Sentences with phrase «nuclear holocaust if»

Even the logic of deterrence — which the film suggests will be humanity's ruin, since it's the Soviet doomsday machine that will automatically trigger nuclear holocaust if Major Kong accomplishes his mission, and was built in order to deter any such attack — is still with us.

Not exact matches

As Kaufman states, two groups of American Christians currently rely on these images of God in their responses to the nuclear situation: one group claims that if a nuclear holocaust comes, it will be God's will — the Armageddon — and America should arm itself to fight the devil's agent, Communist Russia; the other passively relies on the all - powerful father to take care of the situation.

But for the same reason, unprecedented possibilities of horrendous evil lie ahead if the demonic potential of man is unleashed in a holocaust of nuclear war or if he foolishly populates or pollutes himself to death.

It will take decades — if God in his grace restrains the principalities and powers that seek nuclear war — for the new abolitionists to persuade militaristic America that preparation for nuclear holocaust, like slavery, is an affront to the Creator.

One group claims that if a nuclear holocaust comes, it will be God's will — the Armageddon — and America should arm itself to fight the devil's agent, communist Russia.

We know that if the world is to avoid being thrown into the holocaust of a nuclear war, we must not look for a supernatural intervention in the form, say, of a regiment of angels.

And, if I'm to be honest, at this point of my reflections my tolerance wears very thin indeed: in a world of mass murder and mass starvation, of unprecedented terror, odious tyrannies, and the threat of nuclear holocausts — in such a world there is something obscene about an order of priorities that starts off with bigger and better orgasms.

If one can call a battle with cancer a «personal Vietnam,» as writer and critic Susan Sontag once did, then maybe it is fair to term the lyin» - cheatin» - pollutin» scandal that Volkswagen brought upon its house its personal nuclear holocaust.

Even if it means spending the rest of his days locked in Civilis, a tower prison for society's unwanted — «half - humans» gifted by the fallout of nuclear holocaust centuries past.

But if its aesthetic deals with subject matter that is «tragic and timeless,» that subject matter was unique to its times — the holocaust, threat of nuclear annihilation, the subsequent search for meaning.

It's up for further research to explain, but whatever it may be, it appears that if there's ever a nuclear holocaust, perhaps tardigrades are the best candidates for extreme species survival.