In The Myth of Persecution, Candida Moss, a leading expert on early Christianity, reveals how the early church exaggerated, invented, and forged stories of Christian martyrs and how the dangerous legacy of a martyrdom complex is employed today to silence dissent and galvanize a new generation
of culture warriors.
And although the producers aren't trying to don the armor
of culture warriors, they don't flinch about showing the reality of abortion, adoption, and broken families either.
You may have heard it from Kirk Cameron or an anchor at Fox News or an army
of culture warriors who have once again worked themselves into a frenzy over the «War on Christmas.»
They describe the purchase as an act of art but also of politics, a gratifying chance to respond to what they see as a deepening racial divide in America, when Simone's fiery example
of culture warrior seems more potent than ever.
Not exact matches
Or is this more
of a road
warrior culture where your people communicate through video conferencing?
There are also ties to popular sporting events, shows like American Ninja
Warrior (a few
of its contestants frequent the parks), and pop
culture.
Being so immersed in a
warrior culture will help numb out some
of the aspects
of war that is too much to handle.
To restate: If O'Leary is the pure economic libertarian he seems, and not a
culture warrior, then he's actually no Trump, regardless
of what he, O'Leary, may claim.
There's no love
of violence in today's progressive
culture warriors who want to empower the state to eliminate «homophobia» and other barriers to desire's freedom.
With the Great War as backdrop, the great
culture warrior for the social gospel utilized his understanding
of historicism as a method to discuss how religion and patriotism should be rightly understood in a genuine democracy.
Those who applaud Williamson's dismissal see in it the just comeuppance
of an entire cottage industry
of right - wing shock jocks and extremist
culture warriors.
In the end, it hasn't been the GOP's most strident
culture warriors or shameless religious panderers who have finally endeared themselves to Iowa's social conservative caucus - goers, or who give my generation reason to take a second look at conservative candidates in spite
of our flight from the GOP.
It serves as an indication
of the breakdown
of civil discourse, and the attempt by some
culture warriors on the left to denigrate traditional religious believers as a darkened sect, unworthy
of consideration.
The god in the OT is a direct result
of a desert
warrior culture, when he did these great smitings at first, people in that
culture admired power and
warrior spirit so no one could care less about the atrocities that god committed because those were valued traits in those days.
The story describes Bachmann's influences - including figures like Francis Schaeffer and David Noebel, who most Americans have never heard
of but who are superstars in conservative Christian circles - and I found them all familiar faces from my childhood as a
culture warrior.
By the time I was a teenager at the Jesus camps, pledging my life to being a
warrior in God's
culture army, I had memorized Bible verses as answers, and developed a pretty major evangelical hero complex along with my superiority and false sense
of control.
In his fine book on The Drama
of Ephesians, Timothy Gombis
of Cedarville University contrasts what he characterizes as the power - mongering
of contemporary
culture warriors with Jesus» way
of «humility and weakness.»
Not only did we lose one
of the great
warriors in the battle between the
culture of life and the
culture of death, but we also lost a true healer: a man who worked so hard to bridge the scandalous five - hundred - year - old chasm in the Church.
Everyone is a
culture warrior trying to advance society while battling expressions
of social life that do not promote the «common welfare.»
The Song
of Roland features an archbishop who slays Saracens with gusto, a clear indication that the Church made its peace with the
warrior culture of Charlemagne's day.
The temptation
of our current
culture is to cast the Church as a bureaucratic obstacle to wounded persons» desire for God, and her pastors as «cold
warriors» — but this, to put it kindly, is less than honest.
In the religiosity
of Hellenistic
culture there was a world - denying, gnostic kind
of piety that scholars equate with the so - called «divine man» that was in its own way just as illusory and immature as the nationalist
warrior piety
of Palestinian Judaism.
In our
culture, the combination
of MMA and church happens because the
warrior is valued and put on a pedestal.
Some bears
of little brain would likely dismiss Cardinal Collins's efforts to resist the further encroachments
of the
culture of death as examples
of the kind
of «
culture warrior» activity Pope Francis allegedly frowns upon among bishops.
When I was an unbeliever, I loved for
culture warriors and Christians who thought they could argue me into the Kingdom
of Heaven to engage me.
Rev. Dr. Albert Mohler, president
of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, KY, is often cited as an example
of the classic «
culture warrior.»
I heard him saying that those
of us in the church should be open to listening to conflicting opions / ideas (and some
culture warriors will listen), BUT with the attitude that «I am not the repository
of all truth» (or perhaps even to questioning if all
of God's truth in revelation is propositional) and therefore to be open to what is true regardless
of its source.
---- If that is your definition
of a «
culture warrior,» then that ain't me.
Together with Soviet archaeologists, she was able to document the Caspian Steppes homeland
of what has been variously dubbed the Battle - Axe
Culture, the Corded Wear
Culture, or, Gimbutas» preference, the Kurgan
Culture, so called from the type
of burial its people accorded their elites, the chariot - driving, horse - riding
warriors who overran the farm communities
of Europe beginning sometime in the fifth millennium b.c..
The company calls it «The RaceTrac Way,» which is its
culture of possessing a
warrior's passion, humble attitude and living for fun every day.
The Heat are seen as an enviable institution, merely a cut below the Spurs and
Warriors in terms
of organizational
culture.
«We started to see all
of the worst aspects
of what I would call some
of the Social Justice
Warrior hectoring
culture, where views on this became a litmus test to see how «woke» you were on underlying issues
of race and justice.»
«Certainly, the
culture of the «
warrior mentality» plays a role in not reporting these events,» she observed, «but some
of it is also an awareness issue, and we have a great opportunity, with so much attention around concussion, to increase knowledge in this area.»
All too often, even hits hard enough to cause an athlete to display signs
of concussion that can be observed by sideline personnel, or which cause the athlete to experience symptoms
of concussion, go undetected, either because the signs are too subtle to be seen or are simply missed by sideline personnel or because the athlete fails to report them (a 2010 study [7]
of Canadian junior hockey players, for example, found that, for every concussion self - reported by the players or identified by the coaches or on - the - bench medical personnel, physician observers in the stands picked up seven)- a persistent problem that, given the «
warrior» mentality and
culture of contact and collision sports, is not going to go away any time soon, if ever.
Three other Democrats let it be known that they were looking at the race: L. Douglas Wilder, who had been elected governor
of Virginia in 1989, George McGovern, the man who'd lost 49 states to Nixon in 1972 (and waged a hopeless bid for the 1984 Democratic nomination), and John Silber, the Boston University president who had nearly won Massachusetts» governorship the previous fall by running as a conservative
culture warrior.
But despite their well - documented spirit
of adventure,
warrior culture and innovative shipbuilding, the Vikings still have their secrets.
Together, the evidence illuminates aspects
of the Scythians» unusual
culture, from tattooing
warriors to creating intricate metalwork.
Emerson said that those who saw
warrior symbolism at Cahokia missed the special
culture of the time period.
That should sound familiar — think
of the
warrior cultures and how they trained.
Before then, they used their hands, knives and spoons to transfer food from plate to mouth.Meanwhile, some people in China say the use
of chopsticks over knives for eating there reflects the importance
of scholars over
warriors in Chinese
culture.
The 20 personality types are: Artist, Bar Game Buff,
Cultured Urbanite, Curious George, Eternal Optimist, Family First, Fast and Furious, Happy - Go - Lucky, Health Buff, Intellectual, Live Event Fan, Mainly Mainstream, Pinteresters, Romantic, Salt
of the Earth, Social Butterfly, Sports Fanatic, Weekend
Warrior, Well - Rounded, and Outdoor Adventurer.
One way to understand the Marine Corps»
culture is by studying their organization through the lens of the symbolic frame which seeks to Marine Corps Mascot: (excerpt from Warrior Culture
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Warrior Culture of the.
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Warrior Culture of the.
This film relates the expansion
of the Islamic and Arabic
cultures which was brought about to a large part by military slaves: the children
of non-Muslim Turkoman peoples were trained as Islamic elite
warriors.
Melville took lone
warrior mythology from Japanese
culture, married it with the tough guy angles
of»40s gangster movies, and, along with John Boorman and Point Blank, ushered in a new age
of neo noir.
Ron Howard's «The Missing» takes place in 1886; «The Alamo» revisits the 1836 siege; and «The Last Samurai,» starring Tom Cruise, details an epic slice
of Japanese
warrior culture circa 1875.
He soon finds himself burdened with the mantle
of King, as well as his previous role as the symbolic
warrior of Wakandan
culture: the Black Panther.
We've got a character who's more
of a scientist, we've got a person who's more
of a humanities... arts expert, we've got a character who's more
of a
warrior, and we've got a character who understands much more
of the local
culture and countryside.
From the striking attire
of the Dora Milaje
warriors to the sand - like magnetic thingy - ma - bobs that power Wakandan tech, every detail adds wonderment to a world that imagines an African
culture gifted with near - unlimited resources and untainted by colonialism.