Sentences with phrase «own manifest destiny»

It's kind of like building a railroad track, but it's not like it's time for Manifest Destiny and Westward Expansion, where we have the East Coast colonized, and now we want to colonize the rest of the country.

Author Silver Donald Cameron says of the «Security and Prosperity Partnership»: «The SPP is the new name for the old American project of Manifest Destiny — absolute control over the whole continent.»

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Speaker after speaker declared the coaches a symbol of «filthy rich corporations that could afford to pay more», «class warfare» and «manifest destiny».

History (Manifest Destiny and the expansion of Europe to the New World) seems to disagree with your analysis as do the fundamental teachings of Christianity itself.

This was crystallized by Monroe's declaration of «Manifest Destiny» which says essentially «what's yours is mine and what's mine is mine».

Americans in favor of the war, writes Ralph Frasca of Belmont Abbey College, favored it for several reasons: «that Mexico wronged Texan and American citizens, impeded the American «manifest destiny» of expansion, possessed land that pro-slavery forces coveted, or needed political or religious change.»

regardless of what he said i regard it by the fruit he bore and what he bore was the dark Ages, manifest destiny, enslavement of the west Africans, the genocide of the Aztec, the holocaust, and the current ecological crises we know face.

Then there is the way in which Americans determine their own national interest» from manifest destiny, to Woodrow Wilson's crusade for democracy, to the delegitimation of America's war in Vietnam, to the debate over just war and the Gulf War.

The overwhelming «reason» for Manifest Destiny was economic: essentially, land and resources.

Yes, the overwhelming majority of those who were involved in Manifest Destiny (the movement of «Americans» westward) were Christians.

Manifest Destiny — the ideology through which the Europeans and others moved Westward across America, ultimately leading to the greatest genocide in the history of the planet — was an ECONOMIC ideology.

It has been done for centuries, from Constantine's military conquests, to America's ethnic cleansing in the name of Manifest Destiny, to the televangelist's «love gifts.

Our Father Abraham: Jewish Roots of the Christian Faith by Marvin R. Wilson, Jewish Spirituality: A Brief Introduction for Christians by Lawrence Kushner, The Myth of a Christian Nation by Greg Boyd, The Politics of Jesus by John Howard Yoder, Decision Making and the Will of God by Gary Friesen, Satan and the Problem of Evil by Greg Boyd, A Concise History of the Crusades by Thomas Madden, and Manifest Destiny: American Expansion and the Empire of Right by Anders Stephanson.

«After World War II, a sense of global Manifest Destiny came to dominate United States policies.

The faith started the same time that «manifest destiny» and rapid expansion of our borders took off in the 1840's.

Realizing America's manifest destiny involved enslavement of Africans and extermination of native peoples.

Religion has given us 10,000 years of division, war, torture, jihad, manifest destiny, slavery,..

One of the goals of Manifest Destiny was to demonstrate the superiority of the English language over Spanish.

What about «Manifest Destiny?»

Chomsky brings up the annihilation of the American indigenous population» are we to call what was done to them, in service of the foundational myth known as Manifest Destiny, something radically different from the logic of sacrificial violence?

His results show a spectrum of possible world situations in the year 2000 ranging from «Manifest Destiny» to collapse.

Already in the very first book, the First Book of Nephi, there is white supremacist racism, and justification for Manifest Destiny.

And what are these dangers the author keeps mentioning but not enumerating and how do they compared to the dangers posed by organized religion and other organized philosophies like fascism and communism, «manifest destiny» and other philosophies that those oh so nobly «organized» people have «blessed» us with over the centuries?

Although denominational leaders, seminary professors, and pastors may know that dreams of American manifest destiny influenced nineteenth - century theology, few seem to recognize the ways in which the American Dream still influences the church today.

American dominance and isolation and perfect security ended with the launching of Sputnik and the rise of a third world with its commitment to neutrality rather than to either communist or capitalist ideologies, and it challenged your notion and mine of this country's manifest destiny to be the city on the hill, the new Eden, the covenanted people — as never before in U.S. history.

The Second Great Awakening (1800 - 1830), coming shortly after the Constitution had launched the republic, defined what it meant to be «an American,» and what was the manifest destiny of the new nation.

We have our own myths of divine origin as a nation blessed by God with a «manifest destiny» to bring a large share of this continent «under one roof.»

Manifest Destiny justified the conquering of the indigenous peoples of Texas, New Mexico, California, and other parts of the Southwest; and the inclusion of the Oregon territory in the United States.

Subsequent generations have voiced similar themes to propel America's narrative: their country was thought to have a «manifest destiny;» to represent «an empire of liberty;» to offer the «last best hope on earth;» and above all, to embody «American exceptionalism.»

How did notion of «Manifest Destiny» in particular wreak havoc on creation and indigenous people?

In a larger country with a smaller population, Canadian evangelicals are more likely to support sharing resources and welcoming immigrants and refugees; they are less likely to feel a sense of «manifest destiny» or to see their country as a Christian nation, according to Brian Stiller, the Ontario - based global ambassador of the World Evangelical Alliance.

Like all religions, this religion has its own distinctive, theologized, revisionist history (for instance, the «manifest destiny» doctrine whereby God destined Europeans to conquer the land).

Russian Pograms Crusades Jonestown Salem Witch Trials Holocaust the Protestant v Catholic conflicts Manifest Destiny of the North and South American destruction of Native cultures Ad Infinitum...

«when you used Christianity to promote manifest destiny and wipe out those heathen Indians.»

Or when you used Christianity to promote manifest destiny and wipe out those heathen Indians.

Imperialism and manifest destiny (both of which are tightly tied to religious thought) yes, science not so much.

Supremacy of the «Master Race» in Germany, the «white man «s burden» in Africa and Asia, the «manifest destiny» of settlers over the Indians in America, the «evil empire» of the Soviet Union — these and other myths are powerfully motivate and support various public policies and actions today.

The GOP is following the Whigs (whose brilliant beginnings are now forgotten since they sold out against their conscience on the issues of slavery and manifest destiny) into the dilapidated dustbin of history, and will be commemorated in future history textbooks as the party whose decline began when they sold out to ignorance and religious extremism.

The peculiarly American quality about this myth is that even in our nation's history of subjugation, a sense of manifest destiny was often associated with extending the nation's boundaries.

The Democrats had their own version of millennialism» «manifest destiny,» hawked by the Democratic Review, their party newspaper.

Or that time we used the Bible to justify slavery and invoked «Manifest Destiny» to slaughter women and children.

With a footprint that now extends from Boston to Colorado, Unidine is reaching for its own manifest destiny as it finalizes plans to expand to the West Coast using its successful formula.

Manifest Destiny is alive and well at Towne Park, as we are now providing self - parking management and front drive greeting services to business and leisure travelers staying at the Crowne Plaza San Francisco Airport!

Of course, Howard's personal manifest destiny wasn't the only major roster shake - up this off - season.

«There was a purity to the friendships that made us feel that there was a manifest destiny, a sort of spiritual destiny, about the championship,» Jeremy says.

The bridge was Manifest Destiny in stone and steel.

Mitt Romney is «appealing to past glory, imperial power and manifest destiny.»

The foreign policies of unilateralism (not being drawn into entangling alliances with other states), the Monroe Doctrine (keeping European powers out of the western hemisphere) and Manifest Destiny (expanding America's frontier to the Pacific to both pre-empt European conquest of western lands and provide economic opportunities for settlers) provided the framework to achieve this.

Manifest Destiny is still an important influence on how Americans think about their country and the world.