Sentences with phrase «pacifist religious»

Without so much as touching a rifle due to his devoutly pacifist religious beliefs, Doss saved dozens of his injured comrades on the film's titular Japanese battlefield.

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.

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Of course, religious pacifists recognize that it is not enough to point out that the massive military campaign currently under way will not work, and in fact will do more harm than good.

That Catholicism could be regarded as pacifist is in many ways an odd notion, but the adherents of this position argued that the Second Vatican Council, in calling for the spirituality of the religious life to be expanded among the laity, implicitly extended the traditional non-involvement in war of the religious to all faithful Catholics.

Religious conservatives can find him fruitfully unsettling too, since he is a pacifist and opposes capital punishment.

He called pacifists «parasites,» death - of - God theologians «infants,» religious services at the White House «complacent conformity,» and, to the end, the name «Richard Nixon» could evoke from him well - chosen epithets.

This is when Pakistan started to experience a major shift from a pacifist sub-continental-Persian religious tradition into a violent, Wahhabi - inspired dogmatic creed.

On a week where the recent Marvel superhero film is also being released, Hacksaw Ridge is the real superhero film; one about a deeply religious, family man, pacifist that saved numerous lives without ever touching his rifle

A beautifully complex film about why we fight, Howard Hawks's WWI heart - stirrer comes from the diary of Alvin York, a poor Tennessean and religious pacifist who nonetheless took up a rifle and became an ace marksman.

War Workbooklet includes a learning circle, marking decoder, homework takeaway task bank, literacy placemat, topics covering reasons for going to war, pacifism and the Quaker: Religious Societyof Friends views on war and violence, Bible views on war, the principle of ahimsa and the life of Gandhi also an assessment on «Was Jesus a Pacifist?».

The game places players in the roll of a young photographer known as Reza Shirazi as his friends, family, and acquaintances, both rough and pacifist, all draw him to a volatile powder keg of political, religious, and philosophical tension.