar, a war between two groups of Christians who were horrified that anyone dared to believe other than the way they did, and tell me with a straight face that the religious zealots who waged that war wouldn't have used ANY technological advantage they might have gotten their hands on and didn't kill with modern bombs not because of self restraint but because of lack of availabiliwar between two groups of Christians who were horrified that anyone dared to believe other than the way they did, and tell me with a straight face that the religious zealots who waged that war wouldn't have used ANY technological advantage they might have gotten their hands on and didn't kill with modern bombs not because of self restraint but because of lack of availabiliwar wouldn't have used ANY technological advantage they might have gotten their hands on and didn't kill with modern bombs not because of self restraint but because of lack of availability.

These range from stories of the saints, to concerns of people today, to a look at his own personal experience as a child and with L'Arche, all the way to broader comment on resistance to the Nazis, the war in Rwanda, and the conflict in present day Israel and Palestine, and he sees in the Gospel many touchstones for our modern lives.

On the other hand, Italian liberalism and socialism, especially since World War II, have tended to give up their totalistic claims and opt for a civility and a tolerance of difference that Hammond sees as essential in a modern civil religion.

Modern technology (or a misplaced reliance on technology) has fed this war against the weak in two ways that, at first, may seem contradictory.

As the book points out, for example, the «obviously inadequate instantiation» of caritas in medieval Christianity helped to precipitate the Reformation and its leaders» emphasis on doctrine; Reformation - era «authorities» breaches of caritas via confessional coercion created a reservoir of resentment sufficient to spring and sustain the secularizing, antireligious, liberationist ideology pervasive in the modern era down to the present»; and awareness of churches» collusion with European imperial colonial violence is linked to the steep decline in European churchgoing since World War II.

But while modern scientists have learned that predators are sorely needed ecologically, and while stock operations have long since passed out of the shoestring category of the old West, sheepmen have continued their anachronistic war on predators as though their very existences depended on poisoning the last one off.

Grozny is also, architecturally, a modern city as it has been rebuilt after the wars with Russia in the 1990s, and the new signings of 2017 have shown their amazement of their new home on social media, posting photos and videos of the vibrant skyline and fancy nightlife which is on offer to the new stars of the city.

The modern man and woman are able to handle criticisms better and accept opinions other than their own without waging war on one another.

The film sheds light on one of the most private royals of recent years who overcame great personal struggles, reluctantly accepting his place as King and uniting his country, providing faith and hope through one of the darkest periods of modern history, the Second World War.

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In theories of protest and revolution, the question whether violence is justified is premissed on the idea that it is probable.On the other hand, as is often observed, much modern social and political theory more or less eclipsed war within or between states, taking the socialising and civilising forces of historical progress for granted.

BTW, while you're over at FlackCheck.org, note their series on how Abraham Lincoln looks through the prism of modern campaign messaging... he's launching a War on Religion!

All these queries are coming up because two vital pillars of the modern state, the bar and the media, on the Muhammadu Buhari anti-graft war, are already equivocating.

Kicking off a series of events that will extend into dawn on Sunday, Prime Minister Binali Yildirim told a special session of parliament that 15 July 2016 was a «second War of Independence», following the conflict that led to the creation of the modern state in the 1920s.

«It's much too soon to start making video games about a war that's still going on, and an extremely flippant response to one of the most important events in modern history,» he said.

An equally provocative book on modern warfare is Douglas Porch's Counterinsurgency: Exposing the Myths of the New Way of War (Cambridge University Press # 18).

Reported in Scientific American, This Week in World War I: November 28, 1914 On this date 100 years ago Scientific American reported on the sinking of HMS Audacious, one of the British Royal Navy's most modern «dreadnoughts» — the largest and most powerful battleships in existance in 191On this date 100 years ago Scientific American reported on the sinking of HMS Audacious, one of the British Royal Navy's most modern «dreadnoughts» — the largest and most powerful battleships in existance in 191on the sinking of HMS Audacious, one of the British Royal Navy's most modern «dreadnoughts» — the largest and most powerful battleships in existance in 1914.

With a modern history of domestic scientific achievement dating back to the end of World War II, France has capitalized on its scientific assets with the adoption, in 2009, of a National Research and Innovation Strategy with a very specific and worthwhile goal: «To put back research and innovation at the heart of French society and economy.»

Researchers have built a modern - day Enigma machine that relies on the quirky laws of quantum mechanics instead of the rotors and levers of the famous World War II — era code machines.

And on a famous altar stone from the site of Sak Nikte», also in modern - day Guatemala, a queen known as Ix Naah Ek» wore the helmet of the Maya god of war and stood atop a large battle palanquin, or platform, the size of a Macy's parade float.

The industrial - scale slaughter of the first world war is often blamed on a clash of 19th - century tactics and 20th - century weapons, including tanks, aircraft, modern artillery and machine guns.

In the years after World War II, on the grounds of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, mathematician John von Neumann assembled a group of eccentric engineers to build and program a «universal machine» — the modern computer's direct ancestor, which was first envisioned by logician Alan Turing.

In his new book, The War on Science, Shawn Otto documents the modern clash between what he calls the «authoritarians» (governments, large corporations, and religious groups) and the «antiauthoritarians» (scientists and other liberal thinkers).

The idea is that our immune systems evolved to conduct a ceaseless war on pathogens, parasites and other microbes, but modern lifestyles mean we face fewer threats.

The episode, called «War & Pizza» from 99 % Invisible, reported that the technology behind the «instant» foods many of us busy modern people depend on — boxed cereals, granola bars, TV dinners (even the fancy $ 7 ones)-- was first introduced in the 1950s.

All of this happened around the time the dishonest and unprincipled Ancel Keys» infamous first appearance on the January 13, 1961 cover of Time magazine, which proclaimed the modern diet's war on cholesterol and saturated fat!

The «war on fat» is the biggest mistake in the history of nutrition and modern medicine.

It's the only modern multiplayer FPS based on the Vietnam war, and its developers used all their past experience to create a fun, stylish and very gory shooter.

Recent sub films have focused on modern - day vessels, but U-571 returns to the genre's wellspring: World War II.

Based on the exciting true story of one of the greatest moments in modern history, the film captures a time and place where differences could be settled by games and a cold war could be put on ice.

It'd be unlike Denis — whose far - flung features over the last 30 years have ranged from the luridly modern vampirism of 2001's Trouble Every Day to films tackling war, colonialism, French modernity, and so on — to make a straightforward romantic comedy.

Deep down, we all know that modern superhero movies are operating with even lower dramatic stakes than Star Wars or James Bond movies: beloved characters rarely stay dead after they've been killed, and no plot development, no matter how grave, is irreversible, so there's no possible way that what seems to be happening on the screen could really be happening.

This week on home video, superheroes take on the Cold War of the sixties in «X-Men: First Class,» Brian De Palma's modern gangster classic «Scarface» debuts on Blu - ray and over a dozen TV shows from last season — from «Fringe» to «The Good Wife» to Steve Carell's farewell season of «The Office» — roll out on DVD just before the new Fall Season launches.

when i first heard about robot fighting movie with Hugh Jackman I thought it was gonna be like the robot wars on discovery channel 6 - 7 years ago, but a bit more modern, with Jackman mentoring his kid to building a prize bot.

The artist has been known to craft his own takes on the modern Star Wars movies, such as this lovely Force Awakens poster.

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