Sentences with phrase «rather simple notion»

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These people, knowing it necessary that people that we have been given an undeserved gift of Grace didn't choose to «keep it simple» but felt compelled to also make sure we were aware: Christianity is shocking in that God loves us so much he was willing to die for us rather than leave us trying (and failing) to impress him on our own; but frankly, people had conceived of such an notion before, the twist is that a God fully capable of saving us has already accomplished all the necessary work to save us but without needing us to do so nonetheless invites us to participate in our own salvation.

Perhaps, the best answer is that energy independence has never been a simple technical, economic or political solution to the problem of foreign oil dependence; rather, it has been a cultural artifact, a discourse evoking particular American notions of the exceptional nation, American innovation and ingenuity, the can - do spirit, and the very notion of «independence» on which the American national project has been built.