Sentences with phrase «pacifists in»

«If we were pacifists, we would have been in the wrong jobs, because I don't think it's advisable to have pacifists in the White House, particularly for situations like 9/11.

The connections between patriarchy, violence and war which were first explored by feminist pacifists in the first decades of the 20th Century have been revived today.

Against this background of militant feminism, which did not hesitate to advocate counterviolence — at least in self - defense — to male violence against women, pacifists in the women's movement were made to feel isolated and defensive.

As a result, Prof. Cole makes Yoder's pacifism appear to be constituted by individual pacifists in enclaves of the similarly minded, rather than the presence of a global community of followers of Jesus opposed to the use of force on behalf of, or in opposition to, particular nations precisely because it is transnational.

Do you have any women pacifists in your life who have touched on this issue at all?

I debated pacifists in my youth at a youth conference and the thing that became so prominent in my mind was the willingness to be consistent or inconsistent in the principle - I remember a professor telling me he would be willing to sacrifice his wife and child to avoid a violent encounter and while I lauded him for his consistency I abhorred his morality.

Starting out as a liberal pacifist in World War II, Lefever's was a stormy path to the Niebuhrian «realism» that he staunchly defended during the Vietnam years and defends still today.

It is not a propitious time to be a pacifist in the United States.

A Rebel soldier, Diego Luna's Cassian Andor (a Star Wars name if we've even seen one) makes Han «Shot First» Solo look like a pacifist in his cavalier approach to human life.

Not exact matches

The film clips gathered in Syria's Torture Machine depict graphic acts of torture and the horrific injuries that result; powerful images capable of causing even the most ardent of pacifists to advocate force.

As we've seen in recent seasons, it's caused Morgan to go from pacifist to vengeful killer and Daryl to someone similarly bent on revenge.

Only in Quebec, with its «pacifist tradition,» are most people opposed to the war, Harper said.

Japan's Abe secures supermajority Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe won a landslide victory in last weekend's general election, opening the way for a push to amend the country's pacifist constitution.

I was raised in a Christian faith that considers itself mainstream, pacifist (when it's convenient, anyway), and dedicated to the love of God.

The debate on the final statement concerning the war — which took nearly all the time allotted for discussion of public issues — saw the Assembly initially adopt a repudiation of the Christian moral tradition that justifies the use of force in «last resort» circumstances in favor of a pacifist approach.

Who more than the Christian pacifist knows that Christians are in a war against war?

The study is a critique of pacifism and pacifist organizations in recent agitations about war and peace.

In contrast, I am suggesting that our preaching should presume that we are preaching to a Church in the midst of a war — a position you may find odd to be advocated by a pacifisIn contrast, I am suggesting that our preaching should presume that we are preaching to a Church in the midst of a war — a position you may find odd to be advocated by a pacifisin the midst of a war — a position you may find odd to be advocated by a pacifist.

I am not necessarily taking one side vs the other in this instance, but it is all too convenient to portray Christ as a weak pacifist based on a single passage.

Similarly, I'm not a pacifist, but when it comes to voluntary military interventions, I believe in a two - war maximum.

It's refreshing to be reminded that not everyone who met the zealous young advocate for life in community and the Sermon on the Mount was equally impressed — Hardy Arnold, son of the founder of the pacifist Bruderhof near Frankfurt, thought Bonhoeffer a bit of a dandy and a romantic when Bonhoeffer visited there in 1934.

You see, I am a pacifist — not in the sense that I do not believe that the government has been given authority to wage war but that as a Christian, I do not believe I should every personally seek to kill anyone for any reason.

They occupy the same position in regard to consumption and wealth that pacifists do in regard to violence.

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.

This creates a false dichotomy between a liberal, pacifist, feminist Jesus and a reactionary, violent, and patriarchal Judaism, a dichotomy that in turn sets the stage for new and modern anti «Judaism.

Example: If I were in the military and decided I would be a pacifist for the next year, that would not bode well for my career path in the military or my existence in the respective branch.

Thus, while individual Catholics may adopt a strictly pacifist position, the Church teaches that war in strictly defined circumstances may be justified as the lesser evil.

The sharpest point of disagreement concerns the question whether Bonhoeffer's involvement in the conspiracy against Hitler signaled a shift away from his earlier pacifist commitment.

Given that his ethic was not an «ethic of principles,» it is difficult to conceive of him as a «principled pacifist» in Yoder's sense.

The person who said he could sacrifice his family to be pacifist could well be wanting in courage and unable to provide for his family.

Under the editorship of Charles C. Morrison, the outstanding Protestant journal, The Christian Century, had vigorously supported the war but now took a pacifist stand and called for the clergy never again «to put Christ in khaki or serve as recruiting officers.»

One night in early 1983, my teenaged - Christian - 60s - obsessed - socialist / pacifist - leaning self heard this song on the radio.

The first directive is controversial, as the dominant tradition in the church has not been pacifist.

I am now a vegetarian and a pacifist and certainly India influenced me, as it has influenced many others, in this evolution.

Jesus, as described in the gospels, was at times assertive, forceful, commanding, and far from passive or pacifist — but not violent.

When I first met her, Mary, who was to become my wife, was secretary of the Cambridge branch of the Fellowship of Reconciliation, which was founded as a Christian Pacifist Organization early in the twentieth century.

Circa late 1969, the Airplane seems to sense that the generalized radical community needs some encouragement, a pep rally of sorts to get them past all the spirit - draining confusions that had been piling up, and all the minor divisions radicals had made between one another in the course of late -»60s intensity, you know, naturalist communalists v. wired hipsters, pacifists v. biker gangs, Hare Krishnas v. Shamans, old - school SDS - ers v. the new Weathermen - types, angry feminists v. «Ramblin» Man» swingers, Black Panthers v. white hippies, Maoists v. anarchists, health - foodies v. druggies, etc., etc., and to focus instead on the big divide between all of them and the Establishment.

If the pacifist position were correct, it would seem logical that throughout history God would either prevent war, or at least not take sides in human conflicts, but that is not the case.

In a pair of particularly venomous columns National Journal editor and Washington Post columnist Michael Kelly not only derided antiwar protesters as those «unhappy people who like to yell about the awfulness of «Amerika» or international corporations or rich people or people who drive large cars,» but he also attacked pacifists as «liars,» «frauds» and «hypocrites,» whose views are «objectively pro-terrorist» and «evil.»

J. Denny Weaver, professor of religion at Bluffton College (a Mennonite college in Ohio), puts it this way in his article «Pacifist Response to 9 - 11»: «It is unfair to assume that pacifists, who did not create the situation in the first place... can now be parachuted into the middle of [the crisis] with a ready - made solution.»

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.

While he «was once an absolute pacifist,» Johns now believes that «the state may have to use force in this broken world.»

A number of people outside of the peace church tradition seem to be quite interested in what these pacifists are saying and doing.

The «pacifist» proponents of nonviolent resistance do not, as many seem to think, occupy the moral high ground while the rest of us are prepared to get our hands dirty in «the real world.»

In other words, the modern - war pacifists get it wrong: their contingent judgment does not describe a permanent truth about warfare in the modern agIn other words, the modern - war pacifists get it wrong: their contingent judgment does not describe a permanent truth about warfare in the modern agin the modern age.

A «pro-life» person, if not a pacifist, would be very reluctant to go to war, recognizing that war is not inevitable and that there is nothing in human nature that inevitably leads to war.

I am a pacifist, and I believe that if we are truly faithful God will always deliver us from evil, either now or in the sweet By and By!

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.

Dave says; presenting a pacifist, weak, hippie flower child singing kumbaya, and completely milquetoast in the face of violence, murder, and lawlessness.

I'm sure many people would consider themselves pacifists but say that this is too extreme a definition, one might say for example that pacifism means «attempting to promote peace and making it a goal, but accepting that war is necessary in some cases to prevent greater evils,» however the way violence vs. following Jesus is being discussed in this context doesn't allow such concessions.