Sentences with phrase «states holy war»

It only states holy war, but it involves everyday activities that include simply getting up to go to work to support your family.

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In a letter announcing his retirement from the army at the close of the War, he wrote: «I now make it my earnest prayer, that God would have you, and the State over which you preside, in his holy protection, that he would incline the hearts of the Citizens to cultivate a spirit of subordination and obedience to Government, to entertain a brotherly affection and love for one another, for their fellow Citizens of the United States at large, and particularly for their brethren who have served in the Field, and finally, that he would most graciously be pleased to dispose us all, to do Justice, to love mercy, and to demean ourselves with that Charity, humility and pacific temper of mind, which were the Characteristicks of the Divine Author of our blessed Religion, and without an humble imitation of whose example in these things, we can never hope to be a happy Nation.»

Many practical concerns, including the safety of Middle Eastern Christians, the interest of the Church in the holy places of Jerusalem, and the issue of war and peace in the region, have colored the Catholic attitude toward the State of Israel, but the theological concern ultimately overrides the temporal issues.

For decades before the founding of the state of Israel in 1948 and for a few decades afterward (until the Six - Day War silenced much of the religious / spiritual left up to the late 1970s), Jewish theologians argued that dividing or sharing the Holy Land was a religious precept.

Elimination of the Jewish State in response to Islamic violence will only prove to them that violence works and such «great victory» for Islam will encourage them to continue their Holy War against the infidels finding other «excuses» as required.

I have suggested elsewhere that value - free technology, the military - industrial complex, and narrow nationalism might be modern examples of such principalities and powers.9 Hendrikus Berkhof suggests that human traditions, astrology, fixed religious rules, clans, public opinion, race, class, state, and Volk are among the powers.10 Walter Wink sees the powers as the inner aspects of institutions, their «spirituality,» the inner spirit or driving force that animates, legitimates, and regulates their outward manifestations.11 They are «the invisible forces that determine human existence «12 When such things dehumanize human life, thwart and distort the human spirit, block God's gift of shalom, the followers of Jesus are rallied for a new kind of holy war.

The conception of a Christendom united under an inclusive Christian state, the Holy Roman Empire, and under an equally inclusive spiritual fellowship, the Catholic Church, if it could have been fully realized, would have saved Europe the horrors of political division and the recurring and disastrous wars which have cursed and still curse that continent.

Then there is the current Vatican Ostpolitik: Russian Orthodox Church leaders have been prominent actors in Putin's war of propaganda and disinformation, yet the ecumenical efforts of the Holy See seem premised on the wish that these churchmen are not what they manifestly are — agents of Russian state power.

It states al Qaeda's power is being eroded and that most terrorists groups are trying to advance their political agenda, not bin Laden's dream of a Muslim - Christian holy war.

If you posit that Jesus never existed, then you are in the minority of minorities, and either you have never studied the evidence and writings (both holy and secular authors), or you are in the class of historical revisionists occupied by Bart Ehrman, the Jesus Seminar, and those guys who say that the Confederate States of America won the War of Northern Aggression in 1865.

The Crusades also helped to stiffen the principle of holy war as the main justification for the existence of dynasties and states with large military forces.

In the view not only of Bin Laden but also of many Islamic sympathizers, the continued presence of American forces in Saudi Arabia and other Arab states after the end of the Persian Gulf War in 1991 constituted «defilement» Muslim holy places.

Can ancient stories of holy war and conquest be the basis for modern claims to a nation state?

«We want to alert Biafrans, men and women of good conscience across the globe that the Federal Government of Nigeria has decided to kill yet another innocent person in Anambra State in the name of holy war against IPOB.

Pompeo, President Trump's pick to lead the State Department, has portrayed the fight against terrorism as an epic holy war.

To understand how this transformation occurred, take a brief trip back into the history of the Middle East, where it all began.Go back to the origins of humankind, where two rivers formed the Fertile Crescent and civilization sprouted.Watch the Abrahamic Religions bud in the Levant along the eastern Mediterranean Sea and develop into Judaism and Christianity.Witness the steady march of empires hold sway over Middle Eastern trade, resources, religion and culture for millennia.Visit the sacred cities whose connections to holy people and events sparked bitter conflict.Start your study of the birthplace of human civilization today with History of the Middle East: Melting Pot - Holy Wars & Holy Cities - From the Sumerians to the Ottoman Empire and Today's Nation States: Israel, Iran, Iraq and Egypt - Shaping the Near East History.Scroll up to get your copy holy people and events sparked bitter conflict.Start your study of the birthplace of human civilization today with History of the Middle East: Melting Pot - Holy Wars & Holy Cities - From the Sumerians to the Ottoman Empire and Today's Nation States: Israel, Iran, Iraq and Egypt - Shaping the Near East History.Scroll up to get your copy Holy Wars & Holy Cities - From the Sumerians to the Ottoman Empire and Today's Nation States: Israel, Iran, Iraq and Egypt - Shaping the Near East History.Scroll up to get your copy Holy Cities - From the Sumerians to the Ottoman Empire and Today's Nation States: Israel, Iran, Iraq and Egypt - Shaping the Near East History.Scroll up to get your copy now.

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His portraits refer to Christian iconography like the holy Mary or to German soldiers (the young generation in Germany mostly knows their grandfathers just from old photographs of the 30ties because they died in World War II) or philosophers of the romantic era discussing the German identity in the context of the poly national state.